Approved directions for health, both naturall and artificiall deriued from the best physitians as well moderne as auncient. Teaching how euery man should keepe his body and mind in health: and sicke, how hee may safely restore it himselfe. Diuided into 6. sections 1. Ayre, fire and water. 2. Meate, drinke with nourishment. 3. Sleepe, earely rising and dreames. 4. Auoidance of excrements, by purga. 5. The soules qualities and affections. 6. Quarterly, monethly, and daily diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the authour.
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             Approved directions for health, both naturall and artificiall deriued from the best physitians as well moderne as auncient. Teaching how euery man should keepe his body and mind in health: and sicke, how hee may safely restore it himselfe. Diuided into 6. sections 1. Ayre, fire and water. 2. Meate, drinke with nourishment. 3. Sleepe, earely rising and dreames. 4. Auoidance of excrements, by purga. 5. The soules qualities and affections. 6. Quarterly, monethly, and daily diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the authour.
             Naturall and artificial directions for health
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           APPROVED
           Directions
           for
           Health
           ,
           both
           Naturall
           and
           Artificiall
           :
           Deriued
           from
           the
           best
           Physitians
           as
           well
           moderne
           as
           auncient
           .
        
         
           Teaching
           how
           euery
           Man
           should
           keepe
           his
           body
           and
           mind
           in
           health
           :
           and
           sicke
           ,
           how
           hee
           may
           safely
           restore
           it
           himselfe
           .
        
         
           
             Diuided
             into
             6.
             Sections
          
           
             1.
             
             Ayre
             ,
             Fire
             and
             Water
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             Meate
             ,
             drinke
             with
             nourishment
             .
          
           
             3.
             
             Sleepe
             ,
             Earely
             rising
             and
             Dreames
             .
          
           
             4.
             
             Auoidance
             of
             excrements
             ,
             by
             purga
             .
          
           
             5.
             
             The
             Soules
             qualities
             and
             affections
             .
          
           
             6.
             
             Quarterly
             ,
             monethly
             ,
             and
             daily
             Diet.
             
          
        
         
           Newly
           corrected
           and
           augmented
           by
           the
           Authour
           .
        
         
           The
           fourth
           Edition
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           :
           Printed
           by
           
             T.
             S.
          
           for
           
             Roger
             Iackson
          
           ,
           and
           are
           to
           be
           solde
           at
           his
           Shop
           neere
           the
           Conduit
           in
           Fleetestreete
           .
           1612.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           TO
           THE
           RIGHT
           HONOVRABLE
           ,
           MY
           GRATIOVS
           MOTHER
           in
           Law
           ,
           the
           Lady
           Lettice
           ,
           VVife
           to
           the
           valerous
           and
           Heroicall
           Knight
           ,
           Sir
           Arthur
           Chichester
           ,
           Lord
           Duputie
           of
           his
           Maiesties
           Kingdom●
           of
           Ireland
           .
        
         
           MADAME
           ,
           it
           hath
           euer
           beene
           a
           customary
           fashion
           among
           Students
           ,
           to
           chuse
           out
           some
           noble
           Personage
           ,
           eminent
           for
           vertue
           ,
           vnder
           the
           glory
           of
           whose
           name
           ,
           their
           Bookes
           might
           walke
           vp
           and
           downe
           on
           the
           worlds
           Theater
           ,
           secured
           from
           that
           spitefull
           
             Spirit
             of
             Detraction
          
           ,
           whose
           
           blustering
           blasts
           of
           Blasphemie
           ,
           I
           lately
           endeuoured
           to
           coniure
           and
           conuict
           .
           After
           the
           like
           manner
           ,
           to
           be
           somwhat
           in
           the
           fashion
           ,
           loe
           here
           I
           submit
           before
           your
           eyes
           of
           Grace
           this
           saplesse
           Worke
           of
           mine
           ,
           that
           the
           starry
           influence
           of
           your
           auncient
           loue
           may
           reflect
           vpon
           the
           darkest
           parts
           therof
           ,
           where
           perhaps
           the
           distance
           of
           Climate
           with-holds
           your
           directest
           beames
           .
           I
           know
           your
           Ladyship
           is
           stored
           with
           far
           more
           precious
           presents
           :
           onely
           Dutie
           herein
           seemes
           to
           free
           me
           from
           Presumption
           ,
           in
           dedicating
           the
           blossomes
           of
           my
           youthfull
           Studies
           to
           One
           ,
           who
           is
           as
           wise
           as
           I
           am
           mindfull
           ,
           as
           fauourable
           as
           I
           am
           faithfull
           ,
           and
           euer
           will
           continue
        
         
           
             At
             your
             Ladiships
             command
             WILLIAM
             VAVGHAN
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           A
           Table
           ,
           declaring
           the
           Contents
           of
           the
           Sections
           and
           Chapters
           of
           this
           Booke
           .
        
         
           
             The
             first
             Section
             .
          
           
             Chiefe
             causes
             and
             Rules
             for
             preseruation
             of
             man
             health
             .
          
           
             
               
                 Chapter
                 1.
                 
              
               OF
               Ayres
               for
               pleasure
               ,
               health
               ,
               and
               profit
               .
               Fol.
               1
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 2.
                 
              
               Of
               Waters
               ,
               with
               their
               kindes
               .
               9
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 3.
                 
              
               Of
               Fire
               ,
               and
               what
               kinde
               is
               best
               .
               12
            
          
        
         
           
             The
             second
             Section
             .
          
           
             Food
             and
             nourishment
             what
             's
             good
             and
             bad
             .
          
           
             
               
                 Chapter
                 1.
                 
              
               OF
               Bread
               and
               Drinke
               of
               all
               kindes
               .
               Fol.
               13
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 2.
                 
              
               Of
               Wines
               of
               all
               kindes
               ,
               and
               how
               to
               choose
               the
               best
               .
               19
            
             
               
                 
                 Chapter
                 3.
                 
              
               Of
               Dyet
               drinkes
               for
               the
               sicke
               and
               healthy
               .
               28
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 4.
                 
              
               Of
               Cyder
               and
               Perry
               ,
               with
               the
               vse
               thereof
               .
               31
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 5.
                 
              
               Of
               Flesh
               ,
               and
               which
               is
               best
               ,
               and
               how
               to
               preserue
               it
               sweet
               .
               33
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 6.
                 
              
               Of
               Fish
               of
               all
               sorts
               ,
               and
               which
               is
               best
               .
               40
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 7.
                 
              
               Of
               Milke
               ,
               Butter
               ,
               Cheese
               and
               Egges
               .
               44
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 8.
                 
              
               Of
               Sauces
               ,
               best
               and
               most
               sauory
               .
               49
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 9.
                 
              
               Of
               Hearbes
               ,
               with
               their
               vses
               .
               54
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 10.
                 
              
               Of
               common
               Fruits
               ,
               with
               their
               vses
               .
               56
            
          
        
         
           
             The
             third
             Section
             .
          
           
             Sleepe
             ,
             Earely
             rising
             and
             Dreames
             .
          
           
             
               
                 Chapter
                 1.
                 
              
               OF
               Sleepe
               ,
               with
               the
               commodities
               and
               discommodities
               thereof
               .
               Fol.
               58
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 2.
                 
              
               Of
               Early
               rising
               .
               60
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 3.
                 
              
               Of
               Dreames
               .
               61
            
          
        
         
           
           
             The
             fourth
             Section
             .
          
           
             Euacuations
             .
          
           
             
               
                 Chapter
                 1.
                 
              
               OF
               Exercise
               ,
               and
               which
               is
               best
               .
               Fol.
               64
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 2.
                 
              
               Of
               Vrines
               .
               67
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 3.
                 
              
               Of
               Fasting
               .
               68
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 4.
                 
              
               Of
               Venery
               .
               69
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 5.
                 
              
               Of
               Bathes
               .
               70
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 6.
                 
              
               Of
               Excrements
               and
               Bloud
               letting
               .
               72
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 7.
                 
              
               Of
               Purgations
               ,
               with
               the
               vse
               of
               Tobacco
               .
               74
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 8.
                 
              
               Of
               Vomits
               .
               82
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 9.
                 
              
               Of
               common
               sicknesses
               .
               84
            
          
        
         
           
           
             The
             fift
             Section
             .
          
           
             Infirmities
             and
             death
             .
          
           
             
               
                 Chapter
                 1.
                 
              
               OF
               the
               causes
               of
               hot
               infirmities
               ,
               and
               of
               cold
               .
               Fol.
               87
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 2.
                 
              
               Of
               the
               wicked
               motions
               of
               the
               minde
               .
               89
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 3.
                 
              
               Of
               the
               age
               of
               man
               ,
               and
               how
               his
               life
               is
               deuided
               .
               112
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 4.
                 
              
               Of
               the
               foure
               Humours
               .
               121
            
          
        
         
           
             The
             sixt
             Section
             .
          
           
             Restauration
             of
             Health
             .
          
           
             
               
                 Chapter
                 1.
                 
              
               OF
               the
               foure
               parts
               of
               the
               Yeare
               .
               Fol.
               123
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 2.
                 
              
               Of
               Monethly
               Dyet
               .
               129
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 3.
                 
              
               Of
               medicines
               and
               meanes
               to
               prolong
               life
               .
               138
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 4.
                 
              
               Of
               Mirth
               ,
               and
               the
               effects
               thereof
               .
               141
            
             
               
                 Chapter
                 5.
                 
              
               Of
               daily
               Dyet
               .
               143
            
          
           
             FINIS
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           NATVRALL
           AND
           ARTIFICIAL
           DIRECTIONS
           FOR
           HEALTH
           .
        
         
           
             The
             first
             Section
             .
          
           
             What
             be
             the
             causes
             of
             the
             preseruation
             of
             Mans
             health
             ?
          
           
             
               CHAP.
               I.
               
            
             
               THE
               causes
               of
               the
               preseruation
               of
               mans
               health
               be
               foure
               ;
               The
               first
               ,
               Aire
               ,
               Fire
               ,
               and
               Water
               .
               The
               second
               ,
               meate
               and
               drinke
               ,
               and
               such
               as
               we
               vse
               for
               
               nourishment
               .
               The
               third
               ,
               mirth
               ,
               exercise
               ,
               and
               tranquillity
               of
               the
               body
               .
               The
               fourth
               ,
               auoydance
               of
               excrements
               ,
               vnder
               which
               Phlebotomie
               ,
               purgations
               ,
               vomits
               ,
               vrine
               ;
               sweat
               ,
               bathes
               ,
               carnall
               copulation
               ,
               and
               such
               like
               are
               contained
               temperately
               .
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 Ayre
                 ?
              
               
                 Aire
                 naturally
                 by
                 it selfe
                 ,
                 is
                 an
                 element
                 hot
                 and
                 moist
                 ,
                 whereupon
                 the
                 whole
                 constitution
                 of
                 our
                 liues
                 dependeth
                 .
                 The
                 attraction
                 of
                 this
                 naturall
                 body
                 is
                 so
                 necessarie
                 vnto
                 vs
                 ,
                 that
                 if
                 any
                 one
                 of
                 the
                 instruments
                 of
                 our
                 bodies
                 be
                 stopt
                 ,
                 we
                 cannot
                 choose
                 but
                 forthwith
                 be
                 strangled
                 .
                 In
                 respect
                 whereof
                 ,
                 the
                 choosing
                 of
                 a
                 good
                 ayre
                 must
                 (
                 for
                 the
                 preseruation
                 of
                 health
                 )
                 obtaine
                 the
                 chiefest
                 place
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Which
                 is
                 the
                 best
                 ayre
                 ?
              
               
                 That
                 which
                 is
                 a
                 mans
                 natiue
                 soyle
                 ,
                 and
                 Countries
                 ayre
                 is
                 best
                 .
                 This
                 by
                 the
                 Philosophers
                 is
                 approued
                 in
                 this
                 principle
                 :
                 Euery
                 mans
                 naturall
                 place
                 preserueth
                 him
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 placed
                 in
                 it
                 .
                 And
                 by
                 the
                 Poet
                 confirmed
                 :
                 
                   Sweet
                   is
                   the
                   smell
                   of
                   Countries
                   soile
                   .
                
              
               
                 Also
                 a
                 good
                 Aire
                 may
                 be
                 knowne
                 both
                 by
                 his
                 substance
                 (
                 as
                 when
                 it
                 is
                 open
                 ,
                 pure
                 ,
                 and
                 
                 cleane
                 ,
                 free
                 from
                 all
                 filthy
                 dunghils
                 ,
                 noysome
                 channels
                 ,
                 Nut
                 trees
                 ,
                 Figge
                 trees
                 ,
                 Coleworts
                 ,
                 Hemlocks
                 ,
                 Mines
                 and
                 Forges
                 ;
                 for
                 these
                 haue
                 a
                 contrary
                 quality
                 vnto
                 the
                 animall
                 spirit
                 ,
                 and
                 make
                 men
                 to
                 fall
                 into
                 consumptions
                 )
                 and
                 by
                 his
                 qualities
                 :
                 as
                 extremity
                 of
                 colde
                 ,
                 heat
                 and
                 moysture
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 cause
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 Aire
                 changeth
                 so
                 oft
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 Aire
                 receiues
                 sundry
                 alterations
                 ,
                 not
                 onely
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 sundry
                 aspects
                 of
                 the
                 starres
                 and
                 of
                 the
                 heauenly
                 planets
                 :
                 but
                 also
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 the
                 diuersities
                 of
                 Countries
                 ,
                 and
                 of
                 the
                 particular
                 situations
                 of
                 some
                 places
                 ,
                 as
                 well
                 vpon
                 the
                 water
                 as
                 vpon
                 the
                 land
                 .
                 Doe
                 but
                 marke
                 ,
                 how
                 feauers
                 ,
                 rheumes
                 ,
                 &
                 plagues
                 are
                 ingendred
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 troubled
                 aire
                 ,
                 and
                 of
                 low
                 marshie
                 grounds
                 :
                 And
                 on
                 the
                 contrarie
                 ,
                 how
                 our
                 health
                 is
                 continued
                 ,
                 refreshed
                 ,
                 and
                 recouered
                 in
                 drie
                 or
                 sandie
                 Countries
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 shall
                 a
                 man
                 doe
                 ,
                 if
                 the
                 Aire
                 be
                 either
                 too
                 hot
                 ,
                 too
                 cold
                 ,
                 or
                 too
                 corrupt
                 ?
              
               
                 He
                 must
                 vse
                 cold
                 things
                 to
                 keepe
                 away
                 the
                 heat
                 ,
                 and
                 hot
                 things
                 to
                 expell
                 the
                 cold
                 .
                 He
                 must
                 adde
                 dry
                 things
                 to
                 moyst
                 ,
                 and
                 moyst
                 to
                 dry
                 .
                 To
                 depart
                 thence
                 into
                 another
                 place
                 
                 were
                 not
                 amisse
                 .
                 For
                 oftentimes
                 it
                 is
                 seene
                 ,
                 that
                 sicke
                 folkes
                 doe
                 recoure
                 their
                 former
                 health
                 onely
                 by
                 change
                 of
                 aire
                 .
                 But
                 if
                 the
                 aire
                 be
                 corrupt
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 a
                 man
                 cannot
                 remoue
                 thence
                 very
                 quickly
                 ,
                 hee
                 must
                 artificially
                 rectifie
                 it
                 by
                 perfuming
                 his
                 Chamber
                 with
                 Iuniper
                 ,
                 Rosemary
                 ,
                 Bay
                 tree
                 ,
                 or
                 vvith
                 wood
                 of
                 Aloes
                 :
                 and
                 then
                 by
                 sprinkling
                 vineger
                 here
                 and
                 there
                 in
                 his
                 chamber
                 .
                 In
                 briefe
                 ,
                 a
                 man
                 in
                 such
                 cases
                 must
                 get
                 him
                 a
                 Nosegay
                 composed
                 of
                 Roses
                 ,
                 Violets
                 ,
                 Maioram
                 ,
                 Marigold
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 ▪
                 And
                 when
                 hee
                 goeth
                 abroad
                 he
                 must
                 hold
                 in
                 his
                 mouth
                 eyther
                 the
                 pill
                 of
                 an
                 Orenge
                 ,
                 or
                 a
                 peece
                 of
                 the
                 root
                 of
                 Angelica
                 .
                 Likewise
                 ,
                 he
                 must
                 haue
                 an
                 especiall
                 regard
                 ,
                 that
                 his
                 Chamber
                 be
                 at
                 least
                 once
                 a
                 day
                 neatly
                 swept
                 .
                 Our
                 Mariners
                 lately
                 returned
                 from
                 their
                 East
                 Indian
                 voyage
                 confesse
                 ,
                 that
                 their
                 onely
                 remedy
                 against
                 the
                 Callentura
                 ,
                 the
                 Scuruie
                 ,
                 and
                 other
                 diseases
                 at
                 sea
                 ,
                 is
                 the
                 iuyce
                 of
                 ●emons
                 .
                 At
                 my
                 being
                 in
                 Hungarie
                 ,
                 I
                 saw
                 the
                 fiery
                 Feauer
                 ,
                 a
                 disease
                 infectious
                 in
                 that
                 Country
                 ,
                 cured
                 onely
                 by
                 salt
                 niter
                 prepared
                 with
                 sulphur
                 ,
                 and
                 giuen
                 in
                 water
                 as
                 drinke
                 to
                 the
                 patient
                 :
                 a
                 thing
                 very
                 strange
                 ,
                 that
                 fire
                 should
                 quench
                 fire
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 particularly
                 ,
                 how
                 the
                 Aire
                 may
                 be
                 corrected
                 for
                 the
                 recouerie
                 of
                 sicke
                 folkes
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 diuersities
                 of
                 places
                 ,
                 times
                 ,
                 and
                 seasons
                 ?
              
               
                 Art
                 may
                 moderate
                 all
                 this
                 by
                 accommodating
                 the
                 Aire
                 in
                 respect
                 of
                 the
                 sick
                 .
                 For
                 if
                 it
                 be
                 in
                 Sommer
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 Aire
                 be
                 too
                 hot
                 and
                 sultrie
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 vulgar
                 say
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 the
                 patient
                 is
                 affected
                 with
                 some
                 ague
                 or
                 with
                 some
                 other
                 burning
                 disease
                 ,
                 hee
                 must
                 be
                 placed
                 in
                 some
                 lower
                 roome
                 or
                 some
                 coole
                 chamber
                 ,
                 where
                 the
                 heat
                 of
                 the
                 Sunne
                 comes
                 not
                 so
                 forcibly
                 .
                 In
                 Winter
                 time
                 let
                 fire
                 correct
                 the
                 raw
                 and
                 cold
                 aire
                 ,
                 specially
                 for
                 them
                 ,
                 that
                 be
                 afflicted
                 with
                 cold
                 sicknesses
                 .
                 For
                 such
                 ,
                 a
                 close
                 warme
                 roome
                 must
                 be
                 prepared
                 ,
                 secured
                 from
                 winds
                 ,
                 where
                 a
                 good
                 fire
                 may
                 be
                 made
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Aduise
                 me
                 how
                 I
                 should
                 build
                 mee
                 an
                 house
                 for
                 pleasure
                 ,
                 health
                 and
                 profit
                 ?
              
               
                 First
                 ,
                 you
                 must
                 choose
                 out
                 a
                 fine
                 soile
                 ,
                 which
                 hath
                 water
                 and
                 wood
                 annexed
                 vnto
                 it
                 ,
                 and
                 forecast
                 in
                 your
                 minde
                 whether
                 the
                 prospect
                 too
                 and
                 fro
                 be
                 decent
                 and
                 pleasant
                 to
                 the
                 eye
                 .
                 For
                 I
                 am
                 of
                 this
                 opinion
                 ,
                 that
                 if
                 the
                 eye
                 be
                 not
                 satisfied
                 ,
                 the
                 minde
                 cannot
                 be
                 pleased
                 :
                 if
                 the
                 minde
                 be
                 not
                 pleased
                 ,
                 nature
                 doth
                 
                 abhorre
                 ,
                 and
                 if
                 nature
                 doth
                 abhorre
                 ,
                 death
                 at
                 last
                 must
                 consequently
                 follow
                 .
                 Next
                 you
                 must
                 marke
                 ,
                 whether
                 the
                 ayre
                 which
                 compasseth
                 the
                 situation
                 of
                 your
                 house
                 ,
                 be
                 of
                 a
                 pure
                 substance
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 shortly
                 after
                 the
                 Sunne
                 is
                 vp
                 groweth
                 warme
                 ;
                 and
                 contrarily
                 groweth
                 cold
                 after
                 the
                 Sunne
                 is
                 set
                 .
                 Thirdly
                 ,
                 you
                 must
                 make
                 your
                 foundation
                 vpon
                 a
                 grauell
                 ground
                 mixt
                 with
                 clay
                 ,
                 vpon
                 a
                 hill
                 ,
                 or
                 a
                 hils
                 side
                 .
                 Fourthly
                 ,
                 looke
                 that
                 your
                 windowes
                 be
                 Northward
                 or
                 Eastward
                 .
                 Lastly
                 ,
                 when
                 your
                 house
                 is
                 finished
                 ,
                 you
                 must
                 prepare
                 a
                 Garden
                 replenished
                 with
                 sundry
                 kindes
                 of
                 hearbs
                 and
                 flowers
                 ,
                 wherein
                 you
                 may
                 recreate
                 and
                 solace
                 your selfe
                 at
                 times
                 conuenient
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Doth
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 places
                 alter
                 the
                 quality
                 of
                 the
                 Aire
                 ?
              
               
                 Yea
                 doubtlesse
                 .
                 Either
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 marshes
                 ,
                 as
                 I
                 said
                 before
                 ,
                 which
                 commonly
                 are
                 corrupted
                 with
                 rotten
                 vapours
                 ,
                 and
                 exhalations
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 of
                 Churchyards
                 subiect
                 likewise
                 to
                 the
                 same
                 mutations
                 ,
                 we
                 see
                 by
                 experience
                 that
                 the
                 aire
                 ,
                 which
                 compasseth
                 vs
                 about
                 ,
                 doth
                 change
                 his
                 temperature
                 :
                 As
                 also
                 when
                 it
                 becomes
                 eyther
                 excessiuely
                 hot
                 or
                 colde
                 ,
                 dry
                 or
                 
                 moist
                 ,
                 we
                 doe
                 finde
                 our selues
                 in
                 much
                 trauell
                 and
                 alteration
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Doth
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 the
                 time
                 of
                 the
                 yeare
                 alter
                 the
                 Ayre
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 like
                 mutations
                 doth
                 the
                 aire
                 inferre
                 vnto
                 vs
                 in
                 the
                 foure
                 seasons
                 of
                 the
                 yeare
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 course
                 of
                 the
                 Sunne
                 :
                 for
                 in
                 the
                 Spring
                 time
                 the
                 Aire
                 is
                 neerer
                 vnto
                 his
                 owne
                 nature
                 ,
                 to
                 wi●
                 ,
                 reasonably
                 hot
                 and
                 moist
                 :
                 in
                 Sommer
                 further
                 heated
                 by
                 the
                 Sunne
                 ,
                 it
                 becomes
                 ,
                 hot
                 and
                 dry
                 :
                 in
                 Haruest
                 ,
                 colde
                 and
                 dry
                 :
                 in
                 Winter
                 ,
                 colde
                 and
                 moist
                 .
                 And
                 not
                 onely
                 the
                 Sunne
                 in
                 the
                 foure
                 seasons
                 of
                 the
                 yeare
                 brings
                 such
                 alterations
                 in
                 the
                 aire
                 ,
                 but
                 likewise
                 the
                 Moone
                 in
                 her
                 foure
                 quarters
                 ,
                 causeth
                 foure
                 differences
                 :
                 for
                 the
                 first
                 seauenth
                 day
                 from
                 the
                 new
                 Moone
                 vntill
                 the
                 next
                 seauenth
                 day
                 ,
                 is
                 like
                 the
                 Spring
                 time
                 ,
                 being
                 hot
                 and
                 moist
                 .
                 The
                 second
                 seauenth
                 day
                 vntill
                 the
                 full
                 of
                 the
                 Moone
                 is
                 like
                 Sommer
                 .
                 The
                 third
                 day
                 ,
                 the
                 Moone
                 decreasing
                 ,
                 is
                 correspondent
                 vnto
                 the
                 Autumne
                 .
                 And
                 the
                 fourth
                 and
                 last
                 quarter
                 is
                 like
                 the
                 Winter
                 :
                 Euen
                 so
                 againe
                 the
                 morning
                 is
                 hot
                 &
                 moist
                 like
                 the
                 Spring
                 time
                 :
                 noone
                 is
                 compared
                 to
                 Sommer
                 :
                 the
                 Euening
                 to
                 Autumne
                 :
                 and
                 the
                 night
                 to
                 the
                 Winter
                 .
              
               
               
               
               
            
             
               
               
                 What
                 sicknesses
                 doth
                 the
                 Aire
                 cause
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 aire
                 causeth
                 sicknesses
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 variety
                 of
                 the
                 climate
                 .
                 In
                 colde
                 Countries
                 ,
                 I
                 meane
                 ,
                 from
                 the
                 fiftieth
                 degree
                 to
                 the
                 Pole
                 Northward
                 or
                 Southward
                 ,
                 few
                 sicknesses
                 abound
                 ;
                 except
                 they
                 happen
                 through
                 excesse
                 or
                 distemperature
                 of
                 diet
                 ,
                 or
                 vnwholesomnesse
                 of
                 the
                 aire
                 ,
                 as
                 aboue
                 written
                 .
              
               
                 In
                 hot
                 Countries
                 ,
                 specially
                 betweene
                 the
                 both
                 Tropickes
                 ,
                 the
                 aire
                 is
                 more
                 intemperate
                 and
                 pestilent
                 .
                 Here-hence
                 spring
                 plagues
                 ,
                 Callenturaes
                 ,
                 and
                 Lues
                 Venerea
                 ,
                 insomuch
                 as
                 a
                 certaine
                 Writer
                 affirmeth
                 by
                 experience
                 ,
                 that
                 an
                 Europaean
                 can
                 hardly
                 liue
                 in
                 Aethiopia
                 ,
                 or
                 vnder
                 the
                 Equinoctiall
                 line
                 aboue
                 fiue
                 yeares
                 ,
                 whereas
                 on
                 the
                 contrary
                 wee
                 heare
                 that
                 men
                 liue
                 in
                 Swethland
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 North
                 parts
                 of
                 Ireland
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 other
                 colde
                 places
                 ,
                 where
                 the
                 aire
                 is
                 pure
                 and
                 Notherly
                 ,
                 till
                 they
                 attaine
                 to
                 a
                 hundred
                 or
                 sixe
                 score
                 yeares
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               Of
               Water
               .
               CHAP.
               2.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 water
                 ?
              
               
                 WAter
                 is
                 an
                 Element
                 colde
                 and
                 moyst
                 ,
                 and
                 doth
                 not
                 nourish
                 ,
                 but
                 helpe
                 digestion
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 many
                 kindes
                 of
                 waters
                 be
                 there
                 ?
              
               
                 To
                 discerne
                 good
                 waters
                 from
                 bad
                 ,
                 you
                 must
                 learne
                 ,
                 that
                 there
                 be
                 foure
                 differences
                 of
                 waters
                 ,
                 namely
                 ,
                 Raine
                 water
                 ,
                 Riuer
                 water
                 :
                 fountaine
                 water
                 :
                 and
                 stange
                 water
                 .
                 By
                 Raine
                 water
                 I
                 meane
                 all
                 that
                 falls
                 from
                 the
                 Region
                 of
                 the
                 aire
                 vpon
                 the
                 earth
                 in
                 forme
                 of
                 water
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 is
                 either
                 sweet
                 when
                 if
                 falls
                 without
                 a
                 storme
                 ;
                 or
                 else
                 troublesome
                 ,
                 when
                 it
                 falls
                 with
                 stormes
                 and
                 tempests
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Is
                 not
                 Snow
                 water
                 as
                 good
                 as
                 Raine
                 water
                 ?
              
               
                 Snow
                 waters
                 ,
                 albeit
                 they
                 be
                 counted
                 among
                 those
                 waters
                 which
                 are
                 light
                 ,
                 as
                 hauing
                 beene
                 sublimed
                 ,
                 purified
                 ,
                 and
                 as
                 it
                 were
                 distilled
                 ,
                 yet
                 notwithstanding
                 they
                 be
                 not
                 so
                 good
                 :
                 For
                 they
                 ingender
                 feauers
                 and
                 morphewes
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 fountaine
                 water
                 ?
              
               
                 Fountaine
                 water
                 is
                 the
                 best
                 water
                 for
                 preseruation
                 of
                 health
                 .
                 But
                 you
                 must
                 obserue
                 ,
                 of
                 what
                 side
                 it
                 springs
                 ,
                 for
                 if
                 it
                 comes
                 from
                 the
                 East
                 ,
                 it
                 excels
                 the
                 rest
                 as
                 well
                 in
                 moisture
                 and
                 thinnesse
                 of
                 substance
                 ,
                 as
                 in
                 pleasant
                 smel
                 ,
                 and
                 it
                 doth
                 moderately
                 comfort
                 the
                 spirits
                 :
                 Contrariwise
                 those
                 fountaines
                 ,
                 which
                 spring
                 out
                 of
                 rockes
                 ,
                 towards
                 the
                 North
                 ,
                 and
                 which
                 haue
                 the
                 Sunne
                 backward
                 ,
                 are
                 of
                 a
                 hard
                 digestion
                 ,
                 and
                 nothing
                 so
                 pure
                 as
                 the
                 other
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Whether
                 water
                 being
                 drunke
                 doth
                 nourish
                 ?
                 And
                 whether
                 the
                 same
                 be
                 wholesome
                 for
                 sicke
                 persons
                 ?
              
               
                 Surely
                 water
                 cannot
                 nourish
                 ,
                 because
                 of
                 it selfe
                 it
                 is
                 of
                 no
                 substance
                 to
                 fortifie
                 or
                 encrease
                 the
                 vitall
                 faculties
                 .
                 For
                 which
                 cause
                 the
                 wisest
                 Phisitians
                 aduised
                 men
                 to
                 drinke
                 it
                 honied
                 ,
                 which
                 they
                 called
                 Oximell
                 &
                 Hodromel
                 ;
                 or
                 with
                 wine
                 ;
                 or
                 with
                 suger
                 ,
                 or
                 with
                 white
                 wine
                 vinegar
                 .
                 Being
                 drunke
                 alone
                 ,
                 it
                 neuer
                 quencheth
                 the
                 drowth
                 nor
                 heat
                 of
                 the
                 lungs
                 ,
                 but
                 rather
                 hindereth
                 the
                 spetting
                 vp
                 of
                 phlegme
                 .
                 Yet
                 notwithstanding
                 ,
                 at
                 meales
                 in
                 Sommer
                 time
                 it
                 may
                 be
                 drunke
                 of
                 hot
                 complexioned
                 
                 people
                 ,
                 rather
                 to
                 helpe
                 digestion
                 ,
                 then
                 to
                 nourish
                 the
                 body
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 shall
                 I
                 know
                 good
                 water
                 ?
              
               
                 By
                 the
                 clearenesse
                 of
                 it
                 .
                 That
                 water
                 is
                 best
                 ,
                 which
                 runneth
                 from
                 an
                 higher
                 to
                 a
                 lower
                 ground
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 water
                 ,
                 which
                 runneth
                 vpon
                 clay
                 ,
                 is
                 better
                 clarified
                 then
                 that
                 which
                 goeth
                 vpon
                 the
                 stone
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhen
                 is
                 water
                 wholesomest
                 ?
              
               
                 In
                 Sommer
                 time
                 it
                 is
                 most
                 wholesome
                 :
                 yet
                 notwithstanding
                 ,
                 seldome
                 to
                 be
                 drunke
                 .
                 But
                 if
                 at
                 any
                 time
                 you
                 be
                 compelled
                 to
                 drinke
                 it
                 ,
                 see
                 first
                 that
                 you
                 seeth
                 your
                 water
                 gently
                 :
                 for
                 by
                 seething
                 ,
                 the
                 grosse
                 substance
                 of
                 it
                 is
                 taken
                 away
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 shall
                 I
                 reuiue
                 waters
                 that
                 begin
                 to
                 putrifie
                 ?
              
               
                 This
                 is
                 performed
                 by
                 the
                 addition
                 of
                 some
                 small
                 proportion
                 of
                 the
                 oyle
                 of
                 Sulphur
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 of
                 
                   Aqua
                   vitae
                
                 well
                 rectified
                 ,
                 incorporating
                 them
                 both
                 together
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               Of
               Fire
               .
               CHAP.
               3.
               
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 is
                 fire
                 ?
              
               
                 FIre
                 is
                 an
                 element
                 hot
                 and
                 dry
                 ,
                 which
                 dissolueth
                 the
                 malicious
                 vapours
                 of
                 the
                 aire
                 ,
                 stirreth
                 vp
                 naturall
                 heat
                 in
                 mans
                 body
                 ,
                 and
                 expelleth
                 cold
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 kinde
                 of
                 fire
                 is
                 best
                 ?
              
               
                 That
                 fire
                 is
                 best
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 made
                 of
                 dry
                 and
                 sweet
                 wood
                 .
                 For
                 wet
                 and
                 greene
                 wood
                 is
                 discommodious
                 :
                 and
                 so
                 are
                 all
                 coales
                 except
                 chark-coales
                 ,
                 because
                 they
                 make
                 the
                 head
                 heauie
                 ,
                 and
                 dry
                 vp
                 naturall
                 moysture
                 .
              
               
                 Turfes
                 likewise
                 are
                 very
                 dangerous
                 ,
                 because
                 they
                 stop
                 the
                 windpipes
                 ,
                 and
                 make
                 the
                 skinne
                 yellow
                 .
              
               
                 In
                 Germany
                 they
                 vse
                 Stoues
                 ,
                 which
                 questionlesse
                 cannot
                 but
                 dull
                 the
                 spirits
                 ,
                 and
                 offend
                 the
                 purer
                 faculties
                 .
                 There
                 may
                 be
                 a
                 kinde
                 of
                 fewell
                 made
                 of
                 the
                 cinders
                 of
                 coales
                 ,
                 or
                 olde
                 burnt
                 sea-coale
                 ,
                 or
                 stone-coale
                 incorporated
                 with
                 Sawiers
                 dust
                 and
                 Cow-dung
                 ,
                 which
                 being
                 formed
                 in
                 balls
                 and
                 dried
                 in
                 
                 the
                 winde
                 ,
                 will
                 burne
                 very
                 cleare
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Are
                 not
                 sweatings
                 and
                 hot-houses
                 wholesome
                 ?
              
               
                 No
                 ,
                 because
                 they
                 exhaust
                 the
                 good
                 humours
                 together
                 with
                 the
                 bad
                 .
                 But
                 in
                 Spring
                 time
                 they
                 may
                 be
                 vsed
                 against
                 the
                 itch
                 and
                 small
                 Pockes
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           
             The
             second
             Section
             ,
             concerning
             foode
             .
          
           
             
               Of
               bread
               and
               drinke
               .
               CHAP.
               1.
               
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 bread
                 ?
              
               
                 BRead
                 made
                 of
                 pure
                 wheat
                 flowre
                 ,
                 well
                 boulted
                 from
                 all
                 branne
                 ,
                 and
                 finely
                 moulded
                 and
                 baked
                 ,
                 comforteth
                 &
                 strengtheneth
                 the
                 heart
                 ,
                 maketh
                 a
                 man
                 fat
                 ,
                 and
                 preserueth
                 health
                 .
                 It
                 must
                 not
                 be
                 aboue
                 two
                 or
                 three
                 dayes
                 olde
                 at
                 most
                 ,
                 for
                 then
                 it
                 waxeth
                 hard
                 to
                 be
                 concocted
                 .
                 Aboue
                 all
                 things
                 it
                 is
                 fit
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 be
                 firmented
                 with
                 sower
                 leauen
                 :
                 for
                 certainely
                 
                 this
                 leauening
                 though
                 it
                 puffe
                 vp
                 the
                 paste
                 ,
                 yet
                 notwithstanding
                 ,
                 it
                 maketh
                 the
                 bread
                 light
                 and
                 sauourie
                 ,
                 which
                 otherwise
                 would
                 be
                 heauie
                 ,
                 and
                 very
                 hard
                 to
                 be
                 digested
                 .
                 As
                 for
                 raw
                 corne
                 and
                 vnprepared
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 noisome
                 vnto
                 the
                 strongest
                 labourer
                 ,
                 euen
                 vnto
                 the
                 stoutest
                 mower
                 .
                 Let
                 men
                 therefore
                 take
                 heed
                 ,
                 how
                 they
                 eate
                 it
                 eyther
                 of
                 wantonnesse
                 or
                 of
                 appetite
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 Rie
                 Bread
                 ?
              
               
                 Rie
                 bread
                 well
                 sifted
                 not
                 made
                 of
                 entire
                 meale
                 and
                 new-baked
                 ,
                 is
                 in
                 Sommer
                 time
                 highly
                 commended
                 ,
                 specially
                 in
                 the
                 beginning
                 of
                 meate
                 ,
                 for
                 it
                 keepeth
                 the
                 belly
                 loose
                 ,
                 and
                 for
                 this
                 cause
                 it
                 is
                 so
                 vsed
                 at
                 the
                 tables
                 of
                 Princes
                 ,
                 it
                 must
                 not
                 be
                 eaten
                 but
                 in
                 small
                 quantity
                 ,
                 rather
                 for
                 diet
                 and
                 health
                 sake
                 then
                 to
                 satisfie
                 hunger
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 is
                 barley
                 Bread
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 auncient
                 Romanes
                 vtterly
                 forbad
                 the
                 vse
                 thereof
                 ,
                 for
                 it
                 makes
                 men
                 cowardly
                 and
                 fearefull
                 ,
                 by
                 reason
                 that
                 it
                 doth
                 not
                 nourish
                 ,
                 but
                 weaken
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 yet
                 notwithstanding
                 some
                 Phisitians
                 were
                 of
                 opinion
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 helps
                 them
                 that
                 be
                 diseased
                 of
                 the
                 gout
                 ,
                 by
                 force
                 of
                 a
                 cleansing
                 faculty
                 which
                 it
                 hath
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 How
                 is
                 wheaten
                 bread
                 and
                 pastery
                 to
                 be
                 vsed
                 in
                 Phisicke
                 ?
              
               
                 Bisket
                 ,
                 crust
                 ,
                 or
                 tosted
                 bread
                 ,
                 being
                 eaten
                 dry
                 with
                 a
                 fasting
                 stomack
                 ,
                 staieth
                 ,
                 stoppeth
                 ,
                 and
                 drieth
                 all
                 distillations
                 ,
                 Rheumes
                 ,
                 and
                 humours
                 fallen
                 or
                 gathered
                 in
                 any
                 part
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 :
                 some
                 say
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 causeth
                 far
                 people
                 to
                 be
                 leane
                 ,
                 but
                 certainly
                 experience
                 teacheth
                 that
                 it
                 be
                 taken
                 after
                 all
                 other
                 meat
                 ,
                 it
                 drieth
                 a
                 moyst
                 body
                 ,
                 and
                 hindreth
                 fatnesse
                 and
                 all
                 diseases
                 exceeding
                 from
                 moysture
                 ,
                 because
                 it
                 keepeth
                 the
                 meate
                 from
                 being
                 too
                 suddainly
                 and
                 quickly
                 conueied
                 into
                 all
                 the
                 parts
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 .
                 Toasted
                 bread
                 steept
                 in
                 white
                 wine
                 with
                 Cinamon
                 ,
                 Hony
                 ,
                 or
                 Suger
                 ,
                 prouokes
                 a
                 good
                 appetite
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 liuely
                 spirit
                 vnto
                 a
                 man
                 which
                 is
                 naturally
                 sluggish
                 drowsie
                 ,
                 or
                 weake
                 ;
                 and
                 for
                 pastrie
                 it
                 is
                 rather
                 gluttonous
                 ,
                 than
                 healthie
                 ,
                 not
                 easie
                 to
                 digest
                 ,
                 fitter
                 to
                 be
                 taken
                 at
                 the
                 end
                 of
                 meales
                 ,
                 to
                 preuent
                 the
                 Gout
                 or
                 the
                 Dropsie
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 Beere
                 ?
              
               
                 Beere
                 which
                 is
                 made
                 of
                 good
                 Malt
                 ,
                 well
                 brewed
                 ,
                 not
                 too
                 new
                 ,
                 nor
                 too
                 stale
                 ,
                 nourisheth
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 causeth
                 a
                 good
                 colour
                 ,
                 and
                 quickly
                 passeth
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 .
                 In
                 Sommer
                 it
                 auaileth
                 
                 a
                 man
                 much
                 ,
                 and
                 is
                 no
                 lesse
                 wholesome
                 to
                 our
                 constitutions
                 then
                 wine
                 :
                 Besides
                 the
                 nutritiue
                 faculty
                 ,
                 which
                 it
                 hath
                 by
                 the
                 malt
                 ,
                 it
                 receiueth
                 likewise
                 a
                 certaine
                 property
                 of
                 medicine
                 by
                 the
                 Hop
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 Ale
                 ?
              
               
                 Ale
                 made
                 of
                 barley
                 malt
                 and
                 good
                 water
                 ,
                 doth
                 make
                 a
                 man
                 strong
                 :
                 but
                 now
                 a
                 daies
                 few
                 Brewers
                 doe
                 brew
                 it
                 as
                 they
                 ought
                 ,
                 for
                 they
                 adde
                 slimie
                 and
                 heauie
                 baggage
                 vnto
                 it
                 ,
                 thinking
                 thereby
                 to
                 please
                 tosse-pots
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 encrease
                 the
                 vigour
                 of
                 it
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 shall
                 I
                 discerne
                 good
                 Ale
                 from
                 bad
                 ?
              
               
                 Good
                 Ale
                 ought
                 to
                 be
                 fresh
                 and
                 cleare
                 of
                 colour
                 .
                 It
                 must
                 not
                 be
                 tilted
                 ,
                 for
                 then
                 the
                 best
                 quality
                 is
                 spent
                 :
                 It
                 must
                 neither
                 looke
                 muddie
                 ,
                 nor
                 yet
                 carrie
                 a
                 taile
                 with
                 it
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 wholesome
                 diet
                 drinke
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 most
                 precious
                 and
                 wholesome
                 ordinarie
                 drinke
                 ,
                 as
                 well
                 for
                 them
                 that
                 be
                 in
                 health
                 ,
                 as
                 for
                 sicke
                 and
                 impotent
                 persons
                 is
                 made
                 after
                 this
                 manner
                 .
              
               
                 Take
                 halfe
                 a
                 pound
                 of
                 barley
                 ,
                 foure
                 measures
                 of
                 water
                 ,
                 halfe
                 an
                 ounce
                 of
                 Licoras
                 ,
                 and
                 two
                 drachmes
                 of
                 the
                 seede
                 of
                 Violets
                 ,
                 two
                 drachmes
                 of
                 Parsley
                 seed
                 ,
                 three
                 ounces
                 of
                 red
                 
                 Roses
                 ,
                 an
                 ounce
                 and
                 a
                 halfe
                 of
                 Hysopand
                 Sage
                 ,
                 three
                 ounces
                 of
                 figges
                 and
                 raisins
                 well
                 pickt
                 ;
                 Seeth
                 them
                 all
                 together
                 in
                 an
                 earthen
                 vessel
                 ,
                 so
                 long
                 till
                 they
                 decrease
                 two
                 fingers
                 breadth
                 by
                 seething
                 :
                 then
                 put
                 the
                 potte
                 in
                 cold
                 water
                 ,
                 &
                 straine
                 the
                 ingredients
                 through
                 a
                 cloth
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 speedy
                 drincke
                 for
                 trauellers
                 ,
                 when
                 they
                 want
                 Beere
                 or
                 Ale
                 at
                 their
                 Inne
                 .
              
               
                 Let
                 them
                 take
                 a
                 quart
                 of
                 fayre
                 water
                 ,
                 and
                 put
                 thereto
                 fiue
                 or
                 sixe
                 spoonfuls
                 of
                 good
                 wine
                 vinegar
                 ,
                 or
                 of
                 
                   Aqua
                   Composita
                
                 ;
                 a
                 small
                 quantitie
                 of
                 Sugar
                 ,
                 and
                 some
                 Borrage
                 ,
                 or
                 a
                 branch
                 of
                 Rosemary
                 :
                 Let
                 them
                 be
                 brued
                 well
                 out
                 of
                 one
                 pot
                 into
                 another
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 their
                 drincke
                 is
                 ready
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 shall
                 poore
                 men
                 drincke
                 when
                 Malt
                 is
                 extreame
                 deere
                 ?
              
               
                 They
                 must
                 gather
                 the
                 toppes
                 of
                 Heath
                 ,
                 whereof
                 the
                 vsuall
                 brushes
                 are
                 made
                 ,
                 and
                 dry
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 keepe
                 them
                 from
                 moulding
                 .
                 Then
                 they
                 may
                 at
                 all
                 times
                 brue
                 a
                 cheape
                 drincke
                 for
                 themselues
                 therewith
                 .
                 Which
                 kinde
                 of
                 drinke
                 is
                 very
                 wholesome
                 as
                 well
                 for
                 the
                 Liuer
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 Spleene
                 ;
                 but
                 much
                 the
                 more
                 pleasant
                 ,
                 if
                 they
                 put
                 a
                 little
                 Licoras
                 vnto
                 it
                 .
                 There
                 is
                 another
                 sort
                 of
                 drinke
                 ,
                 of
                 Water
                 and
                 Vineger
                 
                 proportionably
                 mingled
                 together
                 ,
                 which
                 in
                 Summer
                 they
                 may
                 vse
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 shall
                 I
                 helpe
                 Beere
                 or
                 Ale
                 ,
                 which
                 begin
                 to
                 be
                 sowre
                 ,
                 or
                 dead
                 ?
              
               
                 Put
                 a
                 handfull
                 or
                 two
                 of
                 Oatmeale
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 of
                 ground
                 Malt
                 into
                 the
                 barrell
                 of
                 Beere
                 or
                 Ale
                 ,
                 stirie
                 the
                 same
                 well
                 together
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 make
                 it
                 reuiue
                 a
                 fresh
                 .
                 Or
                 else
                 if
                 you
                 please
                 ,
                 bury
                 your
                 drinke
                 vnder
                 the
                 ground
                 in
                 the
                 earth
                 for
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 foure
                 and
                 twenty
                 houres
                 :
                 Or
                 else
                 put
                 into
                 the
                 vessell
                 the
                 rootes
                 of
                 Iroes
                 ,
                 Bay
                 berries
                 ,
                 Organy
                 or
                 Isop
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Teach
                 me
                 a
                 way
                 to
                 make
                 beere
                 or
                 Ale
                 to
                 become
                 stale
                 ,
                 within
                 two
                 or
                 three
                 dayes
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 is
                 performed
                 ,
                 if
                 you
                 bury
                 your
                 Beere
                 or
                 Ale
                 being
                 filled
                 into
                 pots
                 in
                 a
                 shady
                 place
                 somewhat
                 deepe
                 in
                 the
                 ground
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 Meath
                 ?
              
               
                 Meath
                 is
                 made
                 of
                 honey
                 and
                 water
                 boyled
                 both
                 together
                 .
                 This
                 kind
                 of
                 drinke
                 is
                 good
                 for
                 them
                 ,
                 which
                 enioy
                 their
                 health
                 ;
                 but
                 very
                 hurtfull
                 for
                 them
                 ,
                 who
                 are
                 afflicted
                 with
                 the
                 strangury
                 or
                 colick
                 .
                 Braggot
                 doth
                 farre
                 surpasse
                 it
                 in
                 wholsomnesse
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 Meatheglin
                 ?
              
               
                 Meatheglin
                 is
                 made
                 of
                 honey
                 ,
                 water
                 ,
                 and
                 hearbs
                 .
                 If
                 it
                 be
                 staile
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 passing
                 good
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               Of
               Wine
               .
               CHAP.
               2.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 property
                 of
                 wine
                 ?
              
               
                 VVIne
                 temperately
                 taken
                 refresheth
                 the
                 heart
                 and
                 the
                 spirits
                 ,
                 tempereth
                 the
                 humours
                 ,
                 ingendereth
                 good
                 bloud
                 ,
                 breaketh
                 flegme
                 ,
                 conserueth
                 nature
                 ,
                 and
                 maketh
                 it
                 mery
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 Princely
                 Prophet
                 speakes
                 ,
                 
                   wine
                   reioyceth
                   the
                   heart
                   of
                   man.
                
                 Being
                 moderately
                 drunk
                 ,
                 it
                 forceth
                 the
                 soule
                 to
                 partake
                 with
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 so
                 that
                 both
                 of
                 them
                 together
                 being
                 full
                 of
                 animall
                 spirits
                 ,
                 might
                 ioyne
                 in
                 one
                 pleasing
                 sound
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 glorifying
                 of
                 their
                 Soueraigne
                 Benefactor
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 white
                 wine
                 ?
              
               
                 White
                 wine
                 drunk
                 in
                 the
                 moring
                 fasting
                 ,
                 cleanseth
                 the
                 lungs
                 :
                 Being
                 taken
                 with
                 red
                 Onions
                 bruised
                 ,
                 it
                 pearceth
                 quickly
                 into
                 the
                 bladder
                 ,
                 and
                 breaketh
                 the
                 stone
                 .
                 But
                 if
                 this
                 kind
                 of
                 wine
                 be
                 drunk
                 with
                 a
                 full
                 stomack
                 ,
                 it
                 doth
                 more
                 hurt
                 then
                 good
                 ,
                 and
                 causeth
                 the
                 ●eat
                 to
                 descend
                 ,
                 before
                 it
                 be
                 fully
                 concocted
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 Rhenish
                 wine
                 ?
              
               
                 Rhenish
                 wine
                 of
                 all
                 other
                 is
                 the
                 most
                 excellent
                 ,
                 
                 for
                 it
                 scoureth
                 the
                 raines
                 of
                 the
                 back
                 ,
                 clarifieth
                 the
                 spirits
                 ,
                 prouoketh
                 vrine
                 ,
                 &
                 driueth
                 away
                 the
                 headache
                 ,
                 specially
                 if
                 it
                 doth
                 proceede
                 from
                 the
                 heat
                 of
                 the
                 stomack
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 Mascadell
                 ,
                 Malmesie
                 ,
                 and
                 browne
                 Bastard
                 ?
              
               
                 These
                 kinds
                 of
                 wines
                 are
                 only
                 for
                 married
                 folkes
                 ,
                 because
                 they
                 strengthen
                 the
                 back
                 ,
                 yet
                 I
                 wish
                 them
                 to
                 be
                 very
                 chary
                 in
                 the
                 drinking
                 thereof
                 ,
                 least
                 their
                 often
                 vse
                 fill
                 the
                 raines
                 and
                 seede
                 vessels
                 with
                 vnnaturall
                 ,
                 accidentall
                 ,
                 windy
                 ,
                 puft
                 ,
                 or
                 as
                 the
                 Logicians
                 speak
                 ,
                 with
                 aduenticious
                 heat
                 ,
                 which
                 in
                 time
                 will
                 grow
                 to
                 a
                 number
                 of
                 inconueniences
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 Sack
                 ?
              
               
                 Sack
                 doth
                 make
                 men
                 fatte
                 and
                 foggy
                 ,
                 and
                 therefore
                 not
                 to
                 be
                 taken
                 of
                 young
                 men
                 .
                 Being
                 drunke
                 before
                 meales
                 it
                 prouoketh
                 appetite
                 ,
                 comforteth
                 the
                 spirits
                 marueilously
                 and
                 concocteth
                 raw
                 humours
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 shall
                 I
                 know
                 whether
                 hony
                 or
                 water
                 be
                 mingled
                 with
                 wine
                 ?
              
               
                 Vintners
                 I
                 confesse
                 in
                 these
                 daies
                 are
                 wont
                 to
                 iuggle
                 ,
                 and
                 sophistically
                 to
                 abuse
                 wine
                 ,
                 namely
                 Alligant
                 ,
                 Muscadell
                 and
                 browne
                 Bastard
                 ,
                 but
                 you
                 shall
                 perceiue
                 their
                 deceit
                 by
                 
                 this
                 meanes
                 ;
                 take
                 a
                 few
                 drops
                 of
                 the
                 wine
                 ,
                 and
                 powre
                 them
                 vpon
                 a
                 hot
                 plate
                 of
                 yron
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 wine
                 being
                 resolued
                 ,
                 the
                 hony
                 will
                 remaine
                 and
                 thicken
                 .
                 If
                 you
                 suspect
                 your
                 wine
                 to
                 be
                 mingled
                 with
                 water
                 ,
                 you
                 shall
                 discerne
                 the
                 same
                 by
                 putting
                 a
                 Peare
                 into
                 it
                 :
                 for
                 if
                 the
                 Peare
                 swim
                 vpon
                 the
                 face
                 of
                 the
                 wine
                 ,
                 and
                 sink
                 not
                 to
                 the
                 bottome
                 ,
                 then
                 it
                 is
                 perfect
                 and
                 vnmingled
                 but
                 if
                 it
                 sinke
                 to
                 the
                 bottome
                 ,
                 water
                 without
                 doubt
                 is
                 added
                 vnto
                 it
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 way
                 to
                 keepe
                 Claret
                 wine
                 ,
                 or
                 any
                 other
                 wine
                 good
                 ,
                 nine
                 or
                 ten
                 yeares
                 .
              
               
                 At
                 euery
                 vintage
                 ,
                 draw
                 almost
                 the
                 fourth
                 part
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 hogshead
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 rowle
                 it
                 vpon
                 his
                 lee
                 ,
                 and
                 after
                 fill
                 it
                 vp
                 with
                 the
                 best
                 new
                 wine
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 kinde
                 that
                 you
                 can
                 get
                 .
                 Your
                 caske
                 ought
                 to
                 be
                 bound
                 with
                 yron
                 hoopes
                 ,
                 and
                 kept
                 alwayes
                 full
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 might
                 I
                 helpe
                 wine
                 that
                 reboyleth
                 ?
              
               
                 Put
                 a
                 piece
                 of
                 cheese
                 into
                 the
                 vessel
                 ,
                 &
                 presently
                 a
                 wonderfull
                 effect
                 will
                 follow
                 :
                 Or
                 else
                 put
                 a
                 bunch
                 of
                 Peniroyall
                 ,
                 Organy
                 ,
                 or
                 Calamint
                 about
                 the
                 hole
                 ,
                 at
                 which
                 the
                 new
                 wine
                 cōmeth
                 forth
                 ,
                 but
                 if
                 your
                 wine
                 be
                 new
                 ,
                 &
                 you
                 will
                 haue
                 it
                 quickly
                 purged
                 ,
                 you
                 must
                 put
                 halfe
                 a
                 pint
                 of
                 vinegar
                 in
                 euery
                 15
                 ,
                 quarts
                 of
                 new
                 wine
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 how
                 to
                 seperate
                 water
                 from
                 wine
                 ?
              
               
                 Doctour
                 Liebault
                 a
                 learned
                 Phisitian
                 of
                 Fraunce
                 ,
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 if
                 it
                 come
                 to
                 passe
                 that
                 wine
                 haue
                 water
                 in
                 it
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 we
                 finde
                 it
                 to
                 be
                 so
                 ;
                 to
                 seperate
                 then
                 this
                 water
                 from
                 this
                 wine
                 ,
                 you
                 must
                 put
                 into
                 the
                 vessell
                 of
                 wine
                 ,
                 melted
                 Allom
                 ,
                 and
                 after
                 stopping
                 the
                 mouth
                 of
                 the
                 said
                 vessell
                 with
                 a
                 spunge
                 drenched
                 in
                 oyle
                 ,
                 to
                 turne
                 the
                 mouth
                 of
                 the
                 vessell
                 so
                 stopped
                 ,
                 downward
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 the
                 water
                 onely
                 will
                 come
                 forth
                 ▪
                 or
                 else
                 cause
                 a
                 vessell
                 of
                 Iuy
                 wood
                 to
                 be
                 made
                 ,
                 and
                 put
                 therein
                 such
                 quantity
                 of
                 wine
                 as
                 it
                 will
                 be
                 able
                 to
                 hold
                 ,
                 the
                 water
                 will
                 come
                 forth
                 presently
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 wine
                 will
                 abide
                 pure
                 &
                 neat
                 .
                 Some
                 do
                 vse
                 presently
                 to
                 change
                 the
                 wine
                 so
                 watered
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 draw
                 it
                 out
                 into
                 another
                 vessell
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 to
                 put
                 a
                 pint
                 &
                 a
                 halfe
                 of
                 salt
                 to
                 euery
                 fifteene
                 quarts
                 of
                 wine
                 ;
                 others
                 doe
                 boyle
                 the
                 wine
                 vpon
                 the
                 fire
                 so
                 long
                 vntill
                 the
                 third
                 part
                 be
                 consumed
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 rest
                 they
                 vse
                 three
                 or
                 foure
                 yeares
                 after
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 way
                 how
                 a
                 man
                 may
                 drinke
                 much
                 wine
                 and
                 yet
                 not
                 be
                 drunke
                 .
              
               
                 To
                 drinke
                 great
                 store
                 of
                 wine
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 to
                 be
                 drunke
                 ,
                 you
                 must
                 eate
                 of
                 the
                 rosted
                 lungs
                 of
                 a
                 Goat
                 :
                 or
                 otherwise
                 ,
                 eate
                 sixe
                 or
                 seauen
                 
                 bitter
                 Almonds
                 fasting
                 :
                 or
                 otherwise
                 ,
                 eate
                 raw
                 Coleworts
                 before
                 you
                 drinke
                 ,
                 and
                 you
                 shall
                 not
                 become
                 drunk
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 many
                 sorts
                 of
                 Drunkards
                 are
                 there
                 ?
              
               
                 So
                 many
                 men
                 ,
                 so
                 many
                 mindes
                 .
                 The
                 soule
                 being
                 once
                 depraued
                 ,
                 and
                 depriued
                 (
                 for
                 want
                 of
                 grace
                 )
                 of
                 her
                 vniforme
                 and
                 melodious
                 harmony
                 ,
                 becommeth
                 tainted
                 with
                 diuers
                 and
                 discording
                 affections
                 ,
                 insomuch
                 that
                 in
                 their
                 very
                 drinking
                 they
                 shew
                 of
                 what
                 base
                 alloy
                 they
                 are
                 composed
                 .
                 Some
                 kind
                 of
                 Drunkards
                 we
                 see
                 laughing
                 out
                 of
                 all
                 measure
                 ,
                 others
                 we
                 see
                 weeping
                 .
                 Some
                 are
                 dumbe
                 ,
                 some
                 talkatiue
                 .
                 Some
                 hop
                 and
                 daunce
                 ,
                 some
                 on
                 the
                 contrary
                 lie
                 still
                 ,
                 as
                 if
                 they
                 were
                 without
                 feeling
                 .
                 One
                 more
                 watchfull
                 then
                 the
                 rest
                 drinks
                 more
                 then
                 twentie
                 ,
                 deseruing
                 well
                 the
                 garland
                 of
                 Bacchus
                 ,
                 Another
                 sleepes
                 and
                 wallowes
                 like
                 a
                 filthy
                 Hogge
                 .
                 One
                 flatters
                 ,
                 another
                 fights
                 .
                 In
                 briefe
                 ,
                 one
                 is
                 Lion
                 drunk
                 ,
                 another
                 Sow
                 drunk
                 .
                 One
                 apish
                 drunk
                 ,
                 another
                 Parrot
                 drunk
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 to
                 make
                 them
                 which
                 are
                 drunk
                 sober
                 .
              
               
                 You
                 must
                 make
                 them
                 eate
                 Coleworts
                 ,
                 and
                 some
                 manner
                 of
                 confections
                 made
                 of
                 brine
                 ;
                 or
                 else
                 drink
                 great
                 draughts
                 of
                 vinegar
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 way
                 how
                 to
                 make
                 Tossepots
                 and
                 drunkards
                 to
                 hate
                 wine
                 .
              
               
                 Cause
                 a
                 Drunkard
                 to
                 drinke
                 with
                 white
                 wine
                 the
                 blossomes
                 of
                 Rie
                 ,
                 gathered
                 at
                 such
                 time
                 as
                 the
                 Rie
                 blossometh
                 :
                 or
                 else
                 take
                 three
                 or
                 foure
                 Eeles
                 aliue
                 ,
                 and
                 let
                 them
                 lie
                 in
                 wine
                 till
                 they
                 die
                 ,
                 and
                 afterward
                 cause
                 this
                 wine
                 to
                 be
                 drunken
                 off
                 by
                 such
                 as
                 are
                 giuen
                 to
                 be
                 drunk
                 :
                 or
                 else
                 take
                 a
                 greene
                 Frog
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 ordinarily
                 found
                 in
                 fresh
                 springs
                 ,
                 and
                 let
                 the
                 same
                 lie
                 in
                 wine
                 till
                 she
                 die
                 ;
                 otherwise
                 marke
                 diligently
                 where
                 the
                 Owle
                 haunteth
                 ,
                 that
                 so
                 you
                 may
                 get
                 some
                 of
                 her
                 egs
                 :
                 frie
                 them
                 and
                 giue
                 them
                 the
                 drunken
                 gallant
                 to
                 eate
                 .
                 But
                 in
                 vaine
                 labours
                 the
                 Phisitian
                 to
                 cure
                 the
                 bodies
                 intemperance
                 ,
                 while
                 the
                 soule
                 sleepes
                 in
                 sinne
                 ,
                 while
                 the
                 reasonable
                 faculties
                 lie
                 troaden
                 and
                 trampled
                 vnder
                 these
                 worldly
                 pleasures
                 .
                 Awake
                 then
                 ,
                 thou
                 sensuall
                 man
                 ,
                 and
                 shoote
                 inwardly
                 into
                 the
                 lightsome
                 cause
                 of
                 health
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 no
                 other
                 then
                 sobrietie
                 ,
                 fashioned
                 after
                 the
                 spirituall
                 image
                 of
                 the
                 Trinitie
                 .
                 But
                 if
                 thy
                 nature
                 be
                 so
                 sterne
                 ,
                 if
                 thy
                 soules
                 aduantage
                 be
                 no
                 solide
                 reason
                 in
                 thy
                 iudgement
                 to
                 conuert
                 thy
                 brutish
                 liuing
                 ,
                 yet
                 let
                 examples
                 of
                 the
                 bodies
                 griefes
                 terrifie
                 thy
                 lustfull
                 
                 thoughts
                 from
                 such
                 vaine
                 dregs
                 .
                 Looke
                 but
                 on
                 the
                 countenance
                 of
                 a
                 drunkard
                 ,
                 and
                 is
                 not
                 he
                 disfigured
                 ?
                 Doth
                 not
                 his
                 nose
                 seeme
                 rotten
                 ,
                 withered
                 ,
                 or
                 worme-eaten
                 ?
                 Doth
                 not
                 his
                 breath
                 stinck
                 ,
                 his
                 tongue
                 falter
                 ?
                 Is
                 not
                 his
                 body
                 crazed
                 ,
                 subiect
                 to
                 gouts
                 and
                 dropsies
                 ?
                 It
                 is
                 written
                 of
                 olde
                 Father
                 Ennius
                 ,
                 that
                 by
                 emptying
                 of
                 bottels
                 he
                 got
                 the
                 gout
                 and
                 many
                 other
                 dolours
                 .
                 As
                 
                   Mounsieur
                   du
                   Chesne
                
                 out
                 of
                 
                   Celius
                   Rhodiginus
                
                 translated
                 these
                 verses
                 into
                 French
                 :
                 
                   
                     Le
                     bon
                     pere
                     Ennius
                     seicha
                     tant
                     les
                     bouteilles
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Qu'il
                     fut
                     geine
                     de
                     goutte
                     et
                     douleurs
                     nompareilles
                     .
                  
                
                 More
                 would
                 I
                 inueigh
                 against
                 the
                 Lapithes
                 of
                 our
                 age
                 ,
                 had
                 not
                 I
                 of
                 late
                 taxed
                 them
                 in
                 my
                 
                   first
                   Circle
                   of
                   the
                   Spirit
                   of
                   Detraction
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 way
                 to
                 make
                 olde
                 wine
                 to
                 be
                 new
                 out
                 of
                 hand
                 .
              
               
                 Take
                 bitter
                 Almonds
                 and
                 Melilot
                 ,
                 of
                 each
                 an
                 ounce
                 ;
                 of
                 Licorice
                 three
                 ounces
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 flowers
                 of
                 Alexander
                 as
                 much
                 ,
                 of
                 Aloes
                 perepatick
                 two
                 ounces
                 ,
                 bray
                 them
                 all
                 and
                 tye
                 them
                 together
                 in
                 a
                 linnen
                 cloath
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 sinke
                 them
                 in
                 the
                 wine
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 At
                 what
                 time
                 are
                 VVine
                 and
                 Beere
                 readie
                 to
                 turne
                 and
                 change
                 ?
              
               
               
                 About
                 the
                 middest
                 of
                 Iune
                 ,
                 when
                 the
                 Sun
                 enters
                 into
                 the
                 Tropicke
                 of
                 Cancer
                 ,
                 and
                 somwhat
                 before
                 the
                 Dogge
                 dayes
                 begin
                 ,
                 wine
                 and
                 Beere
                 are
                 apt
                 to
                 become
                 eager
                 and
                 corrupt
                 ,
                 and
                 likewise
                 when
                 the
                 Southerne
                 winde
                 blowes
                 ,
                 whether
                 it
                 be
                 in
                 Sommer
                 time
                 or
                 Winter
                 ,
                 when
                 it
                 is
                 great
                 raine
                 ,
                 lightning
                 ,
                 thunder
                 ,
                 or
                 earthquakes
                 ,
                 then
                 are
                 wine
                 and
                 Beere
                 subiect
                 to
                 turne
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 how
                 to
                 keepe
                 wine
                 and
                 Beere
                 without
                 turning
                 .
              
               
                 Aboue
                 all
                 things
                 ,
                 haue
                 a
                 speciall
                 regard
                 that
                 you
                 lay
                 your
                 vessels
                 in
                 vaulted
                 sellers
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 cast
                 into
                 your
                 said
                 vessels
                 ,
                 either
                 Roach
                 Allome
                 done
                 into
                 powder
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 ashes
                 of
                 Oaken
                 wood
                 ,
                 or
                 beaten
                 Pepper
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 put
                 into
                 your
                 vessels
                 so
                 corrupted
                 ,
                 a
                 good
                 quantity
                 of
                 Cowes
                 milke
                 somewhat
                 salted
                 ,
                 or
                 if
                 none
                 of
                 these
                 serue
                 ,
                 draw
                 the
                 drinke
                 into
                 an
                 other
                 vessell
                 that
                 is
                 sweet
                 and
                 vntainted
                 ,
                 vsing
                 a
                 composition
                 of
                 the
                 foresaid
                 remedies
                 ,
                 intermingling
                 it
                 foure
                 or
                 fiue
                 times
                 a
                 day
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 a
                 sennight
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Is
                 wine
                 hurtfull
                 to
                 sicke
                 folkes
                 ?
              
               
                 Hypocrates
                 writeth
                 ,
                 that
                 to
                 giue
                 wine
                 or
                 milke
                 to
                 them
                 that
                 be
                 sicke
                 of
                 agues
                 or
                 head-aches
                 ,
                 
                 is
                 to
                 giue
                 them
                 poyson
                 ,
                 yet
                 neuerthelesse
                 it
                 doth
                 agree
                 with
                 some
                 kind
                 of
                 diseases
                 :
                 as
                 for
                 example
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 permitted
                 to
                 them
                 that
                 be
                 troubled
                 with
                 dropsies
                 ,
                 with
                 ill
                 dispositions
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 and
                 with
                 the
                 rawnesse
                 and
                 weaknesse
                 of
                 the
                 stomack
                 :
                 to
                 be
                 briefe
                 ,
                 wine
                 is
                 an
                 excellent
                 restoratiue
                 for
                 olde
                 age
                 ,
                 which
                 of
                 it selfe
                 is
                 a
                 great
                 and
                 troublesome
                 sicknesse
                 ;
                 and
                 for
                 this
                 cause
                 some
                 Phisitians
                 aduised
                 olde
                 men
                 to
                 drinke
                 wine
                 in
                 the
                 middest
                 of
                 Sommer
                 ,
                 I
                 meane
                 to
                 vse
                 Bacchus
                 for
                 their
                 Phisitian
                 twenty
                 dayes
                 before
                 ,
                 and
                 twenty
                 dayes
                 after
                 the
                 dogge
                 dayes
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 end
                 that
                 in
                 the
                 heat
                 and
                 siccity
                 of
                 that
                 fierie
                 starre
                 ,
                 their
                 lungs
                 should
                 be
                 ouerflowne
                 :
                 but
                 howsoeuer
                 ,
                 wine
                 reuiueth
                 feeble
                 spirits
                 ,
                 and
                 maketh
                 the
                 heart
                 light
                 ,
                 specially
                 of
                 an
                 olde
                 man
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 Italian
                 saying
                 :
                 
                   A
                   vecchio
                   infunde
                   lolio
                   ne
                   la
                   lampada
                   quasi
                   estincta
                   .
                
                 Vnto
                 an
                 olde
                 man
                 it
                 infuseth
                 oyle
                 in
                 his
                 decayed
                 lampe
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               Of
               diet
               drinks
               as
               well
               for
               them
               that
               be
               sicke
               as
               in
               health
               .
               CHAP.
               3.
               
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 how
                 to
                 correct
                 the
                 malicious
                 vapours
                 of
                 wines
                 ?
              
               
                 FOr
                 the
                 correction
                 of
                 medicinable
                 wine
                 ,
                 you
                 must
                 put
                 and
                 infuse
                 Burrage
                 ,
                 Buglos
                 ,
                 and
                 Pimpernell
                 in
                 your
                 wine
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 foure
                 and
                 twenty
                 houres
                 before
                 you
                 drink
                 of
                 it
                 .
                 Some
                 vse
                 to
                 temper
                 the
                 force
                 of
                 wine
                 by
                 putting
                 a
                 toste
                 in
                 it
                 :
                 Some
                 take
                 the
                 leaues
                 of
                 Isop
                 wel
                 powned
                 made
                 fast
                 in
                 a
                 fine
                 cloath
                 ,
                 and
                 put
                 into
                 new
                 wine
                 against
                 the
                 diseases
                 of
                 the
                 lungs
                 ,
                 shortnesse
                 of
                 the
                 breath
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 cough
                 ,
                 which
                 they
                 call
                 Isop
                 wine
                 :
                 some
                 take
                 dry
                 Roses
                 ,
                 Anise
                 ,
                 and
                 hony
                 ,
                 together
                 ,
                 with
                 one
                 pound
                 of
                 the
                 leaues
                 and
                 seed
                 of
                 Betony
                 ,
                 one
                 pound
                 of
                 Fenell
                 seede
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 little
                 Saffron
                 ,
                 these
                 ingredients
                 they
                 put
                 in
                 twenty
                 quarts
                 of
                 new
                 wine
                 ,
                 and
                 after
                 foure
                 moneths
                 are
                 past
                 ,
                 they
                 change
                 the
                 wine
                 into
                 a
                 new
                 vessell
                 ,
                 this
                 kinde
                 of
                 wine
                 is
                 very
                 expedient
                 to
                 be
                 
                 drunk
                 for
                 the
                 clearing
                 of
                 the
                 eye-sight
                 ,
                 for
                 Pleurisies
                 ,
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 coroborating
                 of
                 the
                 stomack
                 :
                 Others
                 make
                 wine
                 of
                 Wormewood
                 for
                 the
                 paine
                 of
                 the
                 stomack
                 and
                 liuer
                 ,
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 wormes
                 of
                 the
                 guts
                 ,
                 which
                 wine
                 is
                 made
                 after
                 this
                 manner
                 :
                 eight
                 drams
                 of
                 Worme-wood
                 ,
                 stamp
                 them
                 and
                 straine
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 cast
                 them
                 into
                 three
                 pints
                 of
                 wine
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 how
                 to
                 make
                 Ipocras
                 and
                 wine
                 of
                 Scene
                 ?
              
               
                 Common
                 Ipocras
                 is
                 made
                 after
                 this
                 manner
                 :
                 take
                 nine
                 pound
                 of
                 the
                 best
                 white
                 wine
                 or
                 Claret
                 that
                 you
                 can
                 get
                 ,
                 an
                 ounce
                 and
                 a
                 halfe
                 of
                 Cinamon
                 ,
                 one
                 pound
                 of
                 Suger
                 ,
                 three
                 drams
                 of
                 Ginger
                 ,
                 and
                 two
                 scruples
                 of
                 Nutmegs
                 ,
                 beat
                 all
                 these
                 somewhat
                 grosly
                 ,
                 then
                 let
                 them
                 soake
                 three
                 daies
                 in
                 the
                 said
                 wine
                 ,
                 and
                 afterward
                 straine
                 it
                 and
                 vse
                 it
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 heating
                 and
                 comforting
                 of
                 a
                 colde
                 and
                 a
                 weake
                 stomack
                 ,
                 but
                 if
                 you
                 feare
                 sicknesse
                 ,
                 prepare
                 wine
                 of
                 Scene
                 after
                 this
                 manner
                 :
                 take
                 an
                 ounce
                 of
                 the
                 leaues
                 of
                 Scene
                 well
                 mundified
                 ,
                 halfe
                 a
                 dram
                 of
                 Cinamon
                 ,
                 seeth
                 them
                 in
                 a
                 quart
                 of
                 white
                 wine
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 soft
                 fire
                 ,
                 till
                 it
                 come
                 to
                 a
                 pint
                 ,
                 afterwards
                 put
                 a
                 little
                 Suger
                 vnto
                 it
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 three
                 daies
                 after
                 it
                 hath
                 beene
                 steeped
                 and
                 
                 so
                 continuing
                 ,
                 you
                 may
                 straine
                 it
                 and
                 vse
                 it
                 ,
                 by
                 taking
                 of
                 three
                 spoonfuls
                 in
                 the
                 morning
                 ,
                 and
                 three
                 spoonfuls
                 when
                 you
                 goe
                 to
                 bed
                 ,
                 vntill
                 your
                 body
                 be
                 sufficiently
                 purged
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 mee
                 a
                 diet
                 drinke
                 against
                 Melancholie
              
               
                 Take
                 two
                 ounces
                 of
                 the
                 leaues
                 of
                 Scene
                 ,
                 of
                 Fumitory
                 ,
                 greene
                 Hops
                 and
                 Borrage
                 ,
                 of
                 each
                 a
                 pound
                 ,
                 seeth
                 them
                 to
                 the
                 third
                 part
                 in
                 faire
                 water
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 soft
                 fire
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 till
                 two
                 gallons
                 come
                 to
                 one
                 gallon
                 ,
                 straine
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 sweeten
                 them
                 with
                 Suger
                 or
                 hony
                 ,
                 and
                 after
                 a
                 sennight
                 ,
                 you
                 may
                 drink
                 thereof
                 euery
                 morning
                 a
                 draught
                 fasting
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 before
                 supper
                 one
                 houre
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 diet
                 drinke
                 against
                 the
                 consumption
                 .
              
               
                 Take
                 two
                 gallons
                 of
                 small
                 Ale
                 ;
                 halfe
                 a
                 pound
                 of
                 blancht
                 Almonds
                 ,
                 a
                 quarter
                 of
                 a
                 pound
                 of
                 Annise
                 seeds
                 ,
                 three
                 or
                 foure
                 stickes
                 of
                 Licoras
                 sliced
                 or
                 bruised
                 ,
                 one
                 pound
                 of
                 Red
                 Roses
                 ,
                 Isop
                 ,
                 and
                 Parsley
                 ,
                 bruise
                 and
                 straine
                 what
                 is
                 to
                 be
                 bruised
                 and
                 strained
                 ,
                 after
                 you
                 haue
                 ,
                 let
                 them
                 boile
                 to
                 one
                 gallon
                 ,
                 and
                 when
                 it
                 is
                 ready
                 ,
                 adde
                 vnto
                 it
                 a
                 quart
                 of
                 Malmesie
                 ,
                 and
                 drinke
                 thereof
                 morning
                 and
                 
                 euening
                 two
                 houres
                 before
                 you
                 eate
                 :
                 this
                 drinke
                 preserueth
                 a
                 man
                 from
                 the
                 cough
                 ,
                 makes
                 a
                 man
                 of
                 a
                 strong
                 constitution
                 ,
                 and
                 cureth
                 the
                 consumption
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Of
               Cider
               and
               Perry
               .
               CHAP.
               4.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 Cyder
                 ?
              
               
                 
                   MOnsieur
                   (
                   Libault
                   )
                   in
                   his
                   third
                   booke
                   of
                   his
                   mayson
                   rustique
                   ,
                
                 writeth
                 ,
                 that
                 Cyder
                 most
                 commonly
                 is
                 sowre
                 :
                 yet
                 notwithstanding
                 whether
                 it
                 were
                 made
                 such
                 ,
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 the
                 sowernesse
                 of
                 the
                 Apples
                 ,
                 or
                 become
                 such
                 ,
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 time
                 ,
                 in
                 as
                 much
                 as
                 it
                 is
                 very
                 watry
                 ;
                 and
                 somewhat
                 earthie
                 ,
                 as
                 also
                 very
                 subtile
                 and
                 pearcing
                 ,
                 and
                 yet
                 therewithall
                 somewhat
                 astringent
                 ,
                 and
                 corroboratiue
                 ,
                 becommeth
                 singular
                 good
                 to
                 coole
                 a
                 hot
                 liuer
                 and
                 stomack
                 ,
                 to
                 temper
                 the
                 heate
                 of
                 boyling
                 and
                 collerick
                 blood
                 ,
                 to
                 stay
                 collerick
                 and
                 adust
                 vomiting
                 ,
                 to
                 asswage
                 thirst
                 ,
                 to
                 cut
                 and
                 make
                 thinne
                 grosse
                 and
                 slimy
                 humours
                 ,
                 whether
                 hot
                 or
                 colde
                 ,
                 but
                 chiefely
                 the
                 hot
                 .
                 Such
                 drinke
                 falleth
                 out
                 to
                 be
                 very
                 good
                 and
                 conuenient
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 serue
                 well
                 in
                 place
                 of
                 wine
                 
                 for
                 such
                 as
                 haue
                 any
                 ague
                 ,
                 for
                 such
                 are
                 subiect
                 to
                 a
                 hot
                 liuer
                 and
                 hot
                 bloud
                 ,
                 for
                 such
                 as
                 are
                 scabbed
                 ,
                 or
                 itchy
                 ,
                 for
                 such
                 are
                 rheumatick
                 vpon
                 occasion
                 of
                 hot
                 humours
                 ,
                 and
                 it
                 needeth
                 not
                 that
                 it
                 should
                 be
                 tempered
                 with
                 water
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 Perry
                 ?
              
               
                 Perry
                 is
                 a
                 sweet
                 kind
                 of
                 Cider
                 ,
                 either
                 pressed
                 from
                 Peares
                 or
                 from
                 sweet
                 Apples
                 :
                 such
                 Cider
                 therefore
                 as
                 is
                 sweet
                 ,
                 because
                 of
                 his
                 sweetnesse
                 ,
                 which
                 commeth
                 of
                 temperate
                 heat
                 ,
                 heateth
                 in
                 a
                 meane
                 and
                 indifferent
                 manner
                 ,
                 but
                 cooleth
                 least
                 of
                 all
                 :
                 and
                 againe
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 the
                 most
                 nourishing
                 of
                 all
                 Ciders
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 most
                 profitable
                 to
                 be
                 vsed
                 of
                 such
                 as
                 haue
                 cold
                 and
                 dry
                 stomacks
                 ,
                 and
                 on
                 the
                 contrarie
                 ,
                 but
                 smally
                 profiting
                 them
                 which
                 haue
                 a
                 hot
                 stomack
                 ,
                 whether
                 it
                 be
                 more
                 or
                 lesse
                 ,
                 or
                 stomacks
                 that
                 are
                 full
                 of
                 humidity
                 ,
                 very
                 tender
                 and
                 queasie
                 ,
                 and
                 subiect
                 vnto
                 chollerick
                 vomits
                 ;
                 so
                 that
                 in
                 such
                 complexions
                 as
                 are
                 hot
                 and
                 chollerick
                 :
                 it
                 is
                 needfull
                 as
                 with
                 wine
                 ,
                 so
                 with
                 Cider
                 to
                 mixe
                 water
                 in
                 a
                 sufficient
                 quantitie
                 with
                 sweet
                 Cider
                 when
                 they
                 take
                 it
                 to
                 drinke
                 :
                 especially
                 when
                 such
                 persons
                 haue
                 anie
                 ague
                 withall
                 ,
                 or
                 and
                 if
                 it
                 be
                 the
                 hot
                 time
                 of
                 Sommer
                 ,
                 fore-seene
                 that
                 hee
                 that
                 shall
                 then
                 
                 drinke
                 it
                 thus
                 ,
                 be
                 not
                 subiect
                 to
                 the
                 paynes
                 of
                 the
                 belly
                 or
                 collicke
                 ,
                 because
                 that
                 sweet
                 Cider
                 pressed
                 new
                 from
                 sweet
                 apples
                 is
                 windy
                 by
                 nature
                 ,
                 as
                 are
                 also
                 the
                 sweet
                 apples
                 themselues
                 .
                 This
                 is
                 the
                 cause
                 why
                 Phisitions
                 counsell
                 and
                 aduise
                 that
                 sweet
                 apples
                 should
                 be
                 rosted
                 in
                 the
                 ashes
                 ,
                 for
                 them
                 that
                 shall
                 eate
                 them
                 ,
                 that
                 so
                 their
                 great
                 moystnes
                 and
                 watrishnes
                 which
                 are
                 the
                 originall
                 fountaine
                 of
                 windinesse
                 ,
                 may
                 be
                 concocted
                 by
                 the
                 meanes
                 of
                 the
                 heate
                 of
                 the
                 fire
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Of
               Flesh.
               CHAP.
               5.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 Flesh
                 is
                 best
                 to
                 be
                 eaten
                 ?
              
               
                 BEfore
                 your
                 bee
                 resolued
                 if
                 this
                 ,
                 I
                 must
                 declare
                 vnto
                 you
                 the
                 sorts
                 of
                 flesh
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 natures
                 of
                 it
                 .
                 There
                 be
                 two
                 sorts
                 of
                 flesh
                 ,
                 the
                 one
                 foure-footed
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 other
                 that
                 of
                 Fowle
                 .
                 Among
                 those
                 that
                 be
                 foure-footed
                 ,
                 some
                 are
                 young
                 ,
                 some
                 are
                 of
                 middle
                 age
                 ,
                 others
                 are
                 old
                 :
                 the
                 young
                 are
                 moyst
                 ,
                 and
                 doe
                 commonly
                 cause
                 excrements
                 and
                 loosenes
                 in
                 the
                 belly
                 ,
                 old
                 flesh
                 is
                 dry
                 ,
                 of
                 small
                 nourishment
                 and
                 of
                 hard
                 
                 digestion
                 ,
                 therefore
                 I
                 take
                 that
                 flesh
                 to
                 be
                 best
                 which
                 is
                 of
                 middle
                 age
                 ,
                 if
                 not
                 to
                 the
                 tast
                 ,
                 yet
                 at
                 the
                 least
                 to
                 nourish
                 soundly
                 and
                 profitably
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 French
                 Prouerbe
                 :
                 Hee
                 that
                 loues
                 young
                 flesh
                 and
                 old
                 fish
                 loues
                 contrary
                 to
                 reason
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Qui
                   veut
                   ieune
                   chair
                   et
                   vi
                   eux
                   poisson
                   ,
                
                 
                   Se
                   troue
                   repugner
                   a
                   raison
                   .
                
              
               
                 Certainely
                 that
                 of
                 the
                 male
                 ,
                 doth
                 far
                 excell
                 the
                 flesh
                 of
                 the
                 female
                 ,
                 as
                 for
                 example
                 :
                 the
                 Oxe
                 flesh
                 is
                 better
                 then
                 the
                 Cowes
                 flesh
                 :
                 a
                 fat
                 Wether
                 is
                 better
                 then
                 a
                 fat
                 Ewe
                 ,
                 but
                 this
                 is
                 to
                 be
                 vnderstood
                 of
                 those
                 males
                 which
                 are
                 gelt
                 :
                 for
                 I
                 cannot
                 deny
                 but
                 Bull
                 beefe
                 and
                 Ramme
                 mutton
                 is
                 far
                 worse
                 then
                 the
                 flesh
                 of
                 the
                 Cow
                 and
                 the
                 Ewe
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 them
                 which
                 obserue
                 dyet
                 ,
                 I
                 must
                 needs
                 say
                 that
                 all
                 flesh
                 whatsoeuer
                 ,
                 be
                 it
                 Beefe
                 ,
                 Mutton
                 or
                 other
                 that
                 is
                 bred
                 on
                 dry
                 places
                 or
                 mountainous
                 ,
                 where
                 ther
                 is
                 any
                 reasonable
                 pasture
                 ,
                 is
                 alwaies
                 better
                 and
                 more
                 wholsome
                 ,
                 then
                 that
                 which
                 is
                 bred
                 in
                 valleyes
                 ,
                 or
                 on
                 low
                 and
                 marshie
                 grounds
                 ,
                 where
                 there
                 grow
                 bulrushes
                 ,
                 and
                 other
                 weeds
                 and
                 hearbs
                 ,
                 cold
                 moist
                 ,
                 and
                 of
                 little
                 substance
                 :
                 To
                 conclude
                 this
                 flesh
                 of
                 foure-footed
                 beasts
                 ,
                 I
                 haue
                 found
                 that
                 Mutton
                 ,
                 Beefe
                 Kid
                 ,
                 Lambe
                 ,
                 
                 Veale
                 ,
                 Pigges
                 and
                 Rabbets
                 ,
                 are
                 meats
                 easie
                 to
                 be
                 digested
                 ,
                 and
                 doe
                 engender
                 good
                 bloud
                 ;
                 whereas
                 on
                 the
                 contrary
                 ,
                 I
                 finde
                 that
                 Martlemasse
                 Beefe
                 ,
                 Bacon
                 &
                 Venison
                 ,
                 together
                 with
                 the
                 kidneyes
                 ,
                 liuers
                 and
                 the
                 entrals
                 of
                 beasts
                 ,
                 doe
                 breede
                 raw
                 humours
                 in
                 the
                 stomack
                 ,
                 and
                 fl●xes
                 .
                 In
                 like
                 manner
                 ,
                 fat
                 meate
                 is
                 fulsome
                 and
                 takes
                 away
                 a
                 mans
                 stomack
                 .
              
               
                 Among
                 fowle
                 we
                 count
                 the
                 Capon
                 ,
                 the
                 yong
                 Pigeon
                 ,
                 the
                 Partridge
                 ,
                 the
                 Woodcocke
                 ,
                 the
                 Peacocke
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Turkie
                 cocke
                 ,
                 to
                 be
                 meates
                 of
                 an
                 excellent
                 temperature
                 ,
                 and
                 fit
                 to
                 continue
                 the
                 body
                 in
                 health
                 :
                 and
                 contrariwise
                 that
                 Hares
                 ,
                 Duckes
                 ,
                 Geese
                 (
                 young
                 Goselings
                 onely
                 excepted
                 )
                 and
                 Swans
                 doe
                 dispose
                 the
                 body
                 to
                 Melancholy
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 way
                 to
                 preserue
                 flesh
                 and
                 fowle
                 sound
                 and
                 sweet
                 for
                 one
                 month
                 ,
                 notwithstanding
                 the
                 contagiousnesse
                 of
                 the
                 weather
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Master
                   Plat
                
                 ,
                 whose
                 authoritie
                 not
                 onely
                 in
                 this
                 ,
                 but
                 in
                 all
                 other
                 matters
                 I
                 greatly
                 allow
                 of
                 ,
                 counselleth
                 Huswiues
                 to
                 make
                 a
                 strong
                 brine
                 ,
                 so
                 as
                 the
                 water
                 be
                 ouer-glutted
                 with
                 salt
                 ,
                 and
                 being
                 scalding
                 hot
                 ,
                 to
                 perboyle
                 their
                 mutton
                 ,
                 veale
                 ,
                 venison
                 ,
                 fowle
                 or
                 such
                 like
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 to
                 hang
                 them
                 vp
                 in
                 a
                 conuenient
                 
                 place
                 ;
                 with
                 this
                 vsage
                 they
                 will
                 last
                 a
                 sufficient
                 space
                 ,
                 without
                 any
                 bad
                 or
                 ouersaltish
                 tast
                 :
                 some
                 haue
                 holpen
                 tainted
                 venison
                 ,
                 by
                 lapping
                 the
                 same
                 in
                 a
                 course
                 thin
                 cloth
                 ,
                 couering
                 it
                 first
                 with
                 salt
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 burying
                 it
                 a
                 yard
                 deepe
                 in
                 the
                 ground
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 use
                 of
                 our
                 common
                 meates
                 ?
              
               
                 Yong
                 mutton
                 boyled
                 and
                 eaten
                 with
                 opening
                 and
                 cordiall
                 hearbs
                 ,
                 is
                 the
                 most
                 nourishing
                 meate
                 of
                 all
                 ,
                 and
                 hurteth
                 none
                 ,
                 but
                 only
                 flegmatick
                 persons
                 ,
                 and
                 those
                 which
                 are
                 troubled
                 with
                 the
                 dropsy
                 .
              
               
                 Yong
                 beefe
                 bredde
                 vp
                 in
                 fruitfull
                 pasture
                 ,
                 and
                 other
                 whiles
                 wrought
                 at
                 plow
                 ,
                 being
                 powdred
                 with
                 salt
                 foure
                 and
                 twenty
                 houres
                 ,
                 and
                 exquisitly
                 sodden
                 ,
                 is
                 naturall
                 meat
                 for
                 men
                 of
                 strong
                 constitutions
                 .
                 It
                 nourisheth
                 excedingly
                 ,
                 and
                 stoppeth
                 the
                 fluxe
                 of
                 yellow
                 choler
                 :
                 Howbeit
                 Martlemas
                 beefe
                 (
                 so
                 commonly
                 called
                 )
                 is
                 not
                 laudable
                 ,
                 for
                 it
                 ingendereth
                 melancholick
                 diseases
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 stone
                 .
              
               
                 Veale
                 yong
                 and
                 tender
                 ,
                 sodden
                 with
                 yong
                 pullets
                 ,
                 or
                 capons
                 ,
                 and
                 smallage
                 ,
                 is
                 very
                 nutritiue
                 and
                 wholesome
                 for
                 all
                 seasons
                 ,
                 ages
                 and
                 constitutions
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 leane
                 of
                 a
                 yong
                 fatte
                 Hog
                 eaten
                 moderately
                 
                 with
                 spices
                 ,
                 and
                 hot
                 things
                 ,
                 doth
                 surpasse
                 all
                 manner
                 of
                 meate
                 ,
                 except
                 Veale
                 ,
                 for
                 nourishment
                 ;
                 it
                 keepeth
                 the
                 paunch
                 slipperie
                 ,
                 and
                 prouoketh
                 vrine
                 ;
                 but
                 it
                 hurteth
                 them
                 that
                 be
                 subiect
                 to
                 the
                 Gout
                 and
                 Sciatica
                 ,
                 and
                 annoyeth
                 old
                 men
                 ,
                 and
                 idle
                 persons
                 .
                 A
                 young
                 Pig
                 is
                 restoratiue
                 ,
                 if
                 it
                 be
                 flayed
                 and
                 made
                 in
                 a
                 ielly
                 .
                 To
                 be
                 short
                 ,
                 Bacon
                 may
                 be
                 eaten
                 with
                 other
                 flesh
                 to
                 prouoke
                 appetite
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 break
                 flegme
                 coagulated
                 and
                 thickned
                 in
                 the
                 stomacke
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 hinder
                 part
                 of
                 a
                 young
                 Kid
                 roasted
                 is
                 a
                 meate
                 soone
                 digested
                 ,
                 and
                 therefore
                 very
                 wholesome
                 for
                 sicke
                 and
                 weake
                 folkes
                 .
                 It
                 is
                 more
                 fit
                 for
                 young
                 and
                 hot
                 constitutions
                 ,
                 then
                 for
                 old
                 men
                 or
                 flegmatick
                 persons
                 .
              
               
                 Young
                 fallow
                 Deere
                 very
                 well
                 chased
                 ,
                 hangd
                 vp
                 vntill
                 it
                 be
                 tender
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 roasting
                 being
                 throughly
                 basted
                 with
                 oyle
                 ,
                 or
                 wel
                 larded
                 ,
                 is
                 very
                 good
                 for
                 them
                 that
                 be
                 troubled
                 with
                 the
                 rheume
                 or
                 palsy
                 ,
                 Yet
                 notwithstanding
                 it
                 hurteth
                 leane
                 folkes
                 and
                 olde
                 men
                 ,
                 it
                 disposeth
                 the
                 body
                 to
                 agues
                 ,
                 and
                 causeth
                 fearefull
                 dreames
                 .
              
               
                 Some
                 say
                 that
                 venison
                 being
                 eaten
                 in
                 the
                 morning
                 ,
                 prolongeth
                 life
                 ;
                 but
                 eaten
                 at
                 night
                 
                 it
                 bringeth
                 sodaine
                 death
                 .
                 The
                 hornes
                 of
                 Deere
                 being
                 long
                 and
                 slender
                 ,
                 are
                 remedies
                 against
                 poysoned
                 potions
                 ;
                 and
                 so
                 are
                 the
                 bones
                 that
                 grow
                 in
                 their
                 hearts
                 .
              
               
                 Hare
                 and
                 Conies
                 flesh
                 perboyled
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 rosted
                 with
                 sweet
                 hearbs
                 ,
                 Cloues
                 ,
                 and
                 other
                 spices
                 ,
                 consumeth
                 all
                 corrupt
                 humours
                 and
                 flegme
                 in
                 the
                 stomack
                 ,
                 and
                 maketh
                 a
                 man
                 to
                 looke
                 amiably
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 prouerb
                 ,
                 
                   He
                   hath
                   swallowed
                   vp
                   a
                   Hare
                   :
                
                 But
                 it
                 is
                 vnwholesome
                 for
                 lazie
                 and
                 melancholick
                 men
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 your
                 opinion
                 of
                 Fowle
                 ?
              
               
                 A
                 fat
                 Capon
                 is
                 more
                 nutritiue
                 then
                 any
                 other
                 kind
                 of
                 fowle
                 .
                 It
                 encreaseth
                 venerie
                 ,
                 and
                 helpeth
                 the
                 weaknesse
                 of
                 the
                 braine
                 .
                 But
                 vnlesse
                 a
                 man
                 after
                 the
                 eating
                 of
                 it
                 ,
                 vse
                 extraordinarie
                 exercise
                 ,
                 it
                 will
                 doe
                 him
                 more
                 hurt
                 then
                 good
                 .
                 As
                 for
                 chickens
                 they
                 are
                 fitter
                 to
                 be
                 eaten
                 of
                 sicke
                 men
                 ,
                 then
                 of
                 them
                 that
                 be
                 in
                 health
                 .
              
               
                 Pigeons
                 plump
                 and
                 fat
                 ,
                 boiled
                 in
                 sweet
                 flesh-broth
                 with
                 coriander
                 &
                 vineger
                 ,
                 or
                 with
                 sower
                 cheries
                 and
                 plums
                 ,
                 do
                 purge
                 the
                 raines
                 ,
                 heale
                 the
                 palsie
                 proceeding
                 of
                 a
                 colde
                 cause
                 ,
                 and
                 are
                 very
                 good
                 in
                 colde
                 weather
                 for
                 olde
                 persons
                 ,
                 and
                 stomackes
                 full
                 of
                 flegme
                 .
              
               
               
                 A
                 young
                 fat
                 Goose
                 farsed
                 with
                 sweet
                 hearbs
                 and
                 spices
                 ,
                 doth
                 competently
                 nourish
                 .
                 Notwithstanding
                 ,
                 tender
                 folkes
                 must
                 not
                 eate
                 thereof
                 ;
                 for
                 it
                 filleth
                 the
                 body
                 with
                 superfluous
                 humours
                 ,
                 and
                 causeth
                 the
                 feauer
                 to
                 follow
                 .
              
               
                 Young
                 Ducks
                 stifled
                 with
                 Borage
                 smoke
                 ,
                 and
                 being
                 eaten
                 in
                 cold
                 weather
                 ,
                 strengthen
                 the
                 voice
                 ,
                 and
                 encrease
                 naturall
                 seed
                 .
              
               
                 Young
                 hen
                 Partridges
                 ,
                 eaten
                 with
                 vineger
                 ,
                 doe
                 heale
                 all
                 manner
                 of
                 fluxes
                 ,
                 and
                 dry
                 vp
                 bad
                 humours
                 in
                 the
                 belly
                 .
              
               
                 Quailes
                 eaten
                 with
                 coriander
                 seed
                 and
                 vineger
                 ,
                 doe
                 helpe
                 melancholick
                 men
                 .
              
               
                 Woodcocks
                 and
                 Snites
                 are
                 somewhat
                 lightly
                 digested
                 :
                 Yet
                 hurtfull
                 for
                 collerick
                 and
                 melancholick
                 men
                 .
              
               
                 Swans
                 ,
                 Turkies
                 ,
                 Peacocks
                 ,
                 Hearnes
                 ,
                 and
                 Cranes
                 ,
                 if
                 they
                 be
                 hanged
                 by
                 the
                 necks
                 fiue
                 daies
                 with
                 waights
                 at
                 their
                 feet
                 ,
                 &
                 afterwards
                 eaten
                 with
                 good
                 sauce
                 ,
                 do
                 greatly
                 nourish
                 and
                 profit
                 them
                 ,
                 which
                 haue
                 hote
                 bellies
                 .
              
               
                 Larkes
                 and
                 Sparrowes
                 are
                 meruailous
                 good
                 for
                 them
                 ,
                 that
                 be
                 diseased
                 of
                 the
                 collick
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 mee
                 a
                 way
                 to
                 fatten
                 great
                 Fowle
                 in
                 most
                 short
                 time
                 .
              
               
               
                 You
                 must
                 follow
                 
                   Master
                   Plats
                
                 aduise
                 ,
                 namely
                 ,
                 to
                 take
                 the
                 bloud
                 of
                 beasts
                 ,
                 whereof
                 the
                 Butchers
                 make
                 no
                 great
                 reckoning
                 ,
                 and
                 boyle
                 it
                 with
                 some
                 store
                 of
                 branne
                 amongst
                 it
                 (
                 perhaps
                 graines
                 will
                 suffice
                 ,
                 but
                 branne
                 is
                 best
                 )
                 vntill
                 it
                 come
                 to
                 the
                 shape
                 of
                 a
                 bloud-pudding
                 ,
                 and
                 therewith
                 feede
                 your
                 fowle
                 so
                 fat
                 as
                 you
                 please
                 .
                 You
                 may
                 feede
                 Turkies
                 with
                 bruised
                 Acornes
                 ,
                 and
                 they
                 will
                 prosper
                 exceedingly
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Of
               Fish.
               CHAP.
               6.
               
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 how
                 to
                 feed
                 fishes
                 in
                 Ponds
                 .
              
               
                 IN
                 the
                 fourth
                 booke
                 of
                 the
                 
                   maison
                   rustique
                
                 ,
                 lately
                 translated
                 out
                 of
                 French
                 into
                 English
                 by
                 
                   Master
                   Surphlet
                
                 ,
                 I
                 finde
                 these
                 meanes
                 for
                 the
                 preseruing
                 of
                 Fish-ponds
                 layd
                 downe
                 .
                 It
                 will
                 be
                 good
                 sometimes
                 to
                 cast
                 in
                 some
                 sorts
                 of
                 small
                 fishes
                 ;
                 the
                 bowels
                 and
                 entrailes
                 of
                 great
                 fish
                 ,
                 crackt
                 walnuts
                 ,
                 fresh
                 cheese
                 ,
                 lumps
                 of
                 white
                 bread
                 ,
                 certaine
                 fruits
                 chopt
                 small
                 ,
                 all
                 sorts
                 of
                 salt
                 fish
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 other
                 like
                 victuall
                 ;
                 
                 and
                 sometimes
                 it
                 will
                 be
                 good
                 to
                 cast
                 vpon
                 the
                 pooles
                 and
                 ponds
                 ,
                 the
                 fresh
                 leaues
                 of
                 Parsley
                 ,
                 for
                 those
                 leaues
                 doe
                 reioyce
                 and
                 refresh
                 the
                 fishes
                 that
                 are
                 sicke
                 .
              
               
                 Sith
                 it
                 is
                 most
                 certaine
                 that
                 the
                 fishes
                 abiding
                 in
                 the
                 sea
                 or
                 streames
                 and
                 running
                 riuers
                 haue
                 greater
                 store
                 of
                 victuall
                 ,
                 than
                 those
                 which
                 are
                 shut
                 vp
                 in
                 pooles
                 and
                 ponds
                 ,
                 for
                 such
                 as
                 haue
                 their
                 full
                 scope
                 of
                 liberty
                 in
                 the
                 sea
                 and
                 streames
                 ,
                 doe
                 alwayes
                 meet
                 with
                 one
                 reliefe
                 or
                 other
                 ,
                 brought
                 vnto
                 them
                 by
                 the
                 course
                 of
                 the
                 water
                 ,
                 besides
                 the
                 small
                 fishes
                 ,
                 which
                 are
                 the
                 food
                 and
                 sustenance
                 of
                 the
                 greater
                 :
                 but
                 the
                 other
                 shut
                 vp
                 and
                 inclosed
                 in
                 safegard
                 ,
                 cannot
                 goe
                 forth
                 a
                 hunting
                 after
                 any
                 pray
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 best
                 fish
                 ?
              
               
                 A
                 fresh
                 Carpe
                 salted
                 for
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 sixe
                 houres
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 fried
                 in
                 oyle
                 and
                 besprinkled
                 with
                 vinegar
                 ,
                 in
                 which
                 spices
                 haue
                 boyled
                 ,
                 in
                 all
                 mens
                 censure
                 is
                 thought
                 to
                 be
                 the
                 wholesomest
                 kind
                 of
                 fish
                 .
                 It
                 may
                 not
                 be
                 kept
                 long
                 ,
                 except
                 it
                 be
                 well
                 couered
                 with
                 bay
                 ,
                 mirtle
                 ,
                 or
                 Cedar
                 leaues
                 .
              
               
                 Salmon
                 and
                 Trouts
                 well
                 sodden
                 in
                 water
                 and
                 vinegar
                 ,
                 and
                 eaten
                 with
                 sowre
                 sauce
                 ,
                 doe
                 
                 helpe
                 hot
                 liuers
                 and
                 burning
                 ag●es
                 .
              
               
                 Barbles
                 rosted
                 vpon
                 a
                 gridiron
                 ,
                 or
                 broyled
                 in
                 vineger
                 are
                 very
                 wholesome
                 .
                 If
                 any
                 man
                 drinke
                 the
                 wine
                 ,
                 wherein
                 one
                 of
                 them
                 hath
                 beene
                 strangled
                 to
                 death
                 ,
                 he
                 shall
                 euer
                 after
                 despise
                 all
                 manner
                 of
                 wines
                 .
                 Which
                 conclusion
                 were
                 fit
                 to
                 be
                 put
                 in
                 tryall
                 by
                 some
                 of
                 our
                 notorious
                 swil-boules
                 .
              
               
                 Riuer
                 sturgeons
                 sodden
                 in
                 water
                 and
                 vineger
                 and
                 eaten
                 with
                 fennell
                 ,
                 doe
                 coole
                 the
                 bloud
                 ,
                 and
                 prouoke
                 lecherie
                 .
              
               
                 Cuttles
                 seasoned
                 with
                 oyle
                 and
                 pepper
                 ,
                 do
                 prouoke
                 appetite
                 and
                 nourish
                 much
                 .
              
               
                 Riuer
                 Lampreyes
                 choked
                 with
                 Nutmegs
                 ,
                 and
                 Cloues
                 ,
                 and
                 fryed
                 with
                 bread
                 ,
                 oyle
                 ,
                 and
                 spices
                 ,
                 is
                 a
                 Princely
                 dish
                 ,
                 and
                 doth
                 very
                 much
                 good
                 .
              
               
                 Female
                 Tenches
                 baked
                 with
                 Garlick
                 ,
                 or
                 boyled
                 with
                 Onions
                 ,
                 oyle
                 ,
                 and
                 Raisins
                 ,
                 may
                 be
                 eaten
                 of
                 vouth
                 ,
                 and
                 collerick
                 men
                 .
              
               
                 Pikes
                 boyled
                 with
                 water
                 ,
                 oyle
                 ,
                 and
                 sweet
                 hearbs
                 will
                 firmely
                 nourish
                 .
              
               
                 Eeles
                 taken
                 in
                 Spring
                 time
                 ,
                 and
                 rosted
                 in
                 a
                 leafe
                 of
                 paper
                 with
                 oyle
                 ,
                 Coriander
                 seed
                 ,
                 and
                 Parsley
                 ,
                 doe
                 breake
                 flegme
                 in
                 the
                 stomacke
                 .
              
               
               
                 Riuer
                 Perches
                 will
                 prouoke
                 appetite
                 to
                 them
                 that
                 be
                 sicke
                 of
                 the
                 hot
                 ague
                 .
              
               
                 Oysters
                 rosted
                 on
                 the
                 imbers
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 taken
                 with
                 oyle
                 ,
                 pepper
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 iuyce
                 of
                 Orenges
                 ,
                 prouoke
                 appetite
                 and
                 lechery
                 .
                 They
                 must
                 not
                 be
                 eaten
                 in
                 those
                 moneth
                 ,
                 which
                 in
                 pronouncing
                 want
                 the
                 letter
                 R.
                 
              
               
                 Cra
                 fish
                 rosted
                 in
                 the
                 imbers
                 ,
                 and
                 eaten
                 with
                 vineger
                 and
                 pepper
                 purge
                 the
                 reines
                 ,
                 and
                 helpe
                 them
                 that
                 be
                 sicke
                 of
                 the
                 consumption
                 or
                 Ptisick
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 way
                 to
                 keepe
                 Oysters
                 ,
                 Lobsters
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 sweet
                 and
                 good
                 for
                 some
                 few
                 daies
                 .
              
               
                 Oysters
                 as
                 maister
                 Plat
                 saith
                 ,
                 may
                 be
                 preserued
                 good
                 a
                 long
                 time
                 ,
                 if
                 they
                 be
                 barrelled
                 vp
                 ,
                 and
                 some
                 of
                 the
                 brackishwater
                 ,
                 where
                 they
                 are
                 taken
                 ,
                 powred
                 amongst
                 them
                 ,
                 Or
                 else
                 you
                 may
                 pile
                 them
                 vp
                 in
                 small
                 roundlets
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 hollow
                 parts
                 of
                 the
                 shels
                 vpward
                 ,
                 casting
                 salt
                 amongst
                 them
                 at
                 euery
                 lay
                 which
                 they
                 make
                 .
                 You
                 may
                 keepe
                 Lobsters
                 ,
                 Shrimps
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 fish
                 :
                 If
                 you
                 wrap
                 them
                 seuerally
                 in
                 sweet
                 and
                 course
                 rags
                 first
                 moistned
                 in
                 strong
                 brine
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 you
                 must
                 bury
                 these
                 cloathes
                 ,
                 and
                 couer
                 them
                 in
                 some
                 coole
                 and
                 moyst
                 place
                 with
                 sand
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               Of
               Milke
               ,
               Butter
               ,
               Cheese
               and
               Egges
               .
               CHAP.
               7.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 milke
                 ?
              
               
                 THere
                 be
                 many
                 kindes
                 of
                 milke
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 diuersities
                 of
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 liuing
                 things
                 .
                 The
                 milke
                 of
                 kine
                 ,
                 and
                 sheepe
                 ,
                 is
                 the
                 most
                 butterish
                 and
                 nourishing
                 ;
                 next
                 vnto
                 it
                 ,
                 goates
                 milke
                 is
                 chiefe
                 ,
                 sauing
                 womans
                 milke
                 ,
                 with
                 which
                 there
                 is
                 no
                 comparison
                 ,
                 as
                 being
                 the
                 most
                 agreeable
                 to
                 the
                 Sympathy
                 of
                 our
                 natures
                 ,
                 and
                 proper
                 to
                 dry
                 and
                 melancholick
                 persons
                 ;
                 yea
                 and
                 a
                 remedy
                 against
                 the
                 consumption
                 .
                 There
                 be
                 three
                 sundry
                 substances
                 ,
                 which
                 lie
                 hidden
                 within
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 milke
                 ,
                 euen
                 as
                 they
                 doe
                 within
                 all
                 other
                 naturall
                 things
                 whatsoeuer
                 they
                 be
                 ,
                 namely
                 a
                 sulphureous
                 substance
                 which
                 is
                 the
                 butter
                 ,
                 conceiuing
                 a
                 flame
                 ,
                 much
                 differing
                 from
                 that
                 whayish
                 or
                 mercuriall
                 part
                 which
                 is
                 the
                 thin
                 milke
                 ,
                 next
                 ,
                 it
                 conceiues
                 cheese
                 ,
                 which
                 represents
                 the
                 salt
                 :
                 and
                 lastly
                 ,
                 the
                 thinne
                 milke
                 (
                 being
                 the
                 remainder
                 of
                 both
                 )
                 being
                 made
                 into
                 pottage
                 with
                 Rice
                 and
                 Suger
                 ,
                 it
                 encreaseth
                 
                 the
                 generatiue
                 seede
                 ,
                 and
                 strengtheneth
                 the
                 body
                 .
                 Buttermilke
                 in
                 which
                 Fumitorie
                 haue
                 beene
                 steeped
                 and
                 drunke
                 in
                 the
                 Sommer
                 time
                 ,
                 or
                 rather
                 in
                 the
                 Spring
                 time
                 ,
                 is
                 an
                 excellent
                 remedy
                 against
                 all
                 diseases
                 exceeding
                 of
                 coller
                 and
                 melancholy
                 ,
                 yet
                 notwithstanding
                 with
                 this
                 caueat
                 ,
                 that
                 after
                 the
                 taking
                 of
                 it
                 ,
                 you
                 doe
                 neither
                 eate
                 any
                 other
                 thing
                 ,
                 nor
                 sleepe
                 within
                 three
                 houres
                 after
                 .
                 To
                 conclude
                 ,
                 it
                 must
                 not
                 in
                 any
                 case
                 be
                 taken
                 of
                 them
                 which
                 are
                 subiect
                 to
                 feauers
                 ,
                 head-aches
                 ,
                 or
                 fluxes
                 :
                 according
                 to
                 that
                 vulgar
                 saying
                 :
                 
                   Dare
                   lac
                   aut
                   vinum
                   febricitantibus
                   &
                   capite
                   dolentibus
                   est
                   dare
                   venenum
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 butter
                 ?
              
               
                 Butter
                 ,
                 whether
                 it
                 be
                 fresh
                 or
                 salt
                 purgeth
                 mildely
                 ,
                 and
                 helpeth
                 the
                 roughnesse
                 of
                 the
                 throat
                 :
                 fresh
                 butter
                 being
                 taken
                 fasting
                 with
                 a
                 little
                 Suger
                 ,
                 hindreth
                 the
                 ingendring
                 of
                 the
                 stone
                 :
                 and
                 cureth
                 the
                 shortnesse
                 of
                 breath
                 ,
                 that
                 butter
                 is
                 best
                 which
                 is
                 made
                 in
                 May.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 Cheese
                 ?
              
               
                 Cheese
                 being
                 the
                 thickest
                 part
                 of
                 the
                 milk
                 is
                 most
                 nourishing
                 ,
                 but
                 it
                 makes
                 the
                 body
                 bound
                 and
                 stipticke
                 :
                 Olde
                 cheese
                 all
                 mouldy
                 ,
                 brayed
                 and
                 mixed
                 with
                 the
                 decoction
                 of
                 a
                 
                 salt
                 gamon
                 of
                 bacon
                 ,
                 and
                 applied
                 in
                 forme
                 of
                 a
                 Cataplasme
                 ,
                 doth
                 soften
                 all
                 the
                 hard
                 swellings
                 of
                 the
                 knees
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 Egges
                 .
              
               
                 There
                 are
                 three
                 things
                 worthy
                 of
                 consideration
                 to
                 be
                 marked
                 in
                 egges
                 ;
                 the
                 first
                 is
                 ,
                 their
                 proper
                 substance
                 and
                 qualitie
                 ,
                 for
                 egges
                 of
                 some
                 fowles
                 are
                 better
                 than
                 of
                 some
                 others
                 ,
                 Hen
                 egges
                 are
                 the
                 best
                 ,
                 and
                 of
                 better
                 nourishment
                 then
                 the
                 egges
                 of
                 Duckes
                 ,
                 Geese
                 ,
                 or
                 other
                 fowle
                 :
                 the
                 second
                 thing
                 remarkeable
                 in
                 egges
                 is
                 ,
                 the
                 time
                 ,
                 to
                 wit
                 ,
                 whether
                 they
                 be
                 fresh
                 or
                 stale
                 ,
                 whether
                 they
                 be
                 layed
                 of
                 a
                 young
                 Hen
                 or
                 of
                 an
                 olde
                 Hen
                 ,
                 for
                 experience
                 teacheth
                 vs
                 that
                 these
                 last
                 doe
                 quickly
                 corrupt
                 within
                 the
                 stomacke
                 ,
                 and
                 be
                 nothing
                 so
                 good
                 to
                 nourish
                 .
                 Likewise
                 it
                 hath
                 beene
                 noted
                 that
                 egges
                 layed
                 after
                 the
                 new
                 of
                 the
                 Moone
                 in
                 the
                 moneth
                 of
                 August
                 ,
                 or
                 in
                 the
                 wane
                 of
                 the
                 Moone
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 moneth
                 of
                 Nouember
                 ,
                 as
                 those
                 likewise
                 which
                 are
                 laved
                 on
                 Christmasse
                 day
                 or
                 on
                 Whitsonday
                 ,
                 are
                 lasting
                 and
                 durable
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 easily
                 corrupted
                 .
                 Whereof
                 there
                 cannot
                 be
                 deuised
                 any
                 other
                 reason
                 ,
                 than
                 that
                 in
                 some
                 of
                 them
                 the
                 shel
                 is
                 made
                 hard
                 and
                 not
                 to
                 be
                 pierced
                 through
                 of
                 the
                 aire
                 by
                 the
                 coldnesse
                 
                 of
                 the
                 time
                 :
                 and
                 in
                 the
                 other
                 ,
                 there
                 is
                 a
                 most
                 quicke
                 exhaling
                 and
                 expending
                 of
                 that
                 which
                 might
                 be
                 corrupted
                 within
                 the
                 egge
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 heat
                 of
                 the
                 time
                 ,
                 &
                 season
                 then
                 being
                 .
                 The
                 third
                 and
                 last
                 obseruation
                 is
                 the
                 dressing
                 and
                 making
                 ready
                 of
                 egges
                 ,
                 some
                 are
                 sodden
                 or
                 rosted
                 hard
                 which
                 the
                 French
                 men
                 cal
                 Dursis
                 ;
                 and
                 the
                 Greekes
                 
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                   〈◊〉
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                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 ,
                 Egges
                 boiled
                 till
                 they
                 be
                 very
                 hard
                 ,
                 some
                 are
                 boyled
                 to
                 a
                 meane
                 ,
                 to
                 wit
                 ,
                 neither
                 soft
                 nor
                 hard
                 ,
                 which
                 the
                 Latins
                 call
                 Iremula
                 :
                 Others
                 be
                 but
                 warme
                 onely
                 or
                 soft
                 and
                 supping
                 Egs
                 ,
                 which
                 the
                 Latines
                 call
                 
                   Oua
                   sorbilia
                
                 .
                 Aboue
                 all
                 ,
                 Egges
                 poached
                 with
                 Parsly
                 are
                 the
                 most
                 wholesome
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 way
                 to
                 make
                 Hens
                 to
                 lay
                 good
                 and
                 great
                 Egges
                 .
              
               
                 Though
                 this
                 receit
                 be
                 homely
                 ,
                 yet
                 because
                 it
                 makes
                 for
                 our
                 bodies
                 nourishment
                 and
                 contentment
                 ,
                 I
                 will
                 not
                 conceale
                 it
                 from
                 good
                 Huswiues
                 .
              
               
                 Hens
                 will
                 lay
                 great
                 egges
                 ,
                 if
                 you
                 pound
                 bricks
                 &
                 mixe
                 them
                 with
                 bran
                 and
                 wine
                 ,
                 bray
                 them
                 all
                 very
                 wel
                 ,
                 and
                 giue
                 them
                 to
                 the
                 Hens
                 to
                 eat
                 :
                 or
                 els
                 make
                 a
                 fine
                 powder
                 of
                 brick
                 ,
                 mixe
                 it
                 with
                 barley
                 bran
                 ,
                 and
                 giue
                 it
                 them
                 to
                 eate
                 :
                 some
                 for
                 the
                 very
                 same
                 purpose
                 doe
                 mollifie
                 
                 the
                 Fullers
                 earth
                 that
                 is
                 red
                 ,
                 and
                 mixe
                 it
                 among
                 the
                 Hens
                 meat
                 .
                 The
                 Hen
                 will
                 sit
                 all
                 Winter
                 as
                 well
                 as
                 in
                 Sommer
                 ,
                 if
                 shee
                 haue
                 meat
                 made
                 of
                 bran
                 ,
                 mixt
                 with
                 the
                 leaues
                 and
                 seed
                 of
                 dry
                 Nettles
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 how
                 Egges
                 are
                 to
                 be
                 prepared
                 for
                 Physicke
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 yolk
                 of
                 an
                 egge
                 swallowed
                 alone
                 ,
                 stayeth
                 the
                 cough
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 other
                 distillations
                 as
                 fall
                 downe
                 vpon
                 the
                 lungs
                 and
                 other
                 parts
                 of
                 the
                 breast
                 .
                 The
                 white
                 of
                 an
                 egge
                 beaten
                 ,
                 and
                 with
                 the
                 powder
                 of
                 Frankincense
                 ,
                 Mastick
                 ,
                 and
                 Galles
                 applied
                 to
                 the
                 browes
                 ,
                 doth
                 stay
                 the
                 bleeding
                 at
                 the
                 nose
                 .
                 A
                 Cataplasme
                 made
                 of
                 the
                 yolke
                 and
                 white
                 of
                 an
                 egge
                 well
                 beaten
                 ,
                 the
                 iuyce
                 or
                 water
                 of
                 Plantaine
                 and
                 Nightshade
                 applyed
                 vnto
                 burnings
                 ,
                 doth
                 quench
                 and
                 extinguish
                 them
                 .
                 A
                 hard
                 rosted
                 egge
                 eaten
                 with
                 vinegar
                 ,
                 stayeth
                 the
                 fluxe
                 of
                 the
                 belly
                 ,
                 if
                 you
                 mixe
                 with
                 it
                 the
                 powder
                 of
                 Harts-horne
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               Of
               Sauces
               .
               CHAP.
               8.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 be
                 the
                 best
                 and
                 sauory
                 sauces
                 for
                 our
                 meates
                 ?
              
               
                 FOr
                 the
                 seasoning
                 of
                 such
                 meats
                 both
                 flesh
                 and
                 fish
                 as
                 we
                 haue
                 spoken
                 of
                 before
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 make
                 them
                 agreeable
                 as
                 wel
                 for
                 our
                 health
                 as
                 for
                 our
                 nourishment
                 and
                 appetites
                 ,
                 we
                 must
                 vse
                 now
                 and
                 then
                 sauces
                 with
                 our
                 meats
                 :
                 And
                 these
                 in
                 perticular
                 are
                 salt
                 ,
                 Sugar
                 ,
                 Pepper
                 ,
                 Cynamon
                 ,
                 Ginger
                 ,
                 Cloues
                 ,
                 Nutmegs
                 ,
                 Saffron
                 ,
                 Honey
                 ,
                 Oyle
                 ,
                 Vinegar
                 and
                 Veriuice
                 .
              
               
                 Salt
                 ,
                 is
                 of
                 a
                 hot
                 and
                 dry
                 quality
                 ,
                 endued
                 with
                 a
                 purging
                 ,
                 cleansing
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 seasoning
                 facultie
                 ,
                 most
                 fit
                 to
                 preserue
                 meate
                 from
                 putrifaction
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 consume
                 their
                 moyst
                 excrements
                 and
                 superfluities
                 .
                 And
                 for
                 this
                 cause
                 wee
                 are
                 aduised
                 of
                 the
                 ancient
                 Physitians
                 ,
                 not
                 to
                 eate
                 Beefe
                 ,
                 Venison
                 ,
                 or
                 any
                 other
                 meate
                 strong
                 of
                 digestion
                 ,
                 before
                 the
                 same
                 be
                 seasoned
                 with
                 salt
                 two
                 or
                 three
                 dayes
                 at
                 the
                 least
                 .
              
               
                 Sugar
                 is
                 of
                 a
                 hot
                 qualitie
                 ,
                 and
                 is
                 quickly
                 conuerted
                 into
                 choler
                 :
                 for
                 which
                 cause
                 ,
                 I
                 cannot
                 approue
                 the
                 vse
                 therof
                 in
                 ordinary
                 meats
                 ,
                 
                 specially
                 to
                 young
                 men
                 ,
                 or
                 to
                 them
                 which
                 are
                 of
                 hot
                 complexions
                 ,
                 for
                 it
                 is
                 most
                 certain
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 which
                 accustome
                 themselues
                 vnto
                 it
                 ,
                 are
                 commonly
                 thirsty
                 and
                 dry
                 ,
                 with
                 their
                 bloud
                 burnt
                 ,
                 and
                 their
                 teeth
                 blackned
                 and
                 corrupted
                 :
                 In
                 medicine
                 wise
                 ,
                 it
                 may
                 be
                 taken
                 eyther
                 in
                 water
                 for
                 hot
                 feauers
                 ,
                 or
                 in
                 syrops
                 for
                 some
                 kinde
                 of
                 diseases
                 .
              
               
                 Pepper
                 is
                 the
                 best
                 and
                 wholsomest
                 of
                 all
                 spices
                 ,
                 as
                 being
                 of
                 least
                 heate
                 in
                 operation
                 ,
                 though
                 in
                 tast
                 it
                 seeme
                 ouer
                 hot
                 ,
                 being
                 taken
                 ,
                 I
                 meane
                 three
                 or
                 foure
                 graines
                 of
                 it
                 ,
                 swallowed
                 downe
                 with
                 a
                 fasting
                 stomack
                 ,
                 it
                 preserueth
                 a
                 man
                 from
                 the
                 palsie
                 ,
                 and
                 from
                 griefes
                 in
                 the
                 stomack
                 ,
                 the
                 oyle
                 of
                 it
                 extracted
                 ,
                 and
                 taken
                 with
                 some
                 conuenient
                 liquor
                 ,
                 is
                 a
                 most
                 ready
                 and
                 soueraigne
                 remedie
                 against
                 the
                 tertian
                 and
                 quartaine
                 agues
                 ,
                 by
                 reason
                 that
                 the
                 said
                 oyle
                 dissolueth
                 and
                 rooteth
                 out
                 the
                 seminary
                 causes
                 of
                 such
                 feuers
                 ,
                 and
                 doth
                 cause
                 the
                 same
                 to
                 be
                 euacuated
                 by
                 sweates
                 ,
                 vrine
                 ,
                 or
                 owise
                 .
              
               
                 Cynnamon
                 is
                 of
                 a
                 very
                 thinne
                 substance
                 ,
                 yet
                 notwithstanding
                 ,
                 very
                 cordiall
                 ,
                 comfortable
                 and
                 corroboratiue
                 ,
                 there
                 is
                 a
                 water
                 distilled
                 from
                 it
                 ,
                 knowne
                 by
                 the
                 name
                 of
                 Cynnamon
                 
                 water
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 exceeding
                 good
                 for
                 women
                 in
                 childbed
                 ,
                 for
                 weake
                 stomackes
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 falling
                 sicknesse
                 ,
                 Apoplexies
                 ,
                 and
                 all
                 windie
                 collickes
                 .
              
               
                 Ginger
                 approacheth
                 somewhat
                 nigh
                 to
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 Pepper
                 ,
                 but
                 it
                 is
                 of
                 a
                 thicker
                 substance
                 ,
                 and
                 doth
                 not
                 penetrate
                 so
                 soone
                 as
                 the
                 Pepper
                 ,
                 which
                 hath
                 a
                 sustance
                 more
                 thin
                 ,
                 it
                 auaileth
                 against
                 obstructions
                 ,
                 and
                 Feuer
                 quartains
                 .
              
               
                 Cloues
                 are
                 seldome
                 vsed
                 alone
                 ,
                 but
                 with
                 other
                 spices
                 :
                 they
                 serue
                 for
                 the
                 interlarding
                 of
                 Turkycocks
                 and
                 Salmon
                 alone
                 ,
                 without
                 any
                 other
                 spice
                 .
              
               
                 Nutmegs
                 and
                 Mace
                 are
                 spices
                 of
                 a
                 most
                 temperate
                 nature
                 ,
                 and
                 may
                 be
                 vsed
                 in
                 winter
                 time
                 with
                 moist
                 meates
                 .
              
               
                 Saffron
                 reioyceth
                 the
                 heart
                 ,
                 comforteth
                 the
                 stomacke
                 ,
                 and
                 procureth
                 sleepe
                 ,
                 but
                 you
                 must
                 looke
                 that
                 you
                 take
                 not
                 too
                 much
                 of
                 it
                 ;
                 for
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 vulgar
                 French
                 Prouerb
                 :
                 
                   La
                   qualitè
                   ne
                   nuit
                   pas
                   ,
                   ains
                   la
                   quantitè
                
                 Exceeding
                 one
                 or
                 two
                 drachmes
                 ,
                 his
                 narcotique
                 smell
                 doth
                 offend
                 the
                 braine
                 in
                 such
                 wise
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 maketh
                 it
                 dull
                 and
                 stupied
                 .
              
               
                 Oyle
                 is
                 more
                 wholsome
                 and
                 necessary
                 then
                 
                 butter
                 ,
                 as
                 well
                 for
                 a
                 mans
                 health
                 ,
                 as
                 for
                 the
                 preparing
                 of
                 sundry
                 meates
                 and
                 sallades
                 ,
                 and
                 better
                 resisteth
                 corruptions
                 then
                 butter
                 :
                 wee
                 see
                 another
                 difference
                 in
                 this
                 ,
                 that
                 oyle
                 is
                 of
                 it selfe
                 reserued
                 for
                 a
                 long
                 time
                 without
                 change
                 ,
                 whereas
                 butter
                 is
                 nothing
                 worth
                 if
                 it
                 be
                 not
                 fresh
                 eaten
                 or
                 salted
                 ;
                 being
                 applyed
                 outwardly
                 ,
                 it
                 hath
                 a
                 singular
                 vertue
                 ,
                 as
                 appeares
                 by
                 the
                 answere
                 of
                 an
                 auncient
                 Philosopher
                 ,
                 who
                 being
                 asked
                 of
                 the
                 meanes
                 to
                 continue
                 a
                 man
                 in
                 perfect
                 health
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 liue
                 long
                 ;
                 said
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 was
                 to
                 vse
                 honey
                 within
                 ,
                 and
                 oyle
                 without
                 ;
                 being
                 inwardly
                 taken
                 ,
                 it
                 looseth
                 the
                 belly
                 ,
                 it
                 causeth
                 one
                 to
                 vomit
                 vp
                 malignant
                 humours
                 ;
                 yea
                 ,
                 poyson
                 it selfe
                 ,
                 if
                 a
                 man
                 hath
                 drunken
                 of
                 it
                 ,
                 or
                 taken
                 it
                 but
                 a
                 small
                 time
                 before
                 :
                 one
                 or
                 two
                 ounces
                 of
                 it
                 taken
                 with
                 the
                 iuyce
                 of
                 Lemonds
                 ,
                 cureth
                 the
                 wormes
                 in
                 childrens
                 bodyes
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 disease
                 commonly
                 called
                 the
                 Scuruie
                 ,
                 which
                 kinde
                 of
                 oyle
                 I
                 holde
                 best
                 :
                 for
                 I
                 confesse
                 that
                 there
                 be
                 many
                 kindes
                 of
                 oyle
                 ,
                 yet
                 none
                 like
                 to
                 the
                 oyle
                 Oliue
                 ,
                 which
                 I
                 here
                 doe
                 onely
                 commend
                 ,
                 in
                 respect
                 that
                 the
                 Oliue
                 doth
                 yeeld
                 more
                 Oyle
                 then
                 any
                 other
                 seed
                 or
                 fruit
                 ,
                 it
                 hath
                 deserued
                 the
                 name
                 of
                 excellency
                 aboue
                 
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 fat
                 and
                 vnctuous
                 liquours
                 of
                 other
                 seedes
                 and
                 fruits
                 ,
                 are
                 not
                 like
                 to
                 haue
                 any
                 other
                 name
                 bestowed
                 vpon
                 them
                 ,
                 then
                 that
                 which
                 belongeth
                 of
                 right
                 vnto
                 the
                 liquour
                 which
                 is
                 pressed
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 Oliue
                 ,
                 for
                 which
                 reason
                 when
                 we
                 speake
                 of
                 the
                 Oyle
                 of
                 the
                 Oliue
                 ,
                 we
                 onely
                 say
                 ,
                 Oyle
                 :
                 but
                 when
                 wee
                 speake
                 of
                 other
                 oyles
                 ,
                 wee
                 adde
                 the
                 name
                 of
                 the
                 seed
                 or
                 fruit
                 from
                 which
                 it
                 was
                 pressed
                 ,
                 as
                 for
                 example
                 ,
                 oyle
                 of
                 Vitriall
                 ,
                 oyle
                 of
                 Sage
                 ,
                 oyle
                 of
                 Wormewood
                 ,
                 oyle
                 of
                 Cloues
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 of
                 the
                 rest
                 .
              
               
                 Vineger
                 prouokes
                 appetite
                 ,
                 tempereth
                 hot
                 cholerick
                 humours
                 ,
                 &
                 keepeth
                 backe
                 corruption
                 and
                 infection
                 in
                 the
                 plague
                 time
                 ,
                 but
                 it
                 hurteth
                 them
                 that
                 be
                 sorrowfull
                 except
                 they
                 correct
                 it
                 with
                 Suger
                 .
                 Veriuyce
                 is
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 nature
                 as
                 vineger
                 is
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 way
                 to
                 make
                 wholsome
                 and
                 good
                 vinegar
                 in
                 a
                 short
                 time
                 .
              
               
                 Take
                 stale
                 drinke
                 ,
                 and
                 cast
                 into
                 it
                 salt
                 ,
                 pepper
                 ,
                 and
                 sowre
                 leuen
                 mingled
                 together
                 ,
                 afterwards
                 heate
                 red
                 hot
                 some
                 Tyle
                 ,
                 or
                 gadd
                 of
                 Steele
                 ,
                 and
                 put
                 it
                 hot
                 into
                 the
                 drinke
                 .
                 In
                 like
                 manner
                 ,
                 a
                 Radish
                 roote
                 ,
                 a
                 Beete
                 roote
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 shiue
                 of
                 Barley
                 bread
                 new
                 baked
                 ,
                 put
                 into
                 
                 stale
                 drinke
                 ,
                 and
                 put
                 forth
                 in
                 a
                 glasse
                 in
                 the
                 Sunne
                 ,
                 or
                 in
                 the
                 chimney
                 corner
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 heat
                 of
                 the
                 fire
                 ,
                 will
                 make
                 good
                 vineger
                 in
                 a
                 short
                 time
                 ;
                 or
                 if
                 you
                 will
                 haue
                 it
                 better
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 prouoke
                 appetite
                 ,
                 infuse
                 into
                 your
                 said
                 vineger
                 the
                 leaues
                 or
                 iuyce
                 of
                 red
                 Roses
                 dryed
                 ,
                 the
                 iuyce
                 of
                 Mints
                 and
                 Centorie
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 way
                 to
                 make
                 vineger
                 with
                 corrupted
                 and
                 marred
                 wine
                 .
              
               
                 Take
                 rotten
                 and
                 marred
                 wine
                 ,
                 and
                 boile
                 it
                 ,
                 taking
                 away
                 all
                 the
                 scumme
                 that
                 riseth
                 in
                 the
                 boyling
                 thereof
                 ,
                 thus
                 let
                 it
                 continue
                 vpon
                 the
                 fire
                 ,
                 till
                 it
                 be
                 boyled
                 away
                 one
                 third
                 part
                 ,
                 then
                 put
                 it
                 vp
                 into
                 a
                 vessell
                 wherein
                 hath
                 beene
                 vineger
                 ,
                 putting
                 thereto
                 some
                 cheruile
                 ,
                 couer
                 the
                 vessell
                 in
                 such
                 sort
                 ,
                 that
                 there
                 get
                 no
                 ayre
                 into
                 it
                 ;
                 and
                 in
                 short
                 time
                 it
                 will
                 proue
                 good
                 and
                 strong
                 vineger
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Of
               Hearbes
               .
               CHAP.
               8.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 our
                 ordinary
                 hearbs
                 and
                 roots
                 .
              
               
                 BOrage
                 is
                 a
                 cordiall
                 Hearbe
                 .
                 It
                 purget
                 bloud
                 ,
                 maketh
                 the
                 heart
                 merry
                 ,
                 and
                 strengtheneth
                 the
                 bowels
                 .
              
               
               
                 Cabbages
                 moderately
                 eaten
                 doe
                 mollifie
                 the
                 belly
                 ,
                 and
                 are
                 very
                 nutritiue
                 .
                 Some
                 say
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 haue
                 a
                 speciall
                 vertue
                 against
                 drunkennesse
                 .
              
               
                 Radish
                 rootes
                 doe
                 clear
                 the
                 voice
                 ,
                 prouoke
                 vrine
                 ,
                 and
                 comfort
                 the
                 liuer
                 .
              
               
                 Cucumbers
                 are
                 of
                 a
                 colde
                 temperature
                 ,
                 and
                 fit
                 to
                 be
                 eaten
                 onely
                 of
                 cholericke
                 persons
                 .
              
               
                 Onions
                 ,
                 Leekes
                 ,
                 and
                 Garlicke
                 ,
                 are
                 onely
                 fit
                 to
                 be
                 eaten
                 of
                 flegmaticke
                 folkes
                 .
                 They
                 clarifie
                 the
                 voyce
                 ,
                 extend
                 the
                 winde-pipes
                 ,
                 and
                 prouoke
                 vrine
                 ,
                 and
                 menstruall
                 issue
                 .
                 But
                 men
                 subiect
                 to
                 the
                 headach
                 must
                 not
                 aduenture
                 to
                 eate
                 such
                 vaperous
                 nutriments
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 the
                 best
                 Sallet
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 best
                 Sallet
                 is
                 made
                 of
                 Peniroyall
                 ,
                 Prasley
                 ,
                 Lettice
                 ,
                 and
                 Endiue
                 :
                 for
                 it
                 openeth
                 the
                 obstruction
                 of
                 the
                 Liuer
                 ,
                 and
                 keepeth
                 the
                 head
                 in
                 good
                 plight
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               Of
               Fruit.
               CHAP.
               9.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 Fruit
                 ?
              
               
                 ALL
                 Fruit
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 are
                 taken
                 more
                 for
                 wantonnesse
                 then
                 for
                 any
                 nutritiue
                 or
                 necessary
                 good
                 ,
                 which
                 they
                 bring
                 vnto
                 vs.
                 To
                 verifie
                 this
                 ,
                 let
                 vs
                 but
                 examine
                 with
                 the
                 eye
                 of
                 reason
                 what
                 profit
                 they
                 cause
                 ,
                 when
                 they
                 are
                 eaten
                 after
                 meales
                 .
                 Surely
                 we
                 must
                 needs
                 confesse
                 ,
                 that
                 such
                 eating
                 ,
                 which
                 the
                 French
                 call
                 desert
                 ,
                 is
                 vnnaturall
                 ,
                 being
                 contrary
                 to
                 Physicke
                 or
                 Dyet
                 :
                 for
                 commonly
                 fruits
                 are
                 of
                 a
                 moist
                 facultie
                 ,
                 and
                 therefore
                 fitter
                 to
                 be
                 taken
                 afore
                 meales
                 (
                 but
                 corrected
                 with
                 Suger
                 or
                 comfits
                 )
                 then
                 after
                 meales
                 :
                 and
                 then
                 also
                 but
                 very
                 sparingly
                 ,
                 least
                 their
                 effects
                 appeare
                 to
                 our
                 bodily
                 repentance
                 ,
                 which
                 in
                 women
                 grow
                 to
                 be
                 the
                 greene
                 sicknesse
                 ,
                 in
                 men
                 the
                 morphew
                 ,
                 or
                 els
                 some
                 flatuous
                 windy
                 humor
                 .
              
               
                 White
                 figs
                 pared
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 eaten
                 with
                 Orenges
                 ,
                 Pomegranats
                 ,
                 or
                 seasoned
                 in
                 vinegar
                 ,
                 in
                 spring
                 time
                 do
                 nourish
                 more
                 then
                 any
                 fruit
                 ,
                 breake
                 the
                 stone
                 in
                 the
                 rains
                 ,
                 &
                 quench
                 thirst
                 .
              
               
                 Raisins
                 and
                 curranes
                 are
                 very
                 nutritiue
                 ,
                 yet
                 
                 notwithstanding
                 they
                 putrifie
                 the
                 raines
                 and
                 the
                 bladder
                 .
              
               
                 Sebastian
                 Prunes
                 doe
                 loose
                 the
                 belly
                 ,
                 and
                 quench
                 choler
                 .
              
               
                 Red
                 garden
                 Strawberries
                 purified
                 in
                 wine
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 eaten
                 with
                 good
                 store
                 of
                 Suger
                 ,
                 doe
                 asswage
                 choler
                 ,
                 coole
                 the
                 liuer
                 ,
                 and
                 prouoke
                 appetite
                 .
              
               
                 Almonds
                 and
                 Nuts
                 are
                 very
                 nutritiue
                 ,
                 and
                 doe
                 encrease
                 grosnesse
                 ;
                 they
                 multitiply
                 sperme
                 ,
                 and
                 prouoke
                 sleepe
                 .
                 But
                 I
                 would
                 not
                 with
                 any
                 to
                 eate
                 them
                 that
                 are
                 short
                 winded
                 ,
                 or
                 troubled
                 with
                 head-aches
                 .
              
               
                 Olde
                 and
                 ripe
                 Apples
                 roasted
                 ,
                 baked
                 ,
                 stewed
                 ,
                 or
                 powdered
                 with
                 Suger
                 and
                 Annise
                 seed
                 ,
                 doe
                 recreate
                 the
                 heart
                 ,
                 open
                 the
                 wind-pipes
                 ,
                 and
                 appease
                 the
                 cough
                 .
              
               
                 Ripe
                 Peares
                 eaten
                 after
                 meat
                 ,
                 and
                 powdered
                 with
                 Suger
                 ,
                 cause
                 appetite
                 ,
                 and
                 fatten
                 bodies
                 .
                 And
                 if
                 you
                 drinke
                 a
                 cup
                 of
                 olde
                 wine
                 after
                 them
                 ,
                 they
                 will
                 doe
                 thee
                 much
                 good
                 .
              
               
                 Weighty
                 Orenges
                 are
                 very
                 good
                 for
                 them
                 that
                 be
                 melancholick
                 ,
                 and
                 keepe
                 backe
                 the
                 rheume
                 .
              
               
                 Cheries
                 ,
                 Plums
                 ,
                 and
                 Damsons
                 ,
                 doe
                 qualifie
                 bloud
                 ,
                 and
                 represse
                 cholerick
                 humours
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           
           
             The
             third
             Section
             .
          
           
             
               Of
               sleepe
               ,
               early
               rising
               ,
               and
               dreames
               .
               CHAP.
               I.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 be
                 the
                 commodities
                 of
                 sleepe
                 ?
              
               
                 MOderate
                 sleepe
                 strengtheneth
                 all
                 the
                 spirits
                 ,
                 comforteth
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 quieteth
                 the
                 humours
                 and
                 pulses
                 ,
                 qualifieth
                 heat
                 of
                 the
                 liuer
                 ,
                 taketh
                 away
                 sorrow
                 ,
                 and
                 asswageth
                 furie
                 of
                 the
                 minde
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 be
                 the
                 discommodities
                 of
                 sleepe
                 ?
              
               
                 Immoderate
                 sleepe
                 maketh
                 the
                 braine
                 giddie
                 ,
                 ingendereth
                 rheume
                 and
                 impostumes
                 ,
                 causeth
                 the
                 pasie
                 ,
                 bringeth
                 obliuion
                 ,
                 and
                 troubleth
                 the
                 spirits
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 many
                 houres
                 may
                 a
                 man
                 sleepe
                 ?
              
               
                 Seauen
                 houres
                 sleepe
                 ,
                 is
                 sufficient
                 for
                 sanguine
                 and
                 cholerick
                 men
                 ;
                 and
                 nine
                 houres
                 for
                 flegmatick
                 ,
                 and
                 melancholick
                 men
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Vpon
                 which
                 side
                 must
                 a
                 man
                 sleepe
                 first
                 ?
              
               
               
                 Vpon
                 his
                 right
                 side
                 ,
                 vntill
                 the
                 meat
                 which
                 he
                 hath
                 eaten
                 ,
                 be
                 descended
                 from
                 the
                 mouth
                 of
                 the
                 stomack
                 (
                 which
                 is
                 on
                 the
                 left
                 side
                 :
                 )
                 then
                 let
                 him
                 sleepe
                 vpon
                 his
                 left
                 side
                 ,
                 and
                 vpon
                 his
                 belly
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 meate
                 may
                 be
                 the
                 more
                 easily
                 sodden
                 and
                 disgested
                 in
                 a
                 more
                 hot
                 and
                 fleshly
                 place
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 May
                 a
                 man
                 conueniently
                 lie
                 vpright
                 on
                 his
                 backe
                 ?
              
               
                 No
                 ,
                 for
                 it
                 heateth
                 the
                 raines
                 ,
                 hurteth
                 the
                 braine
                 and
                 memorie
                 ,
                 and
                 oftentimes
                 breedeth
                 the
                 disease
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 called
                 the
                 riding
                 Mare
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 some
                 remedies
                 to
                 procure
                 sleepe
                 .
              
               
                 Take
                 a
                 little
                 Camphire
                 ,
                 and
                 mingle
                 it
                 with
                 some
                 womans
                 milke
                 ,
                 and
                 anoint
                 your
                 temples
                 therewith
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 take
                 an
                 ounce
                 of
                 the
                 oyle
                 of
                 Roses
                 ,
                 and
                 three
                 drams
                 of
                 vinegar
                 ,
                 stirre
                 them
                 both
                 together
                 and
                 vse
                 them
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 thinke
                 you
                 of
                 noone
                 sleepe
                 ?
              
               
                 Sleeping
                 at
                 noone
                 is
                 very
                 dangerous
                 ,
                 But
                 if
                 you
                 iudge
                 it
                 good
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 custome
                 ,
                 then
                 doe
                 off
                 your
                 shooes
                 ,
                 while
                 you
                 sleepe
                 :
                 for
                 when
                 the
                 body
                 and
                 members
                 be
                 heauie
                 with
                 deepe
                 sleepe
                 ,
                 the
                 thicknesse
                 of
                 the
                 leather
                 at
                 the
                 soles
                 doth
                 returne
                 the
                 hurtfull
                 vapours
                 
                 of
                 the
                 feet
                 (
                 that
                 else
                 should
                 vanish
                 away
                 )
                 in
                 the
                 head
                 and
                 eyes
                 .
                 Also
                 ,
                 you
                 must
                 (
                 if
                 you
                 can
                 possibly
                 )
                 sleepe
                 in
                 your
                 chaire
                 ,
                 and
                 let
                 your
                 head
                 be
                 meanely
                 couered
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 time
                 .
                 For
                 as
                 too
                 much
                 colde
                 ,
                 so
                 too
                 much
                 heate
                 ,
                 doth
                 astonish
                 the
                 minde
                 and
                 spirits
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Of
               early
               rising
               .
               CHAP.
               2.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 are
                 the
                 commodities
                 of
                 early
                 rising
                 ?
              
               
                 EArly
                 rising
                 is
                 healthfull
                 for
                 the
                 bloud
                 and
                 humours
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 thing
                 good
                 for
                 them
                 that
                 be
                 studious
                 of
                 waighty
                 affaires
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 animall
                 spirit
                 is
                 then
                 more
                 readie
                 to
                 conceiue
                 .
                 Yet
                 notwithstanding
                 it
                 is
                 not
                 amisse
                 to
                 consider
                 ,
                 and
                 serue
                 the
                 time
                 and
                 place
                 :
                 because
                 if
                 the
                 aire
                 be
                 corrupt
                 ,
                 as
                 in
                 plague
                 time
                 ,
                 or
                 enclined
                 to
                 moistnesse
                 ,
                 as
                 in
                 raynie
                 and
                 mistie
                 weather
                 ,
                 or
                 thundring
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 better
                 to
                 abide
                 either
                 in
                 bed
                 with
                 some
                 light
                 ,
                 or
                 to
                 sit
                 in
                 the
                 chamber
                 by
                 some
                 sweet
                 fire
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               Of
               Dreames
               .
               CHAP.
               3.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 are
                 Dreames
                 ?
              
               
                 DReames
                 are
                 either
                 tokens
                 of
                 things
                 past
                 ,
                 or
                 significants
                 of
                 things
                 to
                 come
                 .
                 And
                 surely
                 if
                 a
                 mans
                 minde
                 be
                 free
                 from
                 cares
                 ,
                 and
                 he
                 dreame
                 in
                 the
                 morning
                 ,
                 there
                 is
                 no
                 doubt
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 affaires
                 then
                 dreamed
                 of
                 will
                 truely
                 come
                 to
                 passe
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 many
                 sorts
                 of
                 dreames
                 be
                 there
                 ?
              
               
                 There
                 be
                 three
                 sorts
                 of
                 Dreames
                 .
              
               
                 To
                 wit
                 ,
                 diuine
                 ,
                 supernaturall
                 ,
                 and
                 naturall
                 .
              
               
                 Diuine
                 dreames
                 ,
                 are
                 they
                 which
                 were
                 sent
                 by
                 inspiration
                 from
                 God
                 to
                 his
                 Prophets
                 ,
                 and
                 faithfull
                 seruants
                 ,
                 and
                 as
                 God
                 is
                 the
                 Author
                 of
                 trueth
                 ,
                 so
                 are
                 they
                 true
                 and
                 certaine
                 .
              
               
                 Supernaturall
                 dreames
                 are
                 placed
                 in
                 the
                 middest
                 ,
                 betweene
                 the
                 diuine
                 dreames
                 and
                 the
                 naturall
                 ,
                 for
                 they
                 may
                 happen
                 without
                 being
                 precisely
                 sent
                 from
                 God
                 ,
                 and
                 their
                 cause
                 comes
                 not
                 onely
                 by
                 the
                 sole
                 deprauation
                 of
                 humours
                 ,
                 as
                 naturall
                 dreames
                 doe
                 ,
                 but
                 by
                 the
                 rauishment
                 of
                 the
                 spirit
                 ,
                 which
                 wakes
                 ,
                 while
                 the
                 body
                 reposeth
                 ,
                 and
                 which
                 being
                 
                 oftentimes
                 holpen
                 by
                 the
                 inspiration
                 of
                 some
                 good
                 Angel
                 or
                 Genius
                 ,
                 doth
                 represent
                 by
                 such
                 Dreames
                 ,
                 things
                 which
                 commonly
                 come
                 to
                 passe
                 .
                 These
                 kind
                 of
                 dreames
                 chance
                 in
                 the
                 morning
                 ,
                 when
                 the
                 braine
                 is
                 more
                 free
                 from
                 the
                 vapours
                 of
                 the
                 meate
                 ,
                 which
                 before
                 had
                 dulled
                 it
                 :
                 Among
                 many
                 examples
                 which
                 I
                 haue
                 read
                 of
                 ,
                 this
                 one
                 seemes
                 most
                 strange
                 vnto
                 me
                 .
              
               
                 Two
                 friends
                 trauailing
                 together
                 to
                 a
                 certaine
                 Citie
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 way
                 at
                 a
                 little
                 village
                 ,
                 parted
                 the
                 one
                 to
                 his
                 friends
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 other
                 to
                 an
                 Inne
                 .
                 Hee
                 which
                 lodged
                 at
                 his
                 friends
                 house
                 ,
                 saw
                 in
                 his
                 dreame
                 ,
                 his
                 companion
                 defiring
                 him
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 would
                 come
                 to
                 help
                 him
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 he
                 was
                 to
                 be
                 killed
                 by
                 his
                 hoast
                 ,
                 which
                 when
                 he
                 saw
                 ,
                 he
                 awaked
                 ,
                 &
                 rose
                 out
                 of
                 his
                 bed
                 and
                 was
                 about
                 to
                 goe
                 to
                 the
                 Inne
                 ,
                 but
                 comming
                 to
                 himselfe
                 ,
                 and
                 thinking
                 how
                 it
                 might
                 be
                 a
                 false
                 dreame
                 ,
                 returned
                 to
                 his
                 bed
                 ,
                 and
                 slept
                 ;
                 then
                 againe
                 his
                 friend
                 appeared
                 vnto
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 seemed
                 to
                 request
                 him
                 more
                 earnestly
                 that
                 he
                 would
                 succour
                 him
                 ,
                 but
                 he
                 making
                 no
                 account
                 likewise
                 of
                 this
                 dreame
                 ,
                 slept
                 againe
                 ;
                 to
                 whom
                 in
                 like
                 manner
                 the
                 third
                 time
                 ,
                 his
                 companion
                 with
                 a
                 great
                 complaint
                 
                 desiring
                 him
                 because
                 hee
                 had
                 neglected
                 to
                 helpe
                 him
                 in
                 his
                 life
                 time
                 ,
                 that
                 now
                 he
                 would
                 at
                 last
                 ,
                 not
                 denie
                 to
                 seeke
                 reuenge
                 on
                 the
                 murtherer
                 ,
                 saying
                 ,
                 that
                 his
                 murthered
                 body
                 was
                 brought
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 gate
                 of
                 the
                 Citie
                 vpon
                 a
                 Cart
                 ,
                 couered
                 ouer
                 with
                 dung
                 to
                 hide
                 the
                 offence
                 .
                 By
                 this
                 meanes
                 God
                 disclosed
                 the
                 murther
                 ,
                 which
                 well
                 might
                 be
                 termed
                 
                   sera
                   numinis
                   vindicta
                
                 .
              
               
                 Naturall
                 dreames
                 are
                 they
                 which
                 represent
                 the
                 passions
                 of
                 the
                 soule
                 and
                 body
                 ,
                 the
                 imaginations
                 of
                 such
                 dreames
                 come
                 to
                 passe
                 ,
                 either
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 outward
                 causes
                 ,
                 or
                 inward
                 ;
                 the
                 outward
                 ,
                 are
                 vaporous
                 meates
                 ,
                 which
                 ingender
                 corrupt
                 and
                 burnt
                 bloud
                 :
                 For
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 Coleworts
                 ,
                 Beanes
                 ,
                 Pease
                 ,
                 and
                 Pottage
                 ,
                 causeth
                 sorrowfull
                 and
                 troublesome
                 dreames
                 ,
                 like
                 as
                 Garlick
                 and
                 Onions
                 ,
                 being
                 eaten
                 at
                 supper
                 ,
                 doth
                 make
                 a
                 man
                 to
                 dreame
                 of
                 terrible
                 things
                 .
                 The
                 inward
                 causes
                 of
                 which
                 dreames
                 ,
                 are
                 euill
                 humours
                 ,
                 specially
                 melancholicke
                 ,
                 which
                 through
                 the
                 blacknesse
                 thereof
                 ,
                 doth
                 darken
                 the
                 light
                 of
                 the
                 vnderstanding
                 (
                 which
                 is
                 seated
                 in
                 the
                 braine
                 ,
                 and
                 there-hence
                 as
                 a
                 candle
                 imparts
                 light
                 vnto
                 the
                 whole
                 body
                 )
                 and
                 there
                 they
                 imprint
                 troublesome
                 dreames
                 .
                 
                 To
                 hinder
                 a
                 man
                 from
                 dreaming
                 ,
                 let
                 him
                 auoid
                 bad
                 and
                 windie
                 meates
                 ,
                 let
                 him
                 purge
                 melancholy
                 ,
                 and
                 at
                 conuenient
                 season
                 ,
                 if
                 neede
                 be
                 ,
                 let
                 him
                 bleed
                 .
                 Likewise
                 it
                 is
                 expedient
                 to
                 temper
                 and
                 correct
                 the
                 humours
                 by
                 sound
                 antidotes
                 and
                 preparatiues
                 ,
                 to
                 vse
                 revulsions
                 and
                 deriuations
                 to
                 withdraw
                 some
                 of
                 the
                 fumes
                 and
                 vapours
                 ,
                 which
                 ascend
                 vp
                 into
                 the
                 head
                 ,
                 filling
                 the
                 braine
                 with
                 many
                 such
                 troublesome
                 conceits
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           
             The
             fourth
             Section
             .
          
           
             
               Of
               Euacuations
               .
               CHAP.
               1.
               
            
             
               
                 How
                 many
                 kindes
                 of
                 Euacuations
                 are
                 there
                 ?
              
               
                 EVacuations
                 are
                 either
                 naturall
                 or
                 artificiall
                 :
                 the
                 one
                 vsuall
                 ,
                 as
                 exercise
                 ,
                 vrine
                 ,
                 fasting
                 ,
                 and
                 venerie
                 :
                 the
                 other
                 compelled
                 as
                 by
                 Bathes
                 ,
                 bloud-letting
                 ,
                 Purgations
                 ,
                 vomites
                 ,
                 glysters
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 be
                 the
                 commodities
                 of
                 Exercise
                 ?
              
               
                 Exercise
                 is
                 that
                 which
                 maketh
                 the
                 body
                 
                 light
                 ,
                 increaseth
                 naturall
                 heate
                 ,
                 and
                 consumeth
                 superfluous
                 humours
                 ,
                 which
                 otherwise
                 would
                 clotter
                 and
                 congeale
                 within
                 the
                 body
                 .
                 For
                 in
                 euery
                 concoction
                 some
                 excrements
                 are
                 ingendred
                 ,
                 which
                 being
                 left
                 alone
                 ,
                 may
                 be
                 the
                 rootes
                 of
                 diuers
                 sicknesses
                 .
                 Now
                 the
                 thicker
                 sort
                 of
                 excrements
                 are
                 auoyded
                 by
                 sensible
                 euacuations
                 .
                 But
                 the
                 thinner
                 may
                 be
                 wasted
                 and
                 purged
                 by
                 exercise
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 At
                 what
                 time
                 is
                 it
                 best
                 to
                 exercise
                 ?
              
               
                 It
                 is
                 best
                 to
                 exercise
                 when
                 the
                 body
                 is
                 fasting
                 and
                 emptie
                 ,
                 least
                 after
                 meats
                 by
                 violent
                 and
                 vehement
                 motions
                 ,
                 digestion
                 be
                 hindered
                 ,
                 and
                 putrifaction
                 follow
                 .
                 In
                 Sommer
                 ,
                 exercise
                 is
                 to
                 be
                 vsed
                 an
                 houre
                 after
                 Sunne
                 rising
                 ,
                 for
                 feare
                 of
                 a
                 double
                 heate
                 .
                 In
                 Spring
                 and
                 Haruest
                 time
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 to
                 be
                 vsed
                 about
                 an
                 houre
                 and
                 a
                 halfe
                 after
                 Sunne
                 rising
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 morning
                 colde
                 may
                 be
                 auoided
                 :
                 for
                 as
                 the
                 heate
                 at
                 mid-day
                 is
                 hurtfull
                 ,
                 so
                 the
                 morning
                 colde
                 ,
                 especially
                 in
                 Autumne
                 is
                 to
                 be
                 eschewed
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 kinde
                 of
                 Exercise
                 is
                 good
                 ?
              
               
                 Walking
                 ,
                 if
                 it
                 be
                 not
                 too
                 slow
                 ,
                 is
                 a
                 commendable
                 exercise
                 ,
                 and
                 may
                 be
                 vsed
                 in
                 hot
                 moneths
                 ,
                 specially
                 of
                 cholericke
                 persons
                 .
                 To
                 
                 hang
                 by
                 the
                 hands
                 on
                 a
                 thing
                 aboue
                 your
                 reach
                 ,
                 so
                 that
                 your
                 feet
                 touch
                 not
                 the
                 ground
                 ,
                 is
                 good
                 .
                 To
                 climbe
                 vp
                 against
                 a
                 steepe
                 hill
                 ,
                 till
                 you
                 pant
                 ,
                 and
                 fetch
                 your
                 breath
                 often
                 with
                 great
                 difficultie
                 ,
                 is
                 a
                 fit
                 exercise
                 to
                 be
                 frequented
                 in
                 colde
                 seasons
                 .
                 Olde
                 men
                 must
                 content
                 themselues
                 with
                 softer
                 Exercises
                 ,
                 least
                 that
                 the
                 small
                 heate
                 which
                 they
                 haue
                 ,
                 should
                 be
                 spent
                 .
                 They
                 must
                 onely
                 euerie
                 morning
                 haue
                 their
                 ioynts
                 gently
                 rubbed
                 with
                 a
                 linnen
                 cloth
                 .
                 To
                 be
                 briefe
                 ,
                 they
                 must
                 be
                 combde
                 ,
                 and
                 cherished
                 vp
                 with
                 fine
                 delights
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Vnto
                 what
                 complexion
                 doth
                 Exercise
                 most
                 appertaine
                 ?
              
               
                 Vnto
                 the
                 flegmaticke
                 ,
                 rather
                 then
                 the
                 cholericke
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 exercise
                 should
                 short
                 winded
                 men
                 vse
                 ?
              
               
                 They
                 must
                 vse
                 loud
                 reading
                 ,
                 and
                 disputations
                 ,
                 that
                 thereby
                 their
                 winde
                 pipes
                 may
                 be
                 extended
                 and
                 their
                 pores
                 opened
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               Of
               Vrines
               .
               CHAP.
               2.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 Vrine
                 ?
              
               
                 VRine
                 is
                 the
                 clearer
                 and
                 lighter
                 part
                 of
                 bloud
                 proceeding
                 from
                 the
                 raines
                 ;
                 which
                 if
                 a
                 man
                 forceth
                 to
                 suppresse
                 ,
                 he
                 is
                 in
                 danger
                 of
                 the
                 collicke
                 or
                 stone
                 ,
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 colour
                 of
                 vrine
                 is
                 most
                 commendable
                 ?
              
               
                 That
                 Vrine
                 is
                 most
                 laudable
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 of
                 colour
                 somewhat
                 red
                 and
                 yealow
                 like
                 golde
                 ,
                 answering
                 in
                 proportion
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 liquour
                 which
                 you
                 drinke
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Teach
                 me
                 to
                 prognosticate
                 by
                 Vrines
                 .
              
               
                 White
                 vrine
                 signifieth
                 rawnesse
                 and
                 indigestion
                 in
                 the
                 stomack
                 .
                 Red
                 vrine
                 betokeneth
                 heat
                 .
                 Thicke
                 vrine
                 ,
                 and
                 like
                 to
                 puddle
                 ,
                 sheweth
                 sicknesse
                 or
                 excessiue
                 labour
                 .
                 If
                 white
                 or
                 red
                 grauell
                 appeare
                 in
                 the
                 bottome
                 of
                 your
                 vrinall
                 ,
                 it
                 threatneth
                 the
                 stone
                 in
                 the
                 raines
                 .
                 In
                 briefe
                 ,
                 blacke
                 or
                 greene
                 coloured
                 vrine
                 ,
                 declareth
                 death
                 most
                 commonly
                 to
                 ensue
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               Of
               Fasting
               .
               CHAP.
               3.
               
            
             
               
                 Is
                 moderate
                 fasting
                 good
                 ?
              
               
                 MOderate
                 fasting
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 omit
                 a
                 dinner
                 or
                 a
                 supper
                 once
                 a
                 weeke
                 ,
                 is
                 wonderfull
                 commodious
                 for
                 them
                 that
                 are
                 not
                 cholericke
                 or
                 melancholicke
                 ,
                 but
                 full
                 of
                 raw
                 humours
                 .
                 This
                 ,
                 Anthony
                 the
                 Emperour
                 knew
                 very
                 well
                 ,
                 when
                 he
                 accustomed
                 to
                 drinke
                 nought
                 saue
                 one
                 cup
                 full
                 of
                 wine
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 little
                 pepper
                 after
                 he
                 had
                 surfetted
                 .
              
               
                 Of
                 the
                 commodities
                 of
                 Fasting
                 I
                 haue
                 written
                 more
                 largely
                 in
                 my
                 second
                 booke
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Golden
                   Groue
                
                 :
                 and
                 now
                 of
                 late
                 in
                 my
                 first
                 Circle
                 of
                 
                   The
                   Spirit
                   of
                   Detraction
                   coniured
                   and
                   conuicted
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 way
                 to
                 preserue
                 my
                 life
                 ,
                 if
                 perhaps
                 I
                 be
                 constrained
                 to
                 straggle
                 in
                 Deserts
                 .
              
               
                 Take
                 Licoras
                 or
                 Tobacco
                 now
                 and
                 then
                 ,
                 chew
                 it
                 ,
                 and
                 you
                 shall
                 satisfie
                 both
                 thirst
                 and
                 hunger
                 :
                 or
                 else
                 ,
                 mixe
                 some
                 suet
                 with
                 one
                 pound
                 of
                 Violets
                 ,
                 and
                 you
                 shall
                 preserue
                 your
                 life
                 thereby
                 ,
                 ten
                 dayes
                 .
                 Or
                 to
                 conclude
                 ,
                 take
                 a
                 peece
                 of
                 allome
                 ,
                 &
                 roule
                 it
                 in
                 your
                 mouth
                 
                 when
                 you
                 waxe
                 hungry
                 :
                 By
                 this
                 meanes
                 ,
                 you
                 may
                 liue
                 (
                 as
                 some
                 write
                 )
                 a
                 whole
                 fortnight
                 without
                 sustenance
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Of
               Venerie
               .
               CHAP.
               4.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 Venery
                 ?
              
               
                 MOderate
                 Venerie
                 is
                 very
                 expedient
                 for
                 preseruation
                 of
                 health
                 .
                 It
                 openeth
                 the
                 pores
                 ,
                 maketh
                 the
                 body
                 light
                 ,
                 exhilerateth
                 the
                 heart
                 and
                 wit
                 ,
                 and
                 mitigateth
                 anger
                 &
                 fury
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 When
                 is
                 the
                 best
                 vse
                 of
                 carnall
                 copulation
                 ?
              
               
                 It
                 is
                 best
                 to
                 vse
                 carnal
                 copulation
                 in
                 Winter
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 Spring
                 time
                 ,
                 when
                 nature
                 is
                 desirous
                 without
                 the
                 help
                 of
                 Arts
                 dregs
                 ,
                 and
                 at
                 night
                 ,
                 when
                 the
                 stomacke
                 is
                 full
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 body
                 somewhat
                 warme
                 ,
                 that
                 sleepe
                 immediately
                 after
                 it
                 ,
                 may
                 lenifie
                 the
                 lassitude
                 caused
                 through
                 the
                 action
                 therof
                 .
                 In
                 Sommer
                 in
                 Iune
                 and
                 Iuly
                 when
                 the
                 spettle
                 thickens
                 on
                 the
                 ground
                 ,
                 it
                 cannot
                 be
                 good
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 be
                 the
                 inconueniences
                 of
                 immoderate
                 Venerie
                 ?
              
               
                 Immoderate
                 venerie
                 weakeneth
                 strength
                 ,
                 hurts
                 the
                 braine
                 ,
                 extinguisheth
                 radicall
                 moysture
                 .
                 
                 and
                 hastneth
                 on
                 old
                 age
                 and
                 death
                 .
                 Sperme
                 or
                 seede
                 of
                 generation
                 is
                 the
                 onely
                 comforter
                 of
                 nature
                 ,
                 which
                 wilfully
                 shed
                 or
                 lost
                 ,
                 harmeth
                 a
                 man
                 more
                 ,
                 then
                 if
                 hee
                 should
                 bleed
                 forty
                 times
                 as
                 much
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Teach
                 me
                 how
                 wiuelesse
                 batchelers
                 ,
                 and
                 husbandlesse
                 maides
                 ,
                 should
                 driue
                 away
                 their
                 vncleane
                 dreaming
                 of
                 venery
                 at
                 nights
                 .
              
               
                 First
                 ,
                 they
                 must
                 refraine
                 from
                 wine
                 ,
                 and
                 venerous
                 imaginations
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 vse
                 to
                 lye
                 in
                 soft
                 down
                 beds
                 .
                 Secondly
                 ,
                 they
                 must
                 addict
                 themselues
                 to
                 read
                 the
                 Bible
                 and
                 morall
                 Philosophy
                 .
                 Thirdly
                 ,
                 they
                 must
                 exercise
                 often
                 their
                 bodies
                 .
                 Lastly
                 ,
                 if
                 none
                 of
                 these
                 preuaile
                 ,
                 let
                 them
                 vse
                 the
                 seed
                 of
                 
                   Agnus
                   castus
                
                 ,
                 in
                 English
                 Parke
                 seed
                 ,
                 and
                 they
                 shall
                 feele
                 a
                 strange
                 effect
                 to
                 follow
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Of
               Bathes
               .
               CHAP.
               5.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 Bathes
                 ?
              
               
                 COld
                 and
                 naturall
                 bathes
                 are
                 greatly
                 expedient
                 for
                 men
                 subiect
                 to
                 rheumes
                 ,
                 dropsies
                 and
                 gouts
                 .
                 Neither
                 can
                 I
                 easily
                 expresse
                 in
                 words
                 how
                 much
                 good
                 cold
                 bathes
                 doe
                 bring
                 
                 vnto
                 them
                 that
                 vse
                 them
                 :
                 howbeit
                 with
                 this
                 caueat
                 I
                 commend
                 bathes
                 ,
                 to
                 wit
                 ,
                 that
                 no
                 man
                 distempered
                 through
                 Venery
                 ,
                 Gluttony
                 ,
                 watching
                 ,
                 fasting
                 ,
                 or
                 through
                 violent
                 exercise
                 ,
                 presume
                 to
                 enter
                 into
                 them
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Is
                 bathing
                 of
                 the
                 head
                 wholsome
                 ?
              
               
                 You
                 shall
                 finde
                 it
                 wonderfull
                 expedient
                 ,
                 if
                 you
                 bath
                 your
                 head
                 foure
                 times
                 in
                 the
                 yeare
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 with
                 ▪
                 hot
                 lee
                 made
                 of
                 ashes
                 .
                 After
                 which
                 ,
                 you
                 must
                 cause
                 one
                 presently
                 to
                 poure
                 two
                 or
                 three
                 gallons
                 of
                 cold
                 fountaine
                 water
                 vpon
                 your
                 head
                 .
                 Then
                 let
                 your
                 head
                 be
                 dryed
                 with
                 cold
                 towels
                 .
                 Which
                 sodaine
                 pouring
                 downe
                 of
                 cold
                 water
                 ,
                 although
                 it
                 doth
                 mightily
                 terrifie
                 you
                 ,
                 yet
                 neuertheles
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 very
                 good
                 ,
                 for
                 therby
                 the
                 naturall
                 heate
                 is
                 stirred
                 within
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 baldnesse
                 is
                 kept
                 backe
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 memory
                 is
                 quickned
                 .
                 In
                 like
                 manner
                 ,
                 washing
                 of
                 hands
                 often
                 ,
                 doth
                 much
                 auaile
                 the
                 eye-sight
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 shall
                 a
                 man
                 bathe
                 himselfe
                 in
                 Winter
                 time
                 when
                 waters
                 be
                 frozen
                 ?
              
               
                 In
                 Winter
                 time
                 this
                 kinde
                 of
                 artificiall
                 bathing
                 is
                 very
                 expedient
                 and
                 wholsome
                 :
                 Take
                 two
                 pound
                 of
                 Turpentine
                 ,
                 foure
                 ounces
                 of
                 the
                 iuyce
                 of
                 Wormwood
                 and
                 wild
                 mallowes
                 ,
                 one
                 
                 ounce
                 of
                 fresh
                 butter
                 ,
                 one
                 drachme
                 of
                 saffron
                 :
                 mingle
                 them
                 and
                 seeth
                 them
                 a
                 pretty
                 while
                 ,
                 and
                 being
                 hot
                 ,
                 wet
                 foure
                 linnen
                 clothes
                 in
                 it
                 ,
                 and
                 therewith
                 bath
                 your selfe
                 .
              
               
                 Or
                 els
                 make
                 a
                 bath
                 after
                 this
                 manner
                 ,
                 take
                 of
                 Fumitory
                 ,
                 and
                 Enula
                 Campana
                 leaues
                 ,
                 Sage
                 ,
                 Fetherfue
                 ,
                 Rosemary
                 &
                 Wormwood
                 ,
                 of
                 each
                 a
                 handfull
                 or
                 two
                 ,
                 seeth
                 them
                 in
                 a
                 sufficient
                 quantity
                 of
                 water
                 till
                 they
                 be
                 soft
                 ,
                 and
                 put
                 as
                 much
                 as
                 a
                 walnut
                 of
                 Allome
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 little
                 brimstone
                 in
                 powder
                 ,
                 and
                 therewith
                 bath
                 the
                 places
                 of
                 your
                 body
                 affected
                 .
                 He
                 that
                 vseth
                 these
                 bathes
                 in
                 times
                 conuenient
                 ,
                 shall
                 liue
                 healthfully
                 ,
                 for
                 by
                 them
                 superfluous
                 excrements
                 are
                 extracted
                 in
                 sweat
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Of
               Excrements
               and
               Bloud-letting
               .
               CHAP.
               6.
               
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 be
                 Excrements
                 ?
              
               
                 OF
                 excrements
                 some
                 be
                 necessary
                 ,
                 and
                 some
                 superfluous
                 :
                 those
                 be
                 necessarie
                 which
                 spring
                 of
                 superfluous
                 bloud
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 notwithstanding
                 can
                 nourish
                 ,
                 when
                 nourishment
                 failes
                 ;
                 as
                 seede
                 ,
                 sperme
                 ,
                 milke
                 and
                 fat
                 .
                 
                 Those
                 be
                 superfluous
                 ,
                 which
                 doe
                 not
                 proceed
                 from
                 bloud
                 ,
                 nor
                 can
                 nourish
                 ,
                 but
                 rather
                 separated
                 from
                 the
                 bloud
                 as
                 not
                 able
                 to
                 nourish
                 ,
                 and
                 these
                 are
                 either
                 moist
                 or
                 earthy
                 ;
                 moist
                 as
                 black
                 melancholy
                 ,
                 sweat
                 ,
                 vrine
                 ,
                 matter
                 of
                 the
                 nose
                 ,
                 spettle
                 ,
                 &c
                 :
                 Earthy
                 or
                 dry
                 excrements
                 ,
                 as
                 nailes
                 ,
                 cornes
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 .
              
               
                 Aristotle
                 reckoneth
                 the
                 marrow
                 in
                 the
                 bodie
                 ,
                 the
                 marrow
                 among
                 the
                 excrements
                 :
                 2
                 
                   Libr.
                   de
                   generat
                   ▪
                   animal
                   .
                   cap.
                
                 6.
                 
                 But
                 I
                 take
                 it
                 to
                 be
                 a
                 nourishment
                 ,
                 because
                 the
                 bones
                 are
                 nourished
                 by
                 it
                 ,
                 euen
                 as
                 the
                 body
                 is
                 nourished
                 by
                 bloud
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 thinke
                 you
                 of
                 bloud-letting
                 ?
              
               
                 Bloud
                 is
                 the
                 very
                 essence
                 of
                 life
                 :
                 which
                 diminished
                 ,
                 the
                 spirits
                 must
                 consequently
                 be
                 dissolued
                 .
                 In
                 consideration
                 whereof
                 ,
                 I
                 counsell
                 them
                 ,
                 that
                 vse
                 any
                 moderate
                 exercise
                 ,
                 not
                 in
                 any
                 case
                 to
                 be
                 let
                 bloud
                 ;
                 least
                 that
                 corrupt
                 water
                 succeede
                 in
                 the
                 place
                 of
                 the
                 pure
                 bloud
                 .
                 But
                 if
                 they
                 abound
                 with
                 bloud
                 ;
                 or
                 their
                 bloud
                 be
                 putrified
                 and
                 burnt
                 (
                 if
                 other
                 medicines
                 auaile
                 not
                 )
                 this
                 law
                 of
                 mine
                 must
                 needes
                 be
                 infringed
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 mee
                 a
                 way
                 to
                 discerne
                 the
                 effects
                 of
                 bloud-letting
                 ?
              
               
               
                 If
                 the
                 bloud
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 let
                 out
                 ,
                 appeare
                 red
                 of
                 colour
                 ,
                 and
                 white
                 water
                 flow
                 with
                 it
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 body
                 is
                 sound
                 :
                 if
                 bubbling
                 bloud
                 issue
                 ,
                 the
                 stomack
                 is
                 diseased
                 :
                 if
                 greene
                 ,
                 the
                 heart
                 is
                 grieued
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Of
               Purgations
               .
               CHAP.
               7.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 Purgations
                 ?
              
               
                 PVrgations
                 ,
                 as
                 sometime
                 they
                 be
                 very
                 necessarie
                 ,
                 so
                 often
                 taking
                 of
                 them
                 is
                 most
                 dangerous
                 .
                 He
                 that
                 vseth
                 exquisite
                 Purgations
                 ,
                 and
                 especially
                 electuaries
                 soluble
                 ,
                 shall
                 quickly
                 waxe
                 old
                 and
                 gray-headed
                 .
                 All
                 Purgations
                 (
                 a
                 few
                 simples
                 onely
                 excepted
                 )
                 haue
                 poysoned
                 effects
                 .
              
               
                 Besides
                 ,
                 nature
                 aboue
                 measure
                 is
                 compelled
                 by
                 Purgations
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 vitall
                 powers
                 are
                 diminished
                 .
                 In
                 respect
                 of
                 which
                 reasons
                 ,
                 let
                 euery
                 man
                 take
                 heede
                 of
                 those
                 butchering
                 Surgeons
                 and
                 bloud-sucking
                 Empiricks
                 ,
                 who
                 rogueing
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 Countries
                 ,
                 doe
                 murther
                 many
                 Innocents
                 ,
                 vnder
                 pretext
                 of
                 Phisick
                 .
                 Hee
                 that
                 obserueth
                 a
                 good
                 dyet
                 ,
                 and
                 moderately
                 exerciseth
                 his
                 body
                 ,
                 needeth
                 no
                 
                 Phisick
                 .
                 Moist
                 and
                 delicate
                 viandes
                 eaten
                 in
                 the
                 beginning
                 of
                 meales
                 ,
                 doe
                 sufficiently
                 loose
                 the
                 belly
                 .
                 Sweet
                 wines
                 performe
                 the
                 very
                 same
                 .
                 Also
                 the
                 leaues
                 of
                 Scene
                 sodden
                 in
                 water
                 with
                 Sebastian
                 Prunes
                 ,
                 will
                 make
                 the
                 belly
                 soluble
                 .
                 Why
                 then
                 will
                 men
                 be
                 so
                 headie
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 take
                 their
                 owne
                 destruction
                 ,
                 seeing
                 that
                 they
                 may
                 liue
                 in
                 health
                 without
                 Phisick-helpe
                 ?
              
            
             
               
                 Who
                 are
                 apt
                 to
                 take
                 Purgatians
                 and
                 who
                 not
                 ?
              
               
                 They
                 are
                 apt
                 to
                 take
                 Purgations
                 ,
                 who
                 are
                 strong
                 of
                 constitutions
                 ,
                 and
                 who
                 are
                 willing
                 .
                 And
                 againe
                 ,
                 they
                 are
                 vnapt
                 for
                 Purgations
                 ,
                 which
                 are
                 either
                 too
                 fat
                 or
                 too
                 leane
                 .
                 Likewise
                 children
                 ,
                 old
                 persons
                 ,
                 women
                 with
                 child
                 ,
                 and
                 healthfull
                 folkes
                 are
                 not
                 to
                 be
                 purged
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 humours
                 are
                 fittest
                 to
                 be
                 purged
                 ?
              
               
                 Those
                 humours
                 ,
                 which
                 molest
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 and
                 offend
                 eyther
                 in
                 quality
                 or
                 quantity
                 .
                 If
                 choler
                 happen
                 to
                 offend
                 you
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 conuenient
                 ,
                 that
                 you
                 purge
                 the
                 same
                 :
                 if
                 flegme
                 trouble
                 you
                 ,
                 then
                 by
                 medicine
                 it
                 must
                 be
                 vndermined
                 :
                 if
                 melancholy
                 doth
                 abound
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 expedient
                 ,
                 that
                 you
                 fetch
                 it
                 out
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 must
                 I
                 doe
                 before
                 purging
                 ?
              
               
                 Before
                 you
                 purge
                 ,
                 you
                 must
                 attenuate
                 
                 the
                 slimy
                 humours
                 ,
                 open
                 the
                 pores
                 ,
                 through
                 which
                 the
                 purgation
                 is
                 caried
                 ,
                 and
                 extract
                 the
                 whayish
                 humours
                 by
                 some
                 milde
                 sirupe
                 .
                 Moreouer
                 ,
                 you
                 must
                 diligently
                 marke
                 the
                 place
                 ,
                 where
                 you
                 are
                 agrieued
                 ,
                 namely
                 ,
                 whether
                 of
                 the
                 headache
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 sicke
                 in
                 the
                 stomack
                 ,
                 liuer
                 ,
                 kidneyes
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 belly
                 :
                 and
                 then
                 whether
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 flegme
                 ,
                 choler
                 ,
                 or
                 melancholy
                 .
                 Which
                 being
                 knowne
                 ;
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 humour
                 and
                 place
                 ,
                 you
                 must
                 mingle
                 sirups
                 fit
                 for
                 the
                 part
                 affected
                 ,
                 with
                 waters
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 nature
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 humour
                 may
                 be
                 afore-hand
                 concocted
                 ;
                 but
                 in
                 such
                 wise
                 ;
                 that
                 the
                 measure
                 of
                 the
                 water
                 may
                 double
                 the
                 measure
                 of
                 the
                 sirupe
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 the
                 measures
                 of
                 both
                 ,
                 exceed
                 not
                 foure
                 ounces
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 many
                 things
                 are
                 to
                 be
                 considered
                 in
                 purgations
                 ?
              
               
                 Eight
                 things
                 .
                 First
                 ,
                 the
                 quality
                 of
                 the
                 purgation
                 .
                 Secondly
                 ,
                 the
                 time
                 of
                 the
                 yeare
                 .
                 Thirdly
                 ,
                 the
                 climate
                 of
                 the
                 Country
                 .
                 Fourthly
                 ,
                 the
                 age
                 of
                 the
                 patient
                 .
                 Fiftly
                 ,
                 his
                 custome
                 .
                 Sixtly
                 ,
                 the
                 disease
                 .
                 Seauenthly
                 ,
                 the
                 strength
                 of
                 the
                 sicke
                 .
                 Eightly
                 ,
                 the
                 place
                 of
                 the
                 Moone
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 mee
                 the
                 best
                 and
                 safest
                 purgation
                 for
                 flegme
                 .
              
               
               
                 Take
                 one
                 drachme
                 of
                 Turbith
                 ,
                 foure
                 drachmes
                 of
                 vinegar
                 and
                 Suger
                 ;
                 make
                 them
                 into
                 powder
                 ,
                 and
                 vse
                 it
                 in
                 the
                 morning
                 with
                 hot
                 water
                 :
                 But
                 eate
                 not
                 till
                 three
                 houres
                 be
                 expired
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 For
                 Choler
                 .
              
               
                 Take
                 two
                 drachmes
                 of
                 good
                 Rheubarbe
                 beaten
                 into
                 powder
                 ,
                 and
                 incorporate
                 the
                 same
                 with
                 fiue
                 ounces
                 of
                 hot
                 water
                 ,
                 wherein
                 Damask
                 Prunes
                 haue
                 beene
                 sodden
                 ;
                 and
                 vse
                 it
                 hot
                 in
                 the
                 morning
                 .
                 Or
                 else
                 take
                 halfe
                 an
                 ounce
                 of
                 
                   Cassia
                   fistula
                
                 ,
                 a
                 drachme
                 of
                 Rheubarbe
                 ,
                 and
                 infuse
                 them
                 in
                 water
                 of
                 Endiue
                 with
                 an
                 ounce
                 of
                 the
                 sirupe
                 of
                 Limonds
                 :
                 The
                 next
                 morning
                 mingle
                 all
                 these
                 with
                 three
                 ounces
                 of
                 Ptisan
                 or
                 Whay
                 ,
                 and
                 drinke
                 this
                 infusion
                 warme
                 .
                 Others
                 of
                 the
                 poorer
                 sort
                 purge
                 themselues
                 onely
                 with
                 halfe
                 an
                 ounce
                 of
                 
                   Diaprunis
                   laxanice
                
                 ,
                 mixt
                 with
                 Succory
                 water
                 and
                 drunke
                 warme
                 ;
                 or
                 else
                 with
                 halfe
                 an
                 ounce
                 of
                 
                   Electuarium
                   de
                   succo
                   Rosarum
                
                 ,
                 and
                 three
                 ounces
                 of
                 the
                 decoction
                 of
                 French
                 Prunes
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 For
                 melancholy
                 .
              
               
                 Take
                 three
                 drachmes
                 of
                 the
                 leaues
                 of
                 Scene
                 ,
                 two
                 drachmes
                 of
                 Cinamon
                 and
                 Ginger
                 ,
                 one
                 drachme
                 of
                 Suger
                 ,
                 and
                 seeth
                 them
                 
                 in
                 Goates
                 milke
                 ,
                 womans
                 milke
                 ,
                 whay
                 ,
                 or
                 in
                 some
                 other
                 like
                 thing
                 .
                 It
                 is
                 also
                 good
                 to
                 annoint
                 the
                 side
                 of
                 the
                 spleene
                 with
                 
                   vnguentum
                   Dialthaeae
                
                 .
                 Or
                 else
                 with
                 the
                 oyle
                 of
                 Lillies
                 ,
                 oyle
                 of
                 Dill
                 ,
                 Hennes
                 grease
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 marrow
                 of
                 an
                 Oxe
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 how
                 I
                 may
                 mundifie
                 bloud
                 ?
              
               
                 Take
                 two
                 drachmes
                 of
                 Tyme
                 and
                 Scene
                 ,
                 one
                 drachme
                 of
                 Myrobolane
                 ,
                 one
                 drachme
                 of
                 Rheubarbe
                 ,
                 white
                 Turbith
                 ,
                 and
                 Ginger
                 ,
                 two
                 drachmes
                 of
                 Suger
                 ;
                 let
                 them
                 be
                 done
                 all
                 into
                 pouder
                 ,
                 and
                 giuen
                 in
                 water
                 wherein
                 Fennell
                 or
                 Annise
                 seed
                 haue
                 beene
                 boyled
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 shall
                 I
                 doe
                 ,
                 if
                 the
                 Purgation
                 will
                 not
                 worke
                 ?
              
               
                 If
                 after
                 the
                 taking
                 of
                 a
                 Purgation
                 ,
                 the
                 bellie
                 be
                 not
                 loosed
                 ,
                 that
                 inconuenience
                 happeneth
                 chiefly
                 for
                 these
                 causes
                 ;
                 either
                 through
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 the
                 sicke
                 ,
                 or
                 for
                 the
                 slendernesse
                 of
                 the
                 Purgation
                 ,
                 or
                 because
                 nature
                 conuerteth
                 her
                 endeauour
                 into
                 vrine
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 by
                 reason
                 that
                 the
                 belly
                 was
                 before
                 hand
                 too
                 hard
                 bound
                 ,
                 which
                 by
                 a
                 glyster
                 might
                 be
                 holpen
                 ▪
                 When
                 therefore
                 the
                 belly
                 after
                 the
                 Purgation
                 is
                 not
                 soluble
                 ,
                 it
                 procureth
                 grieuous
                 maladie
                 in
                 the
                 body
                 :
                 But
                 if
                 a
                 man
                 taketh
                 a
                 small
                 quantitie
                 
                 of
                 Mastick
                 lightly
                 pounded
                 and
                 ministred
                 in
                 warme
                 water
                 ,
                 he
                 shall
                 be
                 cured
                 of
                 that
                 infirmitie
                 .
                 Likewise
                 ,
                 it
                 much
                 auayleth
                 ,
                 presently
                 to
                 eate
                 an
                 apple
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Seeing
                 that
                 glisters
                 be
                 very
                 commodious
                 ,
                 shew
                 me
                 a
                 way
                 to
                 make
                 some
                 .
              
               
                 Take
                 hony
                 sodden
                 till
                 it
                 be
                 thick
                 ,
                 and
                 mingle
                 the
                 same
                 with
                 wheaten
                 meale
                 ,
                 then
                 adde
                 a
                 little
                 freshbutter
                 ,
                 and
                 make
                 your
                 glister
                 into
                 a
                 long
                 forme
                 :
                 Which
                 done
                 ,
                 dip
                 it
                 in
                 oyle
                 ,
                 and
                 vse
                 it
                 .
                 Or
                 else
                 take
                 halfe
                 an
                 ounce
                 of
                 the
                 roots
                 of
                 Succory
                 and
                 Licoras
                 ,
                 two
                 drachmes
                 of
                 Endiue
                 ,
                 one
                 handfull
                 of
                 Mallowes
                 ,
                 one
                 drachme
                 of
                 the
                 seed
                 of
                 Succory
                 and
                 Fennell
                 ,
                 two
                 drachmes
                 of
                 Fennigreeke
                 ,
                 halfe
                 a
                 handfull
                 of
                 the
                 flowers
                 of
                 Cammomel
                 ;
                 seeth
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 a
                 most
                 wholesome
                 glister
                 is
                 made
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 if
                 the
                 purgation
                 doth
                 euacuate
                 too
                 much
                 ?
              
               
                 You
                 must
                 infuse
                 three
                 drachmes
                 of
                 the
                 pouder
                 of
                 Mastick
                 in
                 the
                 iuice
                 of
                 Quinces
                 ,
                 and
                 drinke
                 it
                 :
                 or
                 else
                 eate
                 a
                 Quince
                 alone
                 .
                 Or
                 else
                 anoint
                 the
                 mouth
                 of
                 the
                 stomack
                 or
                 the
                 vpper
                 part
                 of
                 the
                 belly
                 ,
                 with
                 this
                 precious
                 oyntment
                 following
                 .
                 viz.
                 with
                 oyle
                 of
                 Roses
                 ,
                 and
                 Quinces
                 ,
                 of
                 each
                 an
                 ounce
                 ,
                 with
                 oyle
                 of
                 Mastick
                 
                 halfe
                 an
                 ounce
                 ;
                 mingle
                 these
                 with
                 the
                 powder
                 of
                 Corall
                 and
                 Waxe
                 ,
                 and
                 vse
                 it
                 to
                 stop
                 the
                 fluxe
                 ,
                 whether
                 it
                 be
                 sodaine
                 ,
                 or
                 humourall
                 ,
                 or
                 dissenteriall
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 Tobacco
                 ?
              
               
                 
                   Cane
                   Tobacco
                
                 well
                 dried
                 ,
                 and
                 taken
                 in
                 a
                 cleane
                 Pipe
                 fasting
                 ,
                 in
                 a
                 moist
                 morning
                 ,
                 during
                 the
                 Spring
                 or
                 Autumne
                 ,
                 cureth
                 the
                 megrim
                 ,
                 the
                 toothache
                 ,
                 obstructions
                 proceeding
                 of
                 cold
                 ,
                 and
                 helpeth
                 the
                 fits
                 of
                 the
                 Mother
                 .
                 After
                 meales
                 it
                 doth
                 much
                 hurt
                 ,
                 for
                 it
                 infecteth
                 the
                 braine
                 and
                 the
                 liuer
                 ,
                 as
                 appeares
                 in
                 our
                 Anatomies
                 ,
                 when
                 their
                 bodies
                 are
                 opened
                 ,
                 we
                 finde
                 their
                 kidneyes
                 ,
                 yea
                 and
                 hearts
                 quite
                 wasted
                 :
                 For
                 as
                 all
                 other
                 things
                 ,
                 which
                 God
                 gaue
                 for
                 our
                 necessities
                 ,
                 are
                 superfluously
                 employed
                 ,
                 apparell
                 ,
                 meates
                 ,
                 drinkes
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 :
                 so
                 this
                 Indian
                 weede
                 ,
                 whose
                 proper
                 vse
                 is
                 to
                 purge
                 the
                 body
                 of
                 thin
                 water
                 ,
                 which
                 we
                 call
                 distillations
                 or
                 slender
                 rheumes
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 in
                 medicine
                 manner
                 in
                 moist
                 weather
                 .
                 I
                 say
                 ,
                 Tobacco
                 is
                 mightily
                 abused
                 ,
                 &
                 by
                 the
                 Diuels
                 temptations
                 turned
                 to
                 Bacchanalian
                 beastly
                 custome
                 ,
                 to
                 serue
                 Tosse-pots
                 in
                 stead
                 of
                 salt
                 meates
                 ,
                 caueare
                 ,
                 and
                 other
                 enducements
                 or
                 drawers
                 on
                 of
                 drinks
                 .
                 Sometimes
                 our
                 swaggering
                 
                 cast-awayes
                 take
                 it
                 after
                 the
                 example
                 of
                 Politicians
                 to
                 temporize
                 and
                 dally
                 away
                 the
                 time
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 might
                 rest
                 in
                 their
                 counterfeit
                 traunce
                 ,
                 when
                 they
                 want
                 matter
                 of
                 discourse
                 ,
                 vntill
                 after
                 a
                 thorough
                 perambulation
                 of
                 their
                 barren
                 wits
                 ,
                 they
                 haue
                 coyned
                 some
                 strange
                 accident
                 or
                 aunswere
                 worthie
                 the
                 rehearsall
                 among
                 their
                 boone
                 companions
                 .
                 Then
                 after
                 long
                 houghing
                 ,
                 halking
                 ,
                 and
                 hacking
                 :
                 
                   Mobile
                   colluerint
                   liquido
                   cùm
                   plasmate
                   guttur
                   ,
                
                 Hauing
                 their
                 throates
                 well
                 washt
                 with
                 dreggish
                 drugges
                 .
              
               
                 They
                 recount
                 tales
                 of
                 
                   Robin
                   Hood
                
                 ,
                 of
                 
                   Donzel
                   del
                   Phoebo
                
                 ,
                 &c.
                 as
                 I
                 haue
                 else-where
                 written
                 in
                 my
                 Preface
                 to
                 my
                 
                   first
                   Circle
                   of
                   the
                   Spirit
                   of
                   Detraction
                   .
                
                 To
                 conclude
                 ,
                 the
                 abuse
                 of
                 this
                 forraine
                 hearbe
                 ,
                 I
                 wish
                 the
                 Reader
                 to
                 ruminate
                 and
                 repeare
                 ouer
                 these
                 moderne
                 rythmes
                 :
                 
                   
                     Tobacco
                     that
                     outlandish
                     weed
                  
                   
                     Doth
                     spend
                     the
                     braine
                     and
                     spoile
                     the
                     seed
                     .
                  
                   
                     It
                     dulls
                     the
                     spright
                     ,
                     it
                     dimmes
                     the
                     sight
                     ,
                  
                   
                     It
                     robs
                     a
                     woman
                     of
                     her
                     right
                     .
                  
                
              
            
          
           
             
             
               Of
               Vomites
               .
               CHAP.
               8.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 a
                 vomite
                 ?
              
               
                 A
                 Vomite
                 is
                 the
                 expulsion
                 of
                 bad
                 humours
                 (
                 contayned
                 in
                 the
                 stomack
                 )
                 vpwards
                 .
                 It
                 is
                 accounted
                 the
                 wholesomest
                 kinde
                 of
                 Phisick
                 :
                 for
                 that
                 ,
                 which
                 a
                 purgation
                 leaueth
                 behind
                 it
                 ,
                 a
                 vomite
                 doth
                 root
                 out
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhich
                 are
                 the
                 best
                 vomites
                 ?
              
               
                 Take
                 of
                 the
                 seeds
                 of
                 Dill
                 ,
                 Attripplex
                 ,
                 and
                 Radish
                 three
                 drachmes
                 ,
                 of
                 Fountaine
                 water
                 one
                 pound
                 and
                 a
                 halfe
                 :
                 seeth
                 them
                 all
                 together
                 ,
                 till
                 there
                 remaine
                 one
                 pound
                 :
                 straine
                 it
                 ,
                 and
                 vse
                 it
                 hot
                 .
                 Or
                 else
                 make
                 you
                 a
                 vomite
                 after
                 this
                 manner
                 :
                 take
                 three
                 drachmes
                 of
                 the
                 rind
                 of
                 a
                 Walnut
                 ,
                 slice
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 steepe
                 them
                 one
                 whole
                 night
                 in
                 a
                 draught
                 of
                 white
                 wine
                 ,
                 and
                 drinke
                 the
                 wine
                 in
                 the
                 morning
                 a
                 little
                 before
                 dinner
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 if
                 the
                 vomites
                 worke
                 not
                 ?
              
               
                 If
                 they
                 work
                 not
                 within
                 an
                 houre
                 after
                 you
                 haue
                 taken
                 any
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 sup
                 a
                 little
                 of
                 the
                 sirupe
                 of
                 Oximel
                 ,
                 and
                 put
                 your
                 left
                 middle
                 finger
                 in
                 your
                 mouth
                 ,
                 and
                 you
                 shall
                 be
                 holpen
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 VVhat
                 shall
                 I
                 doe
                 ,
                 if
                 I
                 vomite
                 too
                 much
                 ?
              
               
                 If
                 you
                 vomite
                 too
                 much
                 ,
                 rub
                 &
                 wash
                 your
                 feet
                 with
                 hot
                 and
                 sweet
                 water
                 :
                 and
                 if
                 it
                 cease
                 not
                 for
                 all
                 this
                 :
                 apply
                 a
                 gourd
                 to
                 the
                 mouth
                 of
                 the
                 stomack
                 .
                 Sometimes
                 without
                 any
                 Phisick
                 at
                 all
                 ,
                 one
                 shall
                 fall
                 to
                 a
                 customarie
                 vomiting
                 .
                 And
                 then
                 it
                 proceedes
                 eyther
                 of
                 the
                 colde
                 complexion
                 of
                 the
                 stomacke
                 ,
                 or
                 of
                 hot
                 complexion
                 .
                 If
                 of
                 colde
                 complexion
                 ,
                 you
                 may
                 helpe
                 it
                 by
                 making
                 a
                 bagge
                 of
                 Wormewood
                 ,
                 dry
                 Mints
                 ,
                 and
                 Maioram
                 ,
                 of
                 each
                 a
                 like
                 one
                 handfull
                 ,
                 of
                 Nutmegs
                 ,
                 Cloues
                 ,
                 and
                 Galingall
                 halfe
                 a
                 drachme
                 of
                 each
                 one
                 .
                 Let
                 all
                 of
                 them
                 be
                 dried
                 and
                 powdred
                 ,
                 and
                 put
                 betwixt
                 two
                 linnen
                 cloathes
                 ,
                 with
                 Cotton
                 interposed
                 and
                 basted
                 .
                 And
                 then
                 let
                 them
                 be
                 applied
                 vpon
                 the
                 stomack
                 ;
                 Or
                 else
                 you
                 may
                 apply
                 the
                 said
                 hearbes
                 alone
                 dried
                 on
                 a
                 hote
                 Tilestone
                 ,
                 and
                 put
                 betwixt
                 two
                 linnen
                 cloathes
                 vpon
                 the
                 stomacke
                 .
                 Let
                 them
                 fortifie
                 their
                 stomackes
                 with
                 the
                 sirupe
                 of
                 Mints
                 or
                 of
                 Wormewood
                 ,
                 or
                 eate
                 Lozenges
                 called
                 Diagalanga
                 .
              
               
                 If
                 vomiting
                 proceedes
                 of
                 hote
                 complexion
                 ,
                 you
                 may
                 cure
                 it
                 by
                 a
                 playster
                 applied
                 to
                 the
                 stomacke
                 ,
                 of
                 oyle
                 of
                 Roses
                 ,
                 Wormewood
                 ,
                 
                 Mints
                 ,
                 and
                 Barly
                 flower
                 with
                 the
                 white
                 of
                 an
                 Egge
                 .
                 Some
                 in
                 such
                 a
                 case
                 take
                 the
                 water
                 of
                 Purselane
                 in
                 their
                 drinke
                 to
                 quench
                 their
                 thirst
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Of
               Common
               sicknesses
               .
               CHAP.
               9.
               
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 how
                 to
                 cure
                 such
                 common
                 sicknesses
                 ,
                 as
                 daily
                 annoy
                 our
                 bodies
                 .
              
               
                 ALL
                 sicknesses
                 whatsoeuer
                 spring
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 head
                 distempered
                 ;
                 and
                 there-hence
                 they
                 arise
                 in
                 one
                 of
                 the
                 foure
                 humours
                 ,
                 which
                 by
                 the
                 distemperature
                 of
                 the
                 head
                 ,
                 become
                 likewise
                 distempered
                 :
                 so
                 that
                 all
                 sicknesses
                 abound
                 eyther
                 of
                 the
                 bloud
                 depraued
                 ,
                 or
                 of
                 choler
                 infected
                 ,
                 or
                 of
                 flegme
                 coagulated
                 ,
                 or
                 of
                 melancholy
                 empoysoned
                 :
                 Or
                 (
                 perhaps
                 )
                 they
                 spring
                 by
                 the
                 mixt
                 corruption
                 of
                 two
                 or
                 more
                 of
                 these
                 humours
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 it
                 behoueth
                 vs
                 to
                 be
                 wise
                 in
                 the
                 very
                 beginning
                 of
                 our
                 sicknesses
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 preuent
                 their
                 theeuish
                 
                 intrusion
                 .
                 Aboue
                 all
                 vomites
                 or
                 purgations
                 ,
                 I
                 see
                 none
                 comparable
                 to
                 Stibium
                 or
                 Antimonie
                 prepared
                 ,
                 which
                 I
                 dare
                 boldly
                 commend
                 as
                 a
                 most
                 soueraine
                 and
                 cheape
                 remedy
                 for
                 agues
                 ,
                 dropsies
                 ,
                 fluxes
                 and
                 distillations
                 vnto
                 the
                 poorer
                 sort
                 .
                 The
                 taking
                 whereof
                 I
                 wish
                 to
                 be
                 onely
                 three
                 graines
                 infused
                 for
                 a
                 whole
                 night
                 in
                 a
                 glasse
                 of
                 Sack
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 little
                 Suger
                 or
                 cleare
                 Ale
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 be
                 drunke
                 vp
                 the
                 next
                 morning
                 .
                 As
                 for
                 rich
                 men
                 ,
                 let
                 them
                 fee
                 the
                 Physitian
                 ,
                 least
                 that
                 noble
                 trade
                 decay
                 for
                 want
                 of
                 maintenance
                 :
                 according
                 to
                 that
                 olde
                 saying
                 :
                 
                   Stipends
                   doe
                   nourish
                   Artes.
                
                 The
                 Seminaries
                 of
                 diseases
                 after
                 this
                 manner
                 rooted
                 out
                 by
                 Antimonie
                 .
                 Let
                 euery
                 particular
                 griefe
                 be
                 suited
                 thereafter
                 :
                 for
                 agues
                 ,
                 let
                 them
                 coole
                 the
                 liuer
                 with
                 Ptisans
                 ,
                 Endiue
                 ,
                 or
                 Succorie
                 waters
                 .
                 For
                 the
                 stone
                 ,
                 let
                 them
                 take
                 Goates
                 bloud
                 dried
                 into
                 powder
                 in
                 a
                 hote
                 Ouen
                 ,
                 or
                 otherwise
                 as
                 they
                 please
                 within
                 their
                 pottage
                 ,
                 or
                 liquour
                 ,
                 seeing
                 that
                 the
                 hardest
                 Adamant
                 is
                 dissolued
                 with
                 this
                 kinde
                 of
                 bloud
                 :
                 why
                 may
                 not
                 the
                 stone
                 in
                 mans
                 bodie
                 be
                 likewise
                 bruised
                 therewith
                 ?
                 For
                 the
                 Gout
                 ,
                 let
                 them
                 exercise
                 if
                 they
                 can
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 ●e
                 let
                 bloud
                 very
                 often
                 in
                 the
                 place
                 affected
                 ,
                 
                 or
                 let
                 them
                 reserue
                 Horse-leaches
                 for
                 that
                 purpose
                 .
              
               
                 I
                 might
                 here
                 commend
                 diuers
                 locall
                 medicines
                 ,
                 as
                 oyles
                 of
                 Roses
                 ,
                 of
                 Mirtilles
                 ,
                 of
                 Cammomill
                 ,
                 or
                 wilde
                 Mallowes
                 ,
                 of
                 Turpentine
                 ,
                 or
                 such
                 like
                 .
                 I
                 might
                 aduise
                 them
                 to
                 lay
                 emplaisters
                 on
                 the
                 goutie
                 ioynts
                 ,
                 made
                 of
                 Mellilote
                 ,
                 of
                 
                   vnguentum
                   Populeum
                
                 ,
                 of
                 the
                 flowers
                 of
                 Cammomill
                 ,
                 of
                 red
                 Roses
                 ,
                 with
                 Beane
                 flowre
                 .
                 I
                 might
                 wish
                 them
                 to
                 apply
                 the
                 Colewort
                 leafe
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 to
                 stop
                 the
                 fluxe
                 with
                 that
                 precious
                 and
                 admired
                 salue
                 commonly
                 called
                 
                   Paracelsus
                   his
                   stiptick
                   playster
                
                 ,
                 which
                 I
                 haue
                 found
                 by
                 experience
                 to
                 heale
                 any
                 wound
                 ,
                 whether
                 it
                 be
                 olde
                 or
                 greene
                 ,
                 sooner
                 in
                 one
                 weeke
                 then
                 any
                 other
                 in
                 a
                 moneth
                 ,
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 the
                 binding
                 ,
                 drying
                 ,
                 and
                 strengthening
                 vertue
                 ,
                 which
                 it
                 hath
                 ,
                 being
                 likewise
                 able
                 to
                 stop
                 the
                 concourse
                 or
                 falling
                 of
                 humours
                 into
                 the
                 sore
                 .
                 This
                 salue
                 I
                 praise
                 aboue
                 all
                 others
                 ,
                 as
                 that
                 ,
                 which
                 breeds
                 none
                 but
                 good
                 flesh
                 ,
                 and
                 as
                 Apothecaries
                 say
                 ,
                 it
                 wil●
                 keepe
                 forty
                 yeares
                 without
                 putrifying
                 .
                 But
                 indeed
                 ,
                 because
                 all
                 sicknesses
                 proceed
                 from
                 the
                 braine
                 ,
                 it
                 were
                 fit
                 to
                 purge
                 the
                 superfluous
                 moisture
                 thereof
                 once
                 a
                 moneth
                 ,
                 either
                 with
                 a
                 
                 drachme
                 of
                 
                   Pilles
                   Imperiall
                
                 ,
                 or
                 of
                 
                   Pillulae
                   sine
                   quibus
                
                 ,
                 or
                 of
                 
                   Pillulae
                   Cochiae
                
                 .
                 From
                 the
                 braine
                 they
                 flow
                 into
                 the
                 musckles
                 of
                 the
                 backe
                 ,
                 and
                 from
                 thence
                 they
                 descend
                 into
                 the
                 feet
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 termed
                 Podagra
                 ,
                 or
                 to
                 the
                 hucklebone
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 called
                 Sciatica
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 from
                 the
                 backe
                 into
                 the
                 hands
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 it
                 is
                 called
                 Chiragra
                 .
                 For
                 a
                 preseruatiue
                 against
                 the
                 plague
                 ,
                 let
                 them
                 now
                 and
                 then
                 take
                 
                   Pillulae
                   communes
                
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 aboue
                 said
                 Antimony
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 also
                 good
                 against
                 poison
                 drunke
                 :
                 whereby
                 they
                 may
                 note
                 ,
                 that
                 whatsoeuer
                 helpes
                 the
                 one
                 ,
                 helpes
                 the
                 other
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           
             The
             fift
             Section
             .
          
           
             
               Of
               infirmities
               and
               Death
               .
               CHAP.
               1.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 be
                 the
                 causes
                 of
                 hot
                 infirmities
                 .
              
               
                 THE
                 causes
                 of
                 hot
                 infirmities
                 be
                 sixe
                 :
                 The
                 first
                 are
                 ,
                 the
                 motions
                 of
                 the
                 minde
                 :
                 as
                 loue
                 ,
                 anger
                 ,
                 feare
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 .
                 The
                 second
                 ,
                 the
                 
                 motions
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 ;
                 as
                 ,
                 immoderate
                 carnall
                 copulation
                 ,
                 vehement
                 labours
                 ,
                 strayning
                 ,
                 hard
                 riding
                 .
                 The
                 third
                 ,
                 long
                 standing
                 ,
                 or
                 sitting
                 in
                 the
                 sunne
                 ,
                 or
                 by
                 the
                 fire
                 .
                 The
                 fourth
                 cause
                 of
                 infirmities
                 is
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 hote
                 things
                 ,
                 as
                 meates
                 ,
                 drinkes
                 ,
                 and
                 medicines
                 vntimely
                 vsed
                 .
                 The
                 fift
                 ,
                 closing
                 or
                 stopping
                 of
                 the
                 pores
                 ;
                 which
                 happeneth
                 by
                 immoderate
                 annointing
                 ,
                 bathing
                 ,
                 or
                 otherwise
                 thickning
                 the
                 skinne
                 :
                 so
                 that
                 the
                 holes
                 whereby
                 the
                 sweat
                 and
                 fumes
                 doe
                 passe
                 out
                 ,
                 be
                 stopped
                 .
                 The
                 sixt
                 ,
                 putrifaction
                 of
                 humours
                 by
                 distemperature
                 of
                 meats
                 and
                 long
                 watchings
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 be
                 the
                 causes
                 of
                 colde
                 infirmities
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 causes
                 of
                 cold
                 infirmities
                 be
                 eight
                 :
                 the
                 first
                 is
                 ,
                 the
                 cold
                 aire
                 :
                 the
                 second
                 is
                 ,
                 too
                 much
                 repletion
                 :
                 the
                 third
                 is
                 want
                 of
                 good
                 meate
                 :
                 the
                 fourth
                 is
                 ,
                 the
                 vse
                 of
                 cold
                 things
                 :
                 the
                 fift
                 is
                 ,
                 too
                 much
                 quietnesse
                 :
                 the
                 sixt
                 is
                 ,
                 opening
                 of
                 the
                 pores
                 :
                 the
                 seauenth
                 is
                 oppilation
                 in
                 the
                 veines
                 or
                 arteries
                 :
                 the
                 eight
                 is
                 vnseasonable
                 exercise
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 is
                 the
                 chiefest
                 cause
                 of
                 death
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 chiefest
                 and
                 vnauoidable
                 cause
                 of
                 our
                 deathes
                 is
                 the
                 contrarietie
                 of
                 the
                 Elements
                 ,
                 whereof
                 our
                 bodies
                 be
                 compounded
                 .
                 For
                 the
                 
                 qualitie
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 predominant
                 ouer
                 the
                 temperature
                 (
                 or
                 mediocritie
                 )
                 beginneth
                 to
                 impugne
                 and
                 fight
                 with
                 his
                 contrarie
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 more
                 weake
                 ,
                 vntill
                 it
                 see
                 the
                 vtter
                 dissolution
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Of
               the
               wicked
               motions
               of
               the
               Minde
               .
               CHAP.
               2.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 be
                 passions
                 of
                 the
                 minde
                 ?
              
               
                 THe
                 passions
                 ,
                 motions
                 ,
                 or
                 perturbations
                 of
                 the
                 soule
                 ,
                 which
                 otherwise
                 may
                 be
                 called
                 the
                 accidents
                 of
                 the
                 spirit
                 ,
                 are
                 strange
                 or
                 sodaine
                 insurrections
                 ,
                 and
                 rebellious
                 alterations
                 of
                 a
                 tumultuous
                 troubled
                 soule
                 ,
                 which
                 with
                 draw
                 it
                 from
                 the
                 light
                 of
                 reason
                 ,
                 to
                 cleaue
                 and
                 adhere
                 vnto
                 worldly
                 vanities
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVherein
                 consists
                 the
                 cure
                 of
                 the
                 spirituall
                 maladies
                 ?
              
               
                 As
                 the
                 cure
                 of
                 the
                 bodyes
                 griefes
                 consists
                 chiefely
                 in
                 the
                 knowledge
                 of
                 those
                 causes
                 which
                 engender
                 them
                 :
                 so
                 in
                 like
                 manner
                 for
                 the
                 cure
                 of
                 spirituall
                 maladies
                 ,
                 we
                 must
                 search
                 out
                 the
                 causes
                 from
                 whence
                 they
                 do
                 proceed
                 .
                 
                 And
                 as
                 the
                 causes
                 of
                 the
                 bodyes
                 griefes
                 are
                 two
                 ,
                 outward
                 and
                 inward
                 :
                 so
                 the
                 causes
                 of
                 spirituall
                 diseases
                 are
                 likewise
                 two
                 ,
                 outward
                 and
                 inward
                 .
                 The
                 outward
                 are
                 disgraces
                 ,
                 iniuries
                 ,
                 hatred
                 ,
                 miserie
                 ,
                 losse
                 of
                 honour
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 accidents
                 :
                 which
                 wee
                 call
                 outward
                 ;
                 because
                 they
                 arise
                 out
                 of
                 our
                 bodies
                 ,
                 able
                 to
                 stirre
                 vp
                 a
                 world
                 of
                 troubles
                 in
                 our
                 Spirits
                 .
                 The
                 inward
                 causes
                 of
                 spirituall
                 maladies
                 are
                 two
                 fold
                 :
                 the
                 one
                 corporall
                 ,
                 which
                 presently
                 at
                 the
                 first
                 bickering
                 doe
                 torment
                 the
                 body
                 :
                 the
                 other
                 meerely
                 spirituall
                 ,
                 rightly
                 termed
                 the
                 passions
                 of
                 the
                 soule
                 ,
                 which
                 torment
                 the
                 soule
                 it selfe
                 .
                 The
                 Physitian
                 therefore
                 that
                 will
                 cure
                 these
                 spirituall
                 sicknesses
                 ,
                 must
                 inuent
                 and
                 deuise
                 some
                 spirituall
                 pageant
                 to
                 fortifie
                 and
                 help
                 the
                 imaginatiue
                 facultie
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 corrupted
                 and
                 depraued
                 ;
                 yea
                 ,
                 hee
                 must
                 endeauour
                 to
                 deceiue
                 and
                 imprint
                 another
                 conceit
                 ,
                 whether
                 it
                 be
                 wise
                 or
                 foolish
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Patients
                 braine
                 ,
                 thereby
                 to
                 put
                 out
                 all
                 former
                 phantasies
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhich
                 are
                 the
                 chiefest
                 passions
                 of
                 the
                 soule
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 chiefest
                 spirituall
                 passions
                 are
                 voluptuous
                 Loue
                 ,
                 Iealousie
                 ,
                 Anger
                 ,
                 Choler
                 ,
                 Sorrow
                 ,
                 Feare
                 ,
                 and
                 Enuy.
                 
              
            
             
               
               
                 VVhat
                 is
                 Loue
                 ?
              
               
                 Loue
                 is
                 an
                 affection
                 ,
                 whereby
                 the
                 minde
                 lusteth
                 after
                 that
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 either
                 good
                 indeed
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 that
                 which
                 seemes
                 vnto
                 it
                 to
                 be
                 so
                 .
                 Among
                 other
                 causes
                 which
                 besot
                 men
                 towards
                 this
                 affection
                 of
                 Loue
                 ,
                 I
                 finde
                 idlenesse
                 to
                 be
                 one
                 of
                 the
                 principall
                 ,
                 which
                 being
                 taken
                 away
                 ,
                 the
                 force
                 of
                 loue
                 presently
                 decayeth
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 that
                 of
                 the
                 Poet
                 :
                 
                   Otia
                   si
                   tollas
                   ,
                   periere
                   Cupidinis
                   arcus
                   .
                
              
               
                 Next
                 ,
                 I
                 finde
                 that
                 mortification
                 of
                 the
                 flesh
                 weakeneth
                 nature
                 ,
                 and
                 consequently
                 subdueth
                 lust
                 .
                 Last
                 of
                 all
                 ,
                 time
                 and
                 age
                 doe
                 conquer
                 this
                 tyrannous
                 motion
                 :
                 but
                 indeede
                 the
                 Grace
                 of
                 God
                 ,
                 which
                 enlighteneth
                 the
                 eyes
                 of
                 our
                 vnderstanding
                 ,
                 to
                 regard
                 and
                 meditate
                 on
                 the
                 holy
                 Scripture
                 ,
                 is
                 the
                 most
                 soueraigne
                 and
                 comfortable
                 water
                 of
                 life
                 ,
                 which
                 cooleth
                 and
                 alayeth
                 the
                 fierie
                 stings
                 of
                 vnlawfull
                 loue
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 is
                 the
                 cause
                 of
                 loue
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 cause
                 of
                 loue
                 among
                 fooles
                 is
                 beauty
                 :
                 but
                 among
                 good
                 men
                 the
                 vertues
                 of
                 the
                 minde
                 are
                 the
                 principles
                 of
                 loue
                 for
                 they
                 are
                 euerlasting
                 :
                 and
                 when
                 all
                 other
                 things
                 ,
                 as
                 beauty
                 and
                 riches
                 ,
                 do
                 decay
                 ,
                 yet
                 they
                 become
                 
                 more
                 fresh
                 ,
                 more
                 sweet
                 ,
                 and
                 inestimable
                 then
                 before
                 .
                 Hence
                 it
                 is
                 ,
                 that
                 wee
                 are
                 counselled
                 to
                 chuse
                 wiues
                 ,
                 not
                 by
                 our
                 eyes
                 ,
                 but
                 by
                 our
                 eares
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 ,
                 not
                 by
                 prying
                 into
                 their
                 fairenesse
                 of
                 bodies
                 ,
                 but
                 by
                 inward
                 contemplating
                 of
                 their
                 honest
                 deedes
                 and
                 good
                 huswiueries
                 .
                 Ordinarily
                 the
                 most
                 beautifull
                 and
                 goodly
                 sort
                 of
                 men
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 as
                 are
                 decked
                 with
                 bodily
                 gifts
                 ,
                 are
                 most
                 deformed
                 and
                 vicious
                 in
                 their
                 soules
                 .
                 There
                 is
                 alwayes
                 a
                 great
                 combat
                 betwixt
                 chastitie
                 and
                 beautie
                 ,
                 so
                 that
                 wee
                 seldome
                 see
                 faire
                 women
                 to
                 be
                 honest
                 matrons
                 :
                 the
                 reason
                 is
                 ,
                 because
                 they
                 prefer
                 the
                 phantasticall
                 pleasures
                 of
                 their
                 bodily
                 senses
                 ,
                 before
                 the
                 true
                 and
                 right
                 noble
                 vertues
                 of
                 the
                 minde
                 :
                 such
                 (
                 as
                 the
                 Spanyard
                 saith
                 )
                 are
                 like
                 an
                 apple
                 which
                 is
                 faire
                 without
                 and
                 rotten
                 within
                 :
                 
                   La
                   muger
                   hermosa
                   es
                   como
                   la
                   mancana
                   ,
                   de
                   dentro
                   podrida
                   ,
                   y
                   de
                   fuera
                   galana
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 some
                 other
                 meanes
                 to
                 remedie
                 the
                 stinges
                 of
                 vnlawfull
                 loue
                 .
              
               
                 Forasmuch
                 as
                 examples
                 ,
                 are
                 the
                 most
                 familiar
                 meanes
                 to
                 edifie
                 and
                 arme
                 a
                 diseased
                 minde
                 against
                 the
                 assaults
                 of
                 inuisible
                 temptations
                 ,
                 I
                 will
                 lay
                 downe
                 some
                 ,
                 which
                 our
                 moderne
                 Writers
                 haue
                 recorded
                 for
                 true
                 .
                 The
                 
                 Passion
                 of
                 Loue
                 hath
                 beene
                 so
                 violent
                 and
                 vehement
                 in
                 some
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 wisest
                 ,
                 as
                 Salomon
                 ,
                 haue
                 turned
                 to
                 be
                 Idolaters
                 :
                 and
                 braue
                 Martialists
                 ,
                 as
                 Hercules
                 and
                 others
                 ,
                 haue
                 become
                 fooles
                 or
                 mad
                 men
                 .
                 Saint
                 
                   Augustine
                   Libr.
                   11.
                   
                   Trinitat
                   .
                   cap.
                
                 4.
                 rehearseth
                 a
                 story
                 of
                 one
                 in
                 his
                 time
                 ,
                 that
                 had
                 such
                 a
                 strong
                 and
                 strange
                 apprehension
                 of
                 his
                 mistresse
                 body
                 imprinted
                 in
                 his
                 braine
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 imagined
                 himselfe
                 really
                 present
                 with
                 her
                 ,
                 and
                 committing
                 of
                 carnall
                 copulation
                 with
                 her
                 so
                 sensibly
                 ,
                 that
                 his
                 very
                 seed
                 did
                 spend
                 in
                 the
                 said
                 imaginary
                 act
                 .
                 
                   vt
                   ei
                   se
                   quasi
                   misceri
                   sentiens
                   etiam
                   genitalibus
                   flueret
                   ,
                
                 that
                 I
                 may
                 vse
                 his
                 owne
                 words
                 .
              
               
                 For
                 the
                 cure
                 of
                 this
                 beastlike
                 and
                 slouenly
                 sinne
                 ,
                 I
                 will
                 content
                 my selfe
                 with
                 three
                 famous
                 examples
                 .
              
               
                 There
                 dwelt
                 in
                 Alexandria
                 a
                 dame
                 of
                 great
                 beautie
                 ,
                 and
                 of
                 greater
                 learning
                 ,
                 called
                 Hippatia
                 ,
                 which
                 publikely
                 read
                 vnto
                 Schollers
                 .
                 It
                 came
                 to
                 passe
                 ,
                 that
                 one
                 of
                 her
                 chiefest
                 Schollers
                 became
                 so
                 inamoured
                 of
                 her
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 ardent
                 desire
                 of
                 loue
                 compelled
                 him
                 to
                 discouer
                 vnto
                 her
                 his
                 passion
                 ,
                 entreating
                 her
                 to
                 pittie
                 his
                 languishing
                 state
                 .
                 Hippatia
                 a
                 very
                 wise
                 woman
                 ,
                 and
                 loath
                 to
                 cast
                 away
                 so
                 worthy
                 
                 a
                 Scholler
                 by
                 a
                 cruell
                 disdaine
                 ,
                 bethought
                 her selfe
                 of
                 this
                 subtill
                 and
                 sodaine
                 remedie
                 :
                 she
                 out
                 of
                 hand
                 prouided
                 her
                 of
                 a
                 filthy
                 ,
                 bloudy
                 ,
                 and
                 mattry
                 smock
                 :
                 and
                 after
                 shee
                 had
                 inuited
                 him
                 to
                 her
                 chamber
                 ,
                 fayning
                 her selfe
                 willing
                 to
                 giue
                 him
                 contentment
                 ,
                 shee
                 tooke
                 vp
                 her
                 peticote
                 ,
                 and
                 shewed
                 him
                 her
                 flowry
                 contagious
                 smocke
                 ,
                 speaking
                 vnto
                 him
                 after
                 this
                 manner
                 :
                 My
                 friend
                 ,
                 I
                 pray
                 thee
                 see
                 here
                 how
                 thy
                 iudgement
                 hath
                 beene
                 abused
                 ;
                 see
                 what
                 thing
                 thou
                 louest
                 so
                 precious
                 :
                 examine
                 more
                 straightly
                 ,
                 what
                 motiue
                 induced
                 thee
                 to
                 loue
                 such
                 filthy
                 trompery
                 ouer-cast
                 and
                 disguised
                 with
                 a
                 glozing
                 beautie
                 .
                 At
                 these
                 words
                 ,
                 the
                 young
                 man
                 began
                 to
                 be
                 ashamed
                 ,
                 to
                 repent
                 himselfe
                 ,
                 and
                 thenceforth
                 to
                 become
                 more
                 wise
                 and
                 sober
                 .
              
               
                 It
                 is
                 reported
                 of
                 that
                 great
                 Scholler
                 
                   Raimundus
                   Iullius
                
                 ,
                 that
                 falling
                 in
                 loue
                 with
                 a
                 faire
                 Gentlewoman
                 ,
                 he
                 pressed
                 her
                 very
                 earnestly
                 to
                 respect
                 him
                 .
                 Shee
                 to
                 dispatch
                 and
                 to
                 ease
                 his
                 passion
                 ,
                 concluded
                 to
                 lye
                 with
                 him
                 :
                 but
                 when
                 shee
                 came
                 ,
                 shee
                 presently
                 shewed
                 him
                 her
                 left
                 dugge
                 most
                 vgly
                 to
                 behold
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 a
                 canker
                 which
                 had
                 almost
                 rotted
                 it
                 .
                 At
                 which
                 hideous
                 sight
                 his
                 courage
                 sodainely
                 
                 quailed
                 ,
                 and
                 cooled
                 in
                 such
                 sort
                 ,
                 that
                 his
                 lustful
                 loue
                 was
                 conuerted
                 into
                 a
                 charitable
                 loue
                 to
                 study
                 for
                 some
                 extraordinary
                 Physicke
                 to
                 help
                 her
                 .
              
               
                 A
                 Lawyer
                 of
                 Tholouza
                 for
                 his
                 further
                 learning
                 hauing
                 trauailed
                 into
                 Italy
                 ,
                 was
                 at
                 length
                 insnared
                 with
                 loue
                 at
                 Venice
                 .
                 Whereupon
                 he
                 often
                 passed
                 by
                 the
                 doore
                 of
                 his
                 mistresses
                 house
                 ,
                 and
                 made
                 many
                 tokens
                 of
                 his
                 good
                 will
                 towards
                 her
                 .
                 Hee
                 attempted
                 by
                 the
                 assistance
                 of
                 Bawdes
                 to
                 corrupt
                 her
                 with
                 gifts
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 the
                 end
                 with
                 much
                 adoe
                 found
                 means
                 himselfe
                 to
                 impart
                 his
                 loue
                 vnto
                 her
                 .
                 The
                 Gentlewoman
                 with
                 bitter
                 threatning
                 repulsed
                 him
                 .
                 All
                 which
                 could
                 not
                 cause
                 him
                 to
                 desist
                 from
                 his
                 idle
                 exterprize
                 ,
                 so
                 vnbrideled
                 was
                 his
                 affection
                 ,
                 so
                 violent
                 his
                 motion
                 .
                 But
                 at
                 the
                 last
                 perceiuing
                 his
                 purpose
                 frustrate
                 and
                 hopelesse
                 ,
                 he
                 fell
                 into
                 a
                 frantick
                 humour
                 ,
                 &
                 one
                 morning
                 among
                 the
                 rest
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Church
                 of
                 
                   Saint
                   Marke
                
                 ,
                 casting
                 himselfe
                 through
                 the
                 Guard
                 ,
                 endeuoured
                 to
                 murther
                 the
                 Duke
                 ▪
                 but
                 this
                 amourous
                 foole
                 ,
                 as
                 God
                 would
                 haue
                 it
                 ,
                 was
                 resisted
                 and
                 led
                 into
                 prison
                 .
                 The
                 matter
                 was
                 examined
                 very
                 straightly
                 ,
                 and
                 at
                 the
                 last
                 it
                 was
                 found
                 that
                 Loue
                 had
                 made
                 him
                 mad
                 .
              
               
               
                 The
                 wise
                 Senate
                 vpon
                 graue
                 deliberation
                 dismissed
                 him
                 ,
                 committing
                 his
                 cure
                 to
                 that
                 famous
                 Physitian
                 Pracastorius
                 ,
                 who
                 at
                 that
                 time
                 dwelt
                 in
                 Venice
                 .
                 This
                 learned
                 man
                 vndertaking
                 his
                 charge
                 and
                 cure
                 ,
                 disguised
                 a
                 Courtizan
                 like
                 the
                 Gallants
                 mistresse
                 to
                 lye
                 with
                 him
                 a
                 whole
                 night
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 yeeld
                 him
                 his
                 amorous
                 contentment
                 ,
                 vntill
                 he
                 was
                 weary
                 .
                 Then
                 hee
                 caused
                 him
                 to
                 be
                 well
                 couered
                 with
                 clothes
                 ,
                 till
                 he
                 fell
                 into
                 a
                 sweat
                 .
                 His
                 phantasie
                 and
                 lust
                 being
                 thus
                 partly
                 pleasured
                 ,
                 hee
                 proceeded
                 to
                 other
                 remedies
                 ,
                 to
                 purge
                 him
                 of
                 his
                 melancholicke
                 humours
                 ,
                 so
                 that
                 at
                 length
                 he
                 restored
                 him
                 to
                 his
                 former
                 state
                 .
                 I
                 write
                 not
                 this
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 intent
                 it
                 should
                 serue
                 for
                 a
                 precedent
                 ,
                 (
                 the
                 same
                 being
                 diameter-wise
                 repugnant
                 to
                 our
                 Makers
                 Commandement
                 )
                 but
                 because
                 our
                 Physitians
                 should
                 counsell
                 the
                 youthfull
                 amorous
                 to
                 marry
                 ,
                 rather
                 then
                 to
                 burne
                 in
                 vnlawfull
                 desires
                 :
                 and
                 the
                 amorous
                 marryed
                 to
                 content
                 himselfe
                 with
                 the
                 wife
                 of
                 his
                 youth
                 ,
                 giuing
                 her
                 due
                 beneuolence
                 ,
                 and
                 satisfying
                 his
                 burning
                 lust
                 vpon
                 her
                 body
                 ,
                 whom
                 God
                 had
                 ioyned
                 with
                 him
                 for
                 that
                 purpose
                 :
                 for
                 surely
                 ,
                 by
                 this
                 carnall
                 copulation
                 the
                 vaporous
                 fumes
                 of
                 the
                 seede
                 are
                 taken
                 away
                 from
                 
                 the
                 Patient
                 ,
                 which
                 doe
                 infect
                 his
                 braine
                 ,
                 and
                 lead
                 him
                 into
                 melancholy
                 .
                 By
                 how
                 much
                 the
                 more
                 and
                 longer
                 they
                 continue
                 in
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 so
                 much
                 the
                 more
                 thoughts
                 doe
                 they
                 engender
                 ,
                 which
                 at
                 last
                 will
                 turne
                 to
                 folly
                 or
                 madnesse
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 Iealousie
                 ?
              
               
                 Iealousie
                 is
                 a
                 doubtfull
                 quandarie
                 of
                 the
                 minde
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 the
                 soule
                 suspects
                 a
                 corriuall
                 or
                 copartner
                 in
                 the
                 thing
                 beloued
                 .
                 Our
                 ignorance
                 in
                 discerning
                 spirits
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 discording
                 tunes
                 of
                 our
                 soules
                 affections
                 occasion
                 this
                 strange
                 breach
                 ,
                 or
                 suspicious
                 scruple
                 in
                 our
                 Consciences
                 .
                 Wherefore
                 yee
                 husbands
                 ,
                 beginne
                 betimes
                 to
                 admonish
                 your
                 Wiues
                 of
                 the
                 soules
                 saluation
                 .
                 Let
                 no
                 day
                 escape
                 without
                 prayers
                 and
                 thanksgiuing
                 vnto
                 the
                 Lord.
                 Ioyne
                 together
                 as
                 true
                 yoak-fellowes
                 in
                 Gods
                 seruice
                 ,
                 daily
                 prostrating
                 your selues
                 before
                 his
                 omniscient
                 presence
                 ,
                 least
                 Sathan
                 creepe
                 into
                 your
                 carelesse
                 hearts
                 ,
                 and
                 minister
                 iust
                 cause
                 of
                 Iealousie
                 vnto
                 you
                 .
                 If
                 the
                 head
                 gets
                 in
                 ,
                 the
                 whole
                 body
                 followes
                 .
                 If
                 the
                 head
                 be
                 well
                 ,
                 the
                 body
                 can
                 hardly
                 be
                 distempered
                 :
                 so
                 if
                 Husbands
                 doe
                 their
                 duties
                 towards
                 GOD
                 ,
                 their
                 Wiues
                 will
                 imitate
                 them
                 in
                 time
                 ,
                 and
                 
                 conforme
                 their
                 liues
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 square
                 of
                 vnitie
                 .
                 O
                 noble
                 vnitie
                 which
                 shapest
                 this
                 indiuiduall
                 vnion
                 betwixt
                 man
                 and
                 wife
                 ,
                 not
                 onely
                 in
                 their
                 bodies
                 constitutions
                 ,
                 but
                 in
                 their
                 soules
                 coniunctions
                 ,
                 firme
                 ,
                 stable
                 ,
                 neuer
                 to
                 be
                 remoued
                 :
                 Bone
                 of
                 my
                 bone
                 ,
                 flesh
                 of
                 my
                 flesh
                 :
                 
                   Tu
                   nostra
                   de
                   carne
                   caro
                   ,
                   de
                   sanguine
                   sanguis
                   ,
                   sumptaque
                   de
                   nostris
                   ossibus
                   ossa
                   geris
                   .
                
              
               
                 As
                 Adam
                 spake
                 to
                 Euah
                 .
                 Away
                 therefore
                 yee
                 iealous
                 Italists
                 with
                 your
                 golden
                 lockes
                 ,
                 with
                 your
                 artificiall
                 chaines
                 ,
                 with
                 your
                 straight
                 mewings
                 .
                 If
                 Pasip●ac
                 cannot
                 haue
                 the
                 company
                 of
                 a
                 man
                 ,
                 she
                 will
                 yeeld
                 her
                 body
                 to
                 a
                 wanton
                 Bull.
                 If
                 
                   Ariostoes
                   Queene
                
                 be
                 restrayned
                 one
                 way
                 ,
                 shee
                 will
                 satisfie
                 her
                 appetite
                 another
                 way
                 with
                 a
                 deformed
                 dwarfe
                 :
                 
                   Qui
                   era
                   tanto
                   dotto
                   ,
                   per
                   mettre
                   la
                   Regina
                   sotto
                   .
                
                 There
                 is
                 no
                 locke
                 ,
                 nor
                 chaine
                 comparable
                 vnto
                 the
                 feare
                 of
                 the
                 Lord
                 ,
                 whose
                 wrath
                 is
                 a
                 consuming
                 fire
                 .
                 The
                 very
                 thought
                 of
                 Hels
                 torments
                 terrifies
                 the
                 conscience
                 more
                 then
                 all
                 the
                 worldly
                 deuises
                 of
                 flesh
                 and
                 bloud
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 Anger
                 ?
              
               
                 Anger
                 is
                 a
                 vehement
                 affection
                 ,
                 because
                 it
                 sees
                 things
                 fal
                 out
                 contrary
                 &
                 crosselike
                 to
                 reason
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 Why
                 doe
                 some
                 looke
                 red
                 ,
                 and
                 others
                 pale
                 when
                 they
                 be
                 angry
                 ?
              
               
                 Some
                 when
                 they
                 are
                 angry
                 become
                 red
                 ,
                 because
                 their
                 bloud
                 ascendeth
                 vp
                 into
                 the
                 head
                 :
                 and
                 these
                 are
                 not
                 so
                 much
                 to
                 be
                 doubted
                 .
                 Others
                 wax
                 pale
                 when
                 they
                 are
                 angry
                 ,
                 because
                 the
                 bloud
                 is
                 retyred
                 vnto
                 the
                 heart
                 ;
                 whereby
                 they
                 become
                 full
                 of
                 heart
                 ,
                 &
                 very
                 dangerous
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 Choler
                 ?
              
               
                 Choler
                 is
                 a
                 fiery
                 passion
                 of
                 the
                 minde
                 ,
                 because
                 it
                 seeth
                 all
                 things
                 fall
                 out
                 contrary
                 to
                 reason
                 or
                 wit
                 :
                 there
                 are
                 two
                 sorts
                 of
                 Choler
                 abounding
                 in
                 euery
                 man
                 ;
                 the
                 one
                 open
                 ,
                 the
                 other
                 hidden
                 :
                 wherof
                 this
                 latter
                 is
                 more
                 dangerous
                 .
                 From
                 both
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 being
                 terrible
                 ebullitions
                 &
                 motions
                 of
                 the
                 spirit
                 ,
                 all
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 the
                 bloud
                 ,
                 and
                 humous
                 become
                 heated
                 and
                 chafed
                 :
                 insomuch
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 grow
                 to
                 be
                 sulphureous
                 ,
                 kindeling
                 of
                 fiery
                 feuers
                 ,
                 pleurisies
                 ,
                 gall
                 in
                 the
                 stomacke
                 ,
                 yealow
                 iaundises
                 ,
                 tumours
                 ,
                 Erisipelaes
                 ,
                 itch
                 ,
                 and
                 innumerable
                 other
                 maladies
                 ,
                 as
                 well
                 externall
                 as
                 internall
                 :
                 whose
                 chiefest
                 and
                 specifique
                 cure
                 consisteth
                 that
                 Christian
                 Vertue
                 Patience
                 :
                 as
                 for
                 other
                 Phisicke
                 to
                 coole
                 the
                 violence
                 thereof
                 I
                 leaue
                 to
                 greater
                 Clerkes
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 What
                 is
                 sorrow
                 ?
              
               
                 Sorrow
                 is
                 an
                 affection
                 of
                 the
                 mind
                 ,
                 whereby
                 it
                 is
                 oppressed
                 with
                 some
                 present
                 euill
                 ,
                 and
                 languisheth
                 by
                 little
                 and
                 little
                 ,
                 except
                 it
                 finde
                 some
                 hope
                 or
                 other
                 to
                 remedy
                 the
                 griefe
                 thereof
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 effect
                 of
                 Sorrow
                 ?
              
               
                 Sorrow
                 stifleth
                 vp
                 the
                 purer
                 faculties
                 of
                 the
                 soule
                 ,
                 causeth
                 a
                 man
                 to
                 fall
                 into
                 a
                 Consumption
                 and
                 to
                 be
                 weary
                 of
                 the
                 world
                 ,
                 yea
                 and
                 of
                 himselfe
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 many
                 kindes
                 of
                 Sorrowes
                 are
                 there
                 ?
              
               
                 There
                 be
                 two
                 kindes
                 of
                 sorrowes
                 :
                 the
                 one
                 deepe
                 and
                 heauy
                 ,
                 the
                 other
                 short
                 and
                 temporarie
                 .
                 The
                 former
                 is
                 properly
                 termed
                 Sorrow
                 ,
                 the
                 latter
                 Mourning
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 be
                 the
                 causes
                 of
                 both
                 these
                 kindes
                 ?
              
               
                 Their
                 causes
                 are
                 outward
                 and
                 inward
                 .
                 The
                 outward
                 are
                 grieuances
                 ,
                 which
                 happen
                 vpon
                 diuers
                 occasions
                 :
                 eyther
                 for
                 the
                 losse
                 ,
                 which
                 Husbands
                 receiue
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 their
                 Wiues
                 deaths
                 ;
                 or
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 some
                 deare
                 friends
                 death
                 ,
                 which
                 in
                 nature
                 wee
                 loue
                 extreamely
                 ;
                 or
                 else
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 the
                 shipwracke
                 or
                 discredit
                 of
                 our
                 name
                 ,
                 fame
                 ,
                 and
                 goods
                 .
                 To
                 these
                 outward
                 causes
                 I
                 adioyne
                 the
                 depraued
                 dyet
                 
                 of
                 the
                 melancholicke
                 ,
                 which
                 engender
                 melancholicke
                 humours
                 :
                 as
                 those
                 euill
                 weedes
                 and
                 seeds
                 ,
                 which
                 our
                 Farmers
                 gather
                 among
                 their
                 corne
                 ,
                 grinding
                 the
                 same
                 with
                 the
                 rest
                 ,
                 into
                 bread
                 or
                 malt
                 .
                 Out
                 of
                 these
                 corrupt
                 seeds
                 malignant
                 vapours
                 arise
                 vp
                 into
                 the
                 head
                 ,
                 which
                 intoxicate
                 the
                 braine
                 ,
                 whirling
                 about
                 the
                 imaginatiue
                 facultie
                 ,
                 straying
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 along
                 the
                 memorie
                 ,
                 and
                 eclipsing
                 the
                 light
                 of
                 the
                 vnderstanding
                 .
                 The
                 inward
                 causes
                 spring
                 from
                 melancholick
                 or
                 burnt
                 bloud
                 ,
                 contained
                 within
                 an
                 inflamed
                 braine
                 ,
                 and
                 there-hence
                 tainting
                 the
                 veines
                 and
                 whole
                 body
                 .
                 Of
                 this
                 blacke
                 and
                 enraged
                 bloud
                 ,
                 which
                 originally
                 proceeded
                 from
                 the
                 diuersities
                 of
                 vapours
                 or
                 exhalations
                 ,
                 there
                 grow
                 diuersities
                 or
                 diuers
                 sorts
                 of
                 Sorrowes
                 ,
                 which
                 diuersly
                 work
                 vpon
                 the
                 functions
                 of
                 the
                 imagination
                 .
              
               
                 For
                 if
                 it
                 be
                 true
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 soule
                 is
                 in
                 the
                 bloud
                 ,
                 and
                 dispersed
                 through
                 euery
                 part
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 ,
                 (
                 as
                 God
                 is
                 wholy
                 in
                 the
                 world
                 ,
                 and
                 wholy
                 in
                 euery
                 part
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 )
                 then
                 surely
                 must
                 it
                 follow
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 variety
                 of
                 the
                 bloud
                 doth
                 change
                 and
                 diuersifie
                 the
                 vnderstanding
                 ,
                 and
                 also
                 that
                 the
                 actes
                 of
                 the
                 vnderstanding
                 
                 soule
                 doth
                 change
                 the
                 humours
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 :
                 so
                 that
                 out
                 of
                 these
                 diuersities
                 of
                 tainted
                 humours
                 there
                 are
                 ingendred
                 strange
                 and
                 wandring
                 phantasies
                 ,
                 caused
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 such
                 blacke
                 bloud
                 ,
                 smoake
                 and
                 sweat
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 crept
                 into
                 the
                 humour
                 of
                 melancholy
                 .
              
               
                 Some
                 of
                 extreame
                 sorrow
                 haue
                 turned
                 mad
                 ,
                 famishing
                 themselues
                 to
                 death
                 :
                 some
                 imagined
                 themselues
                 to
                 be
                 Vrinals
                 of
                 glasse
                 ,
                 expecting
                 when
                 they
                 shold
                 be
                 broken
                 through
                 some
                 accident
                 :
                 some
                 thought
                 that
                 they
                 were
                 become
                 Owles
                 ,
                 and
                 therefore
                 feared
                 to
                 be
                 seene
                 abroad
                 in
                 the
                 day
                 time
                 .
                 Among
                 these
                 sorrowfull
                 sots
                 ,
                 I
                 cannot
                 but
                 remember
                 a
                 Gentleman
                 of
                 Venice
                 ,
                 with
                 whom
                 I
                 was
                 familiarly
                 acquainted
                 at
                 the
                 Citie
                 of
                 Noua-palma
                 in
                 Italie
                 ,
                 about
                 nine
                 yeares
                 past
                 .
                 This
                 Gentleman
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 crosses
                 ,
                 hauing
                 fallen
                 into
                 a
                 sorrowfull
                 discontentment
                 ,
                 began
                 to
                 scorne
                 all
                 of
                 his
                 rancke
                 ,
                 and
                 grinding
                 the
                 world
                 as
                 it
                 were
                 into
                 oatmeale
                 ,
                 would
                 eyther
                 be
                 
                   aut
                   Caesar
                   ,
                   aut
                   nihil
                
                 ,
                 eyther
                 a
                 Monarch
                 ,
                 or
                 a
                 Mole-catcher
                 .
                 And
                 to
                 this
                 end
                 he
                 studyed
                 by
                 what
                 meanes
                 hee
                 might
                 aspire
                 to
                 the
                 Empire
                 .
                 At
                 the
                 last
                 ,
                 hauing
                 wearied
                 his
                 braine
                 with
                 the
                 losse
                 of
                 many
                 a
                 nights
                 sleepe
                 ,
                 to
                 his
                 bodyes
                 
                 annoyance
                 ,
                 hee
                 imparted
                 his
                 mind
                 vnto
                 me
                 :
                 whereupon
                 ,
                 to
                 put
                 him
                 out
                 of
                 dumps
                 by
                 degrees
                 ,
                 I
                 aduised
                 him
                 to
                 leaue
                 off
                 his
                 solitary
                 walkes
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 betake
                 himselfe
                 to
                 reading
                 ,
                 or
                 to
                 some
                 outward
                 exercise
                 ,
                 thereby
                 to
                 banish
                 away
                 his
                 inward
                 thoughts
                 ,
                 or
                 rather
                 doating
                 Dreames
                 .
                 This
                 counsell
                 of
                 mine
                 ,
                 hee
                 accordingly
                 followed
                 for
                 a
                 time
                 :
                 but
                 at
                 length
                 he
                 fell
                 into
                 his
                 wonted
                 phantasies
                 ,
                 and
                 persisted
                 so
                 strongly
                 therein
                 ,
                 that
                 hee
                 wrote
                 very
                 learned
                 letters
                 and
                 pathetical
                 vnto
                 the
                 Electours
                 ,
                 for
                 his
                 aduancement
                 into
                 the
                 throne
                 Emperiall
                 ,
                 very
                 earnestly
                 soliciting
                 me
                 to
                 become
                 his
                 Agent
                 in
                 the
                 businesse
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 reason
                 that
                 men
                 imagine
                 such
                 impossible
                 and
                 vaine
                 things
                 ?
              
               
                 When
                 God
                 with-drawes
                 his
                 Spirit
                 from
                 the
                 sinfull
                 Sonnes
                 of
                 Adam
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 world
                 ,
                 the
                 flesh
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Diuell
                 glad
                 of
                 such
                 aduantage
                 and
                 opportunitie
                 ,
                 doe
                 mutually
                 conspire
                 against
                 them
                 ,
                 diuersly
                 seduce
                 their
                 brittle
                 thoughts
                 and
                 wils
                 .
                 Some
                 they
                 possesse
                 with
                 imaginations
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 course
                 of
                 the
                 liues
                 which
                 they
                 lead
                 :
                 Others
                 imagine
                 of
                 sorrow
                 &
                 discontentment
                 such
                 strange
                 matters
                 ,
                 that
                 not
                 onely
                 the
                 spirit
                 is
                 assayled
                 ,
                 as
                 I
                 haue
                 
                 written
                 ,
                 but
                 also
                 the
                 body
                 is
                 assaulted
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 becomes
                 vnprofitable
                 vnto
                 al
                 seemly
                 actions
                 .
                 And
                 that
                 so
                 violently
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 procures
                 and
                 prefers
                 Death
                 it selfe
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Now
                 since
                 you
                 haue
                 discoursed
                 of
                 naturall
                 and
                 Melancholicke
                 Sorrowes
                 ,
                 tell
                 mee
                 what
                 harme
                 hapneth
                 by
                 the
                 other
                 sorrow
                 ,
                 which
                 wee
                 terme
                 mourning
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 latter
                 kinde
                 of
                 sorrow
                 being
                 accidentall
                 ,
                 chanceth
                 to
                 our
                 conceit
                 by
                 Desteny
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 no
                 other
                 then
                 the
                 will
                 of
                 God
                 the
                 Father
                 ,
                 limitting
                 the
                 end
                 of
                 all
                 things
                 by
                 measure
                 ,
                 number
                 ,
                 and
                 waight
                 ,
                 not
                 blind-foldly
                 as
                 the
                 Poets
                 fained
                 of
                 Fortune
                 ,
                 but
                 necessarily
                 and
                 prouidently
                 .
                 Vpon
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 some
                 deare
                 &
                 neare
                 friend
                 ,
                 our
                 mindes
                 are
                 deeply
                 touched
                 ,
                 that
                 we
                 manifest
                 the
                 effects
                 therof
                 ,
                 in
                 our
                 very
                 outward
                 countenance
                 and
                 apparrel
                 ,
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 the
                 weaknesse
                 of
                 flesh
                 and
                 bloud
                 ,
                 which
                 can
                 in
                 no
                 wise
                 brooke
                 a
                 sodaine
                 or
                 violent
                 alteration
                 :
                 but
                 commonly
                 such
                 mourning
                 is
                 short
                 and
                 momentarie
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 that
                 Maxime
                 of
                 the
                 Philosophers
                 :
                 
                   nullum
                   violentum
                   est
                   perpetuum
                
                 .
                 No
                 violent
                 thing
                 can
                 last
                 long
                 :
                 which
                 likewise
                 may
                 be
                 confirmed
                 by
                 the
                 obseruation
                 of
                 our
                 outward
                 habits
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 Impletur
                 lachrimis
                 ,
                 egrediturque
                 dolor
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 more
                 teares
                 wee
                 shed
                 ,
                 the
                 lesse
                 is
                 our
                 sorrow
                 ,
                 for
                 teares
                 cause
                 wearinesse
                 ,
                 wearinesse
                 procures
                 sleepe
                 ,
                 and
                 sleepe
                 asswageth
                 sorrow
                 ;
                 new
                 obiects
                 also
                 comming
                 in
                 by
                 processe
                 of
                 time
                 to
                 affect
                 the
                 Patient
                 .
                 Neuerthelesse
                 for
                 all
                 this
                 ,
                 
                   neque
                   mihi
                   cornea
                   fabra
                   est
                
                 ,
                 my
                 heart
                 is
                 not
                 so
                 rigorous
                 and
                 hard
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 condemne
                 vtterly
                 our
                 mourning
                 vse
                 ,
                 when
                 we
                 haue
                 lost
                 our
                 dearest
                 friends
                 :
                 nay
                 ,
                 I
                 commend
                 it
                 highly
                 ,
                 so
                 that
                 it
                 be
                 accomplished
                 with
                 moderation
                 ,
                 and
                 accompanied
                 with
                 Hymnes
                 and
                 Psalmes
                 to
                 GOD
                 for
                 the
                 honour
                 of
                 his
                 mercy
                 ,
                 with
                 charitable
                 Epitaphes
                 for
                 the
                 memorial●
                 of
                 the
                 deceaseds
                 honesty
                 ,
                 and
                 with
                 cheereful
                 almes-giuing
                 for
                 a
                 monument
                 of
                 Christian
                 charitie
                 .
                 But
                 what
                 is
                 the
                 reason
                 ,
                 that
                 some
                 were
                 black
                 ,
                 and
                 some
                 white
                 at
                 the
                 funerall
                 of
                 their
                 friends
                 ?
                 The
                 morall
                 is
                 this
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 blacke
                 betokeneth
                 the
                 corruption
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 .
                 The
                 white
                 signifieth
                 the
                 soules
                 freedome
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 bodies
                 prison
                 .
                 Happy
                 is
                 that
                 soule
                 ,
                 which
                 can
                 contemne
                 the
                 frailety
                 of
                 the
                 flesh
                 ,
                 loathing
                 to
                 deface
                 the
                 handie-worke
                 of
                 God.
                 Happy
                 I
                 say
                 ,
                 and
                 fraught
                 with
                 true
                 magnanimitie
                 is
                 
                 that
                 spirit
                 ,
                 which
                 can
                 make
                 profitable
                 vse
                 of
                 his
                 visitation
                 ,
                 not
                 grudging
                 ,
                 not
                 murmuring
                 ,
                 not
                 mourning
                 out
                 of
                 measure
                 .
                 These
                 restoratiues
                 I
                 ministred
                 to
                 my selfe
                 at
                 the
                 death
                 of
                 my
                 deare
                 Wife
                 ,
                 who
                 of
                 late
                 was
                 sodainly
                 stricken
                 dead
                 with
                 lightning
                 ,
                 as
                 I
                 haue
                 shewed
                 at
                 large
                 in
                 my
                 worke
                 ,
                 called
                 the
                 
                   Spirit
                   of
                   Detraction
                   coniured
                   and
                   conuicted
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   And
                   because
                   I
                   am
                   fallen
                   at
                   this
                   present
                   into
                   a
                   mourning
                   veine
                   ,
                   I
                   will
                   reiterate
                   my
                   Christian
                   farewell
                   ,
                   wishing
                   that
                   the
                   same
                   might
                   become
                   a
                   precedent
                   to
                   an
                   afflicted
                   spirit
                   in
                   the
                   like
                   case
                   .
                
                 Adieu
                 thou
                 Seruant
                 of
                 Christ
                 ,
                 thou
                 Patterne
                 of
                 Pietie
                 .
                 Adieu
                 thou
                 Map
                 of
                 Gods
                 miracles
                 .
                 Adieu
                 my
                 Ioy
                 ,
                 my
                 Loue
                 ,
                 my
                 Comfort
                 .
                 Adieu
                 ,
                 and
                 rest
                 thee
                 hence-forth
                 among
                 the
                 Heauenly
                 Roses
                 :
                 rest
                 in
                 peace
                 for
                 euer
                 free
                 from
                 the
                 thornes
                 of
                 malice
                 .
                 Adieu
                 againe
                 and
                 againe
                 ,
                 Adieu
                 deare
                 wife
                 for
                 a
                 while
                 ,
                 and
                 welcome
                 sweet
                 Iesus
                 my
                 Sauiour
                 for
                 euer
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 Feare
                 ?
              
               
                 Feare
                 is
                 a
                 griefe
                 which
                 the
                 minde
                 conceiueth
                 of
                 some
                 euill
                 that
                 may
                 chance
                 vnto
                 it
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Why
                 doe
                 fearefull
                 men
                 looke
                 pale
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 reason
                 why
                 fearefull
                 men
                 looke
                 pale
                 
                 and
                 wanne
                 ,
                 is
                 ,
                 because
                 nature
                 draweth
                 away
                 that
                 heat
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 in
                 the
                 face
                 and
                 outward
                 parts
                 ,
                 to
                 relieue
                 and
                 comfort
                 the
                 heart
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 welnigh
                 stifled
                 and
                 stopped
                 vp
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 many
                 sorts
                 of
                 fearefull
                 persons
                 are
                 there
                 ?
              
               
                 There
                 be
                 two
                 sorts
                 of
                 fearefull
                 persons
                 ;
                 the
                 one
                 Naturally
                 fearefull
                 ,
                 the
                 other
                 Accidentally
                 fearefull
                 .
                 Among
                 those
                 ,
                 which
                 are
                 naturally
                 fearefull
                 I
                 range
                 children
                 ,
                 who
                 are
                 subiect
                 to
                 this
                 passion
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 the
                 sodaine
                 commotion
                 of
                 the
                 humours
                 ,
                 and
                 of
                 the
                 bloud
                 descending
                 into
                 the
                 sensitiue
                 organs
                 ,
                 be-dazeling
                 their
                 sights
                 with
                 a
                 false
                 suffusion
                 .
                 Likewise
                 I
                 place
                 aged
                 people
                 in
                 the
                 number
                 of
                 the
                 most
                 naturally
                 fearefull
                 ,
                 which
                 by
                 the
                 meanes
                 of
                 their
                 ouer-spent
                 naturall
                 moisture
                 and
                 wasted
                 braines
                 doe
                 againe
                 play
                 the
                 babies
                 ,
                 and
                 as
                 the
                 Latinists
                 say
                 ,
                 repuerascunt
                 ,
                 and
                 as
                 the
                 Greekes
                 
                   〈◊〉
                   〈◊〉
                   〈◊〉
                   〈◊〉
                   〈◊〉
                
                 .
                 Thirdly
                 ,
                 I
                 account
                 Women
                 by
                 nature
                 fearefull
                 ,
                 whose
                 sexe
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 weaker
                 vessels
                 ,
                 is
                 much
                 defectiue
                 and
                 impotent
                 ,
                 in
                 courage
                 euer
                 doubtfull
                 and
                 distrustfull
                 almost
                 of
                 their
                 owne
                 shadowes
                 .
                 Fourthly
                 ,
                 superstitious
                 persons
                 ,
                 as
                 Papists
                 ,
                 who
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 their
                 naturall
                 fragilitie
                 ,
                 doe
                 
                 forge
                 a
                 thousand
                 phantasies
                 in
                 their
                 braines
                 .
                 To
                 these
                 I
                 adde
                 the
                 melancholicke
                 ,
                 as
                 a
                 kinde
                 of
                 humourous
                 darke
                 spirits
                 ,
                 which
                 because
                 they
                 shoot
                 inwardly
                 ,
                 abhorring
                 outward
                 obiects
                 ,
                 doe
                 feare
                 the
                 very
                 noise
                 of
                 reeds
                 and
                 fall
                 of
                 leaues
                 :
              
               
                 Now
                 it
                 is
                 time
                 that
                 I
                 discourse
                 somewhat
                 of
                 that
                 feare
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 Accidentall
                 ,
                 no
                 lesse
                 penetrating
                 into
                 the
                 mindes
                 of
                 men
                 ,
                 then
                 that
                 which
                 is
                 Naturall
                 ,
                 and
                 chiefly
                 ,
                 when
                 God
                 doth
                 manifestly
                 cooperate
                 and
                 worke
                 together
                 with
                 it
                 ;
                 whereof
                 no
                 mortall
                 man
                 can
                 well
                 declare
                 the
                 solide
                 and
                 true
                 cause
                 .
                 The
                 first
                 Accidentall
                 feare
                 is
                 that
                 ,
                 which
                 befalles
                 to
                 multitudes
                 at
                 once
                 ,
                 yea
                 euen
                 to
                 a
                 whole
                 campe
                 of
                 hardic
                 souldiours
                 :
                 which
                 kinde
                 of
                 feare
                 is
                 termed
                 Panick
                 ,
                 etymologized
                 of
                 Pan
                 ,
                 because
                 he
                 being
                 Bacchus
                 his
                 Lieutenant
                 in
                 the
                 Indian
                 war
                 ,
                 with
                 Art
                 and
                 politick
                 stratagems
                 ,
                 almost
                 beyond
                 wit
                 surprized
                 them
                 with
                 great
                 feare
                 and
                 wonder
                 .
                 Secondly
                 ,
                 malefactours
                 terrified
                 with
                 the
                 guilt
                 of
                 their
                 euill
                 consciences
                 ,
                 doe
                 imagine
                 a
                 world
                 of
                 feares
                 .
                 And
                 no
                 meruaile
                 ,
                 seeing
                 that
                 all
                 creatures
                 serue
                 to
                 reuenge
                 sinne
                 committed
                 against
                 the
                 Creator
                 .
                 
                   Offenso
                   Creatore
                   ,
                   offenditur
                   nobiscum
                   omnis
                   creatura
                   .
                
                 Somtimes
                 
                 this
                 Accidentall
                 feare
                 proceedes
                 of
                 sicknesse
                 ,
                 sometimes
                 it
                 comes
                 by
                 a
                 false
                 suggestion
                 or
                 alarum
                 ,
                 as
                 that
                 feare
                 wherewith
                 a
                 Gentleman
                 of
                 Padua
                 was
                 possessed
                 ,
                 when
                 his
                 youthfull
                 haire
                 in
                 one
                 night
                 conuerted
                 into
                 gray
                 and
                 hoarie
                 ,
                 onely
                 by
                 a
                 false
                 report
                 ,
                 that
                 hee
                 should
                 be
                 put
                 to
                 death
                 the
                 next
                 day
                 after
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 Enuie
                 ?
              
               
                 Enuie
                 is
                 a
                 griefe
                 arising
                 of
                 other
                 mens
                 felicitie
                 .
                 It
                 maketh
                 a
                 man
                 to
                 looke
                 leane
                 ,
                 swart
                 ,
                 hollow
                 eyed
                 ,
                 and
                 sickly
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Doe
                 these
                 affections
                 hurt
                 the
                 soule
                 ,
                 as
                 well
                 as
                 the
                 body
                 ?
              
               
                 Yea
                 doubtlesse
                 :
                 For
                 if
                 the
                 body
                 be
                 replenished
                 with
                 these
                 diseases
                 ,
                 the
                 soule
                 cannot
                 be
                 whole
                 ,
                 nor
                 sound
                 .
                 And
                 euen
                 as
                 vices
                 cause
                 disorders
                 and
                 diseases
                 both
                 in
                 the
                 body
                 and
                 soule
                 :
                 so
                 likewise
                 they
                 cause
                 the
                 one
                 to
                 destroy
                 the
                 other
                 ,
                 whereas
                 there
                 should
                 be
                 an
                 vnitie
                 and
                 harmony
                 ,
                 not
                 onely
                 of
                 the
                 corporall
                 qualities
                 among
                 themselues
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 of
                 the
                 spirituall
                 among
                 themselues
                 ,
                 but
                 also
                 of
                 their
                 ioint
                 qualities
                 one
                 with
                 another
                 .
                 And
                 no
                 meruaile
                 ;
                 seeing
                 that
                 God
                 hath
                 sowed
                 and
                 planted
                 the
                 seeds
                 and
                 sparks
                 of
                 affections
                 (
                 to
                 
                 moue
                 vs
                 )
                 not
                 onely
                 into
                 our
                 soules
                 ,
                 but
                 also
                 into
                 our
                 bodies
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 doe
                 the
                 temperature
                 of
                 the
                 bodily
                 affections
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 soules
                 affections
                 agree
                 together
                 ?
              
               
                 There
                 is
                 great
                 concord
                 betwixt
                 the
                 bodies
                 qualities
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 soules
                 affections
                 :
                 insomuch
                 that
                 as
                 our
                 bodies
                 are
                 compacted
                 of
                 the
                 elemental
                 qualities
                 ,
                 namely
                 ,
                 of
                 moysture
                 &
                 drinesse
                 ,
                 heat
                 &
                 cold
                 :
                 So
                 among
                 the
                 soules
                 affections
                 are
                 some
                 moist
                 ,
                 some
                 dry
                 ,
                 some
                 hot
                 ,
                 &
                 some
                 are
                 cold
                 .
                 This
                 we
                 might
                 see
                 by
                 instance
                 made
                 .
                 The
                 affection
                 of
                 mirth
                 is
                 hot
                 &
                 moist
                 ,
                 whereas
                 sorrow
                 is
                 cold
                 and
                 dry
                 .
                 The
                 one
                 is
                 proper
                 to
                 young
                 men
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 other
                 to
                 olde
                 men
                 ,
                 who
                 are
                 cold
                 and
                 dry
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Why
                 is
                 there
                 so
                 great
                 a
                 diuersitie
                 among
                 men
                 ?
              
               
                 There
                 be
                 diuers
                 reasons
                 alledged
                 of
                 this
                 by
                 men
                 of
                 diuers
                 professions
                 .
                 First
                 ,
                 the
                 Diuines
                 say
                 ,
                 that
                 originall
                 sinne
                 and
                 temptation
                 of
                 wicked
                 spirits
                 ,
                 make
                 men
                 vicious
                 :
                 faith
                 and
                 grace
                 make
                 them
                 righteous
                 and
                 holy
                 :
                 Politicians
                 and
                 Statesmen
                 holde
                 ,
                 that
                 bad
                 company
                 and
                 ill
                 education
                 ,
                 cause
                 men
                 to
                 be
                 ill
                 disposed
                 :
                 the
                 Astronomer
                 hee
                 saith
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 which
                 are
                 borne
                 vnder
                 Iupiter
                 shall
                 be
                 wise
                 and
                 fortunate
                 ,
                 vnder
                 Mars
                 souldiers
                 ,
                 
                 vnder
                 Venus
                 adulterers
                 ,
                 vnder
                 Mercury
                 ,
                 Merchants
                 ,
                 or
                 very
                 couetous
                 ,
                 vnder
                 Taurus
                 industrious
                 ,
                 vnder
                 Libra
                 iust
                 men
                 ,
                 vnder
                 Aries
                 wise
                 Counsellors
                 ,
                 vnder
                 Aquarius
                 fishers
                 .
                 S.
                 Augustine
                 on
                 the
                 63.
                 
                 Psalme
                 ,
                 tels
                 of
                 a
                 Mathematician
                 ,
                 who
                 said
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 was
                 not
                 a
                 mans
                 owne
                 will
                 ,
                 which
                 made
                 a
                 leacher
                 ,
                 but
                 Venus
                 :
                 a
                 murtherer
                 ,
                 Mars
                 :
                 not
                 his
                 owne
                 proper
                 will
                 made
                 him
                 iust
                 ,
                 but
                 Iupiter
                 .
                 The
                 naturall
                 Philosopher
                 auerreth
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 who
                 excell
                 in
                 imagination
                 ,
                 are
                 fit
                 to
                 be
                 Linguists
                 ,
                 Artizans
                 ,
                 Poets
                 ,
                 and
                 Painters
                 :
                 the
                 meanes
                 to
                 descry
                 ,
                 whether
                 they
                 be
                 imaginatiue
                 or
                 no
                 ,
                 is
                 thus
                 :
                 if
                 he
                 be
                 well
                 conceited
                 of
                 himselfe
                 ,
                 if
                 hee
                 loues
                 to
                 goe
                 richly
                 attired
                 ,
                 and
                 oftentimes
                 looketh
                 in
                 a
                 looking
                 glasse
                 ,
                 if
                 hee
                 playes
                 well
                 at
                 Chesse
                 ,
                 Cards
                 ,
                 and
                 Dice
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                 They
                 that
                 excell
                 in
                 vnderstanding
                 are
                 fit
                 to
                 be
                 Iudges
                 :
                 they
                 who
                 haue
                 the
                 faculty
                 of
                 memorie
                 ,
                 wil
                 proue
                 good
                 Atturnies
                 ,
                 and
                 practicioners
                 in
                 Law
                 and
                 Physick
                 .
                 Physitians
                 hold
                 ,
                 that
                 men
                 be
                 diuersly
                 affected
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 diet
                 which
                 they
                 vse
                 ,
                 as
                 Venison
                 ,
                 Conies
                 ,
                 and
                 Hares-flesh
                 ,
                 make
                 men
                 melancholick
                 ,
                 and
                 consequently
                 enuious
                 and
                 froward
                 :
                 those
                 meates
                 which
                 ingender
                 good
                 bloud
                 ,
                 make
                 men
                 of
                 a
                 sanguine
                 
                 complexion
                 and
                 free
                 hearted
                 .
                 Excesse
                 of
                 meat
                 make
                 men
                 riotous
                 and
                 drunkards
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Of
               the
               Age
               of
               Man.
               CHAP.
               3.
               
            
             
               
                 Into
                 how
                 many
                 ages
                 is
                 mans
                 life
                 diuided
                 ?
              
               
                 MAns
                 life
                 by
                 the
                 computation
                 of
                 Astrologers
                 ,
                 is
                 diuided
                 into
                 seauen
                 ages
                 :
                 ouer
                 euery
                 one
                 of
                 which
                 ,
                 one
                 of
                 the
                 seauen
                 planets
                 is
                 predominant
                 .
                 The
                 first
                 age
                 is
                 called
                 infancie
                 ,
                 which
                 continueth
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 seauen
                 yeares
                 .
                 And
                 then
                 the
                 Moone
                 raigneth
                 ,
                 as
                 appeareth
                 by
                 the
                 moyst
                 constitutions
                 of
                 children
                 ,
                 agreeing
                 well
                 with
                 the
                 influence
                 of
                 that
                 planet
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 second
                 age
                 named
                 childhood
                 ,
                 lasteth
                 seauen
                 yeares
                 more
                 ,
                 and
                 endeth
                 in
                 the
                 fourteenth
                 of
                 our
                 life
                 .
                 Ouer
                 this
                 age
                 ,
                 Mercurie
                 (
                 which
                 is
                 the
                 second
                 sphere
                 )
                 ruleth
                 ;
                 for
                 then
                 children
                 are
                 vnconstant
                 ,
                 tractable
                 ,
                 and
                 soone
                 enclined
                 to
                 learne
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 third
                 age
                 endureth
                 eight
                 yeares
                 ,
                 and
                 
                 is
                 termed
                 the
                 strippling
                 age
                 :
                 It
                 beginneth
                 at
                 the
                 fourteenth
                 yeare
                 ,
                 and
                 continueth
                 vntill
                 the
                 end
                 of
                 the
                 two
                 and
                 twentieth
                 .
                 During
                 which
                 time
                 ,
                 gouerneth
                 the
                 planet
                 Venus
                 :
                 For
                 then
                 we
                 are
                 prone
                 to
                 prodigality
                 ,
                 gluttonie
                 ,
                 drunkennes
                 ,
                 lechery
                 ,
                 &
                 sundry
                 kinds
                 of
                 vices
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 fourth
                 age
                 contayneth
                 twelue
                 yeares
                 ,
                 till
                 a
                 man
                 be
                 foure
                 and
                 thirtie
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 is
                 he
                 named
                 a
                 young
                 man.
                 Of
                 this
                 age
                 the
                 Sunne
                 is
                 chiefe
                 Lord.
                 Now
                 a
                 man
                 is
                 wittie
                 ,
                 well
                 aduised
                 ,
                 magnanimous
                 ,
                 and
                 come
                 to
                 know
                 himselfe
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 fift
                 age
                 is
                 called
                 mans
                 age
                 ,
                 and
                 hath
                 sixteene
                 yeares
                 for
                 the
                 continuance
                 thereof
                 ,
                 subiect
                 to
                 Mars
                 ;
                 for
                 now
                 a
                 man
                 is
                 cholerick
                 and
                 couetous
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 sixt
                 age
                 hath
                 twelue
                 yeares
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 ,
                 from
                 fiftie
                 till
                 threescore
                 and
                 two
                 .
                 This
                 age
                 is
                 termed
                 (
                 although
                 improperly
                 )
                 olde
                 age
                 :
                 of
                 which
                 Iupiter
                 is
                 master
                 ,
                 a
                 planet
                 significant
                 of
                 equity
                 ,
                 temperance
                 and
                 religion
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 seauenth
                 and
                 last
                 (
                 by
                 order
                 )
                 of
                 these
                 ages
                 continueth
                 full
                 18.
                 yeares
                 ,
                 ending
                 at
                 fourscore
                 ,
                 to
                 which
                 few
                 attaine
                 .
                 This
                 age
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 meanes
                 of
                 that
                 planet
                 Saturne
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 melancholick
                 &
                 most
                 slow
                 of
                 all
                 other
                 ,
                 causeth
                 
                 man
                 to
                 be
                 drooping
                 ,
                 decrepit
                 ,
                 froward
                 ,
                 cold
                 ,
                 and
                 melancholick
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Why
                 did
                 men
                 liue
                 longer
                 before
                 the
                 floud
                 ,
                 then
                 they
                 doe
                 now
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 principall
                 reason
                 ,
                 why
                 men
                 in
                 those
                 dayes
                 liued
                 longer
                 then
                 we
                 do
                 ,
                 is
                 ,
                 because
                 they
                 had
                 not
                 then
                 any
                 of
                 the
                 causes
                 ,
                 which
                 ingender
                 in
                 vs
                 so
                 many
                 maladies
                 ,
                 whence
                 consequently
                 ensueth
                 death
                 .
                 Their
                 liues
                 were
                 vpholden
                 by
                 the
                 course
                 of
                 the
                 heauens
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 qualities
                 of
                 the
                 planets
                 &
                 stars
                 ,
                 being
                 at
                 that
                 time
                 farre
                 more
                 glorious
                 and
                 gracious
                 then
                 now
                 .
                 There
                 were
                 not
                 so
                 many
                 meteors
                 ,
                 comets
                 ,
                 and
                 ecclipses
                 past
                 ,
                 from
                 whence
                 now
                 diuers
                 &
                 innumerable
                 circumuolutions
                 proceed
                 .
              
               
                 We
                 must
                 also
                 vnderstand
                 ,
                 that
                 our
                 first
                 Parents
                 were
                 created
                 of
                 God
                 himselfe
                 without
                 any
                 other
                 instrumentall
                 meanes
                 ,
                 And
                 againe
                 ,
                 the
                 earth
                 in
                 those
                 dayes
                 was
                 of
                 greater
                 efficacie
                 to
                 bring
                 foorth
                 necessaries
                 for
                 mans
                 vse
                 ,
                 then
                 it
                 is
                 in
                 this
                 crooked
                 and
                 outworne
                 age
                 .
                 The
                 soyle
                 was
                 then
                 gay
                 ,
                 trim
                 ,
                 and
                 fresh
                 :
                 whereas
                 now
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 the
                 inundation
                 (
                 which
                 tooke
                 away
                 the
                 fatnesse
                 thereof
                 )
                 it
                 is
                 barren
                 ,
                 saltish
                 ,
                 and
                 vnsauorie
                 .
              
               
                 To
                 conclude
                 ,
                 they
                 knew
                 the
                 hidden
                 vertues
                 of
                 hearbs
                 and
                 stones
                 ,
                 vsing
                 great
                 continence
                 
                 in
                 their
                 dyets
                 and
                 behauiours
                 .
                 They
                 were
                 ignorant
                 of
                 our
                 delicate
                 inuentions
                 and
                 multiplied
                 compounds
                 .
                 They
                 knew
                 not
                 our
                 dainty
                 cates
                 ,
                 our
                 marchpanes
                 ,
                 nor
                 our
                 superfluous
                 slibber
                 sauces
                 .
                 They
                 were
                 no
                 quaffers
                 of
                 wine
                 or
                 Ale
                 ,
                 nor
                 were
                 they
                 troubled
                 with
                 so
                 many
                 cares
                 ,
                 and
                 vaine
                 glorious
                 pompes
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Tell
                 me
                 the
                 certaine
                 time
                 ,
                 wherein
                 man
                 must
                 of
                 necessitie
                 die
                 ?
              
               
                 To
                 die
                 once
                 ,
                 is
                 a
                 common
                 thing
                 to
                 al
                 men
                 .
                 For
                 that
                 was
                 ordained
                 as
                 a
                 punishment
                 of
                 God
                 for
                 our
                 fore-parents
                 ,
                 when
                 they
                 transgressed
                 his
                 commandement
                 ,
                 with
                 longing
                 and
                 lustfull
                 thoughts
                 touching
                 the
                 fruit
                 in
                 Paradise
                 :
                 but
                 to
                 tel
                 how
                 ,
                 &
                 at
                 what
                 time
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 a
                 secresie
                 neuer
                 disclosed
                 to
                 any
                 creature
                 .
                 Such
                 as
                 the
                 mans
                 life
                 is
                 ,
                 such
                 is
                 his
                 death
                 .
                 A
                 Righteous
                 man
                 dieth
                 righteously
                 .
                 But
                 a
                 wicked
                 man
                 hath
                 a
                 wicked
                 end
                 dying
                 without
                 repentance
                 .
                 Death
                 is
                 a
                 so
                 daine
                 and
                 a
                 sullen
                 guest
                 ,
                 neuer
                 thought
                 on
                 ,
                 before
                 hee
                 apprehendeth
                 vs
                 as
                 his
                 slaues
                 .
                 When
                 we
                 think
                 our selues
                 safely
                 mounted
                 on
                 the
                 pinacle
                 of
                 worldly
                 felicity
                 ,
                 he
                 vnawares
                 suppresseth
                 vs
                 rudely
                 ,
                 and
                 smiteth
                 vs
                 deadly
                 .
              
               
                 For
                 which
                 consideration
                 ,
                 O
                 mortall
                 men
                 ,
                 lead
                 your
                 liues
                 vprightly
                 ,
                 hearken
                 not
                 vnto
                 the
                 counsels
                 of
                 the
                 vngodly
                 ,
                 nor
                 like
                 greedie
                 
                 Cormoraunts
                 snatch
                 vp
                 other
                 mens
                 rights
                 .
                 Rather
                 know
                 your selues
                 contentedly
                 :
                 which
                 done
                 ,
                 be
                 vigilant
                 ,
                 well
                 armed
                 in
                 Christ
                 Iesus
                 ,
                 and
                 alwaies
                 meditating
                 on
                 your
                 deaths
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhich
                 be
                 the
                 most
                 dangerous
                 yeares
                 in
                 mans
                 life
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 auncient
                 Sages
                 ,
                 by
                 curious
                 notes
                 haue
                 found
                 out
                 ,
                 that
                 certaine
                 yeares
                 in
                 mans
                 life
                 be
                 very
                 perillous
                 .
                 These
                 they
                 name
                 climactericall
                 or
                 stayrie
                 yeares
                 ,
                 for
                 then
                 they
                 saw
                 great
                 alterations
                 .
                 Now
                 a
                 climactericall
                 yeare
                 is
                 euery
                 seauenth
                 yeare
                 ;
                 The
                 reason
                 is
                 ,
                 because
                 then
                 the
                 course
                 of
                 the
                 planets
                 returne
                 to
                 Saturne
                 ,
                 who
                 most
                 commonly
                 is
                 cruell
                 and
                 noysome
                 vnto
                 vs.
                 And
                 euen
                 as
                 the
                 Moone
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 the
                 next
                 planet
                 vnto
                 vs
                 ,
                 and
                 swiftest
                 of
                 course
                 ,
                 passeth
                 almost
                 euery
                 seauenth
                 day
                 into
                 the
                 contrary
                 signe
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 qualitie
                 ,
                 from
                 whence
                 she
                 came
                 forth
                 ,
                 and
                 there-hence
                 bringeth
                 the
                 criticall
                 daies
                 :
                 so
                 Saturne
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 the
                 planet
                 furthest
                 from
                 vs
                 and
                 slowest
                 of
                 course
                 (
                 for
                 hee
                 resteth
                 in
                 one
                 signe
                 so
                 many
                 yeares
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 Moone
                 doth
                 dayes
                 )
                 bringeth
                 these
                 climactericall
                 yeares
                 ,
                 and
                 causeth
                 sundry
                 mutations
                 to
                 follow
                 .
                 Hence
                 is
                 it
                 ,
                 that
                 in
                 the
                 seauenth
                 yeare
                 children
                 doe
                 cast
                 and
                 renew
                 
                 their
                 teeth
                 .
                 In
                 the
                 fourteenth
                 yeare
                 proceedeth
                 their
                 strippling
                 age
                 .
                 And
                 betwixt
                 that
                 and
                 the
                 fifteenth
                 yeare
                 there
                 falles
                 out
                 in
                 the
                 body
                 a
                 tumultuous
                 whurly-burly
                 or
                 wambling
                 commotion
                 of
                 humours
                 ,
                 which
                 in
                 some
                 breakes
                 out
                 into
                 scabs
                 or
                 hote
                 watry
                 issues
                 ,
                 in
                 others
                 into
                 kindes
                 of
                 agues
                 .
                 In
                 the
                 one
                 and
                 twentieth
                 ,
                 youth
                 .
                 And
                 when
                 a
                 man
                 hath
                 past
                 seauen
                 times
                 seauen
                 yeares
                 ,
                 to
                 wit
                 ,
                 nine
                 and
                 forty
                 yeares
                 ,
                 hee
                 is
                 a
                 ripe
                 and
                 perfect
                 man.
                 Also
                 ,
                 when
                 he
                 attaineth
                 to
                 tenne
                 times
                 seauen
                 yeares
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 age
                 of
                 threescore
                 and
                 ten
                 ,
                 his
                 strength
                 and
                 chiefest
                 vertue
                 begins
                 to
                 fall
                 away
                 .
                 And
                 againe
                 ,
                 euery
                 seauenth
                 yeare
                 was
                 by
                 Gods
                 owne
                 institution
                 pronounced
                 hallowed
                 ;
                 And
                 in
                 it
                 the
                 Israelites
                 were
                 prohibited
                 to
                 manure
                 their
                 grounds
                 or
                 to
                 plant
                 vineyards
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Aulus
                   Gellius
                
                 mentioneth
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 Emperour
                 Octauian
                 sent
                 a
                 Letter
                 vnto
                 his
                 step-sonne
                 to
                 this
                 effect
                 :
                 Reioyce
                 with
                 mee
                 my
                 Sonne
                 ,
                 for
                 I
                 haue
                 past
                 ouer
                 that
                 deadly
                 yeare
                 ,
                 and
                 enemie
                 to
                 olde
                 age
                 ,
                 threescore
                 and
                 three
                 .
                 In
                 which
                 number
                 the
                 seauenths
                 and
                 ninths
                 doe
                 concurre
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 sixe
                 and
                 fiftieth
                 yeare
                 is
                 very
                 dangerous
                 
                 to
                 men
                 borne
                 in
                 the
                 night
                 season
                 ,
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 the
                 doubled
                 coldnesse
                 of
                 Saturne
                 .
                 And
                 the
                 threescore
                 and
                 third
                 yeare
                 is
                 very
                 perillous
                 to
                 them
                 that
                 be
                 borne
                 in
                 the
                 day
                 time
                 ,
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 the
                 drinesse
                 of
                 Mercurie
                 and
                 Venus
                 .
                 It
                 is
                 also
                 obserued
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 nine
                 and
                 fortieth
                 yeare
                 composed
                 of
                 seauen
                 times
                 seauen
                 is
                 very
                 dangerous
                 .
              
               
                 Others
                 againe
                 of
                 our
                 late
                 Criticks
                 collect
                 by
                 experience
                 ,
                 that
                 in
                 the
                 seauenth
                 yeare
                 more
                 vnnaturall
                 ill
                 humours
                 are
                 ingendred
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 true
                 and
                 naturall
                 constitution
                 of
                 the
                 bodie
                 can
                 possibly
                 digest
                 ,
                 because
                 the
                 liuer
                 and
                 heart
                 being
                 the
                 radicall
                 Fountaines
                 of
                 the
                 bloud
                 ,
                 by
                 little
                 and
                 little
                 ,
                 are
                 so
                 corrupted
                 within
                 the
                 compasse
                 of
                 sixe
                 or
                 seauen
                 yeares
                 ,
                 which
                 cannot
                 chuse
                 but
                 at
                 the
                 last
                 breake
                 out
                 ,
                 like
                 the
                 Paroxismes
                 or
                 fits
                 of
                 an
                 ague
                 tertian
                 or
                 quartane
                 ,
                 in
                 some
                 kinde
                 of
                 bodies
                 at
                 the
                 seauenth
                 yeare
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 others
                 of
                 a
                 stronger
                 ability
                 at
                 the
                 ninth
                 yeare
                 .
                 So
                 when
                 these
                 steps
                 are
                 past
                 ,
                 the
                 liuer
                 &
                 heart
                 do
                 prepare
                 humours
                 for
                 the
                 yeares
                 or
                 steps
                 following
                 ,
                 vntill
                 it
                 burst
                 out
                 into
                 a
                 remarkeable
                 euent
                 .
              
               
                 Finally
                 ,
                 whensoeuer
                 any
                 man
                 entreth
                 into
                 these
                 climactericall
                 yeares
                 (
                 if
                 certaine
                 tokens
                 
                 of
                 imminent
                 sicknesse
                 doe
                 appeare
                 ,
                 as
                 wearisomnesse
                 of
                 the
                 members
                 ,
                 griefe
                 of
                 the
                 knees
                 ,
                 dimnesse
                 of
                 sight
                 ,
                 buzzing
                 of
                 the
                 eares
                 ,
                 loathsomnesse
                 of
                 meate
                 ,
                 sweating
                 in
                 sleepe
                 ,
                 yawning
                 ,
                 or
                 such
                 like
                 )
                 then
                 let
                 him
                 incessantly
                 pray
                 ,
                 and
                 beseech
                 God
                 to
                 protect
                 and
                 guide
                 his
                 heart
                 ;
                 let
                 him
                 be
                 circumspect
                 and
                 curious
                 to
                 preserue
                 his
                 health
                 and
                 life
                 ,
                 by
                 Art
                 ,
                 nature
                 ,
                 policy
                 ,
                 and
                 experiments
                 .
                 Or
                 if
                 no
                 eminent
                 cause
                 appeare
                 ,
                 let
                 him
                 purge
                 aforehand
                 ,
                 the
                 better
                 to
                 preuent
                 the
                 encrease
                 of
                 humours
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Which
                 be
                 the
                 criticall
                 daies
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 critical
                 daies
                 are
                 the
                 first
                 and
                 seauenth
                 of
                 Ianuary
                 .
                 The
                 third
                 and
                 fourth
                 of
                 February
                 .
                 The
                 first
                 and
                 fourth
                 of
                 March.
                 The
                 eigth
                 and
                 tenth
                 of
                 April
                 .
                 The
                 third
                 and
                 seauenth
                 of
                 May.
                 The
                 tenth
                 and
                 fifteenth
                 of
                 Iune
                 .
                 The
                 tenth
                 and
                 thirteenth
                 of
                 Iuly
                 .
                 The
                 first
                 and
                 second
                 of
                 August
                 .
                 The
                 third
                 &
                 tenth
                 of
                 September
                 .
                 The
                 third
                 and
                 tenth
                 of
                 October
                 .
                 The
                 third
                 &
                 fift
                 of
                 Nouember
                 .
                 The
                 seauenth
                 and
                 tenth
                 of
                 December
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhich
                 humors
                 are
                 predominant
                 in
                 the
                 night
                 season
                 ,
                 and
                 which
                 in
                 the
                 day
                 time
                 ?
              
               
                 Euery
                 one
                 humour
                 raigneth
                 sixe
                 houres
                 .
                 Bloud
                 is
                 predominant
                 from
                 nine
                 a
                 clocke
                 in
                 
                 the
                 night
                 ,
                 vntill
                 three
                 a
                 clock
                 in
                 the
                 morning
                 .
                 Choler
                 from
                 three
                 a
                 clock
                 in
                 the
                 morning
                 ,
                 till
                 nine
                 .
                 Melancholy
                 ruleth
                 from
                 nine
                 a
                 clock
                 in
                 the
                 morning
                 ,
                 till
                 three
                 in
                 the
                 euening
                 .
                 Likewise
                 flegme
                 gouerneth
                 from
                 three
                 in
                 the
                 euening
                 ,
                 vntill
                 nine
                 a
                 clock
                 at
                 night
                 .
                 So
                 that
                 flegme
                 and
                 melancholy
                 doe
                 raigne
                 at
                 night
                 ,
                 and
                 bloud
                 and
                 choler
                 in
                 the
                 day
                 time
                 .
                 Also
                 bloud
                 hath
                 his
                 dominion
                 in
                 the
                 Spring
                 time
                 ;
                 choler
                 in
                 the
                 Sommer
                 ;
                 melancholy
                 in
                 Autumne
                 ,
                 and
                 flegme
                 in
                 Winter
                 .
                 For
                 which
                 respects
                 ,
                 I
                 aduise
                 you
                 (
                 if
                 perchance
                 you
                 fall
                 into
                 a
                 disease
                 )
                 to
                 marke
                 well
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 beginning
                 of
                 your
                 sicknesse
                 ,
                 the
                 houre
                 and
                 humour
                 then
                 raigning
                 ,
                 that
                 thereby
                 you
                 may
                 the
                 sooner
                 finde
                 out
                 remedy
                 .
                 In
                 conclusion
                 ,
                 you
                 must
                 consider
                 of
                 the
                 Critical
                 daies
                 :
                 in
                 which
                 ,
                 great
                 alterations
                 either
                 towards
                 your
                 recouerie
                 ,
                 or
                 towards
                 your
                 further
                 sicknesse
                 willensue
                 .
                 Most
                 commonly
                 the
                 criticall
                 day
                 happeneth
                 ,
                 the
                 seauenth
                 ,
                 the
                 fourteenth
                 ,
                 the
                 one
                 and
                 twentieth
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 eight
                 and
                 twentieth
                 day
                 from
                 the
                 beginning
                 of
                 your
                 sicknesse
                 .
                 Notwithstanding
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 course
                 of
                 the
                 Moone
                 ,
                 the
                 fourth
                 day
                 ,
                 the
                 eleauenth
                 ,
                 the
                 seauenteenth
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 foure
                 and
                 twentieth
                 day
                 
                 from
                 the
                 beginning
                 of
                 your
                 sicknes
                 will
                 foretell
                 you
                 ,
                 whether
                 you
                 shall
                 amend
                 or
                 waxe
                 worse
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Of
               the
               foure
               Humours
               .
               CHAP.
               4.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 an
                 Humour
                 ?
              
               
                 AN
                 humour
                 is
                 a
                 moist
                 and
                 running
                 body
                 ,
                 into
                 which
                 the
                 meate
                 in
                 the
                 Liuer
                 is
                 conuerted
                 ,
                 to
                 the
                 end
                 that
                 our
                 bodyes
                 might
                 be
                 nourished
                 by
                 them
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 is
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 the
                 sanguine
                 humour
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 sanguine
                 humour
                 is
                 hot
                 ,
                 moist
                 ,
                 farty
                 ,
                 sweet
                 ,
                 and
                 seated
                 in
                 the
                 liuer
                 ,
                 because
                 it
                 watereth
                 all
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 and
                 giueth
                 nourishment
                 vnto
                 it
                 :
                 out
                 of
                 which
                 likewise
                 issue
                 the
                 vitall
                 spirits
                 ,
                 like
                 vnto
                 small
                 and
                 gentle
                 windes
                 ,
                 that
                 arise
                 out
                 of
                 riuers
                 and
                 Wels.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 VVhat
                 is
                 the
                 flegmaticke
                 humour
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 flegmatick
                 humour
                 is
                 of
                 colour
                 white
                 ,
                 brackish
                 like
                 vnto
                 sweat
                 ,
                 and
                 properly
                 placed
                 in
                 the
                 kidnyes
                 ,
                 which
                 draw
                 to
                 themselues
                 the
                 water
                 from
                 the
                 bloud
                 ,
                 thereby
                 filling
                 the
                 veines
                 ,
                 in
                 stead
                 of
                 good
                 and
                 pure
                 bloud
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 Cholericke
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 Cholericke
                 humour
                 is
                 hot
                 and
                 fiery
                 ,
                 bitter
                 ,
                 and
                 like
                 vnto
                 the
                 flower
                 of
                 wine
                 .
                 It
                 serueth
                 not
                 onely
                 to
                 cleanse
                 the
                 guts
                 of
                 filth
                 ,
                 but
                 also
                 to
                 make
                 the
                 Liuer
                 hot
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 hinder
                 the
                 bloud
                 from
                 putrifaction
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 Melancholicke
                 humour
                 ?
              
               
                 The
                 Melancholick
                 humour
                 is
                 black
                 ,
                 earthly
                 ,
                 resembling
                 the
                 lees
                 of
                 bloud
                 ,
                 and
                 hath
                 the
                 Spleene
                 for
                 a
                 seat
                 assigned
                 vnto
                 it
                 .
                 Howbeit
                 Physitians
                 say
                 ,
                 that
                 there
                 be
                 three
                 kindes
                 of
                 melancholy
                 :
                 the
                 first
                 proceedeth
                 from
                 the
                 annoyed
                 braine
                 :
                 the
                 second
                 commeth
                 ,
                 when
                 as
                 the
                 whole
                 constituion
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 is
                 melancholicke
                 :
                 the
                 third
                 springeth
                 from
                 the
                 bowels
                 ,
                 but
                 chiefly
                 from
                 the
                 Spleen
                 and
                 liuer
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 diet
                 for
                 melancholicke
                 men
                 ?
              
               
                 First
                 ,
                 they
                 must
                 haue
                 lightsome
                 chambers
                 and
                 them
                 often
                 perfumed
                 .
                 Secondly
                 ,
                 they
                 must
                 eate
                 young
                 and
                 good
                 meat
                 ,
                 and
                 beware
                 of
                 Beefe
                 ,
                 Porke
                 ,
                 Hare
                 &
                 wilde
                 beasts
                 .
                 Thirdly
                 ,
                 let
                 them
                 vse
                 Borrage
                 and
                 Buglosse
                 in
                 their
                 drinke
                 .
                 Fourthly
                 ,
                 Musicke
                 is
                 meet
                 for
                 them
                 .
                 Fiftly
                 ,
                 they
                 must
                 alwayes
                 keepe
                 their
                 bellies
                 loose
                 and
                 soluble
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           
           
             Of
             the
             restauration
             of
             health
             .
             The
             sixt
             Section
             .
          
           
             
               Of
               the
               foure
               parts
               of
               the
               yeare
               .
               CHAP.
               1.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 Spring
                 time
                 ?
              
               
                 THe
                 Spring
                 time
                 beginneth
                 ,
                 when
                 the
                 Sunne
                 entereth
                 into
                 the
                 signe
                 of
                 Aries
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 the
                 tenth
                 day
                 of
                 March.
                 At
                 this
                 time
                 the
                 daies
                 and
                 nights
                 are
                 of
                 equall
                 length
                 ,
                 the
                 cold
                 weather
                 is
                 diminished
                 ,
                 the
                 pores
                 of
                 the
                 earth
                 (
                 being
                 closed
                 and
                 congealed
                 with
                 cold
                 )
                 are
                 opened
                 ,
                 the
                 fields
                 waxe
                 greene
                 ,
                 hearbes
                 and
                 flowers
                 doe
                 bud
                 ,
                 beasts
                 rut
                 ,
                 the
                 birds
                 chirp
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 be
                 briefe
                 ,
                 all
                 liuing
                 Creatures
                 doe
                 recouer
                 their
                 former
                 vigour
                 in
                 the
                 beginning
                 of
                 the
                 spring
                 .
                 Now
                 a
                 man
                 must
                 eate
                 lesse
                 ,
                 and
                 drink
                 somwhat
                 the
                 more
                 .
                 The
                 best
                 meates
                 to
                 be
                 eaten
                 are
                 Veale
                 ,
                 Kid
                 ,
                 yong
                 Mutton
                 ,
                 Chickens
                 ,
                 dry
                 fowle
                 ,
                 
                 potched
                 egges
                 ,
                 figs
                 ,
                 raisins
                 ,
                 and
                 other
                 sweet
                 meate
                 :
                 and
                 because
                 the
                 Spring
                 is
                 a
                 temperate
                 season
                 ,
                 it
                 requires
                 temperature
                 in
                 all
                 things
                 .
                 Vse
                 competent
                 Phlebotomy
                 ,
                 purgation
                 ,
                 or
                 such
                 like
                 .
                 Venery
                 will
                 doe
                 no
                 great
                 harme
                 .
              
               
                 As
                 the
                 Sunne
                 by
                 steps
                 and
                 degrees
                 makes
                 his
                 power
                 manifest
                 abroad
                 :
                 so
                 within
                 our
                 bodyes
                 hee
                 workes
                 strange
                 and
                 meruailous
                 effects
                 after
                 his
                 cloudy
                 absence
                 .
                 Sweet
                 meat
                 must
                 haue
                 soure
                 sauce
                 :
                 after
                 our
                 gurmundise
                 and
                 gluttonous
                 fare
                 ,
                 let
                 vs
                 now
                 likewise
                 imitate
                 these
                 degrees
                 ,
                 and
                 by
                 little
                 and
                 little
                 weane
                 our
                 bodies
                 from
                 such
                 luxurious
                 cheer
                 .
                 Wee
                 see
                 Nurses
                 annoint
                 their
                 teates
                 with
                 Wormwood
                 iuyce
                 ,
                 to
                 terrifie
                 and
                 withdraw
                 their
                 froward
                 Children
                 from
                 their
                 auncient
                 sustenance
                 :
                 so
                 in
                 like
                 manner
                 ,
                 let
                 vs
                 in
                 this
                 season
                 beginne
                 to
                 sequester
                 our
                 wanton
                 wils
                 (
                 being
                 the
                 bodies
                 rulers
                 )
                 from
                 persisting
                 in
                 their
                 former
                 lauishnesse
                 :
                 for
                 which
                 purpose
                 ,
                 I
                 aduise
                 the
                 temperate
                 to
                 abstaine
                 from
                 immoderate
                 drinking
                 of
                 wine
                 ,
                 from
                 immoderate
                 spiced
                 meate
                 ;
                 specially
                 towards
                 the
                 midst
                 of
                 this
                 season
                 ,
                 and
                 if
                 they
                 be
                 cholericke
                 ,
                 hot
                 and
                 dry
                 of
                 constitutions
                 ,
                 I
                 aduise
                 them
                 to
                 
                 coole
                 themselues
                 now
                 and
                 then
                 with
                 waters
                 of
                 Endiue
                 and
                 Succory
                 ,
                 or
                 with
                 fountaine
                 water
                 ,
                 together
                 with
                 a
                 little
                 Comfits
                 to
                 expell
                 inflamation
                 and
                 windie
                 pestilent
                 humours
                 .
                 In
                 any
                 case
                 let
                 them
                 which
                 regard
                 their
                 health
                 ,
                 take
                 heede
                 of
                 salt
                 Herrings
                 and
                 slimy
                 Fish
                 ,
                 as
                 a
                 meate
                 fitter
                 for
                 labourers
                 ,
                 then
                 for
                 tender
                 natures
                 .
                 Or
                 if
                 their
                 longing
                 wantonnesse
                 be
                 such
                 that
                 they
                 must
                 needs
                 eate
                 them
                 ,
                 let
                 them
                 exercise
                 ,
                 or
                 omit
                 their
                 next
                 meale
                 ,
                 whereby
                 those
                 ill
                 humours
                 may
                 be
                 spent
                 or
                 digested
                 ,
                 which
                 were
                 caused
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 the
                 vnwholsome
                 nutriment
                 .
                 For
                 assuredly
                 ,
                 the
                 bloud
                 of
                 idle
                 people
                 will
                 be
                 quickly
                 tainted
                 and
                 corrupted
                 ,
                 so
                 that
                 the
                 bad
                 excrements
                 will
                 break
                 out
                 into
                 itch
                 ,
                 tetters
                 ,
                 the
                 small
                 pockes
                 or
                 meazels
                 :
                 or
                 else
                 they
                 will
                 descend
                 from
                 the
                 head
                 into
                 the
                 eyes
                 ,
                 teeth
                 ,
                 or
                 lungs
                 ,
                 and
                 there
                 engender
                 a
                 fearefull
                 cough
                 .
                 In
                 old
                 persons
                 these
                 brackish
                 ,
                 viscous
                 ,
                 and
                 salt
                 humours
                 will
                 congeale
                 and
                 harden
                 into
                 the
                 stone
                 of
                 the
                 bladder
                 or
                 reines
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 Summer
                 ?
              
               
                 Summer
                 begins
                 ,
                 when
                 the
                 Sunne
                 entereth
                 the
                 Signe
                 of
                 Cancer
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 the
                 twelfth
                 day
                 of
                 Iune
                 .
                 In
                 this
                 time
                 Choler
                 is
                 predominant
                 ,
                 
                 heat
                 encreaseth
                 ,
                 the
                 windes
                 are
                 silent
                 ,
                 the
                 sea
                 calme
                 ,
                 fruits
                 doe
                 ripen
                 ,
                 and
                 Bees
                 doe
                 make
                 honey
                 .
                 Now
                 a
                 man
                 must
                 drinke
                 largely
                 ,
                 eate
                 little
                 and
                 that
                 sodden
                 :
                 for
                 rost
                 meate
                 is
                 dry
                 .
                 It
                 is
                 dangerous
                 taking
                 of
                 Physicke
                 ,
                 and
                 specially
                 in
                 the
                 Dog
                 dayes
                 .
                 To
                 heale
                 wounds
                 is
                 very
                 difficult
                 and
                 perillous
                 .
              
               
                 All
                 these
                 inconueniences
                 happen
                 because
                 of
                 the
                 dog
                 dayes
                 ,
                 to
                 last
                 for
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 those
                 fortie
                 dayes
                 ,
                 wherein
                 that
                 Constellation
                 called
                 the
                 Dog
                 ,
                 meeting
                 with
                 the
                 Sunne
                 in
                 our
                 Meridian
                 ,
                 doubleth
                 his
                 heate
                 ,
                 by
                 whose
                 burning
                 influence
                 ,
                 Frenzies
                 ,
                 the
                 Pestilence
                 ,
                 Calenturaes
                 ,
                 and
                 other
                 hot
                 cholericke
                 sicknesses
                 are
                 bred
                 in
                 our
                 bodies
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 Autumne
                 ?
              
               
                 Autumne
                 beginneth
                 when
                 the
                 Sunne
                 entreth
                 the
                 first
                 degree
                 of
                 Libra
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 the
                 thirteenth
                 day
                 of
                 September
                 .
                 Then
                 it
                 is
                 Equinoctiall
                 ,
                 Meteors
                 are
                 seene
                 ,
                 the
                 times
                 doe
                 alter
                 ,
                 the
                 Ayre
                 waxeth
                 cold
                 ,
                 the
                 leaues
                 doe
                 fall
                 ,
                 corne
                 is
                 reaped
                 ,
                 the
                 earth
                 loseth
                 her
                 beautie
                 ,
                 and
                 melancholy
                 is
                 engendered
                 .
                 For
                 which
                 cause
                 ,
                 such
                 things
                 as
                 breede
                 Melancholy
                 are
                 to
                 be
                 auoyded
                 ,
                 as
                 Feare
                 ,
                 Care
                 ,
                 Beanes
                 ,
                 olde
                 Cheese
                 ,
                 salt
                 Beefe
                 ,
                 broath
                 of
                 Coleworts
                 ,
                 
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 .
                 You
                 may
                 safely
                 eate
                 Mutton
                 ,
                 Lambe
                 ,
                 Pigges
                 ,
                 and
                 young
                 pullets
                 .
                 Take
                 heede
                 of
                 the
                 morning
                 and
                 euening
                 cold
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 Winter
                 ?
              
               
                 Winter
                 beginneth
                 when
                 the
                 Sunne
                 entereth
                 the
                 Signe
                 of
                 Capricorne
                 :
                 which
                 is
                 commonly
                 the
                 twelfth
                 day
                 of
                 December
                 .
                 Now
                 the
                 dayes
                 are
                 shortned
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 nights
                 prolonged
                 ,
                 Windes
                 are
                 sharpe
                 ,
                 Snow
                 and
                 sodaine
                 inundations
                 of
                 waters
                 arise
                 ,
                 the
                 Earth
                 is
                 congealed
                 with
                 frost
                 and
                 Ice
                 ,
                 and
                 all
                 liuing
                 creatures
                 doe
                 quiuer
                 with
                 colde
                 .
                 Therefore
                 a
                 man
                 must
                 vse
                 warme
                 and
                 dry
                 meates
                 :
                 for
                 the
                 cheerefull
                 vertues
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 are
                 now
                 weakened
                 by
                 the
                 colde
                 ayre
                 :
                 and
                 the
                 naturall
                 heate
                 is
                 driuen
                 into
                 the
                 inward
                 parts
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 to
                 comfort
                 and
                 maintaine
                 the
                 vitall
                 Spirits
                 .
                 VVee
                 must
                 expell
                 the
                 colde
                 ayre
                 with
                 warme
                 drinkes
                 ,
                 wines
                 ,
                 braggot
                 ,
                 metheglin
                 ,
                 malmesie
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 ,
                 and
                 aboue
                 all
                 with
                 warme
                 clothes
                 ,
                 which
                 I
                 wish
                 to
                 be
                 of
                 wooll
                 ,
                 rather
                 then
                 of
                 any
                 other
                 stuffes
                 .
                 In
                 this
                 season
                 ,
                 wee
                 may
                 feede
                 liberally
                 on
                 strong
                 meates
                 ,
                 as
                 Beefe
                 ,
                 barren
                 Does
                 ,
                 gelt
                 Goats
                 ,
                 and
                 on
                 spiced
                 or
                 baked
                 meates
                 :
                 
                 for
                 whose
                 better
                 digestion
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 shut
                 the
                 orifice
                 or
                 mouth
                 of
                 the
                 stomacke
                 ,
                 some
                 vse
                 to
                 eate
                 Comfits
                 of
                 Anise-seedes
                 presently
                 after
                 meales
                 :
                 some
                 other
                 hauing
                 weake
                 stomackes
                 ,
                 take
                 digestiue
                 pouders
                 made
                 of
                 sweet
                 Fenell
                 seedes
                 ,
                 Coriander
                 seed
                 ,
                 Corrall
                 prepared
                 ,
                 a
                 little
                 masticke
                 ,
                 Sinnamon
                 and
                 Rose
                 suger
                 within
                 the
                 conserues
                 of
                 Roses
                 .
                 Others
                 againe
                 ,
                 content
                 themselues
                 with
                 a
                 pouder
                 composed
                 of
                 Rose
                 Suger
                 ,
                 Annise-seede
                 ,
                 Sage
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 crust
                 of
                 fine
                 bread
                 ,
                 whereof
                 they
                 take
                 a
                 spoonefull
                 in
                 a
                 cup
                 of
                 drinke
                 .
              
               
                 At
                 nights
                 be
                 sure
                 to
                 keep
                 your selfe
                 warme
                 ,
                 and
                 specially
                 your
                 head
                 and
                 feet
                 .
                 In
                 this
                 case
                 I
                 cannot
                 but
                 commend
                 the
                 Dutchmens
                 prouidence
                 aboue
                 our
                 owne
                 ,
                 who
                 continually
                 in
                 colde
                 weather
                 weare
                 furres
                 about
                 their
                 necks
                 ,
                 and
                 couer
                 their
                 feete
                 with
                 wollen
                 sockes
                 .
              
               
                 Now
                 Wardens
                 ,
                 Apples
                 ,
                 and
                 Peares
                 may
                 be
                 vsed
                 with
                 wine
                 or
                 with
                 salt
                 ,
                 for
                 swelling
                 :
                 or
                 with
                 comfits
                 ,
                 for
                 windinesse
                 .
                 To
                 vse
                 carnall
                 copulation
                 is
                 expedient
                 ,
                 if
                 the
                 weather
                 be
                 moist
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 very
                 cold
                 .
                 Astronomers
                 auerre
                 ,
                 that
                 if
                 the
                 first
                 day
                 of
                 December
                 be
                 foule
                 and
                 tempestuous
                 ,
                 it
                 will
                 not
                 be
                 calme
                 thirty
                 dayes
                 after
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 on
                 the
                 contrary
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               Of
               monethly
               Dyet
               .
               CHAP.
               2.
               
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 how
                 to
                 order
                 my
                 body
                 in
                 euery
                 particular
                 Moneth
                 .
              
               
                 
                   In
                   Ianuary
                   .
                
                 
                   IN
                   this
                   Moneth
                   ,
                   mans
                   inward
                   parts
                   ,
                   become
                   replenished
                   with
                   more
                   heate
                   ,
                   then
                   at
                   any
                   other
                   time
                   .
                   The
                   reason
                   is
                   ,
                   because
                   our
                   bodies
                   being
                   in
                   health
                   ,
                   receiue
                   into
                   them
                   more
                   aboundance
                   of
                   food
                   ,
                   whereby
                   they
                   are
                   strengthened
                   and
                   comforted
                   in
                   their
                   constitutions
                   and
                   principall
                   powers
                   .
                   So
                   that
                   wee
                   may
                   aduenture
                   to
                   eate
                   grosser
                   meats
                   as
                   baked
                   Venison
                   of
                   barren
                   Does
                   ,
                   gelt
                   Buckes
                   ,
                   gelt
                   Goats
                   ,
                   Brawne
                   ,
                   Beefe
                   ,
                   and
                   such
                   like
                   ,
                   in
                   this
                   moneth
                   then
                   in
                   any
                   other
                   Moneth
                   ,
                   for
                   that
                   our
                   naturall
                   heare
                   in
                   warmer
                   weather
                   is
                   dispersed
                   ,
                   and
                   so
                   digestion
                   hindered
                   :
                   now
                   fasting
                   is
                   very
                   hurtfull
                   .
                   But
                   spiced
                   drinkes
                   and
                   wines
                   are
                   highly
                   commended
                   .
                   Beware
                   of
                   Physicke
                   ,
                   and
                   chiefly
                   of
                   bloudletting
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   In
                   February
                   .
                
                 
                   Because
                   this
                   season
                   is
                   very
                   raw
                   and
                   watrish
                   ,
                   keepe
                   your
                   neck
                   and
                   feet
                   warme
                   ,
                   and
                   imitate
                   
                   the
                   Dutch
                   ,
                   who
                   vse
                   to
                   weare
                   furred
                   collers
                   as
                   a
                   soueraigne
                   remedie
                   against
                   the
                   colde
                   Ayre
                   .
                   Towards
                   the
                   latter
                   end
                   of
                   this
                   moneth
                   ,
                   it
                   will
                   not
                   be
                   amisse
                   to
                   eate
                   now
                   and
                   then
                   ,
                   I
                   meane
                   in
                   the
                   beginning
                   of
                   meales
                   ,
                   those
                   meates
                   which
                   are
                   of
                   a
                   laxatiue
                   substance
                   ,
                   as
                   a
                   pared
                   pippin
                   ,
                   or
                   a
                   few
                   stewed
                   prunes
                   ,
                   and
                   raisins
                   .
                   It
                   is
                   good
                   now
                   and
                   then
                   to
                   drinke
                   a
                   a
                   cup
                   of
                   good
                   Meath
                   ,
                   or
                   white
                   wine
                   :
                   some
                   vse
                   to
                   breake
                   their
                   fast
                   with
                   the
                   pith
                   of
                   white
                   bread
                   ,
                   bespread
                   with
                   honey
                   ,
                   for
                   the
                   purifying
                   of
                   their
                   breast
                   and
                   bladder
                   .
                   All
                   kinde
                   of
                   Physicke
                   is
                   dangerous
                   in
                   this
                   Moneth
                   ,
                   excepting
                   pilles
                   to
                   purge
                   the
                   head
                   ,
                   which
                   now
                   seemes
                   more
                   heauy
                   then
                   at
                   other
                   seasons
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   In
                   March.
                   
                
                 
                   In
                   this
                   moneth
                   it
                   is
                   good
                   to
                   eate
                   cleansing
                   things
                   ,
                   for
                   our
                   bodyes
                   hauing
                   beene
                   glutted
                   with
                   diuersities
                   of
                   meats
                   in
                   the
                   winter
                   ,
                   cannot
                   but
                   breake
                   out
                   into
                   some
                   outward
                   part
                   by
                   itch
                   ,
                   biles
                   ,
                   pockes
                   ,
                   issues
                   ,
                   plagues
                   ,
                   morphew
                   ,
                   iaundise
                   ,
                   greene
                   sicknesse
                   ,
                   or
                   such
                   like
                   :
                   or
                   else
                   inwardly
                   by
                   impostumes
                   ,
                   feuers
                   ,
                   catarres
                   ,
                   &c.
                   
                   Wherefore
                   let
                   vs
                   vse
                   pottage
                   made
                   of
                   leekes
                   ,
                   Alisander
                   ,
                   Peniroyall
                   and
                   Betony
                   ,
                   and
                   aboue
                   all
                   things
                   let
                   vs
                   beware
                   of
                   salt
                   fish
                   .
                   And
                   for
                   
                   our
                   Physicke
                   let
                   vs
                   content
                   our selues
                   with
                   bathes
                   ,
                   eyther
                   naturall
                   or
                   artificiall
                   :
                   or
                   with
                   sweat
                   naturall
                   or
                   artificiall
                   The
                   naturall
                   sweat
                   if
                   it
                   be
                   not
                   excessiue
                   or
                   violent
                   in
                   the
                   opening
                   of
                   the
                   pores
                   ,
                   will
                   cleanse
                   the
                   bloud
                   ,
                   make
                   light
                   the
                   spirits
                   ,
                   dissolue
                   thicke
                   and
                   raw
                   humours
                   ,
                   and
                   asswage
                   the
                   dropsie
                   ,
                   the
                   Scuruy
                   ,
                   and
                   all
                   such
                   sicknesses
                   as
                   proceed
                   of
                   lazinesse
                   .
                   The
                   artificiall
                   sweat
                   will
                   cure
                   the
                   itch
                   ,
                   and
                   mundifie
                   the
                   skinne
                   .
                   In
                   a
                   word
                   ,
                   now
                   is
                   the
                   best
                   time
                   to
                   remoue
                   the
                   rootes
                   of
                   diseases
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   preuent
                   their
                   further
                   stealth
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   In
                   Aprill
                   .
                
                 
                   Now
                   with
                   the
                   warme
                   weather
                   ,
                   our
                   bloud
                   beginnes
                   to
                   heat
                   and
                   waxe
                   rancke
                   .
                   And
                   therfore
                   it
                   is
                   expedient
                   to
                   eate
                   meat
                   of
                   a
                   light
                   digestion
                   ,
                   and
                   sallets
                   to
                   coole
                   our
                   bloud
                   .
                   Salt
                   meates
                   are
                   very
                   hurtfull
                   ,
                   specially
                   for
                   them
                   which
                   doe
                   not
                   trauell
                   ,
                   by
                   reason
                   that
                   the
                   bloud
                   becomes
                   tainted
                   with
                   them
                   ,
                   and
                   will
                   quickly
                   engender
                   the
                   itch
                   .
                   If
                   there
                   be
                   vrgent
                   need
                   ,
                   a
                   man
                   may
                   in
                   this
                   Moneth
                   purge
                   ,
                   or
                   be
                   let
                   bloud
                   .
                   But
                   for
                   bloud
                   letting
                   I
                   could
                   wish
                   these
                   rules
                   to
                   be
                   first
                   practised
                   :
                   first
                   ,
                   that
                   the
                   body
                   be
                   made
                   soluble
                   :
                   secondly
                   ,
                   that
                   it
                   be
                   done
                   in
                   the
                   morning
                   before
                   any
                   exercise
                   
                   or
                   commotion
                   of
                   the
                   humours
                   :
                   thirdly
                   ,
                   that
                   the
                   certainty
                   of
                   the
                   veine
                   be
                   regarded
                   :
                   fourthly
                   ,
                   that
                   the
                   quantity
                   be
                   considered
                   according
                   to
                   the
                   Patients
                   complexion
                   and
                   age
                   ,
                   not
                   vnder
                   fourteene
                   ,
                   nor
                   aboue
                   fiue
                   and
                   fiftie
                   :
                   fiftly
                   ,
                   that
                   he
                   obserue
                   a
                   very
                   sparing
                   vary
                   dyet
                   for
                   three
                   dayes
                   after
                   ,
                   whereby
                   pure
                   and
                   good
                   bloud
                   may
                   succeed
                   in
                   the
                   corrupteds
                   place
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   In
                   May.
                   
                
                 
                   As
                   this
                   Moneth
                   is
                   the
                   most
                   moderate
                   season
                   of
                   the
                   yeare
                   ,
                   free
                   from
                   extremities
                   ,
                   hot
                   or
                   cold
                   ,
                   so
                   that
                   we
                   seeme
                   to
                   liue
                   
                     in
                     terâ
                     floridâ
                  
                   :
                   so
                   ought
                   we
                   chiefly
                   now
                   to
                   obserue
                   measure
                   and
                   moderation
                   in
                   our
                   dyet
                   ,
                   for
                   our
                   bloud
                   being
                   luke-warme
                   may
                   easily
                   be
                   ouertaken
                   with
                   any
                   excesse
                   ,
                   through
                   that
                   sodaine
                   alteration
                   ,
                   which
                   Philosophers
                   terme
                   
                     〈◊〉
                     〈◊〉
                     〈◊〉
                     〈◊〉
                     〈◊〉
                  
                   .
                   Before
                   meat
                   Exercise
                   is
                   most
                   expedient
                   .
                   To
                   drinke
                   Wormewood
                   wine
                   is
                   accounted
                   very
                   healthfull
                   :
                   and
                   so
                   to
                   drinke
                   soure
                   whay
                   clarified
                   with
                   Sage
                   and
                   Parsley
                   is
                   an
                   excellent
                   dyet
                   drinke
                   for
                   hot
                   Cholericke
                   stomackes
                   .
                   Some
                   vse
                   in
                   this
                   Moneth
                   to
                   breake
                   their
                   fast
                   with
                   old
                   Cheese
                   or
                   Parmizan
                   grated
                   with
                   Suger
                   and
                   Sage
                   ,
                   as
                   a
                   restoratiue
                   for
                   weake
                   spirits
                   .
                   Now
                   Horse-leaches
                   may
                   be
                   applyed
                   
                   to
                   our
                   feet
                   ,
                   or
                   to
                   such
                   parts
                   of
                   the
                   body
                   ,
                   where
                   we
                   suspect
                   the
                   concourse
                   of
                   moist
                   humors
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   In
                   Iune
                   .
                
                 
                   Early
                   rising
                   profiteth
                   much
                   in
                   this
                   warme
                   time
                   ,
                   for
                   which
                   cause
                   good
                   husbands
                   doe
                   fetch
                   a
                   long
                   vagari
                   through
                   the
                   pleasant
                   fields
                   to
                   prouoke
                   appetite
                   ,
                   which
                   otherwise
                   with
                   lazinesse
                   would
                   be
                   corrupted
                   with
                   satietie
                   and
                   sultry
                   loathsomnesse
                   .
                   A
                   little
                   meat
                   will
                   serue
                   ;
                   but
                   we
                   may
                   drinke
                   the
                   more
                   freely
                   (
                   so
                   that
                   it
                   be
                   not
                   strong
                   )
                   and
                   recompence
                   nature
                   this
                   way
                   ,
                   for
                   the
                   easier
                   digestion
                   of
                   our
                   meates
                   .
                   For
                   euen
                   as
                   the
                   heate
                   of
                   the
                   Sunne
                   breedes
                   chaps
                   ,
                   clefts
                   ,
                   and
                   dust
                   in
                   the
                   ground
                   :
                   so
                   likewise
                   would
                   it
                   ingender
                   burnt
                   choler
                   (
                   as
                   dry
                   soot
                   in
                   a
                   chimney
                   )
                   in
                   our
                   sparing
                   bodies
                   .
                   Cheries
                   by
                   reason
                   of
                   their
                   piercing
                   vertue
                   are
                   thought
                   commodious
                   to
                   appease
                   thirst
                   .
                   Sallets
                   performe
                   the
                   very
                   same
                   .
                   To
                   bath
                   in
                   cold
                   water
                   is
                   esteemed
                   a
                   soueraine
                   remedy
                   against
                   all
                   outward
                   griefes
                   or
                   tumours
                   proceeding
                   from
                   heat
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   In
                   Iuly
                   .
                
                 
                   Now
                   arriues
                   the
                   Sommers
                   Solstice
                   ,
                   which
                   with
                   the
                   fiery
                   Dogge
                   turnes
                   the
                   moisture
                   of
                   our
                   bodies
                   into
                   parched
                   exhalations
                   ,
                   which
                   
                   we
                   commonly
                   call
                   cholerick
                   symptomes
                   .
                   And
                   therefore
                   shunne
                   roast
                   or
                   broyled
                   meates
                   .
                   Shunne
                   salt
                   meates
                   ,
                   Bacon
                   ,
                   and
                   strong
                   Beefe
                   .
                   Spare
                   not
                   to
                   drinke
                   Ptizans
                   ,
                   Endiue
                   ,
                   or
                   Succory
                   waters
                   ,
                   which
                   coole
                   the
                   liuer
                   .
                   Now
                   you
                   may
                   boldly
                   sleepe
                   in
                   the
                   after
                   noone
                   ,
                   so
                   that
                   it
                   be
                   not
                   presently
                   after
                   dinner
                   ,
                   and
                   not
                   aboue
                   an
                   houre
                   .
                   Beware
                   of
                   bloud-letting
                   ,
                   Physick
                   ,
                   and
                   venerous
                   acts
                   .
                   When
                   you
                   are
                   emptie
                   ,
                   bath
                   your selfe
                   in
                   colde
                   water
                   ,
                   for
                   that
                   recreates
                   the
                   animall
                   powers
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   In
                   August
                   .
                
                 
                   In
                   this
                   moneth
                   begin
                   to
                   withdraw
                   your
                   custome
                   from
                   drinking
                   by
                   little
                   and
                   little
                   ,
                   conuerting
                   the
                   same
                   to
                   a
                   temperate
                   ,
                   least
                   the
                   vnseasonable
                   Accidents
                   ,
                   which
                   awayte
                   vpon
                   this
                   moneth
                   ,
                   doe
                   seaze
                   on
                   thy
                   moist
                   body
                   ,
                   and
                   so
                   bestow
                   a
                   gift
                   ,
                   which
                   will
                   not
                   easily
                   be
                   clawed
                   off
                   ,
                   a
                   tyrannous
                   ague
                   tertian
                   or
                   quartane
                   .
                   Beware
                   of
                   fruit
                   ,
                   specially
                   Apples
                   or
                   Peares
                   ,
                   which
                   now
                   are
                   wont
                   to
                   tempt
                   want
                   on
                   bodies
                   .
                   Beware
                   of
                   them
                   ,
                   yee
                   nice
                   Maydes
                   ,
                   whose
                   God
                   is
                   your
                   longing
                   will
                   ,
                   least
                   yee
                   meet
                   with
                   the
                   greene
                   sicknesse
                   by
                   eating
                   such
                   greene
                   fruit
                   .
                   Beware
                   of
                   Eeles
                   and
                   of
                   all
                   fish
                   that
                   are
                   taken
                   in
                   Ponds
                   or
                   in
                   muddy
                   places
                   
                   Some
                   vse
                   to
                   annoint
                   their
                   bodies
                   with
                   this
                   precious
                   oyle
                   ,
                   to
                   preuent
                   the
                   theeuish
                   intrusion
                   of
                   diseases
                   in
                   this
                   threatning
                   season
                   .
                   Take
                   oyle
                   Oliue
                   ,
                   and
                   incorporate
                   it
                   with
                   the
                   iuyce
                   of
                   Sage
                   ,
                   Smallage
                   ,
                   Angelica
                   ,
                   Rose-water
                   ,
                   and
                   Rue
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   In
                   September
                   .
                
                 
                   Some
                   accustome
                   themselues
                   to
                   drinke
                   a
                   draught
                   of
                   Goates
                   milke
                   luke-warme
                   in
                   the
                   morning
                   ,
                   to
                   encrease
                   radicall
                   moisture
                   ,
                   while
                   this
                   moneth
                   continueth
                   .
                   But
                   in
                   any
                   case
                   take
                   heed
                   of
                   excesse
                   ,
                   least
                   the
                   fruit
                   and
                   drinke
                   ,
                   which
                   thou
                   tookest
                   so
                   liberally
                   in
                   the
                   Sommer
                   doe
                   worke
                   some
                   treason
                   against
                   thy
                   carelesse
                   body
                   in
                   the
                   Autumne
                   .
                   In
                   any
                   case
                   beware
                   of
                   the
                   nights
                   colde
                   .
                   Walke
                   as
                   little
                   as
                   thou
                   canst
                   after
                   Sunne
                   set
                   .
                   Now
                   is
                   the
                   proper
                   time
                   to
                   take
                   Physick
                   either
                   by
                   Pilles
                   or
                   Gargarismes
                   for
                   the
                   head
                   ,
                   by
                   vomites
                   ,
                   purgations
                   ,
                   or
                   electuaries
                   for
                   the
                   stomack
                   ,
                   or
                   by
                   glisters
                   for
                   the
                   bowels
                   ,
                   or
                   by
                   bloud-letting
                   for
                   the
                   Pleurisie
                   ,
                   or
                   by
                   sweats
                   for
                   the
                   itch
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   In
                   October
                   .
                
                 
                   This
                   moneth
                   hath
                   great
                   affinitie
                   with
                   March
                   ,
                   so
                   that
                   whatsoeuer
                   is
                   good
                   in
                   the
                   one
                   ,
                   is
                   good
                   in
                   the
                   other
                   .
                   Arme
                   your
                   body
                   soundly
                   
                   with
                   pleasant
                   wines
                   or
                   spiced
                   drinks
                   against
                   the
                   ensuing
                   Winter
                   .
                   Arme
                   your
                   minde
                   with
                   study
                   ,
                   for
                   now
                   this
                   temperate
                   time
                   inuites
                   thee
                   to
                   read
                   without
                   impediments
                   either
                   of
                   violent
                   colde
                   or
                   of
                   violent
                   heat
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   In
                   Nouember
                   .
                
                 
                   In
                   this
                   season
                   the
                   humor
                   of
                   Bloud
                   decreaseth
                   ,
                   and
                   black
                   melancholy
                   endeuours
                   to
                   domineere
                   in
                   our
                   bodies
                   ,
                   which
                   varies
                   like
                   the
                   time
                   .
                   Let
                   thy
                   body
                   be
                   well
                   cloathed
                   for
                   feare
                   of
                   the
                   nipping
                   weather
                   .
                   Now
                   you
                   may
                   aduenture
                   to
                   eate
                   salt
                   meates
                   ,
                   powdred
                   Beefe
                   ,
                   and
                   Mustard
                   .
                   In
                   the
                   morning
                   it
                   auailes
                   much
                   to
                   eate
                   a
                   hote
                   loafe
                   buttred
                   and
                   seasoned
                   with
                   Suger
                   and
                   Cinamon
                   ;
                   which
                   also
                   serues
                   as
                   an
                   excellent
                   receipt
                   to
                   preuent
                   the
                   cough
                   .
                   Now
                   you
                   may
                   safely
                   drinke
                   a
                   pipe
                   of
                   Tobacco
                   fasting
                   ,
                   if
                   you
                   feare
                   theumes
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   In
                   December
                   .
                
                 
                   In
                   this
                   colde
                   Moneth
                   imitate
                   the
                   Spanish
                   Diet.
                   In
                   the
                   morning
                   breake
                   your
                   fast
                   with
                   a
                   bit
                   of
                   Marnelad
                   .
                   or
                   Sucket
                   ,
                   with
                   a
                   draught
                   of
                   
                     Aqua
                     vitae
                  
                   .
                   Vse
                   Pepper
                   in
                   your
                   meats
                   ;
                   And
                   what
                   other
                   spice
                   you
                   please
                   for
                   the
                   seasoning
                   of
                   your
                   Cates.
                   Now
                   you
                   must
                   eate
                   more
                   and
                   drinke
                   the
                   lesse
                   .
                   Eate
                   roasted
                   Apples
                   or
                   Wardens
                   
                   to
                   close
                   vp
                   the
                   mouth
                   of
                   your
                   stomack
                   after
                   meales
                   .
                   Or
                   else
                   now
                   and
                   then
                   drinke
                   off
                   a
                   Cup
                   of
                   good
                   Claret
                   wine
                   with
                   a
                   roasted
                   Apple
                   in
                   it
                   .
                   For
                   the
                   body
                   being
                   benummed
                   and
                   as
                   it
                   were
                   made
                   senselesse
                   with
                   frost
                   and
                   shauing
                   windes
                   ,
                   had
                   need
                   to
                   be
                   refreshed
                   and
                   cherished
                   with
                   such
                   comfortable
                   allurements
                   .
                   For
                   this
                   cause
                   it
                   fell
                   out
                   by
                   discreet
                   tradition
                   ,
                   that
                   the
                   twelue
                   dayes
                   were
                   allowed
                   vs
                   to
                   feast
                   in
                   ,
                   that
                   our
                   bodies
                   might
                   enioy
                   the
                   fruit
                   of
                   our
                   trauaile
                   ,
                   that
                   a
                   forced
                   sanguine
                   complexion
                   by
                   reason
                   of
                   such
                   cheerefull
                   prouocations
                   might
                   downe
                   waigh
                   the
                   naturall
                   melancholick
                   power
                   .
                   But
                   for
                   all
                   this
                   ,
                   let
                   vs
                   not
                   forget
                   our
                   Christian
                   duties
                   ,
                   in
                   spending
                   wastfully
                   that
                   which
                   might
                   benefit
                   vs
                   a
                   farre
                   longer
                   terme
                   ,
                   like
                   vnto
                   swinish
                   Epicures
                   ,
                   whose
                   thoughts
                   intend
                   on
                   their
                   present
                   prouender
                   ,
                   of
                   whom
                   Saint
                   Paul
                   wrote
                   :
                   
                     Edamus
                     ,
                     Bibamus
                     ,
                     ludamus
                     ,
                     cras
                     moriemur
                     .
                  
                   Let
                   vs
                   eate
                   ,
                   drinke
                   ,
                   and
                   play
                   ,
                   for
                   to
                   morrow
                   we
                   shall
                   die
                   .
                   And
                   as
                   another
                   of
                   late
                   verified
                   :
                   
                     
                       Dulcia
                       ,
                       dum
                       fas
                       est
                       ,
                       fugitiuae
                       gaudia
                       vitae
                    
                     
                       Carpe
                       ,
                       volubilibus
                       labitur
                       annus
                       equis
                       .
                    
                  
                
              
            
          
           
             
             
               Of
               medicines
               and
               meanes
               to
               prolong
               Life
               .
               CHAP.
               3.
               
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 certaine
                 remedies
                 to
                 prolong
                 life
                 .
              
               
                 TO
                 liue
                 for
                 euer
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 become
                 immortall
                 here
                 on
                 earth
                 ,
                 is
                 a
                 thing
                 impossible
                 :
                 but
                 to
                 prolong
                 a
                 mans
                 life
                 ,
                 free
                 from
                 sicknesses
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 keepe
                 the
                 humours
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 in
                 a
                 temperate
                 state
                 ,
                 I
                 verily
                 beleeue
                 it
                 may
                 be
                 done
                 ,
                 first
                 by
                 Gods
                 permission
                 ,
                 by
                 obseruing
                 a
                 good
                 dyet
                 ,
                 and
                 sometimes
                 by
                 vsing
                 of
                 some
                 Treacle
                 ,
                 Methridate
                 ,
                 or
                 such
                 like
                 in
                 the
                 Spring
                 time
                 and
                 Autumne
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 Syrup
                 against
                 hot
                 diseases
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 preserue
                 health
                 .
              
               
                 For
                 the
                 preseruing
                 of
                 a
                 mans
                 health
                 free
                 from
                 hot
                 diseases
                 ,
                 vse
                 this
                 sirup
                 fasting
                 :
                 take
                 of
                 cleere
                 fountaine
                 water
                 two
                 quarts
                 ,
                 put
                 into
                 it
                 the
                 roots
                 of
                 Smallage
                 ,
                 Borrage
                 ,
                 Buglosse
                 ,
                 Endiue
                 and
                 Parsley
                 ,
                 of
                 each
                 three
                 ounces
                 ,
                 of
                 good
                 Tobacco
                 leafe
                 halfe
                 a
                 pound
                 ,
                 seeth
                 them
                 with
                 a
                 soft
                 fire
                 vntill
                 they
                 come
                 to
                 one
                 quart
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 put
                 vnto
                 them
                 two
                 pound
                 of
                 Suger
                 ,
                 and
                 mingle
                 it
                 with
                 a
                 pint
                 of
                 good
                 white
                 wine
                 
                 vinegar
                 ,
                 and
                 if
                 you
                 please
                 to
                 adde
                 some
                 iuyce
                 of
                 Lemonds
                 thereto
                 ,
                 it
                 will
                 proue
                 a
                 rare
                 help
                 against
                 grosse
                 choler
                 &
                 flegme
                 ,
                 it
                 will
                 scoure
                 and
                 open
                 obstructions
                 and
                 opilations
                 about
                 the
                 Spleene
                 ,
                 liuer
                 ,
                 and
                 raines
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 preseruatiues
                 against
                 cold
                 diseases
                 .
              
               
                 Doctor
                 Steuens
                 water
                 is
                 an
                 excellent
                 preseruatiue
                 to
                 prolong
                 life
                 ,
                 and
                 against
                 cold
                 diseases
                 ,
                 and
                 is
                 made
                 after
                 this
                 manner
                 :
                 take
                 a
                 gallon
                 of
                 gascoigne
                 wine
                 ,
                 then
                 take
                 ginger
                 ,
                 gallingall
                 ,
                 Cammomill
                 ,
                 Sinnamon
                 ,
                 nutmegs
                 ,
                 graines
                 ,
                 cloues
                 ,
                 mace
                 ,
                 anise-seede
                 ,
                 carraway-seed
                 ,
                 of
                 each
                 of
                 them
                 a
                 drachme
                 ;
                 then
                 take
                 sage
                 ,
                 mints
                 ,
                 red
                 roses
                 ,
                 tyme
                 ,
                 pellitory
                 of
                 the
                 wall
                 ,
                 wild
                 marioram
                 ,
                 rosemary
                 ,
                 penny-mountaine
                 ,
                 otherwise
                 wilde
                 tyme
                 ,
                 cammomill
                 ,
                 Lauender
                 ,
                 of
                 euery
                 of
                 them
                 one
                 handfull
                 ,
                 then
                 bruise
                 the
                 spices
                 small
                 ,
                 bruise
                 the
                 hearbs
                 ,
                 and
                 put
                 all
                 into
                 the
                 wine
                 ,
                 and
                 let
                 it
                 stand
                 twelue
                 houres
                 ,
                 stirring
                 it
                 diuers
                 times
                 ,
                 then
                 distill
                 it
                 in
                 a
                 limbeck
                 ,
                 and
                 keepe
                 the
                 first
                 pint
                 of
                 the
                 water
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 is
                 the
                 best
                 :
                 and
                 then
                 will
                 come
                 a
                 second
                 water
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 not
                 so
                 good
                 as
                 the
                 first
                 .
                 The
                 vertues
                 of
                 this
                 water
                 are
                 these
                 ;
                 it
                 comforteth
                 the
                 spirits
                 ,
                 it
                 preserueth
                 the
                 youth
                 of
                 man
                 ,
                 it
                 helpeth
                 old
                 gouts
                 ,
                 the
                 toothach
                 ,
                 the
                 
                 palsie
                 and
                 all
                 diseases
                 proceeding
                 of
                 cold
                 :
                 it
                 causeth
                 barren
                 women
                 to
                 conceiue
                 ,
                 it
                 cureth
                 the
                 cold
                 dropsie
                 ,
                 the
                 stone
                 in
                 the
                 bladder
                 and
                 the
                 raines
                 of
                 the
                 backe
                 ,
                 it
                 healeth
                 the
                 canker
                 ,
                 comforteth
                 the
                 stomacke
                 ,
                 and
                 prolongeth
                 a
                 mans
                 life
                 .
                 Take
                 but
                 a
                 spoonfull
                 of
                 it
                 once
                 in
                 seauen
                 dayes
                 ;
                 for
                 it
                 is
                 very
                 hot
                 in
                 operation
                 .
                 Doctor
                 Steuens
                 who
                 vsed
                 this
                 water
                 ,
                 liued
                 one
                 hundred
                 yeares
                 wanting
                 two
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 sublimated
                 wine
                 of
                 M.
                 Gallus
                 ,
                 Physitian
                 to
                 the
                 Emperour
                 Charles
                 ,
                 the
                 fift
                 of
                 that
                 name
                 ,
                 is
                 most
                 admirable
                 :
                 for
                 the
                 vse
                 thereof
                 caused
                 him
                 to
                 liue
                 sixscore
                 and
                 nine
                 yeares
                 without
                 any
                 disease
                 :
                 which
                 I
                 thinke
                 to
                 be
                 better
                 then
                 Doctor
                 Steuens
                 water
                 :
                 it
                 is
                 made
                 in
                 this
                 sort
                 ;
                 Take
                 of
                 Cubebs
                 ,
                 Cinnamon
                 ,
                 Cloues
                 ,
                 Mace
                 ,
                 Ginger
                 ;
                 Nutmegs
                 ,
                 &
                 Galingall
                 ,
                 three
                 ounces
                 ,
                 of
                 Rubarbe
                 halfe
                 an
                 ounce
                 ,
                 of
                 Angelica
                 two
                 drachmes
                 ,
                 of
                 Mastick
                 foure
                 drachmes
                 ,
                 and
                 of
                 Sage
                 one
                 pound
                 and
                 two
                 ounces
                 :
                 steepe
                 these
                 in
                 two
                 pound
                 and
                 sixe
                 ounces
                 of
                 
                   Aqua
                   vitae
                
                 ,
                 which
                 was
                 sixe
                 times
                 distilled
                 :
                 then
                 distill
                 them
                 altogether
                 .
                 This
                 wine
                 comforteth
                 the
                 braine
                 and
                 memory
                 ,
                 expelleth
                 Melancholy
                 ,
                 breaketh
                 the
                 stone
                 ,
                 prouoketh
                 appetite
                 ,
                 reuiueth
                 weake
                 spirits
                 ,
                 and
                 causeth
                 a
                 man
                 to
                 waxe
                 
                 young
                 and
                 lustie
                 :
                 It
                 may
                 be
                 taken
                 twise
                 euery
                 weeke
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 aboue
                 one
                 spoonfull
                 at
                 each
                 time
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 but
                 in
                 a
                 cup
                 of
                 drinke
                 fasting
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Of
               Mirth
               .
               CHAP.
               4.
               
            
             
               
                 What
                 is
                 the
                 principall
                 naturall
                 meanes
                 to
                 prolong
                 life
                 ?
              
               
                 MIrth
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 a
                 motion
                 of
                 the
                 minde
                 ,
                 whereby
                 it
                 taketh
                 delight
                 ,
                 and
                 stayeth
                 it selfe
                 in
                 that
                 good
                 which
                 is
                 offered
                 vnto
                 it
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 are
                 the
                 effects
                 of
                 Mirth
                 ?
              
               
                 Mirth
                 enlargeth
                 the
                 heart
                 ,
                 and
                 disperseth
                 much
                 naturall
                 heat
                 with
                 the
                 bloud
                 ,
                 of
                 which
                 it
                 sendeth
                 a
                 good
                 portion
                 to
                 the
                 face
                 ;
                 especially
                 if
                 the
                 mirth
                 be
                 so
                 great
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 stirreth
                 a
                 man
                 to
                 laughter
                 .
                 Mirth
                 I
                 say
                 ,
                 maketh
                 the
                 forehead
                 smooth
                 and
                 cleere
                 ,
                 causeth
                 the
                 eyes
                 to
                 glister
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 cheekes
                 to
                 become
                 ruddy
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Wherefore
                 did
                 God
                 giue
                 affections
                 vnto
                 men
                 ?
              
               
                 God
                 afforded
                 Mirth
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 ,
                 vnto
                 men
                 ,
                 that
                 thereby
                 they
                 might
                 be
                 induced
                 to
                 seeke
                 after
                 his
                 diuine
                 Maiestie
                 ,
                 in
                 whom
                 alone
                 they
                 should
                 finde
                 all
                 mirth
                 and
                 comfort
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 What
                 mirth
                 doe
                 the
                 common
                 people
                 loue
                 best
                 ?
              
               
                 Ignorant
                 men
                 doe
                 delight
                 in
                 corporall
                 and
                 outward
                 things
                 ,
                 which
                 moue
                 their
                 bodily
                 senses
                 .
                 As
                 in
                 beholding
                 of
                 faire
                 women
                 ,
                 pleasant
                 Gardens
                 ,
                 rich
                 attires
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 in
                 eating
                 or
                 drinking
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 What
                 mirth
                 doe
                 wise
                 men
                 like
                 ?
              
               
                 Wise
                 men
                 receiue
                 pleasure
                 by
                 contemplation
                 :
                 which
                 is
                 proper
                 to
                 the
                 minde
                 and
                 spirit
                 .
                 This
                 Aristotle
                 approued
                 ,
                 when
                 as
                 hee
                 placed
                 the
                 end
                 and
                 soueraigne
                 Good
                 in
                 contemplation
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Shew
                 me
                 a
                 way
                 to
                 make
                 the
                 heart
                 merry
                 .
              
               
                 You
                 must
                 vse
                 to
                 carrie
                 about
                 you
                 a
                 sweet
                 Pomander
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 haue
                 alwayes
                 in
                 your
                 Chamber
                 some
                 good
                 perfumes
                 ;
                 Or
                 you
                 may
                 wash
                 your
                 face
                 and
                 hands
                 with
                 sweet
                 waters
                 :
                 for
                 nothing
                 in
                 the
                 world
                 can
                 so
                 exhilarate
                 and
                 purifie
                 the
                 spirits
                 ,
                 as
                 good
                 odours
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
             
               Of
               daily
               Diet.
               CHAP.
               5.
               
            
             
               
                 Declare
                 vnto
                 me
                 a
                 daily
                 Diet
                 ,
                 whereby
                 I
                 may
                 liue
                 in
                 health
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 trouble
                 my selfe
                 in
                 Physicke
                 .
              
               
                 I
                 Will
                 :
                 first
                 of
                 all
                 in
                 the
                 morning
                 when
                 you
                 are
                 about
                 to
                 rise
                 vp
                 ,
                 stretch
                 your selfe
                 strongly
                 :
                 for
                 thereby
                 the
                 animall
                 heat
                 is
                 somewhat
                 forced
                 into
                 the
                 outward
                 parts
                 ,
                 the
                 memory
                 is
                 quickned
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 body
                 is
                 strengthened
                 .
                 Secondarily
                 ,
                 rub
                 and
                 chafe
                 your
                 body
                 with
                 the
                 palmes
                 of
                 your
                 hands
                 ,
                 or
                 with
                 a
                 course
                 linnen
                 cloath
                 :
                 the
                 breast
                 ,
                 back
                 ,
                 and
                 belly
                 gently
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 armes
                 ,
                 thighes
                 ,
                 and
                 legs
                 roughly
                 ,
                 till
                 they
                 seeme
                 ruddy
                 and
                 warme
                 .
                 3.
                 
                 Euacuate
                 your selfe
                 .
                 4.
                 
                 Put
                 on
                 your
                 apparell
                 ,
                 which
                 in
                 the
                 Sommer
                 time
                 must
                 be
                 (
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 )
                 silke
                 ,
                 or
                 buffe
                 ,
                 made
                 of
                 Buckes
                 skinne
                 ,
                 for
                 it
                 resisteth
                 vermine
                 and
                 contagious
                 ayres
                 :
                 in
                 Winter
                 your
                 vpper
                 garment
                 must
                 be
                 of
                 Cotton
                 or
                 Frizeadow
                 .
                 5.
                 
                 When
                 you
                 haue
                 apparrelled
                 your selfe
                 handsomly
                 ,
                 combe
                 your
                 head
                 softly
                 and
                 easily
                 with
                 an
                 Iuorie
                 combe
                 ,
                 for
                 nothing
                 recreateth
                 the
                 memory
                 
                 more
                 .
                 6.
                 
                 Pick
                 and
                 rub
                 your
                 teeth
                 ;
                 and
                 because
                 I
                 would
                 not
                 haue
                 you
                 to
                 bestow
                 much
                 cost
                 in
                 making
                 dentrifrices
                 for
                 them
                 ,
                 I
                 will
                 aduertise
                 you
                 by
                 foure
                 rules
                 of
                 importance
                 how
                 to
                 keepe
                 your
                 teeth
                 white
                 and
                 vncorrupt
                 ,
                 and
                 also
                 to
                 haue
                 a
                 sweet
                 breath
                 .
                 First
                 ,
                 wash
                 well
                 your
                 mouth
                 when
                 you
                 haue
                 eaten
                 your
                 meat
                 :
                 secondly
                 ,
                 sleepe
                 with
                 your
                 mouth
                 somewhat
                 open
                 .
                 Thirdly
                 ,
                 spet
                 out
                 in
                 the
                 morning
                 that
                 which
                 like
                 the
                 scum
                 of
                 a
                 pot
                 ,
                 is
                 gathered
                 together
                 that
                 night
                 in
                 the
                 throat
                 :
                 then
                 take
                 a
                 linnen
                 cloath
                 and
                 rub
                 your
                 teeth
                 well
                 within
                 and
                 without
                 ,
                 to
                 take
                 away
                 the
                 fumosity
                 of
                 the
                 meat
                 and
                 yellownesse
                 of
                 the
                 teeth
                 :
                 For
                 it
                 is
                 that
                 which
                 putrifieth
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 infecteth
                 the
                 breath
                 .
                 But
                 least
                 (
                 perhaps
                 )
                 your
                 teeth
                 become
                 loose
                 and
                 filthy
                 ,
                 I
                 will
                 shew
                 you
                 a
                 water
                 farre
                 better
                 than
                 pouders
                 ,
                 which
                 shall
                 fasten
                 them
                 ,
                 scoure
                 the
                 mouth
                 ,
                 make
                 sound
                 the
                 gummes
                 ,
                 and
                 cause
                 the
                 flesh
                 to
                 grow
                 againe
                 ,
                 if
                 it
                 were
                 fallen
                 away
                 .
                 Take
                 halfe
                 a
                 glassefull
                 of
                 vinegar
                 ,
                 and
                 as
                 much
                 of
                 the
                 water
                 of
                 the
                 Mastick
                 tree
                 (
                 if
                 it
                 may
                 easily
                 be
                 got
                 )
                 of
                 Rosemary
                 ,
                 Mirh
                 ,
                 Mastick
                 ,
                 bole
                 Armoniack
                 ,
                 Dragons
                 hearbe
                 ,
                 roach
                 Allome
                 ,
                 of
                 each
                 of
                 them
                 an
                 ounce
                 :
                 of
                 fine
                 Cinnamon
                 
                 halfe
                 an
                 ounce
                 ,
                 of
                 Fountaine
                 water
                 three
                 glasse
                 fuls
                 :
                 mingle
                 all
                 well
                 together
                 ,
                 and
                 let
                 it
                 boile
                 with
                 a
                 small
                 fire
                 ,
                 adding
                 to
                 it
                 halfe
                 a
                 pound
                 of
                 hony
                 ,
                 and
                 taking
                 away
                 the
                 scum
                 ,
                 then
                 put
                 in
                 a
                 little
                 Benguine
                 ,
                 and
                 when
                 it
                 hath
                 sodden
                 a
                 quarter
                 of
                 an
                 houre
                 ,
                 take
                 it
                 from
                 the
                 fire
                 ,
                 and
                 keep
                 it
                 in
                 a
                 cleane
                 bottle
                 ,
                 and
                 wash
                 your
                 teeth
                 therewithall
                 as
                 well
                 before
                 meate
                 as
                 after
                 :
                 if
                 you
                 holde
                 some
                 of
                 it
                 in
                 your
                 mouth
                 a
                 little
                 while
                 ,
                 it
                 doth
                 much
                 good
                 to
                 the
                 head
                 ,
                 and
                 sweetneth
                 the
                 breath
                 .
                 I
                 take
                 this
                 water
                 to
                 be
                 better
                 then
                 a
                 thousand
                 of
                 their
                 dentifrices
                 .
              
               
                 7.
                 
                 Wash
                 your
                 face
                 ,
                 eies
                 ,
                 eares
                 ,
                 and
                 hands
                 with
                 Fountaine
                 water
                 .
                 I
                 haue
                 knowne
                 diuers
                 Students
                 which
                 vsed
                 to
                 bath
                 their
                 eyes
                 onely
                 in
                 Well
                 water
                 twise
                 a
                 day
                 ,
                 whereby
                 they
                 preserued
                 their
                 eye-sight
                 free
                 from
                 all
                 passions
                 and
                 bloud-sheds
                 ,
                 and
                 sharpned
                 their
                 memories
                 meruailously
                 .
                 You
                 may
                 sometimes
                 ,
                 bath
                 your
                 eies
                 in
                 Rose
                 water
                 ,
                 Fennel
                 water
                 ,
                 or
                 Eye-bright
                 water
                 ,
                 if
                 you
                 please
                 :
                 but
                 I
                 know
                 for
                 certainty
                 ,
                 that
                 you
                 need
                 not
                 ,
                 as
                 long
                 as
                 you
                 vse
                 good
                 Fountaine
                 water
                 .
                 Moreouer
                 ,
                 least
                 you
                 by
                 olde
                 age
                 or
                 some
                 other
                 meanes
                 doe
                 waxe
                 dimme
                 of
                 sight
                 ,
                 I
                 will
                 declare
                 vnto
                 you
                 ,
                 the
                 best
                 and
                 safest
                 remedy
                 which
                 I
                 know
                 ,
                 and
                 
                 this
                 it
                 is
                 :
                 take
                 of
                 the
                 distilled
                 waters
                 of
                 Verueine
                 ,
                 Bettony
                 ,
                 and
                 Fennell
                 one
                 ounce
                 and
                 a
                 halfe
                 ,
                 then
                 take
                 one
                 ounce
                 of
                 white
                 wine
                 ,
                 one
                 drachme
                 of
                 Tutia
                 (
                 if
                 you
                 may
                 easily
                 come
                 by
                 it
                 )
                 two
                 drachmes
                 of
                 Sugarcandy
                 ,
                 one
                 drachme
                 of
                 Aloes
                 Epaticke
                 ,
                 two
                 drachmes
                 of
                 womans
                 milke
                 ,
                 and
                 one
                 scruple
                 of
                 Camphire
                 ;
                 beat
                 those
                 to
                 powder
                 which
                 are
                 to
                 be
                 beaten
                 ;
                 and
                 infuse
                 them
                 together
                 for
                 foure
                 and
                 twenty
                 houres
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 straine
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 vse
                 it
                 when
                 you
                 list
                 .
                 Or
                 if
                 you
                 abhorre
                 Artificiall
                 meanes
                 to
                 cleare
                 your
                 sight
                 ,
                 suggested
                 by
                 the
                 spirit
                 of
                 incredulity
                 ,
                 that
                 a
                 Decipe
                 might
                 be
                 inserted
                 in
                 stead
                 of
                 a
                 Recipe
                 ,
                 hold
                 fast
                 on
                 natures
                 documents
                 ,
                 and
                 follow
                 these
                 plaine
                 rules
                 to
                 preuent
                 sore
                 eyes
                 :
                 First
                 ,
                 keepe
                 your
                 belly
                 alwaies
                 soluble
                 :
                 Secondly
                 ,
                 abstaine
                 from
                 winde
                 ,
                 dust
                 ,
                 smoake
                 ,
                 fire
                 ,
                 sorrow
                 ,
                 watching
                 ;
                 from
                 eating
                 of
                 Mustard
                 ,
                 Beanes
                 ,
                 Onions
                 ,
                 Garlick
                 ,
                 Leekes
                 ,
                 and
                 grosse
                 meates
                 :
                 from
                 wine
                 bibbing
                 or
                 strong
                 drink
                 ,
                 and
                 reading
                 of
                 small
                 printed
                 letters
                 .
                 Thirdly
                 ,
                 sleepe
                 not
                 after
                 meales
                 presently
                 .
                 Fourthly
                 ,
                 vse
                 to
                 regard
                 greene
                 or
                 yellow
                 colours
                 .
                 Fiftly
                 ,
                 holde
                 not
                 downe
                 your
                 head
                 too
                 much
                 .
                 Sixtly
                 ,
                 touch
                 them
                 not
                 with
                 your
                 hands
                 ,
                 specially
                 vnwasht
                 .
                 
                 Lastly
                 ,
                 keepe
                 your
                 feete
                 cleane
                 and
                 dry
                 .
              
               
                 8
                 When
                 you
                 haue
                 finished
                 these
                 ,
                 say
                 your
                 morning
                 prayers
                 ,
                 and
                 desire
                 God
                 to
                 blesse
                 you
                 ,
                 to
                 preserue
                 you
                 from
                 all
                 dangers
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 direct
                 you
                 in
                 all
                 your
                 actions
                 .
                 For
                 ,
                 
                   the
                   feare
                   of
                   God
                
                 (
                 as
                 it
                 is
                 written
                 )
                 
                   is
                   the
                   beginning
                   of
                   wisedome
                
                 :
                 and
                 without
                 his
                 protection
                 whatsoeuer
                 you
                 take
                 in
                 hand
                 ,
                 shall
                 fall
                 to
                 ruine
                 .
                 Therefore
                 see
                 that
                 you
                 be
                 mindfull
                 of
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 remember
                 that
                 to
                 that
                 intent
                 you
                 were
                 borne
                 ,
                 to
                 wit
                 ,
                 to
                 set
                 forth
                 his
                 glory
                 and
                 most
                 holy
                 name
                 .
              
               
                 9
                 Goe
                 about
                 your
                 businesse
                 circumspectly
                 ,
                 and
                 endeauour
                 to
                 banish
                 all
                 cares
                 and
                 cogitations
                 ,
                 which
                 are
                 the
                 onely
                 baites
                 of
                 wickednesse
                 .
                 Defraud
                 no
                 man
                 of
                 his
                 right
                 :
                 for
                 what
                 measure
                 you
                 giue
                 vnto
                 your
                 neighbour
                 ,
                 that
                 measure
                 shal
                 you
                 receiue
                 .
                 And
                 finally
                 ,
                 imprint
                 this
                 saying
                 deeply
                 in
                 your
                 mind
                 :
                 A
                 man
                 is
                 but
                 a
                 Steward
                 of
                 his
                 owne
                 goods
                 ;
                 whereof
                 God
                 one
                 day
                 will
                 demaund
                 an
                 account
                 .
              
               
                 10
                 Eate
                 three
                 meales
                 a
                 day
                 ,
                 vntill
                 you
                 come
                 to
                 the
                 age
                 of
                 40
                 yeares
                 :
                 as
                 your
                 breakfast
                 ,
                 dinner
                 and
                 supper
                 ;
                 yet
                 that
                 betweene
                 breakfast
                 and
                 dinner
                 there
                 be
                 the
                 space
                 of
                 foure
                 houres
                 ,
                 and
                 betwixt
                 dinner
                 and
                 supper
                 seauen
                 houres
                 :
                 the
                 breakfast
                 must
                 be
                 lesse
                 then
                 
                 the
                 dinner
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 dinner
                 somewhat
                 lesse
                 then
                 supper
                 .
                 In
                 the
                 beginning
                 of
                 meales
                 ,
                 eate
                 such
                 meates
                 as
                 wil
                 make
                 the
                 belly
                 soluble
                 ,
                 and
                 let
                 grosse
                 meates
                 be
                 the
                 last
                 .
                 Content
                 your selfe
                 with
                 one
                 kinde
                 of
                 meat
                 ,
                 for
                 diuersities
                 hurt
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 by
                 reason
                 that
                 meates
                 are
                 not
                 all
                 of
                 one
                 quality
                 .
                 Some
                 are
                 easily
                 digested
                 ,
                 others
                 againe
                 are
                 heauy
                 ,
                 and
                 will
                 lie
                 a
                 long
                 time
                 vpon
                 the
                 stomack
                 .
                 Also
                 the
                 eating
                 of
                 sundry
                 sorts
                 of
                 meate
                 require
                 often
                 pots
                 of
                 drinke
                 ,
                 which
                 hinder
                 concoction
                 ;
                 like
                 as
                 wee
                 see
                 often
                 putting
                 of
                 water
                 into
                 the
                 meat-pot
                 to
                 hinder
                 it
                 from
                 seething
                 .
                 Our
                 stomack
                 is
                 our
                 bodies
                 kitchin
                 ,
                 which
                 being
                 distempered
                 ,
                 how
                 can
                 we
                 liue
                 in
                 temperate
                 order
                 ?
                 drink
                 not
                 aboue
                 foure
                 times
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 moderately
                 ,
                 at
                 each
                 meale
                 :
                 least
                 the
                 belly-god
                 hale
                 you
                 at
                 length
                 captiue
                 into
                 his
                 prison
                 house
                 of
                 gurmundise
                 ,
                 where
                 you
                 shall
                 be
                 afflicted
                 with
                 as
                 many
                 diseases
                 as
                 you
                 haue
                 deuoured
                 dishes
                 of
                 sundry
                 sorts
                 .
                 The
                 cups
                 ,
                 whereof
                 you
                 drinke
                 ,
                 should
                 be
                 of
                 siluer
                 ,
                 gold
                 ,
                 or
                 siluer
                 and
                 guilt
                 ,
                 or
                 Venice
                 glasse
                 ,
                 or
                 of
                 Chinaes
                 mould
                 ,
                 and
                 those
                 without
                 couers
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 breath
                 may
                 not
                 be
                 restrained
                 within
                 .
              
               
                 Labour
                 not
                 either
                 your
                 minde
                 or
                 body
                 ,
                 
                 presently
                 after
                 meales
                 :
                 rather
                 sit
                 a
                 while
                 and
                 discourse
                 of
                 some
                 pleasant
                 matters
                 :
                 when
                 you
                 haue
                 ended
                 your
                 confabulations
                 ,
                 wash
                 your
                 face
                 and
                 mouth
                 with
                 colde
                 waters
                 ,
                 then
                 goe
                 to
                 your
                 chamber
                 ,
                 and
                 make
                 cleane
                 your
                 teeth
                 with
                 your
                 tooth-picker
                 ,
                 which
                 should
                 be
                 either
                 of
                 Iuory
                 ,
                 siluer
                 ,
                 or
                 gold
                 .
                 Watch
                 not
                 too
                 long
                 after
                 supper
                 ,
                 but
                 depart
                 within
                 two
                 houres
                 to
                 bed
                 .
                 But
                 if
                 necessity
                 compell
                 you
                 to
                 watch
                 longer
                 then
                 ordinarie
                 ,
                 then
                 be
                 sure
                 to
                 augment
                 your
                 sleepe
                 the
                 next
                 morning
                 ,
                 that
                 you
                 may
                 recompence
                 Nature
                 ,
                 which
                 otherwise
                 through
                 your
                 watching
                 ,
                 would
                 not
                 a
                 little
                 be
                 empaired
                 .
              
               
                 12
                 Put
                 off
                 your
                 cloathes
                 in
                 Winter
                 by
                 the
                 fire
                 side
                 :
                 and
                 cause
                 your
                 bed
                 to
                 be
                 heated
                 with
                 a
                 warming
                 pan
                 :
                 vnlesse
                 your
                 pretence
                 be
                 to
                 harden
                 your
                 members
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 apply
                 your selfe
                 vnto
                 militarie
                 discipline
                 .
                 This
                 outward
                 heating
                 doth
                 wonderfully
                 comfort
                 the
                 inward
                 heat
                 ,
                 it
                 helpeth
                 concoction
                 ,
                 and
                 consumeth
                 moisture
                 .
              
               
                 13
                 Remember
                 before
                 you
                 rest
                 ,
                 to
                 chew
                 downe
                 a
                 dozen
                 graines
                 of
                 Mastick
                 ,
                 either
                 alone
                 ,
                 or
                 in
                 the
                 conserues
                 of
                 Roses
                 ,
                 for
                 it
                 will
                 preserue
                 your
                 body
                 from
                 bad
                 humours
                 .
              
               
               
                 14
                 Pray
                 feruently
                 to
                 God
                 ,
                 before
                 you
                 sleepe
                 ,
                 to
                 inspire
                 you
                 with
                 his
                 grace
                 ,
                 to
                 defend
                 you
                 from
                 all
                 perils
                 and
                 subtilties
                 of
                 wicked
                 fiends
                 ,
                 and
                 from
                 their
                 spirituall
                 temptations
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 prosper
                 you
                 in
                 all
                 your
                 affaires
                 :
                 and
                 then
                 lay
                 aside
                 your
                 cares
                 and
                 businesse
                 ,
                 as
                 well
                 publick
                 as
                 priuate
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 night
                 :
                 in
                 so
                 doing
                 you
                 shall
                 sleepe
                 more
                 quietly
                 .
              
               
                 15
                 Make
                 water
                 at
                 least
                 once
                 ,
                 and
                 cast
                 it
                 out
                 :
                 but
                 in
                 the
                 morning
                 make
                 water
                 in
                 an
                 vrinall
                 ,
                 that
                 by
                 looking
                 on
                 it
                 ,
                 you
                 may
                 gesse
                 somewhat
                 of
                 the
                 state
                 of
                 your
                 body
                 ,
                 by
                 noting
                 the
                 quantity
                 and
                 colour
                 :
                 sleepe
                 first
                 on
                 your
                 right
                 side
                 with
                 your
                 mouth
                 open
                 ,
                 and
                 let
                 your
                 night
                 cap
                 be
                 somwhat
                 thick
                 quilted
                 ,
                 haue
                 a
                 hole
                 in
                 the
                 top
                 ,
                 through
                 which
                 the
                 vapour
                 may
                 goe
                 out
                 .
              
               
                 16
                 In
                 the
                 morning
                 remember
                 your
                 affaires
                 ,
                 and
                 if
                 you
                 be
                 troubled
                 with
                 rheumes
                 ,
                 as
                 soone
                 as
                 you
                 haue
                 risen
                 ,
                 vse
                 
                   diatrion
                   piperion
                
                 ,
                 Pellitory
                 of
                 Spaine
                 ,
                 Tobacco
                 snuft
                 vp
                 into
                 the
                 nostrils
                 ,
                 or
                 eate
                 white
                 Pepper
                 now
                 and
                 then
                 ,
                 and
                 you
                 shall
                 be
                 holpen
                 .
              
               
                 FINIS
                 .
              
            
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
           Gentle
           Reader
           ,
           for
           Chap.
           8.
           in
           Page
           54.
           put
           Chap.
           9.
           
           And
           Chap.
           9.
           in
           Page
           56.
           make
           it
           Chap.
           10.
           and
           so
           adieu
           .