far as Fase a Riuer of Colchis vvhere there is a great multitude and therefore from thence hee receiues his name through his long flight he hath lost his feathers and so peraduenture comes to be so vvell roasted as he is by the Sun-beames A. I pray you take this piece of him for my sake P. This flesh throughout all qualities is temperate and of indifferent temper betweene the Capon and the Partridge the fat young ones and those that are taken with the Hawke are best it is very conuenient meat for humane nature by reason of his temperature it corroborates the stomack nourisheth much fattens the leane and extenuated who with such meate doe sodainely recouer but yet to Ettickes and Tisickes it augmenteth and inuigorateth all the vertues of their diseases generateth superfluous humiditie in briefe this flesh by reason that it is dryer is better then that of Pullets as also for the ayre nourishment and greater exercise that it hath but vsing this meat superfluously it causeth the gout and in that this flesh begets but thinne bloud it is not very conuenient for those that labour much with whom grosse and slimie cates best agree But euen now I remember I haue heard in Italie of a Physitian who aduised a great Lord setting downe vnto him such a rule vse you it soberly sir but giue the largest part of this fowle to your Physitian A. Some Physitians many Lawiers and Iesuites are of the nature of the Cock which doth nothing else but crow scrape peck c. it is an easie thing after they haue fed well themselues to preach abstinence and suffering nothing nor being willing to suffer to perswade others to patience Reach the hens P. The henne I euer delighted in because she is temperate in all qualities the black is the best with a rising and double crest with a red peake so she be young and fat and hath not yet laid any egges but your wilde ones are best they nourish much easily digest and being tender they augment good bloud restore appetite encrease vnderstanding make the voyce cleare and wonderfully temper humane complexions A. I beleeue your pullets and Caponets doe the like and therefore I will taste of them P. They which doe not crow nor climbe the henne retaining yet great nourishment in their stones are fit in all seasons and for all ages but especially in Sommer but old hennes are of hard digestion and they must be well mortified which you shall quickly doe in quenching them aliue with wine or putting nuts into the broth A. But what if it were a Cocke and not a Henne P. It is more hot more dry and more vicious they are good for medicines for their broth druncke is good for ventosities it helpes the collicke moues the body and prouokes Venus and sleepe A. But what if were a Turky-cocke P. Or rather of Africke from whence they were brought into Europe it is hot and moist in the second degree the best are the youngest fatted in the fields dead and nipped with the night aire in taste goodnesse and nourishment as also their flesh in whitenesse giues no place to our Pullets it is more easie of digestion of greater nourishment lesse superfluity it generates excellent bloud so it be well mortified and well roasted or backed in an Ouen it restoreth the weake and raising vp the dead excites to lust What thinke you of it hath it not a great vertue but hee that is idle and eates too much thereof it leaues him in a good way to the gout and giues a liberall earnest for many catarres A. Reach me those larkes or a wood-larke or a bunting whether you will Doe they like you sir P. They are hot and temperately moist being roasted they excite appetite they easilie digest especially being roasted with sage but let them be fat well rosted and young In Autumne and winter they helpe euery complexion without any detriment at all but onely that they hardly digest vvith old men but the larke sodden in broth easeth collical griefes and the ashes thereof preuaile against the same and the little body being feathered may be preserued in meale A. See here is an Owsell or a Mearle at least sir I hope you will eate one of these for company P. They are hot and dry in the second degree and being taken in cold seasons they are best especially if the be young and fat the Thrush is sweeter your Mearles especially the old ones are hard of digestion they hurt old men and such as haue the Migran or Frenzie but being stewed with parsly and opening hearbs they are lesse hurtfull A. Set that Goose neare or Gosling whether soeuer P. The Gosling is better as also it is more hot and moist but the best parts of them are the wings and Lyuer the flesh of the Goose yeeldeth good nourishment fattens the leane but if they be fed with milke they make the lyuer very pleasant and moreouer the flesh excites lust notwithstanding he is wise that can abstaine as well from the flesh of a Goose as of a woman A. Take away this Goose and reach me those Connies P. It is a little Hare of which as bad Souldiers learne in stead of fighting to flye so the subtillest of these were instructed to make mines wherevpon came that verse Gaudet in effossis habitare Cuniculus antris Demonstrat tacitas hostibus ille vias It is cold and drye but lesse then the Hare her flesh is dry and of better nourishment it consumes superfluous humidities and flegmes of the stomacke it prouokes vrine helpes those that suffer the Elefantiasis but they must be young and fat and yet it hurts melancholicke and old men and in Sommer they are not so acceptable but rather in Winter but first parboyling them a little and afterwards roasting them with Cloues Nutmegs Synamon and lard it will be corrected A. But to what end set you before vs this composition of egges P. Ouum alit recreat coitumque semen adauget they are hot and moist temperately the white is cold and moist and the yolke is hot and moist those that come fresh from the trodden henne are better then those of the Pheasant but Geese and Duckes egges are hard to digest and of euill odor Your egges that be little and long and freshly taken from the henne are best the little ones because they come of a yong fat creature and the long ones do shew the strength of heate A. But for all this what good doe they P. They nourish much and prouoke sleepe and therfore agree with old men they excite Venus helpe Tisickes open the breast cheare the voice but especially those that are to be supped and be trembling which wee call pocht they are best with salt and spice but the new ones must be thus roasted let them be laid in hot ashes and then with a long stick faire and softly turne them round to the end they may equally rost and
is a most singular remedy against the plague by being onely infused into wine with bole Armoniacke otherwise being drunke in wine it cheares vp the heart and helps Tissickes but so it is difficult to digest it heales the Lyuer and nourisheth but a little but in a sallet with cold hearbs it alwayes helps old men and melancholickes A. But what say you to those that vse Purcelaine P. Marry they doe it not without reason this being of notable assistance to dissenteryes to menstruall fluxes to the spetting of bloud and heate of the stomacke it cooleth Venus and the sorenesse of the teeth but being eaten in great quantity because it is moist and cold it hurts the stomacke and sight and nourisheth little but in Summer it is good for cholericke sanguine young men but old men it helps A. And what if wee should mingle Rosemary with our other hearbes P. That with honey cureth all Asmatickes and the cough it stayes fluxes the flowers thereof conserued in sugar comfort the stomacke the heart and the matrixe but it exasperates the arteries if it be not rectified with honey A. By the report of many Sage giues place in vertue to no other hearbe P. It comforts the stomacke and the head helps vertiginall dizinesse and the Megrim both paralitickes and epileptickes it prouokes vrine and menstrues and stayes the white fluxes of women the pouder thereof is excellent for all cold infirmities of the head or ioynts it makes the sterile plentifull and the decoction thereof cures the scabbe of the genetals it fortifieth the vitall spirits it helps much to detaine the creature within the womans wombe the conserues thereof with Sugar produceth the same effects and is excellent to mortifie Mercury but all venemous creatures creepe willingly vnder it except it grow hard by Rue A. I haue many times obserued Spinage to be much vsed P. It dilates the breast helpes coughes the heate thereof refresheth the Lights Lyuer and choler it moues the bodie though but little and yet they are not of very bad nourishment but so they are windie and hurt a cold stomacke As for Watercresses sodden or raw if it grow in cleare waters it breakes and expels both the one and other stone causeth vrine and prouokes womens flowers it helpes to bring forth the dissenterie all Hydropickes greene sicknesse and opilations of the Liuer making a good sight A. Let there be in them what vertue soeuer hearbes haue alwayes pleased me little or nothing at all except when I haue beene vrged by some necessitie or by the Physitians opinion who in my opinion are the readyer to perswade others to vse the decoction of hearbes to the end that at the better rate they may fill their owne bellies with Pullets P. I doe not thinke so but how like you Raddish A. Sometimes I eate them but very seldome what thinke you of them P. In the Spring Sommer their vertue is in the leaues flowers and seedes but in Autumne and Winter they are powerfull and vigorous but yet their vse serues more for medicine then meate because they are all of them in a manner of bad iuyce hard to digest but yet those that grow neare home and be tender and young and newly gathered may be eaten more securely and the middle part of them is for the most part the best A. O Lord how my head paines me P. Peraduenture your Cooke importuned by the harsh voyce of that blinde man who continually like a desperate man cryes in euery hole and corner of the citie Garlicke Garlicke Garlicke hee I say peraduenture hauing bought some of his fopperies it belongeth to you sir to pay the penaltie thereof A. In very truth I feede little on this meate P. It hath a facultie mordificatiue as it were of the race of backbiters and slanderers degestiue apertiue and incesiue The greene is best and it will serue you for Treacle against any poyson if you haue wormes it will driue them away it will prouoke vrine and if you haue an old cough it will helpe it especially if it be rosted vnder hot ashes it will also make you haue a good voice and happie were you if you should be vpon the Ocean Sea for it will stand you in great stead because it resisteth sea vomite and rectifies the corrupt aire of stenches It excites Venus but it is verie hurtfull to the vertue expulsiue to the braine to the sight to the head it procures thirst it is very detrimentall to women great with childe with other such like qualities but aboue all other it makes the breath to stincke which may sodainely be reformed by eating of raw beanes greene water parsley or the leaues of fresh rue A. But I will taste of these sponges or mushromes P. This is the miserable condition of man that while he lalabours to auoide an inconuenience he runnes into a thousand other for oftentimes these things doe kill although those of the Apennines and the mushromes which do spring in madorre which in Aprill grow in meddowes with others called boleti are reputed good and pleasing to the stomacke but if they be made into a sallet or cleansed and well boyled with wilde peares basill bread garlike and calamint and then seasoned with oyle salt and pepper they may securely be eaten and then withall we must drincke very strong wine with them but whosoeuer vseth them too often they cause dulnesse appoplexies and doe suffocate but those which grow vpon the hill Collepardo being more dryed in the shadow and puluerized and taken in wine or broth to the waight of a scruple they mitigate choler and the griefes of the reines prouoking vrine and expelling both stones and grauell but it must be taken foure houres before meate A. But how like you Parsenep rootes P. So so it is very hot abstersiue and rarifying and opens much but so it yeelds but little and that bad nourishment they digest slowly they excite Venus generate bad bloud and oftentimes the itch but being well boild and seasoned with oyle vineger or mustard or fryed with butter it is much corrected and yet notwithstanding it hurts both flegmatick and old men A. Amongst all others the house Radish roote espeacially if it haue a blacke rinde pleaseth me well P. If you eate it in the beginning it prouokes vrine mollifies the belly expels stones and being cut small and put in water and so made into a sallet they increase milke they make your drinke taste well and if they be sodden they preuaile much against an olde cough but it makes leane is windy and raiseth vp stincking raspings it digests slowly offends somewhat the head and the teeth and augments artericall griefes A. This same Turnep pleaseth my taste very well P. Quod sapit nutrit being boild in broth they procure nourishment the tops thereof being sodden and eaten prouoke vrine encrease venerie and make cleare sight and the roote thereof is good against the quartane Feuer and such like
melancholicke infirmities whereunto if you adde Fennell it quickens the sight but so they engender ventositie and aquosities in the veines opilation in the pores digest slowly heale the reynes and oftentimes make the body to swell to correct their vice in the boyling of them you must twice change their water and then let them boyle in fresh broth with Fennell A. Flesh makes bloud and bloud makes flesh take away those sallets and rootes whether they be sod or fryed and reach vp those dishes of flesh the which in conclusion are they that maintaine our life P. To say the truth flesh nourisheth more then any other meat the which because it is hot and moist is easily transmuted into bloud and bringeth great nourishment but yet notwithstanding in eating of it some rule should be obserued A. But how can we hold Hipocrates or the Physitian on the one hand and the dish on the other P. My meaning is that the flesh wines and corne of high places so the Sunne haue power vpon them are more healthfull then those of pooles marshes and lakes Moreouer the flesh of such beasts as are too young doe abound in too much humiditie but so they are more easie of digestion that againe which is too old is very bad hard and dry of little nourishment and hard of coacoction and the flesh of males because it is more hot and dry is better then that of females being of a contrary nature and yet the last is best for Febricitantes but the shee-Goate is farre more commendable nourishment then any other female A. You haue so confounded my iudgement with your many rules and obseruations as I know not where to begin to eate P. Let vs eate some Lambe which is hot and moist so it be of a yeere old otherwise it hath much viscisitie and humiditie but yet if it generate good nourishment as I said it doth easily digest it is excellent for humour melancholicke as also for the sanguine and those of a cholericke and adust complexion and it is the better if it haue left sucking feeding and growing with odiriferous hearbes for if it be sucking it begets grosse humours hurts old and flegmaticke men procures viscositie in the stomacke through superfluous humiditie and is preiudiciall to the falling euill and other passions of the braine and nerues A. Taste a little of this Goate P. I would to God that I taste not more then I beleeue if it were such flesh it would helpe those that are too fat by reason of the little nourishment it brings but yet it is exceeding euill for the falling sicknesse it engenders much melancholy A. Hold here this is better P. This varietie of meates annoyes me greatly they procuring diuers infirmities especially when they are of a contrary qualitie for so their concoction being hindred they corrupt and putrifie and therefore though it like my palate yet it preiudiceth my health and heare a wise man being demaunded why he would haue no more but one kinde of meate vpon the table he answered because he would not haue too much need of a Physitian the diuersitie of meates then being hurtfull it will be healthfull to vse but one And therefore many yeeres agoe men liued longer because they were more regular and lesse licourish then wee but now idlenesse and gurmondize is risen to such an height that he is counted foolish miserable and abiect that doth not euen drowne himselfe and his whole familie in this vice and the greater foole gull and woodcocke indeed that one is the greater man he is accounted but why should we affect singularitie let vs eate merrily A. But if this please you not see here is Oxe or Cowes flesh I know not whether and here is also shee or rather not to erre hee-calfe indeed P. If it be of a young Oxe fat and accustomed to the plough it is wonderfull good nourishment for labourers it generates great abundance of bloud stayes the collericall fluxe but so it engenders bad nourishment it concocts slowly it breeds wambling and rising of the stomacke and melancholike infirmities it ought to lye in salt one whole day A. But for your Cowes beefe which is very old P. Why it is very bad as all other old flesh is but yet sucking veale breeds excellent blood it easily digesteth and that of the mountaine is better then the other bred in the champions A. But what if it were Buls flesh P. O God that 's worst of all it is an aguie grosse hard stincking and dry flesh of bad nourishment and is neuer well rosted by the fire nor concocted by the stomake and in a word it is worse then Buffles flesh A. Well to auoid all this danger we will eate of this Kid. P. It is of hot temperature euen to the second month of very commendable temper betweene humidity and drynesse the blacke and red is alwaies best and the sucking males of foure or fiue months are most excellent it nourisheth well digests quickly furthers health wonderfully helps the sicke and sound and such as be students and labour but little neuertheles it hurts men decrepit a cold or watry stomacke to those troubled with the collicke with the Epilepticke and those which labour or take bodily paines But if it be well rosted specially the hinder parts which are the more moist and seasoned with Oranges his qualitie is much corrected A. This Goate or Kid or Doe howsoeuer you please to call it pleaseth me very well P. T is hot and dry the young ones which are fat and much vp and downe the fields by meanes whereof they dissolue the bad humours are more easie to digest they engender blood vvith very little superfluitie but yet bending alittle to melancholie as in a manner all wilde beasts doe all which notwithstanding this doth exceede in nourishment it preuailes against the Paralasie and cholicke and extenuates fat men but so it hurts those already extenuated for it brings detriment to the nerues by drying them vp especially if it be old for then it hardly digests and it is best in winter A. Surely by the smell this should be mutton P. It is temperately hot and moist flesh the young ones of a yeere old especially that feed on hils breeds good bloud because it is sweete in taste of good nourishment and digests quickly the broth thereof is excellent against the melancholicke humour being sod it must be eaten with parsley and the hinder parts roasted and let them first be well beaten with a cudgel if it be old for want of stones and through age it hurts in his drynesse and is hard of digestion A. But what if we should tast of Harts flesh See where it is for your vse doubt not it cannot flye away P. Why it is hot and dry if it be sucking or gelt it is good nourishment for by the aboue said meanes he looseth his vitiousnesse an Harts horne being burnt in the fire driues away all venemous beasts the bone of
digested they are corrected with the seed of Ameos but yet they are enemies to cold and moist complexions and to old men A. Will you not then taste of them P. Oh it does me good euen to touch them A. Why see then how strawburies are ready to supply their place P. They are cold in the first and dry in the second degree if they be red very ripe of good odor and growing in Gardens they slake the heate and sharpnesse of the bloud they quench the feruour of choler refresh the Lyuer remoue thirst prouoke vrine and excite appetite but that which is the excellentest secret their wine dryes vp the red pimples of the face and being applyed to the eyes cleares the sight washing therewith the filmes of them it scoures the skinne of the countenance and takes away meazels Their fruits stay dissenteries womens fluxes and help the milt the decoction of their leaues and rootes being drunke doth greately ease the inflamation of the Lyuer and mundifies the â—eynes and the bladder The distilled water of Strawburies stayes the fluxe of bloud in all parts but yet they hurt those subiect to tremblings to paralitickes and to the griefe of the nerues their wine will make one drunke and they that eate them in any abundance fall into malignant Feauers because they corrupt in the stomack and also generate corrupt humours But being first well cleansed and washed in white wine and then strowed ouer with sugar in Summer they are good for cholericke men Sanguineans and hot stomackes so they be eaten in small quantitie before other meates A. But you shall not denie me or at least doe such iniury to the Melon as not to taste of it P. If it were of good odour and exquisite sauour very pleasing to the taste new and ripe I would willingly eate of it but me thinkes it hath no sent at all where grew it in England out alas it stinckes I pray you keepe it for some Mare for I will none of it by any meanes the sight of it onely makes me ready to cast A. And yet they say Albinus the Emperour was so delighted with them that one euening he did eate an hundred peaches of Campania and Melons of Ostia the which in those dayes were the most commendable P. If they were of the sweetnesse they are of in many places and in a manner ouer all Italie I could with all my heart follow his example or rather mine owne taste for besides that they refresh they doe cleanse the body prouoke vrine quench thirst excite appetite and they that eate them in any abundance are secured from the stone and grauell but yet they procure ventositie and paine in the belly they easily conuert into those humours that they meete withall in the stomacke and by reason of their frigiditie they hardly digest whereupon they excite vomite cholericall fluxes and easily corrupting they generate malignant Feauers and meazels They may be corrected by being eaten fasting with good old cheese and salted things drinking very good wine after them and then afterwards eating other meates of good substance but they greatly hurt melancholick and flegmaticke men A. So if I be not deceiued you will none of them P. No not of these artificiall ones and besides I did eate so many of them in my youth throughout all the parts of Italie as I now giue them a perpetuall valete A. That which is here before you sir be it what it will remaineth at your seruice no wayes to molest except it may please and content you and therefore doe as you thinke good but doe you marke sir what a sweet ayre this is P. The aire is more necessarie then any thing else for the preseruation of bodily health A. You speake but truth because the life of all creatures hauing neede of continuall refreshment of hart which is obtained by a daily inspiration of the aire and all other things may be auoyded but this cannot for as respiration cannot be seperated from life no more can life be seperated from respiration P. Who knowes not that oftentimes and for some good space we may liue without meates but so can we not any time at all without ayre for it alwayes enters in by the chaps and from the lights flyes to the hart to refresh it A. It being then of so great importance vvee will inioy this serenitie in turning towards the East not corrupted by the fogs nor vapours of lakes stands marrishes caues durt nor dust for by reason of the dustie aire amongst the people Garamantes they hardly liue to fortie yeeres of age P. Neither neede wee to doubt of the cold aire either North or South or that of the night nor of that which proceeds from the vapours of nut trees or vnder the beames of the Moone neither of that turbulent grosse blustring or corrupted aire rising from putrefaction or anything else A. If it were so it would questionles be very hurtfull for it would make heauy the heart offend the animall spirits with too much humiditie loosing the ioynts and making them ready to take in all superfluities P. Let vs therefore while we may enioy this temperatâ— aire and so I take it to be when it refresheth at the Sunne going downe and heates at Sunne rising and such aire as this is I suppose to be very beneficiall for euery complexion sexe and age A. Questionlesse I reioyce much to enioy this pure cleare and temperate aire it procuring health clarifying the spirits and the blood chearing vp the heart and the minde corroborating all actions causing digestion in all the members preseruing temperature and prolonging life the contrary to all which aboue-named qualities bad ayre effects for it changeth our bodies more then any thing else and corrupts them P. But I pray you tell me onely to passe the time how would you correct such an aire in subtilizing and dissoluing the grosse and slimie humours thereof A. Why with a fire in the roome of sweete wood as of Laurell Rosemarie Cypresse wood Iuniper Oake Pine Furre Larix tree or else I would make a Pomander wherof I would smell both day and night taking halfe a dramme of saffron halfe a scruple of orient Amber of Muske one dramme of Steraxe Calamite and of Laurell and Anna one scruple dissoluing them in Malmesie and as I said before I would make of them a Pomander P. I thinke a man may better preserue himselfe from bad aire with a good breath as keeping Treacle Mithridrate or the confection of Alchermes in his mouth or rubbing his teeth with Zâ—loaria chewing Angelica or by taking it fasting in conserues A. And I haue tryed that in time of the plague it is excellent to 〈◊〉 in ones hand or to swell on a ball of very good Saxiâ—age that grew in a hot countrie and the ball being hollow within may haue a piece of sponge steeped in good rose-water and excellent rose-vinegar defending the stomacke and the breast with a Lambe or an Hares
and when hee is dead returnes againe to the earth and the other elements returne to their proper nature E. Then if I be a good Philosopher it seemes that if these beginnings be duely and conueniently vnited together there must necessarily ensue a good temperature and that a man shall be well disposed and proportioned both in body and spirit A. It is most true for if the said elements be viciously commixed from thence proceedes the first cause or what indisposition soeuer is in vs. E. But what doe you call Temperature A. It is a complete common concord and consent of the abouenamed first foure qualities which being confounded together and each of them being reduced to a certaine moderation a creation is effected and a certaine temperature that embraceth the whole corporall masse is dispersed throughout euery part E. Then we may call temperatue that wherein there is a certaine mediocritie of contrary elements which is required both in things animate and inanimate by meanes whereof euery things liues sound and safe and is preserued healthfull and well in his owne nature but so degenerating sâ—â—uing and digressing from this qualitie symitriall and iust proportion there ensues a distempered temperature and though it may be presumed vpon rather by coniecture then any manifest view yet it accrues by more and lesse that is if it abound more in choler then in melancholy lesse in melancholy then in flegme and lesse in pituite then in bloud now to returne to our purpose manners and customes proceed rather from bodily temperature rather then from any other reason And doth most manfestly appeare to him that passeth through many and seuerall Prouinces Kingdomes and countries remote and farre distant asunder for hee shall discerne that through the varietie of place temperatures yeeres time elements ages and qualities life that diuers customes and perturbations ensue Hereupon the Philosopher comparing the Grecians with the Africanes and those of Europa he argiues that their customes were diuers through the remotion and distance of place A. And therefore some nations are said to be naturally warlike others effeminate others chollericke others milde and gentle that is timerous others wittie and some of little or no wit at all E. For this cause Galen said that among the Scythians there was one onely Philosopher called Anacharsis but in Athens many and that among the Abderites euery one was a true sot or a naturall foole and so on the contrary that there were but few in Athens A. Conformable to this the Philosopher saith in another place that we may perceiue euery day in the selfe-same Kingdome Dukedome and Countie in Prouinces Cities and Villages also euen as in diuers complexions of men so sundry inclinations different customes and they are more or lesse courteous faithfull or vnfaithfull liberall or couetous answerarable to the varietie of their complexions E. Would you not I thinke closely hereby inferre that from hence also diuersitie of religions and diuine worshippes doe grow the spirit of one complexion not being able to rise to the dexteritie of another neyther to be thereof so capable A. I will not put my sickle into such an haruest but I will affirme conformable to that aboue alledged how the different and diuers temperature is a cause of the bloud whereupon may be implyed that creatures of little bloud are timerous by nature and by their very naturall composition Bees and Ants as they haue more bloud then others so are they more wise and prudent E. The same Authour in another place affirmes that customes are after a certaine manner engraffed by nature so as we may very conueniently fore-see in Children the seede of their future proceedings their actions and in a great part their successes A. The Lacedemonians hereupon and many Romanes disposed of their children to that whereunto they were naturally apt and inclined they knowing that Nature assisting they might well produce some good effect and so hardly on the contrary and therefore they had a saying Nihil inuita facies dicesue Minerua E. They did very wisely herein considering that not onely customes but wit also and wisedome follow naturall temperature and therefore Aristotle said that those of a soft flesh were of eleuate mindes to contemplation and of good wits and in another place hee addes that melancholicke matter made men excellent in the Sciences A. Moreouer we may proue that with yeeres our temperature and manners also are changed E. So it seemes indeede by the common opinion of Ancients that customes and manners wee deriue from temperature Whereupon Tully affirmed that the Art of Phisiognomie was more certaine then any other kinde of diuination and therefore Zephirus made profession of infallibly discerning the nature and manners of men by the forme and disposition of their bodies eyes countenance and fore-head A. And I should rather iudge of it by the eyes for according to S. Thomas his opinion as all the temperature complexion habite and state of the body is discerned in the face so all the whole countenance may be discouered in the eye which is a summarie index and catalogue of this little vniuerse E. The Philosopher also flanckers this intention of ours when he saith that Nobilitie is a vertue of race and kinde which is commended and esteemed of all but yet it growes contemptible if manners be not correspondent to the temperature of the body this being the onely foundation of all Nobilitie and by this onely meanes nature is imbraced and concatenated so as the descendents of such a great Worthy are supposed also to be illustrious in the like degree A. You speake but truth Noblemen and Gentlemen being so highly commended because through the gift of temperature and naturall complexion they are most apt to commendable and ciuill customes E. This may be auerred out of the generall opinion of all the Learned but especially of the Stoickes who hold that the first motions of our mindes are not in our owne power man being disturbed or altered hee proceeding and operating through a certaine necessitie in nature A. Then Galen and Hyppocrates perceiued with iudgement that a mans manners and customes depended on his complexion and therefore they professed themselues to be excellent institutors and teachers of manners and customes because as being excellent Physitians they had the necessarie medicine meanes and arte of life annexed to nature by which our temperatures and vices might be corrected and the inclinations of the minde be made good and apt to noble fashions and manners E. To manifest vnto you precisely my intention hitherto I haue not onely heard but in hearing as much as you deliueuered I haue seconded you in the aboue-named opinion of Galens but now if you please you shall heare mine owne iudgement therein A. What a strange policie is this you are indeede a Guelph and yet you would seeme to be a Gibelline doe you breath both hot and cold I beseech God help vs.