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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03456	An antidotarie chyrurgicall containing great varietie and choice of all sorts of medicines that commonly fal into the chyrurgions vse: partlie taken out of authors, olde and new, printed or written: partlie obtained by free gifte of sundrie worthie men of this profession within this land. By Iohn Banester master of chirurgerie.	Banister, John, 1540-1610.	1589 (1589)	STC 1358; ESTC S104460	136,320	392

they laid vpon anie man hauing alwaies for his wicked precept this proper reason for howsoeuer saith hee the wound healeth againe yet there alwaies remaineth some scarre the Quaile is said to bee most delighted to feede on venimous seedes and so is the euill tonged man in casting forth venimous speaches thus envie alwaies traceth vertue and treadeth vpon her heeles Arrogancie also feareth lest euerie praise that another deserueth diminisheth somewhat of theirs and obscureth their glorie those therefore that are sicke of this disease will detract from you what they can but this arrogancie commonlie springeth of ignorance for as the wheat eare while it is greene and vnripe is most ful swelling and looketh hie but whē it is replenished with ripe graine then it is more shrunke in and hangeth downe the head euen so shall you see him that is emptiest of good gifts or rawest in knoweledg euer lift his crest higher and beare the stouter shewe but he contrariwise that is best laden holdeth his head lower hauing indeed the substance of graine when he is tri●d Plinie saith the Camelae●n hath verie great lunges but nothing els within her bodie so saith hee there be some that beside their bosting swelling ostentation haue nothing to be found in them these are a kind of men that I hope you will not care for if they will needs meddle with you allow them but time and their owne course will confound themselues the Aspe were an inevitable euill if shee were not by nature dimme sighted so I graunt were your enemie pestilentlie dangerous if according to their wicked desire they had also other answerable partes whereby they might approch you but like as the herbe Maidenhaire though it bee sprinkled or dipped in water wil neuertheles look still as though it were drie no more shall reproch and infamie though it be notablie attempted cleaue or sticke vnto a good man These thinges had I good Master Banester at the publishing of your Antidotarie to write as an Antidote vnto your selfe desiring that according to the nature of such medicines which both expel poysons alreadie receiued and also keepe and preserue the heart against all new infections so this may both ridde you of the present perplexities and likewise defend you from future against all your enimies Your louing and assured for euer W. Goodrus Salutem in Christo Gulielmus Clowes I Read that Seneca the wise Philosopher demandeth What man is he that would wish to liue in this transitorie worlde so full of mischiefes calamities and miseries without faithfull familiaritie and vnfeined friendship It may be answered in a word None but the proud person and the malicious and enuious man whose words and deedes discouer the euill that is hatched in his heart So that no firme friendship nor stedfast amitie can once so much as appeare in his life and conuersation but frameth himselfe with euerie mocking Parasite to throw out the venime and poyson of his heart to the discrediting of those that anie thing excell him either in knowledge or practise Such a vile person was one Antiphilos said to be who professed great friendship to Apelles seeming both to reuerence him for his skill and honour him for his Art yet when he did see that he grew in fauor with all so that his fame spred to the Court of Alexander who hearing of his skill in Painting gaue foorth a commandement that none should paint his Picture but onelie Apelles this wicked Antiphilos the verie shape of shame and fellow to all dissemblers flatterers with forged false accusations practised priuely to bring Apelles into displeasure and disgrace with King Ptolomeus who also deerelie loued Apelles and had him in great estimation Yet he could not bring to passe his purposed practise for the King through his deepe wisedome examined the thing by the rule of reason and soone found out the secret purpose and vnhonest attempt of that perillous Pick-thanke which sought by vniust meanes to haue Apelles banished and so to liue as a man defamed therefore vpon due consideration had of the innocencie of Apelles cause the King neither satisfied the leaud ●xpectation of Antiphilos nor winked at his iniurious and wrongfull accusations but perceiuing the ●ilthie liqu●r that came forth of that stinking vessel presently he tamed his tongue with the bridle of bondage and beate downe his malicious proud heart with the sharpe scourge of continuall slauerie condemning him iustlie and command●ng him straightlie to serue as a bondslaue to Apelles all the daies of his life● In like manner Master Banester my dee●e and louing friend● it is not vnknowen vnto manie good men how vnder the colour of faithful friendship● you haue been as it were compassed about and deepelie bitten with such like Antipholoses whom you haue nouseled in your bosome whose ill behauiour is such that no good wholsome lawes can bridle or tame their piercing tongues And one chief cause of their great impatience is for publishing of such like workes as is this your Antidotarie saying forsooth that onely their meere practise is sufficient without so manie bookes as if amongst blind-men he that hath but one eie might bee a King But contrariwise to the good liking of the learned and men of iudgement you haue performed and publ●shed this your Antidotarie to your great fame and commendation It is most certaine that the thing of it selfe deserueth praise for they that read it with consideration shal finde in it varitie breuitie sound iudgement and varietie beeing full fraught and s●uft with manie singular good and approoued practises so that you iustlie merit praise of al true and faithfull professors of this noble Arte of Chyrurgerie yet you know full well it will be hard for you to cast off the burthen and yoke of leawd reproaches For no work can be so eloquentlie handled but some Aristrachus or other whose filthie stomackes beeing inflamed with cholar will improue the same either for the slendernesse of the argument impropernesse of the phrase heauie and obscure reasons false ortographie faultes escaped incke-horne tearmes or some imperfection for want of knowledge in tongues yet you for your parte haue preuented such vaine pratlings and I haue good hope that this your Antidotarie will yeelde a sufficient medicine to cure that olde vlcered maladie which hath so farre infected their mouthes and tainted their tongues insomuch that if now they finde faults you and all may thinke that either it is the vaine humours of certaine scoffing spirites or els too much frequenting the hot-house hath sweat out all their wittes Themistocles a renowmed Captaine of the Greekes beeing vpon a time verie pensiue and heauie there came vnto him a verie familiar friend of his and in secret manner demaunded of him what might bee the cause that he was at that time so sorrowfull and sad If you will needes know said he the cause of this my present sadnesse it is for that manie yeeres being past since I was