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The art of longevity, or, A diƦteticall instition written by Edmund Gayton.
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Gayton, Edmund, 1608-1666.
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yellow jaundice Faces call'd the rich Are cur'd by these and Butter that 's unsalt By Fricacy doth remedy the fault Of filthy morphy'd skins Butter next grace Is eaten first eaten in the last place Then let not Hogens Mogeas only sing Bouter Bouter is good for any thing CHAP. XXVII Of CHEESE ALL Cheese is naught saith the Salernitan The Fresh is cold and grosse yet if a man Be not of constitution cold 't is good A tolerable but not commended food Old Cheese as is its Age is worse or better The tarter sort is hot and burnes a getter Of extreme thirst cals for the other Can Be it Holland Chedder or Parmizan Yet after meales a slender quantity Corroborates the stomacks mouth and by The sharpness of the Rennet doth remove All Nââsea from them who sweet meeâs love But scrap'd as Dr. Buttler order'd Cheese Who then a Buttler more can palat-please 'T is excellent against most Surfeits saving No Sugar spoil the Cambro-britan shaving Ha ha Caus Day yet our Arabians hold No Cheese is safe whether it be new or old It loads the stomack 's of digestion slow And if the Collick or the Stone you know Eat and be sick then leave 't if not too late Or if you 'l eat eat but a penny weight CHAP. XXVIII Of FISHES FIshes are like their Element and place Wherein they live both cold and moist a âace Of flegmatick Creatures yet they are meat which dry and cholerick temâeâs may well eat And those who would look smug or elâe snout-fair May take this liveâ-cooling diâh for fare In fââvid seasons and in Climates hot Use them But if the Beâââ the helm hath got Or under Charles his seven-starr'd heavy Wâne From this dull nourishment let them refraine And pituitous bodies must foâbeaâ Unless they like the Dropsie in the Reer The Sea-fish and of those they in Rocks dwell Are finer and in temperament excell Digest more easie and breed better blood Then the loose fry that shoal it in the Flood Yet in the stomack and the entrails they Being little viâcous make too long a stay Sweet River-fishes slimy and grosse diet Are glibbery and make egression quiet More nourishing then Sea-fish and of these Those which the current streams and gravel please And do abhorre annoyances of sinks Which spoil their channels with their loathsome stinks Are most delicious such as Pearch and ââout Your Mud-fish all incline you to the Gout But those delighting in sweet scowres refine Their squamy sides and clarifie their liue The Fiââ of Lakes and Motes and stagnant ponds Remote from Sea or where no Spring commands And intermingling its refreshing waves Is Tench unto the Mote and Tenches saves And keeps them medical are of all sorts Lesse innocent unless some River courts The âullen Nymph and blending waters she Of a foul Mopsâ's made Leucothoe Her inmates otherwise like her self smell Tast of the Harbour that is scent not well Slow to digest alive they liv'd too close And dead they can't their native dulneâs lose Give me a Salmon who with * winged Fins 'Gainst tide and stream âiâks o're the fishing-gins Of locks and Hives and circling in a gyre His vâulting coââs he leaps the basfled wyre Let Fish have room enough and their full play No liquor want not on a Fish-street day But they are all meat indigestible Creating thirst and spawn diseases well Take the lesse viscous gracile cleanly swimmer Smelling like Sâelts whose watry hutts are trimmer Then those of Pools and Ponds or where on weed Or nasty Alga and base hearbs they feed Salt Fish Can you with patience Brethren all Heare it of Salters and Fishmongers Hall Salt Fish is never good but on a day When you a vomit take and 't may not stay Charge uâon charge ten shillings cost to dine And hââf a Crown in Crocus and Squills Wine To cast it up again whose will adore My Arabian Doctors oâ Sir Theodore Vomits nor lead I like the pendent bullet Shâll never be the sweeper of my Gullet What I do eat I do intend to keep By exercise digest and little sleep But feed not like Sir Theodore for fear Vomit nor bullet your o're-charg'd stomack clear The Barrel Codd and courtly Pole of Ling Butter and Oyl marching in either wing And Rope-Canary on the Van and Reer Or Graves or Bourdeaux in a glass for Beer Bring on a Friday storm Arabians then * Cloudsly and * Ruckly are the better men The River Shell-fish and lesse Lobster-coats Crayfish and Crabbs that swim as those in boats Do row are in a Pthisis singular Boyled in milk o th' Beast of the long ear And for Consumptive persons made a Cale As much as * Colchis high fetch'd hearbs prevaile You have the Fish pray fall on if you will Madam the sauce shall not besowre the Bill CHAP. XXIX Of PULSE or GRAIN WE take our rise from Rice which we find dry âth ' fourth and moderate hot iâh first degree Boyl'd in fair water 'gainst the Collick good They call the Windy but a noble food Boyl'd in the milk of Almonâs which doth lose Its ââiptick quality then Laâyes don't refuse The Candle-cup they bravely nourish Causâng the blood and seminal vertue flourish If that their Ladiââips will make a wash Againât the Morphies Riâie âlower âash In âountain water and this cleanâng grain Shall clarifie the skin and null the ââain But you must ââriâ it from its husk its Rind Is venemous and âlee tâin any wine Or water âain i th' mouth it doth create Saith Avicen and will imposthumate Beans are of double sort or dry or green Those foâ your Boââ these for your Booâeâ for-bân The gâeen i th' ãâã degree are moist and cold But cold and dry in theâ ãâã height the old Bad nourishment anâ filthy humors bâeed To a proverb âââive Ladies take heed Beyonâ th' excuse o th' Puâpy they exceed Creates by vapours on the injuâ'd brain Malignant dreams and our châstââe pâofane The great white Bean in his minority Boyl'd in successive waters happily May be permitted loose their Windiness If boyld with Mint or Comine you them dress Both Flegmatick and Windy meat within But the Bean-floor is excellent for the skin Yet spight of Doctors and when all is done We will make bold with Pulse at Thorington And this stern Doctrine against Beans shall ne're Be held nor gain repute in Leicestershire Nor yet in Somerset where Odcombe bred Famous Tom Coriat Pudding and Bean fed Lentils saith Rasis are both cold and dry Of temper middle others so let 't be Bread melancholy blood lick up the juice Of succulent bodies spoil the visive use By drying qualities for Corpulent And persons flegmatick a cure present Us'd ofâ saith Isaac fill with fumes the Brains And cause amazing dreams and capital pains Ciches are of two sorts one black one white The white is hot i' th' first degree that 's right And