due inquiry he is to find out and then from them all compared together he is to make his judgement of the nature of the Disease and so may fitly and with best probability of Success apply his Remedies The other by seeking his own Glory hazards thy Health regarding more the being thought skilful by thee then rightly to inform himself that so he may knowingly proceed to the Cure The diseases of the Breast are best known by the pulse insomuch that in those greifs many times the Urin speaks fair and Healthful even to the last moment of Decaying Life The Brain and Animal parts have their proper Excrements are best known by them Neither is she any other then deceitful even in the indicatin of the diseases of the parts above-mentioned from which the Urin more immediatly proceeds It is changed and appears different according to the diversity of Meats Drinks and Medicines its Colour and Substance is wholy altered upon the Critical Determination of diseases which many times evacuate themselves by Urin and which cannot but Confound the Judgement of our Pisse-Prophets proceeding only upon Inspection thereof The Sex can with no certainty be known by it for though the Urin of a Man and Woman are usually different in Colour and consistency yet since both the one and the other is upon easy changes alterable no certain judgement can be made thereupon Besides that a Cbolerick Woman after exercise and after the use of Hot and spiced meats will make a deeper coloured water then a Phlegmatick man She likewise hath different Urin according to the diversity of the disease that then possesses her The Comparison therefore is only to be made between the Urins of a Healthful Man and a Healthful Woman wch have received no alteration by any thing eat drank or external accident and so is the difference given by Physicians to be understood when they say That Man yeilds thinner Vrins higher coloured with small Contents or Sediment but Women pale with Copious Sediment In Virgins and also other Obstructions of Natural courses there wil be much the same alterations in Urin as in Conception because the Blood and consequently the Urin is also thereby Tainted Pregnant Women do also render different Urins both one from another and also the same Women at several Seasons neither is there any one sign of certainty to determine the same Let me subjoyn a History for confirmation hereof and 't is Dr. Cottas a Northamtonshire Physician whose fortune it was to take the profession of a Dying Physician in this point He was saith he but simple in manners and meanly Learned but in his Auguration of Conception by Urin held most excelling and preferred before the best learned of the Country Some small time before his death he was for the behoof of posterity importuned to leave behind him that skil in Urins that had made him so famous he Replyed that it was unworthy Posterity unworthy the name of Art That he had long indeed with the felicity of good opinion exercised it but with tryed certainty known it to be uncertain and deceit Simplicity he said was easily ready to betray it self and the ignorant People especially to one used to the observation will easily discover their hearts in their Eyes Gesture and Countenances of themselves unobserved and unconsidered Sometimes I have predicted right upon Conceptions and that hath spread it self but I have proved more often to my own knowledge false but that hath soon dyed or found excuse I somewhat satisfied my self in my deceitful custom in that I deceived none but such as either desired or deserved it who by their insidiation of the proof of my skill either provoked it or by unreasonable earnestness extorted it Thus some daies before his death did this famous Deviner unbowel himself and thereby indeed made someamends for his former inpostures Lastly 't is most easy to deceive the Physician by other Liquors especially if he smells them not and though some notes of difference are given by Avicen and others yet are they very doubtful and not to be trusted to I judge it no dishonor to be deceived in this kind unless to such as arrogate a certainty of Divination It should be considered also that thou art ignorantly doltishly imploying thy self about posing the Physitian mispending thy time that way running from Doctor to Doctor till thou art struck in the right Vain and inveighled by the Artifice of some more crafty then the rest who sets himself to deceive thee in this kind when in the mean time the disease by delay gets strength and becomes more obstinate Malignant and peradventure incurable I advise therefore all good People that you regard not other mens fame fraudulently gotten but your own health and in order to that that you punctually and expresly inform the Physician of all you know concerning your disease particularly of your pain if any be and of all external accidents that may have any waies caused it of the place and part affected of the Impediments you have in the performance of any action in the Body and let the Physician then feel your Pulse see your Urin consider your Temperature of Body know your use and Custom of Living so is he most likely truly to understand your State and Condition and you to receive benefit and Curation I shall not need to insist longer hereupon the Vanities and Deceits of Vroscopy or Devination by Vrin having been fully and demonstratively discovered by many able Physicians and by some in English as Mr. Brian in his Piss-Prophet and by Dr. Cotta in his Discovery of the Errors and dangers of Ignorant Practitioners To which I refer the Reader who if notwithstanding all that can be said hath yet a mind to be deceived doubtless he may and there be enough that are provided for 't Of Sweat SWeat and Vrin have the same material cause but have different waies of Excretion The skin is therefore made pervious that so there might be free Egress for the Sweat which retained in the Body corrupts it and begets a languishing wearisomness in every part thereof as in Burning Feavours when the Party cannot Sweat whereas the kindly and free Evaporations thereof make the Body lightsome removes colds chilness and lassitude of the Limbs It is most to be avoided in Cold weather either in Bed or at Exercise for though it frees the body from internal causes of Diseases yet it more disposes it to receive wrong from external sharpness and penetration of the aire or wind by opening the spiracles and so giving admission thereunto As to preserve the Body which is my intent it is necessary that every one upon a Cold taken which together with the usual signs preceding is manifested by a sudden heaviness and lumpishness of the Limbs do with the first convenience he may with an empty Stomack dispose himself to a gentle and leasurely breathing which in most Bodies may be procured with a draught of
IN Sadness the Heat and Spirits retire and by their sudden surrounding and possession of the Heart all at once do many times cause suffocation They being likewise by uniting encreased do violently consume the moisture of the Body and so beget drowth and leanness Hence saith Solomon A joyful heart causeth good Health but a sorrowful mind drieth the Bones like the moth in a Garment or a worm in the Tree so is sadness to the Heart It likewise takes away Appetite over-heats the Heart and Lungs decays the complexion unfits us for our Business and employments and shortens our daies The Remedies are diverse as the cause is only in general consider that what is without thy power to help ought not to afflict thee for 't is utterly vain if it be within thy power then greive not but help thy self Thou art likewise to fortifie thy self against all accidents before they come by frequent reading and rightly understanding the Scriptures and other Religious and * Moral Writings that are full fraught with good Instructions to arm thy mind against the day of need that so when affliction comes thou mayest be provided for it for our Sadness is generally falsly grounded upon mistake and mis-apprehension wch may by this means be prevented Without this Help thou shalt be hardly able in the day of thy streight to take good advice though it given thee In the Scriptures and other good Books thou shalt find sound advice that will enable thee to bear the Ingratitude of a Friend the loss of nearest Friends of goods or office a Repulse in thy desire of preferment and all other casual accidents with which the World is replete and which do frequently befall us Another Remedy there is and that is to give our Sadness vent for so it spends it self and the sooner forsakes us whereas cooped up and stifled it takes deeper hold upon us For that purpose discover the causes and take the advice of a Bosome Friend restrain not thy tears but give them way and it will ease thee If Pain begets thy grief take thy Liberty to Cry and Roar neither should thy Freinds restrain thee for that if it do not totally remedy yet will it revell and somewhat divert thy pain But lastly If Distemper of Body be the cause of thy Sadness and thy very Temperature dispose thee thereunto Then avoid all things that be noyous in sight smelling hearing and embrace all things that are Honest and Delectable Fly Darkness much Watching and business of mind over much Venery the use of things in excess Hot and Dry often or violent Purgations immoderate Exercise Thirst and Abstinence dry Winds and very Cold Meats of Hard Digestion such as are very Dry and Salt that are Old Tough or Clammy Cheese Hares flesh Venison Salt-Fish Wine and Spice except very seldom and in small quantities Prepare now and then when Sadness most oppresses thee one of these following drinks which upon long experience I have found very recreative and quickning the Spirits Rec. Waters of Carduus and Wood-sorrel of each 4. Ounces Syrup of Violets 2. Ounces and a half The best Canary 3. Ounces Spirit of Vitrioll 12. drops Mix them and drink it at thrice at ten in the fore-noone and four in the afternoon Take a large sound Pippin and cut out the Core and in its place put a little Saffron viz. Three grains dryed and beaten very fine cover it with the Top and rost it to Pap then put to it half a pint of Claret Wine damasked sweeten it well with fine Sugar and make Lambs-wooll and so drink it Take the first of these when thou artCostive the last when thou art loose or goest orderly to stool But in this case it is expedient that thou take further advice of thy Physician Of Joy THere is no great Fear of the Immoderation of this Passion the present condition of the World hardly affords cause for it and man hath generally lost his Chearfulness with his Innocency 'T is now in Fits and Flushes not solid and constant The effects of it are very good for by Dilating and sending forth the Spirits to the outward parts it enlivens them and keeps them fresh and active it Beautifies the Complexion it fattens the Body by assisting the Distribution of Nourishment to every part 'T is that doubtless which God intended should be the Portion of every man he therefore made the World so full of delightful objects for every sense and plentifully furnished it in every place with all things necessary for the solace and contentation of Mankind But we unhappily have distracted our own Lives and multiplyed the occasions of Hatred Oppression Jealousy difficulty of gaining a very competency doubts of loosing endeavours of supplanting one another Envying Law-Suits Wars and a thousand other Engines we have contrived to destroy our Contentment and multiply our sorrows and afflictions Insomuch that very Wise and good men have much ado to preserve that chearfulnes which is the reward and Recompence of their Vertue I wish I could here propose Remedies Some I have but the World is not able to bear and must yet longer by its Miseries and sufferings be chastised into Repentance and Amendment These Passions are the Principal that have Influence upon the body others have not or very little I shall therefore pass them over with this generall Caution relating to them all that as we expect to keep them in due subjection and not to become Slaves to our Affections let us lead a Temperate and Continent Life for all Disorder and Excess especially in Meat Drink Venery makes us their Slaves and gives them heat and spirit to Lord it over us and renders us impotent to withstand their Temptations and Assaults And so I have done desiring that what I have said may be fairly accepted and Interpreted by all as intended for every mans good and is but a preparatory to much more that I have in my Thoughts Beseeching Almighty God to give his blessing to it that it may prove effectual at least in some measure to preserve every man and woman in Health and Vertue FINIS Health what it is Bonum constat ex Integris By the orderly use of what things Health is preserved Of Custom Customs how to be altered Cautions in using Physical Helps Whether Customary Physicking is to be continued Physick worst for the Healthful Which the best Aire in general Which to each Particular Helps against Bad Aire Of sharp Aires Corruption of Aire Change of Aires by winds What Smells best Of Native Aires Sudden alterations Cautions about Aire Of Hunger Of Thirst Of Quantity in Meats Arguments against Intemperance Much feeding hinders nourishment growth 1. Digestion 2. Growth or Augmentation Greatest Pleasure in Temperance Plutar. Praecep Sanit The Bounds of Temperance 1 Rule of Temperance 2. Rule of Temperance Error in Feeding 2. Error 1. Caution Of Feasting True end of Feasting 2. Caution Respect had to the Nature of Meats To the Constitution of the Person To the Season Times of Feeding Best Time when Hungry No Break-fasts Large Supper best Rules for drinking Order of Feeding The Commodities of Exercise Discommodities of a Sitting Life Caution to Women and Maids History Pro. 31. When Exercise is to be forborn Exercise for the Fat and Lean. Exercise when Best When Bad. Place bad for exercise Violent Exercise bad Drinking cold Drink after Excercise bad Drinking Sack and hot Spirits bad Kinds of Labor Cause of Sleep Commodities of Rest * Sleeping The Evils of Immoderate Sleep Large Sleep best for whom Sleep after Dinner Form of Lying The benefits of Continency The incommodities of Incontinency Of the Excrements of the Belly It s proportion to the Aliment Of Looseness Divination by Urin a deceit When to be avoided When to be used Caution Helps to Sweat Why Sleep causes Sweat Too long violent Bad. Of Spitting Excrements of the Brain * Chewing In the Ears and Nostrils Its incommodities Remedies against Anger Three kinds of Love God-like 2. Humane 3. Conjugall Caution concerning the third Of Lust Of Dotage Evils of Sadness Pro. 17. 22. Remedies against Sadness * Chaâ—on of Humane Wisdom Seneca Plutarchs Morals and Lives 1. Drink againsh Melancholly 2. Drink against Melancholly Effects of Joy
Inspection Thou art also to know the Operations of the Soul as it is distributed in and makes use of several parts of the Body whether they be Nutritive Generative Vital Animal Sensitive Motive The particulars contained in the Diaetetical part thou hast in this Treatise Thou art likewise to have exact knowledg of all diseases of the whole Body and of every Part Their Nature Causes Differences Symptoms or concomitant Accidents and Signs as well to know them by as also to fore-know their issues and events Their usual Mutations Duplications sudden and many times frightful Alterations which will distract the Practitioner who to save his credit will then also venter but with extreamest danger to the Patient But above all and that which is most necessary is right knowledge of the manner and method of Curing which comprehends all the operations in Physick and Surgery which are exceeding numerous and require a large Discourse but to reckon up and explain And as one requisite hereunto thou oughtest to be furnished with the Knowledge of all Plants and Trees at least that are in use in Physick Their Roots Stems Barks Leaves Flowers Berries Fruits Seeds excresences to know all Forraign Drugs Gums Rozens juyces liquid and inspissated all medicinal Animals their parts and Excrements Whatsoever the Sea affords for Medecine or the bowels of the Earth as Mettals and Minerals All these ought well to be known both how to choose them to prepare mix and compound them To make of them distilled Waters Simple and Compound Conserves Syrups Loches Powders Electuaries Pills Trochisks Diet Drinks Apozems Potions of all sorts proper to each body part disease Vomits Iuleps Ptisans Opiats Epithems Lotions Fomentations Baths Liniments Oyntments Cataplasmes Cerats Plaisters Vesicatories Colliries for the Eyes Caps for the Head Gargarismes for the Mouth and Throat Dentifrices for the Teeth Errhina for the Nose Sneezing-powders Suffiments Pessaries Suppositories Clysters and Injections These of diverse kinds with many more which for brevity sake I omit a Physician ought to be well seen in and acquainted with but principally to know the proper time and season of using them which is not to be done but with much study education therein great helps and experience and yet without that all Medicines though in themselves they be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as the hand of God to cure diseases prove like a sword in a mad mans hand by which instead of doing the Physicians work Work is made for the Physician I intend not by this to affright any from the acquisition of the Medicinal Art but rather to let the World see what is requisite thereunto that it may understand how far short of being Physicians such men are who upon the bare stock of a few Receipts and knowing how churlishly to Purge and Vomit with three or four more common Operations in Physick presently and with confidence fall to the practise therefore As if a man should boast himself a good Painter because he knows how to mix Colours but knows not what belongs to Symmetry and Proportion Sed quo non mortalia pectora cogit Auri Sacra Fames It were better their need or Avarice did prompt them to venter upon some other subject then the body of man Thus much I thought good to insert in this place to shew the difference between what is requisite to the preserving preserving thy Health and restoring it The first is properly thy own work the last is the Physicians unless thou givest thy time to make thy self such But to return from whence I doubt I have too long digressed They who resolve to continue their course of life without care or consideration of their Health guided by their appetite and not their understandings will receive little or no benefit by this Treatise however Liberavi animam meam I have done my duty and therein receive satisfaction Others who are more careful of themselves will I question not hence gain some light and benefit to whom I offer this but not impose it prefer it in my own understanding as best but submit it to theirs and wish them to be perswaded as the reason thereof proves efficacious all that I desire is that they would not be prejudiced by Custom and long received opinion wch in some places it thwarts but preseinding from that give their understandings leave clearly to examine and so judge and Practise It is like my attempt herein may set others at work I shall be glad of that also and of whatsoever else may tend to the Helath and Commodity of Mankind Studious whereof is Thy Friend and Servant H. Brook From my Study in More-Feilds this 16. of April 1650. To my Freind the Author a Truly Learned and Expert Physician WHat mean you Sir This will undo Physicians and Surgeons too They live by Sickness not by Health Disorder brings them all their Wealth If this take place you ne'r will ride On foot cloth with a Groom by your side This is as if a Draper should Invent a neat spun cloth that would Seven Ages last and after be Fresh and fit for Livery Pray timely think on 't and Recall This Book that will undo us all You rather should excess invite And raise decayed Appetite Cry down all Rules and Freedom praise The Rich t' Apicius Diet raise Teach Curious Sauces and advance The Mysteries of Intemperance Make Rabelaies in our English shine Erect a School for Aretine That to encrease Physicians gain The Rich mans Gout and P may raign Catarrhes and Palsies and the new Disease that lately scapt so few Or think you that egregious Race Of Leeches that yet spring apace From every Trade will find you more Work then diseases did before Or then those Books which teach new skill How with good Medicines men to kill But your diffusive Soul that still Studies the World with truth to fill And useful Knowledge shews a way Would mankind but your Rules obey To scape those Quick sands and live free From need of Drug or Surgery Reader THis little Manuel will prove A House Physician that in Love To each mans Health will ready stay Without his Fee and every day Councel sound and plain impart Drawn from surest Rules of Art Where by an undisturbed Health Thou mayst enjoy the Crown of Wealth But I detain you from a Feast At which you long to be a Guest Read and Practise so you 'l find In a Sound Body a Sound Mind Sam. Blaicklock Chirurgus The Table OF Aire 55 Which the best Aire ibid. Helps against bad Aire 58 Sharp Aires 60 Corruption of Aire 62 Change of Aire by Winds 63 Of Native Aires 71 Sudden alteration of Aire bad 72 Caution about Aire 74 Of Anger 237 Its Discommodities ibid. Remedies against Anger 228 B. No Breakfast 123 C. Benefits of Continency 185 Costiveness to be prevented 52 Of Custom 34 Customs how to be altered 35 D. Rules for Drink 133 Effects of Drunkenness 136 Of Dotage 240. E. Of
to hot Distempers to use cooling aliments to drink VVater in stead of VVine to frequent Bathing where it may be had to Rest much and forbear Violent Motions To have little Cisterns of Water always running such as are commonly made of Peuter to hang up Wet clothes to strew the pavement with Roses Rushes Vine-leaves Water-Lillies and other Cooling Hearbs which may likewise be sprinkled with Rose-water and Vinegar On the contrary cold and moist Aires may be much helped by Large Fires Bath-stoves Warming-stones and agreeably provisions may be made in other cases I purpose not to insist upon every consideration that relates to Aire but passing by those that are speculative I shall touch only upon such as are useful and practical and from which most men may derive some Commodity to themselves Mountanous Aires are esteemed wholsomer then in the Valley because more perflated and cleansed by the Winds whereas the others are stagnant like standing Waters But I doubt the truth hereof for that I see not how one part of the Aire can be moved without the other its motion and impulsion being so easy that we see the very voice moves and makes it give way at a very great Distance and then again if to some bodies more gross and stagnant Aires are not so wholsom for instance to the slaggy and corpulent to others they are most agreeable and the thin sharp and Penetrative most inconvenient namely to thin spare and emaciated Bodies What the inconveniences of Metalline Vapors are I shall not need to recite neither yet what helps there are against them because living not where they are we are not subject thereunto The Causes whereby Aire is Corrupted that are within our Ken and which may by us be Remedied are especially three 1. Great Standing Waters never Refreshed 2. Carrion lying long above ground 3. Much People in small Roome living uncleanly and sluttishly The Aire Changes its qualities from the Diversity of Winds By those from the North 't is cold and dry they do confirm and strengthen such bodies which are able to bear them From the South they are hot and moist and so loosen and dissolve the West is more Temperate but the East apt to blastings The South Wind without rains continuing long disposes to Feavors andthe Pestilence and generally so do stagnant Airs without Winds Rain and Thunder It is observed that from the North there arises with the Dogg-star certain Winds called Ethesiae which do not only contemperate the Heat of the Aire but Purg it from putrefaction and pestilential Infections and have thence got the name of Scoparij because they do as it were Brush and Clense the Aire In Consumptions and for Restauration after long Sicknesses the best Aires are in dry Champaignes where there is much Timber-Shade and Forrest Beach Trees and Groves of Bayes where likewise grow odoriferous Plants as Wild Time Wild Marjerom Penny-royal Camomil Calamint Juniper and the like and where the Brier-Rose smells like Musk-Roses Helpful whereunto is likewise the Steam of new ploughed grounds and for such as have not strength to walk a Fresh Turf of Earth every Morning with a little Vinegar poured upon it However 't is best for them that are any thing Healthful not to be over-solicitous in the choise of Aire or to judg that they cannot have their healths except in some few Places of best and excellent Aire for they do thereby very much deject Nature and opinionate themselves into Sickness Such Imaginations the mind in continuall doubts perplexities and make us sickly out of a fear of being sick We see that many men and those not of the strongest and most healthful constitutions live long and without sickness amidst noysom and unpleasant Smells as Oyl-men Sope-boylers Tallow-Chandlers and divers others besides those that are conversant about Dung cleanfing of Common-shores and Jaxes and though Custom in these cases may be urged because of the familiarity that by long use is begotten between such Smells and their Natures yet is it thence clearly evincible that health and noysom smells are not inconsistible which is a clear argument that we need not be over nice and solicitous in the election of Aires as if in this City of London amidst thick fumes Sulphurious Vapors from the Sea-coal we could not enjoy our Health In these cases Opinion is more our Mistris then Reason which whilst we are pleading for we can content our selves with the Smoak of Narcotick Tobacco not only surround our selves therewith in a close Room and in hot weather too but suck it in and let it sometimes descend-into our Stomacks and sometimes ascend into our Nostrils and so into the very Brain it self In some cases therefore we are scrupulously exact in others supinely negligent a middle between both were best as not to think but that health is preservable in Aires not exquisitely serene and penetrative and on the other side to avoid choaking hot and too exiccative Fumes which in time parch the Lungs and dry up the Brain For Odors those are best which neither by their super-abundance of Heat Strength and Crassitude of Spirits do overcome us but which by their rarity and quickness do refresh us But they also are good only sometimes and the bodies infirmity requiring it for otherwise no Smell is best but that which is almost insensible in the Aire it self It is observed that the Aire we are born in tends much to the Restauration of Health Something may be allowed to 't because of its Sympathy with the innate Spirits of the Body which remain in some measure from our generation to our Dissolution Although I conceive when we go into our Native Countries to repair our Health after long Sickness the principal means thereof is vacancy from care and business the wholsomness and simplicity of Country Feeding the enjoyment of friends merriment and pleasant pastime which is usuall and which ought indeed to be especially intended in such Journies But above all sudden alterations in Aire from extream to extream is very dangerous Such as usually falls out in March April and somtimes in May as also in September October the change is usuall too in severall parts of the same day the Mornings and Evenings extream cold the mid day excessive Hot In these cases the surest way is for them that are crazy to go warm clothed till the uncertainty of the weather is over the Proverb speaks well though homely Till May be out Leave not off a Clout We must not like the unexperienced Marriner believe the Stormy Season to be past because of a fit of Sun-shine If we err t is better do it on the safe hand and not run the hazard of a sickness for fear of an unhansome Nick-name This Caution concerns those only that are any thing infirm and sickly as indeed most are the youthful and robust can bear all Weathers and in the thinnest apparel though there is a Proverb
and thereupon are very solicitous to find out Meats of better nourishment which when they have done and fed largely thereupon do yet alas find the same Lassitude and indisposition of Body remaining the true cause whereof is the ill Juyce and Moisture the Reliques of their former Surcharge as their much spitting their frequent Catarrhs and the swelling of their Bellies do eminently demonstrate This Moysture likewise remains in the Joynts the Brain and Nerves and so renders both the Limbs unable to perform their severall offices and hinders likewise the Conveyance of a due and competent proportion of Spirit thereunto And hence comes that Dulness and Lumpishness of the Limbs and Senses so generally complained of amongst men Another generall mistake in this particular is That Men and Women finding this Heaviness and Indisposition in the Mornings judge it to proceed from Fasting and therefore as for prevention thereof carefully provide good Breakfasts from which they may happily for the present find some alteration by the present Warmth and Spirit of their new Feeding which being in present motion in their Bodies takes away not the Cause but the sensibility of their former Lassitude but that being gone which continues but for a very short time their Wearisomness returns again with the addition of new Crudities till at last an accumulation is made to that degree and quantity as doth both very much dispose them to the Gout and also begets other Diseases The preventive Remedy whereof is to spend those ill Juyces and Superfluities by Abstinence with the assistance of an Exiccative Medicine or as the Crudities and excess may have been of Vomit or Purgation And this is the way to restore the Lightsomeness and Agility of the Body My first Caution is that we Enure our selves what may be to a simple Diet as most healthful as the best Remedy against Intemperance so prescribes Nature we see those Creatures in whom Nature is least perverted and who are not distracted from their Course by the Lust and Tyranny of Man do strictly and with excellent success observe this Rule In this Simplicity there is not that entisement to the Appetite whereas Diversity of Meats and Drinks do extend it ultra famen sitim as Socrates was wont to say beyond hunger and thirst In this our English Feastings are exceedingly blamable in wch no Art or Charge is wanting to furnish us with Diseases There are all the Curiosities that can be invented to provoke us to Intemperance Diversities of Courses and Services each of which is much more then sufficient and all to renew decayed Appetite and entise it to subvert it self and its yielding Master the next daies Nauceousness tells us as much The Pleasure of Feasting consists not in the daintiness and curiosity of Fare and Multitude of Dishes but in the Society of Feeding not in our Eating much but in our Eating together it is poverty of Spirit and below a man to place felicity in Meats and Drinks 't is an argument that in us the sensual exceeds the Rational that our Desires are our Masters our Bellies Soveraign to our Brains A great Feast is indeed a handsome opportunity to exercise our Temperance for they are most truly such who can resist the Entisement and abstain when delicate cates are before them but since few there are of us though some I know that are arrived to such a degree of Vertue 't is best to decline the Field not being able to endure the Combate Next to Resisting a Temptation is the avoiding it nay in some sense 't is to be prefered in that it avoids the hazard of being overcome thereby Though the first shews most Fortitude this shews greater Prudence 2. Provoke not Hunger if the Body want not Nourishment by Sawces or Vomit but Rather by Exercise and Abstinence These are the Natural ways of least disturbance to the Body and are most efficacious to the begetting of Appetite 2. In the Quantity of Meats respect is to be had to three particulars 1. To the Nature of the Meat 2. The Constition of the Person and his maner of life 3. To the Season of the year Meats that are tough Viscid Dry of hard Digestion must be eaten in lesser quantity Such also as are most ingrate to the palate for that the Stomack upon their Ingestion doth not firmly close but with some kind of Reluctation Meats also that are uncustomary unless they be very pleasant and of easy digestion must very sparely be fed upon These following do require a larger proportion of Meat 1. They that have Hot Stomacks and so both wast much and have greatest Heat and ability to Digest with whom likewise solid Meats and somewhat of hard Digestion do best agree 2. They that are in their growth 3. They that Labor or Exercise much On the other side a lesser proportion is sufficient for 1. Those that have Cold Stomacks 2. That are in their full age or declining 3. For those that lead a sedantary Life and use no Labor or Exercise 4. For those that are indisposed in their Bodies newly recovering their Healths or falling into Sickness But as well these later as the former must observe the two Rules of Health formerly prescribed In Winter Spring our Stomacks are hotest and our Sleeps longest and therefore a larger proportion may be allowed in those Seasons of Meat but not of Drink for that the Body is then moist both because the Seasons are such and also because the Cold hinders the egression of Vapors which being closed in turn into Humors In Summer what is wanting in Meat may be taken in Drink for then the Body is dry and the inward heat and Vapors are extracted by the external Autumn is more Variable and so not capable of Rule in it self much like Spring and must be respected as it partakes of the precedent and Subsequent Season The next Circumstance to be considered in Meats and Drinks is the Time of Feeding And therein the best Guide is Hunger that before the next Meal the former Meat be well digested and perfectly distributed then will Hunger follow the Richest Sawce without which we may conclude the body being in Health that the Stomack hath a part of its former work to do and therefore ought not yet to be charged with new employment This rule truly observed would exceedingly conduce to the Conservation of Health for it would keep the Stomack and Bowels clean much better then purgations and all artificial Helps it would keep its strength Fresh and Vigorous prevent Crudities Nauceousness filthy and unsavory Eructations and that Catholick Source of most Diseases Obstructions This as to the general to be observed by all The particular Considerations for often feeding are much the same as for much feeding Children must eate little and often Little because their Stomacks are as yet streight not enlarged Often because little because their Stomacks are
hot and able to concoct And lastly because they are in their Growth Young men proportionably may to the Frequency be allowed Larger Quantities Very Old men are to be fed like Children because they are not able to digest much But being not in the extremity of Age they can best of all endure Hunger The Hot and Cholerick endure not Hunger The Cold and Moist can bear with long Abstinence The Lean and Hot whose Transpiration vvasting is much must have Large Reparations To the Fat who have narrow Pores Abstinence is good and easily endured Much Labor and Exercise as they spend much so do they require Large and Frequent Supplies otherwise the body is soon enfeebled But they who Lead a Sedentary life which is the unhappiness of most Women must seldom and sparingly feed yea very seldom and sparingly otherwise they will have need of continual Physick and Evacuation to spend and drive those Humors that in other are consumed by Labor or Exercise Custom is here of very great Moment also which if not very bad must be indulged but if so it must be altered by degrees and insensible Gradations The usual Custom in England is to eat thrice a day a Break-fast Dinner and Supper the young and very healthful may be allowed it eating not to fulness But forasmuch as the generality of People are infirm and since most diseases proceed from Crudities and Indigestion I judg it better to omit the Break-fast that so by Abstinence the Stomack may be cleansed and its superfluous Moistures consumed I mean those that labor not and who have crude Stomacks their mouths being constantly bedewed with Phlegmatick moisture who seldom eat from the instigation of Hunger but Custom Much benefit they will likewise find from the using of some desiccative to dry up these moistures such as are Condite-Ginger Ginger-Bread the Condite-Roots or Stalks of Angelica Rinds of Oranges Lemmons or Citrons condited Cakes or conserve of the Flowers of Rosemary Conserve of Roman Wormwood with a little Cream of Tartar the Roots of Horse-Radish sliced and steeped in Sack of any of which a small quantity as half a Dram a Dram or two Drams to more Robust Bodies will dry up Reumatick Superfluities dispel Wind and prevent those Scorbutick Maladies to which most People are Inclinable From this Rule I except those that Labor Nurses Growing Persons who must daily eat thrice at least And also in Recompence of the others Abstinence 't is requisite that they Dine betimes as about Eleven and Sup about six so will there be a sufficient Space intervening for the perfecting of Each Digestion Whether may be allowed the larger Dinner or Supper Custom pleads for the former for then our appetite being strong and we coming with empty bellies and importunate Hunger to our Dinners feed largely having respect only to our present Satiety by which meanes the space to Supper time being but short and consequently our Stomacks not yet empty our appetite is then weak so that at least if we have any regard to Health we then feed sparingly otherwise we must expect a a very turbulent and restless Night But setting Custom aside which is alike inclined to that which is bad as good I conceive the healthfullest way is to propose the Largest Meal for Supper the largest I say not to a Surcharge or Surfet for that is at no time good but to a competent Satiety alwaies provided that it be somewhat early as about six that so a due space may intervene between that and Bed time That our Dinner be only ad mulcendam famem to asswage Hunger not satisfie it but take off its Edg and Urgency till Supper And that Supper be Quasi Laboris Cogitationum Terminus and the time after it till Bed time be only destined to Mirth and Pastime pleasant both to the body and the mind My Reasons for larger Supper are 1. Because the time after Supper is fittest for Concoction as destined to Rest and Sleep in which the heat Spirits are not distracted or otherwise imployed in the Brain or limbs as in the day time by Business or Labor but are totally retired imployed about Digestion 2. The Intervening Space between Supper and Dinner is much larger then between Dinner and Supper the Heat Spirits have thereby the greater Help and opportunity to perform their office of Digestion The strongest Objection against this that I can find is in the case of those that are troubled with the Head-ach Vertigo Catarrhs or any other infirmities of a weak and moist Brain To which I answer first that my enquiry was only of what is best for them that are in good state and condition of Health and that particular Infirmities require particular Rules 2. I say as to the present case that the early Supping avoids the inconvenience for that a sufficient space is allotted before sleeping time for the closure of the Stomack nor can I but conceive that Motion and Labor which is usual after Dinner doth by Agitation and subversion of the Stomack hinder its Closure and so more inclines to the Elevation of Vapors which is the cause of the infirmities in the objection mentioned To the Common Argument of the assistance the Stomack finds by the additional Heat of the Sun for its Help to Digestion I answer that all external Heats are rather a Hinderance thereunto then a Furtherance for that they dissipate and draw forth the Natural Heat and leave the Inner parts more Cold and Helpless This they shall soon experiment that sit by a great Fire or in the Hot Sun after Meals and the case is clear by our Stomacks greater inability in the Summer then Winter So that my assertion to me remains firm which therefore I commend to publick consideration The same Rules as are for Eating serve also for the times of Drinking the only motive whereunto ought to be Thirst the only ends of Drinking being to Moisten and make passable the Victuals therefore Moist Meats require little Drink and solid require only so much as well to temper them and prevent obstructions They therefore who drink much at Meals incur a double inconvenience 1. By making the Victuals Float in the Stomack which ought to reside in the Bottom thereof they hinder Digestion and by over-much moistning the upper Orifice thereof they keep it open and so make the Vapors rise And 2. It makes the Victuals pass too soon out of the Stomack raw and indigested whence come Fluxes in the Bowels and putrid Crudities in the Veins and Arteries The best time of Drinking is about the middle of the Meal for that best moistens and contemperates the Meat and so helps Digestion To Drink before too much dissolves the Stomack unless in those that have a very Currant passage and then an houre must be allowed between To drink after is very bad for those that are apt to Rheums and Head-aches Avoid drinking also at
the former inconvenience not seeing that thereby we incur another which is the over-heating and drying our bodies which were too much heated and dryed before To avoid both and to refresh the body withall the best way is first to rest a while warm if conveniently we may but however to drink a good draught of Cawdle Mace-Ale Hot Beer and Sugar or of some other Supping whose Warmth is not Scorching but analogous to that of our Bodies so will the Spirits soon settle and be refreshed and the Limbs after rest be enabled with ease to undergo new Labor For the kinds of Labor some stir the whole Body the best whereof are Dancing Running Leaping Bowling Walking Tennis is too Violent and to be used only upon extraordinary occasions with convenient Rubbings Sweating in Bed and other accommodations after it Fencing hath too many inconveniences attending it and is best to be learned as necessary for safeguard and Defence and not used as a customary exercise There are also Exercises appropriated to certain parts as lifting great Weights and the Pike to the Back and Loins Riding is availful for the Stomack the Kidnies and Hips Navigation for those that are Pthisical Ball and Bowls for the Reins The Breast and Lungs are opened and cleared by Shooting Hollowing Singing Sawing Blowing the Horn or Wind Instruments Drawing a Rope too and again about a Post or Table Swinging Lifting the Poyse or Plummets on high and letting them down again And last of all the use of Frications or Rubbings which hath been much in use but is now grown obsolete is very convenient for whatsoever part we please Gentle Rubbings with warm soft Cloths softens the Parts attenuates the Humors and opens the Pores But Strong Rubbings with hot and course Cloths used long do Dry and Harden The Ancients had two kinds of Frications the one which they called Praeparatorium which they used before Exercise to render the Limbs agile and apt to Motion the other Recreatorium which was used after Exercise and was performed with sweet and Mollifying Oyles to Moysten and refresh the Body dryed and wasted with toil Natures great Explorator in his Centuries much commends the use of Frictions as a Furtherance of Nourishment and Augmentation he instances in Horses whom for that end we constantly Rub His reasons are for that it draws a great quantity of Spirits and blood to the Parts it ought not therefore to be used upon a full Stomack and again because it relaxes the Pores and so makes passage for the Aliment and dissipates the excrementitious Moistures He prefers it before Exercise for Impinguation or Fatning the Body because in Frictions the outward parts only are moved and the inward at Rest Hence saies he Gally slaves are Fat and Fleshy because they stir the Limbs more and the Inward parts less I shall not say more hereof but only commend its use to good Women that they gently and by a warm fire either themselves their Maids or Nurses every night rub the Sides Back Shoulders and Hips of their Children as verynecessary to prevent obstructions and the Rickets and to further their growth and agility and also to keep streight and strong the Limbs of their Children Of Sleeping and Wakefulness THe Subject of Sleep is not the Heart as Aristotle hath asserted but the Brain as Galen for to that we make our applications in cases of too much Sleep as in the Lethargy or of too little as in Phrensies The cause thereof is the ascention of pleasant and benigne Vapors into the Head from the blood and Aliment benigne ones I say for those that are sharp hot and furious in their Motions as in Burning or putrid Feavors occasion Wakefulness and want of Rest In Sleep Heat Blood and Spirits retire towards the Center and inward parts which is one reason why 't is a furtherance to digestion When we are awake the Understanding is employed the Senses the Limbs and parts destined to Motion whereby the Spirits are wasted it is necessary therefore that they be replenished by Sleep In which all the Faculties are at rest except sometimes the Phansy and alwaies the Motions of the Pulse and Respiration By that cares are taken away Anger is appeased the Storms Agonies and Agitations of the Body are calmed the Mind is rendred Tranquil and Serene It Stops all immoderate Fluxes except Sweating Hence is it that * Soporiferous Potions are good in Lienteries and all other Laskes These are the Commodities of Moderate Sleep of Immoderate the Inconveniences are 1. In that the Heat being thereby called into the Body it consumes the superfluous Moistures and then the Necessary and lastly the Solid parts themselves and so extenuates dries emaciates the Body And secondly it fixes the Spirits and makes them sluggish and stupid it duls the understanding it hardens the Excrements and makes the Body Costive from whence follows many inconveniences Old men may Sleep long and 't is necessary they should for nothing refreshes them more for that end Condite Lettice is very good eaten to Bed-ward So is the washing of their Feet or Hands or both in warm water with flowres of Water-Lillies Chamomil Dill Heads of Poppy Vine-leaves Roses c. boiled in it It is necessary likewise that they go to bed Merry and keep their Minds devoid of Perturbations That they avoid Costiveness by taking loosening Meats at the beginning of their Meals and by using now and then as need requireth some Laxative as Electuarium Lenitivum Catholicum or Benidicta Laxativa of any of them 2. drams in the Mornings with a little powder of Anniseeds or yet Cassia Tamarinds or Prunes Pulp'd Manna c. either of themselves or dissolved in Broth or Posset-drink But these though gentle I advise they use not too often for better is it to be moved naturally besides that by the frequency the Party using them will loose the benefit thereof Children may likewise sleep Largely So may the Cholerick and the Lean The Phlegmatick and Fat should Watch much Sleep after Dinner may be allowed Old men Children and they who are accustomed to it And then 't is best not to lie or hang down the Head but to sit upright in a Chaire to have no binding before upon the breast and not to be suddenly awaked but better it is that they only drowze for the better closure of the Stomack for long sleeping in the day indisposes the Body very much and makes the Nights restless but they are especially Hurtful for those that are apt to Rheums Sore Eyes and Coughes The best form of Lying is with the Arms and Thighs somewhat contract the Head a little elevated on either of the Sides for lying on the back is bad for the Stone assists much the Ascension of Vapors and wasts the Marrow in the Spine Over-much Watching consumeth the Spirits dryeth the body hurteth the Eye-sight and very much shortens our Lives Of the Excrements
Saffron and Milk of Posset drink with a few Camomill Flowers boiled in it either of them drank hot and close covering thereupon or if need require it with a scruple of Gascoignes Powder in either of them which Sweat being gently continued for about an Hour care is to be taken that thou beest rubbed well with warm clothes and shifted with fresh and well aired Linning and that about half an Hour after thou drink a draught of hot and comfortable Broth Cawdle or other Supping and so by degrees enure thy self to the aire and Customary way of Life This timely and carefully performed may save thee many a sharp and irksome sickness Provided alwaies that thou then beest not costive for so sweating will harden the Excrements and evaporate the moisture thereof into the Body Before thou sweat therefore if thy belly have been fast open it either by some gentle Lenitive or loosening Clyster They that have dry hard skins and therefore difficultly sweat should be bathed or at least fomented with a Decoction of Warm Water with Hot and mollifying Hearbs boiled therein that through the skin so relaxed the Sweat may have the easier passage The Help of Bottles with a Decoction of Sudorifick Hearbs as Camomil Penny-Royal Rosemary Mother of Time Hyssop c. is very assistant in this case encreasing the heat by degrees as by putting in less Heated Bottles first and half an Hour after the more Heated Sleep that stops other Fluxes causes Sweat because the Heat and Spirits first moving inward do there gather force which so encreased works upon the moisture and evaporates it by Sweat Sweat is not to be over-long or over-violent for it impairs the Body too much better it is to Sweat twice or thrice for that's Natures way who never expels the whole Morbifick matter at one Sweating Thus much as to the Preservative by Sweating Of other Excrements THey that spit much want exercise for that is the best way to spend the matter thereof for to stop it begets pains in the Head and endangers many diseases of the Brain besides that it may afterwards take another course as upon the Lungs in the Spine or on the Reins whereas exercise safely breaths it out through the Body If the Humors and Viscosities remain in the Brain and Head and descend not they are to be provoked down by the Nose or Mouth either by Sneezing or the * Mastication of those things which are of Subtile Parts and so open and clear the passages as Tobacco Rosemary Bettony Seeds of Thlapsi Crosses c. are very good so are their fumes but then they must not be brought into a Custom but used only as the necessity requires The Foulnesses in the Ears and thick wax that by Time grows there ought to be prevented by often cleansing them taking first into them the fume of Camomil and Penny-royal boiled in Ale and afterwards of hot Viniger which done clense them with thy Earpicker carefully for fear of hurting the Tympanum and Provoking Coughs After Meats and in the Mornings Wash and Rub the Teeth thy Eyes Ears and Nostrils thy Hands likewise and Face with Cold water even in Winter Comb thy Head well that thou mayest make way for the Egression of Vapors which will otherwise fill thy brain In the observation of these small Matters how much doth Health consist I am in these things but thy Remembrancer Of the Affections or Passions of the Mind OF these I purpose breifly to treat not as a Natural Philosopher but Physician and so to consider not their Essences or Causes but Effects and how their Regulation conduces to the Conservation of Health Their power is doubtless very great upon us as being of force not only to hurry us into diseases but to bring upon us sudden death Their Steers-man is Reason which assisted with the Devine Spirit manifested in the Holy Scriptures is able to keep down the Surges of our Passions and is by Almighty God given us to be as a Check or Bridle to prevent or restrain all their Extravagances so that although there be great force in our Passions yet are we not involuntarily and without the power of Resistance overcome by them but yield unto them cowardly and unworthily for want of making use of that Reason by which we might Restrain them Our Affections indeed are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} unreasonable but yet they also are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} under our own power and command one principal work that man hath to do in the world is to moderate them And though some Passions as also Vices have through Custom and an habituall commitment become Usurpers upon reason and over-rulers thereof insomuch that it becomes a most difficult thing for Reason to reassume its Empire and keep them in due subjection This however is attributable not to their Nature but our own default and is decreed as a punishment of our first yielding thereunto 'T is just in God to harden his Heart who first hardens his own the penalty is appropriated to the offence From whence we may collect that Vice is a Punishment 2. 'T is observable that there is a mutual influence from the Body upon the Mind and from the Mind upon the Body not necessitating but inclining 'T is clear in the several effects the Passions produce in the Body which I shall presently speak of and 't is as clear that Anger Sadness Joy c. in their Immoderation I mean are more easily produced in those that are under the Violence of a Feavour or other Sicknesse or pain or yet of depraved and unequal Constitutions then in them that are in Health and of Sound Complexion That therefore thou mayest be Vertuous keep thy self in good Health that thou mayst be in good Health keep thy self Vertuous and Regulate thy Passions Passions are not bad of themselves but in their excesses or defects for by their assistance we more easily attain good and Laudable Ends there are some things against which they are well and by injunction imployed Be Angry and sin not saith the Apostle and our Saviour drove the Money-Changers out of the Temple our Love and Hatred our Fear Sadness and Rejoycing have all of them proper objects about which they may and ought to be employed 'T is to be more then man to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} wholy indolent and void of Passion we are required only to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} well to manage moderate them Of Anger IN its excess the incommodities are many and evil as Feavours Phrensies and Madness Trembling Palsies Apoplexies Decay of Appetite and want of rest paleness as when fear is conjoyned and the Spirits called in sometimes Redness of the Face and Eyes when the Spirits are sent out as in desire of Revenge which is also accompanied with an Ebullition of the blood stamping bending
the fist c. With many more evils anger is accompanied all of which though they fall not out to every one that is angry yet some do and more or less as it is it inclines us to all these had in Remembrance may be a Motive to refrain that which is the cause of them that 's one help against it Another is to observe them that be angry for in others we can better judge of the unseemliness of it then in our selves to whom we cannot but be partial neither are we capable Judges in our Fits when we are wholy possest by it But observing it in others we may thus reason Shews this so unhansome in my Freind sure it doth so in me also Doth it impair his Health so will it mine also Doth it un-man him doubtless it also transforms me into a Beast Thirdly Consider we that the more we enure our selves to it the stronger habit we get and the apter we shall alwaies be upon every slight occasion to fall into it Fourthly 'T is to be thought upon that the frequency thereof makes it loose its effect and become wholly neglected by them upon whom we spend it It ought to be ultimately not against Persons but Things not against Men but Vices so that we ought even in our Angers to give some manifest of a desire of good to the Person we are angry withall as of Reclaimer of his amendment and altering his Course so will it both make the deeper Impression and do our selves less Hurt Sixthly Let us call to mind the Patience Long-sufferance and Humility for Anger is frequently an effect of Pride enjoyned us in Scripture Let us remember how unspeakable it is in God towards us And lastly How Christ the Son of God and God who might have had Legions of Angels to have defended him and who indeed wanted nothing had he pleased to have defended himself yet did he patiently submit himself to Rebukes Scorns and false Accusations to be hurryed from place to place to be bound with Cords whipt spit on buffeted Crowned with sharp Thorns to carry his own Cross he was to suffer on to be extended forth and nayled thereon to have his Sides pierced his Sinews stretched and at last suffer death and all this not for his own but even his Enemies offences for whom he prayed whilst he was Tormented O let us all lay this to heart and let it sink into us so shall it doubtless be a means to restrain those light and customary Heats and animosities that take fire at the least motion and upon the slightest occasion and last of all as we respect our own Happiness even here in this World in Body in Mind let us wisely pass by Mistakes Affronts Injuries at least wise let us assay all gentle means first of amity and Love of winning upon our Adversaries by all Christian wayes that can be thought on and when no other means will serve then to shew our Anger for our own defence only and preservation Let us consider that t is easy to begin strife but hard to allay it The Beginning thereof saith Solomon is as one that openeth the Waters therefore ere the contention be medled with leave off One means more there is and that is Diversion Octavian was advised to say over the A. B. C. before he exprest his Anger in word or deed for giving some pause thereunto it many times vanishes Reason then as I conceive having some space to work and rowse it self which at other times is surprized If I were not Angry said Architus Tarentinus to his Bailiff I would now beat thee This man had well Learned his Lesson and may be our Master The reading of good Books is likewise a great Help to make us Masters of our Passions especially the Scripture For thereby the mind will be furnished with sound Knowledge and Reason instructed and made ready against all its Temptations and assaults Of Love THis in its extream is a Passion seldom heard of in our times the two Catholick Vices Pride and Covetousness having almost swallowed up this Affection the sincerity whereof as it relates either to Freindship or Marriage is now converted into Conveniency and terminated not in another as it ought to be but in our selves I distinguish it into 3. kinds The 1. Godlike which is a knitting of the Soul to God and manifesting by his blessed example without any indirect ends Sine serâ sine fuco without deceit or without dissimulation a Sympathetical Spirit and Affection towards one another This is uncapable of extremity in its utmost extent being but our Duty The 2. is Humane towards particular Persons as Parents Wife Children Friend or Things towards the first it ought also to be Hearty Constant begotten continued for their sakes not our own but yet bounded with a due submission to the Will of God That to Things is not to be fixt but apt to change and alteration because the Things themselves are so which we are to love The Apostle saith As if we loved them not The 3. is that which is shewn between one Sex to another and ends in the Conjugal This is naturally imprest upon us and is to be carefully preserved from Dotage and Lust when it takes fire from the last 't is never permanent but soon cloyes it self and Vanishes upon satiety Reason is here excluded and that hath made so many happily seeming Marriages soon vanish into those which are full of Bitterness and pâ—ssionate Distemper Love therefore is to Begin as it ought to Continue or rather to encrease by continuance and so it ever doth when Vertue and sweetness of Disposition is its Foundation and not Wealth or Beauty which are good Concomitants but bad Principles A Vertuous Mind an unblemished Life and Conversation a Healthful Body these are me thinks essentially necessary in man and Woman to make a Marriage Happy the other two are Ornamentals that adde to its perfection but not to its essence For Dotage which is an Impotent and unreasonable placing of the Affection upon another which many times brings all the Faculties of Soul and Body into a Languishment or Consumption and sometime by Summoning and uniting all its spirits in the Brain causes Phrensies Madness and divers other Maladies For this I say neither Reason nor Physick hath yet found any Remedy it being neither capable of Councel nor within the reach or power of any Medicine Diversion is by the Wisest esteemed the best Remedy Change of Objects devides it and so lessens it Indeed Stratagem and Invention hath most share in this Cure which must be assisted by Season and Opportunity I shall end this with one only Caution That Parents hazard not the destruction of their Children by not giving their consents to those Marriages where the Hearts are United and Vertue is the Bond and the defect or cause of obstacle is only inequality of Birth or Estate Of Greif and Sadness