Quince but first must the TurpeÌ„tine be wel washed in Rose water or Fenel water to take away his resinie tallage And because nothing to this CoÌ„plexion which we heere describe is holesomer then sounde and quiet Sleepe for therwith all the members are generally moystened and with conuenient warmth refreshed it shal be good for a person thus complexioned to take his full ease and sleepe in a soft bedde largely and somewhat plentifully For Sleepe in the night is the refreshing makinge lusty agayne both of the body and mynde The invvard peace of mynde is Sleepe To vvearyed bodye ease it brings By it themselues men lusty keepe And fresh to doe their needefull things And when Sleepe is shaken of it shal be righte commodious to vse rubbing or friction neither soft nor hard but meane betweene both the profit whereof to them that vse it is almost incredible For it styreth vp vital strength it calefyeth moderately and maketh distribution of the nourishment into the body easyer and readier speciallye if it be done with the wette hand or with a moyst and course cloth For who doth not perceiue that the hands cheekes armes neck and cares being rubbed will waxe ruddie and with heate gather bloud into those parts And although the vse of rubbing and annoynting amonge vs nowe a dayes be cleane growen out of custome yet in tholde tyme men vsed it very often as a meane to keepe themselues in perfect health and to strengtheÌ„ their bodily powers So Augustus Caesar on a certayne tyme espyinge his old compaignion Pollio being aboue an huÌ„dreth yeares olde demaunded of him what order he vsed in conseruinge himselfe in such perfecte sounde strength and in so lustye and greene olde age vnto whom his aunswere was that he came to it by vsing within Wyne wythout Oyle Men in tholde time did not riottouslye abuse oyntmentes and Oyles to satisfye their effeminate delicatenes nyce wantonnes but for safegard and preseruation of health thereby the better to keepe themselues from Sicknesse For vnctions and Frictions orderlye and duelye vsed for there by many sorts thereof as Galene witnesseth eyther indense the body that the Ayre wyndes should not batter and damnyfie it or els rarefie it that it be not stopped and inwardly pestered which abuÌ„daunce of fullginous humours and oppilacions Hard Rubbing doth snarle together and condense the body Sost lewseth and resolueth it Much doth extenuate dimynishe Meane hath a power to make it encrease fill Rough draweth out humours to the vtter parts Gentle and smooth taketh away nothing but reteyneth his force and power in the parts Among these sorts of frictions that which is in a mediocritie is most behoouefull for those persons that be olde and leane For as hard and styffeleathered bootes that haue lyen loÌ„g vnoccupyed by being suppled in Oyle are made softe So likewyse the bodyes of Fol Dry persoÌ„s being stroaked ouer humected inwardly with Wyne outwardlye with Oyle lay asyde al seueritie z loke with a cheerefull and liuely countenaunce To proue that this vse of vnctions in the old time was of diuers sorts beside the testimony of sacred Scriptures besyde the reporte of Solinus Plinie Strabo in his description of the maners fashions of the Indians doth sufficientlye testifye Physicke sayth hee amonge them consisteth in meates not in medicines and of Medicines they best allow of vnctioÌ„s Cataplasmes al other being as they thinck not voyde of harme annoyaunce Therew t they customablye propulse sicknesse mitigate heate driue away lassitude wearynesse reuiue their wearyed powers feeble Spyrites refreshing themselues therewith euen as we by sweete smelles do recreate our inward soule and restore the faint faculties of naure No lesse commodious and profitable to this body is a warme Bathe of sweete water for it doth humect and calefie it dissolueth lassitude it mollyfyeth hard and stiffe partes it disperseth by euaporation the abundaunce of humours it resolueth wynâ—ynâ—sse and procureth Sleepe for that it humecteth the brayne wyth a pleasaunt vaporous and deawye moysture But the naturall Bathes which haue all their vertues of Alume Yron Lyme Ockre Brymstone Saltpeter Bitumen Leade Brasse Copper c. are not so holesome for this Complexion and Nature vnlesse the party do first aske aduyse of some fkilfull and trusty Phisition openymge vnto him the whole state of his body whereby he may vppon the conssideration therof geeue iudgement whether it be good and expedient for him to aduenture into the same Carnall lust and Venerous Act as it is an vtter ennemye to all drye Natures so especially to it moste hurtfull to them that besyde drynesse are also cold No lesse hurtfull is ouer much exercyse wearynesse watch carefunesse thought longe abstynence from meate and drincke heauynes of mynde and anger wherewyth such complexioned mens myndes are seldome styrred but when they be throughly chafed angred hardly will they be pacifyed and quieted againe And because vnseasonable Study is a thinge that greatly wearyeth weareth Students making when leane and exhausting their bodyes a measure and meane also would be therein vsed For we seâ— many great and painfull Studentes still sitting at their Bookes wythout taking any regard to their bodily health by the helpe wherof the good state of the mynde is holden vp mainteyned to looke wyth wearyshe faces pale and without bloude nothing almost on their bodyes but skinne and boane the ventricle and stomacke feeble vnable to digest their meate their streÌ„gth and powers cleane worne out and exhausted For by wearying themselues wyth late watchiÌ„g and sittinge at their study till farre in the nighte their Animall Spyrites through toomuch inteÌ„sion be resolued and their natiue humyditie dryed vp Wherefore it is requisite to vse therein a moderacion and narowlye to looke to the preseruation of health least otherwyse throughe continuall poring and study â–ª the body chaunce to pyne away fall into some Consumption For as Plutarch sayth Of al the good thinges that learninge bryngeth to man nothinge more excellent can be geuen to the body then to be in perfect health and wythout impedimente eyther for the attaynmente of the knowledge of Vertue or for the necessarye vse of lyfe For if sicknesse or gyddynesse of the head hyppeÌ„ streightwayes the mynde beinge destitute of the helpe of the bodye drowpeth quayleth and is neyther lustye nor actyue in doynge his ordinary functions but together wyth his Companion and fellow of all his labours the bodye is mutuallye affected and alyke distempered For which cause Plaâ—o hys counsell is right commendable aduysing vs neither to exercyse the body wythout the mynde nor the mynde without the bodye but to keepe as it were an equal poyze of matrymoniall coÌ„sent and agreemente together betweene them as it were betweene man wyfe Forasmuch therefore as the inwarde and natiue heate by exercyse and motion is encreased
so shakâ— of and forgotteÌ„ appoint onely foure to wit them that be coÌ„pound vnto whoÌ„ they haue geeuen names not of their qualities but somwhat vnaptly of those coÌ„monly termed knoweÌ„ humours y is to say SaÌ„guine Cholerique Phlegmatique MelaÌ„cholique by y squyer leauel of whoÌ„ they wold haue these 4. differeÌ„ces of coÌ„plexioÌ„ or teÌ„perature to be reduced tryed Which dealiÌ„g reasoniÌ„g of theirs as it sauoreth of populer iudgmeÌ„t learning to the common sort very plaussble so standeth it not with the precise opynion and censure of them that would haue eche thing skanned and measured in his righte nature and kinde In the meane season I as one desirous to recoÌ„cyle Physitions thus factiously iarrynge in opynion and woulde God this vniformitye and attonement were also broughte to passe in matters of ReligioÌ„ for the better quieting of many mens Consciences both parties shall suffer the chiefe place to be assigned and geeuen to the hoate and moyst Complexion excepting alwayes as I said before the temperatest of all whereunto as at a marcke we must direct our mynd and leauel our whole matter that by it euery man may trye his owne nature which so loÌ„g as it is in his perfect strength vigour quality produceth bringeth foorth a Sanguine man. And thus there is in a maner no differeÌ„ce neither preiudiciall to anye partye eyther to call it by the name of a hoate and moyst Complexion or els by the terme of a Sanguine man who by the benefite of this holesome humour conteyneth hath within him these qualities albeit Bloud it selfe for wee will keepe all thinges wythin their prescripte limittes doth not engender and cause heate and moystnes but rather heate and moysture produceth Bloud Now Bloud of all iuyces and humours is the best and to mans life an alimente and maintener chiefly appropriat famylier and domesticall for throughe the force furtheraunce of vitall Spirite which is the preseruer and seÌ„der of natural heate into euery part of the bodye Bloud is conueighed by the cunduytes and Vesselles of the Arteryes and Veynes so both nourisheth mainteyneth and preserueth the whole body And for that this pure cleare defecate loouely and amyable Iuyce is the special thing that conserueth euery lyuinge Creature in his beynge wherein also consisteth the lyfe and vigour of euerye nature that lyueth by breath therefore the Hebrew Lawmaker Moses by the direction and appointmente of God himselfe forbadde all maner of bloud to be eateÌ„ because the lyfe of al Creatures coÌ„sisteth in bloud is therwyth nourished and mainteyned euen as the flame of a Candle is with the Oylie weeke as it plainly appeareth by a man that bleedeth verye much whose bodye is then in euery part cold wanne for want thereof fayntinge and in a maner readye to geeue vp the Ghost I haue knowen many whose vitall spyrite bleedinge out and yssuinge together wyth their bloud haue been thereby brought into great daunger of their liues And therefore this treasure of Lyfe must moste carefullye be conserued because it is of all Humours the most excellent wholesome Nowe as the Arteries which abounde more wyth vitall spyrite then wyth bloud spring from the heart so the Veynes which conteyne more bloud then ayrie spyrite proceede and spryng froÌ„ the Lyeuer and are dispersed abroad in brauches and fibres into euerye yea the verye furtheste places of the body For the Lyuer is the shoppe and chiefe workemaster of grosse thicke bloude althoughe the first oryginall thereof be ascribed to the Heart by whose power faculty the bloud is made and throughly wrought being endued wyth vitall spyrite conueigheth naturall heat to eche part of the body Bloud and vital Spyrite are in their chiefest Pryme and most abound in lusty and flourishing yeares albeit there is no age that lacketh the same although in old worne age bloud begynneth to draw to a coldnes the vital spyrit then neyther so hoate neither so stronge and effectuous which thinge as it is in them well to bee obserued and perceyued by their frequente gestures and often moouing of the body and the partes thereof yet specially maye it be seene noted by their colour which in a yonge lusty Stryplyng and youthfull body of good constitution is ruddy and fresh but in them that be further stryken in yeares or further of from this temperamente is not so pure so beautifull nor so pleasaunt to behold for that all their comelynesse beauty is eyther faded awaye or throughe some euill humours and hidden imperfection or blemishe appeareth in them worse then in the yonger sort So many being affected or disteÌ„pered in their Splene wombe Lyuer ventricle and Lunges are commonly either pale yelow tawnie dunne duskie or of some other ill fauoured colour There is no surer way sayth Galene certainly to knowe the humours and iuyce in a Creature then by the colour and outward complexion If the body loke very whyte it is a token that phlegme in that body chiefely reigneth most aboundeth If it be pale or yelow it argueth the humour to bee greatly Melancholique and Cholerique and the bloude to be freshe and reddye if it be blackish it betokeneth blacke adust Choler specially if no outwarde accidentall occasion happen as great heate or chafing labour or wearynesse or if the mynde bee not intoxicate and perplexed wyth affectes and passions as Angre Ioye Sorow Care pensyuenes for these make the humours sometyme to resort vnto the skynne vtter parts and sometime to hyde and conueyghe themselues farre inwardly and for this cause wee see men y are fumish and testy to be in a marueylous heat proceeding not of any sticknesse or discrasse but of â–ª the motion and stirring of the humours againe them that be affrighted and in mynde amazed to be pale Some to loke as wanne as Lead some whyte and swartie sometyme blewyshe sometime of sondrye colours all which betoken crude humours and raw iuyce to beare rule and swaye in the bodye eyther of phlegme glasselyke toughe or of some other sort or els many rotteÌ„ humours clamped vp in y bodye which by outward tokeÌ„s and signes bewray shew themselues what they be and what they signifie They therefore that be of a hoate and moyst constitution and haue greate store of bloude wythin theim are of a purple and reddie coloure softe warme and smooth skinned comely of stature of reasonable feacture fleshye bodyed and a little roughe aburne heyred redde or yealow bearded and comely bushed of which feacâ—ure plight and bodely shape the Scripture witnesseth that Dauid was who beyng after that Saule was cast of and reiected appointed King and onnoyâ—ted by Samuel was of a brownish Complexâ—oÌ„ excellent beauty well fauoured in sight and 〈◊〉 â—â—tenauÌ„ce very cheerefull and amyable Such a comety grace and Princelye shape was to be scene in the moste victorious Prince Philip Kinge
better then the reste And hee namely is to be thoughte and accompted hoate in whom that quality of heate aboundeth excelleth the other that be moderately constituted that is those that be tempered wyth moyst drye Of which state and condition if a man bee disposed throughly to searche oute and marke all the notes and signes he shall by proofe finde that whosoeuer is of that Complexion constitution is of stature comely and of shape and beauty agreeable and consouaÌ„te to manly dignitye of body not grosse sat or corpulent but reasonably faste fleshed For heate dissolueth and dissipateth all fatte things of conler red or if bloude be too hoate and boyling as in them that dwel in hoate regions and parching countryes browne or tawnie For there be in euery bodye accordinge to the condition of the ayre and region sondry degrees of heate and diuers considerations and differeÌ„ces both of this and of the other qualities also The Indians AEthiopians Moores Asians AEgyptians Palestines Arabians Greekes Italians Spanyatds Polonians Muscouites Germaines Frenchmen Duchmen c. are of sondry and different Complexions euerye one in his kinde hath of heate seuerall and sondry differences For euen as fewel and matter combustible for Fier is some hoater and more burning then some other is and as the fier panne or hearth wherein is burnt eyther Seacoales fattie turues of the nature of bitumen the burning lyme of chaulkye clay called Naphtha oyle pitch rosen or finally to speake of wood Oke Hornebeame Larche Byrch Elme Popler Wyllow the fier is vehementer and the hearth is of heate sometime extreme sometime more soft mylde So likewyse in euery maÌ„s body according to the nature of the place and order of lyfe and dyet this heate is encreased or dyminished and this is the very cause that men be of so sondry colours and of hayres so diuers differeÌ„t for in euery hoate CoÌ„plexioned body mixed with moderate humour the skiÌ„ne is rough hayrie the beard fayreand comly but the hayres of the head somwhat differ by reason of heate are of other colour For hayres being generated of a fuliginous grosse excremente of the third concoction become black when as the vapour being aduste by force power of heate the excrement is turned into an exact fuliginousnes Curled and crooked hayres proceede of a drynesse of ComplexioÌ„ caused through immoderate heate or els by reason of the straictnes and narrow issue of the pores where the rootes of the hayres be fastened For then haue they much adoe to peepe vp and finde any right way to appere out whereby it happeneth that they growe crooked curled frysled specially in them in whoÌ„ it so happeneth naturally beiÌ„g not artyficially procured nor by toto superfine curiostly frisled as some nyce dames Prickmedainties which curiously combe bring theyr hayres into a curled fashion and crysped lockes therby the more to set out their beauty to coÌ„mend themselues as they thinck after a more glorious shewe to the beholders Therfore all they that dwel in hoate dry regions haue hayre black of smal growiÌ„g curled crisp and as the Egyptians Spaniardes AEthiopians Moores and all other which in nature and condition ars lyke vnto them For we see many in euery region yea of them that dwell Northwarde towarde the Pole Arctick which if we consider theyr hayres colour coÌ„plexioÌ„ of their whole body seeme rather like foreyners strauÌ„gers then ConÌ„trey borne people So amoÌ„g y NetherlaÌ„ders low DuchmeÌ„ bordering vpon the Sea many be black curle heyred tawnyskiÌ„ned specially they which in SoÌ„mer are much in the heat of the SuÌ„ne vse much labour howbeit this variety of bodyes may be referred to sondry causes as eyther to the nature of the CouÌ„trey RegioÌ„ or to the power facultie of theyr meats nourishmeÌ„t or els finally to the hiddeÌ„ ymaginatioÌ„s of the womaÌ„ or mother Which ymaginations are of so great force efficacie that the things by her in mynd earnestly ymagined in at the very instant time of her coÌ„ceptioÌ„ is deryued into the infant child then begotten For this Sexe being wanton toying stedfastly eying euery thing that is offered to sight it happeneth that the naturall facultie being then in workinge formyng of the child directeth her cogitatioÌ„s inward coÌ„ceiptes y way bringeth vnto the InfaÌ„t an other forein shape forme in nature coÌ„ditioÌ„ altogether vnlike the right pareÌ„ts This euen in oure dayes and of late yeares hath bin by experience found true at what time the Emperour Charles the siâ—t of that name coming out of Spaine into y lowe Countryes arryued there wyth a wel appointed nauy of royal shippes hauing in his coÌ„pany a goodly trayne of noble GeÌ„tlemeÌ„ yeomeÌ„ Many womeÌ„ therabout being theÌ„ great with child through much beholdiÌ„g wel eying those galaÌ„t Spaniards after ix monethes brought theyr Infantes and children hauing eyebrowes and hayres blacke and curled and in all respects coloured like Spaniards And this happened not amonge filthye Corteghians common brothelles whom it might well be thought to haue bin vnderlinges hackeneyes to those hoate natured and lecherous Nation but the same fell so oute also among right honest tryed Matrones whose approued chastitye and vertuous dispositioÌ„s were so irreprooueable that they were not to be once charged wyth the lest suspicion of any such lewednes and yet these affections and impressions in theyr children tooke place accordingly In lyke maner wheÌ„ y Emperour Maximilian who was desceÌ„ded of the house of Austrich had also the gouernment ouer the Low Countreyes the women being much in compaignie and sighte of the Germaynes brought forth theyr Children with yelowe flexen hayres and in eche poynt lyke to Germaynes For they and all other as many as are borne and bred in cold and moyke Countryes haue hayres fine streight and somewhat ruddie and beardes of the colour of brasse for that the heares are neyther adusted by the SuÌ„ne nor yet by any inward heate for hauinge moysture plentifully and issues oute at the poores easye ynough the aboundance of the excrements wherwyth they be nourished maketh the hayres thick and the adustion which causeth the colour to bee blacke it maketh weake Blacke hayre therfore commeth of vapour by heat aduste when the excrement is wrought and turned into an exact fuliginousnes The cause that produceth yellow hayre is when the vapour is not much adust and heated for that which is then impressed in the skinne and seeketh eruption is the feculent excrement of yelow Choler and not of Melancholie But white hayre coÌ„meth of Phlegme and of a humoure cold and moyst Redde hayres as they be meane betweene yelow and whyte so doth the generation of it proceede of a certayne nature meane betweene Phlegme and Choler Now they that dwel in countryes temperate and betweene these haue
of hayre much stoare stronge somewhat blackishe meanely thicke and neyther altogether thicke and grosse nor altogether streight plaine Which differēces Galene applyeth to euery seuerall age For as touching the colour he ascrybeth such hayres as yong Infantes haue to the Germaynes of suche as be in their best flourishynge yeares to Spaniards and Mauritanians and of them that be Spryngalds or in the beginning of theyr Adolescencie to such as inhabite temperate Countryes In the natures also of bodyes the hayre is of forme colour according to the difference and respect of Ages and Countryes For tender age and Childhoode is bare without hayres on the bodye or els wyth verye smal soft and mosye hayre onelye because eyther there be n◠pores in theyr skinnes for the exhalatiō to euaporate and grow to the bignesse of hayres or els there wanteth effluxe and fuliginous excrement wherewithall the small threads of the hayres are wont to be drawen and produced oute But when they bee come neere aboute the age of xiiii yeares they beginne to bourgen and shewe forth lytle and weake Lustye and flourishinge Age hath hayres stronger fuller bushed blackishe for that the pores and passages then beginne to open and be enlarged and finally stoare of fumous exhalation aboundeth in those partes of the bodye which are apte to generate and produce hayre as the Heade Chinne Arme pittes Priuities For although the Breaste Armes Thighes in some that be of very hoate complexion abound with fuliginous vapoure be seene to be rough and hayrie yet do those hayres grow neither so copiouslye nor to anye greate length which thing for example sake in certayne drye and musculious places of the bodye as the eye-browes eyelyddes may euidētly be perceyued Therefore the muche stoare and thicknes of hayre commeth of aboundaūce of humours and the colour thereof is according as the heate is of greatnes Therefore all those partes in mans body are most rough and hayrie which abounde in moste heate For it attracteth the vaporous fumes that issue from humours and fashioneth the same into a hayrie nature And for this cause many Springhaldes haue not in that Age anye heardes neither any other partes of their bodies hayrie My order is to such as resort to me for aduise and counsell howe they maye make their beardes to growe to open and make wide their pores passages by applying and geeuinge to them such thinges as stirre vp heate in those partes bring out humours altering concocting the same into the vse of hayres The Lintment that I customably make for this purpose is this R. of Reede or Cane rootes Brionie rootes Beete Radish Floure de lice Onions of ech alike viz the quantity of foure Ounces sixe fatte figges brused stamped very small Maydenheare Sothernvvod Dill of eche one handfull seethe these all together in sweete and well relyced wyne then force wringe out the licoure and streine it throughe a strayner then put to it freshe butter neuer salted pure honie Ana. ii oun mces Oyle of Almonds both sweete and sower Oyle of Sesama about the quantity of i. oūce Oximel Scyllitic halfe an oz. the powder or meale of Lineseede Nigella Fenugreke wel sifted and throughly boulted in a fine boulter one Pugil or smal graspe of the gūme Labdanū one oūce Let al these be set vpon the fier and stirred with a sticke til they be thick ynough to make a Limment withall To what part of the body soeuer this liniment is layd and applyed it maketh hayre to grow and if the Chinne or bare Cheekes bee therewith annoynted the same wil quickly be hayrie and haue a comely bearde For it openeth and relaxeth the skinne beynge thycke and maketh the passage and and euaporaciō for the humours of whō throughe the helpe and operation of heate the first buddīg out and generation of hayres proceedeth And if the baldnes or barenesse of hayre proceede not eyther of eldershippe in yeares or els by reasō of some sicknesse or vicious humours as bodyes infected wyth some lothsome disease or wyth French Pockes commonly are for the bodyes of such persons euen in the secretest partes become in eche place pylde and sheedeth all their hayre like vnto Trees whose leaues fall of if in the roote raigne anye saltishnes or venemous licoure this liniment is a present helpe and remedy but the body must first by Purgation be clēsed from all ill and filthy humours inwardly But to proceede in my purpose matter womē by the very same reason that yong Stryplings are haue no hayre on theyr bodyes but be smothe and slicke skinned sauinge onelye theyr heades crowne where their hayre groweth in marueylous great plentye for that the vapours do very much aboundantly ascend vpward In their other partes their skinne is smothe and vnhayrye because moysture is aboue heate Sauing y in and about theyr secrete pryuityes where also hayrinesse appeareth such women as be greatlye destrous of carnall lust and copulacion be verye roughe and thick growenr with hayre thereabout and the more lecherous the more hayrie fruictfull And the cause whye some women otherwyse aboundinge wyth generatiue seede do not conceyue and beare children is nothing els but y want of heate For euen as a fenny and very wet grounde beareth no corne but choketh it vppe so likewyse a wombe that is slypperie is not fit for conception In like maner also there be some yonge men who maryinge to soone and ere they be fully rype are vnfruictfull and not able to get any children for that they lacke manly strength theyr seede to cold and thinne It is therefore by reason of heate that men be hayrie and bolder then women be But if heate encrease in mans body vnmeasurably and aboue a mediocrity and that through Choler the bloud be styrred and too-much enflamed it oftentimes turneth into meere desperate rage furie And hereof it commeth that many beinge angred and theyr bloud eyther wyth publicke or wyth pryuate iniuryes styrred in theyr desperate moode will Bedlemlyke runne vppon theyr Ennemyes wyth myndes enraged The hoater of complexion therefore y euery man is and further of from moderate temperature the hayryer is his bodye and the fiercer is his courage Which thinge by Iuuenal is right well expressed where he sayth A busshie Beard and Armes ouergrovven vvith bristled hayres Sat. 2. declare In man a sauage cruell mynde deuoyde of any care For vehemēt heate maketh men stoute of courage rage fierce testie crafty suttle industrious politicke of which sorte of men wee fynde in wryting some that not onely in their outward parts but in their very Entrailes and inwarde partes also haue bin found rough and hayrie Plinie maketh mention of one Aristomenes Messenius who by his subtyle Stratagemes and warlicke shiftes is sayd being alone to haue put to flight whole Bands of men Which thing is a plaine Argumente and tokē aswel of his
tryed and prooued by castinge vpoÌ„ them Salt or glasse or Alume for therwith they presently resolue and consume into a liquide substaunce And as men and mute Creatures so also sondry Plantes and great stemmed hearbes are endued with this quality which by reason of their deletory coldnes bringe destruction vnto Creatures as â—eÌ„bane MaÌ„drake Napellus Solanum Mortiferum Aconitum the iuyce of black Popie called Opium which although in respect of their temperament and clementary qualitie they bee colde in the fourth and higheste degree yet by the benefite of vitall heate dissusing it selfe from celestiall thinges into these lower bodyes they doe liue and flourish in a freshe verdure For in euery nature especially humayne there is a certaine celestial or diuine vertue ouer beside that which is constituted of feede and of the feminine bloud For the warme calefactiue Spyrit which a litle afore we sayde was infused into the whole worlde and into all the particuler parts thereof laboureth vppon the Elementes and geeueth life to all thinges and finally woorketh in them that vertue and efficacie whereby throughe propagation they encrease and procreate kindes like to themselues and produce a Creature of the same nature they themselues be For the first procreation of lyuing creatures being produced made of Elementall concretion and of the Parentes Seede which is a portion or parte of the purest best concocted bloude then doth nature whose skilful workmaÌ„ship no hand nor curious craftesmaÌ„ is able by imitation to reseÌ„ble or reach vnto hauing her original diuine supernal applyeth the woorke she hath in framynge bringeth her thinges to perfect passe conueigheth the powers animall wyth the Spyrites vital and vertues effectuall into the matter she hath in hande by whose mynistery shee perfectly finisheth all the lymmes proportioneth all the lineaments fitteth them to the rest of the meÌ„bers of the bodye gyueth such shape proportion to the thinges animated as daily we see represeÌ„ted set before our eyes This wonderfull force of nature which we elswhere haue shewed to yssue flow froÌ„ the most abundant fountaine of Diuinity beinge diffused into ech part of the whole bodye moueth slyrreth the masse thereof directeth gouerneth the mynd and vnderstanding maketh the same applyable to sondry actions by whose benefite and help eueÌ„ those thiÌ„gs do liue haue their being which are stiffe and nummed with cold althoughe heate in theÌ„ be faint feeble which least it should altogether droupe be vtterly extiÌ„guished least thou cold quality wherto the drye is of affinity should toomuch preuaile encrease must be styrred vp excyted with hoate fomentatioÌ„s For wheÌ„ natural moysture is all wasted inward heat extinct theÌ„ death approcheth the whole frame of the body teÌ„deth to dissolution ruine It coÌ„meth theÌ„ to passe eueÌ„ as SalomoÌ„ by an elegaÌ„t apt similitude describeth that when the coÌ„position knittinge together of the body is lewsed a sonder streÌ„gth decayed gone theÌ„ shal maÌ„ be tourned again into dust froÌ„ wheÌ„ce he was taken made the Spirite shal retourne into his euerlastinge dwellinge to God which made it But to theud euery maÌ„ may perfectlye know the nature coÌ„dicion of this coÌ„plexion and constitucion I wil compendiously as it were by the way set downe certaine marks tokeÌ„s wherby it shal easely be knowen A cold ComplexioÌ„ if it be coÌ„pared to a hoate hath al properties coÌ„trary For eueÌ„ as heat beiÌ„g diffused into ech part of the body imparteth his quality vnto the humours maketh the body y parts therof to be of colour ruddie so cold imperteth his quality vnto the meÌ„bers humours maketh the body of colour pale and vnsightly But if we be disposed particulerly to marke obserue al the notes and tokens thereto incident we shall finde in the colde complexioned body all things contrary and diuerse from the hoate For the bodye is pilde and smoth the hayre loose and soft of colour partakinge wyth redde and white and quickly shedding The skinne in touching cold vnder it some store of fatnes For when heat in maÌ„s body is faiÌ„t dul fatnes engeÌ„dreth which as it much happeneth to the feminine Sexe so also breedeth it in many others that liue ydle at ease withoute labour or exercise And for this cause through immoderate coldnes the bodye waxeth grosse fat and corpulent againe by immoderate heate which melteth awaye and dissolueth fat the body is made leane and drye For there be manye thinges not comminge to man by nature or from his natiuitye and beginning but accidentally and otherwise procured as eyther by chaunginge of the ordinary custome of life or by alteration of diet or by heate labour slouth solitarinesse lumpishnes feare sorrowe care and sondry others many wayes chaunginge the state of the body making it somtime slender leane sometime fat corpulent Which thinges also to the making of the colour of the face bodye fayre or foule good or badde are of no lesse force and efficacie For what thinges soeuer do excite and stirre vp natiue heate as Laughter myrthe exercise wyne c. do make the face pleasauntlye freshlye coloured but such thinges as be cold suppresse heate as cold ayre and nypping wynd toomuch drynkinge of water immoderate sleepe ouermuch eatinge of cold meates feare sadnesse carefulnes such like make the body to be white coloured Thus they that be of cold Complexions are white coloured vnlesse this quality grow surmount to an excesse and great intension For then it declyneth to aswart and leaden colour such as we see in men in the cold Wynter the wynde being at North whose cheekes Noses lyppes fyngers and eares are swart and wanne wyth stiffe cold benummed But yet this commodity they haue by colde that it maketh them very hungry greedye of meate and not easely satisfyed albeit they do not well digeste nor concocte it And if the tunicles of their Stomack together wyth the cold haue in them any sowrish or sharpe humour they are in eating insaciable and very rauenous feeders which affecte is called Canina appeteÌ„tia the Dogges appetite or the hungry Sicknes which is qualefyed and taken away by drynking the purest stroÌ„gest Wyne To proue that appetite is sharpened wyth colde maye well appeare by Salades and sondry other sower and tarte Condimentes which wee vse in Sommer season to prouoke appetite wythal And as natiue heate maketh men nymble and actyue so cold causeth them to be slouthfull loytering sluggishe drowsy and vnapt to any labour or exercyse because they lacke the Instruments wherwyth to do any such functions Such persons haue foltering tongues and nothing ready in vtterauÌ„ce a nyce soft and womaÌ„nish voyce weake feeble faculties of Nature ill memory blockish wit doltish mynde courage for lack of heate slendernes of vital spyrit feareful and tymorous at
Phisitions Philosophers cōmend the temperature which is moyste as not altogether disagreeing and straunge from naturall disposition And although in yong yeres it be not all of the best Yet when further age and heate be ioyned to it it becommeth much better and perfecter For moystnes will quickly conceyue and take heate and is both ready and plyaunte to be wrought and framed which way a man wyl euen lyke moyst clay that will take any maner of print or forme It helpeth therefore wonderfullye to nourishment and is of very great force and efficacy touching the height talnes growth of man. For albeit moystnes hindreth the other functiōs and of it selfe helpeth them in executing theyr actions nothing at all but is rather altogether weake and vneffectuall because it is neyther fit to attract neyther to reteyne neyther to expell yet being ioyned and perfused wyth heate it helpeth and bringeth something to passe and furthereth the other qualitye in the alteracion of those thinges which bee conioygned amonge themselues For as water being no lesse cold then moyste through heat of fyer boyleth things that be raw making the same wholesome foode for mans body Or as Oyle in the fryinge panne throughe the heate of fyer burning coales becōmeth most skaldynge boyleth fryeth fishes fitte meete for the sustenaunce and meate of man So likewyse moystnes in a mās body ioyned wyth naturall heate worketh many effects in the body euen as the Moone doth in y Earth through the light that shee boroweth at the Beames and shyninge rayes of the Sunne For as this Planet in her monthly course refresheth woods and fields geeuing to all earthly things growth encrease causing the Sea to obserue his tydes in Creekes Hauens Roades and Shoares and to ebbe and flow according to her course and motion as she is neerer or further of sometime wyth swellynge floudes filling them sometime wyth lowe ebbes emptying them as she also doth Oysters and all shelfish beside So lysewyse this wholesome vital humour moystening eche mēber in the body maketh the same full of iuyce and moysture therefore they that bee of this nature and complexion are long liuers if they keepe themselues within moderation and that the moystnes for wante of heate growe not toomuch oute of square and beyonde measure For as toomuch abundaunce of water quight quenche fier so too much stoare of moysture oppresseth naturall heate But if these ii qualities concurre and meete together in a moderate temperatenes and that neyther moysture be too abundaunt neither heat too remisse and faint thē certes all the offices of nature are most exactly perfourmed For when heate hath moystnes plyant ready and obedient it attracteth the meate and verye well concocteth the same and beinge reduced and broughte into the likenesse or fashion of deawe distributeth and disperseth the same into the verye innermost and secretest partes of the whole body geeuinge nourishment to the members wherevnto it is made like and consubstantiall Moystnes therefore throughe the helpe furtheraunce of heate is of wonderfull force in geeuing nourishmente to the body causinge it to encrease and grow vppe in other functions beynge weake and feeble For in it is neither vertue attractiue concoctiue alteratiue nor digestiue but yet it is of some force as touching the vertue expulsiue by reasō of the slyppery nature which is in it For wee commonly see that those persons which be grosse corpulent and moyst of body are for the most part loose bealted and soluble by reasō that their power retentiue is not fyrme and stronge because their pores and passages are made open and wyde for the humours to passe out In Bodyes which be hoate and drye al things happen contrary because in them the power retentiue is strong but the expulsyue by meanes of drynesse and for that the passages be empayred decayed is faint and weake whereby it happeneth that in their auoyding of excrements going to the stoole and skowringe theyr Entrailes they strayne themselues sometime all in vaine wyth Coughing hawkinge vomytinge yet be not able by euacuation to ease themselues Thus the moyst Complexion being aduersary to the dry hath all things and propertyes in a maner from it contrary euen as the case standeth betweene Children and Olde folke For in Childhoode heate by litle and litle encreaseth hauyng more store of moystnesse groweth more more til they come to ful age and mans strength But in Old age this heate by litle and litle decayeth and when moysture is all wasted a man falleth into a cold and drye distemperaunce and finally thereby brought to his death The conditiō of which qualities as we haue a litle before described so in this place the order of our present matter now in hand craueth to haue some certaine argumentes and tokens shewed howe and whereby to knowe a moyste Complexion Hee that is of this Constitution and temperature cleane contrary to the dry disposition hath a body soft not rugged and roughe whyte skinned and withoute hayre the veynes and ioyntes not standinge oute nor greatlye appearinge heyre plaine and flatte and for the moste parte thicke withall which in women euidently appeareth For yong damselles and Maydens beinge anye thing growē in lustie age haue their heads thick heyred and longer then Yongmen haue Albeit manye tymes it happeneth to this bodye as it doth to plashie wet grounde wherein by reason of ouermuch moystnes and wette no yong trees no Shrubbes nor grasse groweth as it also falleth out in very dry and hungry groūd where no moysture is at all For where toomuch wette is there the hayres grow thinne because heate wanteth power and lacketh strengthe to bring out the pores and worke the humour vnder the skinne into hayre and for this same cause happeneth it also that the heyres bee of coloure Whyte bright Yealow or Redde which in continuaunce of tyme and space of yeares as heate more encreaseth begynne a litle to incline to blacke colour theyr countenaunce and foreheade pleasaunte and cheerefull their eyes Greye and bright standing out forwarde liuely and quicke and by reason of the purenes of theyr Crystalline humour cleare brighte amyable and smylinge all which bee tokens and signes of a good nature and vertuous disposition a quiet mynde plaine simple vprighte dealinge and finallye of such good towardnes as geeueth an vndoubted and certayne proofe of curtesye and humenity For in them is no gallie bitternesse as is in Cholericke persons whose malignaunt humours incite and pricke them forwarde into sondry inconuenient affections whereas they that be of moyst complexions are not so lightly angred nor so fumysh and desyrous of reuenge And forasmuch as heate doth not incende set on fyer moysture the mynde of these mē is nothing so easely heated and chafed but rather is farre more quiet calme and myelde Now as touching the shape feacture proporcion and forme of their bodyes it
can greatly hurte them Which persons althoughe with dainty fare idle life and much Sleepe they bring themselues many times to this porzynes corpulencie yet they be not so daungerously sicke whē any discrasie happeneth as they that be of the same constitution and state from their firste begīning For although some which in their youth were slender leane happen afterward to be fat grosse and fleshie yet their veynes Arteryes and other passages and cunduites of their bodyes remaine still large and wyde which thing plainlye appeareth whensoeuer they feeling themselues not wel at ease haue any occasion to be let bloud For in this accidentall habite of body althoughe the party be fat and forgrowen yet the veynes lye not hid vnappearing as in them that naturally be grosse but swel out and plainlye appeare to the eye offering thēselues to the Laūce by incisiō hāsomly to be cut Therfore although this moyst Cōplexion being cherished by heat be laudable good for that it prolongeth life differreth and keepeth away Oldage suffereth not the body to grow into drynesse yet if it exceede toofarre or stand in the point of extremity it is daungerous For when by reason of the veynes beinge ful the body ceasseth to be nourished and the faculties of nature which distribute nourishmente intermit their office and cannot worke in this case needes must the body go to wracke and incurre inconuenience so that eyther sodaine death therupon ensueth or els al least some rupture of y Vessels and veynes happeneth These things being considered it shal be good speedely and in time to forsee breake this habite and disposition and by y meanes of moderate euacuation abstynence and watchinge to preuente further daunger vsing such a prescripte diet and ordinary as best serueth to reduce the bodye into a safer and lesse daungerous Constitution For this is genera lye to be noted that a bodye is not to be accompted reckened moyst in respecte of abundaunce of excrements and humours but of a temperate moystnes of all the parts and of the whole proportionably together wyth which tēperate moysture naturall heate is fedde and nouryshed and life therby many yeares prolonged Finis Libri Primi THE SECONDE BOOKE WHER IN AS IN A GLASSE is plainly and liuelye described the perfecte state and expresse Image of euery particuler Nature By the vvhich euery man may most readily finde out the very right Constitution plight condition affect and disposition of his ovvne Body ¶ Of a Compounde Complexion The first Chapter COmpounde Complexions consistinge of two qualities a piece are in nūber foure like as y symple be vz hoat and Moyst Hoat and Dry Cold and Moyst Colde Drye vnto whom there belong and are appendant so many Humours diffused into euery parte of the whole body Bloud Phlegme Choler Melācholie These according to the nature of nourishmēt receyued are encreased or diminished suffring chaūg alteration are easelye one into an other transmuted And albeit these humours being of great force diuers wayes and sondryly affecting the bodye yea the wyth fulsome and vnpleasaunte exhalations and sentes is oftentimes greatly annoyed and encūbred euen as ill naughtye wyne bringeth to the brayne affects both hurtful and daūgerous may not be accompted Elementes neyther are able to constitute any Complexion yet are they endued wyth Elementall qualitye and vertue and helpe much to the conseruation keeping of the whole body in good plight and order For as wee see the fyer to be fedde wyth matter combustible and Torches Lynkes Candles and such like nouryshed wyth Oyle or some other rosennye and fattie substaunce so lykewise the elementall qualities and all the powers and faculties of nature derpued into the vital spermaticke seede of our Parents do stande in continuall neede of nourishment For if the body should not be susteyned wyth nourishment or if the humours which moystē euery particuler member should lack the preseruatyues and fomentations wherewyth they be maynteyned the whole frame of mans body must of necessity decaye and be vtterly dissolued and euery part thereof vanishe away into his lyke whereof it was generated or into that whose nature it conteyneth wythin it selfe whether it do participate with Fyer Apre Earth Water or drawe neere in nature and be famylier to any of them They depend mutually one of an other and are stedfastly maynteyned by the helpe and stay one of an other Neyther is there any parte in mans body so small so vyle or so abiect that hath not respect to the comelynesse and conseruation of the whole bodye doth orderly discharge his due office and proper function whereunto it was created And this I would not haue to be onely spoken and ment of y vse and vtility of euery of the members partes seuerally but also of the humours which by the helpe of nourishment do meynteine supporte and vnderproppe the temperamente and complexion of eche body and by the helpe of naturall heate do geeue increase and growth to al the members generally For which cause Hippocrates and Galene not wythout good reason apoint the foure naturall humours being perfect and pure the Elements of Creatures endued wyth bloud for out of theym commeth a secundarie oryginall of oure procreation For they mynister matter plentifully and helpe highly in the breedinge and shaping of the Infante or yonglinge specially if the body be well ballassed wyth good holesome meates and now and then heated wyth a draught of good wyne for without these Venus games are perfourmed but faintly sorilie which thing seemeth to be ment by the yong Strypling Chremes in Terence who being sober beganne to abhorre and loath his harlot and Concubine but beynge wel whittled in wyne to take therin gret delight and pleasure and not scarse able to qualefie himselfe from committinge further follie wyth her as in this Prouerbiall sentence he flatly professed Take meate and drincke and vvyne avvay Small is the lust to Venus play For the Testicles Genitories and members of generation draw vnto them frō the principall mēbers and conuert into Seede the best most exquistielye concocted humours Which seede hauing 〈◊〉 great store of effectuous profitable Spyrit is the worker of heate of all the other faculties and in the begetting and procreation of Children is the chiefe parent and causer Into it is a wonderful vertue and diuine power by Gods good will and appoyntmente infused for the shaping and fashioning of the yong Creature wythin the mothers wombe for it produceth a fruict of seemely most beautifull workemanship rightly shapen and in ech poynt perfectly proporcioned if the Seede wherof it was begotten do issue from a sound and holesome body for otherwyse if the seede be of a diseased corrupt and infected bodye the issue and ofspringe cannot choose but be monstruous and deformed Somewhat therfore to recreate the Reader to make this argument more
woords wyth one streynable tenor and treatable vniformitie but sometime slowly and dreamingly drawyng them oute and sometime powryng oute by lumpes the same as fast as the tongue can rolle The selfe same thinge which superfluitye and distemperaunce of drincke bringeth vnto the haunters thereof doth the dystillation of Humours and defluxion of Phlegme bryng to them that be troubled with the Catarrhe which beside these is accoÌ„panyed also wyth suÌ„dry other incoÌ„ueniences to euery one of sharpe iudgement wel knowen and easelye perceyued For who so is disposed exactlye to syfte and searche oute the verye markes and tokens of a Cold and moyste Complexion shall finde them throughe abundaunce of that Humour and qualitye to bee sleepie lazye slouthful drowsie heauie lumpish and nothinge quicke at their busynesse as they commonlye bee which mynde nothinge else then gurmandyze and bellycheere and vse seldome exercise Wee see also amonge Beastes Fowles and other Creatures both wyeld tame that such as vse litle or no exercise but lurke still in hoales and Caues and be peÌ„t vp and franked cowpes are neither so holesome neyther so sit for man to eate as others that are greatly exercysed and vse much styrryng Such waxe in deede very fat and grow bigger bodyed I cannot deny but the nourishmente which they geeue to the bodye is somewhat vnholesome and excrementall as amonge fyshes Ecles and other slippery fyshes that lye stil myeringe themselues in mudde vsing no exercise styring or agitation of body And this is the cause why Eeeles being deade contrary to the nature of all other fyshes floate not aboue water by reason that they feede vppon muddie and standing water But that euery man maye throughly and perfectly know the state and coÌ„dition of this Body it must be painted oute in his righte colours and is to be descrybed by his owne proper indications markes and tokens All they therefore that are of this habite if their Constitution be naturall and not accidentallye happeninge are grosse pursie and fatte bodyed their stature not so tall as bigge set and stronglye pitched their skinne soft white and vnhayrie their Muscles and Ueynes not appearing but lying inwardlye insomuch that when occasion serueth to bee lette Bloud the same Ueynes do not apparauntlye shewe oute themselues The hayres of theyr head be eyther whyte or duskie blacke or els of the colour of Barley strawe which will not fall of nor become balde till after a longe time 〈◊〉 but they soone waxe hoarye for wante of heate and imbecillity of the member which is not of ability to excoct the nutriment into the vse and comelynes of Hayres For hoarynesse is as it were a certayne refuse vinewed baggage of Phlegme putrefyed or a fustie dankâ—shnesse vnder the skinne wherof throughe wâ—nte of heate proceedeth hoarynesse and whytenesse of the Hâ—yres Such a lyke hoarie Downe or vinewed mouldynesse wee see to bee in Loaues of Breade and Pyes that bee somewhat longe kepte vnspente and also in Vaultes Arche Roofes Syelynges hoales and Cellers vnder the grounde and other musty fulsome dark fylthy and stinking places Their Pysse and Uryne whyte and verye little or rather nothinge at all ruddie Theyr Excrementes and Ordure thinne and liquide theyr Sleepe verye sounde and longer then health requireth not without stoare of sundry Dreames whereby and not vainly or deceitfully maye bee neerely coniectured and founde oute of what disposition the body is and what Humours therein chiefely reigne For the causes and original beginninges of these thinges proceede oute of the body which althoughe they be referrible to outward causes or to the actioÌ„s and deuyses which the mynde earnestly conceyueth deliberateth and forecasteth in the daye time yet is it easye ynoughe for the learned and skilfull Physition to discusse the meaninges and expounde the euentes thereunto incident For as concerning Dreames by Diuine motion sent into the mynde of man not depending vppon naturall causes none is able to yeld anye certaine interpretation wythout a speciall pryuiledge of Heauenlye inspyration Thus they that be of Cold and moyst ComplexioÌ„ in Dreames imagine and thincke themselues dyuinge ouer head and eares in Water or to be in Bathes Baynes which strayght wayes argueth great stoare of Phlâ—gme to fall out of the head into the nape of their necke Iawes vocall Arterye and Lunges Semblably if they dreame of Hayle Snow Yse storme Rayne it betokeneth abundance of Phlegme sometime thicke and grosse sometime thinne and liquide If a man in his Dreame thincke himselfe to be styfeled and strangled or his voyce stopped taken from him it argueth him to be subiecte and like ynough shortly to be troubled wyth the SquiÌ„zie priuation of speach murre or finallye eyther the Drowsye sicknesse or the Apoplexie In this sort as Galene wytnesseth there was a certayne man which dreamed that one of his Legges was turned into a Stone which man within a whyle after throughe a colde Humoure that fell downe into it was taken wyth the Palsey Now althoughe too scrupulous and curious obseruation of Dreames bee prohibited yet is there no charge geeuen to the contrary but that wee maye lawfullye search out the meaninges of all such as consiste wythin the compasse and reason of thinges naturall the Authour and conseruer whereof is God himselfe so that wee do the same without anye superstitious vanity of Diuination neyther therin fixinge any assured hope and trust neyther terrifyed wyth any feare of the euentes thereof Whensoeuer therefore naturall Dreames do happen wherein be neyther mockeryes nor illusions of mynde for all these are banished put to flight by reposing a firme and constant trust in God they admonishe and put euerye man in remembraunce to looke wel to his health and to amooue and decline all such occasions and inconueniences as may eyther empayre and damnifye health or enforce any perturbatioÌ„s of Dreames For the Imaginations and phantasyes which in Sleepe be offered and seene apparaÌ„tly in Dreames by night when a man is at rest to occurre busye his mynde are caused and styrred by vapours fumes proceeding out of the humours agitation of the Spyrite Animall in some of which Dreames and Imaginations the mynde renueth the memorie and thinketh vppon some busynesse and actions that fall for the daye some plainly signifye the abundaunce of Humours or els some earnest greedy desyre to coÌ„passe somewhat which we would very fayne bring to passe Hereupon they that are thyrstie glut themselues and swill vp drincke abundantly they that be hungry deuoure meate greedily and insaciablye Thus lykewise they whose Genitoryes and priuie partes be swelled with stoare of excrementall Seede and spermatike Humour or in the daye tyme did earnestly fixe their eyes and mynde vppon anye beautifull and fayre yonge Woman do in their Sleepe thinck themselues to enioy their desyred purpose and throughe imaginatiue dealinge wyth her defyle themselues wyth nightlye pollutions For the
being otherwyse so wōderfully seuere and crabbed yet at the wyne was so pleasaunt and conceiptuous hee merelye aunswered that he was like to a kinde of Pulse called Lupines Which kinde of Pulse although they be naturally bitter and by their bitternes of force to kill wormes yet the same being steeped soaked in water renounce and leaue all bitternes and become both sweete pleasaunt And this is naturally giuen to all men that when the body is refreshed wyth meate and drinck al bitternes sorrow and heauines is expelled and banished For the Spirites by moderate drinking of wyne are styrred vppe and the mind of man which in them that be fasting and hungry is faynt weake and like vnto fier raked ouer wyth ashes almost quenched is reuyued And this is the cause why a dead body is heauier thē a lyuing because all his Spirites are vanished and departed out of him and so likewyse is a fasting persō heauier then one that hath filled his belly and one that slepeth waightier then one that watcheth And therfore my fashion is to aduise and counsell Melācholique folkes and sullen natured personnes to vse banquetting and good cheere amonge honest and mery cōpany For thus after Plato wryteth the Poet. Euen olde Dan Catoes stomacke oft By vvyne vvas made to come aloft Which man although churlish sterne frowning yet did wyne so much driue away his naturall seueritye and grimme countenaunce that amonge the other guestes he became a pleasaunte companion and of manners very gentle and familiar For this worthy Gentleman although otherwise he was a very precise comptroller and of Stoicall grauity perceyued wel ynough that mās nature required som relaxatiōs delights and that it may not lōg cōtinue wythout som myrth pleasaunt recreation Let therefore euery man take surueigh of himself and serch out what his nature most desitreth in what state his body stādeth what thinge it is that he feeleth himselfe to be holpen and what to be offended wythall And if he finde the plighte and state of his bodye to be in equability and perfect temperatenes it shal be good to cheerishe and preserue it wyth his like but if it shrinck from his sayd temperate habite and decline to an intēperatenes then had it neede to be holpen and recured wyth his contraryes Thus if a man throughe aboundance of humours and stoare of bloude and Spirites feele himselfe prone to carnalitie and fleshlye luste let him by altering his order diet enioyne to himselfe a more strict ordinary frame his dealings to a more stayed moderation But if hee feele himselfe to bee of nature somewhat sulleyne and sterne giuē somwhat to be wayward whyning testye churlishe and intractable then reason wylleth suche a one to bee reclaymed to an order and trade of life gentler and pleasaunter insomuch it shall not be ill for such a one to frequent daūcing singing womens flatteryes alluremēts and embracings prouided alwayes that all the same be not otherwyse done nor ment but in honestye and comelines wythin a reasonable measure also within the bounds of lawfull wedlock For the state of Matrimony as Columella aduoucheth out of Xenophōs booke of Household is in such sorte appoynted by nature that in it is conteyned not onely the pleasaūtest but also the profitablest societye of life And least mankinde in processe of tyme should come to an vtter ruine and decay it pleased God by this lawfull meanes to ioyne man and woman together that of theyr inseperable combinacion the state of man should might by mutual helpe one of an other be eased and cōforted and that beside the loue and desire that they haue to bring furth children they mighte be tyed and bound together equally and indifferentlye to participate all fortune whatsoeuer shoulde betyde But for so much as approued and skilfull mē that haue written bookes for the mayntenaunce of mens health generally doe specially set downe these three principall thinges To eate moderately and leaue somevvhat vvith an appetite To vse conuenient exercise And to liue continently vvithout vvastinge seede of generation I take it to be the best waye to reduce the whole substaunce of the matter mayntenaūce of health to this prescribed rule and direction For seing that measurable repaste and feeding all surphet and glotony being banished maketh a sound body seing I say exercise by shaking of all drow tsinesse and slouth maketh the bodye stronge and liuely then no more but harkē what a short lessō Virgill giueth for the other No better vvaye the strength of minde And povvers thereof still to maintaine Then Venus play and Loue so blinde To shunne and vvarely to refrayne ¶ Of the nature and differences of Spirits what they worke in mans body and what affections they cause The second Chapter FOrasmuche as the Spirite is the originall maintener and conueigher of naturall heate whereunto moysture necessarilye adhereth that the Soule by the mynisterye and ayde thereof perfourmeth her powers and faculties and atchieueth all her actions it is requisite here next to discourse vpon it and vppon all the differences thereof For seinge there be three especiall thinges in whose temperature and moderation the health of mans body doth prīcipally cōsist vz. vitall moysture naturall heate Spirite which combineth all thinges and imparteth his force vertue nature vnto them our present purpose being considered we cannot by order choose but of necessity must presētly somwhat speake therof Vitall moysture is the nourishmente and matter of naturall heate whereupon it woorketh and by the benefite therof is maintayned and preserued With this Humour or vitall moysture is naturall heate fed and cheerished and from the same receyueth continuall mayntenaunce and from it participateth vitall power whereby all Creatures do liue are nourished encreased preserued procreated Spirite is the seate and caryer of Heate by whose helpe and mynisterye it is conueyed and sente by the conduites and passages of the Arteryes to euery seuerall part of the bodye Wherefore worthyly is this Spirite thought to be the chiefe and principal Instrument that procureth and executeth euery action These three do vnseperably cleaue together mutuallye helpe one an other and cannot be sundered wythout present death of the party and for this cause do wee thus in one definition expresse conclude and comprehend theyr force and nature wythin one definition Naturall heat is nothīg els but an originall humour wyth vitall spirite and heate totally moystened But forasmuch as Spirite conteyneth vitall heate and is of all the faculties ruler and directer spredeth it self most swiftly throughoute the whole body caryeth and extendeth his powers into euery part thereof vniuersally besyde this doth manifestly chaūge and alter the state both of body and minde therefore as the rest require great labour and diligēce vpon them to be bestowed so specially vpon this is the chiefest care to be takē to restore mayntein
and quality of the ayre or region be very hoate it likewyse bringeth forth and causeth hoate and quicke motions yet such as by reason of their tenuitie and thinnesse by litle litle wil be cooled And this is the cause that some of them when their bloud is vp will rashlye and vnaduisedlye attempte any thinge and not eare for any perills so they may bring to passe what their desire is to compasse Also when they conceiue in minde the doing of any thing as they be at the beginninge marueylous wilful tooto heady with mighte main to set forward their purpose hardly admitting anye counsel to the contrary so againe their minds many times be wauering vnstedfast and vnquiet except their inclinacions by the reyne of reason be the better bridled Their fickle and vnstedie heades novv this novv that deuise They flote in fancie to and fro and vvrangle sondry vvise Which thinge is commonly incident to angry persons and such as be desyrous of reuenge and to suche also as haue somewhere fixed their loue inordinately whose minds flootinge and ballancinge vp and downe with varietie of phantasies are easely and quickly caryed hither and thyther by affection neyther stedfast nor aduysedly resoluing vppon any certaine resolution But this Countrye borne people if they earnestly frame themselues to the attaynemente of anye Artes though the same be neuer so hard and curious yet do they profite in the same wonderfully cary away great commendation Such as haue thinne spirites temperatelye hoate haue sharpe and ready wittes and prompt and flowing vtteraunce vppon whom also these gifts of nature are bestowed that for deuyse and inuention they be very sharpe and ingenious for braue settinge oute and beautifyinge of a matter plentyfull and copious and suche as for the explayning of their meaninges and purposes haue talke and tongue at will. And as touching the inward inclination of their mindes and maners they be liuely felowes lusty dapper nimble lackinge no grace of pleasaunte gesture Manye of them which lacke good bringing vp and haue not beene trayned in learning and ciuilitie are of disposition wauering vnconstant captious deceitfull falseharted destrous of alterations and tumultes babblatiue and full of muche vaine tattling in consultacion and counsell so suttle and craftie that whatsoeuer they once conceyue in mynde or purpose to do without delay that do they iudge best forthwith to be enterprysed out of hande to be atchieued and whereunto so euer they addict their mindes therin proue they right excellente Seing therefore the diuersitie of spirits and the differences of wittes and maners proceedeth of the condition and nature of the Place Ayre Countrey and nourishmente let euery man foresee in himself which way he may best prouide for the maintenaunce of his health and to shunne all such thinges as may in any wise harme annoye crushel or empaire either his health or Spirits It is therefore most expediente to obserue the best order of diet and life that conueniently maye be folowed and to liue in the holesommest ayre For these be the things that restore health when it is decayed or empaired and which make the Spirites most pure and syncere For if the bodye do abounde and be full of ill humours if the Spirites bee vnpure and the brayne stuffed full of thicke fumes proceedinge of humours the bodye and Soule consequentlye cannot but suffer hurte and bee thereby likewise damnifyed Hence proceedeth as from the verye cause such rauing dotage distraughtnes of righte witts hence issueth blockishnes foolishnes madnes and furie in so much that they thinck sometimes to see those thinges that are not before their senses to see and to heare suche woordes as no man speaketh For imaginatiō in them is marred common sense which iudgeth and discerneth all thinges is preiudiced memorye decayed sighte dymmed their eyes dazelled and all the faculties of the Soule that is to saye all the naturall powers whereby it accomplisheth all his functiōs are enfeebled perfourme their offices duties and operations both faintly and remissely But if the Spirite animall be perfectly pure ayrie such as is the sent of Bloud exactlye laboured not onely the sight of their eyes is cleare and good but all the other Senses both external and internall are perfecte and perfourme their functions and ministeries orderlye duelie and conueniently ¶ Of the Spirit vniuersall generally inspired into the whole world all the parts therof Which being from God aboue breathed put into man infuseth and endueth his minde wyth speciall and peculiar giftes And by the waye also in this Chapter is entreated of good and ill Angells which being entermingled with the humours spirites cause sondry chaūges and mutations in mens minds The thirde Chapter THat power of the Spirite which is infused and breathed by God aboue into these lower bodyes is it that disposeth and moueth this frame and masse of the world fostereth strēgtheneth and cheerisheth all that is wythin the compasse and coape of Heauen conteyned stretchinge and extendinge his force farre and wyde For why this gouerneth and ruleth all thinges maketh all thinges fruitfull and vnto the same imparteth vitall heate Neyther is there anye cause why a man should thinck or perswade himself that there is any other power able to do these things then that Spirite by whom from the very beginninge the world and all such thinges as are visiblie seene wyth the eyes and sensiblie perceyued by the sences were brought into so comely and beautiful order For by the VVord of the Lord vvere al things made and by the breath of his mouth al the comlynes beautie and furniture thereof For he doth maintayne and strēgthen al thinges and giueth povver vnto euerye thinge to encrease and multiplye in their ovvne kinde and to maintayne and conserue themselues Thus the wonderfull Creatour of Nature by his word and Spirite put into all thinges y were created a power precreatorie the order of their encreasinge propagation for continuaunce of theyr kinde posteritie and succession y is to witte the Spirite of GOD beinge diffused into euery Creature susteyneth and maynteyneth Plantes and all liuing creatures aswell man as beasts by whom they liue and haue their beinge There is nothinge therefore in the whole worlde but it feeleth the strong power of God is satisfyed wyth the plenteousnes and fulnesse therof For when Heaūe and Earth were made and the first Elemēts that is the first beginnings of things constituted The Spirite of God moued vppon the waters that is to saye made moyste and liquide matter otherwyse barreyne to be fruitefull The very meaning of which saying Basill surnamed the Greate did verye well and liuelye expound in these woordes The Spirit of GOD sayth hee moued vpon the top or vpper face of the water That is to say did nourish and giue a vitall fruitfulnes and a quickeninge Soule to the moyste Element and to all other
thinges estraunged from oure bodyes not naturallye in vs engraffed but externally happening and yet nathelesse such as are as apt and ready to disquiet and annoy oure bodyes as those that be naturally planted in vs And these bee Meate and Dryncke wherewyth wee restore all such ouerdrye or ouer moyste substaunce as to the body is requysite And these twayne if they bee eyther immoderately taken or bee corrupte and vnholesome they do engender great stoare of excrements and sondry diseases Next vnto these is the Ayre that compasseth and on eche syde enuyroneth vs which beinge eyther extreemelye hoate or drye or ouermuch moyste or colde causeth enforceth a manifest alteration in the state of the whole body But to come somewhat neere and more aptlye to declare this matter it is to be vnderstanded that the verye beginninges of mans nature and principles of his generation is feminine Bloud Seede generatiue The one as it were of certayne apt conuenient and tractable matter like moyst claye or soft waxe is ready to fashion oute and proportion anye thing that the workemaÌ„ employeth it vnto And the Seede is as it were the workeman himselfe Both these thinges consist and are made of the same generall Elements and conteyne within them the qualityes aboue specifyed but the difference amonge themselues is in the order and measure of their temperameÌ„t For in the seede there is more of fierye and ayrie substance that is to say it is pertaker of aethereal Spirite In the Bloud there is more of watry and earthy albeit in this last the heate is aboue colde and moyst aboue dry For wee maye not say and affirme that Bloud is dry like boanes but to be moist Now is Seede dryer theÌ„ Bloud and yet it is also moyste fluible liquide Thus on both sydes the oryginall of mans generation proceedeth of moyst substaunce yet so that thence is laboured and made other partes of the bodye that be drye as Synewes Veynes Arteryes Bones and Grystles Now that which in the woÌ„be is conceyued and together of those principles fourmed waxing dryer taketh as it were the first lineamentes and proportion of euerye member afterward comming to perfect shape taketh further encrease so groweth to his iuste bignesse and decente quantitye And when it hath raught to his ful growth and bignesse as when the boanes for want of nourishmente are no longer plyable then doth a man ceasse from further growiÌ„g waxeth neither taller nor broader For comely talnesse and length of personage commeth and is caused of the aboundaunce of heate and moysture where the Spyrite is throughlye and fully perfused And if it happen that any eyther old or yong throughe sicknes or some other affect to fal into a cold and dry habite or disposition their bodies become and are leane wrynckled slender illfauoured thinne and lancke and their lymmes weake and crooked It fareth by them muche like as it doth by Horses Oxen or such like beastes that are skanted nipped of their fodder feeding or as it doth by Trees and other greene Herbes that lacke the iuyce of the ground not conueniently watered Therefore a fashioÌ„ that some Scholemasters others that take the charge vpon them to teach and boorde yonge boyes is mee thinckes both lewde vnconscionable who beinge at a playne bargaine and certaine stint of money reasonably agreed vppon betweene theym and the childrens frendes pinche theyr poore pupills and borders by the belly and allowe them meate neyther sufficient nor yet holesome yea not onely beastly sluttishlye nippinglye vse they the seely childreÌ„ but threatninglye enforce them to beare oute the labour of theyr studyes wyth a slender allowance and small pittaunce of vnsauery resty fleshe stinking fish and hoary vinewed bread which thing causeth them to be ill complexioned coloured the shape comlynes and beauty of theyr bodies to degenerate growe out of fashion the quicknes courage lyuelynes and sharpenes of their wit to decay theyr spirits to be dulled al the liuely vertues towardnes of the mynd which before was in them eyther by the benefite of Nature or by the industry of the parentes or finally by the onely special gift of Almighty God to be extinct vtterly quenched insomuch that neyther theyr mynd is enflamed with desire to attein atchieue any worthy atteÌ„pt nether frame they theÌ„selues vnto those thiÌ„gs wheruÌ„to they were inclinable by nature apt towardly As touching the outward case of their body they coÌ„moÌ„ly breake out haue their bodyes pinked ful of scabs by reasoÌ„ of ill humours ouerwhealed engrayled with lothsome blisters blaines byles botches Wherby it commeth to passe that in growth they seldom come to any personable stature to the vse of their ful powers to perfect streÌ„gth firmity of theyr members or to any haÌ„dsom scature or proper coÌ„poâ—â—ioÌ„ of bodily proportion the cause is for that in their tender growyng age being kept vnder by famine and skanted of conuenient meate and drincke theyr natiue moysture which requyreth coÌ„tinual cheerishing mainteynauÌ„ce was skaÌ„ted debarred of his due nourishment coÌ„petent allowance Whereupon the vital iuyce being exhausted speÌ„t they arriue to old age sooner theÌ„ otherwise they should doe are snatched vp by death long before their time Now that affect plight which bringeth the body into a cold dry disposition is called Olde age because it is the cause of corruption decay destruction of all aswell Creatures lyuinge as Plants herbes For death is nothing els but the extinction of nature that is to saye of the naturall Heate naturall Humour In which two things life consisteth to which extinction ende many are brought sooner then they should be either through want and defect of nourishment or throughe vntemperate life as toomuche carnall company with women vnseasonable watchinge heauines of mynde thoughte and manye other causes which hasten old age bring death vnloked for before his time contrarye to the order of age and course of Nature Do we not see many old meÌ„ lusty mery and wel complexioned strong of limmes good footemeÌ„ in their old dayes as fresh actiue as many yong meÌ„ be all which coÌ„meth vpoÌ„ no other cause but that in their youthfull dayes they liued orderly wel and spent not their adolescencie in vnruly riot lechery Againe there be of youngmeÌ„ a great nuÌ„ber weake worne to the bare stumps feeble lame fainte and impoteÌ„t dry as a kixe pale as ashes waÌ„ne colored for that they spent exhausted all the pithe and strength of theyr youth and adolescencye in wanton sensuality disordered riot and immoderate vse of Venerous daliauÌ„ce coÌ„suming therin the very floure and prime of their lusty age For euen as pleasauÌ„t gay March floures in the Springe of the yeare with nipping weather and sharpe Northernelye wynds do fade and
Yongmen and suche as bee in their flourishinge and lustye Age and full of humours do dye and take their ende muche like as when a great flaming fyer is sodeinlye quenched with great stoare of Water Againe he sayth that Oldmen decease like fyer that of it owne accord quencheth and wythout anye other violence goeth out What a deale of smoake what soote what sparkles do we see fly vp into the ayre what crackling noyse doth the great nuÌ„bre of sparkes make when we assay to quench a light burninge flame or with powring great abundaunce of water to slecke a great heape of woode layed al vppon one fyer Wherby we may coniecte what vehement and painefull struggling what sharpe conflicte what raginge sturre and stryuing is in a Yonge bodye when as throughe violence of Sicknesse or other destenie the lustynesse of his Nature being not yet spent his warme heat and lyuely Spyrites be oppressed and stifled To this ende is that elegante and apt comparison of Cicero For sayth hee as rawe and vnrype apples are not plucked from the Tree but by violence and force but beyng rype fall downe of theyr owne accord or wyth little touchinge So lykewyse the lyfe of Yonge men is taken away with force but of Oldmen by maturitie and rypenes This thought I good heere to enterlace as a thing not greatly besyde my purpose diligentlye aduertyzing all men euen from theyr infancy and childhoode to shunne and declyne all such things as are preiudiciall to their bodyes and harmeful to theyr health whether the same procede of outward or of inward causes Whosoeuer therefore is desyrous to keepe himself from beynge toosoone Old and to prolonge his lyfe as longe as may be must very diligently take heede of many lettes and hinderaunces that damuifye and lye in wayte to preiudice hys lyfe but namely and specially let him haue a carefull eye to keepe himselfe from this Dry plight state of body And by what mennes he may so do after certaine â—â—tes first geeuen whereby to knowe what person is of this Complexion I will briefly and compendiously geeue plaine instructions asking to all Students and personnes politick doubtlesse right 〈◊〉 me profitable and expediâ—â—t to be knowâ—â— All they therfore that eyther of the Nature of their owne bodelye state and Complexion or by any defect in their Parents at theyr byrth procreation or finally by any accidentall myssehappe or custome of lyuing as by waÌ„t of foode thought watch heauynes of mynd or immoderate labour haue commonly bodyes slender and thinne and their shinne where drynesse is great skuruye rugged vnseemely and lancke like vnto hunger-starued horses that lacke meate and attendaunce of colour ill fauoured swarte and yelowe as a Kites foote and at the last grymme visaged sower couÌ„tenaunced faced lyke death fylthy loothsome and leane as a Rake to conclude in all respects resembling the Physsognomy and shape of Enuye described by Ouid. A face like Ashes pale and vvanne a body skraggie leane A learning looke and teeth all furde vvith drosse and fylth vncleane Her Stomacke greenish is vvith Gall her Tongue vvyth venime fraught And neuer laughes but vvhen missehappe or harme hath others caught No vvink of Sleepe comes in her eyes and rest she can none take For fretting carke and cancred care her vvatchfull still doth make Full sore against her vvill it is that any man should thryue Or prosper in his busynesse For that doth her depryue Of all her rest and quietnes thereat the hellish Elfe Doth stampe and stare doth fret and fume and pynes avvay herselfe And to her selfe a torment is for seeking to annoye The vvealth and state of other folkes herselfe she doth destroye And because drynesse feedeth vppon and wasteth all their humour they be thinne hayred and waxe soone bald crooke nayled their voyce feeble and slender and sometime squeakinge by meanes that drynes exasperateth their vocall artery their pulses beatiÌ„g faintly slow gate holow eyed pale lypped shrunken temples hanging cheekes cold cruÌ„pled eares of stature not greatly tal of sleepe which is a most sweete refuge release truce from laboures and cares through distemperature of the braine very litle And if theyr braine be altogether drye and hoate then is theyr Memory nought and in a maner none at all then be they very oblyuious blockeheaded and heauye spyrited For sythens the Spyrits fayle and be defectiue which as cleare syncere vapoure proceede out of purest bloud by the benefit of heate haue great force vertue in directing mouiÌ„g forward actioÌ„s it is not possible that the faculties powers naturall beinge destitute of their forces should performe rightly discharge their due peculiar functions But if the vertue or power Animal be perfect vigorous the brain not altogether destitute of heate theÌ„ is the memory stedfast firme retentiue for as immoderat moystnes causeth forgetfulnes doltish folishnes as in yong Children dronkards appeareth so moderate drynesse with the helpe of measurable heate maketh a good and faithfull Memory highlye furthereth toward the attainment of Prudence Wysedome For a drye brightnes induceth a mynde full fraught wyth wysedome the more store of moystnes that is therein the lesse is the wit which thing wee do also note and see to come to passe by the ayre when the weather is skowling and not cleare For the Starres shine not bright out when the ayre is wyth cloudes and foggye mystes ouercast and darckened Nowe the cause why manye in their Oldage doate and become very forgetful albeit this Age be sayd to be most dry yet the same happeneth not by reason of drynes but of coldnes which manifestly preiudiceth and hindereth all the vertues offices of the mynd For out of it spryngeth madnesse losse of right wits amazednes rauing dotage and wante of the righte vse of the Senses whereby the vertues of Nature be so oppressed ouercharged the they be thereby eyther altogether disabled from perfourming their functions or at least do the same very faintly and feeblie Therefore when Memory is perished or affected it procedeth of some cold disteÌ„perature which must with things moderately hoate â–ª be remoued and expugned For to humect or to arefie is not the best way But if coldnes be ioyned with moystnes then to vse arefactioÌ„ if it be lynked with drynesse then to vse humectacion Now if this quality be not throughly settled and rooted these signes and tokens aforesayd do not exactly aunswere to this descriptioÌ„ but as the disteÌ„perauÌ„ce by litle litle groweth encreaseth so do they appeare shew forth theÌ„selues euery day more and more Which happeneth namely to them that be affected wyth this habite not naturally but casuallye and accidentally or by some sicknes of the bodye or by some vexation of mynde For Temperamentes are subiect to many and sondrye alterations In some heate wasting spending vp moysture
to his admonitions or shryncke asyde and refuse the lore of his prescriptions and commaundmeÌ„ts For many being hoodwinked and bewitched wyth the tryfling doctrine and friuolous traditions of mans inuention reiecte and forsake the pure and cleare founteyne that perpetually yeldeth most abouÌ„dant store of the euerlasting water of lyfe and seeke after ryuers that are dryed vp and as Hieremie termeth it digge to themselues Cesternes and broken pitts that can holde no licour or drop of holesome dotryne That worthy constante and throughlye tryed Souldiour Iob bemoaneth his owne case offirming that in the nighte season hee was sore disquieted with troublesom dreames and dreadfull vysions For the nature office of Sleepe being nothinge else then a mitigation of labours a quiet surceassing for the time froÌ„ toyle and a refreshinge of the bodye with the busy cares and dealings of the day before wearied from these cares troubles did not his Sleepe in the nighte disburden and ease him but rather encreased and doubled the same that his minde still remayning terryfied with dreadful dreames and apparitioÌ„s For thus doth he reason with himself and these complaints doth he vtter in that his worthy dialogue or rather Tragicomicall discourse If I thincke to my selfe that my bed dâ— shall comfort mee and mitigate my griefe and that I shal haue some ease and refreshing vppon my Couch then troublest thou me vvith dreames and makest me afrayed throughe visions insomuch that I vvishe for death to come and make an end of al my sorovves As touching the inwarde notes of this complexioned body and his inclination of mynde for a man ought in ech point and respect throughlye to be viewed and considered a hoate and moyste quality incident to bloude produceth in men diuerse natures and accordinge to the more or lesse mixture of other humours frameth in them sondry maners and diuers dispositions They that be meere Sanguine and haue none or very litle Melancholy or Choler mixed therwyth as most neerelye approchinge to the nature and Sense of brute beasts are commonly doltes and fooles or at least not greatly cumbred wyth much witte For sytheÌ„s as Galene sayth sharpnes finenes of wit coÌ„meth of Choler ConstaÌ„cy and stedfastnes of Melancholie Phlegme to the framynge and disposinge of the maners helpeth nothing neyther standeth in anye steede it remayneth then that simplicity and foolishnes proceedeth of Bloud Thus are yong Cattell which in comparyson of the elder ones haue greate stoare of Bloude for the most part as wee see foolishe sotlike and bettleheaded as Kyddes Calues yonge Sheepe Lambes young wyeld Kidds or Roebuckes yong Kyttons and the yonge of all other dumme Creatures besyde and amonge Men the neerer that any one approcheth to the nature of brute Beasts the more lyke vnto them in maners and conditions is hee Which thing any that is but meanely skilled in Natures works may easely iudge and discerne euen by certayne significations of theyr eyes and countenaunce eche of which is as a glasse wherin to behold and whereby to discouer the inward affections of the mynde In many men there is a greate resemblance affynitie in nature wyth other Beastes and the further that these digresse from the puritie of teÌ„perament the lesse sway in them beareth Reason Iudgment Vnderstanding willingnes to doe good Wysedome and discretion to be short they are partakers of all those things that are commoÌ„ to Beasts And thus there bee many which eyther for lack of good educatioÌ„ or through this deprauatioÌ„ of Nature degenerate into Beastes and in all their actioÌ„s in one poynt or other resemble them in conditions Many like Wolues are bloud-suckers extortioners raueners Many like â—â—erce cruell outragious and terrible lyinge in wayte to sheede bloud and hunting theyr brother to death As the PriÌ„ce vvil so sayth the Iudge Lykewyse sayth Ezechiel Iehoakim is become a LyoÌ„ vvhich hath learned to spoyle deuour folk to make vvidovves destroy their houses make their Cities desert Some be as foyinge gesturous and counterfeâ—cting of any thing by ymitacion as Apes Some Forlyke are suttle wylie deceiptfull and crafty to entrappe and catche the innocent at aduauntage And in lyke sorte there be others which resemblyng the nature and conditions of other beastes and degeneratinge from theyr integrity and excellencie humaine eyther degenerate quite into Beasts or at least become much lyke vnto them As for ChildreÌ„ yonge Stryplinges aboute 14. or 15. yeares of age or vnder by reason that theyr bloude is pure and ful of swelling spyrit are still styrring quick nymble actiue wanton vnmodest malapert saucie proude wythoute wit and much giuen to toying and playinge for wee see them as wanton as Calues that is to say in mowyng with theyr mouthes in voyce gesture becks clapping of hands light songes vayne ioyfulnes where there is no cause immoderate myrth disordered fysking Vp downe and vncertayne motion gate all which do signify a shuttle waueryng nature a mynde subiect to great mutability and vncoÌ„stancy procedyng and caused of the boyling of theyr bloude wythin them which boyleth vp as it were seetheth in theyr Vâ—ynes euen as new Wyne Ale or Beere spurgeth and worketh in the Tunne Hereuppon the Netherlanders and Lowe Duchmen haue deuysed certayne prouerbial termes wherewyth they are wonte commonlye to quippe those yonge princockes and lustye gallantes whom they see ouerioyed or toofarre gone in wanton iolity makynge themselues as ridiculous and iestyng stockes to the whole companye Neyther are they incited to these immoderate pleasures through reason or auy well stayed discretion but by impotencie of mynde and wylfull affection digressing and swaruyng from modestye temperaunce and moderacion y lack wherof googleth theyr vnstayed heades and caryeth them into many inordinate pranckes of childishe insolencie They also bewraye theyr owne vnconstancie and vnstayed mynds by much shaking of their heads and continual playing and toying wyth theyr handes and feete insomuch that some accompt them no better then starke mad or persons distract of their right wittes Neyther do they sind themselues occupyed in any earnest matter that is to any good purpose neyther shew they forth eyther in woordes or deedes any piece of wysedome but vndeceÌ„tly for theyr age lasciuiouslye retourne vnto their boyishnes agayne whereas meeter it were in respect of theyr time passed nowe to fall to some thryft and to frame theyr lyfe after the prescription of some good order Hereuppon doe wee vse a Prouerbiall similitude taken of the nature and conditions of yonge Calues which in the Sprynge tyme of the yeare in the greene pastures when theyr bellyes be ful skippe and leape vp and downe wantonlye and toyingly fysking and iumpynge now this waye nowe that waye nowe rounde about one whyle raysing themselues vppon the forefeete an otherwhyle vpon the hynder Leggs whose maners fashyoÌ„s such yoÌ„g youthes as in their daily order of lyfe do imitate
slaked into Ashes So likewyse in the body of mankinde Choler is first of saffrō colour then as heat encreaseth Leekishe somewhat contrary to nature next Brassie or rustie last of al blewish or skie colour like vnto Wadde an Herbe that Fullers and Dyers vse in colouring and dying their clothes which last of all is tourned into perfect black Choler or Melācholy All these sortes of Choler endued wyth virulent and poysonous qualityes infecte the mynde wyth lewde conditions and the body wyth loathsome diseases whereof many be of such malignaunt nature that hardly wil be cured as eating Cankers corrodinge vlcers runninge pockes loathsome tettars or ryngwormes in the face Morphew the Carbuncle wyeld fier or S. Antonies fier Herpes the eating deuouring Vlcer called Estiomenus and of Courtiers who commonly more then others are thereto subiect named the Wolfe for it exulcerateth the skinne and eateth the fleshe to the very boanes rottinge and putrefyinge the same depryuing the member of lyfe and from feeling of any paine besyde many other loathsome and cōtagious diseases proceeding and sprynging out of the common syncke and concurrencye of these Humours in somuch that a man in this case caryeth about wyth hym nothing els but a stinkinge rotten and corrupte Carkasse And loathsom lymms replete vvith mattry fylth ¶ Of a colde and drye Complexion wherein the Nature and condition of a Melancholique person because hee is of this temperature subiect to Choler is at large declared wyth remedies how to qualefie and subdue the same fullye decyphered The vi Chapter THose bodyes of all others are in worst case habite which consiste and be constituted of the combination and composition of Cold and Dry. For considering that the mayntenaunce and conseruation of lyfe consisteth in Hoat and Moyste who is he that can rightlye commende or allowe that quality and constitutiō of body which weareth away wasteth these fomentations or cheerishmentes of lyfe beyng the chiefe onely 〈◊〉 of health and welfare For we see in the whole course of Nature and in all thinges within the vniuersall Worlde Plantes Herbes all Creatuers endued wyth life Men and all that lyue by breath when they be once depryued or lacke heat and moysture quickly to decay growe vnto destruction For none other thing is Death neyther can anye fitter definition be deuysed for it then to saye that it is an abolishment and destruction of lyfe Nature spirable an extinctiō of the first qualities wherof the Humours haue their being and mayntenaunce Whensoeuer therfore a man arryueth is broughte into these qualityes either by Sicknesse Nature or by Age and course of yeares let him make his ful reckning that Death is not farre of For as touching vncertayne haps and sodaine casualties which euery minute of an houre hauge ouer all our heades generallye I thincke not meete hytherto to be referred nor in this place to be reckened for y they happē violētly and agaynst Nature making an ende of lyfe sooner then by course of nature else should bee Which happes and chaunces as they ought not to terrifye and dismaye any man eyther iourneying or Seafaring forasmuch as euery Christiā oughte to commende and referre the successe and euent of his whole affayres and busynes into the hands of God his Diuine prouidēce pleasure and vnto him onelye wyth firme Fayth to leane So also in this plight and disposition of bodye threatned with death and extreeme dissolution there is no cause why a mā should quayle in courage or retchelessely by all conuenient meanes he may neglect to tender and cheerish his body but so longe as anye sparke of lyfe lasteth neuer to ceasse to vse all such helpes and foments as may serue to the prolongation of his dayes For God of his bounteous liberality hath gratiously geeuen and appoynted manye thinges whereby the same may well and fully be brought about For as fruictlesse trees by pruning and industrie are made fruictfull and as barrayne groūd wearyed with long tyllage wyth dunging and composting is agayne restoared to fertility so likewyse bodyes that bee drye are wyth nourishment fit for the restoration of Nature comforted and brought euen vnto the full appoynted prefixed terme that by Nature is limitted as it were into the Hauen that we longe wished Which hope of prolongation and lengtheninge of lyfe no man of reasonable and indifferente iudgement in consyderation of Humaine thinges can disalow so that euery man herein submitting his will mynde vnto his Maker and Creatour in whom all thinges haue their beinge and consistence referre his dealings and desyres vnto his godlye dispensation and appoyntment acknowledginge all things whatsoeuer they be to be gouerned directed by the decree of his omnipotente pleasure But because Melancholy is subiect vnto a cold and dry quality neither can anye plighte or state of body proceedinge hence be worse then it nor more incommodious to health therefore it seemeth needeful to make some further discourse of the condition nature effect strength and differences thereof and how greatlye it affecteth both the body and the mynde of man. For all mē for the most part at the beginning of the Sprynge and Downefall of the Leafe at which season of the yeare this Humour doth most ryfely abound are subiect to Melācholicke affectiōs namely those that be Magistrates and Officers in the Commonwealth or Studentes which at vnseasonable times sit at their Bookes Studies For through ouermuch agitatiō of the mynd natural heat is extinguished the Spyrits aswell Animall as Vitall attenuated and vanish away whereby it cōmeth to passe that after their vitall iuyce is exhausted they fall into a Colde Drye constitution And of this Melancholike Humour there be two differences the one Naturall the other beside Nature That Melancholie which is naturall and familiar to a man is mylder and lesse hurtfull then the other For being caryed and conueyghed into the Veynes together wyth the Bloud it nourisheth the members that be of lyke Nature and cōdition to it selfe vnto them mynistreth nourishmente as the Boanes Grystles Ligaments and Synewes For this Humour is not vnlike vnto Beasts feete when they be soddē and brought into a Iellie which in eatinge cleaue to the fyngers and lyppes as tough as Brydlyme whereby it causeth Bloud to haue a good power retentyue and to be thicker because when it is ioyned with perfect Bloud and wyth the sweetenes thereof tempered and alayed as a sower grape with Hony or Sugar it thereuppon becommeth in tast and relyce not altogether sower or bitter as those thinges that exasperate the Iawes and Palate but somewhat tart and sowrysh and as it is commōly tearmed Ponticke such a relyce I meane as is in a grape out of which new Must is pressed being not as yet come to his perfect rypenes and maturytie such as in the latter ende of Autumne is brought out of Germany and Fraūce
Lord thy God he vvil smyte thee vvith madnesse blyndnesse geeue thee an vnquiet hearte dasing eyes sorovv of mynd thy lyfe shall hang in doubt before thee and thou shalt feare both day night shalt haue no assurauÌ„ce in thy lyfe In the morning thou shalt say vvould God it vvere night and at night thou shalt say vvould God it vvere Morninge for feare vvherein thy hearte shal be and for those sightes and visions vvhich thyne eyes shall see Againe in another place he sheweth what plagues disenses and vexations he will send vpon them I vvill sayth the Lord and that quickly visite you vvith cold hunger extreme heates you shall flee vvhen as no man follovveth you and the noyse of a shakinge leafe shall make you afrayde and vvhen yee flee the svveard you shal fal no maÌ„ folovving vpoÌ„ you your soule shall pyne avvay in your vnrighteousnes and myssedeedes No whitte better happes doth Ieremie the Prophet thuÌ„der out vpon theÌ„ y shrinke from God and resist his word seeking to oppresse the worshippers therof in truth Saying Be thou not terrible vnto mee O Lord for thou art my â—ope in the day of my tribulatioÌ„ affliction Let my persecutours be confounded but not mee Let them be afrayde and not mee Bringe vppon them the time of their plague and bruyse them vvith double contrition For when a maÌ„ is both tormented in mynde and afflicted wyth the losse of worldly wealth and also distempered and out of good frame in body that maÌ„ is with double contrition plagued Forsomuch therefore as these Melancholike furyes and perturbations proceede of sundry and diuers causes it is expediente first of all to take away the headspryng of the whole mischiefe to pluck vp by the rootes that inconuenience which disteÌ„pereth the mynde The next is to cheerishe teÌ„der the body wyth all conuenient behoouefull attendaunce and by al meanes possible to assay somewhat to ease and mitigate those greate distemperaunces that infest aswell their bodyes as theyr myndes For surelye the case of these kinde of persons is to bee pytied insomuch that none except such as make non accompt of honesty and humanity eyther will or ought to flowte or mocke at them but rather will lament be sorie to see them brought into such pytiful taking and to be so lamentably fallen from the iudgement of right witte and reason S. Paule hath a worthye saylinge which also may well ve applyed to these persons Let him sayth he that thinketh himselfe to stande take heede lest he fall Whereby he aduyseth and admonisheth euery man in the whole course of this lyfe not to be too proud of any prosperity welfare neyther in putting toomuch trust therin to promyse vnto himself security For it may com to passe that by some mysfortune or outward accidente he may be taken tardie fall himselfe into worse diseases both of body and mynde and greater theÌ„ they whom a litle afore he so much skorned and mocked But because euery one may readily vnderstaÌ„d and knowe the notes tokens of a cold and drye Complexion I will heere by the way describe shew aswel the euideÌ„t marks of the bodely shape outwardlye as those of the mynd inwardly which in words deedes and conuersatioÌ„ shew out them selues apparantly and finally what effecte Melancholy worketh And because Melancholike nature is subiect to this Constitution the same signes and tokens are also hyther to be referred For whosoeuer is disposed to haue ful tryal of a cold and dry complexioned body and throughlye eyeth them that be Melancholicke shall at the first sight plainly perceyue them in al poynts to agree together For these complexioned persons are of body ill fauoured leane dry lank pylde skinned and wythout hayre crokenayled which throughe drynesse or siccitie become and grow crooked eueÌ„ like horne or leather that crumpleth together specially when this habite is throughlye by continuaunce settled and wyth encrease of qualities hath taken deepe rootes as appeareth in them y be worne wâ—th sicknes and Oldage And because al the parts of the body do fade drowpe and be no longer nourished it happeneth that the haires waxe thinne and by little little fall of and the face becommeth pale yelowyshe swarty For in all them that be Splenetique the colour fadeth and decayeth the feete swel the Stomack is with crudity distempered and by reason of ill humours hauing influence into it is many times troubled subiect to belking sower vomitting y breaking out wherof doth greatly ease them As touching the notes markes of their minds they are churlish whyning wayward ill to please stubborne intractable obstinate greedy of worldly goods couetous of money pinching and sparing wheÌ„ they haue got it not daringe to speÌ„d or bestow vpon theÌ„selues such things as the necessity of maÌ„s life for vse requyreth A man may also know theÌ„ by their kind of gate for they vse a certaine slow pace soft nyce gate holdinge down their heads with couÌ„tenaunce loke so grim and frowninge as thoughe they were lately come out of Trophonius denne or oute of some Caue vnder the ground such as the fabulous yawning of the earth in Irelande commonlye tearmed S. Patrickes denne or Purgatorye is To conclude the grimme and surlye Planet of Saturne together wyth Melancholie so disposeth them that as though they were bound by vow to sylence taciturnity a man shall scantly get a word out of their mouthes These therfore and many other lyke are incident vnto that coÌ„plexion and habite which is cold and drye and do ordinarily accompanye that kinde of naturall Melancholie which is somewhat is digressed from his righte state and purity But that which is in the body beside coÌ„trary to nature is farre worse and more pernicious and it is aptlie tearmed blacke Melancholie whereof there bee three sortes or differences One is of Melancholike iuyce turned eyther by putrefaction or combustion of straunge and forreyne heat into Ashes like Wood or other combustible substaunce burnt wyth the force of fier brought into Cinders That which is putrefyed hath a sower sharpe and tart quality That which proceedeth of heate doth adure or burne and wyth his sharpe and byting Nature doth much infesâ—e and disquiet the body differing from Melancholike iuyce as Lees burnt do froÌ„ Lees feces not burnt For these feces and Lees which were neuer adusted and burnt are a great deale myelder then those wherof Aqua vite or Aqua Composita is made The seconde which is worst of all is compact and made of yealowe or yolkie Choler aduste whereby it commeth to passe that it is blacke like pytch and shyneth like to Ieate Bitumen Colophonia and as certayne resynie stuffe intermyngled and perfused wyth a Yelowyshe blacke shyning by reason of the fierye consistence of the parts in that thicke and compact matter It
haue but meerilye discoursed the tyms ioyously passed there appeare for the space of certayne dayes after in hys face and countenaunce forehead browes lippes eyes and beckes for all these are be wrayers and tellers of the minde inwardly great tokens of myrth and alacrytie and many arguments do outwardly testify the chereful dispositien of the internal Spyrits For the body being heated wyth laughing and ioyinge with kissing and dalying wyth dauncinge Wyne and singing is made fresher and better coloured for that the Bloud is diffused into the vtter part and habite of the body These are therfore the causes why the eating of an Hare dryueth away and dispelleth the Cloudy cares of the mynd maketh the countenaunce cleare and delectable the face ruddie fayre and wall complexioned For as they that be angrye or perplexed wyth feare are commonly seene to be of a troubled and disquiet mynde and by manye outward signes to bewray the affections of their afflicted consciēce euen so they that haue the world at wyl and their hartes farre from all carefull affections troublesome perturbations shewe forth sure and certayn tokens therof in the body outwardly yea the verye countenaunce colour face forhead eyes mouth and generallye all the other fashions gestures thereof do pretend and witnesse a certain securitye of mynde that is at peace and quietnes wythin it selfe Now as touching Diet Let them that bee of this cold and dry Constitution and they that bee Melācholike accustome themselues to such meates as be of good and laudable iuyce to drincke that wyne which is of the best sort and purest let them lye in very soft beds and sleepe wel longe let them eschue forbeare all things that be salte and sower aboue all things let them take heede of crudity let thē vse moderate exercise styrring of thēselues For as maryshes standing waters become dampish and stynking so likewise the body lacking exercise gathereth fulsoments pestilent sauours If violent motion exercise be vnto them painful and laborious they may recreat and exercise themselues wyth pleasaunt singing Musical instruments and delectable and walkinges Let them banish away all affectiōs of the mind heauinesse sorrow thought hatred anger indignation enuye c. Neither let them suffer any such to lodge wythin their hearts let them also auoyd solitarynesse long abstinence lassitude and let them vse at possible meanes to restore theyr right powers first wyth meats and nourishments that be liquide for they do quicklyest nourish and encomber not the Stomacke greatly in concoction but when their powers bee encreased let them acquainte themselues and vse meates that be solide and substantiall Let theyr bread be of the fynest wheate and let them eate thereof but measurablye and sparinglye for it is hardlye concocted and taryeth longe in the stomacke and therefore to Labourers Caryers Maryners Carters and such like it bryngeth strength engendreth flesh durable fast Now they that in time of perfect and sound health do vse to eate litle bread haue strong breaths and stinking mouthes This proporciō therfore is requisite there in to be vsed to eate twyse asmuch in bread as in victuall or other cates As concerning the order that they are to keepe for Dinner and supper vnlesse custome be to the contrary or that they be troubled wyth distillations of the heade let their Supper be larger and more in quantitye then dinner foreseene that immoderate faciety surphet be alwayes eschued To be short to knit vp this matter wyth an holesome aduyse and counsell let all such things as be prejudicial to health and hasten oldage before his tyme be put away and banished Chiefly and especiallye maynteining and keeping wything our selues tranquillity and constancy of mynde which gift we are most humbly and earnestly to craue at his handes which most bountefully bestoweth and powreth out his blessed giftes lyberalitye vppon vs who is God our heauenlye Father and his deare eternall Sonne Christ our onely Sauiour For besyde y ōutward gifts and things transitorye which at his bountifull handes for oure vse cōmodity we moste abundātly tast and enioy he also directeth our mindes wyth his holye Spyrite and moueth our cogitations wills euery minute to ensue that is good and godly He vrgeth and pricketh vs forwarde continually so that wee feele the motions of his mighty power working in our harts by strēgthning and confyrming our Fayth that we thereby constantly leaning to the promyses of God maye rest in a sure trust and vndoubted hope to be afterwards made partakers of his Heauenly ioy in euerlasting felicity Amen Thomas Newtonus Cestreshyrius FINIS THE TABLE ADolescencie 29. Aduertisemente to Studentes 52 Affections natural 35 Affections hovv and vvhereof they come 9. proceding of surphet dronkēnesse 10. 59. Affections of the mynde alter the colour cōplexion of the face and bodye 90. Affections cōmon to al men 59. harmes thereof ibid. Ague called Ephemera 102. Ague called Epiala 107. Agues tertian 132 Agues burning ibid. Agreement betvvene the harte the brain 141 Anacardus good for the memorie 126 Angels good and euill 22. 24 Angels entermingle and shuffle in themselues among our humours 153 Anger 58. 128. 141 Apoplexie 126 Aristomenes his suttle shifting 43 Arteries 89 Astonishment 94 B BAldnesse hovv it commeth 69 Banquetting fit for persons melancolique 5 moderately vsed commendable 76 Bathes Artificiall 74 Bathes naturall ibid. Beard hovv to make it grovv 42 Beard redde not alvvayes a token of ill nature 130. Best thinges and excellent muste not vpon dispayre be geeuen ouer 34 Bloud hath all the other humours mixed in it 86 87. 89. Bloud forbidden by Moyses lavv to be eaten vvhy 89. Bloud of greate force in framing the disposition maners 96. 99 Bloud boyleth in young persons like spurginge of nevv vvyne in the tunne 98 Bloud prouoketh to vvilfulnes 101 Bloudletting not rashly to be enterprised 55. 89 Bloud and spirite the treasure of lyfe ibid et 86 Bloud of fishes colde 61 Blynde byardes 102 Body ful of sicknesse maketh lyfe vnpleasaūt 3 Body consisteth of three thinges 7 Body cold and drye hovv it looketh 27 Body and mynde vvhole and sicke together 75 Bolde rashnes 44 Brabanders 17 Braggers 101 Brayne drye causeth il memory 69. 120 Brayne moyste nothinge retentiue nor memoratiue 120 Brayne temperate the mayntenaunce of memorye ibid Braynes best to be eaten for the helping of memorye 125 Braynes distempered by vvhat signes vve may knovve them 143 Bread. 156 Brothes and liquid meates soonest nourish and are quickliest digested ibidē C Cayne a paterne of desperation 140 Caloes 99 Canis panem somnians a prouerbe 114 Catchpoles 58 Carnall act hurtfull to drye and cold complexions 74. hurtful in Sommer 81. vveakeneth the body 120. 133. dulleth the vvit and memory ibid. harmes therof 105. commodities therof ibid. moderation ibid. very hurtfull to olde men and
some one of the chiefest Ingredientes Polycleti Regula Lib. 20. Cap. 10. De Sacerd. De ratione concâ—onandi De Oratore Notes or markes of a body perfectly teÌ„perate Lib. 3. Ode 3. Rom. 8. Affections naturall A Enei 4. Iuuenal Sat. 10. The nature of Democritus and Hetaclitus Counterfaite gate Psalm 45. Christ a paterne of perfection Ioan. 1. Collos 2. Heb. 4. Ioan. 11. Christ voyd of all ill affections Collos 3. Heb. 13. Heb. 11. 1. Pet. 2. Hoate complexion Tokens of a hoate Complexion Degrees of heate in man. Black haytes Curled hayres Varietie diuersity of body Imagination VVomeÌ„s intemperaunce A true report Black hayre Yelovv Whyte Redde Lib. 2. de Temper Why children hâ—â—e no beaâ—des Much store of hayre how it commeth To make the bearde grow Women ful of hayres on their head Hayrie women lecherous Barenuesse inwomeÌ„ vnablenes in men to get ChildreÌ„ Heate causeth holdnes Lib. 11 Cap. 37 The suttlety of Aristomenes Iudie 15. 16. 1. Reg. 17. Iud. 3. Bold rashnes Vertues defaced and marred by vices Lib. 6. de Rep. Bigge voyce AEnei 1. Things not naturall Artis Medicae 85. Ayre Fulsome pestileÌ„t ayre more hurtful then pestilent meat Contraryes are remedied by their coÌ„traryes A Enei 10 Dogge-dayes Englande praysed for clenly trim minge their houses Learned me and aged greatly reuerenced in England Meate drincke Lib. 1 Cap. 3. Moyst nourishmeÌ„t fittest for children Lib. 2 de leg lib 1. de tuend Valetud Wyne hurt full to children Qualefiers and alâ—yers of the heate of bloud 〈…〉 Li. 1. Off. Ill customes must by little and litle be taken away Chaunge in olde men dauÌ„gerous Cicero in Senect Lib. 5. de tueÌ„d Val. The profite thâ—t coÌ„meth by exercise Order of exercise Slouthe and ease hurtful Aduertisement to the sâ—â—dious Horace in Arte Poet. Sortes of exercise FreÌ„ch king killed in runninge at the Tylt 1559. Gentler exercises Musick chereâ—h maketh meerie the mynd of man. De valet lib. 5. A fit exercise for crokebacked persons To try good horses RecreatioÌ„s not commeÌ„dable Husbandry praysed Heau sce 1. Act. 1. Saciety or fulnes of Stomacke to be eselievved Epidi 6. Aphor. 5. The harme of Venerie or Carnall CopulatioÌ„ BloudlettiÌ„g not rashlye to be enter pryled Bloud spirite the treasure of life Not good for men in health to vse medicine Vomite seldome to be prouoked De ratione vict lib. 1. When to vomite Eccle. 31. To what persons vomyting is hurtfull The commodities of sleepe epist. 4. The day appointed for labour and the night for rest Eight hours for Sleepe Sound Sleepers Whye children and Dronkerdes be sleepye Who bee soone awaked oute of sleepe Wylie winkers Catchpoles Iuuen. Sat. 1. Lib. 1. Amor. The maner howe to lye in bedde Lying vpon the backe very vnholsome dauÌ„gerous Sleeping in the day hurtfull The harmes of ouerwatching All meÌ„ subiect to affections The greate hurts of affections Angre Tuscul 5. Tranquility of mynde TemperaÌ„ce Goddes holye spirite subdueth qualy fieth outragyous affections Heate the stayer and maintener of lyfe Cold the decay spoile of life Cold coupled wyth heate In cold bodyes heate doth not altogether lacke Creatures in touching cold The bloude of Fishes is cold What sorts of fishes beinge taken oute of the water liue longest Eatynge of fishe hurtfull to them that are giuen to be solytarie Genes 1. Act. 10. 1. Tim. 4. Solytary lyuers subiect to the Apoplexie A Snayles life Venemous Herbes Eccle. 12. Tokens of a colde Complexion Idlenes maketh the body fat and cold Heate maketh good colour Cold wasteth and taketh awaye colour Wanne colour The hungry Sicknesse Cold things stirre vp appetite Cold persoÌ„s drowsie and vnweldie The help cure of a cold body Foules hard of digestion Meates fit for cold persons Gardeine store Hoat Condimentes If men bee loath to be sicke it followeth that they be loth to die Death dreadfull Sinne the cause of sicknes death Sap. 2. 2. Kindes of death De Senect To be long lyued Notes of a dry CoÌ„plexion Lib. 2. Metam Baldnes coÌ„meth for lacke of humour Dry brayne causeth ill Memory Good MeÌ„morye Restoringâ— of the memorye Galen lib. 5. de tuen Val. Lib. 6. de tuend val Hard wynes or of the second sort Mylke Herbes hauing vertue to make one to pisse Lib. 2. Sat. 4. Turpentine holesome Lib. 3. de tuen Val. lib. 5. tueÌ„ val PrepariÌ„g of TurpeÌ„tine To make Turpentine liquide and potable Sleepe Friction Lib. 2. de tuen Val. Sixe sorts of Frictions Lucae 7. Lib. 15. Artificiall Bath Naturall Bathes Carnal dealing wyth womeÌ„ very hurtfull to dry and cold complexioÌ„s Studying by night and Candlelight hurtful Bodelye health De tueÌ„d Valet Bodye and mynde sick and wel together â–ª A holesome exercise for students Moderate banquetting not discommeÌ„dable Recreation of the mynd Comelye mirth at the Table Sat. 1. Lib. Ser. 2. Sat. 2. Curiosity in searching to high miste-ries Eccle. 3. Eche thinge ought to be done in his due time right order Moyst CoÌ„plexion Heate in maÌ„ likened to the SuÌ„ne and moysture to the Moone The influeÌ„ce force of the Moone The tokens of a moyste body Graye eyes Moyst complexioÌ„s not geuen to be malicious spightful Moyste natures not fumish and testy Tokens of a moyst complexioned body Euery parte of the body is by it selfe seuerally to be considered hath his proper temperature The state of the mynde in moyst coÌ„plexions Why men be wyser then womeÌ„ Eccl. 42 Carnall lust in Sommer to meÌ„ hurtfull Rue prouoketh lust in women but taketh it vtterly awaye in men Diet meete for a moyst CoÌ„plexioÌ„ Diet ouer moyst hurtful Moderate sleepe good for moyst persons Moyst folks must sleepe but very litle Sat. 1. Lib. 2. Aphor. 44. Moystare feedeth nourisheth heate Accordinge to the nourishment that a maÌ„ is fed withall humours eyther encrese or diminish The grosse exhalacion of humours hurtfull to the minde as dead and fulsome wyne is to the body Concord harmony in mans body De Natu â–ª humana Humours after a sort are the elemeÌ„ts of man. Eunuch Act. 4. Scaen. 5. The force and vertue of Seede Sounde parents beget sound Children ElemeÌ„tes 4. Qualities 4. Humours 4. The nature of bloud Phlegme Choler MelaÌ„cholie In bloud all the other humous are mixed When a veine is opened all the humours are ocularly to be seene Humours haue both colour and tast Spettle and Sweat haue their force power of humours TueÌ„d Val Lib. 6. De TeÌ„p 1 Temperatures subiect to chasige Old men by nature dry but in conditioÌ„ moyst DissensioÌ„ diuersitie of opinions daungerous The profite of bloud Leuit. 17. The cause why Moses forbad the eating of Bloudâ— Bloude not rashlye nor vnaduisedly to be let WheÌ„ce thâ— Arteries Veynes spring The Lyuer the shop of Bloud The heart fountaine of bloud The colour sheweth what humours be in the body Tuend val lib. 4. Affectes of the mynde chaung the colour of the face and body 1.
al dry persons 55 Cause of fearefulnes in daungers 93 Cause vvhy many die in lustiest age 3 Charles the V. 91 Chaste lyuing 7. 107 Chaunge in old men daungerous 51 Children forgetfull and vvhy 16. muste not bee skanted of reasonable victualles 27. vvithout beardes vvhy 41. sleepie 58. stirring quicke vvhy 97. remembring thinges done long agoe 121. Childehoode 29 Choler 86. of tvvo sortes 127. the office and propertie therof 128 Choler by vvhat partes of the body it is purged 128. 133. Choler pale or citrine 132 Choler yolkie 133. Leekish or greene ibid. Rustie or Brassye 134 Cholericke folkes dreame many dreadful dreames 132 Cholericke persons great flouters 99 Christ for bodely shape a patcine of perfection 37. voyde of al ill affections 38 Clysters 118 Cocke hovv to make him crovv cōtinually vvith out ceassing 127 Cold the decay of lyfe 60. vvasteth colour 65 Cold bodies not altogether vvithout heate 60 Cold persons drovvsie and vnvveldie 65 Colde thinges stirre vp appetite ibidē Comparison betvvene a common vvealth and a body humaine 11 Cōpoūd medicines named of some of the chiefe ingredientes 32 Compound complexions four 84 Complexion moyst 78 Complexion drye 65 Complexion cold 60 Complexion hoate 38 Complexion temperate and perfect 33 Complexion hoate and moist 87. subiect to putrefaction 103 Complexion colde and moyst 107 Complexion hoate and drye or cholericke 127 Cōplexion cold and dry or melancholicke 135. Concorde in a Realme 12 Concord in mannes body 84 Cōtinēcie chastity a speciall gyft of God. 107 Contempt of God and his vvord punished 144 Contrition 145 Conuenient exercise holsome 7 Coriander 126 Countenaūce outvvard bevvrayeth the affectiō of the mynde invvardely 156 Countenaunce the image of the mynde 36 Counterfeit gate 36 Colour shevveth the complexion 89 Coūsellours levvdly disposed do much harm to youth 98 Counsel good profitable to youth 99 Coughe 109 Creatures moste cold in touching 61 Crasis 32 Crisis 102 Cruditie hurtfull 9. 118 Custome that is il must by little and little be altered 50 Curiositie in searching highe mysteries 77 D DAuid slevve a Lyon a Beare Goliah 44 Death vvhat it is 135. 28. Death eyther violent or naturall 67 Death by yll dyet and surphet hastened before his tyme. 3 Death of it selfe dreadful 67 Death to the faythfull not terrible nor dreadful 30 Death vvithout any payne 93 Dead persons heauier then liuing vvhy 5 Degrees of heate in man. 34 Democritus nature alvvayes laughing 36 Description of a body perfectly temperate 34 Deuil a crafty and slye spirite 22. hovv he learneth the thoughtes of mā 23. his long experyence in mischiefe ibid. his temptations ibidē hovv farre he is able to hurt ibidem Dyet for colde persons 65 Difference betvveene sanguine and cholericke folke 99 Dynner 156 Diseases proceding of phlegme 109. of Catarrhes and Rheumes 110 Diseases of the Splene or Milt 142 Discorde and dissention in a country vvhat mischiefe it bringeth 12 Disturbers of publique tranquillitie muste bee rooted out 11 Diuersitie in natures 14 Diuersity in opinions 88 Doggish appetite 116 Dogdayes 47 Doltes 101 Dreames after perfect concoction in the night happen not in vayne 37. 95 Dreames shevv the disposition and complexion of the bodie 112 Dreames naturall are interpretable ibid Dreames diuine ibid. Dreames peculier to phlegmatik persons ibid. Dreames not rashly to be credited 113 Dronkardes sleepy and vvhy 58 Dronkardes stammer and dovvble in their speache 111. their sundry condicions 149. in the act of generation vveake lumpishe and feeble ibidem Dycers 101 E EAsterlye people fearful and timerous 13 Education altereth nature 16. 99 Eele beinge dead floateth not aboue the vvater 111. Eyes 80 Elementes of mannes bodie 25. 86 Elementes fovver 26 Emptines 55 Englishmen 18. vvel coloured 48. sumptuous at their table ibid. England for cleanlynesse neatnes praised 47 Englishmē more subiect to the Svveate then other nacions 102 English Svveat vvhen and vvhere it began ibid. Erick kinge of Svveden 16 Euery mā must search out his ovvn inclinatiō 6 Euery member in the bodie serueth to some necessary vse 12 Euery part of the body hath his seuerall office vertue 108 Euills must be cured by their contraries 47 Exercise conuenientlye vsed verye holsome 7. vvhat profite cōmeth thereof 51. order therof 52. sortes thereof 53. vvhen to be vsed 104. Exercise fitte for crookebacked persons 53. F. Fayth bringeth foorth good vvorkes 24 Fasting persō heauier thē one that hath eatē meate 5 Famished persons dye the seuenth day 151 Feare of death vvorse then death it selfe 93 Fishes hauing vvarme bloud 61 Fishes liuing long after they be taken out of the vvater ibid. Fish ill for surly and solitary persons 61 Flemminges 17 Foode holsommest to eate 111 Forgetfulnesse of some thinges is best 121 Forme of a common vvealth 11 Foules hard of digestion 65 Foure naturall povvers or Vertues 9 Frenchmen 18. prompt and readie vvitted 19 French kinge killed at the Tylt 54 Friction 73. Sixe sorts thereof ibid. Fulnesse of stomacke hurtfull 54 G. Gall the fountain and vvelspring of anger 148 Garden herbes good for cold bodies 66 Generation of milke 108 Generation of sperme ibid. Germaines 16 Good dyet 19 Good for euery mā throughly to knovv his ovvn complexion 1 Grosse bloud 13 H. HArte the fountayn of lyfe 9 89 Hare maketh melancholicke nourishment 133. being hunted and chased is muche holsōmer ibid. good for many purposes in physicke ibidem Harme to a Realme and to a body first procedeth from the head 110 Harme of venerye and carnall copulation vvith vvomen Vide carnal acte Hayre blacke 39. 41. Curled 39. Yealovve 41. 129. VVhite ibid. Red ibid. Aburne ibid. Hayres hoare 112 Head harmed by the disorder of the lovver mēbers 104 Head and stomacke engendrers and receptacles of phlegme 109 Heate likened to the Sūne and moysture to the Moone 78 Heate causeth boldenesse 43 maketh good colour 64. Health vvhat it is 1. passeth gold or treasure 2 Health asvvell of mynde as of body to be cared for because the one cannot vvell be vvithout the other 2 Health sundry vvayes assaulted crushed and altered 29 Heraclitus nature alvvayes vveping 36 Herbes that are venemous 62 Herbes prouoking vrine 71 Herbes good for the memorie 125 Herbes hoat good for cold bodies 66 Hoate complexion 38. Tokens thereof 39 Hoarinesse in meates 112 Hoarcenesse 109 Hollanders 16. forgetfull and sleepie ibid. Holsome aire 19. as necessary for bodyly healthe as holsome meat and drincke 26 Holsome exhortation 156 Holy ghost vvhat he vvorketh in vs. 24 Humours are chaunged one into another 3 Humours ministre occasion vnto each seuerall complexion to ensue seuerall vices 23 Humours grosse as hurtfull to the mind as dead vvine to the body 84 Humours after a sort are the elements of man. 85. 86. Humours of more force then the Planets 10 Hungry sicknesse 65 Husbandry praysed 54 I IAundise 128 Idlenesse 64. maketh the body fatte colde ibid. Imagination of man euil from his birthe 14. 19.