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A11769	The philosophers banquet Newly furnished and decked forth with much variety of many severall dishes, that in the former service were neglected. Where now not only meats and drinks of all natures and kinds are serued in, but the natures and kinds of all disputed of. As further, dilated by table-conference, alteration and changes of states, diminution of the stature of man, barrennesse of the earth, with the effects and causes thereof, phisically and philosophically. Newly corrected and inlarged, to almost as much more. By W.B. Esquire.; Mensa philosophica. English.	Scot, Michael, ca. 1175-ca. 1234, attributed name.; Anguilbertus, Theobaldus, attributed name.	1633 (1633)	STC 22063; ESTC S100623	106,565	400

morrow To the former question the first Gentleman answered therefore I put up this apple that I may not care for to morrow for nature is content with little O from how few shall you heare this confession that of all their life long they haue not had a morrow Q. Whether death is more to be seared the corporall or the eternall A. The Eternall Saint Austen shall answer thee that death which men feare most is but the seperation of the soule from the body when it would willingly stay in but the second death which men feare not is the seperation of the soule from God The first death takes the soule out of the body when it would willingly stay in the second keepes the soule in the body when it would willingly depart Q. How many are the messengers of death A. Three Casualty Infirmity and old Age the first shewes death lying in ambush the second appearing the last present we dye not for the most part altogether but by degrees and as wee increase in dayes so our life decreaseth first we lose Infancy then child-hood then youth even till we have lost all the time that we have passed to yesterday and the very time wee now live wee spend on till death we passe by the Temple of faith and piety to the Temple of glory and perpetuall happinesse where those everlasting rewards are so great they cannot be measured so many they cannot be numbred so copious they cannot be terminated so precious they cannot bee valued Iulius 2. Pope as stories mention being dead came to heaven gates and there knocked with authority Saint Peter being angry asked who so importunately knocked this Pope answered It is I open quickly Who art thou quoth Saint Peter Iulius the Pope replyed he What hast thou to doe heare with heaven that hast so oft sold it no man accounts that his owne which he hath sold and so was he shut out and worthily for all they say they have Navis Terrae clavis Coeli One demanded of Eucritus the Philosopher whether hee had rather bee S●…crates or Croesus Quoth he Croesus while I live but Socrates when I dye Q. Whether is it better to envy or to be envied A. To be envied for hee that is envied is alwayes the happier man Q. Whether is the shining of the Moone cold or hot A. It is cold which doth something allay the heat that the beames of the Sunne hath made in his passed progresse Q. It is vouched before in this discourse that there is nothing so deformed nor contemptible on earth that hath not in it some kinde of good to what use serveth the Scerpion the Toad the Serpent and such like A. Of the Scorpion is made an excellent salve against all swellings and of Serpents and Toads is made an excellent powder against the stone and to provokeurine For nought sovile that on the earth doth ltve But to the earth some special good doth give c. Platos counsell to young men which hee would have to imitate the Ivie being weake of themselves to get a prop to support them Q. Upon the birth of children whether have parents more cause ofjoy or griefe A. This is resolved upon that with children a fountaine of teares spring up to the parents for if you compare them to a nurserie of some you shall late gather fruit of others never If good feare lest they continve not if evill lasting sorrow in the inte rim uncertaine joyes but certaine cares Q. What is the chiefe of all meats and what the chiefe of all savces A. Bread of all meats for whether we eat it by it selfe or continually with other meats yet we are never weary of it being the staffe of life and signe in the Sacrament And of all sauces I say not hunger but Salt is a principall a sauce that the diveil for his relish doth abhorre for Salt is an embleme of eternity and immortality being not onely able to preserue it selfe from rottennesse and corruption but all other things and therefore Salt by the command of God himself was to have a principall place on the Table a●…id the sacrifices Q. What is the meaning of th●… phrase of Plantus M●… non unifid●… Antro the Mouse trusts not to one hole A. It admonisheth us to have more friends than one more strings to our bow than one Hee that fames hims●…lfe to be a friend in words and is not so indeed he that hath Ave in his mouth but hath ve and Cave in his heart is worse than one that coynes false money worse than Ieabor nay worse than Iudas that kist and kild Q. What is a mind full of cares resembled unto A. To wormes and rottennesse amongst the bones and therefore Damacles amid all his dainties could take no delight because his mind was troubled at the Sword that hung over his head by a slender haire Q. What is the only great security in the world and meanes to prevent feare A. To feare nothing but God for he that feares not him feares every thing and hee that feares him needs to feare nothing else for his feare excludes all other Q. What is the most excellent action of the hands A. Their Elevation in prayer Innocent hands and a pure heart Q. Spots of Infamy can they be washt out A. They are scarce purged off with Niter therefore take heed of their stampe guilty Pylate may wash his hands but not cleare his Conscience A certaine workman had pictured Uenus sleeping with this inscription O traveller passe by and awake not the goddesse for if shee open her windowes shut up thine For as the Poet advis●…th Cum vultu pungit cum verbis dulcitur vngit Affectum fingit complexu pectora stringit Sires procedit animam cum corpore ledit He that but looks his journy doth begin He that but likes is stept a stept more in Who so inchaind his pace doth forward bend He hath enioy'd and is at 's journeyes end Q. Which of all Hercules labours was his hardest to overcome A. Love Q. How many sorts of creatures hath Ged made A. Three one not covered with flesh the second covered with flesh but dyes not with the flesh the third is covered with flesh but dyes with the flesh of these the first are Angels the second men the third bruit beasts Sum decor in manibus sustento senem rego gr●…ssus Sum terror canibus gest at pro duce f●…ssus Englished I am the old mans leg the weake mans stay I am his weapon and his guide by th' way Q What are the Countrymans prognostication of the Raine-bow A. 1. It is observable that it changeth to what colour a man conceiveth and if it bee red like to an Oke or fire or blood it prognosticates a fruitfull Vintage if of yellow colour like to the Corne-fields it presageth a plentifull haruest thirdly if it bee of a greene colour plenty of Oyle and see the Bow saith the Wiseman and blesse him

Isacke is better than any other hearbs for the engendring of a good blood and is the better not being washed in water howsoever it is easie of Digestion a procurer of Vrine and good against the red choller cooles the boyling of the blood in the stomacke causing sleepe and augmenting sperme and milke The Mynt saith Isacke is hot and dry in the second degree provokes an Appetite takes away all putrifying humors supples the Sharpn●…sse of the Tongue being rubbed therewith and the mouth being washed with the Decoction thereof and the powder of the dryed Mynt is sweetened against the putrifaction of the Gummes and rottennesse of the Teeth Cresses saith Isacke doth heat the stomacke and the Liver mollifie the belly provoke Lust scowre the Lungs helpe the shortnesse of winde and therising of the spleene and taken of women with child doth cause abortions and untimely births Poppey saith Isadke is white and blacke Of the blacke is made Opium but the white is more laudable and of better disposition Of both which Dioscorides saith that the eaters thereof shall be subject to much sleep and sorgetfulnesse Rasis saith that the seed of the white Poppey is cold and easeth both the throat and the brest and augmenteth sleepe Alisanders or wild Parsley as saith Serapion being made into a Plaister and applyed unto either Pushes Morphew or Scab doe cleanse it exceedingly Likewise ease the paines of the Bladder and the Reines opening the pores of the body and scouring the passages of the urine and expelling fweat Likewise cleanseth the Liuer and dissolveth windynesse and chollicke And further Rasis saith it is hot and dry and although it much helpe the Appetite yet causeth it head-ache and other paines therein whence proceeds fantasies and ill dreames much hurting those that are troubled with heat and therefore after it should be eaten Purslane and Endive to ullay the heat thereof yet being eaten raw it cleares the conduits of the Lungs from grosse humors opens the opilations of the Liver asswageth the pain in the throat Purslane according to Rasis doth quench the heat drynesse and thirst in the body bindeth the belly and easeth the paine in the Teeth and helpeth those that are troubled with the Fluxe caused through rednesse of Choller Likewise it diminisheth sperme Avicen saith Let Warts be rubbed therewith and they are taken away The Raddish saith Rasis is hot and dry and stayeth long in the stomacke withall it diminisheth Phlegme but elevates the meat to the mouth of the stomacke and causeth vomiting the leaves thereof further digestion and help the Appetite taken in a small quantity before meat Isacke saith being taken after meat they allay the windinesse thereof causing it to descend with the owne substance Dioscorides saith the Root being taken with salt breeds store of milke provokerh Vrine and womens monthly Termes and being put into a hollow Tooth with a little Ginger the Gumme being rubbed therwithall it allaies the paine exceedingly Rapes according to Isacke are hot in the second degree and moyst in the first and of more nourishment then other herbs yet are hard at first to digest They do dillicate and mollifie the flesh and prouoke lust and augment sperme Pliny saith that the Rape being boyled and applied drives the cold from the feet and hath a marvellous vertue to inlighten the understanding Rue according to Isacke helps the Digestion and hath a vertue to expell all grosse and slymie humours to dissolve windinesse in the stomacke and moysten the belly Avicen saith that it takes away the smell of Garlicke and Onions sharpens the sight and abateth lust Sage according to Dioscorides represseth the menstrues in women causing abortions and untimely births and the leaves and branches thereof being fryed stay the itching or tickling of nature The Iuyce of the leaves thereof being rubbed upon haire of any colour turneth it to blacke likewise helpeth the byting of venemous beasts Spinage is good for the Lungs the Throat and the Stomacke making soluble the belly and giving good nourishment Sow-beard or Mushrome according to Rasis is cold and grosse and being taken raw ingenders Phlegmes the Chollicke and windinesse in the guts neither is it to be eaten but with hot sawces and meats but the red is not to be eaten at all The Toad-stoole is much worse then the Mushrome for it hath choaked and killed many that have taken it and the best that it doth is but to breed Phlegme in the body in abundance And these are signes of the deadly nature and disposition of it the softnesse slyminesse and grosnesse and which being cut in the middle and but set out of hand it doth instantly putrisie and corrupt CHAP. XXX Of Fruits GAlen my Father because he eat no Fruit in all his life liued long and in health whose example in his life I imitated but then being dead my example lost I began to eat fruits whereupon insued unto me many infirmities Afterwards I abstained from all greene fruits and was free from many infirmities which before I was incident unto and all indeed unlesse a dayes Fever or sudden passion and my Friends which were counselled by me and abstained likewise in their whole lives were not troubled with many diseases Figges according to Rasis doe cleanse the Reines from the Gravell and stone but being new they are windy though otherwise they breed little of ill humour especially if they finde the stomacke cleane But if not they putrifie therein and corrupt and the often eating thereofbreeds Lice Datet are hot and give a nourishment to the body thickning the grosse blood and polluting it especially if taken often at meat likewise they hurt the Teeth and increase Phlegme Dioscorides saith Dates are hot and moyst in the second degree and easier digested then Figges and more provoke Vrine but those that use them shall be incident to the swelling of the splene and Lyver Grapes as saith Rasis being ripe and sweet are hot in themselves yet of lesse heat then Dates neither doe they cause opilations as Dates doe yet are they windy and some degree more hurtfull they fatten the body much and cause erection of the yard but those of the slenderest skinne doe the soonest descend and are lest windy Those which are sowre and tart are of lesse heat than the sweet and these being washed in cold water and eaten before meat doe quench the heat in the stomacke and Lyver Bitter Grapes are cold and stringent and represse the red choller and superfluity of blood but those that are dry and temperate in heat and nourish well make no opilations as the Date doth although they are stronger and nourish more Pomegranats that are sweet saith Rasis in stead of cooling the body ingender a heat and windinesse therein yet they supple the throat as the sowre doe cause a sharpnesse and gnawing in the