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A53048	Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.	1671 (1671)	Wing N856; ESTC R11999	321,583	731

Humours and obeyed his will in every thing Next I have been a Thrifty Cleanly Patient and Chast Wife Thirdly I brought him a great Portion And lastly My Neighbours say I am handsome and yet my Husband doth neglect me and despise me making Courtships to other Women and sometimes to vex me the more before my Face He said Your Husband is not worthy of you therefore if I may advise you I would cast aside the affection I had placed upon him and bestow it upon a Person that will worship you with an Idolatrous Zeal and if you please to bestow it on me I will offer my Heart on the Altar of your Favours and sacrifice my Services thereupon and my Love shall be as the Vestal Fire that never goeth out but perpetually burns with a Religious Flame Thus speaking and pleading he made courtship to her which she at first did not receive But he having opportunity by reason her Husband was much from home and using importunity at last corrupted her and she making a Friendship with this Gentleman began to neglect her Husband as much as he had done her which he perceiving began to pull in the Bridle of his loose carriage and finding that his Acquaintant was her Courtly Admirer he began to woo her a-new to gain her from him but it would not be for she became from a Meek Modest Obedient and Thrifty Wife to be a Ranting Flanting Bold and Imperious one But her Husband grew so fond of her that he sought all the ways he could to please her and was the most observant Creature to her that might be striving to please her in all things or ways he could devise insomuch as observing she was never pleased but when she had Gallants to court her he would invite Gentlemen to his house and make Entertainments for them and those she seemed most to favour he would make his dear Friends and would often be absent to give them opportunities to be with his Wife alone hoping to get a favourable Look or a Kiss for his good services which she would craftily give him to encourage him But the other Gentleman that made the first addresses to her being a Married-man his Wife hearing her Husband was so great a Lover of that Lady and that that Lady's Husband was reformed from his incontinent life and was become a doting fond Wittal loving and admiring her for being courted and made love to esteeming that most which others seemed to like best she began to imitate her which her Husband perceiving gave her warning not to do so which she would not take but entertained those that would address themselves to her Whereupon her Husband threatned her but she was at last so delighted with variety that she regarded not his Threats whereupon he used her cruelly but nothing would reclaim her only she would make more secret meetings wherewith she was the better pleased for secret meetings as I have heard give an edg to Adultery and it is the nature of Mankind to be most delighted with that which is most unlawful But her Husband finding no reformation could be made he parted with her because he thought it a greater dishonour to be a Wittal than a Cuckold although he was very much troubled to be either for though he was willing to make a Cuckold yet he was not willing to be one himself Thus you may see the different natures of Men. The Converts in Marriage THERE were four young Gentlewomen whose Fathers were near Neighbours whereupon there grew an Acquaintance and so a Society between them The first was Reserved and Coy The second was Bold and Ranting The third was Merry and Gay The fourth was Peevish and Spightful She that was Reserved and Coy was Generous and Ambitious She that was Bold and Ranting was Covetous and Wanton She that was Merry and Gay was Vain and Fantastical She that was Peevish and Spightful was Cross and Unconstant It chanced that the four Fathers by reason they had good Estates were offered four Husbands for their four Daughters all at one time The Husband that was to marry the first Lady was Covetous Miserable and Timorous as all Miserable Covetous Persons for the most part are but being very Rich the Father to this Lady forced her to marry him He that was to marry the second Lady was Temperate Prudent and Chast. He that was to marry the third Lady was Melancholy Solitary and Studious And he that was to marry the fourth Lady was Cholerick and Impatient After they had been married some time the Covetous and Timorous man became Hospitable Bountiful Valiant and Aspiring doing High and Noble Deeds And she that was Bold and Wanton became Chast Sober and Obedient He that was Melancholy became Sociable Conversable and Pleasant and she Thrifty and Staid But he that was Cholerick and Impatient who married her that was Peevish and Spightful they live like Dogs and Cats spit scrawl scratch and bite insomuch as they were forced to part for being both faulty they could not live happily because they could never agree for Errors and Faults multiply being joined together AGE's FOLLY THERE was a Man and his Wife that had been married many years together and had agreed and lived happily loving each other wondrous well but at last after they were stricken in years the Husband was catch'd with a crafty young Wench like a Woodcock in a Noose or Net wherein he was entangled in Love's Fetters and though he fluttred and fluttred to get loose yet she kept him fast not that she loved Age but Wealth for Amorous Age is prodigal and though more self-conceited than those that are young or in their prime of years yet are easily catched which is strange for most commonly those that are self-conceited are proud disdainful despising thinking few or none worthy of their love But Amorous Age although they are self-conceited take a pride and brag that they can have a Love as well as those that are Young which makes each smile and every amorous glance from youthful eyes to be snares or rather baits which Age doth nibble at But his Wife observing her Husband to prank and prune to jet and set himself in several postures to be extravagant in his actions fantastical in his dress loose in his discourse wondred to see him on a sudden transformed from a Sober Grave Staid Wise Man to a Jack an-apes At last concluded with her self That for certain he was mad with which opinion she became wondrous melancholy But by chance finding him making amorous addresses to a young Woman she then perceived the Cause was Love and nothing but Love I mean Amorous Love that powerful Amorous Love which blindfolds long and wise Experience with a foul false appetite making not only Young but Old Men Fools His Wife like a discreet Woman moderated her Passion for a while hoping it was but a sudden flash or faint blast that would soon dye But when she perceived his Amorous Humorou

her mercy said he could not look It was so dark and thought he had mistook No said the Bride most sweetly you are right As if our Taper here was shining bright Now Love's Hesperides would touch the same That Place O Place which Place no tongue should name She gentle Dame with roving hand indeed Instead of Crutches found a broken Reed They both now fill'd with Ale Brains in 't did steep So arm in arm our Lovers fell asleep So for the Will though nothing else indeed To Love the Beggars built a Pyramid A Tale of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle called The Philosopher's Complaint I Through a Cranny there did spy A grave Philosopher all sad With a dim Taper burning by His Study was in Mourning clad He sigh'd and did lament his state Cursing Dame Nature for 't was she That did allot him such a Fate To make him of Mankind to be All other Animals their Mold Of thousand Passions makes them free Since they 're not subject unto Gold Which doth corrupt Mankind we see The busie Merchant plows the Main The Pleading-Lawyer for his Fee Pious Divines for Lawful Gain Mechanicks all still Coz'ners be With Plow-shares Farmers wound the Earth Look to their Cattel Swine and Sheep To multiply their Seed Corn's birth And all for Money which they keep The Sun-burnt Dame prevents the Day As her laborious Bees for Honey Doth milk her Kine and spins away Her fatal Thread of Life for Money Mankind doth on God Pluto call To serve him still is all their pleasure Love here doth little Money all For of this World it is the measure Beasts do despise this Orient Mettle Each freely grazing fills his Maw After Love's procreating settle To softer sleep wise Nature's Law They 're not Litigious but are mute False Propositions never make Nor of unknown things do dispute Follies for wise things do not take Or Flow'ry Rhet'rick to deceive Nor Logick to enforce the wrong Or tedious History to weave Troubling the Hearers all along Nor study the enamell'd Sky Thinking they 're govern'd by each Starr But scorn Man's false Astrology And think themselves just as they are Their Pride not being so supream Celestial Bodies moving thus Poor Mortals each awaking dream To think those Lights were made for us Nor are they troubled where they run What the Sun's Matter it might be Whether the Earth moves or the Sun And yet they know as well as we Nor do they with grave troubled looks By studious Learning for to stay Or multiplicity of Books To put them out of Truth 's right way For Policies Beasts never weave Or subt'ler Traps do ever lay With false dissembling which deceive Their Kind to ruin or betray No hot ambitions in them are Trumpets are silent Drums do cease No troublers in their Kind in Warr For to destroy but all for Peace The Stranger valu'd Jemms that dress Our beauteous Ladies like the day A Parrot's Feathers are no less And gossips too as well as they Man's ever troubled 'bout his Fame For Glory and Ambition hot When Beasts are constantly the same In them those Follies enter not Nor hope of Worlds to come that 's higher With several Sects divisions make Or fear an everlasting Fire But quiet sleep and so awake Man still with thoughts himself torments Various desires what shall be And in his life hath small contents Beasts pleas'd with what they have not we Repining Man for what is past Hating the present what they see Frighted with what 's to come at last Beasts pleas'd with what is and must be Ease Man doth hate and Business store A burthen to himself he is Weary of time yet wishes more Beasts all these Vanities they miss Self-loving Man so proud a Durt Vain 'bove all things when understood Studies always himself to hurt When Beasts are wise to their own good Man makes himself a troubled way Runs into several dangers still VVhen in those thoughts Beasts never stray But do avoid them with their will Man's troubled Head and Brain still swelling Beyond the Power of Senses five Not capable of those things telling Beasts beyond Senses do not strive Nature's just measure Senses are And no Impossibles desire Beasts seek not after things that 's far Or Toys or Baubles still admire Beasts Slander not or Falshoods raise But full of Truth as Nature taught And wisely shun dissembling ways Follow Dame Nature as they ought Nor to false Gods do sacrifice Or promise Vows to break them no No Doctrine to delude with Lyes Or worship Gods they do not know Nor envy any that do rise Or joyful seem at those that fall Or crooked ways 'gainst others tries But love their Kind themselves and all Hard labour suffer when they must When over-aw'd they wisely bend Only in Patience then they trust As Misery's and Affliction 's Friend They seek not after Beauty's blaze To tempt their appetite when dull But drink the Stream that Tempests raise And grumble not when they are full They take no Physick to destroy That Health which Nature to them gave Nor rul'd by Tyrants Laws annoy Yet happy seem with what they have With cares Men break their sweet repose Like Wheels that wear with turning round Beasts quiet thoughts their Eye-lids close And in soft sleep all cares they drown'd No Rattles Fairings Ribbons Strings Fiddles Pipes Minstrelses them move Or Bugle Bracelets or fine Rings And without Cupid maketh Love O happy Beasts that spend the day In pleasure with their nearest Kin And all is lawful in their way And live and dye without a sin Their Conscience ne're troubled is We made so yet forbid it too For Nature here is not amiss We strive 'gainst what w' are made to do Beasts need not Language they despise Unuseful things all Men's delight Those Marks which Language from doth rise If pleas'd with them discourse they might And out of words they argue not But reason out of things they do When we vain Gossipings have got They quiet silent Lives have too Complain'd of Scholars that they sought With envious watching and with spight To leave the good to find a fault In any Author that doth write O vain Philosophy their Laws With hard words still for matter brings Which nothing is nor knows the cause Of any thing unuseful things Why are our Learned then so proud Thinking to bring us to their bow And Ignorance Wisdom allow'd And know not that they do not know Motion's cessation is the end Of Animals both Beasts and Men The longest Lives to that do tend And to Death's Palace his dark Den. Or that Beasts breath doth downwards go And that Men's Souls do upward rise No Post from that World comes you know It puzzled Solomon the Wise. Thus he complain'd and was annoy'd Our grave Philosopher for 's birth That he was made to be destroy'd Or turn'd to sad or colder Earth I piti'd him and his sad case Wishing our Vicar him to teach For to

call nay think him Valiant Honest and Wife Sir said he to the Duke Pray flatter Fortune and offer some Prayers and Praises to her Deity in my behalf though it be but for your own sake for he that hath not a feeling interest in the business can never pray with a strong devotion for a good success but their Prayers will be so sickly and weak that they can never travel up far but fall back as it were in a swoun without sense In the mean time the Vice-Roy and the Unkle had drawn up Articles and had concluded of the Match without the young Lady's consent but the Unkle told her afterwards She must prepare her self to be the Vice-Roy's Bride and said he if you consent not never come near me more for I will disclaim all the interest of an Unkle and become your Enemy His words were like so many Daggers that were struck to her heart for her grief was too great for tears But her Maid who had ventured her Lady's Anger for Gold had conveyed the Duke into such a place as to go into her Chamber when he pleased He seeing her stand as it were without life or sense but as a Statue carved in a Stone went to her which Object brought her out of a muse but struck her with such a maze as she fixt her Eyes upon him as on some Wonder and standing both silent for a time at last she spake Sir said she this is not civilly done to come without my leave or my Unkle's knowledg nor honourably done to come like a Thief in the night to surprise me Madam said he Love that is in danger to lose what he most adores will never consider Persons Time Place nor Difficulty but runs to strengthen and secure his side fights and assaults all that doth oppose him and I hear you are to be married to the Vice-Roy but if you do marry him I will strive to make you a Widow the first hour cutting your Vows asunder and your Husband instead of his Bride shall embrace Death and his Grave shall become his Wedding-bed or I will lye there my self shrowded in my Winding-sheet from the hated-sight of seeing or knowing you to be anothers But if Knowledg lives in the Grave think not your self secure when I am dead for if Ghosts as some imagine can rise from the Earth mine shall visit you and fright you from delights and never leave you until you become a Subject in Death's Kingdom But if you are cruel and take delight to have your Bridal-Health drunk in Blood marry him where perchance we may be both dead-drunk with that warm red Liquor Sir answered she It is an unheard-of malice to me or an impudent and vain-glorious pride in you neither to own me your self nor let another but would have me wander that the World may take notice and say This is your forsaken Maid and I live to be scorned and become friendless for my Unkle will never own me which will prove as a Proclamation to proclaim me a Traitor to Gratitude and Natural Affection by committing the Treason of Disobedience The Duke said You cannot want an Owner whilst I live for I had nor have more power to resign the Interest I have in you than Kings to resign their Crowns that come by Succession for the Right lies in the Crown not in the Man and though I have played the Tyrant and deserved to be uncrowned yet none ought to take it off my Head but Death nor have I power to throw it from my self Death only must make way for a Successor Then said she I must dye that your Duchess may have Right and a free Possession Nay said he You must claim your own just Interest and place your self where you should be What is that said she Go to Law for you Yes said he If I be cast said she it will be a double shame You cannot plead and be condemned said he if Justice hears your Cause and though most of the Actions of my Life have been irregular yet they were not so much corrupted or misruled by Nature as for want of good Education and through the Ignorance of my Youth But Time hath made me see my Errors And though your Beauty is very excellent and is able to enamour the dullest Sense yet it is not that alone disturbs the peace of my Mind but the being conscious of my Fault which unless you pardon and restore me to your Favour I shall never be at rest I wish there were no greater obstacle said she than my Pardon to your Rest for I should absolve you soon and sleep should not be more gentle and soft on your Eyes than Peace to your Mind if I could give it but my Unkle's dislike may prove as fearful Dreams to disturb it though indeed if his Anger were like Dreams it would vanish away but I doubt it is of too thick a Body for a Vision The Duke said We will both kneel to your Unkle and plead at the Barr of either Ear I will confess my Fault at one Ear whilst you ask Pardon for me at the other And though his Heart were Steel your Words will dissolve it into compassion whilst my Tears mix the Ingredients My Unkle said she hath agreed with the Vice-Roy and his Word hath sealed the Bond which he will never break The Duke said I will make the Vice-Roy to break the Bargain himself and then your Unkle is set free besides you are mine and not your Unkle's unless you will prove my Enemy to deny me and I will plead for my Right Heaven direct you for the best said she it is late Good-night You will give me leave said he to kiss your Hand I cannot deny my Hand said she to him that hath my Heart The next day the Duke went to the Vice-Roy and desired to have a private hearing about a business that concerned him And when he had him alone he shut the door and drew his Sword which when the Vice-Roy saw he began to call for help Call not nor make a noise if you do Hell take me said the Duke I 'le run you through What mean you said the Vice-Roy to give me such a dreadful Visit I come said the Duke to ask you a Question to forbid you an Act and to have you grant me my Demand The Vice-Roy said The Question must be resolvable the Act just the Demand possible They are so said the Duke My Question is Whether you resolve to be married to the Lady Delicia Yes answered he The Act forbidden is You must not marry her Why said the Vice-Roy Because said he she is my Wife and I have been married to her almost nine years Why said he you cannot have two Wives No said he I will have but one and that shall be she And what is your Demand My Demand is That you will never marry her How says the Vice-Roy Put the case you should die you will then give me leave to

she commanded every Captain of a Company should place himself in the midst of their second Ranks for if the chief Commander said she in a Company be kill'd the Spirits of the common Soldiers soon dye and their Nerves grow slack with fear and all their strength will fail unless it be to run away The Lieutenants she ordered them to place themselves in their last Ranks to keep the Soldiers from flying for said she shame will cause Obedience to submit to Authority wherefore his Eyes will be as a Fort and his Breast as a Bulwark to keep them in Then she gave order that every Squadorn should be but five Ranks deep and fifty on a breast which number said she is enough to knit into a proportionable Body more makes it unweildy and is like a man over-grown with Fat whose bulk makes him unactive either to assault or to defend himself and Rands of Ten deep said she are not only unuseful and troublesome but so many men are lost as to employment for the hindermost Ranks come seldom or never to the Charge In every Troop of Horse she placed some Foot both Pikes and Muskets to gall and hurt their Enemy's Horse when they came to encounter for if once the Horse fails the Man is down After that she commanded her Army to marchin such a slow pace as not to break or loosen their Ranks but commanded them to join so close as if there were no Vacuum in their Troops and so to move as one entire Body or Piece Lastly She commanded all the Cuirasiers should stand in the fore-front to bear the shock or break the Ranks And thus she set the Battalia in order form and figure as the ground and places would permit to their best advantage The Prince ordered his Battalia as he was used to do making it thick as believing it to be the stronger which is questionless the best way if it were only to stand still for a defence but not to assault for in Action the half of those thick Bodies serve only as Cyphers without a Figure but never help to multiply the Numeration of Blows But the Armies being both ready to joyn the young General thus spake to his Soldiers Noble Friends Brave Soldiers and Wise Councellors WHO knows but this our meeting may produce good and great Effects and bring Peace to your Countrey which is molested with Warrs and Ruin to your Enemies that have almost ruined you Comfort to your sad Friends we have left behind Liberty to your imprisoned Friends We fight for Fame hereafter for Honour and Profit now presently but if we let our Enemies become our Masters they will give us restless Fears unreasonable Taxes unconscionable Oaths whereby we shall lose the Peace of our Mind the Conversation of our Friends the Traffick with our Neighbours the Plenty of our Land the Form of our Customs the Order of our Ceremonies the Liberty of the Subjects the Royalty of your Government and the Company and Rule of our Gracious Vertuous and Beautiful Queen And shall they have Courage to spoil and we none to right our Wrongs Shall they live by our hard Labour And shall we live by their hard Laws All Noble Spirits hate Bondage and will rather dye than endure Slavery Wherefore my Friends be you constant to your just Resolutions circumspect in your ways patient in your Labours Heroick in your Actions for What Man can remember such Injuries and let their Courages be cold Wherefore for your own sakes your Countrey 's sake your Royal Queen's sake go on with valiant Hearts and active Strengths and may Apollo be your Friend shooting his Darts dazling your Enemies Eyes May Mars the God of Warr direct you in your fight May Fortune give you aid and Pallas give you victory After she had thus spoke the Trumpets sounded to Charge and the young General sent some flying Horse to give the onset and then seem to run away which the other Army seeing thought it was out of fear and followed them as in pursuit which disordered and broke all their Ranks but the Queen's Army marched in good order to meet them at which the Enemy viewing their unexpected posture was so daunted as they neither had Spirits to fight nor power to run away and so a great number being killed and taken Prisoners the Queen's Army became absolute Masters of the Field The Prince with much difficulty retreated back about a days march with some few but with the prime of his Horse where he heard of a fresh Army coming to assist them for the King fearing they were not strong enough being forced suddenly away caused new men to be raised to follow them The news of this Army rejoiced the Prince much being at that time very melancholy for the great loss he received and for the disgrace as he thought by reason he despised the Enemies to the King and to be overcome by those he scorned did wrack his Soul But taking up fresh hopes with his new-come Army returned back to the Queen's Army again who when they heard of a new Supply were much amazed and dejected by reason they were weary and tired with three Fights and disordered with gathering up and carrying away their Spoils But the young General perceiving them to hang down their Heads thus spake Noble Friends I Perceive such a sadness in your Faces as if fear had taken possession of your hearts which if it hath except Courage beats it out it will betray your Lives unto your Enemies and to be taken by a timorous thought before your Strength hath grapled with your Foes were base and if Right and Truth be on your side as sure it is and Reason rules your Judgment as I hope it doth you have no cause to doubt but if you fear the Conduct of my Youth as wanting Experience to judg or direct the best then here are Aged men who with Ulysses and Nestor may compare their Counsel is your aid Let no vain suspition therefore quench your hopes but Courage set your Spirits on fire and with their heat consume your Enemies to Ashes With that they all aloud did say Go on we will dye or conquer In the mean while the Prince was encouraging his new-come Army who was struck with the news of the last Battel hearing nothing of it until they met the Prince the sudden Report like Thunder shook their Spirits which to appease the Prince thus spake Noble Friends You that have Humility to obey Love to unite Charity to redress have Hopes to obtain for Hope is the Ground on which Courage is built Let not the Enemy of Mistrust vanquish your Faith but perform your Loyalty through your Industry for obedient Thoughts are not sufficient without obedient Actions Wherefore take Courage to fight Let not your Enemies kill your Spirits Weep not nor condole at our Losses but let us regain our Honours either by Victory or Death And they that are sloathful or cowardly in this Army may

The second sort that were to visit her were PHYSICIANS And after a short time they asked her what made a good Physician She answered Practise and Observation Then they asked her What made the difference between Pain and Sickness She said Pain was caused by cross perturbed Motions and Sickness by distempered Matter and the overflow of Humours Then they asked her Whether the Mind could be in pain or be sick She answered No but said she the Mind is like the fire it can put the Body to pain but can feel none it self likewise the Motion is like fire for the more Matter it hath to work on the quicker it moves and when the Mind is as it were empty it grows dull and the Head is filled with nothing but smoaky Vapours Then they asked her What difference there is between the Soul and the Mind She answered As much difference as there is betwixt Flame and the grosser part of Fire for said she the Soul is only the pure part of the Mind Then they asked her the difference if any was betwixt the Soul the Mind and the Thoughts She answered As the Mind was the Fire the Soul the Flame so the Thoughts were as the Smoak that issues from the several Subjects that the Mind works on and as Smoak so the several Thoughts many times vanish away and are no more remembred and sometimes they gather together as Clouds do and as one Cloud lies above another so the Thoughts many times lye in rows one above another as from the first to the second and third Region Then they asked her What was the best Medicine to prolong Life She answered Temperance and good Diet. Then they asked her What Diet As for Diet said she to Healthful Bodies Meats must be well and wisely matched but to Diseased Bodies such Diets must be prescribed as are proper to cure each several Disease As for the mixing and matching Meats said she they must be after this description following All Flesh-meats are apt to breed Salt Rheums and being roast breeds Cholerick Humours which Salt Rheums and Cholerick Humours causeth many times Hectick Fevers enflaming the Arterial Blood and Vital Spirits and drinking out the Radical Moisture and Salt Rheums penetrating into the Vital parts cause excoriations and ulcerations As for white Meats as Milk-meats and the like they are apt to breed sharp Humours also the gross parts cause many times obstructions of the Noble parts and the sharpness is apt to corrode especially the Uretaries Guts and Stomack producing Bloody-waters from the one and Cholicks in the other Also sharp Humours cause Cankers Fistula's and the like eating through several parts of the Body making several holes passages or wounds to pass through and Obstructions cause ill digestion ill digestion causes corruptions corruptions cause several Diseases as Feavers Small-Pox Imposthumes Boils Scabs and Leprosies if the Corruption is salt or sowr As for Fish and also all sorts of Pults they breed Slime and Slime in hot Bodies causeth the Stone and Gout in cold Bodies and all sorts of white Swellings as the Kings-Evil Wens and the like also the Brains Feet or any Sinewy part of any Meat doth the like as also Sweet-meats As for all sorts of Fruits Roots Herbs they breed thin crude Humours which causes Wind Wind causes Cholicks Cramps and Convulsions by griping and twisting the Guts Nerves and Veins as also all swimming and dizzy Diseases in the Head likewise Head-akes caused by a Vapour arising from the crude and raw Humours also in hot Bodies it causeth the Sciatica the heat over-rarifying the sharp Humours caused by Fruit makes it so subtil and searching that it doth not only extend to the outmost parts of the Body as betwixt the skin and flesh but gets into the small Thread-Veins As for all Sweet-meats and Comfits they are in some Bodies very obstructive and in all Bodies they breed both sharp and hot Rheums and I have heard said she that Sugar makes the most sharp and acid Vitriol As for the matching of several Meats Fish-meats do well agree with Roots Herbs and Fruits if they be stewed roasted boiled baked or the like otherwise the rawness hinders the concoction of the Meat but if they be drest as aforesaid they temper the saltness and quench out the heat which the over-nourishing strength doth produce Also Fish may be mix'd with Flesh-meat although all Physicians are against it for certainly the natural freshness and coldness of Fish doth temper and allay the natural heat and saltness that is in Flesh-meat mixing it into a good Chyle and tempering it into a Juicy-Gravy which encreases the radical moisture and nourisheth the radical heat also it supplies the Arteries fills the Veins plumps the Flesh smooths the skin whenas strong drinks mix'd with strong meats over-heats the Body enflames the Spirits evaporates the radical moisture burns the radical heat scorches the Arteries drinks up the Blood sears the Veins shrinks up the Nerves dries the Flesh and shrivels the Skin White Meats and Pults agree best as being of one and the same degree as it were of heat for all strong Meats curdle all sorts of Milk which causes obstructions and corruptions and turns it sowr being of a nature so to do which makes such sharpness in the blood and body as causes Tertians Quartans Quotidians and the like Diseases Pults and all sorts of Milk-meat being of a spungy substance digest as it were together when Meats that are solid mix'd with Meats that are more porous and spungy do hinder each other Small drink is best with white Meat but when Pults is eaten without Milk it may agree better with stronger Liquor Roots and Milk-meats agree as being both easily dissolv'd from the first forms into Chyle Nor do Fruits and Pults disagree for the sharpness of the Fruits doth divide the clamming of the Pults and the sliminess of the Pults doth temper the sharpness of the Fruits but Fruits and Milk-meats are enemies which when they meet they do exasperate one another So that Fruits and Pults and Milk and Roots do best together Roots having no sharpness in them but there is of all sorts of Flesh Fish Milk Roots and Herbs some being hotter than others and grosser as the most watrish Fruits are the hottest as having most Spirits in their acute Juices Likewise all Roots or Herbs that bite as it were the tongue or are bitter to the tast are hot although Druggists Herbalists and Physicians are many times of the other opinion but certainly all that is sharp salt or bitter proceeds from a hot nature and most commonly produces hot effects having a fiery figure and motion but because they find many things that are sharp or bitter to qualifie Feavers or the like hot Diseases they think it is the natural temper of the Drugs Herbs Roots Fruits or the like but a hot Cause may produce a cold Effect as for example Obstructions cause heat in the Body but sharp things do