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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

ibid. The best part of the day for study p. 317 Why the morning is colder then the evening p. 318 Why wee desire forbidden things p. 326 Of Fortune p. 329 The wonders of the world p. 330 The beginning of Time p. 331 The part of the yeare that pleaseth the Eye more then the Belly p. 332 The biggest Bird in the world 333 Of the Sterke ibid. Of him that tilleth another mans ground and leaveth his owne barren p. 334 A description of Seed-time p. 335 Whether there were Vines before the flood or not p. 336 The reason why Wine is dearer ●…ow than it hath beene of old times p. 337 Whether there be Mermayds or Syrens in the Sea or not p. 342 Of the soule p. 344 Why the soule of man is called the lanthorne of God p. 346 The secrets of writing ibid. The most faithfull Messenger p. 347 What things we most love and esteeme p. 349 Whether our Countrey or our Parents are to bee most honoured p. 352 Whether money makes a rich man or not p. 353 When doe Enemies profit vs and our Friends hurt vs. ibid. Of the Empires p. 354 Of the Roman Empire ibid. The Answer of a Coward ibid. Where a man is counted evil when he committeth least p. 355 Of the true vse of all Learning p. 356 Whether Education alters nature or not p. 358 Ernes●…s Couns●…ll to hi●… friend p. 359 Of the stomabke ibid. Of Oppertunity p. 361 Why the Earth is most barren where the richest Mines are p. 363 Diogenes Counselconcerning lending and borrowing of money p. 364 The Preface to the Matter THat Health is abou●… Gold and a sound bodie above infinite Riches is a Text of Truth approved with most joyfull acknowledgement to their comforts that entirely possesse it and know the worth by the use not by the want as doe those poore and life-weari●…d wretches whose pleasures by sicknesses perplext and dayes spunn●… out in griefe and misery by the contrary yet what is this precious stone to the Dunghill-cocke or the richest ●…ifts of bodie or mind●… fortune to him that is not Gemmarius one that truly vnderstandeth their value and valueth them according to his understanding The Crab the Gangrene or the Stone that put the knife to inscition or the sawe to abscition and Traytor-like racke the body with tortures not inferiour to death cry out in him that is patient of this misery Happy man that art borne from these woes that art free from these maladies Cherish therfore that good which is so precious in life thou that enjoyest it which keepes off death and sweetens all the affictions that oppose us in life and abuse it not in Riots in surf●…ts and disorders things so apt to deprive it the losse being so great and the pleasures so small and without which all humane solace is but sorrow all rejoycing is but mourning and life it selfe is but death For to him that hath the highest titles the largest honours the fairest reuenues nay all the pleasures that the earth and Sea to boot can affoord yet what are all these present where 〈◊〉 ●…ne is wanting Therefore to the preservation of that which is and redeeming of that which hath beene but is not our Phylosophers propose certaine Rules and directions for the ordering reducing and maintaining of mans body in health which like a Clocke by reason of the many severall particles and connexions thereunto belonging is ever subject to diversion and error For as Galen the Light of Physicians writeth of that little window or light of Man the delicacie whereof not the least creature or attomic in the world but by accident may sore offend yet that there are subjectory and pertinent peremptory infirmities besides thereunto belonging ingendred by Rheumes Convulsions and other operations of the brain and strings thereunto officiall 52. diseases If then so many disastrous Planets reigne over one little member had it not need of sight and light to prevent them And if to this one so many to the whole body of man how many are incident and what curiosity therefore is to be given to our steps when without their limits they are so many enemies of Nature ready to seize upon us And which discipline and direction being observed we may lengthen out our dayes with joy and delight to the last period of their prefixment when either sicknesse or casualty one Accident or other shall fall upon us to the accomplishment of that Sentence which was never yet frustrated by any nor ever shall whilest the foure●… indes blow one against another For against that here is no prevention Contra vim mortis non esc medicam●… in hertis although some and no meane Clarks have thought and written to the contrary that Age might be kept backe and sicknesse kept by which if it may be for a time wee conclude it cannot be for ever That Age may not be kept backe though sometimes tardied in his speed FRyer Bacon a man of infinit learning study capabilitie and Art in his time amongst many other his strange and impossible endevours published a booke De retardanda Senecture or the keeping backe of old age the which whilst he himselfe in observing and prescribing the Rules Orders Observations and Retardadation thereof grew old in the act and himselfe was overtaken with age Let the ayre in her wholsommest kinde with the most nicest ceremonies that Physicke or curiosity observed Fennes and Marishes and the low and unwholsome vapors of the earth unsuckt up thereby the unsavory breath whereof may breathe contagion into windowes In stead thereof brush over Rockes and Hils and Fields and Fountaines with the wholsommest perfumes that the best matters may give it to worke upon bring health through the Crannies and receptacles of our houses and breathe it in at the nostrils of the most healthfull creature living let him rise early not walke late be temperate in Dyet moderate in exercise wary in lust cheerefull of disposition sit not much walke not sildome surfet never know the disposition and state of his owne body from the largest content to the least particular be a Physician himselfe on himselfe use the art and direction of all the world and all the Colledges and Physicians therein yet notwithstanding shall age creepe upon him and burden him with her weight and the unnecessary luggage of her carriage which is strength in peevishnesse weaknesse in performances will to desire yet want to execute as helplesly is daily experienced For otherwise who would weare his head white and his beard gray his eyes hollow and his eares deafe blacke veines and dry braines a dropping nose a wrinckled brow shaking hands and toothlesse gummes feeble legs and shrunke sinewes that might ransome himselfe either by paine or price The old Courtier inamored of his young mistris sleighted more for his want then his will having some sparkes of heat not yet extinguished by antiquity would offer if it might be more then the portion of his supple

wouldest be soone rich soone practise so shall other mens dissentionsbe the cause of thy peace and thou shalt be like a Chyrurgions instrument the breath which every man spends in vaine shall not passe from thee without value nay as it shall be thy profit to speake so shall it be thy gaines to keepe silence and for the calling it may be honest so thy conscience therein be just For Physicke I know not how the practice should be bad since the ayme thereof is so good for health being a Iewell to every man which when it is to be bought at the hands of the Phycian may bee valued accordingly For Astrology and the over-tedious observation and judgement of the starres taken from the vanity of the Chaldeans who were beleeved of their imperites that by the influence of Planets and secret relations therein they were as Gods Privy-Counsellors solely to discerne and prognosticate the events and destinies that should befall them throughout the whole course of their lives the folly of which men the Prophet Esay thus mocketh Let the Wise man and Sages of heaven with their observations predictions and knowledge stand forth and save there And likewise Jeremy in another place Feare not the predictions by the heavens because the lawes of the people are vaine or their demonstrations because they are deceitfull which words yet condemne not altogether the use of Astrology which hath some end and profit but condemneth those professors which make vaine ostentation to the people of certainties by uncertainties Next unto this is the vanity of Chyromancers which by taking their direction from the lines of the hands doe exceedingly trifle and deceive running into significant errors by the unsignificant traces thereof to which small credit is to be given Like unto these or if other more vaine are Alchymists which professing to turne their brasse into silver or their silver into gold turn all into vapour which turneth to nothing this hath the fairest aime but the rarest hit of all other the greatest hope but the smallest comfort in the way insom●…ch that I had rather misse the one than sorrow in the other Nygromancy is an Art by which the bodies or rather the semblance of those in their graves are raised up and questioned as we read Phytonissa to have done by a fained and deceitfull representation of the body of Samuel to gratifie Saul the King Like unto these are Hydromancy and Pyromancy which worke by the water and the fire Likewise Augury or divination by birds by their singing chirping or such like Hereafter follow some few receits of Albertus Magnus and our former Author To powre scalding Oyle or melting Lead into the hand and not be burned therewith ANnoynt the palme of your hand with the Iuyce of Mallowes or Mercury and you may doe it for a space but not long being two of the hottest liquors that are into which if you put but Tin or Lead they presently melt which water or any other liquor besides effecteth To keepe Inke from freezing PVt three or foure drops of Aqua vita into the Standish and the Inke will not freeze though the weather be never so hard Of the strange effects wrought by some members of the Owle TAke the heart of an Owle and his right foot and put it upon one that sleepeth and he shall reveale unto thee whatsoever he hath done or whatsoever he knowes that thou shalt aske him and this hath beene experienced of late time Of the Want or the Mole THe Want or the Mole is a creature of strange effect as the Philosopher conceives who being put into the neast of any Bird can never bring forth her young as also the water wherein she is decocted being rubbed upon any thing AA that was blacke immediately changeth it into white Of the strange effects of some parts of the Black-bird IF the quils of her right wing be taken and hung up in a house by a red thred no creature can sleepe in that honse untill they are taken downe and if the head thereof be put upon any one that sleepeth they shall reveale unto thee all their secrets with a loud voyce as hath beene experienced Away to make Doves increase and multiply AUicen saith that Aristotle was of opinion that if the milke of a woman twice married over put into a vessell of glasle and either buried or hung up in the dore where the Pigions fly●… out and in they would keepe together and increase to infinite numbers To untye a knot without touching GOe into a Wood and find where a Pye hath builded her nest and hath young ones and tye some string round about the hole where she goeth in the which when she shall perceive she immediately flyes for a certaine herbe which she puts to the knot which presently breaketh it then falleth the hearb downe which thou mayst take up and reserve to such a purpose Hereafter followeth a Divine and Philosophicall conference betweene some Fathers of the Church and some Philosophers of Nature proposing and propounding Pious Learned sharp and pleasant Aenigmaes abstracted out of many and sundry Authors as well sacred as prophane which marvellously make to comprise wisdome and nourishing of liberall wits to the informing of the Judgement and to the delight of all lovers of knowledge Propositions follow Q. IN what part of a mans body is his heart A. That Anatomists will tell us and also the Scriptures will direct us that both the heart of the wise man and of the foole is in the center or middle of the brost but the Scripture yet further saith that the heart of a wise man is in his right hand but the heart of a foole in his left Q. How doth the old Testament and new begin A. Both from Adam the one from the first Adam the second from the second Adam describing his generation I onely admire the power of that God which besides above against nature effects whatsoever he pleaseth Q. From whence is the name Cardinall derived A. Of Cardus for a hinge for even as a doore turnes upon his hinges so doth the Church of Rome upon these hinges the Cardinals and by their counsell and direction is governed Of which one writes in imitation of Virgil Qui Bauium non odit amet tua Carmina meui Qui satanam non odit amet tua dogmata Papa Who in mercy hath no hope Let him love thy Dogmaes Pope Q. The Devill of old was said to have two daughters Cove●…ousnesse and Luxury and he married the one to the Iewes and the other to the Heathen and now of their off-springs all Nations and sorts of people are affianced Q. Why in times past did the antient build their Sepulchers by the highway-side A. To admonish all men of death Diogenes hearing of the death of a great rich miserable man saith he hath not lived his owne life but hath left it unto others Uir Conjux

Time for it finds out teacheth and altereth all things But one of Pythagoras Schollers of late time said the contrary and that it was the most rude and unknowing and the master of all ignorance for with his owne long waste it wrapt all things in ignorance Times office saith one is To shew the Beldam daughters of her daughters To make the child a man the man a child To slay the Tyger that doth live by slaughter To tame the Vnicorne and beasts most wild To fill with worme-holes stately Monuments To feed Oblivion with decay of things To blot old books alter their contents To plucke the quils from ancient Ravens wings To spoyle Antiquities of hammerd steele And turne the giddy round of Fortunes wheele Q. How are mettals to bee knowne and how is a mans heart to be discovered A. Aera puto nosci tinitu vt pectora verbis Sic est nam●… id sunt utraque quale sonunt For words and mettals is one touchstone found And that 's the eare for both are knowne by th' sound Q. How many are mentioned in Scripture to have beene raised from death to life A. Eight 1. The widdowes sonne of Screpta by Elias 2. the sonne of another widow by Elizeus 3. one buried in Elizeus Sepulcher 4. Iayrus daughter 5. the sonne of another widdow in Naim Luk. 7. 15. 6. Lazarus by Christ 7. Tabitha by Peter 8. Eutichus by Paul Act. 20. 22. So onely eight persons preserved in the Arke Q. How many steps hath the Courtiers ladder A. There is no man riseth but by more steps than one but there is only one to come downe or rather a downeright precipitation It is saith one the Stepmother of vertue and the purgatory of rich men Therefore let him that feares the headlong comming downe feare the steepy going up for Plures beavit Aula plures perdidit et quos beauit perdidit And as another saith Qui Iacet in Plano non habet vnde cadat I call heare to witnesse the most fortunate of Courtiers the slipperinesse of this footing Seianus with Tyberius Clito with Alexander the Great Philotas and others Histories are ful of these examples therefore he that is wise with Demosthenes let him say Tanti poenitere non aemum for Tutius in caula blanda quam vivitur aula Aula vale caula sim magis ipse comes The Countrey hall more freely yeelds a life Of quiet peace not mixt with Courtly strife Court therefore fare thou well I know this true The Country I embrace so Court adue Q. Why then should one come to the Court and conuerse with great ones A. A young Divine commended the faith of the Divels for saith he they beleeve and tremble So heare what Courts speake but with a kinde of terrour and come to Court as a man would come to the fire where if hee come too neare he shall be burnt if he keepe too farre off he shall be a cold Medium tenuisse beatum Q. What thing is that which for the brittlenesse is compared unto a mans life A. A Glasse which though nothing is more brittle with safe keeping may be preserved long but bee wee never such wary Pylots we dash this fraile vessell for all our care against one Rocke or other it comes unprevented for all our care nay undeserved if we respect onely disorder even as the Poet thus more fully expresseth it Mane virens flos est cinis est sub vespere vita Fide cinis rursus flos gener●…sus erit I' th morne a flowre at night cut downe and shore Yet faith shall one day this dead flowre restore Q. What is that short more short most short Ver breve flos brevior vita brevissima At bene si morimur vita paerennis erit Englished The spring is short a flower more short mans life most short of all Yet a good life shall peece out death no death shall be at all What better than life A good fame what better than good fame A mind conscious of Innocence what better than that To dye well To live to the world is death but to Christ life Of sudden feares they are more said to colour the haires than age as is experienced by Mariners Rebus in aduersis venit acclerata accelerata senectus Q. What is that that takes away teeth and addeth wrinkles and turnes our gold of youth into the dust of age and so changeth us as if we were old new ones Non habitus non ipse color non gressus eunt is Non species eadem quae fuit ante manet Englished Not habit colour forme ought we enjoy But he is chang'd worse better to destroy An old man said hee carried a great load for he bore 80 yeares and all the troubles these had begot Another old man said before Age I cared how to live well in age how to dye well Old men they say carry their feet in their hands and their teeth in their pockets that is a Staffe and a Knife Q Who are those in holy Scripture that are called childr●…n of an hundred yeares old A. Those that have runne over many yeares from their birth yet never entred into the schoole of wisdome feare of God or divine knowledge old in years but yong in knowledge Q. Are there not some men that spend their lives altogether in vanity A. A many that when they are going out of the world know not wherefore they came being like to him that hath sayled upon the sea but hath more beene tossed hither and thither than gone forward to arrive at his wished port of such a man one may say This man hath not sailed much but beene tossed long so hee that lives long and profits nothing in goodnesse may not be said to have lived a long life but to have beene here long If life is to be desired of a wise man it should bee for no other cause then to effect some thing worthy of life and that might profit himselfe and others which having done hee hath lived enough having fulfilled the office of an honest man Of which one thus instanceth it of Cicero If thou respect the applause of the people whensoever thou dyest thou hast lived but a little if what thou hast done thou hast lived enough if the injuries of Fortune and the present state th●…u hast lived too long if the memory of thy workes thou shalt live for ever A good man thus having finished his course may then say Sufficit Iehovah tolle animam meam hospita terra vale Q. What is that the more you take from it the more it is increased and the more you adde to it the more it is diminished A. Many sticke hereat and deny that any such thing can be but wee finde it to bee a hole in a Cloth Q. Whether did mans nature infect mans person or mans person infect nature A. The first man did infect nature but now nature infects man-kinde the whole lumpe being poysoned Q. What is

neare any other as to discerne it En●…ylia the wife of Africanus was of so great charity and patience that when shee knew her husband had offended with her maid yet she contained her selfe beyond measure unto him both in fidelity and love not answering his expectation with fury or fro●…ardnesle but jealous to wrong so great a husband as Affricanus either in word or action as further not to shew her selfe hatefull where her husband had loved after his death shee gave her in marriage and continued faithfull to the end When Sulpitia was with-held by her mother Maria ●…est she should follow her husband Lentulus being banished into Italie notwithstanding she could not be retained but that shee got out in an unusuall attire with two of her maids and two servants and came unto him secretly refusing not to banish her selfe to enjoy his presence without which where-ever she lived in banishment CHAP. XXV Of good Widdowes MAcrobius saith that the word Vidua a Widdow comes of Divisa or as one would more properly say a viro divisa divided or divided from a man Amongst the ancient women of elder times that were contented with single marriages it was their glory to bee honoured with the crowne of chastity but the experience of many marriages hath much increased the suspition of intemperance and inconstancy The daughter of Marcus Cato when she had bewailed the death of her husband a month together the longest date of our times she was asked of some of her friends which day should have her last teare shee answered the day of her death Truly intending what the Trag. Q. but fainedly spoke In second husband let mee bee accurst None weds the second but who kils the first A second time I kill my husband dead When second husband kisses mee in bed And when some of her kinsfolkes perswaded her to marry a●… other husband in regard shee was young and beautifull she utterly denyed saying If I should meet with a good husband as I had before I shall ever feare to lose him If I shall meet with a bad one what need I such a sorrow after such a griefe In like manner Portia was perswaded after the death of her husband to marry againe she answered A happy and chaste Matron never marries but once In like manner Valeria having lost her husband would marry no other and being asked her reason answered that her husband lived alwayes to her In like manner of Arthemesia the wife of Mausoll King of Carnith that amongst many of her commendations this is a principall That after the death of her husband she still remembred him as if alive and built for his honour and memory a Sepulcher of wondrous beauty and cost the like whereof was not to be found of which woman my Authour thus comparatively concludeth Such wives their living husbands did not wrong That after death remembred them so long What our short mourning Widdowi us'd to doe That so soone marry and forget them too I can but ghesse but sure it may be told That love was ne're much hot that 's so soone cold CHAP. XXVI Of Virgins HIeron contr Iovin in his booke so called there mentioneth what honour and respect the ancient Romans ever attributed to their Virgins In that their Consuls and Emperours such that triumphed in state after their victories yeelded as every degre●… and dignity reverence to them Nyeanor having atchieved th●… victory of Thebes was so overcome with the love of a captive Virgine whose nuptiall voluntary imbraces he so desired which of few would have beene refused though in her found no admission which forced him to complaine that hee found more captivity in the eyes of such a Virgin then in the strength of a kingdome when hee her lover and a King wept and lamented over her selfe slaughtered body Turcya a Vestall Virgin defamed with the losse of her Virginity in manifestation of her innocency tooke a Riddle beseeching the goddesse that if shee touched her sacrifices with a chast hand to make it possible that shee might fetch water out of Tyber with that sieve and carry it to her house which was effected accordingly and she cleared of her suspition Claudia a Vestall Virgin had in suspition likewise of dishonor having fastened an Image in the house of Mars neare unto Tyber to prove her chastity with her girdle she drew a ship that many milions of men could not remove from the place Likewise Augustine in his 39. booke speaking of an ancient custome the Romans had to this purpose which was to bury alive the corrupted Priests of their Vestall goddesse The end of the second Booke THE THIRD BOOKE OR THIRD COVRSE serued up to the Table at the Philosophers Banquet PREFACE HAving spoken of the manners and conditions of those that wee may accompany at our Tables Now thirdly it remaines that we briefly propose certaine Table questions with their resolutions for the exercise and search of our wits which many times imploying our mindes hereto keepes in those things which otherwise the heat of our bloods and aptnesse of our natures so fraught are apt to lavish against our selves For when men well haue fed and blood is warme Then are they most improvident of harme And therefore are such passions to be brideled with a premeditated instruction lest they afterwards redound to our detriment and losse To that end I have here thought it necessary to set downe certaine easie questions and answers pertinent to such time and place supposing nothing can bee more pleasant or profitable either to our selves or others then the delight and recreation that may arise from thence Question 1. Whether Ayre be more necessary t●… life then meat FIrst it is demanded whether Ayre be more necessary to life then meat to the which is answered meat because that is supposed most necessary to the body that restores her defect or makes a member or part of a member Now meat is of this nature according to Avicen and therefore most necessary Yet Constantine is of the contrary opinion that faith Ayre is more necessary thereto than meat For life consisting in naturall heat because naturali heat is the fountaine of life therefore that which tempers naturall heat is the most necessary now ayre drawne in by the breath is of this kinde And therefore those that come newly from prison or from any other place deprived of this benefit first desire a fresh ayre and afterwards meat and drinke To conclude life consists strongly in both in the one by restauration of members lost and consideration of members had and thus farre the first very powerfully intends But the nutriment of naturall heat that is the origlnall of life immediately is caused from the quality of the ay●…e and therefore the ayre because it immediately respecteth life we conclude is the more necessary and predominant to the conservation of life Quest. 2. Whetber be more necessary to life Meat or Drinke SEcondly it is

demanded whether to life be more necessary meat or drinke To which it is answered that meat although drinke be the more desired because that is most necessary that restores the members than that which but convayes the meat and disperceth it in the body but meat is ordained to restore the members drinke but for the dilation of that meat through the members Ergo c. But that drinke is both more and more earnestly desired then meat the reason is because drinke cooles the burning of the naturall heat and therefore is more necessary to life then meat as the ayre Drink hath these two properties the one that it dispearseth the meat to the members and therein meat is more necessary than drinke But secondly drinke mitigates and tempers the naturall heat and so conserves it which otherwise would dry the body and cause death and therefore is more necessary to the body then meat by which conclusion any creature lives longer without meat then without drinke Quest. 3 Whether euill meat or evill ayre hurt the body more THirdly it is demanded whether evill ayre or evill meat hurt the body more It is answered simply that evill ayre first because it more hurts the heart the fountaine of life and heat Secondly because it changeth more often and cannot bee shunned Thirdly because it more suddenly affecteth and these three manner of wayes evill ayre hurteth more than evill meat yet notwithstanding some hold the contrary that evill meats are more nocent because they remaine longer in the body and cleave faster to the members and therefore hurt most having so much time and meanes thereunto Quest. 4. Whether fleepe or meat be more necessary to the Body FOurthly It is demanded whether sleepe or meat bee more necessary to the body to the which is answered That the body is more decayed by the loste o●… meat than sleepe The reason is that sleep restoreth not the decay of nature neither removeth the action of naturall heat from the moist substance the wasting wherof causeth death as meat doth and therefore is the more necessary as likewise because there are in man three vertues life nature and soule and the soule 's not suppli●…d as the other two and ther●…fore that nutriment that answers the vertues vitall and naturall is more generall than that which only answers ther vertue ani●…all Quest. 5. Whether out of all meats be engendred good Blood FIfthly it is demanded whether out of ill meat may bee engendred good blood which is answered according to Haly that there may the reason wher●…of is thus given Because good Meat may be ill digested and so an ill Blood proc●…ed thereupon as contrarily ill meat may be well Digested and so from thence a good Blood be ingendred For wee must observe that in every meat there is a double nature which vpon the strength of the appetite furthered by digestion is either convertible to good or bad blood Quest. 6. Whether wee may walke or sleepe presently after meat NExt is demanded whether after meat we may presently walke To the which is answered that there is a double kinde of motion the one where of may be termed labour which is not here prescribed for wholesome or laudable The other kinde of motion an easie passing and stirring of the body and hereby the meats are depressed to the bottome of the stomacke and a more easie laudable and absolute digestion caused thereupon and this manner of walking is commended Next is demanded whether after meat immediate sleepe may be tollerated To which is answered that the Stomacke being full desireth a more open action and vent which sleepe ensuing hereupon sealeth up thereby causing an inordinate heat in the sto●…acke whereby the meats become crusted and baked as bread in an Oven over-heat without vent wher●…upon ●…nsue Rhumes and other diseases in the head and therefore sleepe is to be prolonged after meat for our better Digestion and health Quest. 7 8 9. 7. Why in omitting our houre accustomed we lose our Appetite 8. Whether after meat the Body be more hot or before 9. Whether Fasting more hurt the Chollericke or Phlegmaticke 7. FIrst it is demanded how the Appetite becomes lost in omitting the usuall houre of our custome To which it is answered the stomacke being empty of former matter to worke upon attracts the ill humours from every part of the body and of them doth it feed and is fantastically satisfied and desireth no more wherefore wee are taught in this case to drinke a draught of warme water and so renue our Appetite againe by vomit 8. Next is demanded whether before or after meat the body be more hot To which is answered that it is very apparant the Body to be more hot after meats than before both in quantity and quality acçording to Galen in his Booke De summa Medicina where hee affirmeth it trebly increased as may bee experienced by the application of a moyst skin to the stomocke both before and after Meat as by Physicke or otherwise Though some are of opinion that a coldnesse after meat betokeneth better health 9. Next is demanded whether fasting more hurteth the Chollericke or Phlegmaticke m●…n To which is answered the chollerick because the heat is more strong in the chollericke stomacke than in the phlegmaticke and therefore wasts and desires more Besides phlegme may be converted into blood but choller not and so the phlegmaticke man hath within him matter for blood by which his appetite may be the better sustained but the chollericke not and therefore in him is the hardlier endured Quest. 10 11 12. 10. Whether the strong or the weakest stomacke endures the longest fast 11. Whether those of small Dyet longer sustaine hunger than those of more ample 12. Why those that eat most greedily are soonest satisfied 10. NExt is demanded whether the strong or the weake stomacke indures the longest Fast To the which is answered that the strong which although it more desire and receive yet that it can the longer abstaine and forbeare as the weake the contrary though little desiring yet often needing 11. Next is demanded whether those accustomed to eat much can longer forbeare food then those of more sparing Diets To which it is answered that they may because of the abundance of former Repletion whereby their greater heat is diminished which therewith diminisheth the appetite and therefore can endure the longest fast and so of the contrary 12. Next is demanded why those that eat most greedily are soonest satisfied To which is answered that in their greedinesse and often gaping they sucke in much ayre which filleth tue veins and so taketh away the stomacke Quest. 13 14. 13. Why wee can containe hotter meats in our mouthes then wee can hold in our hands 14. Why if the hungry drink their hunger is allayed but if the thirstie eat their thirst is not satisfied 13. FIrst is demanded why we can contain hotter meats in our mouthes then in our hands