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A05105	The French academie Fully discoursed and finished in foure bookes. 1. Institution of manners and callings of all estates. 2. Concerning the soule and body of man. 3. A notable description of the whole world, &c. 4. Christian philosophie, instructing the true and onely meanes to eternall life. This fourth part neuer before published in English. All written by the first author, Peter de la Primaudaye, Esquire, Lord of Barre, Chauncellour, and Steward of the French Kings house.; Academie françoise. English	La Primaudaye, Pierre de, b. ca. 1545.; Dolman, R. (Richard); W. P., fl. 1618.; Bowes, Thomas, fl. 1586.; Phillip, William, attributed name.	1618 (1618)	STC 15241; ESTC S113143	72,610	1,102

yet want two hundred of their growth before they leaue encreasing which make three hundred then we must needs resolue that this three hundred yeere are but the third part of a Trees life because as all things liuing besides so trees must haue allowed them for their increase one third another third for their stand and a third part of time also for their decay All which time of a Tree amounts to nine hundred yeeres three hundred for increase three hundred for his stand whereof we haue the te●rme stature and three hundred for his decay and yet I thinke for we must coniecture by comparing because no one man liueth to see the full age of trees I am within the compasse of his age supposing alwaies the foresaid meanes of preseruing his life Consider the age of other liuing creatures The Horse and moiled Oxe wrought to an vntimely death yet double the time of their increase A Dog likewise increaseth three stanns three at least and in as many or rather moe decayes Euery liuing thing bestowes the least part of his age in his growth and so must it needs be with trees A man comes not to his full growth and strength by common estimation before thirty yeeres and some slender and cleane bodies not till forty so long also stands his strength so long also must he haue allowed by course of nature to decay Euer supposing that he be well kept with necessaries and from and without straines bruises and all other dominyring diseases I will not say vpon true report that Physicke holds it possible that a cleane body kept by these 3. Doctors Doctor Dyet Doctor Quiet and Doctor Merriman may liue neere a hundred yeeres Neither will I here vrge the long yeeres of Methushalah and those men of that time because you will say Mans dayes are shortned since the floud But what hath shortned them God for mans sinnes but by meanes as want of knowledge euill gouernment ryot gluttony drunkenesse and to be short the encrease of the curse our sinnes increasing in an iron and wicked age Now if a man whose body is nothing in a manner but tender rottennesse whose course of life cannot by any meanes by counsell restraint of Lawes or punishment nor hope of praise profet or eturnall glory be kept within any bounds who is degenerate cleane from his naturall feeding to effeminate nicenesse and cloying his body with excesse of meate drinke sleepe c. and to whom nothing is so pleasant and so much desired as the causes of his owne death as idlenesse lust c. may li●e to that age I see not but a tree of a solide substance not damnified by heate or cold capable of and subiect to any kinde of ordering or dressing that a man shall apply vnto him feeding naturally as from the beginning disburdened of all superfluities eased of and of his owne accord auoiding the causes that may annoy him should double the life of a man more then twice told and yet naturall phylosophy and the vniuersall consent of all Histories tell vs that many other liuing creatures farre exceed man in the length of yeeres As the Hart and the Rauen. Thus reporteth that famous Roterodam out of Hesiodus and many other Historiographers The testimony of Cicero in his booke De Sen●ctute is weighty to this purpose that we must in posteras aetates ferere arbores which can haue none other sence but that our fruit-trees whereof he speakes can endure for many ages What else are trees in comparison with the earth but as haires to the body of a man And it is certaine without poisoning euill and distemperate dyet and vsage or other such forcible cause the haires dure with the body That they be called excrements it is by reason of their superfluous growth for cut them as often as you list and they will still come to their naturall length Not in respect of their substance and nature H●ires endure long and are an ornament and vse also to the body as trees to the earth So that I resolue vpon good reason that fruit-trees well ordered may liue and like a thousand yeeres and beare fruit and the longer the more the greater and the better because his vigour is p●oud and stronger when his yeeres are many You shall see old trees put their buds and blossomes both sooner and more plentifully then yong trees by much And I sensi●ly perceiue my young trees to inlarge their ●rust as they grow greater both for number and greatnesse Young He●fers bring not fo●th Calues so faire neither are they so plentifull to milke as when they become to be old Ki●e No good Houswife will b●e●d of a young but of an old bird-mother It is so in all things naturally therefore in trees And if fruit-trees l●st to this age how many ages is it to be supposed st●ong and huge timber-trees will last whose huge bodies require the yeeres of diuers Methushalaes before they end their dayes whose sap is strong and bitter whose barke is hard and thicke and their substance solid and stiffe all which are defences of health and long life Their strength withstands all forcible winds their sap of that qu●lity is not subiect to wormes and tainting Their barke receiues seldome or neuer by casualty any wound And not onely so but he is free from remoualls which are the death of millions of trees where as the fruit-tree in comparison is little and often blowne downe his sap sweet easily and soone tainted his barke tender and soone wounded and himselfe vsed by man as man vseth himselfe that is either v●skilfully or carelessely It is good for some purposes to regard the age of your fruit trees which you may easily know till they come to accomplish twenty yeeres by his knots Reckon from his roote vp an arme and so to hys top-twig and euery yeeres growth is distinguished from other by a knot except lopping or remouing doe hinder CHAP. 15. Of gathering and keeping Fruit. ALthough it be an easie matter when God shall sen● it together and keepe fruit yet are they certaine things worthy your regard You must gather your fruit when it is ripe and not before else will it wither and be tough and sowre All fruit generally are ripe when they beginne to fall For Trees doe as all other bearers doe when their yong ones are ripe they will waine them The Doue her Pigeons● the Cony her Rabbets and women their children Some fruit tree sometimes getting a taint in the setting with a frost or euill winde will cast his fruit vntimely but not before he leaue giuing them sap or they leaue growing Except from this foresaid rule Cherries Damsons and Bullies The Cherry is ripe when he is sweld wholy red and sweet Damsons and Bulies not before the first frost Apples are knowne to be ripe partly by their colour growing towards a yellow except the Leather-coat and some Peares and Greening Timely Summer