sendeth vp grosse thicke vapours the which doe hinder the further operation of it and condenseth or congealeth the â—â—egme melted by it This giddinesse of the head is a reason that some alledge to prove the coldnesse of it which might bee alledged aswell oâ— of wine or strong drinke that doeth no lesse procure the same dissinesse of the head but they will haue it to proceede from a narcotick or stupefactive qualitie in it as the chesbow and suchlike cold things by their coldnesse doe produce such effectes I wonder how dare they that saye so bee bold to vse it seeing it is of such stupefactive cold and doe not rather abstaine from it and hinder others also but I thinke they doe jeast for if it were true that it were so as they saye some had â—lyed by it long agoe specially after so great taking of it I knew two Gentlemen that after supper tooke soure-score pipes if it had beene narcotick they had never drunken any more The fittest tyme of yeere for taking it is first the Winter next the Harvest last the Spring and no wayes in Summer The moste proper time of the daye is the morning and evening before meate no wayes after it except it bee they to whome of long it hath proved helpfull for the expelling of the winde and digestion of their meate The seasons wherewith it aggrieth best are the colde and moistie these circumstances remarked taken in a reasonable quantitie that is a pipe for two I think it shall doe no harme yea rather freeing the head of the great burthen of â—â—egme it preveneeth the diseases that may flow from the aboundance of it such as apoplexie epilepsie paralysie lethargie and others but mee thinks the Tobacco man barking as a dogge at the Moone at these courious observations and idle restrictions of tobacco for so hee tearmes them and crying that all men at all time when their appetite inordinate biddeth them and their purse serveth them may take of it and it is no wonder hee so doe for it is meate drink and cloathes to him his Shop is the randevouse of spitting where men dialogue with their noses and their communications are smoake in it hee play eth the Ape in counterfaiting the honest Merchant man with his diverse rolles of Tobacco new come vp out of the cellar where they laye well wrapped in a dogges skinne and soussed hee knoweth himself how and yet sweareth that they are new landed from Verinus Virginia or S. Christophers If hee bee not content with this hee shall haue more when I come againe as hee well deserveth for his wares are both deare and evill deare while hee taketh a pennie for a pipe and his welcome Gentlemen and evill for hâ— seedeth his guests neither on rosted noâ— sodden meate but on white or blackeburnt meate without drinke grace table plate truncheour or serviture yea scarce a stoole to sitte on and is not this 〈◊〉 brave Innes my Masters The excrements of the lights are grosse 〈…〉 egmes which are expelled by the mouth â—â—ter the vse of some incisive and deter 〈…〉 e things as are sugar candy glycyrize 〈…〉 sope tussilage and their syrupes preâ—ared There bee some excrements which are 〈◊〉 tearmed when they abound and so â—armes rather by their quantitie then 〈…〉 eir qualitie there are semen and sanguis 〈…〉 enstruus that is mans seed and womans 〈…〉 owres Either of the which being corâ—upted breedeth diuers diseases means â—herefore ought to be vsed by the which â—hey may bee expelled The means for expelling of the seede 〈◊〉 that naturall conjunction of man and woman whereby the members are made â—ore agile the spirit more joyous licet â—ulgo dici soleat omne animal post coitum 〈…〉 iste sed hoc statum à coitu fit shagring and 〈…〉 oller is banished from betuixt man and wife peace is made in the house and fil 〈…〉 ie polluted dreames in the night are 〈…〉 revened but who may not lawfullie en 〈…〉 y these middes let them hold downe nature by the vse of others such as are phlebotomy fasting sobriety and the vse of cooling meates Womans flowers are moved by the decoction of hysope Mugwort Marjoline and other aperitiue herbs prepared in white wine with the vse of stoues and frequent frictions of the thighes Exercise being ended and the body thereafter having reposed about the eleventh houre or sooner in the summer when as the appetite doth require let it bee answered by meate which because it is of greater importance than any of the rest of the circumstances and moe inconveniences doe follow vpon the inordinate or immoderate vse of it plures enim occidit gula quam gladius wee shall insist a little in it first in generall and next in particulare Of meats in generall As good meate engendereth good blood so evill produceth vitious humors which causeth diseases Let vs therefore make choise of the meate of good substance of easie digestion and that hath no abundance of excrements The qualities of meate are knowne by their temperament or by their consistance meates should not bee neither over hotte or colde over drye or moist by nature nor over fatte nor leane but keeping the middes Grosse and viscuous meate causeth obstruction to these that haue narrow passages in the liver milt neares and stoppeth the pores of the whole body by a grosse blood but these who are of a good constitution and hath the passages larger may vse of them boldly without hurte for grosse and viscuous meate nourisheth much if it bee well digested in the stomack it agreeth well with labourers whose naturall heate is stirred vp by their exercise as also these who haue suffered long hunger Light meate and of subtile substance are not meete to leane people and of a hote complexion because being quickly digested they intertaine not the body halfe well but they are sitting for growne and grosse bodyes whose passages through the body being straite are not well aired also for flegmaticks and for these who are of a weake stomack The reparation of the body ought to be according to the dissipation of the same wherefore they who are of hote complexion and worketh much must eate more than cold dispositions and idle bellyes whosoever by over-charging of the stomack giues their naturall heate much to doe which is the instrument of nature for nourishing the bodie they praecipitate themselues willingly in many diseases wherefore every one should rise from the table with appetite All varietie of dishes is noysome to the stomack because that by variety corruption of meate in the stomack is procured while as easie digestable meats are mixed with difficile also men by varietie which giveth contentment to the tast are induced to surfet but this seemeth vnsavorâ— to the tast and vnpleasant to the eare of these spycie jacks who haue no vse all the day over for ten fingers but to fill sixe puddings and yet a poore wife will fill sixe score in an houre
in their affections impatient soone angrie and soone pleased ingenious in invention but proude bold impudent vanters scorners crastie vindictiues quarrelous rash and vndescreete vnfit to beare charge eithe in state or warre as vnable to indure heate hunger travell watching and other incommodities of warre their sleepe is short and troubled They should keepe themselues out of the sunne in an aire cold and humide vsing cold refreshing meates as by the forenamed herbs fruites cold or sodden barly prunes melons cucumbers and to sause their meat either boyld or rosted with â—he juce of grenads oranges and cytrons â—r verjus they ought to eate much and â—ften to vse little wine moderate exerâ—ise eshewing the excesse of Venus anger â—r wrath and all deepe meditation Of Melancholicks The predominant humours in the body giveth still the name to the complexion â—o they in whom through their cold and dry temperature melancholie aboundeth are called melancholicks such are of a body cold dry rude without haire having straite veines and arteres the colour is browne or blackish the countenance sad or trist Among all the complexions that are intemperate there is none to be preferred to the melancholick provyding it conteine it selfe within the tearmes of health for of all men the melancholicks are fittest to carrie charge the sanguineans are given to their pleasure The bilious having their head full of quick silver they lack judgement and deliberation The pituitous are so lumpish that they care for nothing but to haue their back at the fire and the bellie at the table so melancholicks are of all most fit First because they doe their bussinesse with due deliberation Secondly because they are quyet and not babblers or talkatiues doing their affaires without dinne 3. because solitarie and retired so that their spirits not being distracted they may thinke on their affaires the better taking greater pleasure in the profound meditation of serious businesse than in idle toyes 4. Because they seeme sad in companie not taking pleasure in gaming laughing fooling or in idle spending of the time and yet they liue verie contented when they are where they may recreat their spirits not having any thing affords them greater contentment than to moderate their meditations and to be imployed in serious matters it is agreable to all men in authoritie to haue a graue countenance and somewhat severe 5. Because they are fearefull when they see any danger not willing rashlie either to hazard their lyfe honour or estate so they interprise nothing lightly 6. Because constant in their opinions words and deads for having past any thing thorow the alembick of reason they cannot bee brangled 7. Because slow to wrath as also to be appeased except it be those who hath beene first bilious and now are melancholicks they will haue some shorte fittes smelling of their former disposition 8. Because they are commonlie good husbands and doth not spend their goods idlely 9. Because they are couragious respecting their honour aboue all things They should flee the aire that is grosse and thick choising the subtile and cleare shunning also meates that are viscuous windie grosse melancholick and of hard digestion choosing the flesh of Veilles muttons kiddes capons partridges and of young beastes rejecting the old vsing boylled meate often with burrage buglosse endiue cichorie but no cabbage beattes neippes oynions sybouse and no bitter or sharpe byting herbs as also no beanes and pease their drink should bee white wine or cleare fyne beare moderat exercise and pleasant games long watching is noysome sound sleeping wholesome their belly still should bee keeped open Of Flegmaticks Flegmaticks are of colour white or grayish their face bowden or swelled in some kynd the body growne soft cold to the touch without haire the veines and arteres straite the haire white the spirit lumpish and stupide so they are slowe sweere heavy cowards sluggish sleepie subject to destillations vomiting or spiting of flegme colick hydropsie and other sicknesse proceeding from flegme They must make choyse of hote dry things which may correct their intemperate complexion as the aire hote and dry such lyke meats of the same qualities their bread of good flower well hardned mixed with a little salt and annise their flesh rather rost than boyld being of easie digestion and few excrements as capons pigeons partridgs young conies and kiddes and birdes of the field fleeing these of the river as also swyne flesh lambe flesh and Veilles with all boyld meate all fish all sort of milk Herbs hote as sauge menth marjoline hysope thym rosmarie and the like are to bee vsed but cold as lattuces and pourpie to bee refused they should combe well their head in the morning rubbing it with their necke striving to purge the head of a 〈…〉 the excrements too long sleepe is naughâ— for them and alwayes while they sleepe looke they keepe the head and feet warme The change of dyet according to the age It is a thing most sure that although man should doe all that is required for the keeping of his temperament naturall yet hee cannot stay alwayes in one estate without alteration hee is first by nature hote and humide yet with tyme the heate and naturall moyst is so diminished that in end hee becommeth cold and dry so that by processe of tyme the body of it selfe doth change The Physitians looking to the most sensible changes hath divided the lyfe of man in fiue parts infancie bairnly age youth middle age and olde age The infancie is hote and humide of complexion but the humiditie surpasseth the heate and keepeth it so in subjection that it can not kyth it continueth from the birth to the fourteenth yeere Bairnely age or adolescencie is also hote and humide but the heate in it beginneth to appeare so the voice in male children becommeth austere and grosser all the passages of the body are inlarged in women the pappes hardneth and groweth greater and they begin to haue their naturall flowrs It is from 14 to 25 which is the terme and end of grouth Youth is hote and dry full of fire agilitie and force it is the flower of the age and is from 25 to 35 in it cholere or bile doth reigne as in the former blood Midde age followeth which keeping the middes betweene the extremities is the most temperate of all in it the force beginneth to declyne but it is recompensed by the gifts of the mynde which are in greater measure than before as discretion wisedome and judgement lasting from 35 to 49 And old age beginning there containeth all the rest of the life vntill the end It is the most cold and dry tyme of the life by reason of the destruction of the naturall moist by the inbred heate abounding neverthelesse in humide pituitous excrements hence their eyes are still watring their nose dripping and their mouth being full of water they are still spitting The division of ages must not alwayes bee taken from the tyme for some sooner
Chickins are more delicate than they The Brissell-fowles are heavy and hard to digest wherefore in France they are both larded and spyced The Gouse aboundeth in superfluous excrements is of harder digestion than other sowles except the wings The Duckes and all other water â—oules is humide viscuous flegmatick excrementitious and of adure digestion wherefore they are not so wholesome as these of the land Amongst the birds of the field the Partridge beares the bell being of easie digestion and causing good blood and the younger are better than the elder Next the Partridge is the phesane almost of the same qualities that it is the Quallies are not lesse praised except in the countries where there is abundance of hellebore whereon they commonly feade they are best in harvest The Doues are hote of nature they set the blood on fire and readily of Venus games moues a desire vnfitte for these who readily doe fall into a fever The Pigeons are better than the doues the doues are best in the spring for they eate much corne The Coushins flesh is hard to digest yet it is not evill in the winter if it bee suffered to hang a while so that it may become tender The Turd or Cuzell is delicious ingendring good blood but some thing hard to digest Martiall extolleth it highly in these wordes Inter aeves Turdus si quis me judice certet Inter quadrupedes gloria prima lepus Pluvers mearls turturelles are not to bee rejected for the former laudable qualities which are to bee found in them Of Egges and Milke The egges of hennes and phasanes excels the egges of other beasts gouse egges are worst of all except swynes egges New laide are better than old and sodden than fryed and rosted than sodden and potched than rosted the soft than the hard Milke hath three diverse substances a serious or watrie whereof is the whey a thicke and grosse whereof is the cheese and a fatte and creamie whereof is the butter but of our Edinburgh milke where the two parte is water and the third part milke there would bee little cheese and no butter Milke if the stomack bee cleane the body whole and no other meate mixed with it nourisheth much otherwayes it corrupteth easily and quickly Yew milke hath more of the grosse thicke substance whereof the cheese is made then of the other and by this means it is nourishing but heavie to the stomack Asses milke is of contrare consistance kyne milke is thicker and fatter then yew milke and so fitter to make butter it is nourishing and makes an open bellie Goate milke is neither too thicke nor too thinne neither over fatte nor over leane and so it keepeth the middle betuixt extremities neverthelesse it should not bee vsed either without suggar or hony water or salt least it lapper in the stomack Womens milke is fittest for bairnes or hectickes because of the resemblance of nature New milked milke is best because milk changeth quickly Sodden milke nourisheth more than raw but it is binding because thicker Milke of fatte and lustie beasts is better than of leane and hungred Fresh butter is a little hote with time it becommeth hotter it is not verie nourishing but it softeneth and louseth the bellie it is good for the lights and breast Cheese is not to bee much vsed for it ingendereth grosse humors breedeth obstructions binds the bellie and is hard to digest the new is better then the old the soft then the hard and that which is made of vnrained milke is better than of rained Over viscous cheese as also over brittle is not good mediocritie is best cheese without any evill or strong taste is better than other Newe softe and sweete cheese is of a colde and humide temper but the old hard salt cheese is hote and dry too great vse of it ingenders the stone in the neares This curious sifting of the nature of cheese and improbation of the great vse of it will seeme first ridiculous and then odious to the mourish men of Kyle and Galloway the quintessence of whose meat that is milke is cheese the which the goodman hath keeped for his owne mouth as a desert being neverthelesse at breakfast supper and dinner the first last and only dish and for the Lairds or the wyse blacke men the Ministers when they come abrode the bairnes contented with froth crap-whey or lapperd milke I thinke that if the bodies of these bodies were chymicallie dissolved the princips to wit sal sulphur and mercurius should savour of cheese milke and yet they are as daft as if they were made of Wine and Wastels which they often speake of as the rarest dainties they either saw or hard of Of Fish Fish are of complexion cold and humide for being still in the water they must needs keepe the nature of the water the â—ouritute they giue is more light slubâ—rie and sooner dissipate than the reparation which is made by the vse of the beasts of the land The fish that are of a solide and firme substance are most nourishing and wholesome because lesse flegmatick for this cause sea-fish because fiâ—mer are better than fresh-water-fish amongst the fishes of the sea these that vseth about rockes are best Amongst the fresh water fishes these that haunt the rivers are better than these that haunt the stancks or loches and fish of a running river and craggie with clearâ— water is to bee preferred to them that are taken in a dead running poole or in a troubled muddie water Fish as milk would bee eaten when the stomack is cleane of filthie humours and they would not bee mixed with other meate least they corrupt as quickly they will The drowners of meale with malt to whom the bone of a herring or a threed of salt beefe will serue to bee kitchin to a quarte of ale sayes that fish should swimme I answere in water but if thou take more of aile beere or wyne or any other strong drink then serues to wash it downe it will come aboue the broth and so not boile well I will not insist in the particulare enumeration least it should reduce the Lector to a tedious calculation the generalls may suffice if they be well remarked It may be thought a praeposterous order this to put the flesh before the kaill but heere I keepe ordinem dignitatis non methodum sanitatis Of herbs fit for eating Herbes in regarde of other meate are of little nurishment yet they serue some for cooling others for heating being prepared in broth sallads sauce or other wayes Amongst the herbs that are commonly vsed the lactuce is the first beeing of more wholesome sappe than all the rest it cooleth the body procureth sleepe and hindereth dreames The garden Cicorie is of the same qualities but it is not so pleasant to the tast nor of such good sappe The Souroke is good for eating because of the sowrnesse it quencheth thirst procureth appetite and mitigateth the heate of the stomack and
by that extraordinarie appetite whereby men are carryed yea rather forced to eate more meate in that season than in the Summer this appetite proceedeth from the greater heate of the stomack then than at any other tyme. The other meane whereby the body is replenished is the envyroning cold whereby dissipation of these three substances to wit the airy humide and solide is hindered as also the excretion of the vapours by the small holes or pores of the body It is therefore needâ—ull to helpe nature and light her of this burhen by drawing of blood or phlebotomy and purging And because the reward of Physitians in this countrey being frequently My Lord GOD reward you hath made Physitians to bee scarse and no wonder for how shall his L. liue vpon this rent is it not to content my Lord with the poore folks almes who get often GOD helpe you they differ in forme but not in matter this scarsitie constraineth the Gentlemen to commit themselues to bee handled by ignorants who least they should deale with them as that Chirurgeon of Iedburgh dealt with his patients who forced all them of whom hee drew blood their wound vnder-cotting to returne to haue it healed and being asked the reason of this of his little boy hee answered that for making of the wound by opening of the veine hee gote a Weather but for curing of the same a Kow that every one may vnderstand for his owne well I will insist a little on phlebotomie and purging Of Phlebotomie PHLEBOTOMIE then is an evacuaâ—ion of the vitious humors abounding in the body mixed with the blood by the opening of a veine This is either vrged by the present disease which admittes no delay or it is voluntare for the preveening of the imminent when the present danger doeth presse it maye bee at any time of the yeere or any houre in the daye or night without exception and that in diverse places of the bodye as the nature of the disease shall require when it is by election or voluntarie for preveennig of future diseases the most fitte tyme of the yeere is the Spring in the latter end of March or the beginning of Aprile and the most proper houre in the daye is the morning an houre or more after you are awake hauing made a cleane Ship fore and est as the Sea-men saye the most accommodate place is the veine basilike or lever veine the Chirurgian hauing rubbed it with his hand or a drye cloth before for the gathering of the bloode thither then having tyed it let him make the incision beneath the place where it meeteth with the veine Cephalicke about two fingers breadth hauing marked the place before and anoynted it with a litle oyle holding the veine fast lest it should slyde with the thumbe of the left hand if the incision bee made with the right hand and leaning the hand wherewith hee openeth the veine on the arme of the patient that it may bee stable and giuing him who is bled a battoun in his hand for to stirre his fingers to that effect the bloode may issue the better and hauing drawne such a measure as the nature force and age of the person may well suffer slacking the band let him laye vpon the wound a little peece of linnen cloath dipped in water and tyed softly by a band of linnen till all danger of new bleeding bee past keeping still the arme all that daye free from all motion Blood may bee taken in greater measure of sanguineans and bilious than of melancholious and phlegmaticks of young men than of old and of men than women Except it bee of such who by often sacrificing to Bacchus their head takes now and then a giddie startling their tongue a tedious tratling their taile a vile wauering These monsters of nature shame of their sex crosse of their husband and disgrace of kin friend and allyance should bee bledde in both the leggs and armes and in the croppe of the tongue by a crosse sneck to that end it may bee made slower for talking and stiffer for drinking least continuing in this wicked mood they make their husbands Cuckolds their bairnes bastards and beggars themselves whoores and theeues Iustly many are molested with such beasts who glames at the turde for the twelfe pence sticken in it the corruption of our tyme being such that Tome the tinklers sonne metamorphosed in a Gentlman sutes mistresse Marie my Lords daughter and Sir Iohn my Lords second speares out for Sandie the Souters fourtie thousand mark Iennie This Tom aiming at vanitïe rather than vertue comes to honours or hornes by his wife and Sir Iohn looking to geare more than to grace is often perplexed while the trash is wasted by a Masie Fae or a Maly Dae I wonder that their vnequall conjunctions doe not fill the countrie with monsters lyke Muiets which is begotten betuixt a Mare and an Asse Of Loch-leachs Some vse Loch-leaches when they cannot haue the vse of drawing of blood These little beastes are not to be applyed presently after they come out of the water but they must bee keept foure and twentie houres in a vessell full of faire water that they may spue out this while the filthie mudde drosse is within them They should bee gripped with a whyte â—innen cloath for the bare hand cankers them The place to the which they are to bee applyed should be smeered over with blood to that end they may enter the sooner and when yee would haue them to fall sprinkle a little Aloes or salt on them if yee would them to draw more then they are able to containe cut off their taile while they are yet hanging and if the bleeding ' stanch not after they are fallen apply with a band of cloath or wooll brunt and beatten to pouder There bee other Loch-leaches or blood-suckers not spoken of here such bee gold greedie inventors of new impositions faith lesse victuall forestallers and treacherous quarrells and processe hatchers who bereauing by these meanes his innocent brother of his goods the entertainers of his life may bee tearmed rather man slayars than blood suckers These vnlyke to the former does sucke the best blood but like the former in others for they never of them selues fall from that sucking till they bee not able to containe any more if ye sprinkle them with the sharpe pouder of Aloes that is with justice then they fall and if you continue to persue them by the same you shall find them as the former by salt so they by it are forced to spue out the vndigested blood of the poore and cut mee the taile from them that is make them quyte of wyfe and barnes in whose person they feare the curse of the great judge These grinders of the face of the poore shall never make an end of sucking These as vnworthie to bee thought or spoken of by any good Christian I leaue to bee handled yea justly to bee hanged by the Iustice heire and if
one falling in the Summer the other in â—he Harvest and two solstice one in Summer and an other in Winter equinox is an equalitie in length of the night and day which befals to all the world alyke when the Sunne is vnder the equinoctiall lyne the first is in March the other in September Solstice is when the Sunne comming to such a point standeth and cannot goe forward but from thence turneth his course backward the first in lune the other in December This change in the air causeth a change in our bodies from the which according to the diverse season divers humours doe abound requyring the changing of the dyet for this cause wee shall insist in everie one in particulare and first Of the Spring The Spring beginnes at the equinox when the sunne first enters into Aries and ends at the solstice of the summer when hee enters in Cancer containing a parte of March and Iune and all Apryle and May from the equinox in the spring till the solstice in summer the day still groweth longer the night shorter for in March the night hath twelue houres the day as many but from thence till the end the day groweth longer but the night shorter The first signe of the spring is called Aries that is Ramme because hee punsheth as it were with his hornes the borders of the new yeere the sunne then in the middes of March beginning to recover his force display liuely his beames Taurus is so termed because the tyme maketh for the coupling of the bulles or oxen for labouring the ground being fred from the rigour of the winter and moistned with the drops of pleasant raine Gemini hath the name from the duplication yea rather multiplication of the grouth of the grouÌ„d Pleiades or 7 stars are at the back of Taurus and Hyades so called because rainie at his head The Poets feinzie that they were the Nymphes of Bacchus they cutte short often the hope of the labourer for when they rise the Sunne being opposite to them and the Moone recountering also if none of the other Plaâ—ets doe not interveene in hote signes here followeth many heavie raines which â—poileth the cornes and fruites of the ground 〈◊〉 from tyme to tyme some dangerous â—ayes at the end of the spring which are â—urtfull to the good of the earth hath â—eene remarked The spring is of temper â—ote and moist yea these qualities are so â—empered in it that it appeareth no wayes â—xcessiue neither in the one nor other Amongst the signes of the spring Aries is more moist and humide than hote yet â—emperately but in Gemini the heate goâ—th beyond the humiditie The spring keepeth a midde temper bewixt the great heat of the summer and â—he extreame cold of the Winter two exâ—remities wherefore it is more wholsome â—nd lesse dangerous than the rest of the â—easons although sicknesse bee frequent in 〈◊〉 yet that proceeds from the multitude â—f humours which the winter hath gatherâ—d in the body and now are melted by the heate of the season nature stryving to exâ—ell them such are melancholie epilepsie the quinance but they proceede from melanâ—holicke humours which the Harvest before had gathered in the body such are distillations cough and other cold diseases flowing from the aboundance of phlegme gathered by the Winter The proper diseases of the spring are scabbes puâ—â—uls tumours and goute but these are all without danger and cause health to the bodie being clensed from all vitious humours by such meanes so the spring is the most wholsome of all the seasons for if it get a body with good humours it keepeth it so in health Yet if it doth surpasse the limites of the owne temperature it is no lesse fertile of sicknesse than the other seasons so Hipp. sayeth if the winter bee dry and cold and the spring hote and humide the summer is accompanied of necessitie with many fevers ophthalmies and dysenteries And if the winter bee gentle warme and rainie and the spring dry and cold women with children who should be brought to bed in the spring doe with light occasion parte with child and if they bring foorth without danger their birth commonly is weake and subject to sicknesse for the bodies by the clemencie of the aire made soft moist and open receaues easily within the cold of the circumsisting aire so that the children â—ong accustomed with the heate bestrickken powerfully by the coldnesse of the â—ire dyeth in the belly of the mother or â—fter the birth not dying liveth vnarmed by nature against all danger For preveening sicknesse It is good to purge in this â—yme and to draw blood This season requireth a dyet conforme to it selfe in temper so if cold in the beginning it should haue the dyet of the winter and if very hote at the end the dyet of the summer â—he meates agreable for this season are Veilles and Kiddes fish haunting about â—ockes soft rosted egges foules are not good â—hen because they are about their procreâ—tion boylled meate is better than rosted more drink lesse meate than in winter Of Summer Although the sunne bee the father of â—ll the rest of the foure seasons yet hee carrieth greatest respect to the summer of any it receaueth greater force from his beames and is made more like his father than the spring his elder brother or the rest that are younger It is he that makes the loue of the spring and of Dame Flora to bee faecund and fertile in receiving the sweete droppes sprinkled by the spring in the bosome of the earth Ceres doth present him with Cornes Bacchus with wines and Pomon with fruits Summer beginning at the solstice when the sunne enters in Cancer the 11 of Iune and endeth at the equinox of the Harvest the sunne being in Libra the 13 of September from his solstice in summer till the equinox in Harvest the dayes shortneth still and the night groweth longer and then they are of equall length Among the signes Cancer is more hote than dry Leo extreame hote and dry in Virgo the drouth surpasseth the heat Cancer taketh the name from the back going of the sunne being at the hight as a partane doth and Leo is so called because the sunne is red and burning then as a Lyon Virgo by reason of the earths infertilitie in that season the earth being dryed by the heate of the sunne The sunne entering in Leo the little dogge beginneth to kyth and so soone as hee enters in the first degree the great dogge is perceived which hath eighteene starres the little dogge is called by the Greeks Syrios because of his great heate and drouth the little dogge appeareth a day before the great the first the 16 the latter the 17 of Iulie while the dogge doth make his course the space of six weeks in the caniculare dayes hee augmenteth the heate of the sunne by his presence ingendring many diseases from extreame heate for the moderating of this heate the LORD hath appointed