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Panala medica vel sanitatis et longævitatis alumna catholica: = The fruitfull and frugall nourse of sound health and long life. Per Guil: Folkingham Gen: Math. & Med. studiosum.
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Folkingham, W. (William)
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3 PANALA MEDICA VEL SANITATIS ET LONGAEVITATIS Alumna Catholica The fruitfull and frugall Nourse of sound Health and long Life Per Guil Folkingham Gen Math. Med. studiosum Principiis obsta seró Medicina paratur Cum Mala per longas invaluere Moras LONDON Printed by Miles Flesher 1628. To much enobled Wingfeild my Magnifique Moecena's and The Worthies who designe Stanfordian Celebrates of Meets munifique Accommodates to animate th'Ensigne Of Englands Patron great for royall Standard To th'Rendezvous of their endear'd Reguaâ—d CAn it bee conceiued Honorable and gentile Spirits of ingenuous magnificence that the yet continued Fame that the first Brittish Bowers for the Muses were built vpon the bancks of Welland sprung meerely from the bold Fiction of a Phanatique idle Braine Must it be admitted that the bright Pillar of such a flame could with so long-lasting durance towre-vp from an empty Furnace that neuer was fraught with the foizon nor euer felt the feruor of substantiall fewell Shall meere coniecture make slight the authoritie of yet extant Records Chronique writ and Aulique foundation contesting that Apollos Daughters honoured Stanfordian Cells with theit Mayden-immurage and first residence in this Isle long before the Northerne Academiques falne by discision from the Southerne and flitting from the Occidentall to the Orientall Foord seconded their setling here in their endeared Reflex to the former Howsoeuer whether the first foundation were dissolued through Malingene or no Townes Honours and Times we see haue their Tides Turnes and Periods the Muses by Regal writ commanded to be banned and remanded to their forsaken Foord this their deare Delight thus depriued of their Cordiall Musicke and after demolisht by Mauors maugre Castle and begirting Wall could neuer yet lift-vp her obrute head from vnder the heauy rubbish of ruinate depressure threatning her with obscuring pouerty to interre Ancient Renowne in eternall obliuion Such yet is the accommodation of the place both for action and contemplation as may well induce present times and posterity to approue of the attests of Antiquity touching the affections of the Camaenae caught with the amenitie of the site of this Towne within whose confines Six Couents of Monastiques for the singular salubrity of the Soile Water and Aire chose their Cels of commorance Yea Nature her selfe hauing moulded this Plat-forme for ends of more eminence than yet are seene to succeed her ordinance breathes forth incessant close murmurings against the iniurious neglect of inconsiderate or slow-footed Fate that this Center to so sweet a Country stellified with so many magnifique Edifices and Towrie Structures so accommodate for Nauigation of Import and Export and affluence of concourse should not be honoured with the right of a Portable Riuer for Mart and of an Act for Shire-Towne to competent extents and to incompasse Rotell For matter of Exercise and pleasurable Recreations and of Chase and VVing in such sweet mixt Earths interlaced with Brookes and fordible Riuers Heath Forrest Light Tilths large Champaine variegated with coole shades of some scattered Woods and gentle-rising Hils of Easie Climbe to Plaines of no redious dimensions leading ouer delightfull Downs shallow Dales Valleys of extended discents secure from break-neck precipitatioÌ„ it affords such variety of venerable venarie date veniam verbis to aggrate and satiate the eager quest of the most ranging appetite that Horse Hound and Hawke hardly find any place to parallel this Plot in the diuerse particulars of Race Game and poursuit viz Hare Deere Fox Otter Partridge Phesant Mallard Heren and his Prey The noble consideration and iust prizing of the premisses hath inuited and stirred-vp the magnifique thoughts of many Honourable Personages to endeare this Place and by sundry wayes and means to endeuour its readuance to Repute suiting in some reasonable sort with its true deseruing worth Amongst which laudable purposes I must euer magnifie your munifique noble Aymes of making Stanford the Rendezuous to the frequent confluence of good company with your gracious reflect vpon my great Disbursments ouer and aboue the Magnificent Bounty of euer-honored Exeter to gratifie all friends with contentfull intertaine and vpon iniurious exposure to vniust sufferings in my wel-willing to the weale of Towne and Country by deepe wading in the Nauigation of Welland which is long since through credulity of some superintendents permitting vnseasoned and improuident Agents without controll to abuse Noble Intentions and burie bounteous contributes in ill-pondred pursuit of fond addle Plots cast into a profound Sleepe A Sleepe wherein deepe wronged Welland is like to wallow and lye forlorne howsoeuer bewailed till some ingenuous Mercuriall Hand with the quickning Spirit of a Golden Elixir more potent than the Care-charming Caduceus discusse her soporiferous Spirits rouze and raise-vp her torpid head and right her rude dissheueld Locks which shut forth the Sunne beames of Beautie Life and Action from giuing bright splendor to deserued renowne Which good effect of wished Câ—re and Cure hoping propitious Heauens will in due time maturely produce with other helpes of happy consequence I haste to the Medique part of Panala with intension of the Dietetique if by Dignostiques of the Relish of this I conceiue any hope of dispensing that Composition to please the palate of such Worthies my euer honoured Patrons to whose noble magnificence desiring the indulgent fauour to be deuoted a most zealous and obliged Seruitour I rest Your incessant true Obseruant William Folkingham To the Reader NOt much amisse surely is the Assertion which averrs The OptimuÌ„ Bene Valere Secundum formosumesse Tertium Diuitias habere nulla fraude quaesitas for Beauty without Health can neither haue setled continuance of Abode nor any true Beeing nor a World of Wealth any right relish of Pleasure And though the true extent of this comparatiue Tenet in the superlatiue Praise of Health must admit of confinage Quoad summum Bonum not to out-reach the Ring or Limb of the lowest Orbes but designing limitation euermore to bona mundana Health doubtlesse in due esteeme of true worth is a greater blessing than that Courted Beauty or this Cordiall wealth For in reguard that Man being in Dures vnder the heauie Arrest of fettring Sicknes cannot in any due performance tend vnto or attend the end office of his creation for discharge eyther of the duty of his Calling vnto the world or of his Beeing vnto the worlds Creator because the soule though of Coelestiall Of-spring whilest it is seated in this our Earthly Pallace or Prison much the rather necessarily Sympathizes with the body and is so affected with the expense of precious spirits Natures best Treasures and with paines distractions and other sufferings of the same that her Animall Faculties are depraued and miserable hee depriued of the sweet solace and happy comfort of Heauenly Contemplation and other both Diuine offices and humane Obligations this in valuable Iewell of Health becomes a Heauenly Blessing in due Estimate far transcenaing the valuation of all terrene