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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57730	The gentlemans companion, or, A character of true nobility and gentility in the way of essay / by a person of quality ...	Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6.	1672 (1672)	Wing R206; ESTC R21320	94,433	290

the most part follow the temperature thereof But in Relation to the Body receiving it its purity signifies nothing nay perhaps it may be very bad For that 's only to be accounted wholsom and good that 's most proper and convenient for the Constitution and present condition of him or her that is to receive it either to mitigate the Distemper or correct alter or expell the peccant Humour How to choose a Doctor of Physick In which if thou art not able to direct thy self make use before it be too late of some Doctor worthily so called and graduated not a nominal one only or ignorant intruding Practitioner for they will but cheat you of your money and fool away your Health if not your Life Avoid if possible such as are so fawning and to outward appearance plausible to their Patients so as rather then displease them they many times neglect the right administration of a Cure As also on the other side such as tye themselves so strictly up to the Rules of the method of Cure as they suspect not sufficiently the event or wholly neglect the condition and constitution of the Patient one that is in a mean between these is best Let him if possible be near thee or keep him with thee when sick especially in acute Distempers which many times change to quite another thing then perhaps they were but an hour before and so the Medicine Pro re Nata ought to be also changed which at a distance your Physitian can never be able with certainty to advise in any case almost whatsoever As for such as are in Health let them not be too curious in their choice of Air for by their frequent imagining this or that Air best for them and fearing and contemning that they live in they deject and prejudice Nature and frequently opinionate themselves into some ugly Distemper or other which they most feared Nothing better when all 's done than change of Air for a Mans Health and who has more opportunity leisure and ability than a Gentleman I shall therefore proceed to the next DIVISION II. Meat and Drink COuld a Gentleman but rightly behave himself to himself in this particular how famous would he be In how much more Honour Reputation Reverence and Love of all would he live than he usually lives in now through his Riot and Excess in Eating and Drinking They are the Introducers of all Diseases And therefore since for the most part there is nothing in which we more frequently err being chiefly guided rather by our sensual appetites than Reason verifying that old saying Plures crapula quàm gladius And since nothing more alters our Constitutions both in Relation to their Quality and Quantity a Gentleman ought to have the greater care he be well advised by his Physitian how he may safely use the * For that which is generally and in it self wholesome may not be so to thee particularly former and refrain the latter An insatiable paunch is a pernicious sink and the fountain of all Diseases both of Body and Mind It subverts and perverts the good temperature of the Body stifles and hebetates the wits suffocates Nature it being thereby rend'red uncapable of depascing the aliment throughly whence ensue crudities and the seeds of all Diseases and most frequently pains in the Bowels Eructations Loathings Vomitings Opilations of the Liver and Spleen putrid Fevers Stone Gowt Consumptions and all manner of weaknesses Cachexia Plethora Bradiopepsia Cacochymia Wind Decrepidness and indeed what not And sometimes sudden Death arising out of the Repugnancy of gross Humours corrupting For as the Fire is extinguished by too much fewel so is likewise our Natural heat by immoderate eating It must needs then not only be unbecoming a Gentleman to Epicurize but be his Ruine To exceed in Drinking which now adayes though very erroneously is accounted the chief if not the only distinguishing mark of a Gentleman is abundantly worse Subverting the good Temperature of their Bodies by their Intemperance as also immerging their Understandings and Reasons So that if they be witty in any thing 't is ad gulam to please the Palate or cast a bald jeer or jest on him they pretend the greatest Friendship to the which if they second with a loud laugh 't is the best syllogism and piece of Philosophy they have making themselves indeed Beasts while they retain only the shapes of Men. For while in a Drunken humour what evil are they not prone to 'T is the In-let of Quarrels Murthers Rapines Fornication Adultery nay Incest too A destroyer of Health Estate and Soul and all nay what Vice indeed can a Drunkard be free of A simple Dyet is best to preserve Health observing withall such things as are beneficial to thee and such as are hurtfull And there being no measure for any Man's stomack let this be thy gage since 't is impossible to prescribe the just quantity for every person some being contented with less others not satisfied with more and so much as will keep me in health will perhaps destroy thine to rise with an appetite Eat not till thou hast an appetite and then eat not till thou hast none But so much as Nature may Digest amidst the greatest imployments so shalt thou find the Body and Spirits more lightsome But if thou findest thy wits hebitate●… thy Fancy and Reason obfuscated thine Appetite satiated thy Body lassated and ingravated thy Senses nauseated thy Stomack infartiated with acid and flatulent eructations and thy Head with Catarrhs c. 'T is certain thou hast exceeded the bounds of moderation and temperance which is exceedingly unbecoming a Gentleman The same may be said of Drink and worse But because I have more at large exploded it in another place and given Rules for the Regulation of these Enormities I shall here add no more but come to DIVISION III. Sleeping and Waking THese interchangeably once in twenty four hours take their course or turns So that irregularity in either of them is extremely prejudicial Too much sleep hurts the sensitive faculties renders the Body stegnotick Hebitates the Head and infartiates the Brain with many fumes That sleep may be accounted immoderate which is continued beyond the concoction of the aliment for thereby Distribution is impedited Unde pravitas Corporis excrementorum provectus Long and tedious sleeps ingender many emplastick humours apt to septifie in the Veins and Brain especially It also Resolves Refrigerates and stupifies the Nerves dulls the Spirits and Senses causes defluxions and Rheumes and extinguisheth natural heat Likewise if it be unseasonable as after Bleeding a Purge or Vomit before wrought off on an empty stomack immediately after eating or in the Day-time 't is exceeding hurtful to health On the other side inordinate waking is as bad for as the Senses are composed by sleep so by waking they are kept ever imployed and the Spirits being moved from within to the external Organs for performing the Animal Actions are

by immoderate watchings consumed and dissipated the whole body dryed especially the Brain and sometimes thereby corrupted Choler increased the humours adusted natural heat destroyed and the whole Man rendred squalid A Gentleman should therefore in these take great care he exceed not if he tender his health and lay aside that mad sitting up whole Nights For though strength of Nature while Young may not presently be sensible of these Extravagancies yet as age comes on they will be sad remembrancers And since it cannot be very delightful and for the most part done only in a frollick or in some mad humour which I have heard many Repent of next day I shall hasten to DIVISION IV. Rest and Exercise OF any the preceding non-naturals there is hardly one a Gentleman should be more circumspect in than this of Rest and Exercise nothing being more pernitious to the Soul than Idleness 'T is one of the seven deadly Sins odious to God and all good Men eating the Mind and Soul as Rust doth Iron the Devil's Cushion it is and the Nurse of all manner of Vice neither is there any thing more destructive to the Body for it weakens it extinguisheth Natural heat hinders concoction and evacuation causes oppilations and fills the Body full of gross corrupt excrementitious Humours and is the Procatartick cause of all manner of Infirmities For as a standing Pool corrupts and breeds putrifaction so doth our Body and Humours being idle And yet idleness is become the badge as it were or distinguishing mark of Gentility to be one of no Calling not to Labour for that 's derogatory to their Birth they make Vacation their Vocation To be mere Spectators Drones to have no necessary employment in their Generation to spend their dayes in Hawking Hunting Drinking Ranting c. which are the sole exercises almost of many of our Gentry in which they are too immoderate They know not how to spend their time sports excepted what to do else or otherwise how to bestow themselves They do all by Ministers and Servants thinking it beneath them to look after their own business till many times their Servants undo them or at least enrich themselves Every Man hath some Calling and 't is not unbecoming a Gentleman But they are all for pastimes 't is most if not all their study All their wit and inventions tend to this alone to pass away their time in impertinencies as if they were born some of them to no other end Opposite to this is Exercise Labour Diligence which if in excess on the other hand or unseasonably used are as pernitious and destructive A Gentleman though never so great has business enough and labour too if he rightly consider Besides exercises I am sure they will have good or bad whatever comes on 't Therefore I shall shew how they are to be used and which are the best Violent Exercise and weariness consumes the Spirits substantial parts of the Body and such humours as Nature would otherwise have concocted diversly affect both the Body and Mind hindring Digestion sometimes breaks the Vessels and frequently extravasateth the blood causing Inflammations in the external parts and skin environing the Ribbs whence come Pleurisies And the blood thus irritated if it remain still in the Veins excites putrid Fevers and many other Maladies Exercise at unseasonable times as on a full stomack is as bad For it corrupts the Aliment in the stomack and carries the Chyle crude and indigested into the veins which there putrifying destroys the health and confounds the Animal Spirits Likewise before evacuation by stool that the body be cleansed from its Excrements 't is unfitting For when the Body is hot and the pores open their faeculencies are apt to be mixt with and transported to the good humours and other parts Neither is it to be used before concoction be at least almost perfected For the heat being thereby evoked concoction must needs be impedited ill humours accumulated and divers infirmities ingendred A Gentleman is not only to observe the right using of exercise But that he chuse and use only those that are good most of their exercise is to eat drink lye down to sleep and rise up to play they think 't is well many of them if they can but Hawk Hunt Ride an Horse play at Cards and Dice Swagger Drink Drab and take Tobacco with a grace Sing Dance wear their Cloaths in Fashion Court and please the Ladies talk great fustion Insult Scorn Strut contemn and vilifie others perhaps their betters and use a little mimical apish Complement above the ordinary custom they think themselves compleat accomplisht and well qualified Gentlemen These are most of their imployments This their greatest commendation I am not against these Recreations if rightly used however A Gentlemans Recreations are of two sorts either within or without doors to refresh his spirits entertain a Friend exhilarate the mind to aleriate time tedious otherwise in those long solitary Winter Nights by certain games the best of which may be abused and are too often by some that call themselves Gentlemen so that many are undone by it and their Posterity beggar'd being led thereunto merely for filthy Lucre whence also arise cosening wrangling swearing drinking lying loss of time no good in the end and frequently Ruine For when once they have gotten an habit of Gaming they can hardly leave it Exercises within doors Among Recreations and Exercises within doors are Cards Dice Tables which many narrow-witted People too severely explode in themselves they are honest and harmless recreations the abuse of them must not deny the use of them they may as well forbid the use of Wine because some have been inebriated therewith or conclude the use of Women sinful because some have been clapt by them Chess is also a good innocent Game as well as ingenious and best becoming a Gentleman of all the rest if not abused especially such as have wavering minds provided it be moderately used as a diversion to entertain the time a Friend put off heavy melancholy or idle thoughts and the like harmless innocent ends which all were first invented for Not to spend all their Life in gameing playing and fooling away their time as too many do This is very unseemly in a Gentleman Some mens whole delight as well as Recreation is To take Tobacco Drink all Day long and Night too in a Tavern to discourse of impertinencies and that tend to no Edification to Jest Sing and Roar This is a most sordid Life for a Gentleman Billiards and Truke are harmless and may be used as a Diversion now and then Musick especially Vocal as well as Instrumental Dancing Fencing do well become a Gentlemans private Exercises For Health Galen commends Ludum parvae pilae to play at Ball Tennis is more becoming a Gentleman for a Game or two but more may prove too violent it exerciseth every part of the Body and is very good so that he sweat not too much