liver Purpie cooleth much quencheth thirst holdeth downe Venus tempereth the teeth being out of stile by the vse of soure things Kaill ingendereth evill blood troubleth the stomack and the sight and moveth strange dreames Spinards â—ouseth the belly and moisteth the body but they are windie Bourrage and buglosse purifieth the blood and keepeth the belly open their â—â—owrs are good in a sallad for to refresh the spirits and rejoyce the heart Artichocks heateth the blood and provoketh Venus to battell they are good for the stomack and giveth appetite Cresson is of qualitie hote and dry provoketh vrine and is eaten ordinarly raw in sallads Menth fortifieth the stomack and helpeth the appetite Cerefole and Finkle is good for the sight augmenteth the seede and ingendereth milk to Nurses Parsley is agreeable to the stomack and profitable to the neares because it is diuretick Sauge helpeth appetite and digesteth crudities out of the stomack Hysope purgeth the lights from the flegme by the subtilitie of it thyme doth the same Rayfords taken after meate helpeth digestion but before meate they lift vp the meate in the stomack Neeps are windie of little nurishment and engendreth wormes in little bairnes little are better than the great they should bee eaten with pepper Carrets are worse than they Sybouse Onyons Leeks are agreable to pituitous and flegmatick persons but noysome to cholerians and to these who are subject to a sore head But I think wee haue eaten long enengh without a drink let vs now goe to it Of drinke in generall Drink as I think and so thinks the drunkard is no lesse worthie of consideration for the health than meate There bee sundrie sorts of drinke vsed among vs. as wine ale and beere for no man drinketh water with his will Drinke should bee answerable in proportion to our meate for if wee drinke more than serves to syne downe the meat and mixe it there downe the meat will swimme aboue and so shall not digest drink may bee taken more larglie with dry solide meat than with liquid humide They who haue a hote liver and a weake head subject to distillations should abstaine from strong drinke chiefly after their meat but these whose liver is temperate and head strong may take a lick of the best quale Deus creavit after their fruite quia post crudum merum It is not good to drink with a naked stomack for presently it runneth through the body to the nerues whom it debilitateth and maketh the body the more subject to cold diseases as the goute paralyse trembling and such like It is also troublesome to the digestion to drinke betweene mealles for it hindereth the same as water in a pot stayeth the boyling of it because while the concoction is making in the stomack the mouth of it is closed hence is it that men much subject to companionry and so to extraordinary drinking findeth their meate still rowing vp and downe some for their ease are forced to cast it It is not good to drink when bed-time draweth neere for readily it moveth the theume to fall downe except it were of water after too much wine eiat supper or before and that to hinder distillations It followeth to speake in particulare of drink and first of wine as best Of Wine Wine is verie profitable for the vse of man it stirreth vp the naturall heate and fortifyeth it and so procureth the appetite helpeth the digestion ingenders good blood purifies the troubled openeth the passages giues good colour cleanseth the braine sharpeneth the witte makes the spirits subtile and rejoyceth the heart of man as sayeth the Psalmist if so be it be taken moderatly Wine is of fiue fold difference the first is taken from the colour so it is either whyte or red yallow or tannie and black the second from the taste as it is either sweet sowre or of any austere taste the third of the smell being of a sweet heavie or no smell the fourth from the consistance being either subtile or grosse the fifth from the age as it is old or new Of all wine the red and thicke wine is meetest for the ingendring of blood next blackish grosse and sweet wine to them succeeds whyte and thick or grosse wine in substance and austere in taste last of all whyte thin small wine Wine as it is agreeable to phlegmaticks so it is hurtfull to bilious hote natures over old and too new wine should be eshewed the one because too hote the other because no heate at all The second drink is beere which as it nourisheth more so is of a grosser substance and harder digestion than the wine if it bee but new made or troubled it causeth obstructions and swellings it troubleth the head moveth the colick gravell and difficultie of pissing specially if it bee byting if it bee too old and very sharpe it hurts the stomack and nerves and ingenders evill blood wherefore it is best that is well sodden purified and cleare and of a middle age Of Water Although that water bee the most simple sorte of drink and the most common yet because of least worth it is put behinde Galen proues good water by three senses by the sight being cleare and cleane by the mouth that hath no strange taste and so not bitter nor sowre nor salt but almost without taste by the nose that it hath no smell adding thereto that it must be light in the bellie suddainly changed that is soone hote soone cold and that it doth not passe through sulphureous mynes or suchlyke There bee fiue sorts of water to wit of raine fountaine river well and stank Raine water although according to the weight it bee lightest yet it is not the best being made of the vapours which doeth proceed from the earth whereof some be of the rivers others of loches stanks gutters standing waters and of the sea as also of the exhalations of pestilent places and of dead bodies Fountaine water is best of all next river water last Well water the worst of all is stank water river water is the better it stand till it settle fountaine water the better it looke to the East and Well water that the Well bee not too often covered but that it get the aire sometimes Canon 6. After meate abstaine from all vehement motion or exercise all curious disputs or carefull meditations discoursing of some good purpose procuring laughter joy and mirth whereby the spirit may be revived and the digestion helped If the great men of the country knew what good these sort of discourses did for the health of the body and the recreating of the spirit they would with greater avidity drink in in their young and tender yeares letters for the better fashioning of their manners and forming of their minde And also cary a greater respect to Schollers then they doe and not studie only to be well versed in Arcadia for the intertaining of Ladies or in the rowting of the tolbuith for commoning with Lawers
the weight of a scruple â—or the strongest Maechoacham hote in the first dry in â—he second a remeedie fit for all sorte of â—eople his dose infused in white wyne â—s from two scruples to a dragme Ialap roote is to bee taken after the same manner and in the same quantitie The remeedies composed are opiates â—lectuaries pilluls trochisks opiates as caâ—holicum diaphenicum whose dose is from â—alfe an vnce to a whole for the strongest Electuaries are electuarium de citro his dose is from halfe an vnce to six drames Diacarthanium his dose is from halfe an vnce to a whole Pilluls as of Agarice Stomachiae sine quibus their dose is from halfe a dragme to foure scrupuls pilulae cocciae faetidae lucis majores arthriticae de hermodactilis their dose is from two scrupuls to a dragme Trocises are de agarico their dose is from two scrupuls to a dragme trochiscis of alhandall their dose is from sixe graines to a scruple Their bee other sort of purgatiues which men call purse purgations and these are of three sorte as the former gentle mediocre or violent The gentle comprehend the modest and moderate charges of an honest house The mediocre are the just reward of the physitian the due of the scholemaster and the fitting of the conscientious merchand compts The violent conteane the gorgeous depursements to the Goldsmith for lace cuppes and such like the persuing by law some tedious processe by the firie violence of these two the poore purse which â—ften taketh an irremediable fluxe and â—yeth of the skitter His Majestie with â—is most honourable and wise Counsell by an act of parliament evill keeped â—ath found out a remeedie for the former would GOD the wisdome and concord of his subjects would admit an other for â—he latter for then the Nobilitie and Genâ—rie should not bee so lukken-handed to other professions Of Vomitores Because some as bilious constitutions are sooner and better purged by vomiting then purging and seeing it is much vsed consider with mee the remedies of it Vomitores then as the purgatiues are of three sortes to wit gentle mediocre and violent the gentle are such as doe procure it in burdening the stomack by their quantitie as warme water fat broth butter oyle and the like taken to the measure of ten or twelue vnce The mediocre are the seede and flower of Anyse the seede and roote of orage the Latin terme is atriplex the roote of â—azarum given from a dragme to foure and agarick his dose a dragme The vehements are the seâ—de and flower of broome to the quantitie of two dragmes gratiola from a dragme to one and one halfe Some of the Ancients thought it to be expedient for the health to vomite everie moneth and that after a great carrouse but this counsell needeth not to be given to the soukespikkets of our age who asthey drinke like Suiczers yea rather like swine they cast as Dutches yea rather like dogs it were little fault for punishment to pinch so these intemperate and vntymous abusers of GODS creatures vntill they were glad with the dogs to returne to the vomite And this much to you Drunkards It is heere to be remarked that growne fat men should not bee purged by vomiting for by the prease yee will easily breake some veine in their body nor melancholicks for they hardly purge vpward nor asthmaticks or such as hath any impediment in their breath through the infirmitie of their lights for by it they are much more weakned yea sometymes torne nor hectiks for their body being already worne is wholly casten downe nether they who are of a weake â—eade tender eyes of a long neck and 〈◊〉 narrow breast only cholericks being of strong firme constitution not burdened with flesh and much subject to the vomiting of bile yallow greene or sea colored as also phlegmaticks of a rude robust nature whose stomack is full of flegme should be purged vpward by vomite and that with great caution followâ—ng in it the advise of some vnderstanding man for no lesse danger floweth from â—he extraordinarie dose of vomitores â—nd the malegovernement of the patient both after and while it worketh then by purgatiue medicines I haue only heere for breveties cause touched the qualities of the medicaments and their dose living the forme of exhibition and preparation to the giuers that takes vpon them to minister physicke in the country It is to bee remarked that except the bodie bee so full of blood and humors that the physicke cannot pearce through them purging ought to precead phlebotomie howsoever the bellie should alwayes bee emptie and cleane of the excrements The patient should keepe himself warme while the medicine is working helping the operation by a gentle motion as also by a little thinne warme broth after the taking of it about a littlâ— space And because that the not working oâ— medicine doth affraight many it is to bâ— vnderstood that some will not moue thâ— bodie any way and yet doe little or no harme to it such are gentle mediocre medicines the gentle purgatiues when they purge not are turned by nature into the blood the mediocre into the nature oâ— the humour which they purge whitheâ— bile pituite or melancholie but the violent cast the bodie in a fever readilie and become venemous while as nature overcome hath not force to expell them but the other two being overcome by nature are reteined within the bodie so that the stay of them is from a weakenesse in them but the stoppe of the last is from a weaknesse in the bodie Gentlemen therefore seing you know both the names and varieties of the purgatiues spare not to aske at your Leeches what they be ere yee take them Bairnes before they bee eighteen or â—wentie yeare of age and old men after â—ourtie except they be of a strong complexion doth not stand in neede of this yearly purging Canon 2. The bodie being thus made cleane take heade least by overcharging of it yee file it a new for being in some fashion weakned by the former remeadies it doth not shortlie admit that measure of nutriture that it did before it is expedient therefore to come to your accustomed dyet by degrees least a new file require a new clense and too often scowring of the potte although it were of brasse weares it Canon 3. Flee mornings sleepe and lazie lying in winter after six and summer after seven for long lying to the health is hurtsome Because it hindreth the cleansing of the bodie from the excrements and judge you giue it bee either handsome or wholsome to see the midding at the fire-end while it stoppeth the passage of the spirits animale the causes of motion for their expulsion it sharpeneth or by the haemorroides oâ— some other way it procures melancholie hypochondriake sometimes the fever quartan sometimes other diseases for this is good the barke of the roote of Tamarisk and of capres with the foresaid herbs The retention of the
sweate causes the itch scabbe pustuls and such like therefore it is to bee procured by frictions baines and exercise Of exercise Because that frictions and baines are not much vsed leaving them wee shalâ— speake a little of exercise Exercise should be much regarded anâ— moderatlie vsed by those who hath 〈◊〉 care of their health this Galen testifietâ— in his booke of good and evill meate iâ— these words For the keeping of healtâ— a continuall rest is a great hinder as iâ— the contrare moderate motion is a greâ— helpe By exercise the members of thâ— body are hardned and so made fitte tâ— sustaine any labour the naturall heate iâ— quickned and so prompter for his functions and the body is made more agilâ— and nimble in his actions Heere by exercise I vnderstand honest games and pâ—stimes not these debosht lose-tymes cards dyce tables and such like fathers and fosterers of jarres and mischiefe bookes furnishing lyes oathes blasphemie hurtsome to the health of the body troublesome to the good of the estate and hinderance to the rest and peace of the soule I leaue such devyces of Sathan entysing to sinne to bee thought or treated of by ragged ribaulds and lowsie licentious limmers the fittest pen-men of such a processe discharging by the right of a physitian and the charity of a Christian all generous honest spirits who tends the health of their body the wealth of their estate and aeternall wellfare of their soule of such hel-bred conceats The tyme most proper for these honest exercises is the morning when the stomack hath made an end of his digestion and the belly of his expulsion so that both â—ee lightned of their burthen Hence we may see how our dayly custome of exerâ—ising after meate is not good first â—hen by this our motion the digestion is hindred by a catching of our meate to â—nd fro as the Plough-man doth with his â—aill in his coge when hee would haue them faine cooled this catching suffereth it not to settle it selfe in the ground of the stomack the place of digestion secondly because the body by exercise being made hote draweth from the stomack and the lever by the meanes of this heate the meate before it bee well prepared which breeds obstructions in the veines within and scabbes without our scabbed schollers that keepeth no fit tyme nor just terme of their pastimes may suffice to instance this alleagance The terme or end of exercising should bee when the face becommeth red and swelled and the sweate issues foorth through the whole body leaving it before reddnesse turne to palenesse and swelling to swampnesse and sweate to be like weet otherwise in stead to bee refreshed yee shall be wearyed and for dissipating of the humores by the pores of the body yee shall dissolue the spirits by the passages of the same Some exercises imploy some particular members of the body as the Tayler his hands and head the Webster his legges and armes the Tobacco man his mouth and nose the Beggar the nailes of his thumbes and tongue Coupers Trumpeters and Pipers their â—heekes hands and mouth the most firie and wicked scolds their tongue and the â—icentious whoores their taile these I passe â—y not having many particular exercises â—o treate of vsed amongst vs worthie of consideration or speciall delineation and very few vniversall except the foote-ball which often doth more good to the Chiâ—urgians than evill to the Physitians by aâ—y helpe the body getteth the gooffe and â—rcherie from the which exercises they come ofter hungrie than sweating and the â—innice or ketch the best of all if it bee moderately and orderly vsed In all exercises whereby men sweates 〈◊〉 except these that are vnder the sheetes â—hese things are to bee remarked first â—hat in your gaming your mynde be free â—f all feare the gadges being little or none otherwise the minde shall bee in a conâ—inuall vexation and neither body nor mind â—hall receaue any recreation Secondly if 〈◊〉 tyme of game you thirst let your drink â—ee small aile taken in a little quantiâ—ie not water for it by the open passages going streight to the liver will coole â—t too much on the which insueth often hydropsie nor wyne for by it the lyver already heate is set on a fire on the which followeth frequently a fever Thirdly after your exercise haue a care to cause rubbe away the sweate in a warme chamber with dry warme linnings see that the body rubbed bee straight least the wrinkels of the skinne doe hinder the issuing of the sweate see the rubbers bee many and nimble and that they rubbe not over hard for this doth stoppe the passages nor too soft for it goeth not halfe farre in but a mediocritie in all things is good The excrements of the heade in the morning ought to bee purged by sternutatories or sneezngs of betonie leafes or marjoline leaues and by masticatores chawed which because they are litle in vse I will passe over them and speake of that which supplyeth their place which is Tobacco Of Tobacco Tobacco is an hearbe fetcht from the West Indies to vs some calleth it Nicotiana from Master Iohn Nicote that brought it first to France out of Portugall hee beeing Ambassadour for the time there The Portugalles brought it first in Europe out of the Iland Trinada and 〈…〉 om Peru in the continent of America â—ome tearme it petoun or tobacco Tobacco is of a temper hotte and dry â—s appeareth first from the effects thereof â—s to purge cold and moist humours as 〈…〉 egme or pituite hence it is that it doth â—arme to fyrie hotte bilious persons except it bee taken in little quantitie and â—hat for the cleansing of the head from â—hese cold superfluous humours which a â—old stomacke hath sent to it commonly these men haue cold stomacks hot â—ivers and weake heads for these three â—eadily follow one another so the cold stomack filleth the head with colde vaâ—ours and the mouth with cold humors â—s doe appeare by their continuall spitting It hurteth also melancholiens if it bee 〈…〉 ot for the foresaid reasons by drying of â—heir body too much but aggrieth best with the pituous â—â—â—gmatick as dayly experience doth approve Secondly from â—he byting qualitie that is in it by the which it moveth vomite Thirdly from â—he purging facultie downward Fourthly from the penetrative subtile facultie outward as appeareth by the issuing of sweate after the vse of it in some Fifthly from the thirst and drouth it moveth which is taken away by the vse of drink Sixthly from the wind it dryveth forth and that both vpward and downeward Lastly from the giddinesse of the head which proceedeth from a melting of the flegme through the head which beeing melted it stoppeth the passages of the spirits so the stronger the Tobacco bee the sooner it melteth it and more of it and therefore strong Tobacco moveth this giddinesse most and soonest this giddinesse is stopped by a drink of ale or any cooling drinke which
So that they esteeme more of a Page of the one or a pok-bearer of the other then of any Sholer whatsoever except my Lord Bishop or Mr. Parson this frowning of our Greats hath moved many poore soules flee first to Dowy and then to Rome and from thence post to hell having receaued the marke of the beast that is a bull of his holynesse to passe Scot-free at Purgatorie not being able to procure the favourable presence or gratious asistance of any noble for his furtherance in studyes and advancement in degrees in the countrie wherein hee was borne O what a shame it is to see a great Man without Letters Hee is like a faire house without plenishing a goodlie ship without furnishing to persue or defend a Herauldry without honour beeing lesse reall than his title His vertue is that hee was his fathers sonne and all the expectation of him is to get an other No man is kept in ignorarance more both of himselfe and men for hee heareth nothing but flatterie and vnderstandeth nothing but folly thus hee liveth till his Tombe bee made ready and then is a graue statue to posteritie Thus it is expedient to passe two or three houres after dinner for the well both of the bodie and minde that you may know this the better and so belieue it the rather Consider with mee alittle the passions of the minde such as joye sadnesse choler and feare Of the Passions of the minde Although wee bee often deceived in the decerning of good and evill following ofter the applause of the sense than the judgment of reason neverthelesse wee seeke alwayes that which wee thinke be good and fleeth that which we apprehend to bee evill Hence it is that wee are moved by diverse passions vnruled according to the apprehension of good or evill either present or absent the which passions according to the consideration of the object either enlargeth or draweth in the heart in the moving thereof they moue also the spirits and naturall heate so that the colour of the face is suddainly changed From the opinion of present good ariseth joye and of the good to come desire vnto the which choler doth adjoyne the selfe which is a desire of revenge from the apprehension of present evill commeth sadnesse and of the evill future feare Ioy comes of the heart inlarging the selfe sweetly for to imbrace the object that is agreable to it in the which dilatation it sendeth foorth aboundance of the naturall heate with the blood and the spirits a great portion whereof comes to the face when one laugheth by the which the face swels vp in such sort that the brow becomes tight and cleare the eyes bright the cheecks red An other part is sent through the members of the body Cupiditie or desire and choler doeth dilate or inlarge the heart also that through the desire of the thing it loueth this for to seâ—d quickly the spirits with the blood from the centre of the body within to the habite of the same without for the fortifying of the members that they may reveng the wrong wee haue received Sadnesse greife or melancholy in the contrare doth in such sort shoote vp or draw together the heart that it fadeth and faileth This hindreth the great generation of the spirits as also the distribution of these few that are ingendred whereby the vitall facultie is weakened and also the rest of the whole bodie shirps Feare causeth retire on a suddaintie the spirits to the heart from the rest of the bodie hence the face becommeth pale the extremities grow colde with a trembling through all the voyce is stopped the heart leapeth as it were that by reason of the great multitude of the blood and spirits whereby it is almost smothered so that it cannot move freelie Amongst all the passions of the mind â—oy is the most wholesome because it giveth such contentment to the spirit that the body is participant by a simpathy The reasonable passions are called affections but the sensuall are termed perturbations the passions ought to bee moderated for Plato writeth in his dialogue called Carmides that the most dangerous diseases proceede from the perturbation of the spirit because the mynde having an absolute authority over the body doth moue change and alter it in a moment as it pleaseth Wee should then affection the objects in so far as reason will permite for excessible joyes doe so disperse the blood with the spirits through the whole body from the centre to the extremities that the heart is wholly destitute of his naturall heate from whence commeth first a sounding and by and by death of excessible joy the Poete Phillippides the wise Chilon Diagoras of Rhode suddenly dyed And suddaine feare chassing the blood and spirites to the heart their fortresse frequently causeth death by the suffocation of the naturall heate Canon 8. About the sixt houre the stomack requiring returne to meate let your supper consist rather of rost meate than sodden because it nurisheth more in lesse bounds it is lighter and hath fewer excrements it should neither be too sore rosted for then it is saplesse nor yet halfe rosted for the superfluous humiditie is not driven out by the force of the fire Heere I can not passe by a great vncleannesse of Noble mens cooks who after that they haue sweeped the pot with the one end of their aprone and the plat with the other they draw off my Lords meate with the whole dirtie as it is and for to make place to a new speet placeth the same vnder the droppings of the vnrosted meate interlarding their owne grease amongst these droppings and yet the cooke dare not bee reproved for he in his kitchin is like the devill in hell curses is the very dialect of his calling hee is never good Christian vntill a hizzing pot of aile hath slaicked him like water cast on a fire-brand and for that time hee is silent his best facultie is at the dresser where hee seemeth to haue great skill in military discipline while hee placeth in the fore-front meates more strong and hardy and the more cold and cowardly in the reare as quaking tarts and quivering custards and such milk-sope dishes which escape many tymes the fury of encounter and when the second course is gone vp downe hee goeth vnto the celler where hee drinks and sleeps till foure of the clocke in the after-noone and then returneth againe to his regiment Canon 9. After supper it is expedient to walke a little softly for the procuring of the discent of the meate to the ground of the stomack this walke ought to be in pleasant fields free of all vnwholesome vapor which may procure vomite by the virulencie or the filthinesse of the smell and seeing this after supper doth permitte mee to visite the fields and take the air come foorth yee also who loue your health and consider the same with mee Of the Aire Such as the aire is such are our spirits our
humours our blood and our members for by that it furnisheth matter and nouriture to our spirits it passeth so quickly through the body that it printeth presently the qualities wherewith it is indued in the parts of the same and therefore there is nothing able to change more shortly the body than it so that from the constitution of the aire the good or evill disposition of the spirits humors and members almost doe depend we should therefore haue a speciall respect of the same For to vnderstand the goodnesse of the aire wee would not only consider the first qualities of it whereof two are actiue to wit heate and cold and two passiue humiditie and drynesse but also the second qualities taken from the substance as grosse or subtile pure or mistie cleare or dark wee may adde to these the qualities that flow from the state of it as constancie and mutabilitie equalitie and inequalitie A good air then hath no excesse in the qualities that is neither too hote nor cold moist nor dry if it exceede this measure it is better to decline to drouth than to waknesse for drouth is still more wholesome than raine It is also of a mediocre substance betweene grosse and subtile being pure and neate cleare and light constant and equall such an aire reviues the spirits purifieth the blood procureth appetite helpeth the digestion banisheth the excrements foorth of the body in good tyme coloureth the face rejoyceth the heart quickneth the senses sharpneth the wit and fortifieth the members so that all the actions of the body animals vitals and naturals are made better by it A suddaine change in the aire is evill but especially if it changeth from great humiditie and waknesse to great heate or cold for the raine having filled the body with humores the following heate doth putrifie them or the cold hindring their exhalation doth procure their corruption A contaminate aire with filthy exhalations arysing from standing waters dead carcases middings gutters closets and the filth of the streets all which if any where are to bee found heere which argueth a great oversight of the magistrats bringeth a great hurt to the inhabitants and a great good to the Physitians Apothecaries and bel-man corrupteth the spirits and humors and engedereth often a deadly contagion or pest High places as hilles are fittest for the morning-walke because the sun beating on them first doth dry vp the vapours thereof but low wallyes in midowes and about fountaines are most proper for the evening If Gallants the health and well-fare of your body and the care of the felicitie eternall of your soule doth not worke in thee a detest irreconcilable of drinking this tyme which would be spent in wholesome walkes and holy conferences let shame deterre you For what I pray you is a drunken man hee is one that hath let goe himselfe from the hold and stay of reason and lyeth open to the mercie of all tentations no lust but finds him disarmed and fencelesse and with the least assault entereth every man seeth him as Cham saw his father the first of this sinne an vncovered man and though his garment bee on yet hee is vncovered the secreetest partes of his soule lying in the nakedest manner visible all his passions come out all his vanities and these shamefuller humours which discretion clotheth his body becommeth at last like a myrie way where the spirits are clogged and can not passe hee is a blind man with eyes and creeple with legges Tobacco serues to aire him after a washing and is his only breath in a word hee is a man to morrow-morning but is now what yee will make him And should our gallants bee drunke the chiefe burthen of whose braine is the carriage of their body and setting of their face in a good frame which they performe the better because they are not distracted with other meditations whose outside when yee haue seene you haue looked through them yet they are something more than the shape of a man for they haue length bredth and colour their pick-tooth beareth a great part of their discourse so doth their body the vpper parts whereof are as starcht as their linnen they are never serious but with the Tayler when they are in conspiracie for the next device they are furnished with jests as some wanderer with sermons some three for all congregations one especially against the Scholler whom these ignorant ruffians know by no other definition but sillie fellow in black they haue stayed in the world as cyphers to fill vp the number and when they are gone there lacketh none and there is an end Canon 10. When the stomack is lightned of the burden of meate about three or foure houres after supper goe to rest and sleepe and because a great part of our life is spended in sleeping and lying wee shall make a little digression for its cause Of Sleepe Sleepe giveth rest to the facultie animall and vigour to the naturall for when the spirits animales are dissipate by labour then sleepe seaseth on vs through the meanes of the naturall heate which in the digestion of the meate sends vp vapours to the head the which being condensed and turned in a grosser substance by the coldnesse of the braine doth stoppe incontinent the passages of the spirits whereby the body is moved Sleepe ought to be quyet profound and of moderate length for sleepe troubled with dreames or so light that little sturre doth awake or hinder it is not good long sleepe is worst of all for it hindereth the evacuation of the excrements gathereth abundance of superfluities maketh the head and the whole body heavie and drowsie the spirits dull senses stupide and the members lazie Sleepe should bee continued while the digestion bee absolved which in some is sooner in others latter neverthelesse it is commonly ended in six seven or eight houres when the digestion is perfite then the belly doth the duetie the water is golden coloured the stomack is not bended with wind nor troubled with evill smelling rifts the body is nimble and quicke Choleriks should sleepe more than phlegmaticks that their body by sleepe may be made moist bairnes and old men theu young men or of middle age the one to hinder thee to fast dissipation of their fluxile and humide body through the open pores the other for the helping of his digestion after great varietie and much meate sleepe should be longer than at other tymes as also after heavie labour and long travell In your lying the head shoulders and the vpper part of the body should bee higher than the rest that the meate regorge not to the mouth of the stomack It is not good to ly on the back for by that posture the neires are made too apte to the making of gravell or stones the veine caue and the great arterie which doe leane on the loines made warme sends vp many vapors to the head and the excrements of the head that should bee evacuate by the
nose and the mouth falleth downe the back it will doe no harmâ— to ly sometimes on the bellie for helping the digestion if the eyes bee not sorâ— or weake The first sleepe should be on the right side that your meate may goe downe to the ground of the stomack that the liver lying as it were vnder it may serue for a chouffer to it to helpe the concoction then turne to the left sidâ— that the vapors gathered in the stomack may exhale and in end returne to the right side that the digestion being made the chile may bee the more easilie send to the liver and so distribute through the whole bodie The members the time of sleepe should not bee straight but some thing drawne in for the rest of all the muscules consists in a moderate contraction It is not good to sleepe with an emptie stomack or after any heavie or sore worke for the bodie is thereby dryed and becommeth leane And because procreation is a thing most necessarie for the preserving of mankynde I cannot passe by heere but I must speake of it seing things remarkable in it Of Generation Nature carefull of the owne conservation so it perish not hath given vnto everie creature for this end a certaine desire of eternitie the which not being able to bee attained to in the person of singulare things it doth obtaine it by propagation Therefore the elements are preserved by the mutuall change of one in an other the mettalles by addition or opposition the living creatures by generation The generation of living creatures is by the seede of both male and female vnited in the matrix of the female fostered and made fertile in some kynd by the good disposition of the same so that for procreation there is required the seede of both at one tyme ejaculat or soone after A matrix of a moderate temper neither too hote nor too cold too moist nor too dry As also a convenient tyme of copulation the which is after the three concoctions are ended and this tyme is about the latter end of the second sleepe so that thereafter the body be refreshed by a little slumber and that for the reparation of the spirits dissipate The immoderate vse of this naturall exercise doth weaken the body and hinder all generation and the inordinate doth procreate weake and vnable birth by reason of the seede which is not eneugh fined or elaborate this appeareth clearely in the remarke of Burges and Countrey-mens bairnes the one to wit the burges being begotten in the fore-night while the father his spirits was lifted vp and moved to such worke by the vse of strong wine spyceries and other hote meate being weakly The other to wit the Countrey-mans child being of a strong constitution while as the father wearyed by his dayly labour doth delay his dallying till the morning â—t vbi aliquamdiu indulsit Veneri vxor ne ingrata videretur ait Deus benedicat relliquijs Now as the CREATOR did finish his worke after mans creation so heere I at mans generation beseeching thee my Lord and my GOD who made all things perfect in the beginning and man the most perfect of all casting all vnder his feete to teach him his perfection by creation and his dignitie by high vocation that hee may cary himselfe conforme to the one perfitly shunning all base deboshing of that divine impression of the Majestie supreme And for the other thankefully in serving thee his Lord with all whereof thou made him Lord and honouring thee in the ordinate taking and moderate vsing of all these thy creatures AMEN A PARTICVLARE REGIMENT ACCORDING TO THE COMPLEXION AGE AND REASON NOT having thought it sufficient for the preserving of health to haue spoken in generall least any thing should seeme deficient I haue particularized some generals diversified according to the varietie of the temperature age and season and first of the temperature Of temperature or complexion in generall Complexion is a proportion of the first foure elementarie qualities made fit for the naturall functions the which is either temperate or intemperate A temperature temperate is a harmonie of the foure first elementarie qualities justly mixed for the perfect acting of all the functions of the body An intemperate is where there is alway some qualitie or other surpassing the rest of the which there bee eight sortes foure simple where onlie one qualitie exceeds the rest as heate or cold and foure composed where there bee two qualities excessiues as heate and drynesse cold and waknesse together These are either naturail as when they hinder not manifestly the actions of the bodie or vitious when as they exceed so that they hinder the same A temperate complexion should bee keeped by the lyke and the intemperate corrected by the contrare as the hote by cold the dry by moist Of sanguineans From the varietie of the complexions floweth the varietie of humours for the temperament makes humours lyke to the selfe so if it bee verie temperate it produceth perfect temperate blood and so it subjects all the rest of the humours to the same if the complexion be hote and humide it filleth the body with blood too hote and humide so being hote and dry it bredeth bile cold and wake phlegme and when it is cold and dry melancholie A temperate sanguinean bodie is of a â—ediocre grosnesse moderate in heate and â—umiditie neither too hard nor yet too soft â—f good colour mixed of red and white â—he haire some-what yallow and curling â—ll the members proportionable the spiâ—it is gentle judgement good manners â—weete disposition merry carriage modest â—ill free and liberall so that they are braue â—n person discreete wise peaceable honest â—overs of knowledge courteous gratious â—ffectioners of dames mirth pastime and good cheere and because they keepe as 〈◊〉 were the middes betweene the exâ—reames they are not readily sicke Sanguineans then of a temperate complexion should flee all excesse in any thing and every thing that is of an excessiue qualitie Sanguineans intemperate are fleshy rud 〈…〉 ie have great veines arteries of difficile respiration the body is heavy and often weary with little labour the spirit simple given rather to sottish follies than to serious affaires they are subject to many diseases proceeding from the inflammation of the blood as fevers flegmones fluxe of blood and such like they should keepe a verie straite dyet vse cold and dry things for the correcting the intemperancie of the body as in their broth sicorie surocks lactuces and the like drinking of water aile or beere little wyne moderate exercise much sleepe hurteth to preveene diseases phlebotomie is expedient Of Cholericks Cholericks hath a leane body thin and hoarie dry and hard the veines and arters great the colour yallow pale or brown the haire red or blackish the spirit quick subtile hastie the judgment light variable the cariage inconstant the courage martiall so they be nimble in body prompt in spirit hastie in all their actions vehement
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
others latter according to their complexion runneth thorow all these spaces so the sangineans beare their age better than the rest who become sooner old Seing then the body doth change the temper according to the course of the yeares It is needfull to diversifie the dyet and because I am to speake of infancie heereafter passing it I will first treate of the bairnly age Of bairnly age Bairnes are of a very good temperature hence it is that they agree better with the spring than any other season because of the temperate air as also with temperate meates and seeing their body by the softnesse and raritie of it is much subject to dissolution they haue neede of much foode otherwise their bodies in place of growing shall decrease and diminish as witnesseth Hipp. they should not sleepe so much as infants but being stronger they ought to vse exercise more than they this is the tyme wherein they should bee instructed both in liberall and mechanick artes that thereby both the body and mynd being coupled Cupids darts get no entrie for they should flee all violent exercise and Venus games because they hinder the grouth of the body and being subject to bleeding they ought to eshew everie excesse whereby the body is made hote stryving to keepe a mediocrisie in all things This is evill keeped by these who pamper their bairnes bellye with spiceries and strong drink which so dryeth that some of them can never bee quenched Of Youth Young men being of complexion hote and dry should vse a dyet cold and moist for this cause wee see they are most wholesome in the winter because it is contrare to their bilious temper they should shun all heate either in the air or meate as garlick oynions mustard pepper ginger and all other suchlike also all strong drink as wine aquavitie rosa solis and the like or violent exercises because they procure a fever sorenesse of the head and troubleth the spirit in this age men are meetest for any charge in publick or warfare This is the tyme most proper for marriage for bairnes procreate of bairnes or old men are commonly infirme either of body or of mynde but begotten in the flower of the age when the body and spirit are at the best are found to bee most able for any businesse for Venus if it be moderate doth not hurte theÌ„ as other ages by reason of the force of their members yea they are by it made more gallant and lustie Of middle age Men of middle age ought to keepe a more temperate dyet than the former not declining so much to cooling things because the heate of youth is past so a temperate aire temperate meate taken in lesse quantitie than before because the body hath left growing also moderate in exercise imploying better the spirit than body flying all griefe and sadnesse because that age is most subject to melancholy they fall readily in agues phrenesies pripnenmonies pleurisies cholere dysenterie and other such like diseases bilious through abundance of bile gathered in the youth and according as their naturall force diminisheth and old age approacheth they beginne to find a shortnesse in the breath to presse them for the preveening of these they should keepe a mediocrisie in their dyet betweene youth and age Of old age Old men should striue to correct their cold and dry complexion by hote and humide dyet and therefore flying all coldnesse in the aire keeping them by a fire-side hote meates of good and easie digestion are best as capons hennes pigeons partridges veill and muttoun soft new laide egges and such like cheere fishes are not for them spices as ginger cannell mustard should bee much vsed by them they must beware of overcharging their stomack with much meate for they may readily by this meanes chock their naturall heate being now but small it is better to eate often and little especially they who are decreeped for they are like lampes in the which the light is almost extinguished which must be interteined by a gentle effusion of oyle because much at once will suffocate it and too long with-holding will procure the evanishing of it strong wine rather old than new is fittest for such and therefore it is called their milk it is granted to them to sleepe alittle after meate chiefly in the sommer because they are commonly troubled with night-watching by reason of some byting vapours arysing from one abundance of a salt flegme in them they should keepe themselues free of all the violent passions of the mynde chiefly of chagrin and melancholy living joyfull and mirry rejoycing all their senses with pleasant objects their eyes with the varietie of pleasant flowers and diverse colours carying still some pretious jewels in their ringes and among others the saphere the emrode because the greene or violat doth conserue the sight best of any Their eare with the musicke of voyces and instruments intertaining them also with pleasant discourses flattering them in all and contradicting in nothing the smell with muskue sweete waters and muske bals and the taste with some daintie dishes But this too curious caring for a Carion will seeme tedious to the view and troublesome to the eare of our young wenches who looking to the Mammon rather than the Man and the wealthie estate more then healthfull body hath tyed themselues to bee helpers and vpholders of the chivering and shaking bones of an old man but pleasantlie pulling them downe the poore man consenting yea assisting to his fall these wagges hungrie for young fresh meate longe to laufe vnder a mourning weede in beholding the piafing cariage and hearing the intysing yea rather ravishing discourse of a young Bravado of whose words they reape greater contentment than ever they did of the old mans deeds A just reward for dotting Loue. Of the seasons As the vicissitude of the night and the day proceeds from the motion of the Sunne from the East to the West in 24. houres space even so the change of the seasons commeth from his course from the West to the East about the twelue signs of the Zodiack making thereby the dayes longer or shorter By this approaching or retiring of himselfe in his comming and going the Air receiueth many divers alterations being subject to receaue the impressions and influences of the heavenly bodies for the Sunne heateth and dryeth by his heate the Moone in the contrare cooleth and humecteth or maketh moist so when the day is long the Air is hote and dry and when it is short it is cold and moistie but when they are of equall length the Air is temperate by the equall force of both alike communicate to it The Ancients from the course of the Sunne in the Zodiack did remarke soure speciall changes in the Air which are made by the qualitie inequalitie of the nights â—nd dayes therefore they haue divided â—he yeare in foure seasons The Spring the Summer the Harvest and Winter the which are divyded by two equinoxes the
certaine North winds verie gentle called Etesias that is yearely because they appeare ordinarly about the rysing of the dogge and continue from three houres in the morning till night dayly The heate of the sommer is so great that it not only dryeth the body but also pearcing thorow the skinne it dissolveth not only the humour betweene the hide and the flesh but also the spirits so it weakneth the body and ingendereth much bilious blood from the which floweth vomiting of bile vpward and dysenterie from bile downeward This tyme would bee enterteined by refreshing things as a cooling aire and cold meates vsing much purpie â—actuces endiue sourocks and other herbs both in broth and sallad eating rather boyled than rosted having for sause vinegar the juice of sydrons or oranges flying all spyceries and because the weaknesse of the body doth not admitte much meate at once and the great dissolution of the same doth require great reparation to eate little and often is best for this tyme drink would bee taken in greater quantitie but weake in qualitie exercise should be little and that in the morning and they that can not sleepe the night may repose a little after dinner Of Harvest or Autumne Although Autumne hath just reason to bee sad seing his father the Sunne to leaue him and take his journey towards a strange countrie and his mother the earth to bee sorrowfull by reason of her golden lockes which are dayly fading and her pleasant laughing countenance that is changing to bee vnpleasant and shaggring Yet shee may rejoice with her husband Bacchus having through their louely conjunction brought foorth wyne and by the helpe of Pomon many fruites The Autumne beginneth at the Equinox and endeth at the solstice in the winter conteaning a part of September and December and whole October and November from the beginning the day still shortneth and the night groweth long for in September the day and the night hath each of them twelue houres but from thence the day diminisheth and the night groweth longer Amongst the signes Libra is more hote than cold Scorpion is very hote and dry Sagittarius is more cold than dry Libra is so called because the night and day are in equall ballance and Scorpion by reason of the byting of the cold subtile aire as a scorpion making the earth dry and cold And Sagittarius while by the shooting of his arrowes hee makes as it were the ground and all things dead In Libra Bootes a signe with 22 starres whereof the ehiefe is Arcturus is remarked The Harvest is cold in regarde of the Summer and dry in respect of the Winter it is not absolutely hote or dry cold or humide and so not temperate as is the spring for there is not only found an inequalitie in the whole season but also in one day which is now warme now cold as at noone it is hote at night it is cold This inconstancie causeth diverse diseases inconstant and dangerous by the production of humors of inequall temper throgh the cold it hindereth the dissipation of the cholere ingendred in the summer by the which it causeth a change of the same bile in melancholy which is not absolutely cold and and dry but of inequall temper being more dry than cold so wee see sundrie diseases of the summer to bee revived by it and many severs quartanes and erratiques inflation of the ratte hydropsies lienteries sciatiques passions ashmatiques epiplespies and others the quartanes proceeds from a black melancholious blood which then abounds the erratique â—evers of the inequall temperature of the aire the swelling of the melt of the abundance of the melancholick humor for the preveening of their maladies it is good to purge this season wee ought to shunne the cold aire of the morning and evening meates of moderate temper should bee vsed taking more meate in summer but lesse drink and stronger The Winter It is no wonder to see the winter still weeping because of his far distance from the Sunne his father regrating still his mother Vestas case droupping for her husband Titans long absence who carieth on her head a white vaile in place of her daintie coffe flowred with roses and winter with his teares doth pavie the ground with pleasant cristall but seing the same tramped vnder foote renuing his teares hee turneth all into myre and clay The winter beginneth at the solstice which is in it when the sunne entereth in Capricorne and finisheth at the equinox in the spring when the sunne beginneth to enter into Aries it containeth three signes Capricornus Aquarius and Pisces a part of December and March but whole Ianuar Februar from the beginning of winter to the end the dayes grow longer the night shorter at the end they are of equall length being the equinox Capricorne is more cold than humide Aquarius is both cold and moist extreame Pisces is more wakthan cold Orion kytheth his whole force in the beginning of winter who affraighteth much the Sea-men moving still stormes at his rysing The most frequent diseases of the winter according to Hipp. are the pleurisie and peripneumonie because the instruments of respiration are hurte by the coldnesse of the aire it moveth also destillations by the nose rheumes cough paine of the breast side loines head dissiues and apoplexies when the head is full for to preveene these wee ought to cover well the body but especially the head breast and feete and vse hote meates and dry Salt meate and venison is better now than in any other season rosted meate is better than boyled spices now are good and hote herbs more meate may bee taken now than in summer but not so often and lesse drink than meate but strong because the humiditie of the season and long sleepe doth moysten the body much A REGIMENT FOR VVOMEN WITH CHILD BAIRNES AND NOVRSES THE good Gardner hath not only a care of the impe and tree but also of the seede which kyths by his carefull choosing and labouring of the ground for this end At whose example that this my worke should not be manck in any thing I haue made digression conteining the safe keeping and right governing of the ground wherein man his seede is sowne Women with child are likned to one bearing a weightie burden by a small threed tyed to their hands who going softlie and warily may happily bring their burden to the purposed place but if they bee agitate by any inordinate or violent motion easily their burthen partly by the weight and partly by reason of the small string will fall to the ground so it sareth with them for if they move violently or suffer agitation either in a Coach or chariot or by any other sort of ryding or if they bee troubled suddainly by the passions of the mind or vse evill food smell evill savoured things behold things fearefull a suddaine impression of these being first in the spirits next in the blood and last by these in the tender bodie of