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A04606	The arte and science of preseruing bodie and soule in healthe, wisedome, and Catholike religion phisically, philosophically, and diuinely deuised: by Iohn Iones phisition. Right profitable for all persones: but chiefly for princes, rulers, nobles, byshoppes, preachers, parents, and them of the Parliament house.	Jones, John, physician.	1579 (1579)	STC 14724; ESTC S119245	104,818	142

in euery thing with a good custome and grace in all these and such like with great regarde of the cleane kéeping of the bed Nurcerie and apparell For as Galen declareth he sawe a certaine child greatly disquieted which the Nurse neyther by dandling putting the pappe to the mouth of the infant nor holding 〈◊〉 forth to sée if it woulde vnloade the bodie was euer the sooner quieted At last he beholding his bedde swadling clothes and apparell founde them filthye the childe it selfe vncleanelye and vnwashed badde wash it as if it be dayly almoste it will be the better in the water or Baine afore prescribed especially if it be leane as sayth Hippocrates bycause that the partie that is long kept softe and moyste his growth will be the more as Galen affirmeth and experience playnelye proueth by the goodlye personages of the people of Glocestershire Somersetshire and Monmouthshire such other moderate moyste Countries and wipe it cleane and to laye it after in freshe clothes the whiche was no sooner done the Babe fell on sléepe and had not onely a most sounde sléepe but also a verye long CHAP. XXIII At what time the childe may be weane●d which ought to sucke longest of the duetie of Nobilitie Gentilitie The regard that must be had aswel in the nursing of mē childrē as women kinde and what Bookes do expresse the same A commendation of good women THese therefore after Galens minde I thinke good to be obserued vntill the third yeare of his age Howbeit Paulus supposeth that it maye be well weaned from the Dug at two years and so the inhabiters of the Iles of Baleares vsed as Sextus Cheronensis writeth Gordonius at thrée yeares and Montuus at foure yeares But Eucharius and Mokerus saith that custom hath brought it but to one yeare and that is moste true Neuerthelesse I haue known diuers sucke lesse than a yere many a yere and a halfe some two yeares other two yeares a halfe and some more than thrée yeares whose bodies and temperatures endued with reason courage and desire I could greatly commende as I do not thinke my selfe to say vnto you the truth to be any thing the worse bicause I suckt so long but rather the better considering howe my mother was two and fiftie and vpwarde when I was borne as I haue hearde hir say And I do remember that I was able to beare a stoole for my good Nurce when I would haue suckte Notwithstanding I do not appoint euery one to suck so long Yet I think it best that the old womans childe do sucke longer than the yong and lustie Nurce the weake longer than the strong the sickly longer than the healthie the twinne longer than the loneling the 〈◊〉 longer thā the female the noble longer than the vnnoble especially if any of these causes recited do require Whose indeuour in time God ayding must be to rule all if he be a prince if of the nobles manye vnder him if of the commons as he shall be called and to obey principallye but one alone that is the soueraigne Maiestie to preache the Gospel to heale the sicke to execute iustice to defende the frontiers to order Countries to leade legions to chase away enimies to guide Nauies and iudge causes marine to toyle in imbases to cōclude leagues to reuenge outward iniuries to inuade foraine foes to represse home rebels to defend and assist the cōmon wealthe to garde and protect princes committed as the mightie Earle of Shrewsberrie right loyally and most warely performeth To giue iudgement on nobles vnnoble conuicted and in fine alwayes to deliuer faithful counsell and to mainetaine and defend our only soueraigne and countrey encreasing the state with people dominion lande and customes from time to time as Tullie willeth and that with valiant harts prouident wittes and lustie bodies that can tollerate and beare all extremities expedient and abide all seruices néedefull according to the example of our valiant worthy and noble Progenitors whom in time it wil be requisite to folow if we meane to succéede in their estate of holinesse honoure and worshippe or to aduaunce oure names from base condition to the title of Armes and ensigne of Gentilitie as Osorius politikely writeth Whereof there will be no doubt the Lorde furthering if we haue from our birth the supply of al things néedfull as it is néedefull and when it is néedefull both by day and nighte to giue the Babe the Breast regarding the daughters bringing vppe in Modestie Honestie and Huswifrie after the councell of the Iustitution of a Christian woman no lesse than the sonnes in all Ciuilitie Learning and Chiualrie according to the instruction of the Image of Gouernaunce But the woman is the good mother of all and the only helper and comforter of man by Gods owne appointement as in Genesis wée maye reade And in Paradise God created hir and called hir Eue life and as for man he called him Adam Earth bycause that of the slime of the earth he was made Of whose worthinesse and dignities if you be desirous to vnderstande reade Plutarches particular treatise that he hath made in their cōmendation Bochas Saint Iohn Chrisostomes Homily vpon the beheading of Saint Iohn the Baptiste Saint Ierome vpon the explication of the seauentéenth Psalme Christian de Pisa that learned maide of the commendation of the feminine Sexe Castilio in his third booke of the Courtier Peter Lawne in his discourse of the dignitie of Marriage and Hake in his Touchstone for this presēt time besides innumerable others aswell Diuines as Philosophers and Phisitions that for the auoyding of tediousnesse I will omitte bycause I thinke there is none so wicked as will dispraise hys mother And I will shewe howe onelye pappe shall bée giuen in the daye at méete time after washing and lighte rubbing fricasing the bodie firste emptied of the common excrements about the ●auenth moneth whiche shall be made after this sorte CHAP. XXIIII Of the maner howe to make the beste Pappe of the vse and abuse thereof and howe the meane dyet is beste TAke of newe milke a pinte put therein of fine wheate flower so much as being boiled will make it thicke Adde to it the biggenesse of a Chestnut of Almond Butter or of swéete Butter one ounce of the beste Sugar not faulted in the sunning and then it will bée the better to disgest and the refuse not turned to the nourishment of the bodye the sooner and easilier emptied For that made of the milke and flowre alone is somwhat slowe in distribution and therewith binding as you haue hearte beyng the very cause as I coniecture why Galen doth discommend it Neuerthelesse it is muche vsed ouer all and I my selfe was so fedde my Nurce hathe saide it as I haue séene diuers others of liuely spirite and sounde body aswel in Wales and the Marches as in

to be noted as a signe most certaine of the worthinesse thereof For if it be good the dwellers haue a good colour they be healthye constant well sighted light of hearing of cleare voyce and quicke witted as in the moste part of Wales and the Marshes may be perceyued and as at the worthye Castle and towne of Ludlawe I haue iudged Hence Hippocrates found forth that diuerse countreyes did bryng diuerse humours chaunging the temperatures of mē so consequently the maners The same also Galen affirmeth vnto which maye be added forth of Metula by the authority of Mont. that the pleasant seate fine building clean kéeping of the Nurserie hath not a little auayled to the benefite of the body minde for that was the onelye cause sayeth hée that the Athenians were wiser and healthyer than the Thebanes All the which most plainely sheweth howe néedefully it is to be considered as wel for the benefit of the minde as for the cō●●dity of the body whether ye labour abrode or test within CHAP. X. What exercise trades labours artes and pastimes be good meete and profitable not onlye for Nurses but also for many others THe exercise or laboure that the Nurse shall vse especially of the vpper partes as writeth Aetius must be meane and moderate as that that will cause a florishing colour but not extreame sweat as Galen would haue it least as thorough too much idlenesse the actions of the bodie and minde might be ouer dulled so through too much labor the bloud might be ouer chased and so chaunge the grate and goodnesse of the milk into worse The exercises that are best as sheweth Plato Clemens Alexandrinus Iohannes Ionius Osorius is where the minde is exercised with the body and it may be deuided both into labour and play The labours that be both decent and profitable for gentlewomen are these most méete in my minde and also in daylye vse with many as spinning of Wooll on the greate compasse Whéele and on the rocke or distaffe wherewith I would not that any should be so daintie as to be offended thereat as Siligambis the Quéene and the reste of the Persian Ladies were with Alexander the great of Quintus Curtius remembred disdayning woollen workes but rather to commende and vse them as all ornament and benefit of god bestowed vpon oure flourishing countrey sin passing all our princely neyghbours And therfore politike princes of elder time as you may read in Dion Gordonius Foxe and Grafton caused their own children as wel as their houshold in place conueniente and time vacāt of the woman kind to worke vpon 〈◊〉 that through their example the whole lande might to their greate and vniuersal aduantage be entised to do the like Which as I haue heard a most honorable and learned coūcellour of late did affirme that in this lande some time the custome was when vertue was more practised and vice lesse vsed that the Princes daughters did present their parents euery new yeares tide with linnen and wollen cloth of their own making which landable and profitable trade in the beutifull Isle of Anglesey in Northwales into yarne of euery woman almost is so cunningly handled dayly in the town of Bewmaris 〈◊〉 worthy countrey there abouts that no Sattin thréed is 〈◊〉 ●●ner or strōger although the wool in Staple excéed not much the Pea●e vnlesse my memorie fayle me Not ommitting 〈◊〉 as can the Persian Spanish or Italian working of silks as spinning twisting wening sowing imbroydring aresing 〈◊〉 seyting drawing rasing purling buttoning c. or the 〈…〉 Wallons as the making of Worsteads Chālets ●●ckadowes Saies Dornickes c. for the which exercise ●orwith Sandwich deserueth greate cōmendations or the making of fine linnē as in Cheshier Lācashier Yorkeshiere Lan●lnshiere Harford shiere Salop shiere and Monmouth ●●●ere is vsed For the which their endeuours diuerse of our worthy dames of late deserue no lesse prayse than the Lidian Ladye Arachne did of olde of Plinie and Polidor Virgil so ●●●atly commended CHAP. XI A distinction of the foure partes of Musicke and what kinde of dauncing is tollerable How women ought to be careful in their behauiour The benefit of exercise with the best time to vse it THus as you haue hearde what labours are méetest to whome they appertayn to kepe them from idlenesse the Nurse of all vice so the sportes pastimes and exercises moste highly commended ensue And as for sportes and pastimes comely dauncing is most cōmended as wel for preseruing the healthy spirites as also for strengthning the sound bodie as affirmeth Lusitanus and Montuus furthering the viij branches of Prudence as proueth sir Thomas Eliot in his Gouernour let the doggish Philosopher Demetrius with his precise disciples neuer so brawlingly prate to the contrarie séeing Dauid had seauē sorts of daūcers as the sacred writte testifyeth Foreséeing that the Nurse remember sayth Eliot the goodnesse of womens natures which is to be milde feareful gentle tractable trustie of sure remembraunce and shamefast as Viues affirmeth vsing only that kinde of Musicke called Dorios where neyther deformitie is practised nor wantōnesse enticed but rather these vertues as sheweth Erasmus and Fuchsius as prudence modestie sobrietie and policie in Bargenets Pauions Galiardes Sturgions and Roundes only The other thrée partes of Musicke as Lidius Frigius and Gouicus bycause they sturre too vehement affections and doe bring d●●erse vnséemelye formes to the bodie I thinke altogither v●●●●te but to persons places wher it appertayneth as Emmelia to Tragedies Cordax to Comedies Enopile to men in armour and Hormus to yong men and women In the elections whereof I woulde they shoulde be circumspect bycause Saint Augustine in the primatiue Churche did utterly discommende the Idolatrous and lasciuious vse thereof had frō the Infidels from the Hetrurians as Liuie testifyeth as some worthy learned Diuines do at this day fearing least the like euils might ensue for a light faulte in a woman that ●●●●eth credite is euery where curiously noted and once iustlye defained neuer after recouered nor of the vertuous so ●●●hlye estéemed as contrarilye suche as will subdue their appetites from vanities to vertues of the godly and Saincts he onely and alwayes accepted by Lucretius thus commended They therefore that can vanquish and these banish from their minde Would you not compte them worthy with the Gods a place to finde Other exercises as walking rūning easily at Bace at grins●●le ball boules riding on horseback wagon chariot coach 〈◊〉 I wil omitte partlye bycause it may be gathered whiche according to euerye degrée be honest meane and moderate and partly bicause dayly custome doth teach what exercises trades labours and sports become Nurses best and what few of ●ate Coches and not euery dalying Dame that vseth not to attende vppon the Quéenes highnesse nor by reason of fée●●●nesse Nowe what benefite doth come of exercise forthe of Fulgentius

that they shall heare beare away readily that the rather saith Fabian if you haue the Alphabet letters in Iuorie Bone Boxe or some other deuise conuenient for them dayly in their handes to carry aboute with them as first a then b after c. c. then Consonants after Dissonants then Words lastly Sentences Albeit they be then wholly giuen to playe like young Lambs Fawns and Foales as Galen affirmeth whom you shall not forbid in time and place conuenient so much as they wil as willeth Osorius Montuus Mokerus and they will as much as they can considering that of oftē Ioy and Sport ensueth the florishing of the naturall Vertues for Ioy giueth power to the Strēgth it stirreth vp Nature saith Galen prolongeth our dayes saith Syrach profiting also all suche as bee whose excepte they be oppressed with grosnesse as Almanzor declareth Foreséeing as we haue saide that in any wise no pastime contrary to the Diuine Word be allowed againste the strength of the Body permitted contrary to the Lawe practised or excessiuely suffered leaste thereby their tender Partes slender Wits fraile Disposition might be made too soone dul hard stubborne and vngratious and so hinder their growth make no accompt of Vertue or forsaking of Vice. CHAP. XXXII Of the definition of Sin wyth the definition and deuision of such as are called Mortall or Deadly Synnes SVch Vices Sins Sorows or griefs as grow vnto vs by nature or inheritance termed Original Sin I omit in this age bycause I wil expresse them in the other I procéede to intreate of the Mortall so called as I suppose by reason the holy Writ sayth That euery soule that sinneth shal dye what a naturall Death only think you nay forsooth Euerlastingly vnlesse God graunt Repentance and Amendement of Life By Chawcer in the Parsons tale learnedly and godly deliuered so that I wil not stand there vppon For wée may not think that God is boūd to giue vs his holy Spirit or to 〈◊〉 vs our sinnes our selues not being earnest interces●●● for the same and dayly trauellers therefore For if wée 〈◊〉 what else doe wée make him who came to take away the euilles of the world but the incourager of al the sins in the whole world which god forbid Sin as testifieth Tullie is nothing else but a transgressing and passing of the limites and boundes of Vertue Saint Augustine defineth Sinne to be whatsoeuer is desired spoken or done contrary to the wil 〈◊〉 of God or oure neighbour or that which is contrary to his euerlasting Law whether it be expresly sette foorth in the holy Scriptures or not S. Ambrose is of the same iudgement Sinne sayth Musculus is confessed of all men as well of ●●●dels as Christians to be that that displeaseth God pro●●●eth his wrath and deserueth vengeance Sin as write the Schoole Doctors hathe thrée procurators or tempters Suggestion Delight and Consent Suggestion draweth vs with the vaine thoughtes and desires of the gaine of this life and worldly pleasures inwarde or outward enticing the fraile fleshe to sinne Delighte as a certaine sauce prouoketh vs further and further to procéede therein Consent as a wicked Nurce fostreth and dandleth Vice in hir lay But Consent shall not be taken for euerye inclination of the will whence veniall sinnes grow say the Schoole Doctors but for that only wherein the righte minde fully agréeth fréely thervnto yéeldeth And this is that sinne which they call mortall not the other profitably prouided for in our laws if they be cōmitted by infāts that be vnder age idiots compelled sicke or vnaduised by God and man pardoned The sinnes that the auntient Diuines Gregorius and Cassianus doe accompte for deadely Sinne are these Pride Co●●●●●●nesse Lechery Enuie Gluttony Anger and Slouth 〈◊〉 Couetousnesse Enuy and Anger groweth from the i●●●●ble or couragious spirite excéeding reason Gluttony and Lechery from the naturall but Slouth frō both by reason the they want that grace and vnderstanding that is gouerned by Gods spirite or be depraued as afore is shewed Pride as affyrmeth Petrus Canisius following Chrisostome Bernarde and Prospitius is an inordinate desire to passe other men whether the same be in the minde or shewe it selfe by outwarde meanes measuring no commoditie by the owne sufficiencie but by the misery and lacke of others or by the ostentation and shewe of superfluous abundaunce and singularitie as Moore describeth This vice is the worste of all other for it specially begetteth these wicked daughters disobedience bragging brawling stubbornesse discorde curiositie and sectes wandring noweadayes through all nations as by the disagréement echewhere and the disguising of men in womens maners and women in mens araye with other outrages too common maye appeare Couetousnesse as saith Basilius and Isidorus is an vnsatiable desire to haue riches and wealth and you shall not accompte him not onely a couetous man that taketh an other mans goods possessions and liuelyhode but also he that desireth what is none of his or he that kéepeth his owne goods ouer gréedily and this in all kinde of men either the feare of lacke and distruste of Gods prouidence doeth cause or else Pride aforesaide lifting their mindes with a desire to passe others wyth the vaine and superfluous bragge of things out of this stinking lake issueth trechery flattery deceit periury disquietnes violence theft murther bribery lacke of pietie churlishnesse hardnes of hart rent raising vsury and bankerupting in many Lechery as testifieth the Apostle Gregorius and Isidorus is an inordinate affection to satisfie the naughty beastly lust of the bodye whiche causeth blindenesse of vnderstanding rape incest with other filthinesse as saith the Apostle not to be named roaging beggery rashnesse inconstācie selfe loue hatred of God too much desire of this life extreme feare of deth and Gods iudgements with vtter dispaire of Heuenly ioye● Enuie is sayth Sainct Ciptian Basill and Chrisostome is 〈◊〉 ●●a●●nesse cōceyued of an others well doing and a certaine 〈◊〉 bycause he doth well whether it be of his superior or of his inferioure the ofspring héereof is muteny dissention ●●●●ing sclandering libeling vndermining kitling cur●●● c. into too many places too too apparante and yet they will be counted the children of God Gospellers whereas the Gospell is cleane against it Gluttony as witnesseth Sainct Augustine Chrisostome and Ambrose is an vnsatiable desire of meate drinke and delicates The litter of this Sow is dulnesse of sence and vnderstanding foolishe mirth much babling scoffing filthinesse and contempt of fasting Anger as write Gregorie Basill and Sainct Ambrose is an inordinate desire to punishe him whome we suppose hathe ●●ered vs iniurie although the Philosopher tearmeth it a suddayne passion of the mind The sparkes that issue out of thys breast is outrage swelling of the hearte reprochfull wordes ch●●●ing blasphemie breach of charitie bloudshead