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A02758	Klinike, or The diet of the diseased· Divided into three bookes. VVherein is set downe at length the whole matter and nature of diet for those in health, but especially for the sicke; the aire, and other elements; meat and drinke, with divers other things; various controversies concerning this subject are discussed: besides many pleasant practicall and historicall relations, both of the authours owne and other mens, &c. as by the argument of each booke, the contents of the chapters, and a large table, may easily appeare. Colellected [sic] as well out of the writings of ancient philosophers, Greeke, Latine, and Arabian, and other moderne writers; as out of divers other authours. Newly published by Iames Hart, Doctor in Physicke.	Hart, James, of Northampton.	1633 (1633)	STC 12888; ESTC S119800	647,313	474

of food in a deare yeere as was this last 1630. Some relate strange things tending to this purpose as namely of a man living only upon the Sun and aire Fides sit penes Authorem I never yet could see any such good husbands Pliny maketh mention of a certaine man living without any thing else save the attraction of the aire being destitute of any mouth and for this cause called Astomi And the inhabitants of the new world they say will live 16 or 18 daies with the smoake of Tabacco only Our Tabacconists here in England are commonly as briefe with the pot as the pipe and besides many say it procures them an appetite And thus Tabacco like aurum potabile or that noble Elixir is able to doe any thing Democritus wee read being ready to give up the ghost for a certaine time susteined his life with the only smell of hony to the end he might be partaker of the Thesmophorian solemnity and that not only the spirits but even the solid parts also are fed by meats Plinies Astomes if it be true confirme unto us and Manardus seems to second it The Chameleon also said to feed upon the aire only and there is a certaine bird in the Indies call'd Rhintax Manucodiata or avis Paradisi which being deprived of feet is said to flie in the aire continually feed on the same only But to answer the former objections in the first place it is one thing to speake of the aire as a simple Element and another thing to speak of smels Aristotle against the Pythagoreans tells us that neither the aire nor the water can nourish by reason of the simplicity of their elementary bodies As concerning Plinies Astomes they are meere fictions fancies never any such people having bin discovered by any traveller whatsoever no more than many other monstrous and prodigious narrations by too credulous antiquity received for uncontrolled truthes and so for legacies left to posterity which here to confute would spend me more time than I can now well spare As for the Chameleon it hath bin observed to catch flies which sticking to its slimie tongue it did afterwards feed upon As for that Manucodiata it hath bin hitherto constantly and confidently beleeved that it lived alwayes balanced in the aire living upon no other nourishment but the aire onely howbeit now in our late navigations it hath bin observed to feed upon cloves and moreover that the inhabitants so artificially cut off their feet that no print or marke of them can ever be discerned Now as I deny that any creature can live upon the aire only so againe I will not deny but by good and pleasant smells the exhaust and spent spirits may againe be repaired a smell being nothing else save a certaine vaporous exhalation or corporeall effluxe or sliding out But that the solid substance of the earth should nourish would seeme to savour more of truth in that God himselfe seemeth to give the earth to the Serpent for food and it is reported that the Mole liveth on the earth only Besides we see many women with child troubled with the disease Pica to eat earth coals chalk c. And we see birds to swallow peeble-stones the Ostrich to eat iron But to answer these instances the Serpents and Moles live not on the simple element of earth which with us being 〈◊〉 farre from the center is mixed and not a simple element and therefore maketh nothing for the purpose It is true also that women often make use of such trash as wee have mentioned but that they have no great cause to brag of this food by their ill-favored colour and the evill accidents accompanying them may easily appeare the which doth argue the evill nourishment that such food doth affoord Besides they feed not onely on this food and it may be now and then they will afford themselves a cup of good liquour as a lavative to wash downe this rubbish As for fowle which either devoured peeble-stones or metalls they deliver them back againe such as they received them their appetites being to such things as for physick rather than food and therefore it is but an idle tale Paracelsus telleth us of one that lived fifteen daies only with a turse applied to his stomack Galen mocks and scoffes at them who thinke that one might sustaine life with wine applied outwardly since whatsoever nourisheth must first be attracted by and concocted in the instruments of concoction It is therefore a mere dotage of our Paracelsists that tell us that metalls will nourish our bodies Let some of these gallants I pray you be fed but for a weeke or lesse with their best aurum potabile lapis Philosophicus or what else you can devise and I warrant you at or e'r the weeks end if he be alive he will snatch at a crust of browne bread Now concerning water there is no lesse controversie amongst our Authours and seemeth to be back'd with better reasons Homer thought it nourished by his epithete 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Iewes at this day in their solemne feasts abstaine from water being of the minde of the old Egyptians who thought the river Nilus nourished because Moses turned the water thereof into blood Albertus Magnus reporteth that he saw a melancholicke person who lived not only many moneths but yeeres also with the only use of this element Cardan mainteineth this opinon and seemeth by many reasons to corroborate the same Galen notwithstanding is of a far other mind and proveth that water nourisheth not at all And Aristotle is also of the same minde who tells us that water cannot at all thicken and therefore cannot nourish To decide the controversie true it is that pure elementary water cannot at all nourish which neverthelesse thicke muddy and slimy water may sometimes effect and so some fishes may live on the same and yet it is well knowne that many fishes either prey upon others or live upon herbs and weeds howsoever they live not on mere and simple water I conclude therefore this point that pure elements as they are in their owne sphere especially neer the center do not nourish but the elements that are next unto us being mixed and confused may in some sort nourish CHAP. IX Whether mans life may be susteined without the use of food or no. THis may perhaps to some seeme but a needlesse and superfluous question and that I might herein have spared my paines It is true the matter may seem somewhat strange and many will be of opinion I doubt not that never was there any man so foolish as to mainteine any such erronious and false opinions But because this hath not been mainteined by vulgar wits only but men of transcendent understandings and eminent parts both Physitians and others have not only left us multiplicity of instances in this kind but even affirmed and

milke whereof I allow not in cold phlegmaticke constitutions and stomacks nor yet in the aged as was already said of strawberries This is cold and dry not exceeding the second degree and is very astringent especially before it be full ripe and therefore may serve for the aforesaid uses and will helpe well the former infirmities And this benefit they also bring us that they may be used in stead of the out-landish myrtle Now from the fruits of shrubs and the like we proceed to the fruits of taller trees howbeit these next following differ not much from shrubs beginning first with the Cherry Of Cherries there be divers sorts differing both in colour and in taste some being of a pleasant as it were mixt taste betwixt sweet and and sowre some againe being very sowre and some yet of a loushous taste being blacke in colour the former two red The first is the best and of safest use Cherries are cold and moist howbeit some more and some lesse Those we first mentioned agree best with the stomacke and provoke appetite cooling a hot stomacke liver and like constitution of body and are good in hot cholericke diseases and against thirst Being preserved their cruditie and superfluous moisture is well corrected howbeit in fevers and cholerick complexions I wish the use be moderate as also of all other such preserv'd fruits for feare of increasing choler by reason of the sugar The sowre Cherries are nothing so good as the former The blacke Cherry looseneth the belly more than the other and is more for the use of physick than food not good for the stomacke and are quickly converted into choler especially in some bodies These be the sorts here with us in greatest request although there be yet some other sorts by meanes of grafting which neverthelesse all partake of these former tastes some more some lesse and by consequent their faculties are accordingly to be judged of In France especially and hotter countries there are great diversity and varieties of this as of divers other sorts of fruits and in France they use to drie them in an oven and keepe them all the yeere and so they bind the belly They must be eaten before other meats as we have said of others already and would have it understood of Plums Peaches and Abricocks after to be spoken of And withall that such fruits best befit hot cholericke bodies the contrary whereof ●w see commonly practised but by this meanes women should have the least there in them which might perhaps prove more prejudiciall to the Physitian than to themselves Cherries are best new gathered or eaten off the tree Of no other fruit is there greater variety than of plummes and they are of two sorts either wilde called sloes or slane and bullases all of a very astringent and binding faculty used ordinarily for physicke rather than food And this is to be understood also of any sowre or unripe plumme The ordinary and domesticke plummes are used both when they are newly ripe and dried and kept all yeere They differ both in colour taste and bignesse The damsons of all sorts there being both blacke yellow and neere unto blacke called by the French damas vioolet are esteemed best among plummes Those of a firme and dry pulp and withall somewhat tart and of a winie taste as it were betwixt sweete and sowre as peare plummes black and white date plum c. are farre better than others and in my opinion are nothing inferiour if not superiours to the damson What hath beene said concerning the tastes of Cherries and the answerable faculties together with the use and convenient time of eating them may well and fitly be applied to plummes that we need not repeate againe the same things In France and Spaine and hot countries they drie their plummes from whence wee have them sent hither and they are either sweet and come commonly out of Spaine or else are tarter in taste and come out of France All these kinds wee commonly call by the name of prunes and are all farre better and wholesomer than the others and are much used of sicke people The sweeter loosen the belly best the other coole more in hot diseases and cholerick constitutions of body Peaches and Abricocks differ not much in their faculties being both apt to putrifie in the stomacke and to produce divers dangerous putrid fevers and other diseases Peaches are of divers kindes and in France especially the South parts thereof they are very pleasant to the palate being many of them of a pleasant winie taste betwixt sweet and sowre All of them are somewhat cold and with all very moist yet some more some lesse according to the soile they grow in In our cold and moist climat they are little or nothing worth as seldome comming to perfect maturity Some doe advise to correct their cruditie to wash them downe with a cup of wine acccording to the old Verse Petre quid est Pesca Est cum vino nobilis esca But by this meanes the crude juice thereof is quicklier conveied thorow the mesaraicke veines and so distributed thorow the whole body The better way were to boile them in wine with a little sugar and cinnamon and so eat them Or if they must be eaten raw let them be first steeped in a little sweet Canary wine or muscadine which will not so speedily passe thorow the capillary veines The kernell within the stones eaten with them being somewhat hot and drie will helpe to correct their crude and cold moisture The like may be said of Abricocks Cherries and plummes the kernells within their stones being used after the same manner And what is said here concerning the use of wine with Peaches is likewise to be understood of Abricocks and all other such fruits as abound in such cold and crude waterish moistures The Abricocke with us is farre better than the Peach both in regard it atteineth to the full ripenesse in the heat of Sommer as likewise because it is of a more firme and solid substance They are to be eaten before meales sparingly The kernells in the stones are farre better than themselves and open inward obstructions CHAP. XVIJ. of Grapes Rasins Currants properly so called Figges and Dates and of Apples Peares Quinces Oranges Citrons Lemmons and Pomegranats Services Medlars and Corneilles of Walnuts Haslenut Filberds Almonds bitter and sweet Chestnuts Pineapple and Fisticknnut IN the beginning of this chapter we will take these pleasant and delectable fruits following beginning with that so noble fruit the Grape Grapes if they have atteined to perfect maturity and be sweet in taste doe nourish and fatten the body howbeit they ingender wind crudities and the flesh procured by that nourishment is soft foggie and not firme and solid The antient Greekes therefore did inhibite that Grapes should not be tasted before the Aequinox in Autumne after mid September

not faile to prescribe directions against any most desperate and inveterate disease and yet was altogether averse from Phlebotomy vomites or any generous remedy were the disease never so violent and acute her chiefe purge being a little Manna a certain diet-bread composed of severall cordiall ingredients without any due proportion of quantity and this diet-bread she used indifferently in all consumptions and weakenesses of whatsoever kind A vesicatory or blistering medicine composed of Cantharides she used much and applyed the same to divers parts of the body according as her she-skill could direct her which was one of her master medicines and with her supplyed the place of Phlebotomy and other generous evacuations The various and evill favoured effects this Pettie-coat Physitian produced in divers bodies by these blisterings would spend me much time and be too tedious to the Reader Howsoever the learned Physitian is not ignorant that such particular remedies are not ordinarily used before generall evacuations have proceeded Many no question consulted with this she-oracle whose diseases were not dangerous or deadly who afterwards recovering which might as well if not better have beene without the use of her meanes would not faile to magnifie her supposed skill But as for true radicated Consumptions which she would ordinarily undertake to cure she was farre from curing any such as not being able to dive into the depth of the true causes and by consequent must needs be ignorant of the true cure And this being a taske which often poseth the most skilfull Artist in his profession what then should we expect from such a she-Physitian And since she neglected more noble and generous remedies when there was anything to bee done in dangerous and acute diseases if nature were not of it selfe able to grapple with the disease and expell the enemie out of his strong hold the patient was forced to succumbe under the burden and in all probability pay his fatall debt before he otherwise needed if he had made choice of a judicious and understanding physitian But what do I insist upon their practising of Physick a thing of a sublime nature when even in the matter of the diet of the diseased yet thought by them a thing of very smal importance they are altogether ignorant And that this is not my complaint alone may plainely by that which a learned French Physitian complaineth of that sexe in that place where he then lived I discover saith he three notable abuses committed by the importunity of women first in tormenting the sicke with abstinency from drinke be their necessity never so great in forcing them to eate farre beyond the strength of their weake and tender stomackes and in covering them with too many clothes This is the ordinary custome of the vulgar and common sort in governing the sicke but above all others women passe the bounds of mediocrity and proceed to an excesse insupportable and are farre more insupportable to the sicke than any other sort of people And this proceedeth from a naturall inclination and condition proper to that sex to exceed the bounds of mediocrity and in all their actions and affections to exceed more than men And therefore if they love it is the highest degree and their hatred needs no addition or intention If they be given to avarice it is the superlative degree if given to lavish expences there is no measure in their prodigality In amiable sweet and lovely deportment who can compare with them as likewise in their choler and despite in their brawling and scolding fits let me choose rather with the wise man to dwell on the house top than live with such a Xantippe And the like excesse we finde also in their carriage about the sicke for if we ordeine a warme bath for the sicke they will bee sure to make it scalding hot And whereas our meaning is that it should temperatly warme their opinion is that if warmth be good then the warmer it is the better it must needes bee and it would seeme in very truth they provided it to scald pigges in If wee forbid the sicke excessive drinking if women bee the attendants the Patient shall almost dye athirst Give a charge that the sicke be duely nourished thou shalt be sure they shall be crammed like fat capons Give a charge to cover them well and be sure they shall be almost stifled And thus almost in every thing doe they exceed our prescriptions inclining alwayes to the extremes and cannot by any meanes keepe within compasse But let none here mistake my meaning as though I had a purpose to inveigh against woman-kind as some make it their recreation and delight too to shew their wits as they suppose in inveighing against women nay farre be it from me being in a double relation beholden to this sexe my purpose onely is here to reprove their errors whereof all are not guilty and for this cause come not under this censure and to such I have nothing to say And even touching this instability and inclination to extremes I am so farre from laying thereby any aspersion upon this noble sexe that with mine Author I account it for their high praise and commendation For these extreme affections proceed from a subtill nimble and able wit and understanding set and fastened in a soft tender and well refined body And as we esteeme that water to be good which is speedily warme and againe in as short a time cold even so wee may account the complexion of such persons as are subiect to sudden changes and alterations and suddenly passe from one extreme to another is most simple and pure for the contray proceedeth from a lumpish ponderosity and thicknesse of the matter which procureth this contumacious immobility Women therefore it seemeth are composed of this pure refined soft substance which is the cause that they are often so quicke and apprehensive that therein as also in their superlative affection they commonly surpasse men And hence have we this common Phrase that if a woman looke but on her apron-strings she will finde out a shift And for this same cause it is held that a womans first answere is commonly the best and that if she study longer it will still be the worse But lest I should make women too proud I wish them to consider that the most subtill and refined wits are not alwayes most usefull in a state or common-wealth as is reported of Alcibiades of this unstable and quicke-stirring spirit and the like opinion is holden of the Florentines at this day and it is no more triviall true omne nimium vertitur in vitium And therefore my counsell is to women especially such as partake most of this subtill mercuriat metall to keepe within the cancells and compasse of right reason and I wish them not to thinke so well of their owne wits as to meddle with matters farre above their reach and too sublime for their apprehensions and to keepe

eating of fish And the same father affirmeth that the Montanists lived on bread salt and pulse and dranke onely water they abstained at certaine times from flesh and wine The Maniches of one Manes a Persian hereticke so called about the yeere of our Lord 247. among many other and destestable errors brought in this also of abstaining from certaine meats as all manner of flesh egges milke and all things made of the same the reasons see in S. Augustine They forbad also the use of wine were it never so new and yet permitted the use of grapes The same hereticks forbad also the use of marriage It is also to be observed that all this abstinence was only forbidden their elect ones and such as they tearmed perfect and initiated into their sacred mysteries but to their hearers who were but novices and beginners such meats were permitted The same heresie was againe about the yeere of our Lord 300. by one Priscillianus in France and Spaine renewed from whom it received also a new name And this same heresie as by many fathers it was spoken against so was it by many councels condemned Among the Russians or Muscovites the Metropolitans the Arch bishops and Bishops alwaies abstaine from flesh and yet when they invite any lay-men or other priests to their table they set flesh before them and yet may neither an Abbot nor Prior eat any Besides the Russians never eat of any thing killed by the hand of a woman esteeming it altogether uncleane and therefore in the absence of all mankind out of the house if they have any pullaine or other creature to kill the women stand in the house-doore holding a knife in their hands intreating any that passeth by to performe this kindnesse for them Now besides these afore-mentioned severall sorts of abstinence there is yet another voluntary abstinence which is miraculous as that of Christ Moses and Elias which is beyond the reach of any ordinary person although we read of many strange stories of such as fasted not onely many daies weekes and moneths but even many yeeres also as hath been declared already The last kind of abstinence is involuntary when as any one is forced against his will to fast and is divers waies procured whereon I will not now insist The excellency then of a right abstinence may evidently appeare which is not properly an abstinence from any one particular kind of food either totall or for a time but a sober and moderate use of all the creatures at all times especially in sickenesse as it is sometimes necessary for a time to abstaine from all and sometimes from some sorts of food In health moderation and temperance are never out of season and totall abstinence at sometimes required and that both for preventing infirmities and sometimes a religious abstinence is to be observed as hath been said already As for religious abstinence from certaine kinds of meats not I but the holy oracle it selfe which cannot erre doth plainely evince to be a doctrine of devils And here by the way if there were no other marke it may easily appeare that the Church of Rome is an apostaticall and hereticall church and jumpeth just with the Hereticks of antient times whom the Fathers of the Church have confuted They would beare the world in hand they abstaine from flesh in Lent and some other daies A great matter indeed when they are fed with the best fish they can come by dressed with the most curious sauces and afterwards well washt downe with the best wine or other strong drinke Besides the variety of banqueting stuffe march-panes and varieties of other junkets all which notwithstanding this must needs be accounted a strict abstinence and fast especially if these things come but in the name of a drinking Now would I willingly aske one of their wisest prophets whether a peice of powdered beefe or other meat such as wee ordinarily use or a dish or two of dainty fish well dressed it may be with wine sauce and divers good spices and afterwards made to swimme in the belly with good wine be more inciting to lust It is well knowne that wine yeeldeth a more speedy nourishment and is farre sooner distributed through the body a little quantity therof more cheereth and cherisheth the drooping spirits and with lesse oppression and withal inciteth more to lust than a great quantity of flesh which must lye a long time heavy in an ordinary stomacke before it bee concocted and thorow the body distributed and then by assimilation and agglutination converted into aliment And this is the judgement of all our both antient and later learned Physitians yea doth not even ordinary experience instruct us in this truth And yet here is no small quarrell because we will not assent to their Pharisaicall superstition and will not in every thing jumpe with them in their erroneous judgement And I pray you is not this a meere mockage that a little before Lent especially on Shrovetuesday by the French called Mardy-gras or fat tuesday and by some here in former times gut-tide they let the reines loose to all manner of lasciviousnesse and all excesse of riot pampering their bellies with the best cheere the most exquisite wines and strong drink is to be had assuming to themselves liberty of doing what they list addicting themselves to dancing dicing drabbing and all manner of other insolencies insomuch that one would thinke all the divells in hell and all these foule fiends were then set at full libertie in this equalling if not exceeding the heathenish Bacchanalia And which is yet more their Romish god the Pope must that day depart the citie of Rome and then all manner of insolencies and outrages greater than which if as great were scarce ever by any heathens committed of all sorts without any controll there committed And in this is verified the saying of that Florentine Secretary to bee true that if the court of the Pope with his Cardinalls were translated from Rome and placed among the Switzers a people in those times most ingenuous and freest from all manner of exoticke vices they would in a short space become the most wicked factious people in the whole world in so great credit was then this court of Rome even in the esteeme of those who made profession of the same religion But these and a thousand more of their pranks are better knowne to the Christian world than I can relate them My purpose is onely here to let the world know how senslesse and absurd is this superstitious kind of abstinence from flesh onely whereof like proud Pharisees they make so great an ostentation and would put out the eyes of the world that they should see nothing in the cleere Sun-shine And yet what is all this but a renuing of the antient heresies lately mentioned and renuing heathenish superstition Nay it doth plainely and evidently appeare

away from the other and could not indure either to come neere or indure the sight one of another and when the one was brought at unawares into the presence of the other they cryed out that they were in that case as though they were all pricked with pins and needles and hated as much one another a● did ever two of the mortallest enemies that lived on earth Their Land-lady a stout and couragious Gentlewoman commiserating this distressed couple and suspecting a knave accustomed to play such prankes and living in the same towne sent for him to her owne house and taking him aside into a private roome drew her knife and vowed shee would presently cut his throat with her owne hands if hee redressed not the wrong hee had done her tennants who after a saint deniall at first yet promised hee would presently accomplish her desire which as soone was performed for this villaine went but a little way into an adioining closset where with his knife he digged out of the ground a point with certaine knots on it with a crosse sticke and I remember not if any thing else after the untying of which knots accompanied with some secret whispered words this couple came presently together without any feeling of these former painfull accidents and ever after that loved one another in such a manner as became such as were ioined in that honorable estate And this I had from the womans owne mouth who was so served as likewise from the relation of the Gentlewoman her selfe of whom I learned all these particular passages Besides this same Gentlewoman told mee that another time all her pigeons came flying out of the Dove-coat and would not by any meanes any of them goe in the which this same Gentlewoman perceiving used this same fellow after the former fashion and he presently went up within the Dove-coat and tooke out of a hole a crosse sticke with a little salt and I know not what else and before the fellow came downe three or foure rounds of the ladder the pigeons were all got in and continued their former custome Besides I was credibly informed by many of good worth that this practice towards new married couples was there so common that many for this cause married in the night time and yet many times the Priest himselfe that married them was the worker of this villainy who even as he married them would use this charming or inchaunting call it which you will And I was informed of three neigbouring Priests in the three next adjacent townes to this Gentlemans dwelling who ordinarily played such prankes And while this lasted there was neither love betwixt those parties nor the man able carnally to know his wife And these relations I had from Papists themselves As for the Protestants I speake it unfainedly before God I never remember that I heard it practised among any of them either in that Kingdome or any other place of Christendome where I have travelled farre lesse did I ever heare any of their Preachers to be tainted with any such infamous courses It is then apparent that this was no vertue or power in these things whereof use was made but was the immediate operation of Satan who by Gods permission and for causes best knowne to himselfe sometimes suffered Satan to afflict the bodies of men after strange manners the which by the history of Iob is apparent And as for these amorous potions wee finde they prove rather poisons than produce any amorous effect as by that wee have already said of the Poet Lucrece may appeare And a late Writer allegeth out of divers Authors the truth of this tenent Cornelius Nepos saith he and Plutarch have written that Lucius Lucullus Emperour having drunke an amorous potion given him by his wife Calisthene became fist furious and mad and afterwards died The like is related of Caligula the Emperor who having received of his wife Caesonia a like medicine became mad therewith and this was supposed to be made of that so much talked of Hippomanes And yet even in the opinion of Aristotle this Hippomanes and that they write of it is nothing but a meer fable of old women and the invention of such as make a profession of Sorcerie But even many of the same heathen Poets who plead for all that may procure love do often disclaime these amorous medicines as may at length in their writings appeare And many times a love potion is pretended to colour a great deale of knavery and many times a pretense of the affections to be forced by some such meanes is made a stalking horse to hide and cover our owne foule lust Mine Authour rehearseth to this purpose a history Wee have knowne saith Henry Jnstitoris and James Sernger Doctors in divinity an old woman who with her love-drinkes not only bewitched and inchaunted three Abbots one after another but likewise as the common report goeth yet at this same time amongst the fryers of that convent that shee made them all three to die and set the fourth besides himselfe And this strumpet is not ashamed to confesse in publike that shee hath not only done but continueth still to doe the same villainy and that these Abbots are not able to withdraw themselves from her love and that by reason they had eaten as much of her dung as her arme was bigge And this woman yet liveth say they by reason none hath as yet given us any charge to bring her before any Iudge that shee might be punished But saith mine Authour I am of opinion that this dung shee saith shee hath made them eat was nothing else but their filthy lust and pleasure in the which as in a stinking filthy mire these Monkes being now as it were drowned and having so often now tasted of this carnall and filthy lust with this old strumpet they were now at length as it were so poisoned and bewitched therewith that they were never after able to leave this beastly sin and returne againe to their right wits The same Author bringeth another history out of Plutarch of a yong maid belov'd of Philip father to Alexander the great This Philip King of Macedonie fell in love with a young maid of meane condition and degree this maid by reason of the great disproportion betwixt these regall riches and her poore pedigree without any great difficulty yeelded to this great King that which hee demanded This being brought to Olympias the Queene it is no marvell if shee tooke it ill the which did yet the more trouble her in that it was reported that by meanes of amorous potions shee had attracted the Kings affections much therefore mooved at this matter she sends to the lodging where she lived commanding to bring her to her with a stedfast purpose and resolution to shut her up in some dungeon or else to send her away into some remote country Being brought into her presence and perceiving her beauty and comely countenance the excellency of