and cheerish it For if it be sincere and pure not mingled wyth anye straunge or forrayne quality it causeth tranquillity of minde frameth maners in good order fashiō and finally qualifyeth and calmeth all affections The minde of man to honestie it frames And vvith the loue of vertuous life enflames But if it be any whitte infected or wyth anye vyce soyled then is the quietnes of the minde disturbed and stirred to manye inconuenient enormities For as great blustering wynds vppon the Sea and Lande cause greeuous terrible and raginge tempestes and much other harme to ensue So likewyse if the Spirites be disquieted oute of frame they ingender and procure diuers sortes of affections in the minde carye the same mauger all reason like a shippe wythout guide and Rother vppon the rockes of sondry inconueniences Now the thinges wherewyth our inwarde Spirites are moste dulled quenched and damnifyed are these fulsome Ayre ouermuich carnal copulation vnseasonable watching excessiue heate chafing and labour longe fasting heauines of the minde and sadnesse Accordinge to that saying of the wyse man A mery hart maketh a lustie age but a sorovvfull Spirit dryeth vp the bones Heauinesse bringeth olde age before the times and carefulnes vveareth avvaye a mans dayes But quiet and seasonable sleepe good pure wel relished wyne meery company moderate exercise sweete sinelles and fragraunt sauours refreshe the Spirits quicken and reuiue them yea being dulled and greatly impayred Which is euident to be seene in such as falling into traūces and lying for a time as dead yet by the smell of sweete sauours are broughte againe and recouered into theyr former state For seinge that the Spirite is a certayne vapour effluence or expyratiō proceding out of the humours it standeth vs vppon to vse the moste exquiste diet that may be to th end that the meates and nourishmēts being laboured into good holesome iuyce may make the Spirits pure syncere and perfect And thus sweete ayre pleasaūt sentes deuoyd of grosse and fustie vapours strykinge vp into the brayne do marueylously comfort and clarifye the instruments of the Senses and enable them to do perfourme al theyr proper actions And although the Heart in a mā be as the Wel spring or fountaine from whom the Spirits are deriued because the Arteryes come from it euen as synewes from the Brayne and veynes from the Lyuer yet notwithstanding accordinge to the diuersitye and nature of the place they are called by other names and haue other powers appropriate vnto them Of these and al other faculties reigning in man the principall and oryginall beginning is at the very principles and beginninge of generation to witte generatiue seede and femynine bloude which be afterwarde conserued and maynteyned by nourishmentes euen as the flame is wyth oyle and out of these the Spirits proceede For the better vnderstāding of all which things I will particularly set downe the procreation of the Spirits wyth theyr nature power differēce and effectes beginninge first at the powers and faculties natural For by theyr office is it brought to passe that the meate we eate is concocted turned into the nourishmēt of the body Also ther be foure vertues whereby all lyuing Creatures wyth meate receyued are nourisshed encreased The first attractiue the secōd retentiue the third digestiue and the fourth expulsiue To wich vertues or powers appendant and belonging to all the parts of the body the first chiefe originall of the Spirites oughte to be referred For first assoone as the meate is mynced chawed wyth the teeth it descēdeth into the stomack beinge thither attracted then digested and made substantiall and turned to the proper nourishmēt and encrease of the member And such part or porcion thereof as serueth not to this vse it refuseth and reiecteth Here therefore the Spirite hath his first beginning And if nature be good stronge in this office of digestion it happeneth thereby that the Spirites be made pure cleare and syncere but if concoction bee hindred or any other distemperatnes happen thē is the meate altered and chaunged into vaporous belchinge stinking fumes and fulsome breathing which ascending vp out of the stomack disturbe and hurt the brayne and minde insomuche y such persons are easely quicklye prouoked to brawlinge chiding strife and dissention For when the Humours be not sufficiently and ynough concoted and attenuate vnpure Spirites proceede out of them enforcing a manifest alteration of the state aswell of the body as of the minde And therefore in anye wyse cruditie is to be auoyded because it maketh ill humours troubled Spirits aswell of meates of good iuyce as of those y are bad albeit the diseases engendred by want of concoction of meates hurtfull bee worse and of more daunger For they cause loathsome smelles and fulsome belchings and make the body to breake oute illfauourably in euerye place wyth scabbes botches blaynes and mangmesse For when there is aboundance of humours in the body it cānot be chosē but Agues must nedes bee engendred of that continuall obstruction and putrefaction and stoare of diseases muste needes spring oute thereof vnlesse those excrementes by continual labour and conuenient exercise be purged and the humours reduced into good bloud For then a sweete pleasaūt sente proceding therout comforteth the head and tempereth and connenientlye moysteneth the brayne Otherwyse if concoction be troubled there do strike vp into the head grosse fumie vapours such as by exāple we see greene woode to make that is smered and couered ouer wyth pitch and talowe And hereupon it happeneth that the minde sometime conceyueth straunge and absurde imaginations yea sometimes falleth into dotage rauing madnesse phrensie melancholy furie or some other distemperaunce But if the Stomacke do his parte and office throughly if concoction be not altogether hindered and that the passages aboute the Lyuer and the other partes of the body do giue free passge to the humours then the vaspours ascēding vp into the head are nothing so hurtfull neyther do they greatlye disturbe and trouble the inward minde and yet is not a man altogether cleare and free from affections but they be such I saye as hee hath in his owne power easely to qualifye stay and inhibite Naturall Spirite therefore beinge made of the purest alimente in the Lyuer is the beginninge of the residue For by it is the vitall spirite and the animall also nourished insomuch that the power or facultie animall vseth the spirit natural as an instrument to these great affections and motions whereunto retecting and litle regarding right reason we are many times prouoked For euen as in a ciuill tumulte and sedicious vprore among the common people the Magistrate hath much ado to appease and mollifye the wilfull peoples rage and headinesse so likewise reason is not able easely to subdue the lewd affections and vnbrydled motions that grow by immoderate gurmandyze surphet and dronkennesse
For who is hee that being throughly whittled in drinck doth not beastly rushe into venerous luste and filthy desires For when the body is bumbasted wyth drincke and bellycheere the priuities and secrete partes do swel and haue a marueylous desire to carnal coiture Hereof it commeth that suche persons are delighted wyth vnchaste Rhythmes and songes of rybaldry odious to honest eares and pernicious to the mind vndecent hopping and dauncing vnseemely clipping and kissing and much other filthy behauiour By this meanes that mynsing mynion throughe her fyne and lasciuious daunfynge caused the heade of holy Iohn Baptiste the forerunner of Christe to be chopped of for the kingee mynde was so enchaunted wyth her filthy and pernicious loue that cleane abādoning all reason and right iudgemente he graunted to her the head of him whose holsome admonitions and counsell hee was wonte before pacientlye to heare and well to like of Which Euangelical example is a warning to all Noble men and as many as haue the gouernmente of common weales that they cruelly rage not agaynste the innocente neyther tormente and put to death such as painefully and syncerely preach the truth but rather by all meanes to wythstande and roote oute such as be fauourers of factions enter into any practises contrary to righte and conscience onely to disturbe the publique tranquillity and to preiudice theyr Country The workemanship and frame of mans body consisteth of manye partes and therein as in the state of a Common wealth be conteyned many orders and sondry offices In the Common wealth there be the poore Comminaltie lowest in degree in which nōber are reckned drudges Porters Saylers Coblers Tinkers Carters Tipplers handy Artyficers filthy Bauds Butchers Cookes Botchers and such lyke next in degree to them are Marchants and Trafiquers amonge whom some by crafte and subtiltie enueigle and deceyue others of meaner calling and ability albeit there be also of them which practise theyr trade honestly and commendablye not by collusion and fraudulēt dealing but by godly and necessary meanes After them are the high Magistrates and Peeres of the Realme who by due admynistration of the Lawes and politicall ordinaunces keepe the rude multitude in due order of obedience and see publique peace and trāquillity maynteyned Last of all are they whose office beinge of higher authority do instructe and trayne vp the residue in the true knowledge of Christian religion and to plant in them an vndoubted fayth of theyr saluation at God the Fathers hande throughe his sonne Christe The like order comelynesse and agreemente is in the body of man wherein euery part doth properly orderly execute his peculiar office And hereuppon S. Paule by example of the harmonye and agreement of mans body and all the parts therof taketh occasion to perswade and exhort euery man to do his office and duty and carefullye to labour in his vocation For all the members of the body be so lyncked and knitte together and such participacion and cōsent is betweene them that if one of the smallest toyntes or the little toe be hurt or payned the whole body is distempered and oute of quiet And thus as Chrysostome sayth if the foote or one of the fingers endes bee pricked wyth a thorne or other sharpe thing al the other mēbers are ioyntly greeued aswel as they in so much that the head which is the honourablest parte of all other stoupeth to beholde it the eyes looke downe the hands offer theyr diligent seruice to pull out the pricke and to binde vp the wounde So lykewyse there is no part of the body which in such case desyreth not to help his afflicted fellow member Aptly therefore and very properly as Liuius witnesseth did Menenius the Oratour for example vse this persuasion at what time the commō people in a ciuill broyle rebelliously disobeyed stubbernelye maligned the Senatours and Nobility likening this theyr iarring and discorde to the sedicious contencion and falling out of the members of mans body amonge themselues By which witty deuysed fable he perswaded thē to forsake theyr mad enterpryses and to returne euery man in peace home to his owne house For as in the bodye so lykewyse in a common wealth mutuall sedition and ciuill variaunce tendeth to the spoyle and ouerthrowe of the whole but contrarywyse Concorde keepeth and vpholdeth all things preserueth aswel the Common wealth as the body of man in perfecte staye and order Howe frendlye they all do agree together and how of so many partes euery member doth perfourme his office and duty euery man in himself by experience seeth For there is no part nor mēber thereof be it neuer so small but it caryeth with it not onely a comly shape and proporcion but also otherwyse serueth for some necessary vse and purpose of the whole body and euery part thereof And first to begin from the lowest to the highest The Foundement Entrailes Stomacke procure the sustenaunce and healthe to the chiefe members by whose helpe mynisterie the meate being throughly digested is proportionably distributed by the veynes vnto euery seuerall part of the whole body But if the Entrayles appointed for the concoction of nourishmente bee weake and feeble or if any other impedimente or fault be in them whereby the meate concocted cānot haue due recourse and passage to nourish the body thē doth al go to wrack and turne into corruption mynistringe matter and occasion to Agues and all other kinde of diseases Which by certayne tokens maye partly bee knowen and felt aforehand that a man in such case commonly loatheth his meate hath a puling stomacke and is enclyned to gaping vomite stretching stiffenes in his body And because the Spirits exhaled by humours do participate with other qualityes therby distēper the brayne it commonly happeneth that such persons become thereby wayward testye and verye easely caryed into sondrye other affections of the mynde For natural Spirite being caused in the Lyuer cannot be made pure neyther attenuated into ayrie substaūce vnlesse that viscousnesse be clearely purged free from all affection But vitall spirite hath his originall procreation and beginninge of the naturall which is spread and diffused from the hearte by Arteryes into all the bodye frameth in mā diuers maners accordinge to that grossenes or subtilitie which it receyueth partly of the nourishmente and partly of the condition of the Ayre and state of the Regiō So they that dwell Northward and in cold regions by reason of grosse bloud and thicke Spyrites are seene to be bolde and full of venturous courage rude vnmanerlye terrible cruell fierce and such as wyth very threatening countenaunce and manacinge wordes make others to stande in feare of them As concerning any daungerous exploite they are not a whitte afrayde to hazarde theyr bodyes in the aduenture of anye perillous extremitie Which courage and disposition of nature is not to be founde amonge the people of Asia for
plausible delightfull and populer I will depaint and set downe y nature and condition of the Humours that rule and beare sway in mans bodye because they produce and bringe forth their lyke qualities For Bloud is partaker of Hoat and moyste Choler of hoat and Dry Phlegme of Cold and moyste and Melancholie of Cold and dry Therefore that Temperament which is Hoate and moyst may very well be referred to a Sanguine man Hoat and dry to a Cholerique and so forth of the rest but yet so that wee confesse the Complexion and temperament of maÌ„ not to grow or proceede elsewhere then of the Elemental qualities for of theÌ„ haue they theyr names not of y Humours First therefore there be iiii Elements Fyer Ayre Earth Water which of al things made are the original beginnings Next are the Qualities that is to say the myxture of Hoat Cold Mayst and Dry of whoÌ„ proceede the differences of Complexions Last of all the foure Humours whose force and Nature the seede comprehendeth and conteyneth wythin it vnto whom besyde the qualities which are to it in steede of an Instrumente and not of a woorker the chiefe cause next vnder God of the fourmyng and creation of al the parts is truly to be attributed These holesome humours to the conseruation of health and mayntenaunce of lyfe are right necessary and profitable For of them do consist and of them are nourished the entyer parts of all Creatures and for this cause so long as a man lyueth he can neuer want these without great detrimeÌ„t dauÌ„ger of his health Notwythstanding according to the course of time and season of the yere according to the quality of the ayre enclosing vs accordinge to the condition of the place where we dwel and according to the nature of ech age they are encreased or dimynished For Bloud being the best of all the humours and endued with heate and moysture is in his chiefe pryme force in the Spring season namely peculier and proper to lustye flourishinge age which commonly is of a sanguine and ruddie colour which neuerthelesse wanteth not also in the other Natures Phlegme being like vnto water is of nature colde and moyst and taketh his encrease in wynter and engendreth diseases like vnto it selfe Choler beinge of qualitie hoate and drye resembleth tyer hath his most force in Sommer which although in sight and touching it appeare moyst and of colour yelowish like Maluesey yet in operacion power and effect it is hoat of ardent nature Melancholie not vnlike to Earth cold drye encreaseth and taketh force in Autumne this is the dryer and grosser part of bloud and the dreggie refuse thereof All these differences of humours wheÌ„ a veine is opened for it is not all pure bloude that gussheth thereout is plainly of all men to be perceyued First before it be cold it doth shewe and represent to the eye an ayrie fomy Spirit which by and by vanisheth awaye then an exact pure licour of most perfect and excellente ruddynesse y which is pure and right bloude in which there swymmeth Choler and sometime toughe clammye Phlegme sometime liquide and thinne according to the nature condition and state of maÌ„ Last of all if you tourne vp the whole masse or lumpe you shall finde Melancholie altogether of colour blacke And thus euerye humour abundinge in the bodye bewrayeth it selfe by his owne proper colour insomuch that sometime y bloud that issueth out of the veynes liquefyeth and is dissolued into Choler or Phlegme or clottereth thickeneth into MelaÌ„cholie reteyneth either no colour or very litle of bloud And if a man were disposed by taste to haue further knowledge in these humours he maye with his tongue and palate aswell iudge and discerne the relyce and tallage thereof as he doth their colour by his eye For Bloud is sweete in a maner of the relyshe and tast of mylke because it is much like and of kinne vnto it Choler is bitter of the nature of Gall Phlegme vnsauery as water and without all qualitye so longe as it is not rotten nor myxt wyth other humours for then is it eyther salt or sowrishe Melancholie is sharpe eigreâ— tarte These tastes and relyshes there is no maÌ„â—hat perceyueth and feeleth not when as in voanyting perbraking hee casteth vp any of them yea in sweate and euen in the spettle these tastes are manyfestlye descryed perceiued for of these hâ—â—mours they haue participate their powers facultyes and with their qualityes are they endned ¶ Of a Hoate and moyst Complexion and by the way of the disposition and nature of a Sanguine man The ij Chapter HAuing heretofore set downe the descriptioÌ„ of symple Complexions and temperatures which bee so termed for that they consiste of one onely quality bearyng swaye and dominion more theÌ„ any of y rest by course of my purposed work I am next to entreate of them that are compouÌ„d For in the very beginning and first entrauÌ„ce of this worke my promyse and ful intent was to set downe and describe such a Complexion and state of body as was in euery point perfect and absolute and to repulfe keepe away al such harmes and inconueniences as in anye wyse mighte empayre health or brynge the bodye from his good state into worse case and taking I haue therfore thought it good here in this place first to inserte the temperament that is hoat and moyst because it is nâ—ereste and lykest to the best For no state of body sauing onely the best and chiefeste is better or more commendable then this nor any that longer prolongeth life and keepeth backe Didage so that the same consist and be wythin y limittes and compasse of temperatnes that is of hoate and moyst Therfore sithens this state among al that be compound is accoÌ„pted chiefeste wee muste stande vppon the discourse therof the more narowly and precysely and the rather because sundry PhysitioÌ„s make no mo but soure differences grounding their reasons and not altogether painly that it is not possible as Galene wytnessethâ— that any temperature or distemperature can long continue alone and symple For somuch as necessarilye it adopteth and taketh to it an other For y Hoate consumynge wastinge moysture engendreth and bryngeth drynesse Cold consuming wasting nothing after a sorte encreaseth humour Semblably the Dry quality in those ages that a Creature groweth and encreaseth maketh it hoater but when it decreaseth and draweth towarde decay it maketh colde and dryeth the solide partes of the body but the Receyuers and conceptacles of the humours it filleth wyth excrements which thing in Oldmen is plainly to be discerned perceyued who abouÌ„de and are ful of Phlegme spitting spatteringe aâ— theyr mouth with their Noses euer dropping and sneuillye Which thing later Phisitions eueÌ„ of our time as yet obseruing reiecting symple temperatures which notwythstanding may not wel be
so shakâ— of and forgotteÌ„ appoint onely foure to wit them that be coÌ„pound vnto whoÌ„ they haue geeuen names not of their qualities but somwhat vnaptly of those coÌ„monly termed knoweÌ„ humours y is to say SaÌ„guine Cholerique Phlegmatique MelaÌ„cholique by y squyer leauel of whoÌ„ they wold haue these 4. differeÌ„ces of coÌ„plexioÌ„ or teÌ„perature to be reduced tryed Which dealiÌ„g reasoniÌ„g of theirs as it sauoreth of populer iudgmeÌ„t learning to the common sort very plaussble so standeth it not with the precise opynion and censure of them that would haue eche thing skanned and measured in his righte nature and kinde In the meane season I as one desirous to recoÌ„cyle Physitions thus factiously iarrynge in opynion and woulde God this vniformitye and attonement were also broughte to passe in matters of ReligioÌ„ for the better quieting of many mens Consciences both parties shall suffer the chiefe place to be assigned and geeuen to the hoate and moyst Complexion excepting alwayes as I said before the temperatest of all whereunto as at a marcke we must direct our mynd and leauel our whole matter that by it euery man may trye his owne nature which so loÌ„g as it is in his perfect strength vigour quality produceth bringeth foorth a Sanguine man. And thus there is in a maner no differeÌ„ce neither preiudiciall to anye partye eyther to call it by the name of a hoate and moyst Complexion or els by the terme of a Sanguine man who by the benefite of this holesome humour conteyneth hath within him these qualities albeit Bloud it selfe for wee will keepe all thinges wythin their prescripte limittes doth not engender and cause heate and moystnes but rather heate and moysture produceth Bloud Now Bloud of all iuyces and humours is the best and to mans life an alimente and maintener chiefly appropriat famylier and domesticall for throughe the force furtheraunce of vitall Spirite which is the preseruer and seÌ„der of natural heate into euery part of the bodye Bloud is conueighed by the cunduytes and Vesselles of the Arteryes and Veynes so both nourisheth mainteyneth and preserueth the whole body And for that this pure cleare defecate loouely and amyable Iuyce is the special thing that conserueth euery lyuinge Creature in his beynge wherein also consisteth the lyfe and vigour of euerye nature that lyueth by breath therefore the Hebrew Lawmaker Moses by the direction and appointmente of God himselfe forbadde all maner of bloud to be eateÌ„ because the lyfe of al Creatures coÌ„sisteth in bloud is therwyth nourished and mainteyned euen as the flame of a Candle is with the Oylie weeke as it plainly appeareth by a man that bleedeth verye much whose bodye is then in euery part cold wanne for want thereof fayntinge and in a maner readye to geeue vp the Ghost I haue knowen many whose vitall spyrite bleedinge out and yssuinge together wyth their bloud haue been thereby brought into great daunger of their liues And therefore this treasure of Lyfe must moste carefullye be conserued because it is of all Humours the most excellent wholesome Nowe as the Arteries which abounde more wyth vitall spyrite then wyth bloud spring from the heart so the Veynes which conteyne more bloud then ayrie spyrite proceede and spryng froÌ„ the Lyeuer and are dispersed abroad in brauches and fibres into euerye yea the verye furtheste places of the body For the Lyuer is the shoppe and chiefe workemaster of grosse thicke bloude althoughe the first oryginall thereof be ascribed to the Heart by whose power faculty the bloud is made and throughly wrought being endued wyth vitall spyrite conueigheth naturall heat to eche part of the body Bloud and vital Spyrite are in their chiefest Pryme and most abound in lusty and flourishing yeares albeit there is no age that lacketh the same although in old worne age bloud begynneth to draw to a coldnes the vital spyrit then neyther so hoate neither so stronge and effectuous which thinge as it is in them well to bee obserued and perceyued by their frequente gestures and often moouing of the body and the partes thereof yet specially maye it be seene noted by their colour which in a yonge lusty Stryplyng and youthfull body of good constitution is ruddy and fresh but in them that be further stryken in yeares or further of from this temperamente is not so pure so beautifull nor so pleasaunt to behold for that all their comelynesse beauty is eyther faded awaye or throughe some euill humours and hidden imperfection or blemishe appeareth in them worse then in the yonger sort So many being affected or disteÌ„pered in their Splene wombe Lyuer ventricle and Lunges are commonly either pale yelow tawnie dunne duskie or of some other ill fauoured colour There is no surer way sayth Galene certainly to knowe the humours and iuyce in a Creature then by the colour and outward complexion If the body loke very whyte it is a token that phlegme in that body chiefely reigneth most aboundeth If it be pale or yelow it argueth the humour to bee greatly Melancholique and Cholerique and the bloude to be freshe and reddye if it be blackish it betokeneth blacke adust Choler specially if no outwarde accidentall occasion happen as great heate or chafing labour or wearynesse or if the mynde bee not intoxicate and perplexed wyth affectes and passions as Angre Ioye Sorow Care pensyuenes for these make the humours sometyme to resort vnto the skynne vtter parts and sometime to hyde and conueyghe themselues farre inwardly and for this cause wee see men y are fumish and testy to be in a marueylous heat proceeding not of any sticknesse or discrasse but of â–ª the motion and stirring of the humours againe them that be affrighted and in mynde amazed to be pale Some to loke as wanne as Lead some whyte and swartie sometyme blewyshe sometime of sondrye colours all which betoken crude humours and raw iuyce to beare rule and swaye in the bodye eyther of phlegme glasselyke toughe or of some other sort or els many rotteÌ„ humours clamped vp in y bodye which by outward tokeÌ„s and signes bewray shew themselues what they be and what they signifie They therefore that be of a hoate and moyst constitution and haue greate store of bloude wythin theim are of a purple and reddie coloure softe warme and smooth skinned comely of stature of reasonable feacture fleshye bodyed and a little roughe aburne heyred redde or yealow bearded and comely bushed of which feacâ—ure plight and bodely shape the Scripture witnesseth that Dauid was who beyng after that Saule was cast of and reiected appointed King and onnoyâ—ted by Samuel was of a brownish Complexâ—oÌ„ excellent beauty well fauoured in sight and 〈◊〉 â—â—tenauÌ„ce very cheerefull and amyable Such a comety grace and Princelye shape was to be scene in the moste victorious Prince Philip Kinge
to his admonitions or shryncke asyde and refuse the lore of his prescriptions and commaundmeÌ„ts For many being hoodwinked and bewitched wyth the tryfling doctrine and friuolous traditions of mans inuention reiecte and forsake the pure and cleare founteyne that perpetually yeldeth most abouÌ„dant store of the euerlasting water of lyfe and seeke after ryuers that are dryed vp and as Hieremie termeth it digge to themselues Cesternes and broken pitts that can holde no licour or drop of holesome dotryne That worthy constante and throughlye tryed Souldiour Iob bemoaneth his owne case offirming that in the nighte season hee was sore disquieted with troublesom dreames and dreadfull vysions For the nature office of Sleepe being nothinge else then a mitigation of labours a quiet surceassing for the time froÌ„ toyle and a refreshinge of the bodye with the busy cares and dealings of the day before wearied from these cares troubles did not his Sleepe in the nighte disburden and ease him but rather encreased and doubled the same that his minde still remayning terryfied with dreadful dreames and apparitioÌ„s For thus doth he reason with himself and these complaints doth he vtter in that his worthy dialogue or rather Tragicomicall discourse If I thincke to my selfe that my bed dâ— shall comfort mee and mitigate my griefe and that I shal haue some ease and refreshing vppon my Couch then troublest thou me vvith dreames and makest me afrayed throughe visions insomuch that I vvishe for death to come and make an end of al my sorovves As touching the inwarde notes of this complexioned body and his inclination of mynde for a man ought in ech point and respect throughlye to be viewed and considered a hoate and moyste quality incident to bloude produceth in men diuerse natures and accordinge to the more or lesse mixture of other humours frameth in them sondry maners and diuers dispositions They that be meere Sanguine and haue none or very litle Melancholy or Choler mixed therwyth as most neerelye approchinge to the nature and Sense of brute beasts are commonly doltes and fooles or at least not greatly cumbred wyth much witte For sytheÌ„s as Galene sayth sharpnes finenes of wit coÌ„meth of Choler ConstaÌ„cy and stedfastnes of Melancholie Phlegme to the framynge and disposinge of the maners helpeth nothing neyther standeth in anye steede it remayneth then that simplicity and foolishnes proceedeth of Bloud Thus are yong Cattell which in comparyson of the elder ones haue greate stoare of Bloude for the most part as wee see foolishe sotlike and bettleheaded as Kyddes Calues yonge Sheepe Lambes young wyeld Kidds or Roebuckes yong Kyttons and the yonge of all other dumme Creatures besyde and amonge Men the neerer that any one approcheth to the nature of brute Beasts the more lyke vnto them in maners and conditions is hee Which thing any that is but meanely skilled in Natures works may easely iudge and discerne euen by certayne significations of theyr eyes and countenaunce eche of which is as a glasse wherin to behold and whereby to discouer the inward affections of the mynde In many men there is a greate resemblance affynitie in nature wyth other Beastes and the further that these digresse from the puritie of teÌ„perament the lesse sway in them beareth Reason Iudgment Vnderstanding willingnes to doe good Wysedome and discretion to be short they are partakers of all those things that are commoÌ„ to Beasts And thus there bee many which eyther for lack of good educatioÌ„ or through this deprauatioÌ„ of Nature degenerate into Beastes and in all their actioÌ„s in one poynt or other resemble them in conditions Many like Wolues are bloud-suckers extortioners raueners Many like â—â—erce cruell outragious and terrible lyinge in wayte to sheede bloud and hunting theyr brother to death As the PriÌ„ce vvil so sayth the Iudge Lykewyse sayth Ezechiel Iehoakim is become a LyoÌ„ vvhich hath learned to spoyle deuour folk to make vvidovves destroy their houses make their Cities desert Some be as foyinge gesturous and counterfeâ—cting of any thing by ymitacion as Apes Some Forlyke are suttle wylie deceiptfull and crafty to entrappe and catche the innocent at aduauntage And in lyke sorte there be others which resemblyng the nature and conditions of other beastes and degeneratinge from theyr integrity and excellencie humaine eyther degenerate quite into Beasts or at least become much lyke vnto them As for ChildreÌ„ yonge Stryplinges aboute 14. or 15. yeares of age or vnder by reason that theyr bloude is pure and ful of swelling spyrit are still styrring quick nymble actiue wanton vnmodest malapert saucie proude wythoute wit and much giuen to toying and playinge for wee see them as wanton as Calues that is to say in mowyng with theyr mouthes in voyce gesture becks clapping of hands light songes vayne ioyfulnes where there is no cause immoderate myrth disordered fysking Vp downe and vncertayne motion gate all which do signify a shuttle waueryng nature a mynde subiect to great mutability and vncoÌ„stancy procedyng and caused of the boyling of theyr bloude wythin them which boyleth vp as it were seetheth in theyr Vâ—ynes euen as new Wyne Ale or Beere spurgeth and worketh in the Tunne Hereuppon the Netherlanders and Lowe Duchmen haue deuysed certayne prouerbial termes wherewyth they are wonte commonlye to quippe those yonge princockes and lustye gallantes whom they see ouerioyed or toofarre gone in wanton iolity makynge themselues as ridiculous and iestyng stockes to the whole companye Neyther are they incited to these immoderate pleasures through reason or auy well stayed discretion but by impotencie of mynde and wylfull affection digressing and swaruyng from modestye temperaunce and moderacion y lack wherof googleth theyr vnstayed heades and caryeth them into many inordinate pranckes of childishe insolencie They also bewraye theyr owne vnconstancie and vnstayed mynds by much shaking of their heads and continual playing and toying wyth theyr handes and feete insomuch that some accompt them no better then starke mad or persons distract of their right wittes Neyther do they sind themselues occupyed in any earnest matter that is to any good purpose neyther shew they forth eyther in woordes or deedes any piece of wysedome but vndeceÌ„tly for theyr age lasciuiouslye retourne vnto their boyishnes agayne whereas meeter it were in respect of theyr time passed nowe to fall to some thryft and to frame theyr lyfe after the prescription of some good order Hereuppon doe wee vse a Prouerbiall similitude taken of the nature and conditions of yonge Calues which in the Sprynge tyme of the yeare in the greene pastures when theyr bellyes be ful skippe and leape vp and downe wantonlye and toyingly fysking and iumpynge now this waye nowe that waye nowe rounde about one whyle raysing themselues vppon the forefeete an otherwhyle vpon the hynder Leggs whose maners fashyoÌ„s such yoÌ„g youthes as in their daily order of lyfe do imitate
and resemble are sayde in latine vitulari which is to bee as wanton and toying as a yonge Calfe or not to haue shedde all theyr Calues teeth or that theyr Iawes ytche with Caluishe wantonnes The Booke of Wysedome fathered and asscrybed vnto Salomon sayth Spuria vitulamina noÌ„ agent radices altas nec stabile fundamentum collocabunt Bastarde Slippes shal take no deepe rootes nor laye any fast foundation By these Phrases of speach we meane that wilfull and vnruly age which lacketh rypenes and discretion and as wee saye hath not sowed all theyr wyeld Oates but as yet remayne withoute eyther forcast or consideration of any thinge that may afterward turne them to benefite playe the wanton yonkers and wilfull Careawayes Seyng therfore that Adolescencie and youthful age consisteth in a constitucion of Hoat and moyst is fuller of bloud then anye other it is to this place therefore namely and specially to be referred Neither can any plighte or Complexion of the body more aptly be applyed vnto it then this for all the qualityes fashions and marks of this Age and State agree thereunto Which thing I see was well obserued by Horace in his description of the Nature inclination of youthful Age where he sayth A youthfull beardlesse Strypling voyde and free from Tutours checke VVith Horse and Hound doth raunge the fields and braue himselfe doth decke To vyce he pliant is as vvaxe to them that vvishe him vvell And vvarne him for his ovvne auayle rough churlish sharpe and fell A slender Husband for himselfe a vvaster of his gold High mynded rashe presumptuous in loue soone hoat soone cold And if they happen to lyncke themselues in companye wyth anye lewde Counsellours as in this slypperie and daungerous age commonlye is seene theyr fickle heades flingbrayned wits be easelye allured and drawen into follye and to pursue that waye which is worste For beynge now in theyr most wilfull age and standing vppon the most doubtful and daungerous poynt of al betweene vertue and vyce lacking experience and voyde of all good aduyse and counsel misse-led by the peeuish allurements of theyr associats they runne for the most part headlong vnto that which they see the common multitude embrace are readye to slyde into that trade of lyfe which of all other is worst and most pernicious Greene heades in greatest daunger are in doubtfull choyse they stand And hange in Ballaunce of deuyse vvhat trade to take in hand But if in lieu of these they harken and geeue good care to the holsome admonitions of some faythfull and vertuous Tutour and by his prescription frame the order of theyr lyfe and conuersation in theyr tender yeares for in this Age is Stuffe matter and towardnes both good and excellent if good education do polishe and a skilfull workeman haue it in handling no doubt they are to be broughte to much goodnesse For such is the force and power of bloud in mans body specially when throughe accesse of age it groweth to heate and dailye more more encreaseth in vitall spyrite that it causeth a promptnes of mynde quicknesse in deuyse and sharpenesse in practyze which by dailye vse exercyse atteyneth in th end to wysedome knowledge and experience of many things And thus by the benefite of nature and good bringinge vp it is broughte to passe that they be garnished wyth many excellent giftes of the mynde and throughe a readye vtteraunce in the discourse of matters bee to theyr Countrey a greate staye and ornament And althoughe hoate and drye natured men which are the Cholerique be right well furnished and skilfull in perfecte vtteraunce vehemence of speach and readynesse of tongue yet is there not in them such waighte of woordes and pythynesse of Sentences neyther can they so well rule their owne affections because in theyr reasonynges and discourses they be very earnest and hastye And this in such persons is not onelye by the pronunciation of their woordes but also by their swyft gate and hastye pace easye to be perceyued This difference also is betweene them that the Cholerique are bitter taunters dry bobbers nyppinge gybers and skornefull mockers of others but the Sanguine nothinge giuen that waye meddle not at all wyth such dogge eloquence neyther vse to hit men ouer the thummes wyth any such figuratyue flowtes whereat manye men are commonlye as heynouslye offended and take the matter in as greate snuffe as they would to be Crowned wyth a Pyssebolle but they be pleasaunt and curteous natured meerye without scurrility and ciuill without fylthy rybauldrye behauinge themselues orderlye in all companyes cumbersome and odious to none but delightfull and welcome to all But if it happen that Bloude bee alayed or myngled with other Humours and by course of Age to become hoate as namely if it bee mixed with yelowe Choler wherewyth the Humours are stirred vp or to participate with anye other Humoure whatsoeuer It is seene that as the mixture is so the manners disposition delighte trade and inclination of man falleth oute accordinglye As thus suppose a Bodye câ—ieflye to consiste of these three Bloude Choler and Melancholye whereof two partes to be Bloude and the other thirde parte to bee Choler and Melancholye equallye proportioned Of these three thus mixed together proceedeth such a Complexion and bodelye habite as produceth sundry motions affections and inclinations of the minde and which doth inwardlye dispose fashion and frame their Natures and dispositions yea before they breake oute into woordes enhablinge them fitte and meete to discharge and execute the parte of anye personne that wee either of oure selues take in hande or which by nature and publicke function is to vs assigned First Nature frames vs apt and meete To euery kinde of chaunce Sometimes she helpes somtimes vvith ire our harts doth vvound and launce Sometimes vvith thoughte to throvv vs dovvne vvith griefe and dule amayne Then aftervvard the tongue declares the mynds deuyses playne And as we see Nature in producing hearbes and floures and paintyng them out in braue attyre and colours to shew forth a most excellente and inimitable workemaÌ„ship and right gallantly to sette the same out to the gazing view of ech greedie eye clad wyth many and the same most pleasurable differences of goodly verdure some lyghte and entermedled wyth whytishe some of a sadde or darke greene some watrishe blunkette gray grassie hoarie and Lecke coloured whereof euerye one hath theyr proper vertues peculier effectes So likewyse Bloud beinge myngled wyth humours of other quality conceyueth other force and other colour and yet nathelesse not quite bereft and depryued of a Bloudy of Sanguine colour insomuch that it pearceth into the very innermost corners of the mynde incensing to sundry actions And althoughe the Planetts and Starres stretch oute theyr influence and extend theyr force mightely vppon these lower bodyes yet is it the Humours and Elemental qualityes which doe constitute the
when hee is cleane wyped from all his wealthe and bodelye strength hee mourne and wyth syghes bewayle his former wylfulnes and the decaye of his forspent and wearish body Therefore to escape cleare withoute takings any harme by immoderatly vsing this venerous acte so much space of time by Galene his prescription oughte to bee vsed betweene that neyther anye resolution bee thereby perceyued and felt neither lassitude And agayne that a man maye feele himselfe lighter and lustyer and hauing disourdened and disbalassed himselfe of his prouocatiue supersluous Sperme to fetch his breath the better Also a conuenient and fitte time ought to bee taken to witte when the bodye is meanelye constituted neyther too full nor too emptie of which matter elsewhere wee are to speake more at large But if anye Sanguine complexioned person the better to serue God be delighted in leading a single and vnmaryed lyfe by profession of chastytie him do I counsayle and aduyse very cyrcumspectlye and precysely to consider his owne state disposition and nature whether he be well able to qualefy and kepe vnder this disordered vnruly affection or no. For in such a waightye case a man must cyrcumspectly looke about him and very aduysedly forsee that hee do not inconsyderately tye himselfe to any profession wythout iudgemeÌ„t choyse and discretion least his foolish rashnes brynge him afterwards to repentaunce when he shall feele himselfe surcharged and vnhable to weild the burdeÌ„ which he hath takeÌ„ vppon him to beare For the Sperme or Seede of Generation being a redounding excremente and superfluous Humour residue and remayninge of the last alimente and comminge from the vessells of y Testicles wher it is exactlye fourmed and throughly laboured is employed to begette yssue yea the natural power faculty is desyrous to haue this collection of Humour to be purged and by the euacuatinge thereof to be eased of a troublesome and intollerable caryage euen as the other partes of the body for theyr partes desyre to bee disburdened of theyr superfluous excremeÌ„ts to wit vryne ordure spettle sweat sneuel spattling and Phlegme Right good and holesome therefore haue Ieuer deemed that worthy admonition and Counsell of CHRIST in the Gospel and of the Apostle lykewyse that they which can comprehend this matter and are able to perfourme and kepe it should remayne chast and ioyfully embrace the same as a heaueÌ„ly gyft assuryng themselues that Gods Diuine assistaunce in so godlye a purpose will not fayle them wythout which all that man purposeth or taketh in hand is frustrate vayne as besyde S. Paule the wyse Kyng Salomon witnesseth For it is not to bee doubted but a man may subdue and vanquish this slyppery affectioÌ„ althoughe verye hardly and by lyuing a continent lyfe maye perfourme his determinate resolution and vow so it be done and taken in hande onely vppon zeale and deuotion the better thereby to entend Gods seruice and geeue himselfe to heauenly conteÌ„placions For they that be wrapped in many cares and shakiÌ„g away from them all slouth and ydlenesse do mortifie themselues spend their time in watchinge hunger sparefeeding earnest study fasting and prayer continuall meditation of holy Scripture and painful preaching night and day wherby this kinde of Deuils is cast out they I say feele not themselues greatly moued in desyre to this thing For why these that I meane do willinglye voluntarily not forcibly superstitiouslye betake themselues to this kinde of life the better thereby to applye theyr euangelical function and more freely to intende the sacred study of Diuinity Of a colde and moyst Complexion which setteth out and declareth the condition state and nature of persons Phlegmaticke The iij. Chapter NExt after the Hoate moyst Constitution order requyreth to describe and set oute the Cold moyst Temperature wherein reigneth aboundeth Phlegme whereof after bloude no small porcion is diffused into euery part of the body And this Humour draweth somewhat neere to the nature of Bloude and is in affinitye with it both in respecte of essence and society of their conceptoryes For it is as it were a certayne Bloud vnconcoct or a rudimente and first beginning of Bloud yet vnperfect not exactly laboured a reseÌ„blaunce shew or paterne whereof we may well behold in Muste or new Wyne whyle it is yet hoate and newly taken wringed out of the Presse For as Galene righte learnedly noteth the subtyle and ayrte part of the Wyne which is the some or spurging therof boyleth vp to the toppe and vnderneath is an vnsauery Humour in relyce like to the nature of sweetishe water which being excocte settled cleansed and fyned from the dregges obteyneth and is broughte to the nature of pure and good Wyne And albeit Phlegme be whytishe and haue no rednesse in it at all yet being excoct and the coldnes thereof taken away and subdued by the force and efficacie of heate it is reduced and broughte into a ruddie fresh coloured licour And eueÌ„ as naturall Phlegme which participateth with a certaine sweetenes is through heate conuerted and wrought into Bloud and redde colour so likewyse Bloud in the Dugges or Teates partly of the nature of the place where it resteth and partly of the heate of the heart neere vnto whom the Pappes are placed is broughte and turned into Mylke whyte and gaye coloured For this cause some as superstitious Phylosophicall as Pythagoras abstayned not onely from eating of flesh but also from Egges and Mylk because they reckened and accompted the same no other then liquide flesh because the onâ— being a certaine space couered and kepte warme by the naturall heate of the Henne sitting thereuppon wil wythin fewe dayes bring forth a Chicken the other if the colour were chaunged they accompted euen very bloud But this seemeth to many a thing very strauÌ„g and prodigious that yonge Children newlye borne yea of the Male kinde haue Mylke in the Nypples of theyr Dugges runninge out eyther of it owne accord or easely with the fingers 〈◊〉 sed pressed out which thing I my selfe vpon a certaine time fynding by experience tryall true aduysed the partyes at certayne times to 〈◊〉 and force it out least otherwyse it should clotter congele and curd together into an hard substaÌ„ce For this Mylkie licour in children is engendred of the great and abundaunte alimente which at those â—ssues nypples and spoutes by nature of the place and helpe of the Heart which is the founteyne and Welspryng of heate is conuerted into Mylke Now the Mammiles or dugges which be the Receptacles of Mylke beinge spongie and hollow and the glandulous or kernellie flesh wythin them bloudlesse and whyte do transmute and alter that bloud which they receyue into Mylke for euery part of the body altereth and chaungeth his nourishment makynge it in colour similare lyke and familiar to it selfe And thus the generatioÌ„ of Mylk Sperme is made of bloud
throughlye and exactly concocted and of the nature of those parts wherin they be laboured become in colour as wee see white and mylkie Thus also the Lyeuer being of substauÌ„ce as it were coagulate bloud engendreth a raddy liquide substaunce the Lunges causeth a fomie froathie licour the commissures or setting together of the Ioyntes a glewish humour the toÌ„gue spettle the holow bones produce and bring forth white marowe as the Ridge bone of the backe the brayne do where al 's thinges are exactlye laboured For in Lambes and other yong cattel the marow is not white but bloudy Euery part therefore of the body worketh his humour like to it selfe and transmuteth it into the nature wherof it selfe is No man therfore ought to thincke it absurdly spoken in sayinge and affyrminge Phlegme by the force and facultie of the Lyeuer to be altered and chaunged into Bloud And this liquide thinne humour in the bodyes of all Creatures is to purpose and vse no lesse profitable then necessary For being conueighed euery way into the Veynes it qualefyeth and alayeth the heate of Bloud Choler finally it maketh the Ioyntes nymble and styrringe kepinge them from beinge stiffe and lumpish through drynesse and last of al it nourisheth all Phlegmaticke members and them continueth in lusty state And although there be commonly no certaine place assigned where Phlegne resteth yet the greatest part is still in the Stomack or ventricle wherin the meate is first boyled and altered into a thinne iuyce or liquide substaunce For we see men that haue surcharged theyr Stomackes in vomyting and perbraking sometimes to cast vp great abundance of loathsome clammie tough Phlegme or to scowre and euacuate the same through the guttes those I meane that haue excessiuelye and ingluuiouslye surphetted eyther in eating or drinking Whose heades consequently being filled wyth moystysh vapours those fumosities strykinge vpwarde as in a Stillatorie grow into a thicke fylthy and sneuillie phlegme whereby throughâ— coldnes of the brayne the parties becommeth subiect and open to sundrye diseases as the Poze Murre Hoarsenes Coughe and many others of which sort is the Rheume or distillation of humours from the heade wherewith in the Lowe Countryes of Belgia both rich and poore highe and low in Wynter season are much troubled fynde by experience to bee true and yet they be people commonly healthy and as sounde as a Bell. In perfect Health and throughly sound But vvhen that Phlegme doth much abound Insomuch that I sometimes am dryuen into a wonder to consyder how such abundance of filthie humours shoulde rest in the head which nature one whyle at the mouth an other whyle at the Nose and Throte expelleth and purgeth The head therfore and the Stomacke namely and much more then any of the other parts are pestered with the excrement of Phlegme specially if a man vse to eate such meates as be cold and moyst and discontinue exercyse whereby it happeneth that this humour being too crude is very hardly to be concocted and brought into an holesome iuyce profitable auayleable for the body For it is a certayne vliginous moystishnes and superfluous excrement which ought rather to be sent out and purged that waye which nature speciallye alloweth and whereby most conuenientlye she is wonte to exonerate herselfe For as the originall of this inconuenience beginneth first at the Stomacke and afterward infesteth the heade as we may plainly perceiue obserue by Wyne copiouslye quaffed and swilled which althoughe it descende downe into the Stomacke yet doth it assayle and distemper the heade it standeth vs therfore vpoÌ„ carefully to foresee y in those parts as litle of this Phlegmaticke excrement as may bee bee engendred because the harme and inconuenience redoundeth to the generall harme and detrimente of the whole body And as it fareth in a Realme or Kingdome in a Common wealth in a Cruile Pollicie or Corporation in anye Honourable householde or worshipfull Famylie so likewyse in the Body of man that disease of all others is moste daungerous ill which taketh his oryginall beginning at the heade and principall members For the harme diffuseth and spreadeth it selfe into all the inferiour partes of the body and them greatly damnifyeth As for more plainnesse let euery man take an example at any house which he enioyeth hath in occupation For euen as those houses that wil hold out neither wynde nor weather be very vnholesome to dwell in and a greate backfrend to health or when the Ridges or Roofes thereof bee ill tymbred and for wante of good lookinge too runneth in ruine and taketh water as often as anye rayne falleth So lykewyse as longe as the heade is distempered and affected wyth this baggage Phlegme and distilling Humour both it and the rest of the body can neuer be in perfect health For beinge it selfe of a cold and moyste nature it quickly drinketh vp vapours out of a watrish stomack beyng thereby replete wyth humiditye moysteneth likewyse those partes that be vnder it yea this distilling Phlegme is as noysome and greeuous to it as a brawling and scoulding wyfe is to a quiet man. For out of the heade continually do Humours distill and lyke soote oute of a Chymney fall downe into the Throate Eares Nose Eyes Breast and Lunges wherupon happen tumors swelling of the eyes Bleyreyednesse drynesse of sight whyzzing and running in the eares hardnesse of hearing and sometime behinde the eares Impostumes botches and wexekernelles besyde many sortes moe for the Instrumentes of the tongue be affected the voyce hindered yea sometime stopped that a man is not able to vtter out a plaine worde The Synâ—wes Pellicles Muscles Wesantpype and Veynes of the throte called Iugulares and the partes that serue to frame y voyce beyng surcharged wyth toomuch Humour as in dronkeÌ„ persoÌ„sis manifestly to be seene make the tongue vnperfecte foltering and stammering and all the members to reele and staggar their words double and not intelligible insomuch that at sometimes they bee not able to speake one plaine word nor in seÌ„sible tearmes to declare their owne meaning And thereby being by nature otherwise vnreadye and in vtteraunce staggering and now also throughly whitteled soaked in Wyne theyr tongue doubleth slammereth and foltereth a great deale more insomuche that they bring oute their wordes by stoppes and pauses like theÌ„ that haue the hicket such persons cannot speake softly and stillie because their voyce commonly is stopped and kept back which maketh them to force out their words the lowder They must therefore earnestlye striue and accustome themselues roundly and distinctly to deliuer out theyr wordes for otherwyse their tongue through defaulte and imbecillitye and lackynge stablenesse fayleth them and furthereth them nothing in theyr pronunciation but chatter babble so obscurely that no man can vnderstand any thynge of that they saye For we see them to be scarce able to vtter euen a few
Imaginacion of vvomen at the time of their cōception 40. 93 Infancie 29 Intemperature vvhat it is 34 Influence and force of the Moone 78 Inclinacion of nature 100 Ihon Baptist beheaded 10 Italians 17. their nature ibid. Iugglers 101 K. KErnellie fleshe in the dugges 108. alterethe bloud into milke ibid. Knovvledge of the case o four ovvn bodies verie expedient 2 L LEaning to a broken reede 144 Learned aged mē reuerēced in Englād 48 Lettice ill for the eyesight 125 Levvd thoughtes 14 Lyuer the Shop of bloud 89 Lyuer prouoketh and eggeth to carnall Iust 141 Lignum Aloes 126 Limitation for our prayers and vvishes 136 Lyquide meates sonest quickliest nourish 156 Long life hovv it may be orderly procured 68 Lupines a kinde of pulse the nature operatiō thereof 5 Lying in bed on the right side best 58 Lying vpright vpon the backe daungerous 58 M MAgo tamed a Lyon. 4 Maluesey 103 Mainteyners of health 1 Many good vvittes by ill education levvde cōpany marred 4 Mannes age 30 Man a VVolfe 96. An ape 97. A Lion A Fox c. ibid. Mammiles or dugges the receptacles of Milke 108 Manns corrupt nature more prone to ill then to good 122 Man daylie subiect to casualties 135 Matrimony pleasaūt and profitable the cause vvhy it vvas first by God instituted 6 Measurable feeding most holsome 7 Meates fitt for cold persons 65 Melancholie 86 Melancholie may be altered 4 Melancholie incidēt to al mē especially to Studentes 136 Melancholie of tvvo sortes ibid. vvherunto it is like ibidē Melancholy vvhat relish and tast it hath 137 Melancholie vnnatural of 3. sortes 146. 152 Melancholy enflamed vvhat colour it hath 147. Melancholy hath in it some heate 148 Melancholy cold vvhat affectes it causeth 148 Melancholy doltish or asselike ibid. Melancholy vvel tempered bringeth foorth excellent vvitts and sharpe iudgement 149 Melancholy hovv it may be qualified and expugned 152 Melancholik persons somtimes out of measure mery 139 Melancholick affections hovv they come 143 Melancholick persons fickle headed and inconstant 148 Melancholick persons lecherous 149 Melancholicke passions and certain histories of sundrie persons of that Complexion 150 Melancholick person fully persvvaded that hee had Frogs and Toades in his belly ibid Melancholick persons imagination of a longe nose ibid. Melancholick person that thought his buttocks vvere made of glasse 151 Melancholicke person that thought himself to be dead ibid. Melancolick persons are best to be laxatiue and soluble 152 Melācholick persons vvhē to be let bloud ibid. Melancholick persons diet 156 Members of the body hovv they agree and be lincked together 11. Memory good 69. hovv it may be restored 70 Memory vvhere it resteth 119. vvhat things be thereto hurtfull 120. is maintayned preserued in a temperate brayne ibid. ill in old folks children and vvhy ibid. Memory the gift of nature but by Arte preserued and holpen 121 Memory by healthynes strengthned by crudity and surphet spoyled 122. by light suppers preserued and bettered 123 Menenius a vvise oratour by telling a fine deuised Fable of the members of mannes body dissvvaded the Nobles and Cōmons from ciuile vprore discord 12 Men vviser then VVomen vvhy 81 Morphevv 134 Moyst nourishment fittest for children 49 Moist complexion 78. not geuen to be malicious spightfull fumishe and testy 80. their diet 82. their stint of sleepe ibid. Moistnes 79 Moisture feedeth and nourisheth heate 83 Murre 109 Musicke cheareth the minde 53 Milke 71 Milke is vvhite bloud 108. neuer eaten by Pythagoras and vvhy ibid. Milke in the breastes and dugges of young Infantes asvvel male as female ibid. vvhere it is generated and made ibid. Minde in moist complections 91 Minstrells 101 Milt and the vse therof 137. Hindreth agilitye of the body ibid. cannot be taken avvay 138. likened to a princes Exchequer ibidē prouoketh laughter ibid. being vvel in good case and plight causeth mirth and chearefulnes 141 being distempered affected or out of righte course causeth a heauy minde ibid. Mirth hovv it is caused 5 Mirth at the table 76 Mirth and pleasaunt company profitable for Melancholicke persons 5. 139. Mirth moderately vsed banquetting reuiueth the Spirites maketh a mā fresh coloured 154 Mixture of humoures compared to vvine 107 N NAturall heate 8. 60. Nature of Spermaticke seede and feminine Bloud 26 Nature of persons phlegmaticke 111 Northren people 13. 16 Nosce teipsum 3 Notorious villaines procede not from loutis he natures but from excellent mindes corrupted by levvde education marred 45 Notes of a dry complexion 68 Notes to knovv a Phlegmatick person and his nature 112 Notes vvherby to knovv a Cholerick complexion 129 Notes of a Melancholicke Complexion 145 Notes and nature of a Sanguine person 101 Nucha or the nape of the necke must be kepte vvarme 121 O Oldage 28. hath no certaine nūber of yeares appointed hovv long it lasteth as ech other age hath 20. Old men forgetful and vvhy 16. sometimes as lustie as youngmen and vvhy 28 Oldmen by nature drye but in condicion moyst 88. much harmed by vsinge carnall copulation and venerie 55. Olde grudges 122 Onyons ill for the eyes and memory 125 Oppilation of the Liuer hovv it commeth 104. hovv to bee auoided ibid. Oppilation and putrefaction the original cause of all diseases 10 P PArasites 101 Partes of the body subiect to Phlegme 117 Patrickes purgatory 146 Persons mere sāguine cōmōly starke fooles 96 Persons Apoplectique 129. hovv to restore thē to the right vse of their tongue ibid. Perturbations of the minde 59. 141 Philip king of Spayne 90 Phlegme the matter of bloud 107. the vse effect therof 109. vvhat place of the bodie it is in ibid. Diseases grovving through it ibid. Phlegme 86 Phlegme of 4. sortes 115 Phlegme svveete 116 Phlegme sovver ibid. Phlegme salt 117. harmes thereof ibidē Phlegme glassie ibid. Phlegme common to al men 118 Phlegmatique persons il coloured 146 Phlegmatique persons praysed 115 Phlegmatique persons must eate light suppers 115. Phlegmatique persons must vse exercise ibid. Playing vvith the head vvhat it signifieth 98 Pockes 134 Polycletus rule 33 Povver attractiue 9 Povver retentiue ibid. Povver digestiue ibid. Povver expulsiue ibid. Poze 109 Proportion of bloud to other humours 100 Prouerbes emunctae naris obesae naris expoūded 114 Pubertie 29 Putrefaction 10 Pypers 101 Pythagoras 30. his comparing of th' ages of mans lyfe to the four quarters of the yeare ibid. Q QVaysie stomackes 156 Qualefiers of the heate of bloud 50 Qualities 86 Quinces conserued 126 Quietnes and tranquillitie of mind 156 R RApes good for the eyesight 125 Rebellion in the bodie 14 Receiptes laxatiue 104 Recreations discommendable 54. 76 Remorse of conscience for vvicked deedes 144 Repletion 55 Restoratiues for the memorie 125 Ringvvormes 134 Riot and bellicheare 10 Rue prouoketh lust in vvomen extinguisheth it in men 81 S SAmpson 43. his great strength ibid. Sangar 44. vvith a plough share slevve 600. Philistines ibid. Sanguine persons curteous and milde natured Vide
some one of the chiefest Ingredientes Polycleti Regula Lib. 20. Cap. 10. De Sacerd. De ratione concâ—onandi De Oratore Notes or markes of a body perfectly teÌ„perate Lib. 3. Ode 3. Rom. 8. Affections naturall A Enei 4. Iuuenal Sat. 10. The nature of Democritus and Hetaclitus Counterfaite gate Psalm 45. Christ a paterne of perfection Ioan. 1. Collos 2. Heb. 4. Ioan. 11. Christ voyd of all ill affections Collos 3. Heb. 13. Heb. 11. 1. Pet. 2. Hoate complexion Tokens of a hoate Complexion Degrees of heate in man. Black haytes Curled hayres Varietie diuersity of body Imagination VVomeÌ„s intemperaunce A true report Black hayre Yelovv Whyte Redde Lib. 2. de Temper Why children hâ—â—e no beaâ—des Much store of hayre how it commeth To make the bearde grow Women ful of hayres on their head Hayrie women lecherous Barenuesse inwomeÌ„ vnablenes in men to get ChildreÌ„ Heate causeth holdnes Lib. 11 Cap. 37 The suttlety of Aristomenes Iudie 15. 16. 1. Reg. 17. Iud. 3. Bold rashnes Vertues defaced and marred by vices Lib. 6. de Rep. Bigge voyce AEnei 1. Things not naturall Artis Medicae 85. Ayre Fulsome pestileÌ„t ayre more hurtful then pestilent meat Contraryes are remedied by their coÌ„traryes A Enei 10 Dogge-dayes Englande praysed for clenly trim minge their houses Learned me and aged greatly reuerenced in England Meate drincke Lib. 1 Cap. 3. Moyst nourishmeÌ„t fittest for children Lib. 2 de leg lib 1. de tuend Valetud Wyne hurt full to children Qualefiers and alâ—yers of the heate of bloud 〈…〉 Li. 1. Off. Ill customes must by little and litle be taken away Chaunge in olde men dauÌ„gerous Cicero in Senect Lib. 5. de tueÌ„d Val. The profite thâ—t coÌ„meth by exercise Order of exercise Slouthe and ease hurtful Aduertisement to the sâ—â—dious Horace in Arte Poet. Sortes of exercise FreÌ„ch king killed in runninge at the Tylt 1559. Gentler exercises Musick chereâ—h maketh meerie the mynd of man. De valet lib. 5. A fit exercise for crokebacked persons To try good horses RecreatioÌ„s not commeÌ„dable Husbandry praysed Heau sce 1. Act. 1. Saciety or fulnes of Stomacke to be eselievved Epidi 6. Aphor. 5. The harme of Venerie or Carnall CopulatioÌ„ BloudlettiÌ„g not rashlye to be enter pryled Bloud spirite the treasure of life Not good for men in health to vse medicine Vomite seldome to be prouoked De ratione vict lib. 1. When to vomite Eccle. 31. To what persons vomyting is hurtfull The commodities of sleepe epist. 4. The day appointed for labour and the night for rest Eight hours for Sleepe Sound Sleepers Whye children and Dronkerdes be sleepye Who bee soone awaked oute of sleepe Wylie winkers Catchpoles Iuuen. Sat. 1. Lib. 1. Amor. The maner howe to lye in bedde Lying vpon the backe very vnholsome dauÌ„gerous Sleeping in the day hurtfull The harmes of ouerwatching All meÌ„ subiect to affections The greate hurts of affections Angre Tuscul 5. Tranquility of mynde TemperaÌ„ce Goddes holye spirite subdueth qualy fieth outragyous affections Heate the stayer and maintener of lyfe Cold the decay spoile of life Cold coupled wyth heate In cold bodyes heate doth not altogether lacke Creatures in touching cold The bloude of Fishes is cold What sorts of fishes beinge taken oute of the water liue longest Eatynge of fishe hurtfull to them that are giuen to be solytarie Genes 1. Act. 10. 1. Tim. 4. Solytary lyuers subiect to the Apoplexie A Snayles life Venemous Herbes Eccle. 12. Tokens of a colde Complexion Idlenes maketh the body fat and cold Heate maketh good colour Cold wasteth and taketh awaye colour Wanne colour The hungry Sicknesse Cold things stirre vp appetite Cold persoÌ„s drowsie and vnweldie The help cure of a cold body Foules hard of digestion Meates fit for cold persons Gardeine store Hoat Condimentes If men bee loath to be sicke it followeth that they be loth to die Death dreadfull Sinne the cause of sicknes death Sap. 2. 2. Kindes of death De Senect To be long lyued Notes of a dry CoÌ„plexion Lib. 2. Metam Baldnes coÌ„meth for lacke of humour Dry brayne causeth ill Memory Good MeÌ„morye Restoringâ— of the memorye Galen lib. 5. de tuen Val. Lib. 6. de tuend val Hard wynes or of the second sort Mylke Herbes hauing vertue to make one to pisse Lib. 2. Sat. 4. Turpentine holesome Lib. 3. de tuen Val. lib. 5. tueÌ„ val PrepariÌ„g of TurpeÌ„tine To make Turpentine liquide and potable Sleepe Friction Lib. 2. de tuen Val. Sixe sorts of Frictions Lucae 7. Lib. 15. Artificiall Bath Naturall Bathes Carnal dealing wyth womeÌ„ very hurtfull to dry and cold complexioÌ„s Studying by night and Candlelight hurtful Bodelye health De tueÌ„d Valet Bodye and mynde sick and wel together â–ª A holesome exercise for students Moderate banquetting not discommeÌ„dable Recreation of the mynd Comelye mirth at the Table Sat. 1. Lib. Ser. 2. Sat. 2. Curiosity in searching to high miste-ries Eccle. 3. Eche thinge ought to be done in his due time right order Moyst CoÌ„plexion Heate in maÌ„ likened to the SuÌ„ne and moysture to the Moone The influeÌ„ce force of the Moone The tokens of a moyste body Graye eyes Moyst complexioÌ„s not geuen to be malicious spightful Moyste natures not fumish and testy Tokens of a moyst complexioned body Euery parte of the body is by it selfe seuerally to be considered hath his proper temperature The state of the mynde in moyst coÌ„plexions Why men be wyser then womeÌ„ Eccl. 42 Carnall lust in Sommer to meÌ„ hurtfull Rue prouoketh lust in women but taketh it vtterly awaye in men Diet meete for a moyst CoÌ„plexioÌ„ Diet ouer moyst hurtful Moderate sleepe good for moyst persons Moyst folks must sleepe but very litle Sat. 1. Lib. 2. Aphor. 44. Moystare feedeth nourisheth heate Accordinge to the nourishment that a maÌ„ is fed withall humours eyther encrese or diminish The grosse exhalacion of humours hurtfull to the minde as dead and fulsome wyne is to the body Concord harmony in mans body De Natu â–ª humana Humours after a sort are the elemeÌ„ts of man. Eunuch Act. 4. Scaen. 5. The force and vertue of Seede Sounde parents beget sound Children ElemeÌ„tes 4. Qualities 4. Humours 4. The nature of bloud Phlegme Choler MelaÌ„cholie In bloud all the other humous are mixed When a veine is opened all the humours are ocularly to be seene Humours haue both colour and tast Spettle and Sweat haue their force power of humours TueÌ„d Val Lib. 6. De TeÌ„p 1 Temperatures subiect to chasige Old men by nature dry but in conditioÌ„ moyst DissensioÌ„ diuersitie of opinions daungerous The profite of bloud Leuit. 17. The cause why Moses forbad the eating of Bloudâ— Bloude not rashlye nor vnaduisedly to be let WheÌ„ce thâ— Arteries Veynes spring The Lyuer the shop of Bloud The heart fountaine of bloud The colour sheweth what humours be in the body Tuend val lib. 4. Affectes of the mynde chaung the colour of the face and body 1.
theyr lustyest time which haue no care no orderly respect nor choise in preseruation and maintenaunce of theyr bodely health To this very ende and effecte is that holesome admonition of the wyseman Take heede to thy selfe least thou die before thy time By which sayinge hee warneth euery one so to order and dispose his lyfe that throughe riot and vntemperate dealing he hasten not his death before his time and before he haue in a maner ruÌ„ne halfe his race Now let euery man coÌ„sider with himself how myserable and how wearysome also it is to haue a bodye neuer in health but altogether martyred with sicknes and soares reason beinge mastered banished and oppressed to haue the mind defiled and vtterly wyth inward vices polluted Howe can lyfe I say be vnto such a man pleasaunte or sweete or howe can the minde bee quiet and well stayed Forsomuch therefore as nothing is better then health let euery man diligently looke to the same and marke how much he hath swarued and strayed from moderate order and temperature This consideration wyth himselfe shall worke in him much good effecte and stand him in greate steede that in case his bodye be lustie and healthfull hee maye in the same state stil continue and cheerish it wyth helpes and preseruations thereto conuenient But if it be falleÌ„ into worse plight and not in so good case of soundnes as before it was then to seeke wayes and meanes how to recure bring it againe to his former state of healthines For as humours are easely chaunged one into another and suffer mutuall transmutacion throughe moderate exercise and such conuenient meats and nourishmeÌ„ts as to natural heat are cherishable So agayne the ill distempered state of bodye throughe holesome diet and order is made lustier and refourmed into better And euen as wee see members fractured burste wrenched and dislocated to be brought into theyr right places agayne so may health beinge empayred bee restored and reduced into his former integritie For the mindes and bodyes of men be in a maner as it were yong Sproutes trees which being artificially handled and cunninglye dealt wythall yea although afore wield and vnfruitfull yet as Virgill sayth If they be graft a nevve and put in other chaunged soyle From nature vvilde vvhich earst they had They quight and cleane recoyle And yeld such fruite as best you lyke by force of handy toyle Contrarywyse if the husbande be negligent carelesse his grounde becommeth barrayne rugged ouergrowen wyth wredes and disabled froÌ„ bearinge any grayne that is good or profitable The like reason is to be yelded of the mindes of men For there be many excellent witts and very towardly natures which by vnthrifty company and lewd education do degenerate from their good inclination of nature and become altogether rebellious wilfull lewde and barbarous Some againe whose nature is proue and inclinable to euill yet by helpe of learninge and good education are reclaymed and wonne from theyr froward disposition become worthy members stayes ornamentes in theyr Country And therefore no man is to thincke or perswade himselfe that an ill nature may not be altered sitheÌ„ce rude wittes not yet trayned to any discipline and learning may like soft waxe or as tractable and moyst claye be fashioned framed and made applyable to learne any knowledge and vertue any ciuilitye and by artificiall instruction bee trayned to conceyue Artes and behauiour both comely and commendable Thus likewyse in graffinge and planting which is as wittie a deuise as proper a feate as any we see wild trees to chaunge their olde nature and to beare fruite both holsome and toothsome Amonge wyeld Beastes also we see how the dilligence forecast wit and pollicie of man maketh them tame seruiceable An example hereof maye wee see in Mago a worthy Duke amonge the CarthaginiaÌ„s who as Plinie sayth was the first among them that durste wyth his hande stroake and handle a tamed Lion for which Acte his Countreyfolks attaynted him as one whom they thought not amisse to restrayne from liberty and debarre from authority for that his wysedom and wyse dealings seemed so excellent that they iudged him a man able to perswade any thing that him listed who had thus straungely trayned and tamed a wylde Lion. But that persons of Melancholique nature or of any other constitution whatsoeuer so that the distemperature haue not beene of to long coÌ„tinuaunce and the party to farre striken in age may be altered and brought to a better state there is no maÌ„ that needeth to doubt For who doth not plainly see that strong and very hoate wyne wyth cold water or other milder licour is may be alayed Semblably againe wyne that is smal myngled and of watry relice yet beinge put to other licour that is stronger and of a better grape is quickened and made both better and sharper And so humours in a man being eyther of themselues euil or meeting wyth others of other quality are through theyr coÌ„mixtion therewith qualifyed and waxe milder and leauinge theyr owne naturall qualitie are altered into an other of straunger nature effect and operation Thus is the heate of Choler by accesse and myxture of bloude phlegme mitigated Thus is phlegme by admixtion of yelow Choler heated and much â—bated from his owne colde and moyste quality becomming therby lesse hurtful to the body And in like sort may we conclude of all the rest Such nourishments and meates as engender good bloude iuyce are hereunto very auayleable out of which the humours spyrits which be the incensours and stirrers forwarde of the minde obtayne and receyue theyr nature Now there is nothinge more effectuall to make good perfecte digestion and to stirre vp the Spirites then sleepe exercise and wyne so the same be pure good and moderatelye vsed as the other also must bee For so doth it stirre vp make syncere liuely and cleare Spirites from whence proceedeth cheerefulnes ioy quicknes and myrth of the minde For the meates nourishments which by nature are laboured into humours being eaten and washed downe wyth good and holsome wyne haue freer passage into all the parts of the body and distribute theyr nourishment into them more effectually There is nothing therefore that so much banisheth phaÌ„syes sorrow out of a mans minde as pleasaunt merye companye and moderate vse of wyne And of this did that precise and sterne natured Zeno giue a notable example whose minde was so muche estraunged from all pleasaunte conceites ordinarye curtesies of coÌ„mon humanitye that hee was neuer at all moued wyth any affections no not such as be naturallye incidente and engraffed in euery man And yet when he was a litle whittled wyth wyne he began to chaunge his copye and to be as mery and as bone a companion as who was best And beinge on a time asked by one of his merye mates how it happened that he
they be but mere meycockes and persōs very effeminate shrynkinge at the least mishappe that happeneth and wyth the smallest griefe and feare that can bee theyr hartes fayle theim they as white as a kerchiefe Which difference of minde stomacke Lucane in the hurlyburlies of the ciuill warres in these Verses expressed and vttered Such as in th' East and scorching Clymes are bredde by course of kind And Countryes influence meycockes soft By daily proofe vve finde The North that colde and frostie it Such vveaklings none both breede The folkes there borne novvarres can daunt of death they haue no dread In this their errour happie they vvhom greatest feare of all Of death I meane cannot affray nor courage once appall They recke not they vvhat brunts they beare they feare not enmyes blade These laddes dare venture life and lymme in manly Martiall trade For whatsoeuer they be that haue thick grosse bloude haue consequently corpulent and stronge spirites and herevppon it groweth that they wil beare a grudge in memorye a longe time and not easelye forgette those motions and heddines that they once take hereuppon also it happeneth that many of them being woūded or hurt in fight vppon the sight of their owne bloude do runne vpō their enemy more fiercely and egrely and bestow theyr blowes more vehemently then afore But they that haue thinne bloude haue also slender spirits and suche as soone passe awaye Such are soone angry at the first very raging but by and by theyr anger is asswaged and cooled and assone as they haue a wound or see theyr owne bloude they are readye to faynte and fall downe But to know how to qualifye brydle and subdue those greate affections and motions of the minde that are engendred by greate heate of the spirites I iudge it not amisse for euery man to search oute by what kinde of Spirit he is most ledde to what motions in dealinges hee findeth himselfe most endaungexed how feruente or how remisse the agitacions of his minde be For by this meanes may those thinges that consist without mediocritie be reduced and brought to temperatenes and moderation Nowe this diuersitie of Spyrites oute of whiche springeth such and so great diuersities of natures and maners conceyue and take sondry alterations at the humours Thus the Soule although it be singuler as Cicero tearmeth it vnigena yet bringeth forth sondry and manifolde actions according to the nature of the Spirites and differences of the instrumentes Hence commeth such and so great variety diuersity in the thoughts desyers affections actions and perturbatiōs in mens minds insomuch that reason and discretition wythoute a speciall assistaunce of heauenlye grace can scarcely tame and represse the same For when the naturall and vitall facultie together wyth the naturall and inwarde Spirites waxe somewhat stronge and partlye by aboundaunce partly by the qualitye of meate and nourishment haue attayned strength and power they reiect and cast away the brydle of reason draw the spirit animal also for they be al deryued out of one fountayne into their faction disordered rebellion Wherby it happeneth that when any lewde deuyse or wilfull thoughte aryseth in the minde of man he is prone ynoughe to runne into dissolute riot libidinous lust filthy and shameful pleasures if he fortune to espy any pretie wēch or beautifull damsell that liketh his phantasie his minde is strayght wayes enflamed and set on fire wyth vnlawfull desyre of her person for the satisfying of his vnbridled concupiscence and by reason of the stoare of humours and cōcourse of Spyrites resorting thither frō euery part of his body his priuities vndecētly swel his mēber of generatiō becometh stiffe so that many times it happeneth mans mind to be ouercome drowned in fleshly concupiscence vnlesse by the speciall grace of Almighty God and by meditating vppon the holsome preceptes expressed in his sacred Word hee stoutlye wythstande the Sommons of suche naughtye desyres This promptnes and inclination to euill is naturally ingraffed in man The imaginations and thoughtes of mans heart sayth Moses are onelye euill and prone to vvickednes euen from their youth and first beginninges But the blessed and most comfortable comming of CHRISTE toke away this blemish who by his precious death and glorious resurrection abolished the calamitie and cancelled the bondes of that myserye whereto Adams transgression had brought vs. The consideration wherof ought in y mindes of all men to worke thus much that because their spirites are prouokers and prickers forwarde both to vices vertues euerye one shoulde wyth more carefull consideracion and heede attende loke to conserue and gouerne them orderly And althoughe the Animall Spirite be more excellent thē the other and before the rest in dignity yet in order is it the later For out of the naturall which resembleth vapour and proceedeth by vertue of the Lyuer from bloud it produceth the vitall whiche is of Aerye nature and mynistreth vnto it nourishment And the vitall doth procreate the Animall which by reason of his thinnesse and subtility is ayrie For it being laboured prepared and made in the contexed net celles and cornerie ventricles of the brayne is greatly wyth sweete smelles nourished and with fragrant things refreshed and cherished From it is fetched and deryued al the power and facultye which the soule hath and from it do al actiōs issue and proceede making the same appliable to all functions Well worthy therefore is this animall spirite deemed the proper instrument of the soule to all the sences for mayntenaunce of mouinge and nimblenes and for preseruation of the strength and firmitie of the Muscles Synewes for it transporteth and diffuseth his vertues and powers as the workemaisters of actions into the Synewes that haue the power of feeling and mouing All the instruments therfore of the Senses indued wyth this power and vertue of the Spirite Animall attayne thereby stablenes for the atchieuement of their functions and charges as for example If the wayes and passages whereby this spirite oughte to goe and haue passage bee stopped affected the power of mouing and feeling is taken away as we euidently note and see to happen in the Apoplexie Palsey Tetanus and many diseases moe And this spirite Animall is conueighed into the Synewes euen like the beames of the Sunne through a cleare shyninge glasse And euen as a fiery heate pearceth and entreth into a glowyng hoate yron that is very hard insomuche that the some therewyth becommeth softe and tractable so dothe the Spirite that is finest and thuinest slylte slyde into the Synewes All thinges therefore that neede feelinge mouing and agilitie requyre the force ayde and power of the spyrite Animall As those that by nourishment are to be maynteyned continued and kepte requyre the naturall and vitall faculties and spirites Hee therefore that woulde preserue his spirites vndemnifyed and them make moste syncere and perfecte must endeuour at any hande
thinges estraunged from oure bodyes not naturallye in vs engraffed but externally happening and yet nathelesse such as are as apt and ready to disquiet and annoy oure bodyes as those that be naturally planted in vs And these bee Meate and Dryncke wherewyth wee restore all such ouerdrye or ouer moyste substaunce as to the body is requysite And these twayne if they bee eyther immoderately taken or bee corrupte and vnholesome they do engender great stoare of excrements and sondry diseases Next vnto these is the Ayre that compasseth and on eche syde enuyroneth vs which beinge eyther extreemelye hoate or drye or ouermuch moyste or colde causeth enforceth a manifest alteration in the state of the whole body But to come somewhat neere and more aptlye to declare this matter it is to be vnderstanded that the verye beginninges of mans nature and principles of his generation is feminine Bloud Seede generatiue The one as it were of certayne apt conuenient and tractable matter like moyst claye or soft waxe is ready to fashion oute and proportion anye thing that the workemaÌ„ employeth it vnto And the Seede is as it were the workeman himselfe Both these thinges consist and are made of the same generall Elements and conteyne within them the qualityes aboue specifyed but the difference amonge themselues is in the order and measure of their temperameÌ„t For in the seede there is more of fierye and ayrie substance that is to say it is pertaker of aethereal Spirite In the Bloud there is more of watry and earthy albeit in this last the heate is aboue colde and moyst aboue dry For wee maye not say and affirme that Bloud is dry like boanes but to be moist Now is Seede dryer theÌ„ Bloud and yet it is also moyste fluible liquide Thus on both sydes the oryginall of mans generation proceedeth of moyst substaunce yet so that thence is laboured and made other partes of the bodye that be drye as Synewes Veynes Arteryes Bones and Grystles Now that which in the woÌ„be is conceyued and together of those principles fourmed waxing dryer taketh as it were the first lineamentes and proportion of euerye member afterward comming to perfect shape taketh further encrease so groweth to his iuste bignesse and decente quantitye And when it hath raught to his ful growth and bignesse as when the boanes for want of nourishmente are no longer plyable then doth a man ceasse from further growiÌ„g waxeth neither taller nor broader For comely talnesse and length of personage commeth and is caused of the aboundaunce of heate and moysture where the Spyrite is throughlye and fully perfused And if it happen that any eyther old or yong throughe sicknes or some other affect to fal into a cold and dry habite or disposition their bodies become and are leane wrynckled slender illfauoured thinne and lancke and their lymmes weake and crooked It fareth by them muche like as it doth by Horses Oxen or such like beastes that are skanted nipped of their fodder feeding or as it doth by Trees and other greene Herbes that lacke the iuyce of the ground not conueniently watered Therefore a fashioÌ„ that some Scholemasters others that take the charge vpon them to teach and boorde yonge boyes is mee thinckes both lewde vnconscionable who beinge at a playne bargaine and certaine stint of money reasonably agreed vppon betweene theym and the childrens frendes pinche theyr poore pupills and borders by the belly and allowe them meate neyther sufficient nor yet holesome yea not onely beastly sluttishlye nippinglye vse they the seely childreÌ„ but threatninglye enforce them to beare oute the labour of theyr studyes wyth a slender allowance and small pittaunce of vnsauery resty fleshe stinking fish and hoary vinewed bread which thing causeth them to be ill complexioned coloured the shape comlynes and beauty of theyr bodies to degenerate growe out of fashion the quicknes courage lyuelynes and sharpenes of their wit to decay theyr spirits to be dulled al the liuely vertues towardnes of the mynd which before was in them eyther by the benefite of Nature or by the industry of the parentes or finally by the onely special gift of Almighty God to be extinct vtterly quenched insomuch that neyther theyr mynd is enflamed with desire to attein atchieue any worthy atteÌ„pt nether frame they theÌ„selues vnto those thiÌ„gs wheruÌ„to they were inclinable by nature apt towardly As touching the outward case of their body they coÌ„moÌ„ly breake out haue their bodyes pinked ful of scabs by reasoÌ„ of ill humours ouerwhealed engrayled with lothsome blisters blaines byles botches Wherby it commeth to passe that in growth they seldom come to any personable stature to the vse of their ful powers to perfect streÌ„gth firmity of theyr members or to any haÌ„dsom scature or proper coÌ„poâ—â—ioÌ„ of bodily proportion the cause is for that in their tender growyng age being kept vnder by famine and skanted of conuenient meate and drincke theyr natiue moysture which requyreth coÌ„tinual cheerishing mainteynauÌ„ce was skaÌ„ted debarred of his due nourishment coÌ„petent allowance Whereupon the vital iuyce being exhausted speÌ„t they arriue to old age sooner theÌ„ otherwise they should doe are snatched vp by death long before their time Now that affect plight which bringeth the body into a cold dry disposition is called Olde age because it is the cause of corruption decay destruction of all aswell Creatures lyuinge as Plants herbes For death is nothing els but the extinction of nature that is to saye of the naturall Heate naturall Humour In which two things life consisteth to which extinction ende many are brought sooner then they should be either through want and defect of nourishment or throughe vntemperate life as toomuche carnall company with women vnseasonable watchinge heauines of mynde thoughte and manye other causes which hasten old age bring death vnloked for before his time contrarye to the order of age and course of Nature Do we not see many old meÌ„ lusty mery and wel complexioned strong of limmes good footemeÌ„ in their old dayes as fresh actiue as many yong meÌ„ be all which coÌ„meth vpoÌ„ no other cause but that in their youthfull dayes they liued orderly wel and spent not their adolescencie in vnruly riot lechery Againe there be of youngmeÌ„ a great nuÌ„ber weake worne to the bare stumps feeble lame fainte and impoteÌ„t dry as a kixe pale as ashes waÌ„ne colored for that they spent exhausted all the pithe and strength of theyr youth and adolescencye in wanton sensuality disordered riot and immoderate vse of Venerous daliauÌ„ce coÌ„suming therin the very floure and prime of their lusty age For euen as pleasauÌ„t gay March floures in the Springe of the yeare with nipping weather and sharpe Northernelye wynds do fade and
wyther away againe so likewyse youth and flourishing age by vsing ill order and fashion is dryed vppe before his due time and ere it come to his full rypenes Therefore to decline and shunne such things as be hurtful and to prolonge lyfe many yeares and to bring to passe that olde age shall not be tedious cumbersome and burdenous but easye pleasaunt and delightful it lyeth a man in hand to take that order and trade whereby health may be maynteyned and still preserued or if it happen to be discrased and empayred how it may againe be restored and bettered The thinges that hinder and crushe it and which do weaken alter and corrupt the temperament that naturally is in vs are not fewe For the Humours of the body receiue and take sondry qualityes accordinge to the faculties that be in our nourishmente and in the order of our vsual diet Wherunto are to be added Bathes Heate Exercise Cold Wearynes Thyrst Hūger Sleepe Rest the state of the Ayre and affections of the mynde all which do sondry wayes alter the habite and state of our bodyes for the most part maketh them worse By this meanes the bodye that was hoate and moyste is by litle and litle broughte to be cold and drye or to some other ill qualitye Also as yeares age steale on vs as times come and go as the world frameth with vs eyther forward or backwarde in prosperitye or aduersity in good fortune or bad manye thinges happē vnto a man which shake shrewdly batter a mās good health Vnto which effect the Poet Horace very aptly in my opynion wryteth thus VVhile yeres be fres he gallant is our age Full many ioyes and pleasures do vve tast But elder yeares those iolie ioyes doth svvage And disaduauntage to vs bringe as faste Wherunto accordeth that same sentence of holy Iob where hee doth liuely expresse set out the fraile momentanie vaine trāsiory state of mans life and to how manye discommodities daūgers aud chaunges the same is subiecte and endaungered A man sayth hee that is borne of a vvoman hath but a short time to liue and is full of myserie he commeth vp and is cut dovvne like a goodlye flovver and vanisheth avvay like a shadovv neuer continueth still in one state For as yeares do passe and mans age doth march forward there still happen chaunges and mutacions For age is no other thing but the race or course of life or the time that wee haue to runne from oure Infancie till wee come to olde age in which time the state and constitution of mans Bodye is altered and steppeth from one temperamente to an other and at lengthe natiue heate beinge extincte by death is diuorced and broughte to finall dissolution Thus hath Infancie which of all others is the moystest in it great aboundaunce of naturall heate and in the fourth or seuenth yeare suffreth mutacion in those yeares commonly we be in great daunger Nexte after it is Childhoode contynuinge till aboute the fiftenth yeare of oure Age and the same subiecte to no few hazards and discommodities Pubertie is prone and subiect to very manye inconueniences which taketh his ende at the age of xviii yeares As for wylfull and slypperye Adolescencie which endeth at xxv yeares is as the others subiect to sōdry casualties mutacions as dayly experience sheweth Youth or flourishing Age wherein the body and mynde be in their chiefeste prime and iolitye lasteth till a man bee xxxv yeares olde durynge which Age Bloude beareth swaye aboundantlye and Humours somewhat waste whereby it happeneth that this temperamente in continuaunce and processe of time beginneth to bee taken for Hoate and Drye whereas Adolescencye is aboundantlye stoared both of moysture and heate Mans Age reacheth to the fiftyeth yeare or somewhat further in which tyme man is in his full rypenes and leauing former pleasures and delightes his mynde aduysedlye carefullye and wysely dealeth in euery thinge that he enterpryseth But the Bodye standeth at one staye suffreth no great mutacion till sixtie three or sixtie fiue yeres of age for then Age hasteneth on apace and draweth towarde his longe home and then beginneth the bodye to be colde and drye beinge the firste enteraunce and steppe into Oldeage which is the nexte neyghboure to decrepicie and dotage that standeth at the pittes brincke neerest vnto death Which as it is not rashlye to be wyshed for so neyther is it amonge Chrystians at all to bee feared consyderynge that the Soule beinge by Fayth assured of a better and sweeter lyfe and hauinge an vndoubted hope of a Resurrection oughte in this poynte to bee throughly perswaded and be ful wylling cheerefullye to departe hence In the meane space whyle hee hath to runne his race in this worlde euerye man maye so behaue himselfe and qualefye his dealynges that through temperate vsage and orderlye moderation of lyfe in youth hee maye bee furnished wyth helpes and haue in stoare some of his former strenghte the better to passe ouer his Olde Age and therein to feele the lesse tediousnes For whereas euerye other Age hath hys certayne tyme and prescripte terme how longe it shall last onely Old age hath no time to it appointed but to liue as longe as hee maye and to wayte for death and bid it welcome when soeuer it commeth Pythagoras very properly applyeth the foure quarters of the yeare that is Springe Sōmer Autumne and Wynter being times comprehēded wythin the two A Equinoctia the two Solstitia to the fower ages of man Whose sayinge and opynion Ouid in Verses to this effecte descrybeth Do vve not see the yeare by course in quarters foure deuided Hovv iumpe it aunsvveres to our age if vvell it be decided For sucking Babe and tender Impe the Springe resembleth right VVhich into Sommer glides apace like blade deuoyde of might VVhen Spring is past then marcheth on the Sommer tricke and gay VVhich likened is to lusty youth strong dapper lacking stay VVhen youthfull fancies mellovved be then Autumen steppes in place Tvvixt yong and olde of iudgement ripe vvith medley hayres on face Old crookebackte Hyems last of all vvith trembling pace appeares VVith furrovved face cleane bald or els All vvhite and mylky hayres This chaungeable alteration this conuersion mutabilitye inconstancye and inclination of thinges from one to an other in the whole course of nature doth manifestlye argue and proue all thinges to be momentanie vaine transitory brittle ruinous and vanishinge as a flower of the field quickly fading away Seinge therefore the bodye continuallye slydeth into worse and worse case suffreth many detrimentes whereby our strength and powers be empaired and manye wayes both inwardlye and outwardlye enfeebled it standeth vs vppon not negligently but carefully to loke to the conseruation thereof and so carefullye to prouyde for the same that it may continue in state sound health ful so long as nature hath limitation Here is
better then the reste And hee namely is to be thoughte and accompted hoate in whom that quality of heate aboundeth excelleth the other that be moderately constituted that is those that be tempered wyth moyst drye Of which state and condition if a man bee disposed throughly to searche oute and marke all the notes and signes he shall by proofe finde that whosoeuer is of that Complexion constitution is of stature comely and of shape and beauty agreeable and consouaÌ„te to manly dignitye of body not grosse sat or corpulent but reasonably faste fleshed For heate dissolueth and dissipateth all fatte things of conler red or if bloude be too hoate and boyling as in them that dwel in hoate regions and parching countryes browne or tawnie For there be in euery bodye accordinge to the condition of the ayre and region sondry degrees of heate and diuers considerations and differeÌ„ces both of this and of the other qualities also The Indians AEthiopians Moores Asians AEgyptians Palestines Arabians Greekes Italians Spanyatds Polonians Muscouites Germaines Frenchmen Duchmen c. are of sondry and different Complexions euerye one in his kinde hath of heate seuerall and sondry differences For euen as fewel and matter combustible for Fier is some hoater and more burning then some other is and as the fier panne or hearth wherein is burnt eyther Seacoales fattie turues of the nature of bitumen the burning lyme of chaulkye clay called Naphtha oyle pitch rosen or finally to speake of wood Oke Hornebeame Larche Byrch Elme Popler Wyllow the fier is vehementer and the hearth is of heate sometime extreme sometime more soft mylde So likewyse in euery maÌ„s body according to the nature of the place and order of lyfe and dyet this heate is encreased or dyminished and this is the very cause that men be of so sondry colours and of hayres so diuers differeÌ„t for in euery hoate CoÌ„plexioned body mixed with moderate humour the skiÌ„ne is rough hayrie the beard fayreand comly but the hayres of the head somwhat differ by reason of heate are of other colour For hayres being generated of a fuliginous grosse excremente of the third concoction become black when as the vapour being aduste by force power of heate the excrement is turned into an exact fuliginousnes Curled and crooked hayres proceede of a drynesse of ComplexioÌ„ caused through immoderate heate or els by reason of the straictnes and narrow issue of the pores where the rootes of the hayres be fastened For then haue they much adoe to peepe vp and finde any right way to appere out whereby it happeneth that they growe crooked curled frysled specially in them in whoÌ„ it so happeneth naturally beiÌ„g not artyficially procured nor by toto superfine curiostly frisled as some nyce dames Prickmedainties which curiously combe bring theyr hayres into a curled fashion and crysped lockes therby the more to set out their beauty to coÌ„mend themselues as they thinck after a more glorious shewe to the beholders Therfore all they that dwel in hoate dry regions haue hayre black of smal growiÌ„g curled crisp and as the Egyptians Spaniardes AEthiopians Moores and all other which in nature and condition ars lyke vnto them For we see many in euery region yea of them that dwell Northwarde towarde the Pole Arctick which if we consider theyr hayres colour coÌ„plexioÌ„ of their whole body seeme rather like foreyners strauÌ„gers then ConÌ„trey borne people So amoÌ„g y NetherlaÌ„ders low DuchmeÌ„ bordering vpon the Sea many be black curle heyred tawnyskiÌ„ned specially they which in SoÌ„mer are much in the heat of the SuÌ„ne vse much labour howbeit this variety of bodyes may be referred to sondry causes as eyther to the nature of the CouÌ„trey RegioÌ„ or to the power facultie of theyr meats nourishmeÌ„t or els finally to the hiddeÌ„ ymaginatioÌ„s of the womaÌ„ or mother Which ymaginations are of so great force efficacie that the things by her in mynd earnestly ymagined in at the very instant time of her coÌ„ceptioÌ„ is deryued into the infant child then begotten For this Sexe being wanton toying stedfastly eying euery thing that is offered to sight it happeneth that the naturall facultie being then in workinge formyng of the child directeth her cogitatioÌ„s inward coÌ„ceiptes y way bringeth vnto the InfaÌ„t an other forein shape forme in nature coÌ„ditioÌ„ altogether vnlike the right pareÌ„ts This euen in oure dayes and of late yeares hath bin by experience found true at what time the Emperour Charles the siâ—t of that name coming out of Spaine into y lowe Countryes arryued there wyth a wel appointed nauy of royal shippes hauing in his coÌ„pany a goodly trayne of noble GeÌ„tlemeÌ„ yeomeÌ„ Many womeÌ„ therabout being theÌ„ great with child through much beholdiÌ„g wel eying those galaÌ„t Spaniards after ix monethes brought theyr Infantes and children hauing eyebrowes and hayres blacke and curled and in all respects coloured like Spaniards And this happened not amonge filthye Corteghians common brothelles whom it might well be thought to haue bin vnderlinges hackeneyes to those hoate natured and lecherous Nation but the same fell so oute also among right honest tryed Matrones whose approued chastitye and vertuous dispositioÌ„s were so irreprooueable that they were not to be once charged wyth the lest suspicion of any such lewednes and yet these affections and impressions in theyr children tooke place accordingly In lyke maner wheÌ„ y Emperour Maximilian who was desceÌ„ded of the house of Austrich had also the gouernment ouer the Low Countreyes the women being much in compaignie and sighte of the Germaynes brought forth theyr Children with yelowe flexen hayres and in eche poynt lyke to Germaynes For they and all other as many as are borne and bred in cold and moyke Countryes haue hayres fine streight and somewhat ruddie and beardes of the colour of brasse for that the heares are neyther adusted by the SuÌ„ne nor yet by any inward heate for hauinge moysture plentifully and issues oute at the poores easye ynough the aboundance of the excrements wherwyth they be nourished maketh the hayres thick and the adustion which causeth the colour to bee blacke it maketh weake Blacke hayre therfore commeth of vapour by heat aduste when the excrement is wrought and turned into an exact fuliginousnes The cause that produceth yellow hayre is when the vapour is not much adust and heated for that which is then impressed in the skinne and seeketh eruption is the feculent excrement of yelow Choler and not of Melancholie But white hayre coÌ„meth of Phlegme and of a humoure cold and moyst Redde hayres as they be meane betweene yelow and whyte so doth the generation of it proceede of a certayne nature meane betweene Phlegme and Choler Now they that dwel in countryes temperate and betweene these haue
of hayre much stoare stronge somewhat blackishe meanely thicke and neyther altogether thicke and grosse nor altogether streight plaine Which differēces Galene applyeth to euery seuerall age For as touching the colour he ascrybeth such hayres as yong Infantes haue to the Germaynes of suche as be in their best flourishynge yeares to Spaniards and Mauritanians and of them that be Spryngalds or in the beginning of theyr Adolescencie to such as inhabite temperate Countryes In the natures also of bodyes the hayre is of forme colour according to the difference and respect of Ages and Countryes For tender age and Childhoode is bare without hayres on the bodye or els wyth verye smal soft and mosye hayre onelye because eyther there be n◠pores in theyr skinnes for the exhalatiō to euaporate and grow to the bignesse of hayres or els there wanteth effluxe and fuliginous excrement wherewithall the small threads of the hayres are wont to be drawen and produced oute But when they bee come neere aboute the age of xiiii yeares they beginne to bourgen and shewe forth lytle and weake Lustye and flourishinge Age hath hayres stronger fuller bushed blackishe for that the pores and passages then beginne to open and be enlarged and finally stoare of fumous exhalation aboundeth in those partes of the bodye which are apte to generate and produce hayre as the Heade Chinne Arme pittes Priuities For although the Breaste Armes Thighes in some that be of very hoate complexion abound with fuliginous vapoure be seene to be rough and hayrie yet do those hayres grow neither so copiouslye nor to anye greate length which thing for example sake in certayne drye and musculious places of the bodye as the eye-browes eyelyddes may euidētly be perceyued Therefore the muche stoare and thicknes of hayre commeth of aboundaūce of humours and the colour thereof is according as the heate is of greatnes Therefore all those partes in mans body are most rough and hayrie which abounde in moste heate For it attracteth the vaporous fumes that issue from humours and fashioneth the same into a hayrie nature And for this cause many Springhaldes haue not in that Age anye heardes neither any other partes of their bodies hayrie My order is to such as resort to me for aduise and counsell howe they maye make their beardes to growe to open and make wide their pores passages by applying and geeuinge to them such thinges as stirre vp heate in those partes bring out humours altering concocting the same into the vse of hayres The Lintment that I customably make for this purpose is this R. of Reede or Cane rootes Brionie rootes Beete Radish Floure de lice Onions of ech alike viz the quantity of foure Ounces sixe fatte figges brused stamped very small Maydenheare Sothernvvod Dill of eche one handfull seethe these all together in sweete and well relyced wyne then force wringe out the licoure and streine it throughe a strayner then put to it freshe butter neuer salted pure honie Ana. ii oun mces Oyle of Almonds both sweete and sower Oyle of Sesama about the quantity of i. oūce Oximel Scyllitic halfe an oz. the powder or meale of Lineseede Nigella Fenugreke wel sifted and throughly boulted in a fine boulter one Pugil or smal graspe of the gūme Labdanū one oūce Let al these be set vpon the fier and stirred with a sticke til they be thick ynough to make a Limment withall To what part of the body soeuer this liniment is layd and applyed it maketh hayre to grow and if the Chinne or bare Cheekes bee therewith annoynted the same wil quickly be hayrie and haue a comely bearde For it openeth and relaxeth the skinne beynge thycke and maketh the passage and and euaporaciō for the humours of whō throughe the helpe and operation of heate the first buddīg out and generation of hayres proceedeth And if the baldnes or barenesse of hayre proceede not eyther of eldershippe in yeares or els by reasō of some sicknesse or vicious humours as bodyes infected wyth some lothsome disease or wyth French Pockes commonly are for the bodyes of such persons euen in the secretest partes become in eche place pylde and sheedeth all their hayre like vnto Trees whose leaues fall of if in the roote raigne anye saltishnes or venemous licoure this liniment is a present helpe and remedy but the body must first by Purgation be clēsed from all ill and filthy humours inwardly But to proceede in my purpose matter womē by the very same reason that yong Stryplings are haue no hayre on theyr bodyes but be smothe and slicke skinned sauinge onelye theyr heades crowne where their hayre groweth in marueylous great plentye for that the vapours do very much aboundantly ascend vpward In their other partes their skinne is smothe and vnhayrye because moysture is aboue heate Sauing y in and about theyr secrete pryuityes where also hayrinesse appeareth such women as be greatlye destrous of carnall lust and copulacion be verye roughe and thick growenr with hayre thereabout and the more lecherous the more hayrie fruictfull And the cause whye some women otherwyse aboundinge wyth generatiue seede do not conceyue and beare children is nothing els but y want of heate For euen as a fenny and very wet grounde beareth no corne but choketh it vppe so likewyse a wombe that is slypperie is not fit for conception In like maner also there be some yonge men who maryinge to soone and ere they be fully rype are vnfruictfull and not able to get any children for that they lacke manly strength theyr seede to cold and thinne It is therefore by reason of heate that men be hayrie and bolder then women be But if heate encrease in mans body vnmeasurably and aboue a mediocrity and that through Choler the bloud be styrred and too-much enflamed it oftentimes turneth into meere desperate rage furie And hereof it commeth that many beinge angred and theyr bloud eyther wyth publicke or wyth pryuate iniuryes styrred in theyr desperate moode will Bedlemlyke runne vppon theyr Ennemyes wyth myndes enraged The hoater of complexion therefore y euery man is and further of from moderate temperature the hayryer is his bodye and the fiercer is his courage Which thinge by Iuuenal is right well expressed where he sayth A busshie Beard and Armes ouergrovven vvith bristled hayres Sat. 2. declare In man a sauage cruell mynde deuoyde of any care For vehemēt heate maketh men stoute of courage rage fierce testie crafty suttle industrious politicke of which sorte of men wee fynde in wryting some that not onely in their outward parts but in their very Entrailes and inwarde partes also haue bin found rough and hayrie Plinie maketh mention of one Aristomenes Messenius who by his subtyle Stratagemes and warlicke shiftes is sayd being alone to haue put to flight whole Bands of men Which thing is a plaine Argumente and tokē aswel of his
recoÌ„pt rechearse the most part of those things which had bin there spoken vttered Not after the guise fashioÌ„ of some which of set purpose at baÌ„quets will couÌ„terfaite theÌ„selues dronken a sleepe For these good fellowes vnder colour of being cupshot heauy headed do slily vndermine espie marke what euerye man sayth at y boord specially of such words inteÌ„tes meanings as meÌ„ being heated wel whytteled in wyne do then report and vnaduysedly vtter This trick not they only but promoting Catchpoles and crafty Scoutes that raung about the country to espye how men liue what they doe notiÌ„g the dealings and narrowly sifting the lyfe behauiour and maners of other men whereby they gleane to themselues no small gaine commoditye For the fourth parte of the goodes for their catchpollinge falleth to them for their lot and share which thing maketh them to be very prying double diligent and inquisitiue where to haue a purchase and by other mens losses to enrich and greaze themselues The Poet Iuuenal a very precise and notable reprehender of vyces and one that would neuer go behind the doore to tell men their faults sheweth that this was a custome vsuall and ordinary amonge Baudes and Cuckolds nay rather wyttoldes which for hyre would be contented to let out theyr wyues to opeÌ„ prostitution or wheÌ„ they had anye persons in suspicion and iealousye And to the intent the Adulterous Lecherers mighte the more freely and licentiouslye haue the vse of their wyues bodyes these fellowes as thoughe they had beene busyed in other matters and looking an other waye or as thoughe their myndes eyes and facultyes animal had bin earnestlye fixed and bente vppon other cogitations tooted and gazed into the toppe of the house and vewed some trimme feelings or Images and pictures liuely paynted set out in their Parlours and Chambers For thus doth the Poet depaynt and set forth in his colours one of this generation and by this one geueth a light to lead and dyrect our coniectures to iudge of the rest To his ovvne vvyfe a Baude and Pandar vyle A vvittold feigning sleepe and vvynking many a vvyle VVho can his lyrypoope and gaze full manerly For birdes nestes in the roofe vvhile others syckerly Dubbes him an horned knight and that right vvorthily The very same thinge also setteth downe Ouid and to the same purpose albeit by other occasion taken If that the goodman haue an heauy noll Or els a Burdeaux hammer beating in his head Both time and place shall vs direct and toll Till vvith his vvyfe our purpose vve haue spedd But now againe to fal into my byas and leauinge this digression to retourne to my purpose I say nothing doth so much conserue renue reuiue and cheerish the powers of body and mynd as Sleepe in the night takeÌ„ about an houre and a halfe after Supper At which time it is best first to lye on the righte syde that the meate maye descende and approche better to the Lyuer and be the easelyer digested Howbeit it is not altogether amysse nor vnholesome for them that haue feeble digestions to lye somewhat groueling and prostrate on their bealyes specially if their Stomacke bee charged wyth anye superfluity The commoditye whereof to them whose bellyes bee somewhat swelled and styffe is right profitable both for the digestioÌ„ of the meate asswaging of all inflation and paine of the Stomacke casing of ache and gryping in the bowelles Lying flat vpon the backe is most hurtful and daungerous for so manye as sleepe after y sorte lye wyth their mouthes open their eyes staryng their eyelyddes vnclosed sleeping very vnquietly and without any refreshing or ease by reason that the Muskles of their breast necke be drawen hard together And besyde diuers other discommodityes they be oftentimes troubled with the night Mare and falling sicknes and are also subiecte to Palseys Crampes and Apoplexies which diseases also are incideÌ„t to them that sleepe at Noone or mydday vppon their beddes Let no man therefore of custome vse himselfe to sleepe in the day time vnlesse he be thereto driuen by wearynesse and lassitude gotten throughe heate or labour or when hee hath ouerwatched himselfe the night before For in such case a nap at noone may without harme be allowed borne withall And euen as Sleepe vnseasonablye or vnmesurably takeÌ„ either by day or night maketh meÌ„ dull obliuious lazye faint heauy blockishe and marreth both wtt and memory so agayne watching being not within medtocrytie and measure vsed dryeth the brayne affecteth the senses empayreth memory dymmeth eyesighte marreth the Spirites wasteth naturall humour hyndereth concoction and finallye consumeth all the grace beauty comelynes and state of the whole body The Perturbations and affections of the mynde VVHat harme and inconuenience the mynd suffereth throughe perturbations vnruly affections bearing sway in the same as Hatred Anger Wrath Enuy Feare Sadnes immoderate ioy anguish pensiue cares thoughts wyth many other troublesome motions repugnaunt and greatly squaring from reason there is no man but he hath eyther in himselfe by experience tryed or by obseruation in others sufficiently noted For what man in this so great imbecillity and frowardnes of nature is not wyth some of these tempted and assayled And althoughe some bee better able then other some eyther to withstande or to qualefie and subdue his affections yet is there no maÌ„ so perfect that is not to some of them thrall and subiecte How violent and vnrulye these affections be in some which yeld their natures whollye to the impatencie thereof and how greatly they disturbe and bring out of frame both the mynde and body by manyfest examples is daily seene For many haue procured to themselues present death destruction throughe rage anger shame and immoderate ioy by reason that the heart being lefte destitute of bloud and vitall Spirite fainteth shrynketh and is dissolued Which felfe same thing albeit by an other and diuers reasoÌ„ ofteÌ„times happeneth also in feare sorrow and sodaine frightes at which times the heart is oppressed wyth too much abundaunce of bloude and the vitall Spirite choakâ—d and stopped Angre which is a passion so lyke to fury and madnesse as nothing in the world more what force it hath and how much it altereth the state outward shewe of the body appeareth chiefly by countenaunce colour grymme visage cruell and fierye eyes puffinge wrynkled nosethrilles byting lyppes enraged mouth trembling shakinge lymmes vnsteadye gate stammerynge and fearefull voyce This affection or rather perturbation of the mynd when it once reiecteth the rule of reason and groweth into disordered outrage is offensiue and troublous to others but chieflye and specially the party himselfe therew t affected throweth himself into perill of death or at least into diseases very dauÌ„gerous The mynd therfore must be reyned by reason and curbed by temperaunce that it yeld not to affections
tryed and prooued by castinge vpoÌ„ them Salt or glasse or Alume for therwith they presently resolue and consume into a liquide substaunce And as men and mute Creatures so also sondry Plantes and great stemmed hearbes are endued with this quality which by reason of their deletory coldnes bringe destruction vnto Creatures as â—eÌ„bane MaÌ„drake Napellus Solanum Mortiferum Aconitum the iuyce of black Popie called Opium which although in respect of their temperament and clementary qualitie they bee colde in the fourth and higheste degree yet by the benefite of vitall heate dissusing it selfe from celestiall thinges into these lower bodyes they doe liue and flourish in a freshe verdure For in euery nature especially humayne there is a certaine celestial or diuine vertue ouer beside that which is constituted of feede and of the feminine bloud For the warme calefactiue Spyrit which a litle afore we sayde was infused into the whole worlde and into all the particuler parts thereof laboureth vppon the Elementes and geeueth life to all thinges and finally woorketh in them that vertue and efficacie whereby throughe propagation they encrease and procreate kindes like to themselues and produce a Creature of the same nature they themselues be For the first procreation of lyuing creatures being produced made of Elementall concretion and of the Parentes Seede which is a portion or parte of the purest best concocted bloude then doth nature whose skilful workmaÌ„ship no hand nor curious craftesmaÌ„ is able by imitation to reseÌ„ble or reach vnto hauing her original diuine supernal applyeth the woorke she hath in framynge bringeth her thinges to perfect passe conueigheth the powers animall wyth the Spyrites vital and vertues effectuall into the matter she hath in hande by whose mynistery shee perfectly finisheth all the lymmes proportioneth all the lineaments fitteth them to the rest of the meÌ„bers of the bodye gyueth such shape proportion to the thinges animated as daily we see represeÌ„ted set before our eyes This wonderfull force of nature which we elswhere haue shewed to yssue flow froÌ„ the most abundant fountaine of Diuinity beinge diffused into ech part of the whole bodye moueth slyrreth the masse thereof directeth gouerneth the mynd and vnderstanding maketh the same applyable to sondry actions by whose benefite and help eueÌ„ those thiÌ„gs do liue haue their being which are stiffe and nummed with cold althoughe heate in theÌ„ be faint feeble which least it should altogether droupe be vtterly extiÌ„guished least thou cold quality wherto the drye is of affinity should toomuch preuaile encrease must be styrred vp excyted with hoate fomentatioÌ„s For wheÌ„ natural moysture is all wasted inward heat extinct theÌ„ death approcheth the whole frame of the body teÌ„deth to dissolution ruine It coÌ„meth theÌ„ to passe eueÌ„ as SalomoÌ„ by an elegaÌ„t apt similitude describeth that when the coÌ„position knittinge together of the body is lewsed a sonder streÌ„gth decayed gone theÌ„ shal maÌ„ be tourned again into dust froÌ„ wheÌ„ce he was taken made the Spirite shal retourne into his euerlastinge dwellinge to God which made it But to theud euery maÌ„ may perfectlye know the nature coÌ„dicion of this coÌ„plexion and constitucion I wil compendiously as it were by the way set downe certaine marks tokeÌ„s wherby it shal easely be knowen A cold ComplexioÌ„ if it be coÌ„pared to a hoate hath al properties coÌ„trary For eueÌ„ as heat beiÌ„g diffused into ech part of the body imparteth his quality vnto the humours maketh the body y parts therof to be of colour ruddie so cold imperteth his quality vnto the meÌ„bers humours maketh the body of colour pale and vnsightly But if we be disposed particulerly to marke obserue al the notes and tokens thereto incident we shall finde in the colde complexioned body all things contrary and diuerse from the hoate For the bodye is pilde and smoth the hayre loose and soft of colour partakinge wyth redde and white and quickly shedding The skinne in touching cold vnder it some store of fatnes For when heat in maÌ„s body is faiÌ„t dul fatnes engeÌ„dreth which as it much happeneth to the feminine Sexe so also breedeth it in many others that liue ydle at ease withoute labour or exercise And for this cause through immoderate coldnes the bodye waxeth grosse fat and corpulent againe by immoderate heate which melteth awaye and dissolueth fat the body is made leane and drye For there be manye thinges not comminge to man by nature or from his natiuitye and beginning but accidentally and otherwise procured as eyther by chaunginge of the ordinary custome of life or by alteration of diet or by heate labour slouth solitarinesse lumpishnes feare sorrowe care and sondry others many wayes chaunginge the state of the body making it somtime slender leane sometime fat corpulent Which thinges also to the making of the colour of the face bodye fayre or foule good or badde are of no lesse force and efficacie For what thinges soeuer do excite and stirre vp natiue heate as Laughter myrthe exercise wyne c. do make the face pleasauntlye freshlye coloured but such thinges as be cold suppresse heate as cold ayre and nypping wynd toomuch drynkinge of water immoderate sleepe ouermuch eatinge of cold meates feare sadnesse carefulnes such like make the body to be white coloured Thus they that be of cold Complexions are white coloured vnlesse this quality grow surmount to an excesse and great intension For then it declyneth to aswart and leaden colour such as we see in men in the cold Wynter the wynde being at North whose cheekes Noses lyppes fyngers and eares are swart and wanne wyth stiffe cold benummed But yet this commodity they haue by colde that it maketh them very hungry greedye of meate and not easely satisfyed albeit they do not well digeste nor concocte it And if the tunicles of their Stomack together wyth the cold haue in them any sowrish or sharpe humour they are in eating insaciable and very rauenous feeders which affecte is called Canina appeteÌ„tia the Dogges appetite or the hungry Sicknes which is qualefyed and taken away by drynking the purest stroÌ„gest Wyne To proue that appetite is sharpened wyth colde maye well appeare by Salades and sondry other sower and tarte Condimentes which wee vse in Sommer season to prouoke appetite wythal And as natiue heate maketh men nymble and actyue so cold causeth them to be slouthfull loytering sluggishe drowsy and vnapt to any labour or exercyse because they lacke the Instruments wherwyth to do any such functions Such persons haue foltering tongues and nothing ready in vtterauÌ„ce a nyce soft and womaÌ„nish voyce weake feeble faculties of Nature ill memory blockish wit doltish mynde courage for lack of heate slendernes of vital spyrit feareful and tymorous at
Quince but first must the TurpeÌ„tine be wel washed in Rose water or Fenel water to take away his resinie tallage And because nothing to this CoÌ„plexion which we heere describe is holesomer then sounde and quiet Sleepe for therwith all the members are generally moystened and with conuenient warmth refreshed it shal be good for a person thus complexioned to take his full ease and sleepe in a soft bedde largely and somewhat plentifully For Sleepe in the night is the refreshing makinge lusty agayne both of the body and mynde The invvard peace of mynde is Sleepe To vvearyed bodye ease it brings By it themselues men lusty keepe And fresh to doe their needefull things And when Sleepe is shaken of it shal be righte commodious to vse rubbing or friction neither soft nor hard but meane betweene both the profit whereof to them that vse it is almost incredible For it styreth vp vital strength it calefyeth moderately and maketh distribution of the nourishment into the body easyer and readier speciallye if it be done with the wette hand or with a moyst and course cloth For who doth not perceiue that the hands cheekes armes neck and cares being rubbed will waxe ruddie and with heate gather bloud into those parts And although the vse of rubbing and annoynting amonge vs nowe a dayes be cleane growen out of custome yet in tholde tyme men vsed it very often as a meane to keepe themselues in perfect health and to strengtheÌ„ their bodily powers So Augustus Caesar on a certayne tyme espyinge his old compaignion Pollio being aboue an huÌ„dreth yeares olde demaunded of him what order he vsed in conseruinge himselfe in such perfecte sounde strength and in so lustye and greene olde age vnto whom his aunswere was that he came to it by vsing within Wyne wythout Oyle Men in tholde time did not riottouslye abuse oyntmentes and Oyles to satisfye their effeminate delicatenes nyce wantonnes but for safegard and preseruation of health thereby the better to keepe themselues from Sicknesse For vnctions and Frictions orderlye and duelye vsed for there by many sorts thereof as Galene witnesseth eyther indense the body that the Ayre wyndes should not batter and damnyfie it or els rarefie it that it be not stopped and inwardly pestered which abuÌ„daunce of fullginous humours and oppilacions Hard Rubbing doth snarle together and condense the body Sost lewseth and resolueth it Much doth extenuate dimynishe Meane hath a power to make it encrease fill Rough draweth out humours to the vtter parts Gentle and smooth taketh away nothing but reteyneth his force and power in the parts Among these sorts of frictions that which is in a mediocritie is most behoouefull for those persons that be olde and leane For as hard and styffeleathered bootes that haue lyen loÌ„g vnoccupyed by being suppled in Oyle are made softe So likewyse the bodyes of Fol Dry persoÌ„s being stroaked ouer humected inwardly with Wyne outwardlye with Oyle lay asyde al seueritie z loke with a cheerefull and liuely countenaunce To proue that this vse of vnctions in the old time was of diuers sorts beside the testimony of sacred Scriptures besyde the reporte of Solinus Plinie Strabo in his description of the maners fashions of the Indians doth sufficientlye testifye Physicke sayth hee amonge them consisteth in meates not in medicines and of Medicines they best allow of vnctioÌ„s Cataplasmes al other being as they thinck not voyde of harme annoyaunce Therew t they customablye propulse sicknesse mitigate heate driue away lassitude wearynesse reuiue their wearyed powers feeble Spyrites refreshing themselues therewith euen as we by sweete smelles do recreate our inward soule and restore the faint faculties of naure No lesse commodious and profitable to this body is a warme Bathe of sweete water for it doth humect and calefie it dissolueth lassitude it mollyfyeth hard and stiffe partes it disperseth by euaporation the abundaunce of humours it resolueth wynâ—ynâ—sse and procureth Sleepe for that it humecteth the brayne wyth a pleasaunt vaporous and deawye moysture But the naturall Bathes which haue all their vertues of Alume Yron Lyme Ockre Brymstone Saltpeter Bitumen Leade Brasse Copper c. are not so holesome for this Complexion and Nature vnlesse the party do first aske aduyse of some fkilfull and trusty Phisition openymge vnto him the whole state of his body whereby he may vppon the conssideration therof geeue iudgement whether it be good and expedient for him to aduenture into the same Carnall lust and Venerous Act as it is an vtter ennemye to all drye Natures so especially to it moste hurtfull to them that besyde drynesse are also cold No lesse hurtfull is ouer much exercyse wearynesse watch carefunesse thought longe abstynence from meate and drincke heauynes of mynde and anger wherewyth such complexioned mens myndes are seldome styrred but when they be throughly chafed angred hardly will they be pacifyed and quieted againe And because vnseasonable Study is a thinge that greatly wearyeth weareth Students making when leane and exhausting their bodyes a measure and meane also would be therein vsed For we seâ— many great and painfull Studentes still sitting at their Bookes wythout taking any regard to their bodily health by the helpe wherof the good state of the mynde is holden vp mainteyned to looke wyth wearyshe faces pale and without bloude nothing almost on their bodyes but skinne and boane the ventricle and stomacke feeble vnable to digest their meate their streÌ„gth and powers cleane worne out and exhausted For by wearying themselues wyth late watchiÌ„g and sittinge at their study till farre in the nighte their Animall Spyrites through toomuch inteÌ„sion be resolued and their natiue humyditie dryed vp Wherefore it is requisite to vse therein a moderacion and narowlye to looke to the preseruation of health least otherwyse throughe continuall poring and study â–ª the body chaunce to pyne away fall into some Consumption For as Plutarch sayth Of al the good thinges that learninge bryngeth to man nothinge more excellent can be geuen to the body then to be in perfect health and wythout impedimente eyther for the attaynmente of the knowledge of Vertue or for the necessarye vse of lyfe For if sicknesse or gyddynesse of the head hyppeÌ„ streightwayes the mynde beinge destitute of the helpe of the bodye drowpeth quayleth and is neyther lustye nor actyue in doynge his ordinary functions but together wyth his Companion and fellow of all his labours the bodye is mutuallye affected and alyke distempered For which cause Plaâ—o hys counsell is right commendable aduysing vs neither to exercyse the body wythout the mynde nor the mynde without the bodye but to keepe as it were an equal poyze of matrymoniall coÌ„sent and agreemente together betweene them as it were betweene man wyfe Forasmuch therefore as the inwarde and natiue heate by exercyse and motion is encreased
can greatly hurte them Which persons althoughe with dainty fare idle life and much Sleepe they bring themselues many times to this porzynes corpulencie yet they be not so daungerously sicke whē any discrasie happeneth as they that be of the same constitution and state from their firste begīning For although some which in their youth were slender leane happen afterward to be fat grosse and fleshie yet their veynes Arteryes and other passages and cunduites of their bodyes remaine still large and wyde which thing plainlye appeareth whensoeuer they feeling themselues not wel at ease haue any occasion to be let bloud For in this accidentall habite of body althoughe the party be fat and forgrowen yet the veynes lye not hid vnappearing as in them that naturally be grosse but swel out and plainlye appeare to the eye offering thēselues to the Laūce by incisiō hāsomly to be cut Therfore although this moyst Cōplexion being cherished by heat be laudable good for that it prolongeth life differreth and keepeth away Oldage suffereth not the body to grow into drynesse yet if it exceede toofarre or stand in the point of extremity it is daungerous For when by reason of the veynes beinge ful the body ceasseth to be nourished and the faculties of nature which distribute nourishmente intermit their office and cannot worke in this case needes must the body go to wracke and incurre inconuenience so that eyther sodaine death therupon ensueth or els al least some rupture of y Vessels and veynes happeneth These things being considered it shal be good speedely and in time to forsee breake this habite and disposition and by y meanes of moderate euacuation abstynence and watchinge to preuente further daunger vsing such a prescripte diet and ordinary as best serueth to reduce the bodye into a safer and lesse daungerous Constitution For this is genera lye to be noted that a bodye is not to be accompted reckened moyst in respecte of abundaunce of excrements and humours but of a temperate moystnes of all the parts and of the whole proportionably together wyth which tēperate moysture naturall heate is fedde and nouryshed and life therby many yeares prolonged Finis Libri Primi THE SECONDE BOOKE WHER IN AS IN A GLASSE is plainly and liuelye described the perfecte state and expresse Image of euery particuler Nature By the vvhich euery man may most readily finde out the very right Constitution plight condition affect and disposition of his ovvne Body ¶ Of a Compounde Complexion The first Chapter COmpounde Complexions consistinge of two qualities a piece are in nūber foure like as y symple be vz hoat and Moyst Hoat and Dry Cold and Moyst Colde Drye vnto whom there belong and are appendant so many Humours diffused into euery parte of the whole body Bloud Phlegme Choler Melācholie These according to the nature of nourishmēt receyued are encreased or diminished suffring chaūg alteration are easelye one into an other transmuted And albeit these humours being of great force diuers wayes and sondryly affecting the bodye yea the wyth fulsome and vnpleasaunte exhalations and sentes is oftentimes greatly annoyed and encūbred euen as ill naughtye wyne bringeth to the brayne affects both hurtful and daūgerous may not be accompted Elementes neyther are able to constitute any Complexion yet are they endued wyth Elementall qualitye and vertue and helpe much to the conseruation keeping of the whole body in good plight and order For as wee see the fyer to be fedde wyth matter combustible and Torches Lynkes Candles and such like nouryshed wyth Oyle or some other rosennye and fattie substaunce so lykewise the elementall qualities and all the powers and faculties of nature derpued into the vital spermaticke seede of our Parents do stande in continuall neede of nourishment For if the body should not be susteyned wyth nourishment or if the humours which moystē euery particuler member should lack the preseruatyues and fomentations wherewyth they be maynteyned the whole frame of mans body must of necessity decaye and be vtterly dissolued and euery part thereof vanishe away into his lyke whereof it was generated or into that whose nature it conteyneth wythin it selfe whether it do participate with Fyer Apre Earth Water or drawe neere in nature and be famylier to any of them They depend mutually one of an other and are stedfastly maynteyned by the helpe and stay one of an other Neyther is there any parte in mans body so small so vyle or so abiect that hath not respect to the comelynesse and conseruation of the whole bodye doth orderly discharge his due office and proper function whereunto it was created And this I would not haue to be onely spoken and ment of y vse and vtility of euery of the members partes seuerally but also of the humours which by the helpe of nourishment do meynteine supporte and vnderproppe the temperamente and complexion of eche body and by the helpe of naturall heate do geeue increase and growth to al the members generally For which cause Hippocrates and Galene not wythout good reason apoint the foure naturall humours being perfect and pure the Elements of Creatures endued wyth bloud for out of theym commeth a secundarie oryginall of oure procreation For they mynister matter plentifully and helpe highly in the breedinge and shaping of the Infante or yonglinge specially if the body be well ballassed wyth good holesome meates and now and then heated wyth a draught of good wyne for without these Venus games are perfourmed but faintly sorilie which thing seemeth to be ment by the yong Strypling Chremes in Terence who being sober beganne to abhorre and loath his harlot and Concubine but beynge wel whittled in wyne to take therin gret delight and pleasure and not scarse able to qualefie himselfe from committinge further follie wyth her as in this Prouerbiall sentence he flatly professed Take meate and drincke and vvyne avvay Small is the lust to Venus play For the Testicles Genitories and members of generation draw vnto them frō the principall mēbers and conuert into Seede the best most exquistielye concocted humours Which seede hauing 〈◊〉 great store of effectuous profitable Spyrit is the worker of heate of all the other faculties and in the begetting and procreation of Children is the chiefe parent and causer Into it is a wonderful vertue and diuine power by Gods good will and appoyntmente infused for the shaping and fashioning of the yong Creature wythin the mothers wombe for it produceth a fruict of seemely most beautifull workemanship rightly shapen and in ech poynt perfectly proporcioned if the Seede wherof it was begotten do issue from a sound and holesome body for otherwyse if the seede be of a diseased corrupt and infected bodye the issue and ofspringe cannot choose but be monstruous and deformed Somewhat therfore to recreate the Reader to make this argument more
feare death nor care for daunger Of which sort we see sondry old beatē Souldiours and such as haue been long and throughly experienced in many a sharpe storme vpon the raging Sea. Of such force is a throughly settled ymagination as by many Argumentes elsewhere I haue declared that a woman at the time of her conception stedfastly fixing her ymagination vppon any thinge deryueth enduceth certayne markes and tokens thereof into the Infant which thinge is well ynough knowen to happen also vnto mē that ardentlye earnestly fixe theyr imaginatiōs and thoughtes vppon any thing And thus did the cōtemplation of Christ nayled on the Crosse imprinte certayne strakes stampes and marks vppon the handes and feete of S. Frauncis if at leastwise his religious sectaryes fautours followers deserue herein any credit for the Images and Pictures in his name resemblaunce made and enthronyzed in Churches holding his hāds stretched out and open are carued of such fashiō and shew him to haue been such a one In what perplexity distresse agonie and feare our Sauiour Christ was euen by this to euery man euidently appeareth that he fixing his mind vppon the instant daunger wherein he presently stoode and as it were before his eyes beholding his death now imminent and at hand the sweate trickeled downe his body to the groūd lyke drops of bloude For the terrour and feare of death deepely sinking into a mās imagination is farre more greeuous terrible then death it selfe for many haue theyr Senses so astonnyed benummed y death happeneth vnto them without any feeling of paine at all as they y dye of the Apoplexie or drowsie Euill or such as fall into traunces whom the beholders cannot perceiue to feele any maner of paine but to synck down fallyng as it were into a sleepe or slumber And thus in daungerous aduētures and perilles hazarded by Sea and lande which to the eyes and mynd represent a very Image of death there is no man but feeleth in himselfe motions of feare and looketh pale vpon the matter for y his bloud at the sight of such dreadfull extremytie recuyleth and fleeth into the innermost partes of his body For when as all the parts of the body be forsaken of theyr vitall iuyce there is none of them that throughlye and well executeth his righte function and office the feete stagger and stumble the eyes dazzel the lustynesse of the mind drowpeth and is dulled the cheeks seeme flaggie and hanging downe the tongue stammering and the teeth gnashing and whetting His hayres for feare stand staring vp his tongue is tyed fast There is no man be he neuer of so constant stout a heart but is at one sodayne chaunce or other appaulled therewith shrinketh in courage but yet so that straight wayes abandoning feare and ankoring his firme trust vppon God he eftsones recouereth his courage and banyshing dastardly feare remayneth constant vnterryfyed And if the case so stand those imminent daungers be not conueniently to be auoyded couragiously and stcutly obiecteth himselfe to the push of any hazards with vnappaulled stomacke going through stitch wyth his purpose Therefore there is no creature lyuinge by breath vnto whom death is not dreadfull and terrible because it bringeth destructiō and vtter dissolution vnto all vnlesse onelye to suche whose myndes bee stupefyed and their Senses blunted and vnperfecte as olde decrepite persons yong Infantes fooles Madmen and Rauers which haue no remembraunce or cogitatiō of any thing that is fearefull and formidable neyther feele anye payne and griefe as others whose brayne is firme and sounde and theyr Anymall faculty perfect do but specially as I sayd before they that are oppressed wyth the Lethargie Apoplexie or in Traunces sownings with do as it were by litle litle cloase their eyes and seeme as though they fell into a gentle slumber without feeling any payne at all The effect of this my ouerlong discourse tendeth to this end that although there be in the body of man many goodlye furnitures and in the mynde sondry excellent ornamentes yet notwithstanding the life of man is subiect euery where in all places to innumerable casualties myssehapps and inconueniences and is on ech syde beset torne in peeces wyth suche a number of myseryes and byrecknyngs as euery way weaken and appayre the perfecte vigoure and lustye state thereof But if no myschaunce or harme assault the same it may in good case temper many yeares continue as by frugality holesome diet orderly qualification of all affections insomuche that euen till the yeares of decrepicie there doe appeare the tokens and markes of a righte good Constitucion and habite which thinge is manifestlye to bee seene by some that in Oldage are as lusty and haue their wittes as freshe and youthlyke and their bodyes not so barreine vnactiue fruitlesse as many Yong men haue Now forasmuch as the lustly and full growen age of Adolescencie doth consiste in a temperament of hoate and moyst continuyng in a maner for the most part in a moderate meane of equability and perfourming all his actions throughlye and inculpablye so also as touchinge the maner and order of Sleepe it keepeth such stinte and measure as is not greatly to be mysliked For their Sleepe is quiet and nothing troublesome nor disturbed with any distemperaunce or nightlye vanityes For the brayne is moystened and refreshed with a sweete pleasaunt vapour so that the mynde thereby is not troubled with any maner of absurde annoyaunces but onelye the labours exercyses and deuyses of the daye and the needefull cares for the dailye mayntenaunce of this life the perfourmaunce whereof resteth and apperteyneth for the daye to accomplish These doth the mynde and imaginatiue parte of man deuyse and studye vpon toward mornyng after a man hath slept his deade or sounde sleepe which is so quietly done that therein is no phātasticall dreamyng And if the mynde and spyrite do then reuolue and debate in dreame anye other straunge or vnaccustomed thing then onely suche as falleth out for the day to consider vppon the same certes signifyeth abundaunce of ill Humours to be pestered within the bodye causinge the troubled spyrites to sende manye confused ymaginations and vaine foolishe visions vp into the chiefe Castle of the mynde and of such sonde dreames to interprete or prognosticate any euent or happe of future thinges to depend or rashlye to gather any signification or meaninge is childishe vayne wicked and superstitious as the Scripture plainly flatly witnesseth notwithstanding sometimes dreames such I meane as are sent heauenly suggestion happen not without some diuination and infallible presage or foresight of things to come For our heauenlye father vseth now and then to admonish and awake our drowsy myndes and retchlesse natures laying before vs in visions and dreames somewhile good and holesome sometime ill and lamentable happes thereby to try whether yet at length wee will be obeysaunt
him vvith reliefe They that be of this constitution ouer beside these afore rehearsed greeuaunces and discommodities are subiect to other Agues no lesse daungerous wherof one proceedeth of putrefyed and rotten bloud the other withoute anye note or signe of putrefaction is caused of inflammation of bloud Both these sorts of Agewes the Greekes comprehend in this word Synochus and the Latinistes Continuum because it is continuall without geeuing to the Pattent anye truce or intermission for wheÌ„ the fit commeth it leaueth not of but continueth for many dayes together And that Age which is hoate and moyste is more subiect to these kinds of Agues then anye other for it quickly conceyueth taketh putrefaction throughe oppilation specially in the Spryng time of the yeare when as Humours freshly encrease much the sooner if they vse anye distemperanÌ„ce or leade on ydle and restfull lyfe wythout ordinary exercise For when the Pores and spyrameÌ„ts whereout bloud is wont to haue difflation vaporous expulsion be stopped the partye cannot choose but growe into putrefaction and the vitall partes with fulsome corruption to be infected For euen as close houses whereinto the winde hath no maner of accesse and as Garmentes fetherbeds and Mattresses Cushions Sheetes Blankets Carpets and Counterpoynts become mustie and ill sented vnlesse they bee now then shaken and hanged out in the open Ayre so likewise doth the body of man become putrefyed corrupte stinkinge and rotten if it accustome not it selfe to exercyse and agitation For by that order and meane are excrementes euacuated al fulsome fumes and exhalations proceding out of them dissipated To keepe themselues therefore the better froÌ„ Sicknes and to be the lesse open and subiecte to Agewes it shall behoue theÌ„ to vse seasonable exercise abaÌ„doning al slouth and drowsynes duly obseruing a moderation in meat drinck sleepe watche and carnall coniunction And in the begining of the Springe it shall be good for them to be let bloud or by fcarysycation to be cupped But if they be loath or vnwilling after that way to be emptyed to preuent future daungers let them take some such purgatiue medicines as make the bealy soluble namely Cassia fistula Syrup Ros Laxat Diaprunum simplex Syrup de Epythymo and Fumitorie Polypodie Mercurie Manna or honnie of the Ayre and Whaye And in vsing of exercyse this must diligentlye be taken heede of that it be not frequented vsed eyther when the parties be replete wyth humours and excrements after meate or when their Stomacks be full For being in eyther of these sorts vsed it filleth the heade full of fumes vapours which chiefe Member being distempered and diseased all the inferiour members lykewyse suffer griefe and participate discrasie wyth it it bredeth Rhewmes Catarrhes and distillations it maketh heauye and bryngeth oppilation to the Lyeuer For violent motion dryueth the meats beyng vncoÌ„cocted into the narrow streits of the veynes where they stop the passage of the Humours and make an open way occasion vnto putrefaction When any such inconuenience happeneth our parts be forth wyth to seeke remedy for the same by applying thereto such thinges as are of force to take away and dispatch all those annoyaunces that sticke in the way and hinder them from hauing theyr ryght courses Of which sort sayth Galene are the infusion of Wormewoode gentle stieped in Wyne or Wormewood wyne called Absynthytes Succorye and Endyue Doder Egrymonie Rhabarbe the seedes of Anyse and Fenel Peache kernelles bitter Almonds great Reysons wyth the kernelles taken out Oximell sympl eche of these to bee geeuen before meate when concoction is perfectly made The same regard and consideration is also to be obserued and kepte in doynge the carnal Acte of Generation for toomuch vse thereof enfeebleth the powers and through inflaÌ„macion arysing thereof engendreth Goute and paine in the Ioyntes For there be some so wylful that without respect at all of concoction or cruditie without any consyderation and difference of nighte or day quight neglecting the oportunity thereto beloÌ„ging do greedily desyre and inordinately hasten for this tickling luste can brooke no delaye to satisfye and staunche their fleshly motions in this kinde of pleasure and in the vse thereof be so insaciable and so farre passe the boundes of moderacion and qualification thereof that they waste and destroye the pyth and synewes of theyr whole bodyes For carnall Acte taketh away exhausteth that power of the body which serueth to concoct the meate and to conuert the same into Bloud which if it be not accordingly accomplished nor syncerely wroughte then falleth it oute that very great store and abundance of excrementes superfluous humours be engendred which breede and cause innumerable diseases Albeit to many this vâ—â— of Carnalitie vnlesse it be out of all measure bringeth no hurt at all for seasonable and tempestiuious coiture riddeth awaye great store of Phlegme and skowreth awaye other Humours which being engeÌ„dred within a maÌ„ damnyfye and annoye the body and mynde And this thinge is to be obserued and marked in yonge lustye Damselles and Virgins which remayne long vnmaryed or which by professioÌ„ of chastitye are wayned and debarred from Wedlocke For besyde their vnruly motions of tickeling lust besyde theyr secrete flames and burning affections they be ill coloured and nothing pleasauntly complexioned their myndes vnstedy and out of quiet frame by meanes of a naughty vapour that ascendeth vpward and disturbeth their brayne And hereuppon it is that sometyme in Imagynation thinking theÌ„selues to lye wyth meÌ„ by beholding or touchinge of them they be troubled in theyr sleepe wyth the night Mare and the effluxioÌ„s of seede wherw t they pollute theÌ„selues in the nighte season Hereuppon commeth trembling quaking of the heart by reason of grosse fumes which inuade the pannicle or coffyn of the heart called Pericardion and lye heauelye vppon the body pressinge it downe as though they were night Hegges or Hobbegobblins Them that be maryed which lawfullye maye vse this carnal knowledge wyth their owne wyues and they that dissolutely leade a leacherous life and runne ryot on whorehuntinge are to bee aduysed and counselled not to yelde themselues too much therunto least afterward they bewayle their lamenes and lacke of strength when as all their vitall iuyce shal be cleane gone and exhausted whereof the wyse Solomon geeueth to euery man a ryght holesome exhortation and aduertisement that a man should not geeue ouer or enthrall his credite and honour to harlottes nor to spende and consume his lustye yeares in hauntinge the companie of Whores who greedilye gape to defeat and spoyle him both of his wealth and strength as they that will neuer bee satisfyed and glutted neither with Venus games and coiture neyther wyth rewardes and expences but remayne still insaciable and euer crauinge more Let eche man therefore take herein good heede to himselfe leasse in the ende
it is right excellent coÌ„fortable now then to smell to such things as yelde a sweete odoriferous sauour namely such as be of nature pearsing calefactiue as LignuÌ„ Aloes Clofegelofres Rosemary flowers Basil Nigella Ambregryce Syuet redde Roses Hony suckle flowers FreÌ„ch spyknard and many other y yelde forth a stronge smel but the seme right pleasaunt comfortable delightfull All these refresh the Spirits wyth their soote sauours wonderfullye comforte the Brayne If a man or woman seeme to outward iudgment in a maner past recouery and be broughte to extreeme obliuion as they be that haue y disease called Lethargus or the drowsye euill it shal be right good for them to annoynt the outsyde of their Nucha and nape of their necks wyth the Oyle of Castor Nigella Euphorbe Costus Rocket and inwardly to take a litle of the confection of Anacardus or els therewyth to rubbe the tongue For is dissolueth Phlegme that is extremelye colde moyst and viscous Insomuch that it restoreth speach to them that be striken wyth the Apoplexie and recureth the staggeringe and stayinge of the tongue bringinge it againe to his righte vse Which thinge maye also be done and broughte to passe wyth Oximel Scillit and Aqua vite wherein a fewe graynes of Rocket haue beene stieped Vnto these helpes in daungerous and desperate discrasies when nothing else will helpe we flee for refuge and succour but in distemperauÌ„ces and grieues that be myelder and not of such extremity others now rehearsed may serue as Syrupe de Stichade Dia Anthos dulcis Aurâ—a Alexandrina Dia castorium Pliris cum Musco Triacle and Mythridatum By experience and daily proofe it is founde true that Agalochus commonly called Lignum Aloes being eyther vsed in perfume or smelled vnto with the Nose hath a marueylous vertue to corroborate the Brayne refresh the Senses insomuch that beinge stamped puluerized and myngled wyth some Cloues and the boane of a Rauens harte and then all mixed with Oyle of Nigella hath such souereigne vertue in strengthening comfortinge y Braine that if the head of a Cocke be therewith annoynted he wil crowe continually without any ceassing ¶ Of the state and disposition of a hoate and dry body with a Discourse of the nature condition maners and inclination of a Cholericke person The v. Chapter FOrsomuch as among the outward things of Nature there is nothing of any longe continuaunce and stability neither that long keepeth it selfe at any certayne state and vigour but all subiect to decay alteration and case worse and worse truly the state of mankinde doth specially and more then anye other suffer sundry alterations and is subiecte to great chaunge and mutability Thus is a Hoate and Moyst Complexion in processe and tract of time brought into a state Hoat and Drye For Heate by litle and litle both slyly and closely wast and consume naturall Humour and bringeth all the body into drynesse which quality for prolongation and lengtheninge of lyfe is the greatest ennemy that can bee For as the flame in a Torche or Taper feedeth vpon the combustible matter thereof and is therewith nourished which being all wasted and consumed the same flame also quencheth and no longer burneth so likewyse natiue heate by little and little weareth away and diminisheth the iuyce moysture wherewith it is nourished and finally bringeth the cause of destruction both to it self and to the whole body beside Nowe that constitution of body which consisteth of a hoate and dry qualitye and thereof hath his name hauinge warme Humour throughe these qualities encreased maketh and constituteth a Cholericke man by reason of the greate stoare of Choler which is in him of which Humour there be two sortes and differences the one natural the other besyde nature Natural Choler is the excrement of bloud concoct bitter in sauour and in colour and effect fyerie When the heate of the Lyuer is moderate then is it yealow and shyninge but when this viscositye is ouermuch enkindled then doth Choler also boyle with heate and is of colour darcke Yelowish like vnto Pruse Bier called in Dutche Iopen Bier or like vnto Oyle or melted Butter when it is burned and with much frying becommeth blackishe of colour whereby it commeth to passe that the colour before Yelowe chaungeth and is turned into a sadde blacke which sometime apparauntly vttereth and sheweth it selfe in the vtter parte of the skinne whensoeuer this Cholerique Humour diffuseth and disperseth it selfe into the same skinne Choler hath in the body two offices for parte of it being mixed wyth the bloud passeth into the Veynes to make the same more conuenientlye to penetrate into euery one of the narow passages to bee conueighed to such members as requyre haue neede of the nourishment of Choler The other part is sente to the bladder of the Gall annexed and tyed to the nether ende of the Lyuer wherein the wonderfull prouidence of Gods Almighty handyworke wel appeareth in y he hath appointed the same Entraile whereunto he hath geeuen an admyrable vertue to attract and helpe digestion to be also a receyuer and Receptorye of superfluous and vnprofitable Humour to th entent no harme or inconuenience should thereby in any wise happen to the other members For Choler is of that nature y yeldeth out a fiery force whose motion as it were a fier brande stirreth vp and inceÌ„seth our minds to hasty moodes and furious rages And for this cause Angre is defined to be a heate and certaine boylinge of the Bloud aboute the Heart wherewith the Braine also beinge excyted by Choler is set in a heate and testines desyrous of reueng whensoeuer any iniury is offered And to the lower parts prouoke and irrite the Guttes and Bowelles to auoyde superfluous excrementes For which purpose Natures prouidence hath deuised and framed sundry passages needeful for y purginge conueighaunce and euacuation of all such superfluous Humours to witte the Kidneyes and the Vryne Pypes the empty or fasting Gutte called Intestinum Ieiunum which through the sowrenes of Choler flowinge into it continuallye dryueth out the Excrements the Bladder Eares and Pores appointed for the auoydaunce and expulsion of sweate And in the most parte of these if obstructions shoulde happen all the whole fylthy masse of noysome Humour is thereby kept within the body and then geeueth violente assaulte to some of the principall partes So when the bagge or Bladder of the Gall or Receptacle of Choler is not able to exonerate it selfe of that baggage drosse and superfluity which it drewe from the Lyuer it emptyeth and casteth it eyther into the Uentricle or els into the holownesse of the Lyuer And thus it commeth to passe that Choler being diffused and spred ouer all the body imperteth both his qualitye and colour to the Bloud Hereof commeth the Iaundice named Morbus Regius for y it requyreth a moste exquisite dict and Princelike fare which
impudently presumyng to shuffle themselues into euery companye and place of assembly hauing an Oare in euery mans Boate and entermedling in other mens matters wherin they haue nothing to deale In Sleepe very vnquiet leaping sometime out of their bedds because their Spyrits be very hoat which incyte awake theÌ„ vp euen beyng a sleepe to motion walking about For Choler frameth and fashioneth the mynds of men many wayes producing and causynge in them diuers maners phansyes delightes and inclynations And hereuppon it happeneth that whosoeuer is of a hoate and drye Constitution reckened in the number of Cholericke men is naturally fierce arrogante imperious stately vntractable and vnruly Quicke testy not entreatable of stomacke very stoute Not thinking Lavves vvere for them made but fight and blade it out This is my vvill this is my hest thus shall it be I say Thus I commaunde my vvill in steede of reason beareth svvay But as hee is by Nature verye testye and soone angry so is his Cholerique moode soone alayed and pacifyed Nowe sythens besyde yealowe Choler which onely is called Naturall there be dyuers other differences thereof also wee muste orderlye entreate as occasion falleth out of euery one particulerly First of Yelowe Choler is engendred Pale or of the colour of a Pomecytron meane betwene greene and yelowyshe It beareth chiefe swaye at the beginninge of the Sprynge in yonge men and bodyes not yet come to their full growth when as freshe Bloude newlye sprowteth in theyr Bodyes Whereuppon that Age speciallye at this tyme of the yeare is muche subiecte to Tertian Agewes namelye if this Humoure throughe obstruction do putrefye and beynge scattered withoute the Veynes happen to bee enflamed Muche lyke whereunto is the Bastard Tertian so called for that it is engendred not altogether of Yelowe Choler but hath some part of Phlegme also ioyned wyth it For Burning Agewes do proceede and be enkindled of redde Choler putrefyinge and rotting within the Veynes which bringe a man into ydle talke Phrenste and rauing For they that be herewith affected conceyue in theyr myndes certayne fonde and absurde imaginations thinking themselues to see some tertible apparitioÌ„s and sights wherby in the nights they be greatly troubled in their sleepes and sore affrighted Tost and turmoylde vvith dreadfull dreames and grysly griepes by night Vext vvith vaine terrours in their Sleepe appearing to their sight They dreame of fyer and burning of houses Townes and thincke all the worlde to be in an vprore and hurly burlye killinge and sleying one an other and some of these phantasticall imaginations sometime happen to a man wythout any Agewe when as the fumosity of Choler stryketh vp into the Brayne Which if they happen of any longe continuaunce to disturbe the bodye and mynde it shal be most expedient to take an other order of diet and foorthwyth to purge Choler by vomyte sweate and euacuation by Siege which may be conueniently done wyth Radix Pontica and such things as prouoke Vryne as these Herbes Alkakengie Sperage Gardeyne Parslye Anyse seede and Fenell seede forbearyng all hoate fat and sweete meates which are very apte to be turned into Choler excepting onelye Reysons Liquirice and onely to eate such thinges as are of vertue to qualefye and alay the heate of Bloud And specially Sleepe must be prouoked with Lactuce and other salet herbes that do humecte and refresh the Brayne and all other parts of the body For albeit to hoat and dry complexions and all Cholericke persons many things be both hurtful and pernicious yet is nothing more noysome and preiudiciall then vnseasonable labour watch long forbearing of victuals fumish anger and testynesse Venus and immoderate company of Women For euery of these doth waste and consume the strength and powers of Nature neyther may any thing be conueniently taken froÌ„ them that be drye and leane maye marye they had rather neede to be franked and tenderlye fedde with delicate fare and deinty cheere to restoare and mayneteyne them then eyther to be skanted or to take that which wasteth nature For es Cattle best lyketh in raÌ„ke pasture wherin is good grasse and water ynough so do they of this Complexion require exquisite fare And euen as those Trees and Sprayes that do not burgen and ramifye would not be lopped nor cutte so likewise wearish weakened bodyes lacking many things in respect of a firme habite of bodely constitutioÌ„ oughte not in any parte to be weakened neyther can well spare any thinge to be taken away from them But there is an other kinde of Choler swaruing and degenerating from Natural order and meane called of Phisitions Yolkie Choler borowing his name of the yolke of an Egge whose colour and consistencie it doth neerelye resemble For by meanes of his excessiue heate it is thickishe and of colour fâ—ery and verye yelowe which if it should happen to putrefye and bee enflamed it breedeth Agues most ardente and burning Therefore forsomuch as this kinde of Choler is shrunke and gone from mediocritye it shal be expedient to frame a cleane contrary diet and to ensue an other maner of order for the subduing and dryuing away of this straung quality For if a man should still cheerish and tender it with his like nourishmentes he should do nothing else but exasperate the distemperaunce encrease the tyranny therof and make it more vehement There is also an other kinde of Choler called Leekish so named because it is as grene as a Leeke which is bred and engendred in the Stomacke through naughty and corrupte iuyce of certain grosse potherbes of which sort are Garlicke Leekes Onyons Cresses Rocket Colewortes Betes Cheruyle For when as Nature is not able to subdue and mayster these and suche like nourishmeÌ„ts they be tourned into a Leekish or greene Choler which being sometime parbraked and cast vp by vomyte leaue in the tongue Chawes a certayne bitter relice and sharpe sauour insomuch that with other sweete licour it is hard to be gotten away and abolished Also this noysome Humour sometime is engendred in the Lyuer and Veynes by meanes of some greeuous sicknes wheÌ„ as yolkie coloured Choler is adust with vehement inflammation of straunge heate which to vomyte vp by perbraking Hippocrates affirmeth to be most daungerous Out of this proceedeth yet an other excremeÌ„t worse then any of the rest called of a likenes that it hath with rusty brasse Rusty or Brassie Choler which is engeÌ„dred of Leekish or greene Choler vehemently adust For when the humidity is with intensed heate excocted it becommeth dry resembleth the rust of Brasse which thinge wee may plainly perceiue by hoat glowing things extremely burnt in the fyer whereunto the nature of Choler maye verye aptly be compared For the force and vertue of fier chaungeth the wood first into burning coales then into blacke coales and last of all when the fyer hath quite consumed all and heate is
into the Lowe Countryes to slaunche and sill the glutting desyre and greedynesse of some which beinge very sower in tast insomuch that it seemeth to take away the vpper skinne of the tongue theyr vse is to condite wyth hony and hony combes to make it for them that haue quaysye stomackes better relyced pleasaunter in taste And as the dreggs mother or settlinges of Oyle reteyne a tallage of the Oyle and as the Lees of Wyne keepe a certayne tast relyce and smell of the Nature of Wyne Euen so MelaÌ„cholicke iuyce which proceeded from Bloud reteyneth the spettle and tast thereof Wherefore this Humour maye seeme somewhat vnproperly to be called Atra bilis sythens there is in it no adustion but as Galene sayth a bloud or Melancholike iuyce which is nothinge els then the dryer and thicker parte of bloud altogether lyke vnto dregges and Lees that settleth in the bottom of the vessel and conserueth the strength vigour of the Wyne and suffreth it not to wast and vanish And as the Lees or Dregges of Wyne called in Dutch Droesen or Moeder serue to good vse and purpose for the making of Aqua vite wythall Euen so Melancholicke iuyce which it I may so plainly terme it is y setling and refuse of Bloud hath in it an holesom vse and commodity For one part goeth into the Veynes and helpeth bloude the other part much like to the former is drawen by the Lyuer into the Splene or Mylt hauing thence afterwards issue into the Stomacke on the left syde wherof it lyeth styrreth vp appetite to meat throughe the sharpnesse and sowrenes that is in it This viscous substaunce being soft thinne fungous and like vnto a SpuÌ„ge is the ChaÌ„ber of MelaÌ„cholie and a Receptory appoynted by nature to draw out vnto it the dregges of Bloude and sometimes so much swelled wyth aboundaÌ„ce of excrements as though it would oppresse and kill a maÌ„ according whereunto the Cappadocian Baude in Plautus bewayleth his owne case in these woords My health decreaseth day by day My paine encreaseth on as fast My svvagging Mylt doth eu'ry vvay like gyrdle rounde begyrde my vvast A man vvould iudge that I did beare vvithin my Beally Children tvvayne VVretch that I am I greatly feare least burste I shall in middle plaine Which part of the body because it is a great hinlet to nymblenes and agilitye and a fowle cuÌ„bersome loade to Runners Postes Currours and speedy Messengers the ignoraunt commoÌ„ people sometime thoughte and were perswaded that the beste waye was cythe to haue this viscous substaunce quight taken out or els to be cauteryzed But in very deede it is not without great daunger and hazard of life to be taken oute no more then the Testicles or Stones can from the Castor which is a kinde of Beaste that lyueth both in water and on land whom huÌ„ters reporting a flymflam tale of Robinhoode do absurdely affyrme that wyth their owne teeth they byte away their owne Stones and for sauegarde of their lyues throwe the same at those which pursue and chase them Yet notwithstaÌ„ding this viscousnes if it swel and bolne ouermuch may be qualefyed kept downe and repressed by vsing Roman coÌ„moÌ„ Wormwood â—etrach Polipodie Sene Epythyme Rosemary Capers Doder Fumitory Hartstongue bitter Almonds Peach kernels Tamarixe swete Broome For the more that it encreaseth waxeth bigger the more the bodye pyneth away becoÌ„meth leaner so that very aptly did Traiane the Emperour compare lyken a Princes Exchequer to the Splene For as when a Princes Coffers be full stuffed his Treasuries enriched that common people be wringed pinched empouerished so wheÌ„ the Splene waxeth bigge encreaseth the body is pyned away and wasted with leannesse For somuch therefore as God his carefull prouidence hath made and ordeyned this meÌ„ber to purefie y Lyuer to purge and skum awaye the grosse feculent part of the Bloud it staÌ„deth euery maÌ„ in hand by al meanes possible carefully to forsee y it incurre not any inor take any harme For if the Splene or Mylte should suffer obstruction or fall into imbecillitye and weakenes the MelaÌ„cholike iuyce disperseth it selfe into euery part of the body makinge the skinne to be of a sootie and dunne colour and further disquieteth the mynde wyth sundry straung apparitions and phantasticall imaginations But if it throughlye perfourme the office for which it was ordeyned do exactly drincke vp y drossie feculencie of Bloud it maketh a maÌ„ thervppon wonderfull meerye and iocunde For when the Bloud is syncerely purefyed and from all grossenes and feculencie purged the Spyrits consequently are made pure brighte and cleare shyninge Whose purity and clearenes causeth the mynde to reioyce and amonge meery companioÌ„s to laughe and delight in pretie deuyses mery coÌ„ceiptes and waÌ„ton phansies Which thing likewyse commonly happeneth to them that moysten and whittle themselues well wyth wyne who althoughe otherwyse in dealinges they be naturallye sterne and surlie and outwardlye in countenaunce and maner of gate pretendinge a kinde of seuerity Yet beinge somewhat heated wyth Wyne and lighting in the company of amorous beautifull Damosells they set cocke on hoope and shake away from them al their former grimnes and wayward maners and become as meery as the meryest And thus haue I my selfe knowen some and that of no meane callinge who eyther through inclynation of their Nature or custome of lyfe cleane geeuen from all companye lookinge wyth face and countenaunce grimâ—â—e and seuere wyth browes knyt together frowninge wyth eyes sullen sterne terrible glauncing asyde and eskaÌ„ted ynough to make such as meete them afrayde to loke vppon them who notwythstaÌ„ding when they haue beene in company with yonge pleasaunte Maydens and meery Gentlewomen haue for the whyle forgone layed asyde their seueritye and Stoycal precysenes and in Dauncinge haue shaken their legges and footed it as roundly as the best But the meery conuocation being dissolued and the solemne myrthe fynished haue eftsones retourned to their Olde Nature wanted maners and accustomed grauity My aduyse and counsell to them in this case is to exhort them to vse such mery compaignyes and often to frequent such pleasauÌ„t conferences thereby to acquainte themselues wyth curtesye familiar humanitye discontinuinge and abandoning that their former counterfeite and disguysed seuerity and to dispose their minds to the wel lyking of Nuptiall society To them therefore that be Splenetique and sicke of the Mylte and to as many moe as are of Nature sorowfull lumpish and sowâ—â—measurable drynking of Wyne exercyse of body company meery felowship bryngeth both a sound health and a pleasauÌ„tnes of lyfe For by framyng themselues this way naturall heate is strengthened and lyke fier with often styrring and rakinge begiÌ„neth to shyne glitter sparckle the wearyed and laÌ„guishing spyrits when this synke of MelaÌ„cholie is once exhausted al fuliginousnes banished are reuiued with their
Bedde and with the other counterfect dead men fedde very well and largelye and after Supper was hee broughtt into a Sleepe by a drincke of purpose made for that intent For they that bee distraught of their right witts must be handled artyficially and by no way so soone recured and broughte into order as by Sleepe So by Sybilla as Virgill wryteth was tamed That Hellish Curre enradge vvith hungry crop That Cerberus vvith throates vvyde open three VVas luld brought a sleepe vvith charmed sop VVhich vp he slapt vvith fangs full meerely As gub that hurled vvas to him for fee VVith druggs and hony made full svvete to bee It resteth now to shew by what meanes order Melancholike affections many be expugned or at least mitigated Fyrst we must search out howe and whereupon this disease toke his beginning and in what part if consisteth For seyng there be iii. differences of Melancholie one principally affecting the Brayne and other the whole bodye the thirde Hypocondriacall or flatuous which comming of crudity and ill Humours distempereth the Brayne by consente these do requyre to be by sundry and seueral wayes recured If the whole bodye therefore be opplete and filled wyth Melancholie iuyce it shal be best to beginne the cure wyth letting the party Bloud in the reste this remedie is thoughte vnprofitable and to no purpose except ouermuch abundaūce of Bloud seeme to requyre the same Thus also for the Stitch swelling of the Splene or for a Quartaine Ague it is right excellēt and good to be let bloud in the Veyne called Splenetica in the inside of the left Arme. Furthermore forasmuch as these kinds of mē be for the most parte costyue it shal be very profitable and requisite gently to make them soluble laxatyue with Aloe Epithyme smal fearne For when the Entrailes be slipperye and that the excrements may conueniently scowre awaye and be auoyded lesse vapours and fumosyties do ascend and stryke vp warde wherefore Hippocrates is of opynion that it is righte holesome for persons Splenetique and Melancholicke to be laxatiue Finallye that the Hemerrhoydes swellinge of the Ueynes with Melācholyke bloud swellinge of the tuell and the Pyles to breede and swell in the Fundemente and neyther partes is for theym that be frantique and out of the righte course of their wits very good And although euill Spyrites dommixe thēselues with humours making y same a great deale fiercer and vehementer yet the chiefeste cause and founteine of all this mischiefe and inconuenience is to bee imputed to the outrage and domination of Humours For when noysom Humours be purged grosse fumosities dispersed the furie is well calmed and the mind broughte agayne into his former state and perfection Therefore it shal be moste for their ease profite to procure euacuatiō to the whole body namely by the part whereby nature most alloweth to be purged and that leysurably and by conueniente order of times for it is not good to stirre such coales as these wyth any stronge medicines and purgations then must they haue prescrybed vnto them a right good and precise diet and eschue all such things as engēder thick bloud as Beefe and Bulles flesh Bacon and such as hath beene long bryned or hanged in the smoke and hardned wherūto are to be added Brawn Beares flesh and Venyson ofred Deere whiche cōmonly is brought in for a seruice at Noble mens tables Hares flesh which cōmonly is vsed for a festiuall dish to furnish out the Table when frends meete to make meerye Insomuch that I cannot but meruayle at the vsuall fashion of Dutchmen and Netherlanders amonge whom this fleshe is as highly estemed desyred as anye neyther thincke they any banquet sumptuous festiuall ynough vnlesse one dish therof be Hare whereas no flesh in y world is neerer of nature vnto Melacholie then it For it is cold dry vnlesse the seely beast bee firste well coursed and hunted for that is the way to make it somewhat more hoat toothsome and holesome Euery part of this beast is of a drying force vertue is endued with an astringent facultye both the hayres the skinne the bloud the Mawe and the flesh For the Mawe of a Hare myngled wyth red Wyne and dronck stoppeth the bloudy Flixe y commeth of the excoriation and gnawīg of the bowelles it also stayeth womens termes the haires being burnt or chopped smal are a present and right souereigne thing to stay any great fluxe of bloude in a wounde The Brayne wasteth the superfluous moysture and dryuelinge of the mouth and maketh the teeth to grow y Huckle boane the commissures ligaments thereof are good to breake the stone The flesh also of an Hare if it be much eaten and vsed cureth the rewine that falleth out of the head and helpeth y Epilepsie or falling Sicknes which is a disease engendered of grosse and clammie Phlegme so that ech one of these doth sufficientlye proue this Beast to be drye Melancholike as the whole condition and nature thereof plainly sheweth namely the fleshe which in colour enclyneth to a blacknesse Now whereas some both of old later time haue beene and yet be perswaded that the eating of Hares flesh maketh men pleasaunt and merily disposed and not that onely but also in bodelye shape and coūtenance to be faire galant beautiful I do not thinke neither am I of opyniō the any such thing can happen through eating the flesh of such a fearefull and timorous seely Creature but the rather hereuppon it had his beginning because whē meery Compaignions are disposed to make good cheere they commonly vse to inuite call into their compaignies some beautifull Damosells and pleasaunt Peates to passe away the time more merily whereas they that be of small accoumpt and harde fauoured to the eye are neuer requested vnto any such pleasurable assembly but be suffred to sit still at home being reputed in cōparison but as grosse Stuffe of the second sort and such as neuer according to the prouerbe tasted or eate of an Hare Which thinge the Poet Martial in a certayne pleasaunt Epigrāme doth intimate vnto his Ladye and Mistresse in words to this effect O Gellia Lady myne thou sayest vvhen Hare thou sendste to mee Dayes seuen Marke thou shalt be fayre and beautifull of glee If these thy vvords svveete heart be true and roue not out of square Then surely Gellia thou thy selfe not yet hast eaten Hare Which opynion of auncient long time agone in many mens heads settled I suppose hereuppon toke his first beginning for hither to of none hath it beene expounded that he which had been at any solemne festiual banquet such I means wherein Hare is one seruice appeareth for the next seuen dayes curteous pleasaunt iocund and ful of mery conceipts For when a man hath bene in pleasaunt company and at good cheere where all thinges
haue but meerilye discoursed the tyms ioyously passed there appeare for the space of certayne dayes after in hys face and countenaunce forehead browes lippes eyes and beckes for all these are be wrayers and tellers of the minde inwardly great tokens of myrth and alacrytie and many arguments do outwardly testify the chereful dispositien of the internal Spyrits For the body being heated wyth laughing and ioyinge with kissing and dalying wyth dauncinge Wyne and singing is made fresher and better coloured for that the Bloud is diffused into the vtter part and habite of the body These are therfore the causes why the eating of an Hare dryueth away and dispelleth the Cloudy cares of the mynd maketh the countenaunce cleare and delectable the face ruddie fayre and wall complexioned For as they that be angrye or perplexed wyth feare are commonly seene to be of a troubled and disquiet mynde and by manye outward signes to bewray the affections of their afflicted consciēce euen so they that haue the world at wyl and their hartes farre from all carefull affections troublesome perturbations shewe forth sure and certayn tokens therof in the body outwardly yea the verye countenaunce colour face forhead eyes mouth and generallye all the other fashions gestures thereof do pretend and witnesse a certain securitye of mynde that is at peace and quietnes wythin it selfe Now as touching Diet Let them that bee of this cold and dry Constitution and they that bee Melācholike accustome themselues to such meates as be of good and laudable iuyce to drincke that wyne which is of the best sort and purest let them lye in very soft beds and sleepe wel longe let them eschue forbeare all things that be salte and sower aboue all things let them take heede of crudity let thē vse moderate exercise styrring of thēselues For as maryshes standing waters become dampish and stynking so likewise the body lacking exercise gathereth fulsoments pestilent sauours If violent motion exercise be vnto them painful and laborious they may recreat and exercise themselues wyth pleasaunt singing Musical instruments and delectable and walkinges Let them banish away all affectiōs of the mind heauinesse sorrow thought hatred anger indignation enuye c. Neither let them suffer any such to lodge wythin their hearts let them also auoyd solitarynesse long abstinence lassitude and let them vse at possible meanes to restore theyr right powers first wyth meats and nourishments that be liquide for they do quicklyest nourish and encomber not the Stomacke greatly in concoction but when their powers bee encreased let them acquainte themselues and vse meates that be solide and substantiall Let theyr bread be of the fynest wheate and let them eate thereof but measurablye and sparinglye for it is hardlye concocted and taryeth longe in the stomacke and therefore to Labourers Caryers Maryners Carters and such like it bryngeth strength engendreth flesh durable fast Now they that in time of perfect and sound health do vse to eate litle bread haue strong breaths and stinking mouthes This proporciō therfore is requisite there in to be vsed to eate twyse asmuch in bread as in victuall or other cates As concerning the order that they are to keepe for Dinner and supper vnlesse custome be to the contrary or that they be troubled wyth distillations of the heade let their Supper be larger and more in quantitye then dinner foreseene that immoderate faciety surphet be alwayes eschued To be short to knit vp this matter wyth an holesome aduyse and counsell let all such things as be prejudicial to health and hasten oldage before his tyme be put away and banished Chiefly and especiallye maynteining and keeping wything our selues tranquillity and constancy of mynde which gift we are most humbly and earnestly to craue at his handes which most bountefully bestoweth and powreth out his blessed giftes lyberalitye vppon vs who is God our heauenlye Father and his deare eternall Sonne Christ our onely Sauiour For besyde y ōutward gifts and things transitorye which at his bountifull handes for oure vse cōmodity we moste abundātly tast and enioy he also directeth our mindes wyth his holye Spyrite and moueth our cogitations wills euery minute to ensue that is good and godly He vrgeth and pricketh vs forwarde continually so that wee feele the motions of his mighty power working in our harts by strēgthning and confyrming our Fayth that we thereby constantly leaning to the promyses of God maye rest in a sure trust and vndoubted hope to be afterwards made partakers of his Heauenly ioy in euerlasting felicity Amen Thomas Newtonus Cestreshyrius FINIS THE TABLE ADolescencie 29. Aduertisemente to Studentes 52 Affections natural 35 Affections hovv and vvhereof they come 9. proceding of surphet dronkēnesse 10. 59. Affections of the mynde alter the colour cōplexion of the face and bodye 90. Affections cōmon to al men 59. harmes thereof ibid. Ague called Ephemera 102. Ague called Epiala 107. Agues tertian 132 Agues burning ibid. Agreement betvvene the harte the brain 141 Anacardus good for the memorie 126 Angels good and euill 22. 24 Angels entermingle and shuffle in themselues among our humours 153 Anger 58. 128. 141 Apoplexie 126 Aristomenes his suttle shifting 43 Arteries 89 Astonishment 94 B BAldnesse hovv it commeth 69 Banquetting fit for persons melancolique 5 moderately vsed commendable 76 Bathes Artificiall 74 Bathes naturall ibid. Beard hovv to make it grovv 42 Beard redde not alvvayes a token of ill nature 130. Best thinges and excellent muste not vpon dispayre be geeuen ouer 34 Bloud hath all the other humours mixed in it 86 87. 89. Bloud forbidden by Moyses lavv to be eaten vvhy 89. Bloud of greate force in framing the disposition maners 96. 99 Bloud boyleth in young persons like spurginge of nevv vvyne in the tunne 98 Bloud prouoketh to vvilfulnes 101 Bloudletting not rashly to be enterprised 55. 89 Bloud and spirite the treasure of lyfe ibid et 86 Bloud of fishes colde 61 Blynde byardes 102 Body ful of sicknesse maketh lyfe vnpleasaūt 3 Body consisteth of three thinges 7 Body cold and drye hovv it looketh 27 Body and mynde vvhole and sicke together 75 Bolde rashnes 44 Brabanders 17 Braggers 101 Brayne drye causeth il memory 69. 120 Brayne moyste nothinge retentiue nor memoratiue 120 Brayne temperate the mayntenaunce of memorye ibid Braynes best to be eaten for the helping of memorye 125 Braynes distempered by vvhat signes vve may knovve them 143 Bread. 156 Brothes and liquid meates soonest nourish and are quickliest digested ibidē C Cayne a paterne of desperation 140 Caloes 99 Canis panem somnians a prouerbe 114 Catchpoles 58 Carnall act hurtfull to drye and cold complexions 74. hurtful in Sommer 81. vveakeneth the body 120. 133. dulleth the vvit and memory ibid. harmes therof 105. commodities therof ibid. moderation ibid. very hurtfull to olde men and
al dry persons 55 Cause of fearefulnes in daungers 93 Cause vvhy many die in lustiest age 3 Charles the V. 91 Chaste lyuing 7. 107 Chaunge in old men daungerous 51 Children forgetfull and vvhy 16. muste not bee skanted of reasonable victualles 27. vvithout beardes vvhy 41. sleepie 58. stirring quicke vvhy 97. remembring thinges done long agoe 121. Childehoode 29 Choler 86. of tvvo sortes 127. the office and propertie therof 128 Choler by vvhat partes of the body it is purged 128. 133. Choler pale or citrine 132 Choler yolkie 133. Leekish or greene ibid. Rustie or Brassye 134 Cholericke folkes dreame many dreadful dreames 132 Cholericke persons great flouters 99 Christ for bodely shape a patcine of perfection 37. voyde of al ill affections 38 Clysters 118 Cocke hovv to make him crovv cōtinually vvith out ceassing 127 Cold the decay of lyfe 60. vvasteth colour 65 Cold bodies not altogether vvithout heate 60 Cold persons drovvsie and vnvveldie 65 Colde thinges stirre vp appetite ibidē Comparison betvvene a common vvealth and a body humaine 11 Cōpoūd medicines named of some of the chiefe ingredientes 32 Compound complexions four 84 Complexion moyst 78 Complexion drye 65 Complexion cold 60 Complexion hoate 38 Complexion temperate and perfect 33 Complexion hoate and moist 87. subiect to putrefaction 103 Complexion colde and moyst 107 Complexion hoate and drye or cholericke 127 Cōplexion cold and dry or melancholicke 135. Concorde in a Realme 12 Concord in mannes body 84 Cōtinēcie chastity a speciall gyft of God. 107 Contempt of God and his vvord punished 144 Contrition 145 Conuenient exercise holsome 7 Coriander 126 Countenaūce outvvard bevvrayeth the affectiō of the mynde invvardely 156 Countenaunce the image of the mynde 36 Counterfeit gate 36 Colour shevveth the complexion 89 Coūsellours levvdly disposed do much harm to youth 98 Counsel good profitable to youth 99 Coughe 109 Creatures moste cold in touching 61 Crasis 32 Crisis 102 Cruditie hurtfull 9. 118 Custome that is il must by little and little be altered 50 Curiositie in searching highe mysteries 77 D DAuid slevve a Lyon a Beare Goliah 44 Death vvhat it is 135. 28. Death eyther violent or naturall 67 Death by yll dyet and surphet hastened before his tyme. 3 Death of it selfe dreadful 67 Death to the faythfull not terrible nor dreadful 30 Death vvithout any payne 93 Dead persons heauier then liuing vvhy 5 Degrees of heate in man. 34 Democritus nature alvvayes laughing 36 Description of a body perfectly temperate 34 Deuil a crafty and slye spirite 22. hovv he learneth the thoughtes of mā 23. his long experyence in mischiefe ibid. his temptations ibidē hovv farre he is able to hurt ibidem Dyet for colde persons 65 Difference betvveene sanguine and cholericke folke 99 Dynner 156 Diseases proceding of phlegme 109. of Catarrhes and Rheumes 110 Diseases of the Splene or Milt 142 Discorde and dissention in a country vvhat mischiefe it bringeth 12 Disturbers of publique tranquillitie muste bee rooted out 11 Diuersitie in natures 14 Diuersity in opinions 88 Doggish appetite 116 Dogdayes 47 Doltes 101 Dreames after perfect concoction in the night happen not in vayne 37. 95 Dreames shevv the disposition and complexion of the bodie 112 Dreames naturall are interpretable ibid Dreames diuine ibid. Dreames peculier to phlegmatik persons ibid. Dreames not rashly to be credited 113 Dronkardes sleepy and vvhy 58 Dronkardes stammer and dovvble in their speache 111. their sundry condicions 149. in the act of generation vveake lumpishe and feeble ibidem Dycers 101 E EAsterlye people fearful and timerous 13 Education altereth nature 16. 99 Eele beinge dead floateth not aboue the vvater 111. Eyes 80 Elementes of mannes bodie 25. 86 Elementes fovver 26 Emptines 55 Englishmen 18. vvel coloured 48. sumptuous at their table ibid. England for cleanlynesse neatnes praised 47 Englishmē more subiect to the Svveate then other nacions 102 English Svveat vvhen and vvhere it began ibid. Erick kinge of Svveden 16 Euery mā must search out his ovvn inclinatiō 6 Euery member in the bodie serueth to some necessary vse 12 Euery part of the body hath his seuerall office vertue 108 Euills must be cured by their contraries 47 Exercise conuenientlye vsed verye holsome 7. vvhat profite cōmeth thereof 51. order therof 52. sortes thereof 53. vvhen to be vsed 104. Exercise fitte for crookebacked persons 53. F. Fayth bringeth foorth good vvorkes 24 Fasting persō heauier thē one that hath eatē meate 5 Famished persons dye the seuenth day 151 Feare of death vvorse then death it selfe 93 Fishes hauing vvarme bloud 61 Fishes liuing long after they be taken out of the vvater ibid. Fish ill for surly and solitary persons 61 Flemminges 17 Foode holsommest to eate 111 Forgetfulnesse of some thinges is best 121 Forme of a common vvealth 11 Foules hard of digestion 65 Foure naturall povvers or Vertues 9 Frenchmen 18. prompt and readie vvitted 19 French kinge killed at the Tylt 54 Friction 73. Sixe sorts thereof ibid. Fulnesse of stomacke hurtfull 54 G. Gall the fountain and vvelspring of anger 148 Garden herbes good for cold bodies 66 Generation of milke 108 Generation of sperme ibid. Germaines 16 Good dyet 19 Good for euery mā throughly to knovv his ovvn complexion 1 Grosse bloud 13 H. HArte the fountayn of lyfe 9 89 Hare maketh melancholicke nourishment 133. being hunted and chased is muche holsōmer ibid. good for many purposes in physicke ibidem Harme to a Realme and to a body first procedeth from the head 110 Harme of venerye and carnall copulation vvith vvomen Vide carnal acte Hayre blacke 39. 41. Curled 39. Yealovve 41. 129. VVhite ibid. Red ibid. Aburne ibid. Hayres hoare 112 Head harmed by the disorder of the lovver mēbers 104 Head and stomacke engendrers and receptacles of phlegme 109 Heate likened to the Sūne and moysture to the Moone 78 Heate causeth boldenesse 43 maketh good colour 64. Health vvhat it is 1. passeth gold or treasure 2 Health asvvell of mynde as of body to be cared for because the one cannot vvell be vvithout the other 2 Health sundry vvayes assaulted crushed and altered 29 Heraclitus nature alvvayes vveping 36 Herbes that are venemous 62 Herbes prouoking vrine 71 Herbes good for the memorie 125 Herbes hoat good for cold bodies 66 Hoate complexion 38. Tokens thereof 39 Hoarinesse in meates 112 Hoarcenesse 109 Hollanders 16. forgetfull and sleepie ibid. Holsome aire 19. as necessary for bodyly healthe as holsome meat and drincke 26 Holsome exhortation 156 Holy ghost vvhat he vvorketh in vs. 24 Humours are chaunged one into another 3 Humours ministre occasion vnto each seuerall complexion to ensue seuerall vices 23 Humours grosse as hurtfull to the mind as dead vvine to the body 84 Humours after a sort are the elements of man. 85. 86. Humours of more force then the Planets 10 Hungry sicknesse 65 Husbandry praysed 54 I IAundise 128 Idlenesse 64. maketh the body fatte colde ibid. Imagination of man euil from his birthe 14. 19.
Bloud 99. Scottes 18 Scoffers 101 Secke 102 Seede 85. 105. 106. pollution and effluxioÌ„ therof hovv it hapneth 113 Shauing of the beard helpeth memory 124 Shauing of the head ibid. Short stature vvherof it commeth 27 Sicknesse vvhat it is 12 Signes of sicknesse approching ibid. Sickly persons must eate little bread 156 Signes of a brain distempered 143 Signes of suche as bee subiecte to melancholy 147. Sinne cause of sicknesse and death 67 Sleepe and the commodities thereof 57. 73. time space therof 57. to vvhat vse it serueth 95. good for Cholerick persons 133 Sleepers soundly 57. Small vnquiet sleepers 58. Sleepe by day ill and vnholsome 58. good for rauing or Idlenesse of the brayne 152 Sleeping person heauier then a vvatching 5 Slouth and ease 52 Sound Parents beeget sound children 85 Solitarie persons subiect to the Apoplexie 61 Snailes life 62 Soule 12 Sounding 133 Soueraigntie of the hart 109 Spaniardes 18 Spettle 87 Speach hovv to be restored 126 Spirite 7 vvhat it is 8. requireth great care ibid. being in good case teÌ„per causeth tranquillitie of mynde ibid. being disteÌ„pered it vvorketh suÌ„dry motioÌ„s bringeth disquietnes ibid vvhat thinges bee thereto moste hurtfull and vvhat most comfortable ibid. 19. 20. greatly comforted vvith svvete smelles 126 Spirite animall and theffects thereof 15 Spirite vital ibid Spirite of nature 20 Stammers 111. cannot speake softlye ibideÌ„ 147. Stitches 103 Stinking breath hovv it commeth 156 Stomacke and head engendrers and keepers of Phlegme 109 Store of hayre hovv it commeth 41 Strong breath and stinking mouthes 156 Studie by candlelight hurtful 74 Studentes exercises 75 Superstition 24 Supper 156 Svveate 87 T TAlnesse of personage 27 Temperance 60 Temperature vvhat it is 32. nine differences thereof ibid. subiect to chaunge 88 Testicles 85 Tettars 134 Text of Esay expounded 114 Themistocles vvished to learne the Arte of forgetfulnes 122. his nature disposition vvhile he vvas young 130 Thinges making good digestion spirites 5 Thinges good for the memory 125 Thinges not natural sixe 46 Thinne bloud 13 Three most holsome thinges for health 7 Timon a deadly hater of al men and al companye 143 Time for euery matter 77 Tokens of a cold complexion 64 Tokens of a moist body 80 Tokens of the dispositioÌ„ of phlegmaticke persons 114 Tokens of sanguine persons 99 Tormentes of an vnquiet minde and guilty coÌ„science 143 Tranquillitie of minde 31. 59 Traunce 103 Triall of good horses 54 Trophonius Denne 146 True goodes 2 Tumblers 101 Turpentine 72 Turpentine hovv to prepare it ibid. to make it liquide and potable ibid V VEnerie Vide Carnall acte Veyne opened shevveth oculerly ech of the four humours 86 Veines from vvhence they spring 89 Vertues defaced and marred by vices 44 Vitall moisture 7 Vitall spirite 12 Vlcers 134 Vnholsome meates spilleth nature 27 Vnablenes in some to beget children 43 Vomite must be seeldome prouoked 55 vvhen to vomite ibideÌ„ to vvhat persons it is most hurtful 56 Voyce 45 VV WAnne colour 65 VVasshing of the head 126 VVatching ouermuch hurtful 58 VVavvvard persons 12 VVhores 106 VVolfe a disease 134 VVomen full of hayre on their heads 42 VVomen hayrie lecherous ibid. cause of barrennes in vvomen 43 VVormevvood holsome for the Lyuer 104 VVringing in the small Guttes 129 VVyfe bravvlinge and skoldinge likened to a dropping house 110 VVylie Foxes 130 VVylie vvinckers 58 VVyne hurtfull to children 49. maketh the hart mery 138. VVisemen sometime fearefull 94 Y. YouÌ„gmen somtimes vveake vvearish feeble and vvhy 28 Youngman sodenly gray headed 91 Youth 29 Z ZEale vvithour knovvledge 25 Zelanders 17 Zeno. 5 T N. FINIS Lib. 2. Offic. Mainteners of health Health Sickenes Soule Sat. 10. True goods Health passeth gold Hor. lib. 1 epist. epist. ad Albium Nosce te ipsum Eccles 7 Death by ill diet many times hastened before his due time Lib. 2. Georg. The minde ib. 8. ca. 7. Mago made LioÌ„ tame VVhat maketh good digestion Eccle. 31. VVhat maketh a man merie The nature of Lupines A dead man heauier theÌ„ a lyuing Hor lib. 3 Oda 21. Euery man must search out his ovvn inclination and nature It is someâ—â— time good to chaunge nature Lib. 12. Cap. 1. Genes 2. The commoditie of matrimony Three most holsome thinges Georg. 3 The bodye consisteth in thre things Humour Heate Spirite Pers Sat. â— Things hurt full to the spirits of man. Prouer. 17 Eccle. 30. Things coÌ„fortinge the Spirits What Spirite is The heart is the fountaine of life Foure natural povvers The office of digestioÌ„ Howe affections are caused Cruditie hurtfull Oppilation and putrefaction the original cause of diseases What riott bringeth a man to Matth. 14 Iohn Baptist beheaded Disturbers of publique peace ought to be rooted out The fourme of a coÌ„mon wealth 1. Cor. 12. Members of mans body Li. 2. Dec. 1. No meÌ„ber in the whole body but it serueth to some necessary vse Signes wherby to know when a man is not wel at ease Vital spirite Northern people Lib. 1. Grosse blud Thin bloud WheÌ„ce the diuersitie of natures coÌ„meth RebellioÌ„ in the body Levvde thoughts Gen. 6. 8. Spirite animal 12. Meth. Erick kinge of Sweden Germans HollaÌ„ders Hollanders forgetful sleepie Old men children forgetfull Education altereth nature ZelaÌ„ders The nature of such as be borne and bred neere the Sea. Flemyngs Brabanders Italians Italians wil couertly beare a secret grudge in mynde a great while Pers Sat. 5 Englishmen Englishmen and Scottes haue greate stomacks angry Spaniardâ— Vir. lib. 4. A Enei Spaniardes haue good wittes Frenchmen Frenchmen prompt and ready witted Good diet holesome Ayre Spirite of Nature The Spirite of the Lord. Psalm 33 Genes 1. Iohn 1. Hexa lib. Gen. 1. Lib. 3. de Arte amaÌ„di Lib. 6. Fast Actes 17. Aratus in Pheno Angels Hebr. 1. Lares Good Angels Ill Angels DaemoÌ„ à sciendo 2. Para. 26 Hebr. 4. Psalm 7. How the deuil learneth the thoughts of meÌ„ One man a deuill to an other Matth. 4. 2. Cor. 12. Iob. 30. Howe farrâ— deuils are able to hurte vs. Humours giue occasion to vices Sapien. 1. Gen. 2. What the Holy Ghâ—â— worketh 〈◊〉 vs. Gal. 4. Rom. 8. Fayth bringeth forth workes De preparat EuaÌ„g lib. 1. Superstition Art. Poet. IuueÌ„ Saty 14 Tuscul 3. Rom. 10. Zeale withoute knowledge In Arte Poet. A Eneid lib. 1. IIII. ElemeÌ„tes TueÌ„d valet lib. 1. Meate and Ayre a like necessary The nature of seede and bloud Cause of talnesse â—â—ildren â—â—ulde not sâ—aÌ„ted of eâ—r victuâ— Naughty vnholesome meate spilleth nature Shorte stature how it commeth Olde age Death what it is Lustye olde age wherof it coÌ„meth â—hat maâ—th yonge â—e weake What thiÌ„gs are hurtfull to health Art. Poet. Iob. 14. Infancie Childhod Pubertie Adolescencie Youth MaÌ„s age Death to the faythful not to be feared The times of the yeare compared to the ages of man. Metam lib. 15. TraÌ„quillity and quietnes of mind Temperament Temperament Intemperatures Compound drouges named of