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A18903	A true and admirable historie, of a mayden of Confolens, in the prouince of Poictiers that for the space of three yeeres and more hath liued, and yet doth, vvithout receiuing either meate or drinke. Of whom, his Maiestie in person hath had the view, and, (by his commaund) his best and chiefest phisitians, haue tryed all meanes, to find, whether this fast & abstinence be by deceit or no. In this historie is also discoursed, whether a man may liue many dayes, moneths or yeeres, without receiuing any sustenance. Published by the Kings especiall priuiledge.; Abstinens Confolentanea. English	Citois, François, 1572-1652.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.; Coeffeteau, Nicolas, 1574-1623, attributed name.	1603 (1603)	STC 5326; ESTC S118585	35,171	122

of of the Sun beeing freed from those mistes thicke vapours occasioned by the vse of meats would comprehend with a perfect regard the Ideas and formes of things nakedlie and according as they are indeede Heracl Chrisippus then should not neede to take Helleborus with such obseruāce for the purging of his vnderstanding to the end he might the more subtilly see the strength of his arguments Our soule against her nature would be no heauie burden at all vnto vs shee should not neede to serue herselfe with the salt of our bodies to keepe her from corrupting but rather shee would be like vnto a Phar●s which in our diuine nauigation would discouer the way for our attayning to the land of heauen But in regard that our life is maintained by the nourishing of the bodie and that by one mutuall assistance both together doe conserue thēselues euen while we our selues doe studie how to support this life by continuall care for furnishing it with ●oodes it ensueth that wee altogether abase cast downe to the earth that part of the soule which otherwise of her selfe would couet nothing els then to eleuate her selfe to high and heauenly things Notwithstanding Plato holdeth that In his Timeus man is pouruayed of store of repletion and cloying for the intestines to shewe that God hath created him a soule full of reason councell with out which as the plants are euermore fastened to their rootes for their feeding so would hee likewise alwaies haue meate in his mouth or else as the beasts his minde would be perpetually labouring in seeking after nothing but fresh pasture You may see the same thus while the meate dooth conuay it selfe by the passages of the belli● the spirit naturally sends his strength vegetatiue nutritiue thorow the bodie and by this commixture life the motion of the bodie is maintained and as this more sublime part of nature passeth on further still to shewe the effects of his force and vertue so after foode hath sustained the bodie the spirit is called too the desire of new viandes constrainde to yeeld it selfe subject to the bellies appetite Lib. 26. cap. 8. For there is nothing saith Plinie that is more painefull to a man then his bellie for the content whereof the most part of men imploy their whole life time This importuning vessell of the bodie euermore is at hand with vs like a greedie creditour summoning vs many times in the day but he is not to be listened to alwayes when he calls if hee haue had his dutie paide him No more then one vnder age who would not allow his tutour or guardian the expences for his nourishing as though he had liued with him onlie vppon winde and yet continually hath bin Tit. De alim pup praest C. by him and fed with his pursse but whosoeuer shall or doth deale so the Emperour hath iudged him not receiueable except he can proue he hath had his feeding elswhere The necessitie of the bellie is alwayes in such rigour with vs that the Stoicks themselues who were excluded in themselues from all sense of man constrainedly did yet listen to the bellies murmuring and did eate but how to the end they might shunne eating Quite contrarie to certaine gourmandes and gluttons who vsed then and yet doe to eate and drinke only to encrease their eating and drinking hauing no other God but their bellie wheron they bestowe whatsoeuer serues to excite luxurie for which the Seas are trauersed euen so farre as to the Riuer Phasis ransacking her entrailes for contentation agreeing with their insatiable appetites And this is that part wherein we come neerest vnto brute beastes who by their proper nature are led to desire whatsoeuer their bellie demaundes and with whom we make cōmon this necessitie of eating and drinking For nature hath giuen to all creatures one instrument of life which is naturall heate that euen as our wood in the fire hath his seate in the triple substaunce of our bodie to ●it the solide humorall and spirituous parts which without ceassing he ruinates and consumeth so that in very small while all would bee wasted if it were not maintained by a fresh supply of meates and drinkes neither more or lesse then as the flame of a Lampe which is extinct so soone as the Oyle is consumed if no more be put thereinto for longer lasting And heereupon Hippocrates Lib. 1. Aph. 14. the Prince of Phisitians sayd that the bodies of young men haue neede of more nourishment then others because they haue much more heate then they for otherwise saith hee their bodies would consume themselues Contrariwise the bodies of olde men because they haue but little store of heate they haue neede but of as little nourishing Aph. 13. Hence may we draw a confirmed atgument by this which Hippocrates himselfe hath said that old men easilie endure fasting but next thē such as are in the strength of theyr age yet lesse then young men infants least of all other but especially such as are liueliest and readiest in theyr bodily functions For the littlenes of heate the tenacitie of the primitiue humour and the densitie or thicknes of the body impeacheth old● men that this triple substance canno● wast it selfe at all whence proceedeth that they haue nothing at all such neede of meates and the desire or appetite after thē if so I may say which is hunger in them is much languishing As cōtrariwise in young men it is so much the more ardent as the heat naturall is aboundant the 〈◊〉 more fluxible and the composition of the body more thin and lesse heaped together VVhich three things as they cause the foode receiued to consume so by little and little they repaire any defect there arising For as it should be thus that the substance of euery creature dissolues it selfe by the pores of the skin into the ayre which enuirons it 1. De sym●om caus 7. saith Galen so followes it of necessitie that the very neerest parts of the skin should be first destitute of nouriture that by their propper strength vertue they might draw the nourishment from the other neighbouring parts onely to repaire that which through default of sustentation is become worst those there from the veines these heere from the liuer the liuer frō the intestines ventricle by the mesenterie veines calling what is most familiar and conuenable to his nature Then the ventricle seeing her selfe emptie by a naturall vnderstanding which she hath of that which is wanting to her shee is incited to desire meate wherwith she may be sustained But if some body be presented which hath but small store of heate and much more naturall moysture whereto the pores and respiracles of of the skin doe giue place there is no great euacuation made of this triple substance and so consequentlie there is no neede at all of much nourishment Neither is it altogether necessarie as Galen witnesseth