aungell commaunde Sathan to departe make cleane his conscience with a gladde mynde to reioyce onelie in thy mercie for vaine is the helpe of man but thy mercie doeth endure for euer wee are thy people and the Shepe of thy pasture to thee wee shall geue praise for euer and euer Amen Ciuis Amen Amen Lorde receiue my soule into thy handes thou God of truthe Theologus THe mightie God of Angels and the former of al thinges visible and inuisible in whose haÌ„des is onely life and death light and darkenes and all the mocioÌ„s of the soule and bodie without the moste mightie God all thynges had been nothyng and of nothyng all thynges are made by thee without thy Christ and thy blessed spirit whiche is one coeternall trinitée all fleshe were accursed all consciences molested and all soules vtterlie dampned From light into darkenesse from fredome into euerlasting reprobacion but by Iesus Christ thine onely sonne we thank thee dere father of all mercie that now it hath pleased thee to take to thy mercie at this present time our brother whom thou haste elected consecrated and now he shall by thy mercie and pitee bee sanctified vnto thee to be a citezen of eternall glorie now dode fleshe and bloode forsake him and all his worldlie strength faileth hym Now is the Orgaines yeldyng vp the heauenlie sounde his soule cometh now vnto thee good Lorde receiue it to thy mercie into thine euerlastyng glorie where as Abraham Isaac and Iacob are continuallie to thee oh heauenlie father be incessaunt honour and glorie AMEN ¶ The ende of the Dialogue A Copie of a letter to Frances Barlowe by W. B. WHeÌ„ the time of trouble draweth nere good Frances Barlowe as death whiche shall separate the soule from the body if we be not ware and wisely prouident we shal stand in great dauÌ„ger of losses first we shall lose our health strength and beautie wherein we haue delighted and all our censes as pleasure of spâ—che ioye of harte and the coÌ„fortable sight of the eies wherwith we do daily behold all the pleasures of this world c. we shall lose all our furder treasures laudes and substaunce and also our liues and as dung be cast into the earth and finally our soules banished from Gods blessed presence or resting place Therefore let vs call my Fraunces to our remembraÌ„ce the fearfull curses of almighty God agaiÌ„st our sinnes and the cause of our plagues whiche is our abominable liuing in sinning against God in thought worde and dede against heauen and earthe in pride wrath idolatrie fornicatioÌ„ swearing lust gluttonie stopping of our eares against grace and the woorde of truthe let vs call to remembraunce how that we haue doen wrong to eche other in woorde deede in flauÌ„dring or in hindring by bargainiÌ„g c. Our brethren for whom Christ hath died whom we haue hated not pitied in their extreme sorowes and aduersities haue not paied their labours and trauels let vs repent and call for grace and restore now while we are in the waie of grace in that that we can not make satisfaction for oure sinnes by no merites of almes praiers oblations c. whiche are vncleane in Gods eine as coÌ„cerning the remission of our sinnes as Iob saieth how can he be clene that is borne of a woman beholde he wil giue no light vnto the Moone and the starres ar vnclene in his sight how muche more maÌ„ a worme euen the sonne of a man whiche is but a worme which in beholding of his sinne hath no cause but to dispaire and to be daÌ„pned what remedy in this case none but with al spede by faith lift vp your hed and beholde euen Iesus Christe on Gods right hande pleading our case excusing vs to his father whiche praieth to him for vs and is heard and SathaÌ„ beten doune and Gods Aungels set at our bedside with spirituall armour for vs in this battell of death against Sathan to conducte vs to that happie landerlet vs knele doune and firste saie whatsoeuer God doth sende to vs life or death his name be praysed his will bee done in earth as it is with his Aungels in heauen desiring him to be fed with his liuely worde and blessed sacrament the immortal fode for the soule passing al worldly treasures or phisick for the body that it would please him to pardon our trespasses and offences in thought worde and dede against his diuine maiestie euen as we doe forgeue our enemies soche faultes as they do here in earth against vs and that in the time of agonie or paines of death he suffer vs not to fall into temptation or bee ouerladen vnder our crosse but that his hande may helpe vs and deliuer vs froÌ„ this vile life full of miseries and bring vs into the lande of the liuing in doing this you shall be moste happie and blessed let vs submitt our selues to him that hath made vs we haue not made our selues we are his vessels and are in his sight can nat flée from his presence nor runne beyonde that rase whiche he hath appointed vs he bringeth death and restoreth again to life in the resurrection Oh be coÌ„tent to render thesame talent which was but lent vnto you euen your body the giftes of nature and grace commit wife children and all to him He doeth no wrong he taketh but his owne RemeÌ„ber he brought you in hether naked and how you doe liue but a smal time and ar ful of misery Like a flower for the time and shall passe away like a shadowe Alas we doe deserue great punishement but he plageth vs not according to the grauitée of our sinnes for then were we dampned or like vnto Sodome that perished without handes in the daye of Gods wrath and veÌ„geaunce Consider Fraunces that this is no newes or maruelous chaunce that you should change your life well it happened to al your forefathers from AdaÌ„ to kinges and all the nobles of the yearth and to the poore also Al fleshe is grasse and wormes are the companions to the corse in darke graue or house of claye Yet there is a daie whiche God hath appointed whiche none can tel but himself in whiche he wil iudge both the quick and dead and call all fleshe before him both his very elect and the merriles reprobates and then body and soule shall remayne immortall together haue life euerlasting This hold fast dere FrauÌ„ces as an anker in this storme from death to life euerlasting Holde fast the .xij. articles of the Christian faith praie to the end onely to God the father by Christ remember his promises that at what time soeuer a sinner doth repent he will forgeue Cal he will aunswere vnto thy soule knocke and he wil open This time of your aduersitee and plague of the pestileÌ„ce doth make you forget all pleasures and delites paste
I will not contrarie you My chief desire is to helpe you without the respecte of money or golde or other of youre commoditée Crispine sette the boxes in the window and you Surgean prepare your lace staffe and launce with your vnce vesselles that I maie consider his blood in order and due quantitée for hether vnto he is but in the augmentyng of his feuer Further he had no fitte this ten houres let him bloode by little and little and although he doe fall into Lipothimion it is no matter let hym blood vntill it partly doe chaunge into a good colour Oh Lorde how might you liue if this bloode should haue remained any longer did you euer see the like what a good hart he hath the worst is past this would haue been a greate sore or apoâ—â—umacion stop vp the vein a Gods name Crispine I did neuer see the like but ones where as your Maistership did a greate cure vppon a noble man Medicus Oh are you aduised of that Crispine he is a good friende of myne I haue twentie pounde yerelie of him He sente me a fatte Bucke vpon Mondaie laste and gaue me my Mule also with a Ueluet foote clothe Crispine Sir wheÌ„ you seÌ„t me home I left your mule standing at the doore but as I returned I met a lackei clothed in Orenge taunie and white with a paire of bare taÌ„ned legges a blewe night cap with a plume of fethers riding on him as fast as he might gallop Medicus Oh the passion of Christ my mule is stolen I will hence I had rather lose xx.li I will tarie no leÌ„ger my Mule I will teche him to ride on my Mule I warrante him Crispine Sir he nedeth no teachyng he can ride well I warrant you I heard him saie to a yong manne with a long cloke lined with yellowe that his maister sent him to carie a letter to a marchaunt venterer that was crossailed into Terra Florida Medicus Geue me my goune fare ye well Maister Antonius as euill lucke as euer I had in all my life Antonius I had thought the losse of your friende and of your Mule had not been both a like to you What for .xx. pound I will paie it double the knaue shall not escape Crispine hath taken good markes vpon him I will sende to euery Warde blinde lane Innes Woodes and fieldes after the villaine I will take the matter on me because you come to me so gently quiete your self sitte doune again in the chaire I were caste awaie if you wer gone good maister doctor Medicus I care not so moche for the mule but that my lorde will take moche vnkindnes and think I should set light by his gift and the Ruffians will laugh me to skorne when thei knowe how I am haÌ„dled of the knaue boie Well I am coÌ„tented with your offer I praie you beware you slepe not you shal suppe the thinne broth of a chicken by and by made with the .iiij. greate colde seedes and cordiall Herbes Crispine I praie you make the broth in some stone or siluer vessell Copper or Brasse is not good for Maister Antonius soche vessels are Leprous Antonius If you will haue it made of gold you shal Medicus We shall make shifte with other thinges gold shal serue to deaurat or gilde your losinges electuaries manus christi withal Antonius Contented so that it maketh on my side whatsoeuer it bee But me thinke I feele slepe approching what shall I doe Medicus Drawe the Curtaines open the lukette of the Windowe set Sallowes about the bedde besprinkled with vineger and rose water Take of that hotte mantell let his hedde and shoulders be bolstred vp lye not on your backe leane towardes this side let vs talke together like friendes why are you so heauie and yearthlike Antonius I must nedes I was made of yearth but where is the yearth placed of which I was made and of what fassion is it althoughe I walke vpon thesame yet doe I stande in doubt of the matter Medicus The yearth is moste heauie and can bée in no place but in the middest of heauen not moueable but round hangeth continually aboute the whiche are the landes and couÌ„tries of the world fixed which Aristotle doeth call Medium terrae medium mundi Antonius Ar ther not bodies which ar called simple Medicus Yes forsoth those are the iiij the fire hot and drie the aire hote and moiste the water colde and moiste the yearth colde and drie and these are called the Elementes Antonius Are there not bodies called mixed what are thei Medicus Animalia as man beast fishe foule and Wormes Vegetabilia as Herbe Grasse and Trees and mineralia thinges vnder the yearth as metalles Antonius Lorde how is this worlde staied Medicus The twoo Pooles Articus and Artartiâ—â—â— South and North are the extreme limites aboute whom the whole frame of heauen is wrapped and is called Axie coeliâ— Antonius Men saieth that certaine starres doe gouerne the thinges beneth here in yearth Medicus Thei doe so in déede as it is well proued when as the Sunne and Moone doe enter into any of their circles in those great bodies then our little bodies in yearth dooe feele the goodnes or euilnes of them as Aries Leo and Sagittarius are hote drie and bitter cholorike and are gouernyng hotte and drie thinges and this is called the firy triplicitee The second triplicitee is of aire hotte and moiste sanguine swete and doe gouerne Sanguine people And other tirplicitee is of water colde moiste flegmatike hauing the gouernment of cold rawe bodies The laste is the yearth the mother of all thinges cold and drie melancholie Antonius What doe the knowlege of these thynges profite to Phisicke I praie you tel me Medicus Moste chiefly for where as the Philosopher dooe leaue there the Phisicion dooe begin That is he must be first a good natural Philosophier he must haue y e knowlege oâ— times and seasons and be acquainted with complexioÌ„s of men obseruing the nature of thinges and the climates vnder heaueÌ„ with the course of the Sonne Moon and Starres Aire and diet c. Antonius I praie you is there a soule in manne Medicus Yes forsothe Antonius Why then there must nedes be a greater thing as the cause of euery liuing soule whiche I take to bee GOD whiche hath made all thinges and when you and I talked together you semed that NoÌ„ est deus Medicus I professed to followe Aristotle but my meaning was that I credite not the Bible matters I am no Diuine I finde no reasons there for my tourne thei are to harde thinges for me I commend them to Darbell and Duns c. Antonius Why doeth Aristotle shewe any better reasons then is in the Bible Then I pray you what is the power of the soule Medicus In the soule saieth Aristotle in his boke of Ethiques it hath .iij. sondrie powers The one is named vegitable in whiche
side be infected let blood on that side if it be aboue the hedde open Cephalica if it be vnder the armes Basilica or harte veine if it bee aboute the throte then open Malleola about the flanckes bealie legges c. open Iecoraria if thei are verie weake or yong then boxyng is good to the necke shoulders backe and thighes if the stomacke be full then with spede vometâ—e and these thinges drawe the venome from the harte and remoue the poison Antonius This is good in the cure of the Pestilence for I doe praise this blood letting verie well in the beginnyng of the sickenes Medicus Blood must be letten in the beginning of the sickenes for example like as a potte is clensed of the scum or fome in the beginnyng when it plaieth on the fire and therby the liquour is clensed within the potte euen so blood lettyng and pilles doe helpe and cleanse the Pestilence when it beginneth firste to boile within the bodie Howbee it certaine people maie not bleede as women whiche haue their tymes aboundauntlie or menne hauing fluxe of the Hemoroides children verie young or people weake and aged Antonius I praie you what quantitee of bloodde must be letten Medicus Forsoth sower vnees or little more and must be doen euery moneth sometyme in the Median sometyme in the Basilica c. And not to slepe after thesame during sixe seuen or eight howers Antonius What Pilles dooe you vse againste the Plague Medicus The beste Pilles generallie vnder heauen and is thus made take the beste Yellowe Aloes twoo vnces Myrrhe and Saffron of eche one vnce beate them together in a Morter a good while putte in a little sweete Wine then rolle it vp and of this make fiue Pilles or seuen of one dragme whereof take euery daie nexte your harte a Scruple or more it will expulse the Pestilence that daie c. Antonius Haue you any good pocioÌ„ in store for the Pestilence to bee dronke a Mornynges when the Pilles are not taken Medicus None better then this take Theriaca of the making of Andromachus .ij. Scruples which is a Triacle incomparable passyng againste bothe poison and Pestilence and the Antidotari of Mithridatis .i. Scruple bole Armoniacke prepared half a Scruple and the waters of distilled Roses Scabious and Buglosse of eche one vnce mingeled together but this Medicene muste bee had of Crispine or one of his companions whiche vse no rotten ware Antonius Haue you any good pouder Medicus One better I assure you then a kinges raunsome and thus it must bee made take the leaues of Dictamnus and the rootes of Turmentil of Pimpernell of Seduall of Gentian of Betonie of eche halfe an vnce bole Armoniacke prepared an vnce Terra sigillata .iij. dragmes fine Aloes Myrrhe of eche halfe an vnce Saffron a dragme Mastike .ij. dragmes beate them together finely fearsed this is the pouder Of this muste a dragme bee dronke in .iiij. or .vi. sponfull of Rose or Sorel water wheÌ„ danger approcheth or in the tyme of danger Antonius These ar stroÌ„g things for many weke stomakes is there any other holsom things Medicus The siruppes of Uiolettes of Sorell of Endiue of sower Limondes of eche like mingled with Burrage water and a Ptisane made of Barlie mingled together is verie holsome to drinke put in the pouder of bole Armoniack whiche is of a singuler vertue to coole for Galen did help thousaÌ„des at Rome with thesame Bole and the Theriaca mingled together in a great pestilence but in the pestilence tyme one beyng infected therewith let hym sweate by warme thinges as hot tiles c. and let not the pacient eate slepe nor drinke and eate light meates as Henne Capon Cheken Partriche eating often and little at ones with sause made sharpe of vineger Oringes sharpe LimoÌ„des or Sorell and in the first daie of the sickenes that the pacient be kept from slepe by talkyng sprinklyng of swete water rubbing of the bodie as nose eares or soft pulling of the heares as thei maie be suffered or a sponge dipped in vineger applied to the nose and if vehement drinesse or heate dooeth approche then drinke the Syruppes laste rehearsed and haue the Chamber cleane kepte and also parfumed fower tymes of the daie beware of stincke let the perfumes bee made with Olibanum Mastike wood of Aloes Beniamin Storax Laudanum Cloues Iuniper or soâ—â—â— like and sprincle al the chamber about with vineger roses in the windowes or greene braunches of Sallowe or of Quinces are good sprynkeled with Rose water and Uineger Antonius I haue heard saie that Garlike and newe Ale should be good for the Plague Medicus You doe saie truthe Garlike is good for to bryng it but not against it it is so hotte and hath power attractiue and that is verie euill and a meane to bring the plague· so are Onions Leekes Rocket Radishe and sâ—che baggage whiche are sold about in euery streate in Plaguie tyme as meanes for to bring thesame it is pitie to suffer soche thynges Furder the multitudes of infected people emoÌ„g the whole infecting them or wearing the apparell of the dedde bodies of the Pestilence whiche should bée burned for it is like a fire wheÌ„ it haue gotten the victorie and can not bee quenched Priueis filthie houses gutters chanilles vncleane kept also the people sicke goyng abrode with the plague sore running stinkyng and infectyng the whole or vnwise â—ashe passing with an emptie stomack out of the house Neither to sitte tipplyng and drinking all the daie long nor vse running wrestlyng Daunsyng or immoderate labour whiche doe not onely open the pores but also cause the winde to bee shorte and the pulses to quicke and the Arters drawe to the hart when it panteth the pestilenciall aire and poison And what is worse thaÌ„ feare of mynde wheÌ„ one doeth heare ill tidings the death of father mother child c. By it the spirites and bloodde are drawen inwardes to the harte Also of care anger wrathe c. These are all perilous Mirthe must be vsed specially in this case Cattes Dogges Swine Duckes Doues Hennes or Gese are verie vnholsome nere vnto the place or mansion of dwellyng or lye ded in diches nere the toune or many people liyng together in one bed or long watching in the night or coâ—tiâ—nes of the bealy shut vp the hotte house doores and tennis plaie whiche are moste venemous Be neuer without the electuarie of nuttes thus made cleue walnuttes .xx. fatte figges .xiij herbe Grace .ij. handfull Wormewoodde Fetherfu or rather Cotula Foetida called Buphthalmus called Ore â—ye and Scabios of eche one handfull the rootes of Aristolochia longa half an vnse AristoÌ„lochia rotunda an vnce and a halfe The rootes of Turmentill and of the lesser Burre cal Petasitus Pimpernell of eche twoo vnces and a halfe the leaues of the verie Dictam ni one handfull Baie beries three Dragmes the pouder of Hartes horne
twoo dragmes and a halfe Maces Morrhe Bole Armoniacke and the yearth of Limodes of eche Dragmes three Salte of the Sea a dragme and a half Nux vomica dragmes twoo Buglos flowers one handfull staÌ„ped together by arte with clarified honie make it this is good to be eaten a dragme euery mornyng Forget not the Pilles of Ruffi of them maie bee taken one at ones Antonius After or with this Pestilence there will a fearfull sore appere as we haue y e knowledge vniuersall by painfull experience whiche we dooe call the plague sore what doe you saie to thesame sore Medicus This sore is called Carbunculus of Carbo a Cole or Anthrax thei are bothe one and not twoo and is ingendered of moste sharpe hotte and grosse blood whiche nature doeth cast forthe through the skinne to one particulare part with extreme pain and perille to the bodie whose Primatiuâ— cause was the corrupcion of aire or diete drawen to the harte of whiche pestiferous smoke or poisoned fume this sore hath his cause thesame sore is theffect folowing Antonius What are the signes when it commeth nere hande Medicus A feuer going before noisome and lothsomnesse of stomacke wambleyng of the harte pulse not equall vrine stinking desirous of slepe perilous dreames with startyng through the sharpenesse of hotte and burning humours and then a little pushe will creepe forthe like a scabbe sometyme more then one then it wille increase and shine like pitche or Bptumen with passing pain and then it will haue a crust like vnto the squanies or flakes of Iron wheÌ„ thei fall of when the Smith doeth worke and in colour like ashes is this crust wrought by extreme heate and burnyng therfore it maie be called the burnyng cole or Ignem persicum Furder there are fower colours to be obserued in the sore besides the crust yelowe redde grene and blacke The first twoo are not so daungerous as the second twoo are Yet saieth Rasis in his booke of the pestilence to Mansor the king that the Carbuncle is deadlie and moste perilous And Auicen affirmeth the blacke to be incurable speciallie when a Feuer PestileÌ„ce doe reigne Sometime it is drawen backe againe into the bodie then no remeadie Somtyme it happeneth in the moste noble places as nere the harte the throte moste perilous with sodain stopping the spirites of life Some pestileÌ„t sores doe come in the clensing places as arme holes flankes c And when nature is so strong to caste it forthe with a redde colour palishe or yellowishe the cure is not then verie harde Antonius It should seme to bee moste harde you haue shewed more periles then helpes hether vnto But if there bee any remedies what are thei I praie you tell them for in that poincte you maie doe moche good Medicus Euen as I haue rehersed before so will I again begin in the cure of the carbuncle of the openyng of a vein and if none other thing doe lette as extreme weakenesse c. then let the pacient bleede vntill the defeccion of the spirites or nere hande swoning Let it be doen on that side greued or afflicted as I haue saied before in the feuer Pestilence of the Mediane c. Also forget not viij speciall thinges First the substaunce as compasse lengthe depthe hardnesse c. Second the matter whereof it is bread as blood c. The thirde as accidente through the dolor as a feuer rednesse c. Fowerth to knowe it from a cause wherof a doubt might arise thereof And this is the difference betwene theim A Carbuncle in the beginnyng is verie harde flamyng redde extreme paine c. As I haue saied before and will come quickelie to his hedde But Cancer is not so redde neither so painfull yet moche harder and longer time or it cometh to the hedde But when it beginneth to waâ—e softe then it ripeth faster then the Carbuncle The fift of the causes efficieÌ„t whether it be ripe through coÌ„coccion or no or the qualities of the corrupted humours or hardnesse c. The sixte in what place it is in place of perille or no. The seuenth is to worke by incision plaster c. The .viij. is good diet as aire meate drinks slepe c. These are verie good obseruacions worthie of memorie in this case And now followeth a perille to the Chirurgian whiche muste bee richelie rewarded for he putteth his life in daunger in that that he helpeth the sore bodie infected he ought to bée prouident that doth take this matter in hand and before he cometh to the pinche to eate his antidotari of Methridatum or to haue a Sponge with strong vineger applied to his nosthrilles to arme himself against the poisoned aire and to take his launce in his hande accordyng to the arte takyng héede that in launcyng he cutte no vaine or Senewe which haue societie with eche other therefore launce not verie depe This is no straunge thing after bloodletting to launce the sore to let forthe the matter in some it will come forth aboundauntly when it is ripe or rotten in other some not because the humours are grosse and baken together or the runnyng matter farre in or skante ripe and nothyng will come forthe but salte sharpe filthie stinckyng water then beware of any thing that might driue it backe again into the bodie as colde bole armen c. then thinsicion must be made in the lowest place so that thereby the matter mate the soner auoide and muste be made in the forme croked if it bee not in a place full of senewes if it be then make the insicion long after the matter is run forth thaÌ„ couer it with lint dipped in this folowing which is excelleÌ„t good yea if the matter be stubborne in the sore Take Quinse seede Galles of eche iij. dragmes Myrrhe Olibanum and Aloes of eche .ij. dragmes and a half Alom .ij. dragmes Aristolochia the round rootes Calamenthe as moche Calamenth i. dragme and a halfe Calcanthum a scruple all beaten finelie then temper it together in a little Redde Wine made in small rolles you maie kepe them drie and then in this case dissolue it or parte of it in the water of stilled milke applie this with lint into the sore also in this case to washe the sore with a sponge dipped in the warm waters of DragoÌ„s Scabious swete wine Aaristolochia and Comphori or their decoccioÌ„ And to haue the rootes of Comphoâ—â— of Lillies of Mallowes sodden in white wine vntill thei bée soft then stamped and drawen through a strainer put thereunto barlie meale honie of roses this is a very good thyng to applie to the sore after the washing for .xij. houres and will digest it An other good medicen both to ripe and asswage the pain mallowes violets chamâ— mill of eche half an handfull dill halfe as moche seeth theim and braie theÌ„ then adtâ— them barly meale oile of roses flaxe sede beane meale