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A05367	Hygiasticon: Or, The right course of preserving life and health unto extream old age together with soundnesse and integritie of the senses, judgement, and memorie. Written in Latine by Leonardus Lessius, and now done into English.; Hygiasticon. English	Lessius, Leonardus, 1554-1623.; Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566. Discorsi della vita sobria. English.; Herbert, George, 1593-1633.; Ferrar, Nicholas, 1592-1637, attributed name.; Sheppard, Thomas, attributed name.; Landi, Ortensio, ca. 1512-ca. 1553. Esser miglior la vita parca della splendida & sontuosa. English.	1634 (1634)	STC 15520; ESTC S113348	68,762	319

measure thereof I have annexed a Treatise tending to the same purpose of a Venetian Gentleman Lodowick Cornaro a man of great eminencie and of a sharp judgement who having learned by experience of many yeares the great vertue and power that is in Sobrietie did at last by writing notably make declaration thereof Both these Treatises my Reverend L. I have thought fit to dedicate unto your name and to send fo●th into the world under your patronage For to whom can a Treatise of Sobrietie be more fitly dedicated then to such a one as hath so stoutly and constantly followed Sobrietie as by the help thereof to preserve himself vigorous and cheerfull unto neare upon seventie yeares of his age You are he that can sit a hūgry in the midst of daily feasts enjoyned to be made unto the Gentrie that passe by solitarie Campinia and whilest others fill their bellies and satisfie their appetites you contract both into narrow bounds and limits Besides this there are sundrie other causes which deserve this testimonie of my venerable respect towards your Lordship to wit that zeal wherewith you do so industriously promote the cause of your Religion which is so exceedingly beneficiall to the whole Church and to our Belgia and together herewith that singular wisdome of yours in Government through means whereof you have for so many yeares space safely conserved your noble Hospitall in that desert where it stands in the midst of many tumults of wars and shocks of armies in great licencio●snesse of militarie discipline and almost daily inrodes of both sides unto it by means whereof you have further not onely recovered it out of those great debts wherewith it was formerly burthened but have moreover adorned it with beautifull structures and a high Tower for the settling of a Monasterie therein And that I may passe over your other vertues whereof Sobrietie the mother of all vertues is the true cause in you this dedication seems due to you in particular in regard of that ancient friendship which for above fourtie yeares space I have had with your brother Father George Colibrant a learned man and of noted holinesse exceedingly addicted to sobrietie prayer mortification of the flesh and zeal touching the soul by whose example wholesome admonitions many Centuries of excellent young men have in sundrie places given themselves unto holy Religion The conjunction that we likewise have with your other brother John Colibrant a man of great uprightnesse whose every where approved integritie farre excells rich patrimonies makes this work belong to you I could relate many other things appertaining to your own and your friends commendation but I make spare of them that I may not offend your modestie which doth not willingly heare such matters Receive therefore Right Reverend Lord this small gift a testimonie of our affec●ion towards you and yours and be not wanting to the recommendation of that excellencie of holy Sobrietie which you have made proof of in your self and we make declaration of in this Treatise to all men but especially to Gods servants that they may by this means come to serve God more perfectly and sweetly in this life and obtain greater glory in heaven Now I beseech the Divine Goodnesse to prosper all your holy designes to its own glorie the salvation of men and after that you shall have been adorned with all manner of vertue to renew your long and happie Old age with the blessed youth of Eternitie From Lovain Cal. Iul. 1613. Your Reverend Fatherships servant in Christ LEONARD LESSIUS ¶ The Approbation of JOHN VIRINGUS Doctour of Physick and Professour THe Hygiasticon of the Reverend Father Leonard Lessius a Divine of the Societie of Jesus is learned pious and profitable For it is squared out according to the Physicians rules and is entire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It whets the vigour of the minde and leads to old age Out of his love to the Commonwealth and publick good he was desirous to make that common which he had learned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 regno I hold th●● Work to be most worthy of praise and so will every sober man that without spight and envie reads it think and will he nill he judge of it as I do So I censure Joannes Walterius Viringus Doctour and Professour of Physick ¶ The Approbation of GERARD de VILEERS Doctour of Physick and Ordinarie Professour I Have diligently read and weighed the most learned book of the Reverend Father Leonard Lessius and I judge the doctrine contained therein agreeable to the Physicians rules and most convenient to that end for which it was written by the Authour and therefore most profitable for Religious persons and for all those that are given to the employments of the minde Gerard de Vileers Doctour of Physick and Ordinarie Professour ¶ The Approbation of FRANCIS SASSEN Doctour of Physick INasmuch as all diseases except distempers without matter some instrumentari● and those which arise from emptinesse which are but few are caused either from abundance of humours or from ill nourishment and it is Galens determination in his 4. book and 4. chapter concerning the preservation of health that all they who have thick and slimie humours in the prime veins as most part of the Europeans and especially those that are more Northernly have do exceedingly well com●●●t a spare diet And thirdly inasmuch as by ●e stimonie of the self same Galen the conditions of the soul follow the temper of the bodie and so consequently the bodie being cleare from all superfluous excrements the operations of the minde are more vigorous These precepts will not onely be available for the preservation of them that be in health and for the recoverie of them that be sickly but which is the learned Authours main intent exceedingly conduce to the maintenance of the Senses Judgement and Memorie in their soundnesse untill extream old age FRAN. SASSEN Doctour of Physick HYGIASTICON OR The right course of preserving Health CHAP. 1. The occasion and scope of this work 1_MAny Authours have written largely and verie learnedly touching the preservation of Health but they charge men with so many rules and exact so much observation and caution about the qualitie and quantitie of meats and drinks about aire sleep exercise seasons of the yeare purgations bloud-letting and the like and over and above prescribe such a number of Compound Opiate and other kindes of exquisite remedies as they bring men into a Labyrinth of care in the observation and unto perfect slaverie in the endeavouring to perform what they do in this matter enjoyn And when all is done the issue proves commonly much short oft times clean contrarie to that which was expected in regard perhaps that some smaller matter in appearance yet wherein the chief of the businesse indeed lay was not observed and practised as it ought For men forsooth will have their own mindes eat every thing that likes them and to their fill they will shape their diet

HYGIASTICON OR The right course of preserving Life and Health unto extream old Age Together with soundnesse and integritie of the Senses Judgement and Memorie ¶ Written in Latine by Leonard Lessius And now done into English ¶ Printed by Roger Daniel printer to the Universitie of Cambridge 1634. The things contained in this following Book 1. Lessius his Hygiasticon 2. Cornaro's Treatise of Temperance translated by Master George Herbert 3. A discourse translated out of Italian Ecclus. 37. 28 29 30. Be not unsatiable in any daintic thing nor too greedie upon meats For excesse of meats bringeth s●cknesse and surfeting will turn into choler By surfeting have many perished but he that taketh ●eed prolongeth his life ¶ To the Reader The Preface of the Publisher of the ensuing Treatises WE do not well this day is a day of good tidings and we hold our peace if we tarry till the morning light some mischief will come upon us now therefore come that we may go and tell the Kings houshold Thus reasoned the L●pers that first came to the knowledge of the Syrians flight and Israels deliveratice And the application of their arguments hath in a much like case produced now the like resolution Having been a witnesse of the late discoverie of a richer Mine then any of those which golden PERV affords LIFE and HEALTH and vigarous STRENGTH of Minde and Bodie generall PLENTIE and private WEALTH yea and VERTVE it self inasmuch as for the 〈◊〉 part the conditions of the Minde ●ollow the temper of the Bodie being to be extracted thence with very little pain and cost and without any danger at all I have thought my self bound so give publick notice thereof to the world And so much the rather as having been a Spectatour onely I finde my self de●arred from that plca of modestie wherewith the Adventurers excuse themselves from the publication of this Treasure But who knoweth whether I have not in part been restrained from the credit of partnership to mine own private good to this intent that I might be enforced to become the Publisher of it for common benefit Surely me thinks as in some regard my want of Interest in the businesse makes my testimonie of the more validitie for who will not beleeve a witnesse giving in evidence to his own prejudice so it seems to impose on me a kinde of necessity of acquainting the world therewith if happily by the promotion of others good I may help to redeem● mine own negligence This good effect I hope may follow to mine own advantage upon this publication as on the contrarie I might justly be afraid of multip●ying damage and doubling punishment upon my head for the unjust concealment as well as for the not practi●ing of that which I cannot but approve most excellent and beneficiall to all those ends that a wise man and a Christian should aim at In this regard I hope the pious and charitable Reader and none but such I invite will help me rather with his prayers and a fair acceptance of my hearty desires of his good then censure or despise my want of absolute conformitie to that which I ex●ort him unto And thus much touching my self and the reasons that have moved me to the publication of these ensuing Treatises The middlemost of which as it was first written in order of time so it was in translation and therefore I will begin with it Master George Herbert of blessed memorie having at the request of a Noble Personage translated it into English sent a copie thereof not many moneths before his death unto some friends of his who a good while before had given an attempt of regulating themselves in matter of Diet Which although it was after a very imperfect manner in regard of that exact course therein prescribed yet was of great advantage to them inasmuch as they were enabled through the good preparation that they had thus made to go immediately to the practise of that pattern which Cornarus had set them and so have reaped the benefit thereof in a larger and eminenter manner then could otherwise possi●ly have been imagined in so short a space Not long after Lessius his book by happie chance or to speak better by gracious providence of the Authour of Health and all other good things came to their hands Whereby receiving much instruction and confirmation they requested from me the Translation of it into English Whereupon hath ensued what you shall now receive It was their desire to have the Translation entire and finding no just reason to the contrary 1 have been willing to satisfie them therein Mast●r Herbert professeth and so it is indeed apparant that he was enforced to leave out something out of Cornarus but it was not any thing appertaining to the main subject of the book but chiefly certain extravagant excursion● of the Authour against the Reformation of Religion which in his time was newly begun Neither his old blinde zeal nor the new and dangerous profession of Lessius will as we hope breed any scandal or discredit to these present works of theirs nor to the Imitatours of them with any discreet and sincere Protestants That they wore both Papists and the one of them a Jesuite is no prejudice to the truth of what they write concerning Temperance In the prosecution whereof we ought not onely to agree with them but to seek to advance and excell them in●smuch as the puritie of our Religion exacts a more perfect endeavouring after all manner of true vertue then theirs can do We have not therefore judged it meet either to wave or to disguise the conditio● of the Authours but rather to give notice thereof esteeming that as Treakle is made of Vipers so from this very poysonous superstition on their parts an excellent Cordiall may be extracted for the benefit of all that truely feare God and sincerely desire to serve him who cannot but make a conscience of being inferiour in the practise of Vertue to them over whom they are so much superiour is the knowledge of the Truth The qualitie of the Authour being thus known the Iudicious Reader will not finde any cause of stumbling at his commendation of some persons or institutions nor at his use of some kinde of phrases answerable to his Religion That which was of notorious scandal hath received correction In those thing which may receive a favourable construction or are not of any great moment it hath not been thought fit to make any alteration because it could not indeed be well done without obsouring or almost utterly dissolving the frame of the Discourse The names of Hermites and Monkes are perhaps offensive to weak mindes that have onely heard of the superstition and villanie of the late professours thereof and have not heard or do not beleeve the verrue and true holinesse of those in the Primitive times But since they are not brought in here for proof of any controversall points but onely as instances to confirm the