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A05313	The touchstone of complexions generallye appliable, expedient and profitable for all such, as be desirous & carefull of their bodylye health : contayning most easie rules & ready tokens, whereby euery one may perfectly try, and throughly know, as well the exacte state, habite, disposition, and constitution, of his owne body outwardly : as also the inclinations, affections, motions, & desires of his mynd inwardly / first written in Latine, by Leuine Lemnie ; and now Englished by Thomas Newton.; De habitu et constitutione corporis. English	Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1576 (1576)	STC 15456; ESTC S93449	168,180	353

the wagginge of euery strawe afrayed These and such like defects and wāts of Nature must we to y vttermost of our power study to amende by vsing a wholesome diete and exquisite trade of lyuing which consisteth in a tēperament of hoate and moyst In this body especially it is expediēt to excite and cheerishe natiue heate with exercyse and wyne that is pure good and with meates that be calefactiue of which sort are such Byrds as bestyrre much exercise themselues with flying as Sparrowes Lynets Chaffinches Culuers Partriches Phesauntes Blackbyrdes Thrushes Figgebyrds among those that be homish and tame Capons and Cockes for Duckes Swānes Geese Cootes Gulles Hearneshoes other Water foules requyre a very strong stomacke to digest them Of foure footed beasts fittest for this nature are Veale Mutton Pigge and Conye Amonge fruicts and such as the earth by tillage and industrye of man bringeth forth the best are these Almonds sweete sower Peachkernelles Dates dry Figges Reysons y kernels being taken out Coraunts Pyne apples And because the increase of our Gardeins lēdeth vs many helpes to this vse and purpose I thincke it good also not to omit them for that they be easye euery where to be had neither costly nor chargeable of which sort is Parseley certayne kinds of Carrets Seahollie Skirwyke rootes Thystle Artichoke Nauew radish Chichpease Cresses Rocket Mynte Wormewodde gentle such as in Wynter serue for Cōdiments sauce Onyons Garlicke Leekes steeped in water to take away their ranke sauour strōg smel or els for them that cannot wel abyde the strong ayre sent of these maye put into their meate outlandish and forraine spyces as the Germaines and Englishe Nacion cōmonly vse as Ginger Saffron Peper Graynes Cassia Cynamome Nutmigges And persons of meaner callinge smaller abilitie such as are not wel able to beare out the cost of these things may take out of their owne hoomish gardeins groūd such things as in strēgh and operation counteruayle these aforesayd that is to wit Rosemarie Basil sauerie Organie Maiorame Dill Sage Baulme c. For with these many others of like sort may the defects of Nature be beaten down the faults therof of ouercome and therby the body by litle litle maye be to a better and quieter state reduced For if drynesse or Siccity should līck in ioyne with this quality thē truly life which consisteth in hoat moyst cānot long continue but needes must out of hand come to finall ende whereof in the Chapter folowing I purpose somwhat more at large to discourse ¶ Of a Drye Complexion The ix Chapter FOrasmuche as that disposition and habite of bodye which is drye is muche like to that state and complexiō which is cold yea next vnto it I will briefly declare what I thincke thereof by what meanes it maye be expunged and bettered These ii qualityes bee in a maner alike distant from perfecte and good temperatenes in what age soeuer they happen howbeit in Oldeage this drye distemperaunce can hardelyer and wyth much more adoe be qualefyed and vanquished then in Youth whē the same ill habite commeth through Sickenes or incontinencie of lyfe For as Oldmen by reason of theyr age and long continuaunce of yeares haue bodyes drye barreyne and forworne So lykewyse Yongmen by dissolute lyuing vnseasonable watching and immoderate Venerye brynge their bodyes before their due time to a cold and drye distemperaunce hastening their owne deathes by wasting theyr vitall humour arryue to their last endes and dye by naturall death aswell as Oldmē do although in deede sooner then otherwyse they might do And it is called naturall because it is common to all men alike and not able by anye meanes to be declyned For Oldage or the laste cast of mā is not to be accompted naturall in such sorte as encreasing nourishing be which are the workes of nature and whereby the naturall facultye continueth and maynteyneth it selfe but because it so falleth oute necessarily and by the due course right order of Nature For this is natures decreed order that all thinges hauynge beginning must also haue endyng and arryue to their finall decaye for otherwyse death should vnproperlye and vnaptly be termed Naturall consideringe it is rather against Nature and a professed enemye to our life For if Sicknesse which I accompt as a step or as a Summer to death be an habite state cōtrary to Nature either deprauing or at least hindring the actiō therof how much more is Death to be deemed a thing contrary to Nature which quight abolysheth and vtterly despoyleth lyfe For nothyng is more repugnaūt to the lawes of Nature then to dye to be depryued of this most pleasaunt light and breath Which thing euerye man maye trye and in himselfe fynde most true when soeuer hee calleth to mynde and deepely wyth himselfe falleth into anye cogitacion of the same for it dryueth a certayne fearefulnes terrour dread into his mynde that were not his mynde armed strengthened wyth an vndoubted hope and expectation of an other better lyfe hereafter there could nothing be more miserable nor in worse case then mans life is For what thing could delyuer vs out of feare carefulnesse desperation and distruste sauinge onely a firme trust in Gods mercy that our Soules after this corporall dissolution shal be trāsported to a place of eternal ioy and felicitie As for death it was not brought into the world by Nature for y vglye face of Sinne and the wilful transgression of Gods preceptes at the beginninge of the worlde gaue vnto vs this deadly wounde wrapped vs in all this mysery Therfore death is called Naturall not in respecte of Nature but of the consequence because it hangeth indifferently ouer all mens heads as common indifferently to all and sparing none yea all thinges be wythin the compasse and reach thereof Now forasmuch as there be two sorts of death the one Violente the other Natural that kind of death is of Philosophers Physitions called naturall which happeneth vnto Oldemen such as are in that bodely state that Oldemen be that is to say Cold and Drye wythout sense or feeling of any payne for in them their languishinge and forspent body forsaketh their Soule and not the Soule their body Insomuch that they dye in a maner as though they fell softly asleepe whereas others dyinge by meanes of casualty ruine fyer sword Squinste Pleurysse Inflāmatiōs of the Lunges or other diseases happening to a mā in his fulnesse of humours dye a violent death struggling painfully and long languishing in extreme agonies before they giue by the Ghost So that the Soule is perforce compelled to abandō and forsake the body lyke a Ghest that fleethout of a ruynous house that is weatherbeaten and much shakē with force of tēpest only to auoyde further daūger And hereupon doth Cicero very notablye wryte that

frowarder and eluisher Crew which be so daintie mouthed that nothinge can please so squeymish stomacked that nothing can satisfie let this poore Booke in Goddes name take his chaunce amōg them as it falleth out yea let it be as AEsope his fyle to grate and grynde their viperous teeth withall Sure I am that their seuere and Criticall cēsures can no more disquiet me hereafter then the Conscience of myne own imbecillitie hath terrified and displeased me alreadie Yet if thinges were to bee obteyned and compassed by wyshing I wold that neither this Booke neyther anye other heretofore by mee published should offend anye no not the verie waywardest But because my case may peraduenture now stande no better then it did longe agone with the Philosopher Theodorus Atheniensis who complayned of greate discurtesy shewed vnto him because those thinges which he gaue with the righte hand were snatched vp and taken by his Auditorye with the lefte meaning thereby his workes and Lectures whiche he publishinge to good purpose were wrested and sundrely by captious carpers canuassed with sinister interpretations therfore for refuge I flee into the Sanctuary of your Lordships wonted clemencie with trust thence not to be shouldred out and reiected but freely to bee allowed the benefite of your goodnesse that I may leane vpon the staffe of your approued wisdome aucthoritie and creepe vnder the Targe of youre fauorable prorection against the currish bawling rancklinge tooth of barking Theon In assured hope whereof I rest beseechinge God to endue and blesse you with the Right honourable Lady Francis your Lordships vertuous and louing wife with the riche giftes of his heauenlye grace and with continuaunce of prosperous health both of soule and body to his honor and glory your own desyres and comfortes and to the profite of this your natiue Countrey From Butley in Chesshyre the 21. of September 1576. Your good Lordships wholy to commaunde Thomas Newton ¶ FOR THE MAINTENAVNCE AND PRESERuation of Health being the best and chiefest thing that any man in this life can vvish or desire it is most requisite to haue a perfect knovvledge of oure ovvne bodyes The first Chapter CICERO that worthy father of al learninge and eloquence sayth in my opinion righte pithilre that man his healthe is preserued by knowledge of his owne body and by vsing such things as are thereto eyther beneficiall or hurtfull finally in continencie of life ordrlye vsage of bodye and forbearing of pleasures which in my iudgement are not so hurtful to the body as they be pernicious to the minde It behoueth therefore and it standeth euery man vpon perfectly and thorowly to know the habite constitution of his owne bodye which consisteth in a temperament a mixture of foure qualities hoate moyst cold and dry For by this meanes shall he be a great deale better able to keepe himselfe in healthe and to wythstand sicknes or recure diseases whensoeuer they happen And sithens naturall health is nothinge els but a right constitution and state of the body and all partes thereof wherby euery seuerall mēber dischargeth orderly executeth his proper fūction office duty and action wythout any maner of let or greeuaunce and sithence Sicknesse as an affecte contrary to nature eyther makinge worse or altogether hindering this action molestinge payning nature cleane contrary to health and naturall soūdnesse I cannot see how any man conuenientlye can eyther keepe himselfe in that present state of good health wherein hee is or restore the same being empayred and discrased vnlesse he haue the knowledge of his owne bodye be ripe and skilfull in the temperament thereof And albeit the Soule be farre more excellent then the body and be the better part of mā for the furniture and garnishing wherof I would haue the chiefest care and industry bestowed yet notwythstanding I iudge it right needefull also to haue a diligent eye and respect to the body leaste otherwise it should be a burthen to the Soule and hinder it from matters of more wayght and worthines For the body being healthfull euerye member doth his office and dutie and is to the minde at whose commaundement it standeth obeysaunt and seruiceable To this ende is that worthy saying of the Poet Iuuenal Most chiefly ought our prayers to be made For healthy minde vvithin a body sound Aske courage stoute and liue in honest trade Feare not at all of death the lethall vvound Passe forth thy dayes vse Natures giftes aright In pleasaunt sort vvith them thy selfe delight Acquaint thy selfe to labour toyle and drudge Shrinke not a vvhit rage not vvith svvellinge ire Haue not to deale vvith trade of scraping snudge VVho neuer hath ynough to his desire To quiet life is no mo vvayes but one If thou vvilt knovv it vertue is alone Which giftes of bodye minde whosoeuer is endued wythall vnto him can no surer and stedfaster possession happen agaīst them preuayleth neyther the instabilitie of fortune neyther cāthe mutability of worldly ficklenes chalēg either ryght or superiority For greate wealth large possessions sumptuous buildinges huge reuenewes ample patrimonyes glorious titles and Honourable Styles in cōparison of these are of none accompte neyther serue they to anye vse nor bringe to man any cōtentacion Consider what the Poet doth here say and by these cōsider of all the rest Not house nor land not gold nor fee The Corps can ease from crased plight Nor minde from cares sound must he bee That gotten goodes vvould vse aright Wherefore sithe health of bodye and health of minde are by good righte to be reckened amonge the chiefest goods and of all other the best reason requyreth and expedient also is it for all men in procuring and preseruing the same to bestow their chiefest care and whole diligence and both for themselues for so many as depend vpon them earnestlye to desire these comfortable stayes and cheerishmentes of life the better more commodiously to passe the race of this transitory pilgrimage wythoute dislykinge or greeuaunce For if wee will credite Horace VVhat better thing can mother vvishe her tender Babe vntill Then vvysedome vttraunce fauour fame vvith health and vvealth at vvill He therfore that gladly would runne his race pleasaūtly passe forth his whole dayes must haue speciall care to keepe himselfe in perfect healthe but first and prīcipally in the health of mind and nexte of body wythoute whose perfecte state and soundnes the minde it selfe is not rightly susteyned vpholden nor comforted For by the ignoraunce or not knowinge of our owne selues and by negligente loking to the state of our owne bodyes and mindes we are haled and will wee nill wee throwen into sondrye diseases and innumerable affections and like a shippe ful fraighte with wares in tempestuous boisterous weather caryed and dashed vppon the rockes of perturbation Whereby it commeth to passe that manye are by death cutte of euen in

being otherwyse so wōderfully seuere and crabbed yet at the wyne was so pleasaunt and conceiptuous hee merelye aunswered that he was like to a kinde of Pulse called Lupines Which kinde of Pulse although they be naturally bitter and by their bitternes of force to kill wormes yet the same being steeped soaked in water renounce and leaue all bitternes and become both sweete pleasaunt And this is naturally giuen to all men that when the body is refreshed wyth meate and drinck al bitternes sorrow and heauines is expelled and banished For the Spirites by moderate drinking of wyne are styrred vppe and the mind of man which in them that be fasting and hungry is faynt weake and like vnto fier raked ouer wyth ashes almost quenched is reuyued And this is the cause why a dead body is heauier thē a lyuing because all his Spirites are vanished and departed out of him and so likewyse is a fasting persō heauier then one that hath filled his belly and one that slepeth waightier then one that watcheth And therfore my fashion is to aduise and counsell Melācholique folkes and sullen natured personnes to vse banquetting and good cheere amonge honest and mery cōpany For thus after Plato wryteth the Poet. Euen olde Dan Catoes stomacke oft By vvyne vvas made to come aloft Which man although churlish sterne frowning yet did wyne so much driue away his naturall seueritye and grimme countenaunce that amonge the other guestes he became a pleasaunte companion and of manners very gentle and familiar For this worthy Gentleman although otherwise he was a very precise comptroller and of Stoicall grauity perceyued wel ynough that mās nature required som relaxatiōs delights and that it may not lōg cōtinue wythout som myrth pleasaunt recreation Let therefore euery man take surueigh of himself and serch out what his nature most desitreth in what state his body stādeth what thinge it is that he feeleth himselfe to be holpen and what to be offended wythall And if he finde the plighte and state of his bodye to be in equability and perfect temperatenes it shal be good to cheerishe and preserue it wyth his like but if it shrinck from his sayd temperate habite and decline to an intēperatenes then had it neede to be holpen and recured wyth his contraryes Thus if a man throughe aboundance of humours and stoare of bloude and Spirites feele himselfe prone to carnalitie and fleshlye luste let him by altering his order diet enioyne to himselfe a more strict ordinary frame his dealings to a more stayed moderation But if hee feele himselfe to bee of nature somewhat sulleyne and sterne giuē somwhat to be wayward whyning testye churlishe and intractable then reason wylleth suche a one to bee reclaymed to an order and trade of life gentler and pleasaunter insomuch it shall not be ill for such a one to frequent daūcing singing womens flatteryes alluremēts and embracings prouided alwayes that all the same be not otherwyse done nor ment but in honestye and comelines wythin a reasonable measure also within the bounds of lawfull wedlock For the state of Matrimony as Columella aduoucheth out of Xenophōs booke of Household is in such sorte appoynted by nature that in it is conteyned not onely the pleasaūtest but also the profitablest societye of life And least mankinde in processe of tyme should come to an vtter ruine and decay it pleased God by this lawfull meanes to ioyne man and woman together that of theyr inseperable combinacion the state of man should might by mutual helpe one of an other be eased and cōforted and that beside the loue and desire that they haue to bring furth children they mighte be tyed and bound together equally and indifferentlye to participate all fortune whatsoeuer shoulde betyde But for so much as approued and skilfull mē that haue written bookes for the mayntenaunce of mens health generally doe specially set downe these three principall thinges To eate moderately and leaue somevvhat vvith an appetite To vse conuenient exercise And to liue continently vvithout vvastinge seede of generation I take it to be the best waye to reduce the whole substaunce of the matter mayntenaūce of health to this prescribed rule and direction For seing that measurable repaste and feeding all surphet and glotony being banished maketh a sound body seing I say exercise by shaking of all drow tsinesse and slouth maketh the bodye stronge and liuely then no more but harkē what a short lessō Virgill giueth for the other No better vvaye the strength of minde And povvers thereof still to maintaine Then Venus play and Loue so blinde To shunne and vvarely to refrayne ¶ Of the nature and differences of Spirits what they worke in mans body and what affections they cause The second Chapter FOrasmuche as the Spirite is the originall maintener and conueigher of naturall heate whereunto moysture necessarilye adhereth that the Soule by the mynisterye and ayde thereof perfourmeth her powers and faculties and atchieueth all her actions it is requisite here next to discourse vpon it and vppon all the differences thereof For seinge there be three especiall thinges in whose temperature and moderation the health of mans body doth prīcipally cōsist vz. vitall moysture naturall heate Spirite which combineth all thinges and imparteth his force vertue nature vnto them our present purpose being considered we cannot by order choose but of necessity must presētly somwhat speake therof Vitall moysture is the nourishmente and matter of naturall heate whereupon it woorketh and by the benefite therof is maintayned and preserued With this Humour or vitall moysture is naturall heate fed and cheerished and from the same receyueth continuall mayntenaunce and from it participateth vitall power whereby all Creatures do liue are nourished encreased preserued procreated Spirite is the seate and caryer of Heate by whose helpe and mynisterye it is conueyed and sente by the conduites and passages of the Arteryes to euery seuerall part of the bodye Wherefore worthyly is this Spirite thought to be the chiefe and principal Instrument that procureth and executeth euery action These three do vnseperably cleaue together mutuallye helpe one an other and cannot be sundered wythout present death of the party and for this cause do wee thus in one definition expresse conclude and comprehend theyr force and nature wythin one definition Naturall heat is nothīg els but an originall humour wyth vitall spirite and heate totally moystened But forasmuch as Spirite conteyneth vitall heate and is of all the faculties ruler and directer spredeth it self most swiftly throughoute the whole body caryeth and extendeth his powers into euery part thereof vniuersally besyde this doth manifestly chaūge and alter the state both of body and minde therefore as the rest require great labour and diligēce vpon them to be bestowed so specially vpon this is the chiefest care to be takē to restore mayntein

and quality of the ayre or region be very hoate it likewyse bringeth forth and causeth hoate and quicke motions yet such as by reason of their tenuitie and thinnesse by litle litle wil be cooled And this is the cause that some of them when their bloud is vp will rashlye and vnaduisedlye attempte any thinge and not eare for any perills so they may bring to passe what their desire is to compasse Also when they conceiue in minde the doing of any thing as they be at the beginninge marueylous wilful tooto heady with mighte main to set forward their purpose hardly admitting anye counsel to the contrary so againe their minds many times be wauering vnstedfast and vnquiet except their inclinacions by the reyne of reason be the better bridled Their fickle and vnstedie heades novv this novv that deuise They flote in fancie to and fro and vvrangle sondry vvise Which thinge is commonly incident to angry persons and such as be desyrous of reuenge and to suche also as haue somewhere fixed their loue inordinately whose minds flootinge and ballancinge vp and downe with varietie of phantasies are easely and quickly caryed hither and thyther by affection neyther stedfast nor aduysedly resoluing vppon any certaine resolution But this Countrye borne people if they earnestly frame themselues to the attaynemente of anye Artes though the same be neuer so hard and curious yet do they profite in the same wonderfully cary away great commendation Such as haue thinne spirites temperatelye hoate haue sharpe and ready wittes and prompt and flowing vtteraunce vppon whom also these gifts of nature are bestowed that for deuyse and inuention they be very sharpe and ingenious for braue settinge oute and beautifyinge of a matter plentyfull and copious and suche as for the explayning of their meaninges and purposes haue talke and tongue at will. And as touching the inward inclination of their mindes and maners they be liuely felowes lusty dapper nimble lackinge no grace of pleasaunte gesture Manye of them which lacke good bringing vp and haue not beene trayned in learning and ciuilitie are of disposition wauering vnconstant captious deceitfull falseharted destrous of alterations and tumultes babblatiue and full of muche vaine tattling in consultacion and counsell so suttle and craftie that whatsoeuer they once conceyue in mynde or purpose to do without delay that do they iudge best forthwith to be enterprysed out of hande to be atchieued and whereunto so euer they addict their mindes therin proue they right excellente Seing therefore the diuersitie of spirits and the differences of wittes and maners proceedeth of the condition and nature of the Place Ayre Countrey and nourishmente let euery man foresee in himself which way he may best prouide for the maintenaunce of his health and to shunne all such thinges as may in any wise harme annoye crushel or empaire either his health or Spirits It is therefore most expediente to obserue the best order of diet and life that conueniently maye be folowed and to liue in the holesommest ayre For these be the things that restore health when it is decayed or empaired and which make the Spirites most pure and syncere For if the bodye do abounde and be full of ill humours if the Spirites bee vnpure and the brayne stuffed full of thicke fumes proceedinge of humours the bodye and Soule consequentlye cannot but suffer hurte and bee thereby likewise damnifyed Hence proceedeth as from the verye cause such rauing dotage distraughtnes of righte witts hence issueth blockishnes foolishnes madnes and furie in so much that they thinck sometimes to see those thinges that are not before their senses to see and to heare suche woordes as no man speaketh For imaginatiō in them is marred common sense which iudgeth and discerneth all thinges is preiudiced memorye decayed sighte dymmed their eyes dazelled and all the faculties of the Soule that is to saye all the naturall powers whereby it accomplisheth all his functiōs are enfeebled perfourme their offices duties and operations both faintly and remissely But if the Spirite animall be perfectly pure ayrie such as is the sent of Bloud exactlye laboured not onely the sight of their eyes is cleare and good but all the other Senses both external and internall are perfecte and perfourme their functions and ministeries orderlye duelie and conueniently ¶ Of the Spirit vniuersall generally inspired into the whole world all the parts therof Which being from God aboue breathed put into man infuseth and endueth his minde wyth speciall and peculiar giftes And by the waye also in this Chapter is entreated of good and ill Angells which being entermingled with the humours spirites cause sondry chaūges and mutations in mens minds The thirde Chapter THat power of the Spirite which is infused and breathed by God aboue into these lower bodyes is it that disposeth and moueth this frame and masse of the world fostereth strēgtheneth and cheerisheth all that is wythin the compasse and coape of Heauen conteyned stretchinge and extendinge his force farre and wyde For why this gouerneth and ruleth all thinges maketh all thinges fruitfull and vnto the same imparteth vitall heate Neyther is there anye cause why a man should thinck or perswade himself that there is any other power able to do these things then that Spirite by whom from the very beginninge the world and all such thinges as are visiblie seene wyth the eyes and sensiblie perceyued by the sences were brought into so comely and beautiful order For by the VVord of the Lord vvere al things made and by the breath of his mouth al the comlynes beautie and furniture thereof For he doth maintayne and strēgthen al thinges and giueth povver vnto euerye thinge to encrease and multiplye in their ovvne kinde and to maintayne and conserue themselues Thus the wonderfull Creatour of Nature by his word and Spirite put into all thinges y were created a power precreatorie the order of their encreasinge propagation for continuaunce of theyr kinde posteritie and succession y is to witte the Spirite of GOD beinge diffused into euery Creature susteyneth and maynteyneth Plantes and all liuing creatures aswell man as beasts by whom they liue and haue their beinge There is nothinge therefore in the whole worlde but it feeleth the strong power of God is satisfyed wyth the plenteousnes and fulnesse therof For when Heaūe and Earth were made and the first Elemēts that is the first beginnings of things constituted The Spirite of God moued vppon the waters that is to saye made moyste and liquide matter otherwyse barreyne to be fruitefull The very meaning of which saying Basill surnamed the Greate did verye well and liuelye expound in these woordes The Spirit of GOD sayth hee moued vpon the top or vpper face of the water That is to say did nourish and giue a vitall fruitfulnes and a quickeninge Soule to the moyste Element and to all other

Soule when the body is in sounde Sleepe and al the outwarde senses at rest wythdrawinge it selfe into the innermoste partes of the body perceyueth vnderstandeth beholdeth those actiōs which y body is to do by day and loke what things the body desyreth and longeth after the same doth the Soule enioye as presente by Imagination Hereupon I thincke were these Prouerbes first deuysed The Dogge dreameth of bread of raūging in the Fields of hunting For what things soeuer a man earnestly and exceedingly desyreth or hath his mynde still running on the same being a Sleepe hee thinketh and dreameth vpon in the night Whereunto it is like ynoughe that Esay the Prophete alluded where hee sheweth that the counsayles and deuyses of the wicked shall come to noughte and vanishe awaye like smoake as Dreames seene by nighte Euen as sayth hee a hungrye man Dreameth that hee is eatinge and vvhen hee avvaketh is yet hungrye and emptie And as a thristy man Dreameth that hee is drinkinge and vvhen hee avvaketh is yet faynte and thirstie Euen so fareth it vvith them that gape and seeke after innocente Bloude to glutte their crueltie therevvith for they shall misse theyr purpose like them that Dreame and not obteyne the thinges vvhich they earnestly desyre or thincke themselues sure to compasse bring about Nowe to satisfye them that are desyrous to knowe the inwarde notes and tokens of a Colde and moyste Complexion and Phlegmaticke persons I wyll heere by the waye set downe the same declare of what Nature condition maners conuersation and order of lyfe they bee howe beit there is no cause whye anye man should hope to fynde in them of this constitution and plight any stoare of excellēt singuler rare gyftes syth in them appeareth small quicknes of wit smal worthynesse or excellency of mynd smal sharpenes of iudgement learning small knowledge or skill in atchieuing and compassing matters for that the same with prudence and wysedome cannot conueniently be brought about For those that are numbred and referred into the order of this Complexion are persons of no verye sharpe and exact iudgement or as the Prouerbe by interpretatiō soūdeth Emūctae naris fine witted as cōtrariwyse they whose noses be stuffed with Phlegme sneuil are likewyse by the Prouerbe tearmed Obesae naris grosse witted applying by Translation the faulte from the bodye to the mynde For as both theyr tallage taste smelling and other obiectes of their Senses bee blunte grosse so are they likewyse in mynde witte dol●ish and dull slouthfull and lumpish finally neyther by nature neyther by vse forecasteful sharp witted nor craftie by reason theyr naturall heate is languishyng and feeble and drowned in moyst quality and cold Humour therefore also their memory is very fayleable oblyuious and nothing at all in a manner retentiue Theyr speach as likewyse their pulses maner of gate slow and soft But this in them specially deserueth commēdation that they be gentle and quiet of nature not greatlye addicted to venerous daliaunce not fumishe testy or soone angred being such as although they be thereto prouoked wil not lightly chafe and fret to be short not geeuen to fraude and subtilty cogging and foysting craft and cousonage wrangling and quarelling as the Cholericke are And because commonlye they be assayled with many and sundry diseases for that they be geeuen to sit still louing their ease and ydlenes first they are to be enioyned and prescribed a Diet that is hoat wherof in the Discourse of the Cold Complexion and also of the Moyste hath beene spoken abundantly and next they are to be perswaded pricked forward to vse themselues to exercise For sluggishnes and slouth as witnesseth Celsus dulleth the body but labour and exercise maketh it firme and lustye the one bringeth Oldage before the time the other maketh Adolescencie and youth to last long And therefore stronger motions and exercyses are for these persons more requisite least otherwyse the humour toomuch encrease and heat quayle be enfeebled Let them therfore vse in the mornyngs to walke abroade and namely vp hilles and s●●epe places when they be yet fasting their stomacks empty yea it shall not bee amysse to vse the same after meate but these stirrings and bodely agitations must be done with a very soft pace and those the be about mydday swyfter and faster which precept is expediēt for them that be hoate and moyst to obserue but yet as Galene sayth not so faste and vehemente as they vse when by occasion of some earneste busynesse they bee dryuen to make speede and hast It shall be good also for them to continue long fasting and to vse sparing suppers For as all they that be in perfect health may and ought at Supper to feede somewhat largely and excepte custome be to the contrary be allowed to eate more fully and liberally so againe to them that be of this Complexion a spareful and light supper is most fit and agreeable because the brayne shall thereby be the lesse encumbred disquieted wyth fumes and exhalaciōs in the night ascending and proceedinge out of the Stomacke For these be they that engender distillations and Catarrhes out of whome spryngeth swarmes of many diseases And that the same may the better be auoyded and declyned I will breefely set downe the differēces of this Phlegmatique Humour what effect is thereby wroughte and what diseases ensue aud grow thereuppon OF Phlegme there be foure sorts of differēces or kinds Sweete or if it be crude vnsauoury making mē drowsy and heauy desyring to Sleepe more then nature requyreth by reason that the Brayne which is a principall member and the oryginal of all Senses is moystned and made cold Sower maketh hungry For the mouth of the Ventricle or Stomake endued wyth this Humour is styrred vp to an appetite and desyre of meate Saltish maketh thyrstye and nippeth the Stomacke Glassie in toughnes and coldnesse passinge all the others bryngeth loathsomnes and abhorryng of meate The myeldest and leaste hurtfull of all these is the Sweete which after that concoction is once dispatched is bettered and turned into the nature of Bloude which yet notwithstandinge wanteth not his poyson and malignaunt nature except all the inconuenience thereof be throughly by heate excocted For it maketh loose softe and rysing tumours or blysters whyte whythoute any rednesse and other whealie breakinge out of Phlegme besyde in the vtter parte of the skinne as mattrye skabbes wheales pushes and pymples in Women and yonge folkes which sometime breake out and are full of matter and fylthy corruption but it causeth not great ytch nor heat as the skabbednes which commeth of salte Phlegme or abundaunce of Choler doth which is endued wyth a sharpe byting brynyshe saltnes Sower Phlegme in quality and effect resembling like vnto Melancholyke iuyce in cōtinuāce of time gathered into the stomack is lesse cold

Bloud 99. Scottes 18 Scoffers 101 Secke 102 Seede 85. 105. 106. pollution and effluxiō 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 tēper causeth tranquillitie of mynde ibid. being distēpered it vvorketh sūdry motiōs 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 ibidē 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 dispositiō of phlegmaticke persons 114 Tokens of sanguine persons 99 Tormentes of an vnquiet minde and guilty cōscience 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 ibidē 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. Yoūgmen 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 Liō tame VVhat maketh good digestion Eccle. 31. VVhat maketh a man merie The nature of Lupines A dead man heauier thē a lyuing Hor lib. 3 Oda 21. Euery man must search out his ovvn inclination and nature It is some●● 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. ● Things hurt full to the spirits of man. Prouer. 17 Eccle. 30. Things cōfortinge the Spirits What Spirite is The heart is the fountaine of life Foure natural povvers The office of digestiō 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 cōmon wealth 1. Cor. 12. Members of mans body Li. 2. Dec. 1. No mēber 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 Whēce the diuersitie of natures cōmeth Rebelliō in the body Levvde thoughts Gen. 6. 8. Spirite animal 12. Meth. Erick kinge of Sweden Germans Hollāders Hollanders forgetful sleepie Old men children forgetfull Education altereth nature Zelāders 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 Spaniard● 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 amādi Lib. 6. Fast Actes 17. Aratus in Pheno Angels Hebr. 1. Lares Good Angels Ill Angels Daemō à sciendo 2. Para. 26 Hebr. 4. Psalm 7. How the deuil learneth the thoughts of mē One man a deuill to an other Matth. 4. 2. Cor. 12. Iob. 30. Howe farr● deuils are able to hurte vs. Humours giue occasion to vices Sapien. 1. Gen. 2. What the Holy Gh●● worketh 〈◊〉 vs. Gal. 4. Rom. 8. Fayth bringeth forth workes De preparat Euāg lib. 1. Superstition Art. Poet. Iuuē Saty 14 Tuscul 3. Rom. 10. Zeale withoute knowledge In Arte Poet. A Eneid lib. 1. IIII. Elemētes Tuēd valet lib. 1. Meate and Ayre a like necessary The nature of seede and bloud Cause of talnesse ●●ildren ●●ulde not s●āted of e●r victu● Naughty vnholesome meate spilleth nature Shorte stature how it commeth Olde age Death what it is Lustye olde age wherof it cōmeth ●hat ma●th yonge ●e weake What thīgs are hurtfull to health Art. Poet. Iob. 14. Infancie Childhod Pubertie Adolescencie Youth Mās age Death to the faythful not to be feared The times of the yeare compared to the ages of man. Metam lib. 15. Trāquillity and quietnes of mind Temperament Temperament Intemperatures Compound drouges named of