for dim sight. their memories maruaylously. You may sometimes bathe your eyes in rosewater, fennell water, or eyebright water, if you please; but I know for certaintie, that you neede them not as long as you vse good fountaine water. Moreouer, least you by old age or some other meanes doe waxe dimme of sight, I will declare vnto you, the best and safest remedie which I knowe, and The best remedy this it is Take of the distilled waters of verueine, bettonie, and fennell one ounce and a halfe, then take one ounce of white wine, one drachme of Tntia (if you may easilie come by it) two drachmes of sugarcandy, one drachme of Aloes Epatick, two drachmes of womans milke, and one scruple of Camphire: beat those into pouder, which are to be beaten, and infuse them together for foure and twenty houres space, and then straine them, and so vse it when you list. Prayers. (8) When you haue finished these, say your morn- 8. Say your ing prayers, and desire God to blesse you, to preserue you from all daungers, and to direct you in all your actions. For the feare of God (as it is written) is the beginning of wisedome: and without his protection whatsoeuer you take in hand, shall fall to ruine. Therefore see that you be mindfull of him, and remember that to that intent you were borne, to weet, to set foorth his glorie and most holy name. (9) Goe about your businesse circumspectly, and 9. Set to work. endeauour to banish all cares and cogitations, which are the onely baits of wickednesse. Defraud no man of his right for what measure you giue vnto your neighbour, Be honest. that measure shall you receiue. And finally, imprint this saying deepely in your mind: A man is but a steward of his owne goods; wherof God one day will demaund an account. meals a day. (10) Eate three meales a day vntill you come to the 10. Eat only three age of fourtie yeares: as, your breakefast, dinner, and supper; yet, that betweene breakefast and dinner there Eat light food before heavy. Drink hinders digestion. Use silver cups. 11. Don't work directly after meals, but talk, wash, and clean your teeth. 12. Undress by the fire in winter. be the space of foure houres, and betwixt dinner and supper seauen houres: the breakfast must be lesse then dinner, and the dinner somewhat lesse then supper. In the beginning of meales, eate such meates as will make the belly soluble, and let grosse meats be the last. Content your selfe with one kind of meate, for diuersities hurt the body, by reason that meats are not all of one qualitie: Some are easily digested, others againe are heauy, and will lie a long time vpon the stomack also, the eating of sundrie sorts of meat require often pottes of drinke, which hinder concoction; like as we see often putting of water into the meatpotte to hinder it from seething. Our stomack is our bodies kitchin, which being distempered, how can we liue in temperate order: drinke not aboue foure times, and that moderately, at each meale: least the bellyGod hale you at length captiue into his prison house of gurmandise, where you shall be afflicted with as many diseases as you haue deuoured dishes of sundry sorts. The cups whereof you drinke, should be of siluer, or siluer and gilt. (11) Labour not either your mind or body presently after meales: rather sit a while and discourse of some pleasant matters: when you haue ended your confabulations, wash your face and mouth with cold waters, then go to your chamber, and make cleane your teeth with your tooth-picker, which should be either of iuorie, silver, or gold. Watch not too long after supper, but depart within two hours to bed. But if necessitie compell you to watch longer then ordinary, then be sure to augment your sleepe the next morning; that you may recompence nature, which otherwise through your watching would not a little be impaired. (12) Put of your clothes in winter by the fire side: and cause bed to bee heated with a warming panne : your vnless your pretence bee to harden your members, and to apply your selfe vnto militarie discipline. This outward heating doth wonderfully comfort the inward heat, it helpeth concoction, and consumeth moisture. chew Mastic, and (13) Remember before you rest, to chew down two 18. Before bed, or three drachmes of mastick: for it will preserue your body from bad humours. (14) Pray feruently to God, before you sleepe, to 14. Pray to God. inspire you with his grace, to defend you from all perils and subtelties of wicked fiends, and to prosper you in all your affaires : and then lay aside your cares and businesse, as well publicke as priuate: for that night, in so doing, you shall slepe more quietly. Make water at least once, and cast it out: but in the morning make water in an vrinal: that by looking on it, you may ghesse some what of the state of your body. Sleep first on your right side with your mouth open, and let your night cappe haue a hole in the top, through Have a hole in which the vapour may goe out. Look at your water in a Urinal. your nightcap. (15) In the morning remember your affayres, and if 15. Against you be troubled with rheumes, as soone as you haue risen, vse diatrion piperion, or eate white pepper now and then, and you shall be holpen. rheums, eat white pepper. FINIS. Stretch your limbs, [* Page 36.] rub your body and head; The Dyet for every Day. (FROM Sir John Harington's 'Schoole of Salerne,' 2ND PART. The Preserbation of Health, or a Dyet for the Healthfull first I will begin with the dyet for every day. In the beginning when you arise from the bed, extend forth all your members, for by this meanes the animal spirits are drawne to the outward members, the braine is made subtill, & the body strengthened. Then rub the whole body somewhat with the palmes, the brest, back and belly gently, but the armes and legs with the hands, either with warm linnen: next, the head is to be scrubbed from the forepart to the hinderpart very lightly. After you are risen, I will that you protect yourself defend with all care and diligence your head, necke, and feet, from all cold in the morning; for there is no doubt, but in the morning and euening the cold doth offend more, then it doth about noone tide, by reason dress, washing in of the weaknes of the Sun-beames. Put on your clothes neat and cleane: in the Summer season, first wash with cleane pure water, before described; but in the Winter warming yourself season sit somewhat by the fire, not made with turfe or stinking coale, but with oake or other wood that burneth cleare, for our bodies are somewhat affected with our clothes, and as strength is increased by the from cold; Summer, in Winter. vse of meat and drinke, and our life defended and preserued; and so our garments doe conserue the heat of our bodies, and doe driue away colds: so that as diet and apparel may seeme alike, so in either of them a like diligence is to be preferred. In Summer [Page 37.] wear deer's and calves' skins, and fox skins. your head 40 times, In the Summer-time I chiefly commend garments of Harts-skinnes, and Calues-skins, for the Hart is a creature of long life, and resisteth poyson and Serpents; therefore I my selfe vse garments of the like sort for the winter season, also neuerthelesse lined with good linnen. Next I doe iudge it not to bee much amisse to vse garments of Silke or Bombace, or of purple : also of Martyn or Wolfe-skinnes, or made of Fox in Winter, wolf skinnes, I suppose to be good for the winter; notwithstanding in the time of Pestilence, apparell of Silke and skinnes is condemned, because it doth easily admit and receiue the contagious ayre, and doth retain it long. After the body is well clothed, kembe your head wel Comb with an Iuory comb, from the forehead to the backepart, drawing the comb some forty times at the least; then wash all the instruments of the sences, as the eies, wash your face, the ears, the nostrils, the mouth, the tongue, the teeth, and all the face with cold water; and the eyes are not only to be washed, but being open plainly, immerg'd: and the gumme and foulnes of the eie-lids that do there clean your stick, to remoue; somtimes also to besprinkle the water with Rose-water cr Fenel-water, also rubb the rub your neck neck well with *a linnen napking somewhat course, for these things doe confirme the whole body; it maketh the mind more cheerefull, and conserueth the sight. In this place it pleaseth me to adioyne some Dentifrices or clensers of teeth, waters not only to make the teeth white, but also to conserue them, with some medicines also to conserue the sight.. eyelids, well. [ Page 38.] |