In this treatise that is cleped governail of health: What is to be said with christ's help of some things that longen to bodily health/ had and to be kept or to bodily health. lost and to be recovered/ and is departed in viii. chapytures/ that is to say In the first chapter of the profit of good governail of health/ In the ij. chapter what is first on morrow to be done/ In the iij. chapter of bodily exercise/ that is to say, business & his profit/ In the fourth chapter of spices of exercise/ In the fifth chapiytre how amā●holde have him in meet. in eting his meats. In the vj. chapter how a man should have him in drinking of his drinks/ In the seven. chapter what should be done after meet/ In the viii chapter of the noise of evil governance  
IT needeth him that will have long list to know the craft of wholesome governeyle. And so for to keep continually the health of his body/ for else he may not come to his naturel end/ but he shall die or his kyndeli time come. and therefore thus sayeth Galyen the cunning. He saith of wholesome governance is marvelous/ for it maketh a man to live till he be old. and without sickness in to the last of his eld and age: Therefore the same Galyen after that he knew the craft of wholesome governaumce. came never into no sikenes● but seld/ that was in to a fymeram that is to say a sharp fever. and that was for travail in visiting of his friends. about the common profit. for thus he saith/ I take god to record and his angels assigned to keep me/ that who that wilfully and besily will study in the treatise of wholesome governance & will keep alhole the doctrine thereof. he shall never die but on and upon kindly death/ which death is sweet and soft without great pain as the same Galyen witnesseth in the difference of feveries/ But understand that wholesome governance may no man duly keep that most needs be occupied will him or nyl him and may not when him needeth leave of. for thy it needeth him that he have that needeth him to his life without travail and pencyfull/ and in all things that he be of free condition/ furthermore it is to wete. that viii. things at the lest been needful in wholesome governail/ of which the first is a discrete chors of thoo things that shall be eaten or drunken/ The second is wilful bodyli exersice to fore mete. and that till the sweating begin or namely till his wind change fro sloughe to swiftness/ The third is well profitable and well needful that all that shall be etyn be weal and small chewed/ The fourth is that thou eat while thou hast talon to eat. the v. is that thou sleep on morrow till thou wake be thine own will/ For as arystotle saith not only in meats and drinks be we nourished and fostered. but also in sleep/ The vj. is that thou take no meet and drink in sorrow ne in care but in Joy as much as thou may: The seven. is that thou have ne hold no cold in winter ne in summer after bloodleting. The viii. is that thou use saffron in thy meet/ for it quy●neth kindly heat and comforteth thy dygesty on & tarrieth thine eld or age and bringeth in gladness. and letteth thine humours fro roting and driing  
IT is in stories of our elders that on a time a mighty king brought to guider three of the best leches that might be of Ind of Mede and of Grece/ and he commanded 'em that each of them should study to assign the best medicine/ which if a man would use should profit him to help of body and him should need none other medycyn/ Truly the leech of Grece assigned and said that every day a man to take twys his mouth full of hot water/ should make a man so hole that him should need none other medycyn and the leech of Mede assigned and said that it should profit much every day fasting to take gromel said: And I say said arystotle that he that that sleepeth so moche that he have no heaviness in his womb of meet that he tok to fore him. dare not dread of any great sickness ne of the gout/ Also who that eateth every day early seven. drams that is to say xxj. p●ny weight of sweet reisyns he dare not dried of flewmy sickness and his mind shallbe amended/ and his understanding shall be clear/ and who that useth it in time according to his complexion may be sure and dread not of the Fever quarteyn/ Also ●ho that et●th nots and fyges with a few leaves of Yew that day shall no venom him noye: It was axed of Galen what medicyn were meosteprofytable. and he answered abstinence/ And constantyne saith in his book that hight vyatyk that who so well keep his continual health. keep his stomach/ so that when him need the meet leave it not ne take no mere thereof than him needeth/ and the same understand of drink/ also in wholesome governance ●le wrath great thought heaviness. anger and such other For all ghostly accidents that is to say sudden falling in to a man's mind outal● joy alonely dryen and that moisteth. nevertheless some hetyn as wrath/ for thy wrath profiteth to phlegmatic men/ and hit harmeth coleryk men: moreover it is to weet that in sent season that is to say in veer & in the beginning of summer children been weal at ease after the likeness of tempered qualities. but other ages been weal at ease in contrarious times as old men in summer and young men in winter/ also in wholesome governance keep this rule if thou wilt be hole & sound/ flee heavy charges be not wooth. soup not to late. and i'll under meal sleep. wake after meet and eschew & spare strong drinks and namely of wine. hold not thy piss ne constrain the not to siege keep well these three things. gladness in mind travail in measure. and rule of meet & drink as much as thou would eat boldly in winter & in veer scarcely/ and in summer measure wealthy meats and flee nameli fruits of August arystotle writing to great Alexander said sith man is a b●●tyl body me seemeth I should write to the some profitable thing of leechcraft if thou wolte he said besily behold th●nsample of wholesome governance and live after this precious order of diet/ ye shall need no leech out take accidents of battle and such other:   

¶ What is first on morrow to be done.  
AFter that a man hath weal and p●afible fulfilled his sleep look he rise & clothe himself with good cloth & sweet if he have them/ then he oweth to walk a little evenli to stretch out his limbs & comb his head for why kembing draweth out the vapours the common from the stomach to the ●xd in time of sleep. and therewith look that ye be besie to put out the superfluities of the body. in sieging pyssing koughing and spy●tyng. then look he wash his hands & his face in summer with cold water and in winter with hoot water Then look he pray and praise his lord after the doctrine of his law and visit the por● in god. then if it like him he should study or read dispute or talk and wise men's ●oūceyl and seyeng besily here/ and in measure be merry & flee utterly wrath and sorrow in as much as he may/ and use himself measurable travail as walking or riding and in clean hihe places fro mire and marrys/ for this profiteth moche/ for it breaketh wind in a man's body and strenghyth & lighteth his limbs and comforteth the heat of the stomach and strengyth his joints/ and melteth evil humours   

¶ Of the body exersice & of his profit.  
WE owen to know by authors of leech craft/ that those that shall live fair & weal in wholesome governance. owen to have even and tempered exersice to fore mete. for that giveth to all the body tempered heat even and not passing/ which should a man's exersice be/ a fycysion discrevyth thus: Exersice is a wilful moving by which a man's wind is made great. and oft it needeth that this travail be wilful/ and not stressed by need/ but that he be all fire and work after his own will/ And therefore labour of carpenters & plowmen masons mariners and such other is none exercise of leechcraft/ for it hath not propely wilful moving/ merchants truly burgeys cloisterers & such other walking weal and long/ but it is not properly exercise of lechecraft/ But when a man walketh freli of his own will/ and so swiftly till he begin to faint and his wind change/ then anon he should sit and rest/ for if he moved any further/ hit should be pain and feyntes/ and such exercise is cleped tempered/ for thereby groven many goods to man's body. first for there by is the kindly heat strengthed & eched and so been other iiij. virtues that is to say. virtue drawing virtue defiing virtue wythholding and virtue out putting/ And so been there v. bodily wits. that is to say/ hearing seeing smelling tasting and feeling/ and so been there iij. myndely virtues/ that is to say Imagynatyf dyscretyfe and memoratyfe.  
And though error happened in all these worchynges of leechcraft so it were not to notable. and exercise were as should be. should never or seld man's body need other medicine/ for exerecyse fulfyleth the defaults of all other/ For thy be they merry that dreaden bloodleting and other doubtful medycyns/ but by exercise they mown be heeled & sanyd/ Metheles ij. things been needful to every well exercised that is to say/ that he be not to full ne to em●y/ to full then would the humours lose and so were great dread of the liver or some fever or sudden death/ for thy in such a caas look therebe long discrete abstinence so that he be not to empty/ for than should his body be feeble out● of measure/ and at the last for febelnes it most needs lose. Therefore who that is to empty it needeth that he labour not till he be more and better relieved/ Truly aucturs say that exercise is one of the hihest and nobelest thing that may be done of to man's body and full needful it is in governayll of health and leng thing of life for why exercise fulfilleth the medicines of bloods and bathynges and such other things/ and therein is no dread nor bitterness ne expenses/ but therein is pure recreation of body & of soul so it be done in clean places/ and then should men show 'em self to the clean eyer and delight in seeing far & near. water & land heaven and earth green and fallow/ And in all these he should praise and worship our lord god. Fulgens describeth exercise in a full faith manner thus saying/ exercise is true keeping of man's life and prick of kind sleeping/ and the filth of foul colour and trending of slothes heat and wasting of superfluities/ and sadding of limbs and sleeng of sicknesses/ and driving a way of vices medicine of langores/ winning of time/ and debt of youth/ and joy of eld of age/ and help of health/ enemy of idleness. and dystroyeng of all evil: But among all other things it is to weet that exercise measured meserably heateth a mamnys blood and drieth it/ And therefore measurable fleumatyk men should use it/ and rest cooleth a man and moisteth him/ and that is good for coleryk men/ for thy he alone draweth himself from exercise that would fain fail jope and felicyte/ in this life: Galyen saith that great purgations and vomits should not be taken bu●selden and for great need for why/ Who so will each month once or twice greatly purge himself he shall bring his body to man● evil uses/ for he shall engender therein man● noyous humours/ For why each day exercise is full needful to keep a man's health/ for who that eateth or drinketh moche may not be hole but if he will somewhat sleep and swink. Thenne these things that be said it showeth that measured exercise hath many profits for it stirreth the kindly heat and openeth the poors/ and loseth cold/ and thick tough humours/ And when they been loosed beareth 'em out at the poors/ and maketh a man's joints slipper & light/ and it comforteth all the membres of a man's body: Wherefore noious humours been more handsomely purged and measured by exercise then by laxatives or vomytees/ for neither of them may be without empeyrement of kind/ and right as due keeping of kindly exercise is needful/ so other while is rest: For why rest in as much as it is contrary to exercise/ some is bodily some is ghostly/ of which each either if it be measured after that kind would it is heleful both to the body & soul/ and if it be not so it is contrary: For why if rest be to much it gendereth nourisheth and multiplieth evil humours and increaseth moche coruption/ For why when water resteth to much it stinketh. so iron & each metal rustyth when it resteth:   

¶ The spices of exercise/  
spices of exercise been there well many as there be diverse states of persons some be strong and some be feeble some rich & some poor some prelate's and at the large and some subgettes & enclosed. And sometime weather is fair & clear/ and sometime not so but dark & rein/ And therefore it needeth to have spices of exercise/ for whithe best spice & the first is to walk to fore meet in hihe places & clean/ Another spice is to ride and that is for rich men/ but great prelate's moste have other manners of exercise/ for why in chamber shall be a great c●rde knitted in the end & hanged up. and take that cord with both hands and stand upright so that thou touch not the erche and stand a good while/ thenne run as much as thou mayst heder & thither with that cord/ and otherwhile skip/ and if this please the not/ ●ane a stone of thirty. li. weight or thereabout and if thou wilt have health therein oft bear that stone fro that on side of that house to that other side or a long while hold up that stone or thou let it down or bear it a bonte thy neck or between thy hands/ and so of other manners till thou faint or thus hold a staff in thy ●hand and let another take hit from the if he may with even draught/ or thus close a penny in thine hand & let another take it if he may or thus hold thy breath as long as thou mayst and then puff it out as hard as thou mayst do/ And this manner of exercise is full profitable to put out noyos superfluities/ for why many superfluities in sleep been withholden therefore if thou have non other manner of exercise holding of breath helpeth it much/ ¶ Yet there been other manners of exercise for young men that been lusty as to run to wrestle to leap to cast the stone/ and so of other plays also tempered fleshly companing with a young brown woman is good in winter/ and with a young white woman is good in summer is also good & helping in governing of health to body but not to soul/ except to hem then that mown have it by god's laws so nevertheless that thee be so moche time between that he feel him self eased & lightened in his body and that he eat the better & sleep the better: But therewith understand that as much as helpeth tempered companyenge● so moche noyeth dystempred companyeng/ and namely to much for it cooleth him wasteth him & filleth him For why man's kind is made of the best blood & best defied/ that hastily may torn into man's limbs: And for why when a man casteth out that noble humours to moche he is hugely dyscolored and his body much feebled more than he let four scythes so much blood out of his body/ also who that moche dealeth or companyeth fbesly with a woman lightly kacheth the palsy with more evil:   

¶ How a man should have him in eting:  
WHen a man hath well exercised him as it is said tofore. rest awhile after and then a lityl fresh wheat breed weal baked and somdel soured. then drink adraught of good clear wine or other good savoury drink: then rest a while after and study in some wise means than have some solace & mirths with thy friend and with other honest company/ Then against even take thy meet & supper most savourly but if thy custom be there age in: But a general rule of all fysik & leches is that thine hour of eting be when thou art kindly hunryg/ and to fore thine hunger eat not/ but if it be a little mess of good & clean warm meet/ to provoke thine appetite with & when thou hast appetite let not/ for as a fycysion saith the stomach out of use to suffer hunger. fulfilleth the body of rotten humours And then will a man's body wax full of naughty humours/ by cause that the colere is drawn to the mouth of the stomach/ so that afterward when he would eat he may not: furthermore it is to wite that no man should eat but he knew certainly his stomach void of that thing that he eat tofore. and that shall a man know by desire that he hath to eat/ and by plenty of spitting coming up to his mouth. For why who that eateth without desire his meet shall find the kindly heat of his stomach cold/ and he that eateth with desire he shall find the kindly heat of stomach give up a smell & savour like incense/ but these & shuche other should be understand of 'em that have meet ordained at her own will/ & who y● that not eat when he may have it for they been not bounden to the laws of this crafteli dyatore as to the qualities of thy meats. understand that thilk meet which that most governeth thine health should not be passing in any quality: for why the meats that been to hot brēne● the blood/ as pepper ga●lek onions cresses sa●ge mints persile & such other. and though meats that been to ●●ld fresyn the blood. as lettuce pursilan gourds & such other/ And if thy meats been to watery than they 〈◊〉 thy blood/ as be melons & concombres. and if thy meats been to dry it throwith out thine victual virtues & if thy meats been to fat they let thy dygestion and if thy meats been to sweet. they stoppen the and maken the constypat & costyff. and thy meats been bitter they utterly noryshen the not: And if thy meats be to salt they brennen noyen & breaken thy stomach/ and if thy meats been to sour they maken the sone old: For thy non of these meats moche & continually used is good to health of man's body/ but only that meet is good that is tempored and wantyth to mykilnesse/ as been these good meats for health of man's body & wholesome/ lamb of on year young kids souking calves hennys capons chekyns partridges ploveres fesauntes small birds of the field & of the wood/ but not of the water/ And when the season cometh young rabettes. and pigs feet been good & other extremities as groyen & eres and scaled fish of clean running water. Year eyren or eggs Also borage langdebuff wheat bred well bake &/ well levyned and somedeal salted of that that is one day old or twain/ and of other that been not to much passing in any quality and if we dreaden excess of any quality amend it by the contrary thereof. an ensample. if thou be seek of evil & tough meats use therefore sharp meats & short/ as a little of hard cheese skraped small. and of lityll quantity/ and also a peer or two or three of the most best fruit to thy complexion & nature: soothly salt meats sour & bitter may be amended with sweet appuls/ sweet meats been amended with sweet honey & good old wine/ and so of all other. & if thou wolte eat fruit eat 'em fast as cherise grapes & almonds/ and after meet a few peers quinces & nots/ a few while they been green and walnottes been best. but let the skin be clean piked away fro the meet: Also the complexion of a man should be looked to as if he be tempered keep him so with like metis and drynkys/ and if it be dystempered by his contrary bring it lityll & little again to temper/ & f●r why to sangweyn men dystempred give malincoliouse meats. and to malencolyouse men sangueyen meats/ and to phlegmatic men coleryk meats/ for every evil complexion may be brought to temprure/ but if necessaries of lyvebode let it: And know when thou wol●e and note it for a soverayye notabylite/ who that etyth oft milk & fish/ oft katchen thereof a leper or a white scab. Also oft to use wine as great & hihe mighty or hihe coloured and milk to guider bringeth a man to both leper & scab. here none suffysyth of quality of meats/ as to the quantity understand that thy meet ne thy drink should be no more but as thy kindly health might overcome it else thy body shall waste and thy virtues wax feeble And for the quantity of meats drinks may not certainly be showed look how thou felyst it hath done the most good and such quantity use. Furthermore understand that no man should eat anon after his exercise ne anon after he were bathed/ but fryste rest him a while so that he hungres/ and then when he will eat if he be a rich man set tofore him many meats/ of which that one is better than that other For a fycysion saith it shall better save him & better nourish him and skill why: for meet that is taken with delight the stomach hugely coveteth hastily kacheth/ long holdyth/ and we●defyeth. and that meet that is best defied is moste nourishing for man's body/ Truly other meet that is not defied. is taken with fulsomness and defyeth not well/ for why if a man desire more mutton then a capon the mutton shall rather be eaten/ and so of all other meats. But there that is moche distance in quality of meats we mown not do thus/ and also beware that it be none erraunt appetite a● in women that been with child/ and though 〈◊〉 otherwhile be/ yet shall it not alway be denied: Furthermore as galyen sayeth that at one meal men sholden not eat diverse metes● therefore at morrow eat but bred alone/ and at even flesh alone/ for when two diverse meet: been take at one meal. of hem common two evils/ one in either by it b. another in hem 〈◊〉 the together in himself/ for then one traveleth to torn in to great & heavy humours and that other into 〈◊〉 & in hem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 meet 〈◊〉 before it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 goeth fourth & draweth with him the 〈◊〉 meet undefyed, and if the great meet go first tofore then the subtle meet is not defied and may not for the great go forth. and so it wexyth corrupt/ And which of these manners ever it be/ alway it is evil/ but more evil it is that the subtle follow the great/ for thee/ chaufing & changing into kind of raunes may be helped/ but the changing into coruption never or selden and of wonder hard is helped: And thereto accordeth Galyen a ficysion & other old doctors. but 〈◊〉 peradventure a contrarious costume long used may do away the corrupcon. Also weet well that virtue of defying is oft broken when raw meet is put on half sudden for the toon rawness showueth out the other/ and so the half sodyn is corrupt: Moreover that no man eat so moche that the stomach be hevyed therewith ne that his appetite cease/ But how that useth great exercise & to much and seld and therewith eateth unruly & conty●●eth it he shall die by sudden, death or shall feel wicked likeness. ye though his meet were right good for by cause his digestion is corrupt therefore keep well thy stomach from to much meet & drink/ And it so mishap any time anon with water & oil or such other spew it out anon and then sleep/ and if thou may not sleep walk softly up & down. and xxiv. hours eat not after ne drink not/ then eat a lytill with a draft of good clean wine. so the wine be not to great ne of hihe colour. and on the thyrday have some exercise and be bathed/ then eat a little after/ and after sleep & thou may then use this electuare dyatryon as saith a fycysion. Two causes been of sikenesses/ that is diverse meats & long sitting and much eting of diverse meats. for of 'em been gendered divers humours some good & some evil: long sitting for then the meet that is first take is defied ere the last begin to defy, and so that is defied draweth with him to the liver that is undefyed/ and so these two been cause of great sikenesses: Also as old wise men say man should never eat his fill at one meal in taking diverse meats/ for as a vycenne saith no thing is worse than to multyple meats and so to sit long thereat/ for thy he saith that men in old time weren satisfied at morrow with bred alone and at even with flesh alone/ And therewith they saiden reasonably the more meet should betowarde even/ but the costume were contrary/ for a eyrenne saith that hole men should better eat at ●yenste night than no morrow/ for the kindly 〈◊〉 is closed within them and gathereth about the bowels. nevertheless phlegmatic men eat not to cold for they needen but lytill exercise to move her kindeli heat which mow eat by the morrow ¶/ But now the most usage is here again and among/ many men it is found more wholesome to eat by day then by night/ and peradventure that is skill of costume/ And therefore thus saith a wiseman short so●per & light supper is selden grievous. great sopers noyen as leches techen we read it oft openli also as a vycenne saith between two etynges 〈◊〉. hours to be is profitable/ and so eat thries ● two days/ as to day twice & to morrow but ones and so to continue forth/ so that if error fall in twice eting/ and so agenyward for that one most be amended by that other sith it is hard to leave without error: moreover understand that men that have good understanding. etyn for they would live. but they that gone by fleshelynes wolden live for to eat and contrary to nature/ And wite thou well that to a coleryk mamnys stomach when the virtue is strong/ and great heat great meats been good/ as be off pork great venyson & g●te bestly fishes rough and great bred salt meet flesh half sodyn & great mighty coloured wine/ and if the heat of the stomach be feeble and if he have but lityll exercise the meats aforesaid would much noye him but to such a stomach give subtle meats as chekyns & small fishes of stony running water/ Year eggs bred well baken and well soured small wine and of clean & orient colour not deep & such other But these meats sh●●●en be corrupt of Turrian 〈◊〉 stomach. And if the virtue dygestyff be in the mean time of dieting/ as capones 〈◊〉 partridges and such other: Also in governance of health/ i'll all excessyvous meats and namely these but if it be for a medicine/ i'll also all fruits and also herbs that been not good as these namely. coal wortes & letuys for they maken malyncolyouse blood. galyen saith that my father ever forbade me that I should eat no new fruits & green if I would be without sickness for he himself did and was ever withouten sikenesses/ and while he lived so did I & was also withouten sickness/ and when he was dead I eete fruits & caught the feveres/ and after that I caught cunning to keep my self I kept me from fruits & I had no more the fevers/ but if it were a little sharp fever called offymera. and all my friends that kepten my doctrine/ kept 'em from fruits & hadden her health. arnold a great/ clerk saith thus/ In is lente long usag of stopping meats as fish & pese pottage. therefore it is profitable first to eat porcey of peses for this is a water that wise men hath commended. and thus it is made/ do pesyn in fair water all night & in the same water boil them on morrow a/ good while and then cleanse them and keep the cleansing and when meet time cometh do thereto a lityl wine a little powder of spikenard a little safron & clean small white salt and than boil it on a walm. and so eat/ for it openeth & clensith well the capytalle veins of the liver & the ways oft of the urine/ and keepeth fro the stone & gravelles namely if the foresaid pes●n̄ be sudden in the foresaid water with persily How a man should have him in his drink.  
THe less ye drink at meet the better it is enre so it be measurably taken. for a man should not at meet drink moche lest it make meet to swim in his stomach: forty men should drink a little. so that the meet be well medeled & tempered together/ And then let along while between or thou drink again. and than drink a great draft at ones ne drink not to much after the first morsel in no manner of wise/ but drink oft a little & a little if small clean wine best according to health & governing of thy complexion and nature. and for health of body is clean and small claret wine not to new ne to mighty so it be well and proporcyonli tempered with the quantity of clean water/ Moreover no man be so hardy to drink fasting cold water/ ne after that he hath accompanied with a woman ne after great travail ne after exercise till he have first rested him. ne by night namely if he have do glove tofore. for why long sleep & fast skping is cure thereto.   

¶ What shall be done after meet:  
AFter when thou hast eat thou shouldest stand or walk a lityll softly up & down till toy meet go down to the bottom of thy stothak and then sleep a little if thou be used therein both day & night namely sleep first on thy sight side for that is kindly for thy dygestion rhall be better/ for than lieth thy liver under thy stomach/ as fire under a cauldron: And after thy first sleep turn on thy lift side that thy right side may be r●sted of thy long lyging thereon/ And when thou hast lain thereon a good while and slept turn again on thy right side and there sleep all night forth/ and look that thou lie not to straight ne to crooked with thy legs but in a mean between straight & crooked. And in no wise lie not upright/ for them will the superfluyte●s abide within the and turn to wicked & grievous evils contrary to health/ Also to lie grovelling on the womb is good/ so that thy breath be not grieved there with & the heavier/ and the greater thy meet be & the more thou hast taken thereof/ ever the longer should thy night sleep be: and ever the subtler that thy meet be & the less thou have ever the less should thy sleep be. For sleep is full helpy to old men for it maketh them moist & therefore saith galyen when he was old he eat letuses with spyses for he would sleep the better/ moreover sleep is full helpy to the digestion of thy meats but not anon after that thou hast even/ for thou myghtist be strangled ¶ Also weet thou that if a man before avyntisshid of his body/ moche sleep then is not good for him for it will waste his moistness/ and of one thing beware that to long sleep or to short feebleth a mamnys body and breaketh it/ And after thou hast eaten take no letuaryes ne other hot things. for they tournen thy meet to corruption/ ne a none after thou hast eat run not ne ride not to fast for then every strong moving thing turneth thy meet to corruption/ and also the virtue dygestyf is nories head through rest. also after meet & tofore meet as much as thou mayst flee wrath sorrow & pencyfulnesse. and right as to fore meet exercises been good/ so after meet they noyen and rest is best/ moreover averoys' saith right as cold water cast in apotte boiling letteth the boiling for a tyme. so to drink after meet namely soon letteth the digestion & maketh it to cease for a time/ and therefore it is not good after meet to drink moche till the meet be defied. but after meet to suffer thirst somewhat is good: And if thou wilt easily void thy stomach stand aftur thy souper till thou be weary or walk a thousand paces/ and wrte thou that glotery and when thy meet defyeth not well what ever the caas be/ bathing ne blood letting ne exercise been not good. but rest sleep abstinence & diatryon pypion Exercise is not good for thereby should thikke raw humours be lose and then thereof the limbs sholden be nourished/ and that were evil For why in such exercise the kindly heat is not comforted/ but more feebled & strangled for the raw humours arn dissolved/ for right as water quencheth fire. so raw humores quench the kind health:   

¶ of 'noys of evil governance  
THere been many that only not usen evil governance in meats & drinks but also strongly maintain it/ & as they sayn been well at ease & we'll defyen. and they scorn leches & other wise men that usen good governance/ for they believe that they should be excused of their error by her long custom For why custom is a full strentgh in keeping of man's body/ And that said galyen thus custom is better defied. wherefore thus sayeth Anyceen evil meet used is better than good meet not used. the contrary of all these saith Constantyne as it seemeth thue/ glade they not that usen evil meet though they be not now hurt after they shall not so escape/ Herto men mown thus say that custom accordeth with kind or nay/ if it accord it shall be held. and if it acordeth not & be not rooted it shall be cast away/ but not suddenly but little a lityl: For thy though it seem 'em that have good governaylle of custom. that they been wise by reason of custom virtue strength or age/ nevertheless her virtues wasten preveli and so every day they ordain 'em to leper or to sudden death: As they that long time usen beef old salted or bestely fishes or raw flesh/ or they that sleep to lityl/ or exercisen toomuch after mete. or out of measure cold or hot & so of many other/ truly of such 〈◊〉 may be said But if they leave of: they shall not asterte the stroke of death.   

For health of body. cover for cold thy heed  
eat no raw meet/ take good heed hereto  
Drink wholesome wine. fede the on light breed  
With an appetite rise from thy meet also  
With women fleshly. have not ado  
Upon thy sleep. drink not of the cup  
Glad toward bed at morrow both two  
And use never late for to sup  
And if it so be that leches don the fail  
Then take good heed to use things thr●  
Temporat diet temporat travail  
Not malyncolyouse for none adversity  
meek in trouble glad in poverty  
Rich with lityll/ content with suffisance  
Never grudging merry like thine degree  
Yef fysik lack make this thy governance  
To every tale soon give thou no credence  
Be not to hasty ne suddenly vengeable  
To pour felke do no violence  
courteous of language. of feeding measurable  
On sundry meet not greedy at the table  
In feeding gentle/ prudente in dalliance  
Clos of tongue. in word not deceivable  
〈◊〉 say the best set alway thy pleasance  
〈◊〉 in hate mowthes that been double  
●●ffre at thy table no detraceyon  
Have despite of folk that been troublous  
Of false raveners and adulation  
Within thy court suffer no division  
Within thy household it shall cause increase  
Of all welfare prosperity and foison  
With thy neyghbourhes live in rest & peace  
Be clean clad after thine estate  
Pass not thy bonds/ keep thy promise belive  
With three folk be not at debate  
first with thy better beware for to strive  
against thy fellow no quarrel for to contrive  
With thy subject to strive it were shame  
Wherefore I counsel pursue all thy live  
To live in pease/ and get the a good name  
Fire at morrow/ and toward bed at eve  
again mists black/ and eyer of pestilence  
Be time at mass thou shalt the better achieve  
first at thy rising to do god reverence  
Vpsite the power with enter diligence  
On all needy have compassion  
And god shall send grace and influence  
The to increase and thy possession  
Suffer no furfetis in thy house at night  
War of reresou●ers. and of great excess  
Of nodding hedies/ and of candle light  
Of sloth at morrow & slombring Idylnesse  
Which of all vice is chief porteresse  
Void and dronkelewe. liars & lechers  
Of all unthrifty exile the masters  
That is to say dyseplayers and hazarders  
After meet beware make not to longeslepe  
Heed feet & stomach preserve aye from cold  
Be not to pensif: of thought take thou no keep  
After thy rent maintain thy household  
Suffer in time in thy right be bold  
Swear none oaths no man to beguile  
In thought be lusty. sad when thou art old  
No worldly joy lasteth but a while  
Drink not at morrow before thine appetite  
Clear eyer & walking maketh good digesti●̄  
between meals drink not for no lityl delight  
But thirst or travail give the occasion  
Over salt meet doth great oppression  
To feeble stomach when they can not refrain  
from thing contrary to their complexion  
Of greedy hands the stomach hath great pain  
Thus in two things stondyih all thy wealth  
Of soul and of body/ who so list 'em show  
Moderate food giveth to man his health  
And all surfeits doth from him remove  
And charity to the soul is dew.  
This receit bought is of no potycarye  
Of master antony ne of master Hugh  
To all indifferent it is richest dyetarye  
Explicit medicina stomachi: