¶ Hereafter followeth a compendious regiment or a dyetary of Health, made in Mountpyllier, compiled by Andrew Board of physic doctor, dedicated to the armipotent Prince, and valiant Lord Thomas Duke of Northfolche.  

Galyen prince, of physic.    

¶ The preface. ¶ To the precellent and army potent prince, lord Thomas duke of Northfolch, Andrew Board of physic doctor doth surrender humyle commendation.  
FOr as much as it pleased your grace to send for me (to sir Robert Drewry knight) which was the year in the which lord Thomas cardinal bishop of york was commanded to go to his see of york to have my council in physic in certain urgent causes, requiring to the savyte of your body, at that time I being but a young doctor in my science or faculty, durst not to presume to minister any medysone to you without the council of master doctor Butte, which had a long continuance with you & a great cognition, not only of your infirmity, but also of your complexion & diet. But he not coming to your grace, thanks be to God, your grace recuperating your health. And convocated thorough the kings goodness to wait on his prepotent majesty: I than did pass over the sees again. And did go to all the universities and scoles approbated, and being within the precinct of christendom. And all was done for to have a true cognition of the practice of physic, the which obtained. I than cotydyally remembering your bountiful goodness showed to me, & also being at the well head of physic, did consult with many egregyous Doctors of physic/ what matter I should write, the which might be acceptable, and profitable for the savyte of your body. The said doctors knowing my true intention, did advertise me to compile and make some book of diet, the which not only should do your grace pleasure, but also it should be necessary & profitable for your noble posterity, & for many other men the which would follow the effycacyte of this book/ the which is called the regiment or dietary of health. And where that I do speak in this book but of dietes, and other things concerning the same. If any man therefore would have remedy for any sickness or diseases, let him look in a book of my making, named the Brevyare of health. But if it shall please your grace to look on a book, the which I did make in Mountpyller, named the Introductory of knowledge, there shall you see many new matters/ the which I have no doubt but that your grace will accept and like the book, the which is a printing beside saint Dunston's church within Temple bar over against the Temple. And where I have dedicated this book to your grace, and have not ornated and flourished it with eloquent speech and rethorycke terms, the which in all writings is used these modernall days, I do submit me to your bountyful goodness. And also divers times in my writings I do write words of mirth/ truly it is for no other intention/ but to make your grace merry, for mirth is one of the chiefest things of physic the which doth advertise every man to be merry, and to beware of pencyfulnes, trusting to your affluent goodness to take no displeasure with any contents of this book, but to accept my good will and diligent labour. And furthermore I do trust to your superabundaunt gracyousnes, that you will consider the love and zeal, the which I have to your prosperity, and that I do it for a common we'll, the which I beseech jesus christ long to continue to his will and pleasure in this life. And after this transitory life remunerate you with celestial joy and eternal glory.  
From Mountpyllier. The .v. day of May. The year of our Lord jesus christ. M.u. C.xlij   

¶ Here followeth the Table of the chapters.  

THe first chapter doth show where a man should cytuat or set his mansion place or house, for the health of his body.  
¶ The second chapter doth show a man how he should build his house, and that the prospect be good for the conservation of health.  
¶ The third Chapitre doth show a man to build his house in a pure and fresh air for to lengthen his life.  
¶ The four chapter doth show under what manner a man should build his house or mansion in eschewing things that should shorten his life.  
¶ The .v. chapter doth show how a man should order his house concerning the implements to comfort the spirits of man.  
¶ The vi chapter doth show a man how he should order his house and household, and to live in quietness.  
¶ The vii chapter doth show how the head of a house, or a howseholder should exercise himself for the health of the soul and body.  
¶ The viii chapter doth show how a man should order himself in sleeping, and watching, and in his apparel wearing.  
¶ The ix Chapitre doth show that repletion or surfeiting doth moche harm to nature, and that abstinence is the chyfest medyson of all medysons.  
¶ The ten chapter treateth of all manner of drinks, as of water, of wine, of ale, of bear, of cider, of mead, of metheglin, & of whey.  
¶ The xi chapter treateth of bread.  
¶ The xii chapter of pottage, of sew, of stew pots, of gruel, of ferment, of pease pottage, of almond milk, of rice pottage, of caudles, of cullese, of alebrues, of honey sops, and of all other manner of broths.  
¶ The xiii Chapitre treateth of whit meat as of eggs, butter, cheese, milk, crayme, posettes, of almond butter, and of bean butter.  
¶ The xiiii chapter treateth of fish.  
¶ The xu chapter treateth of wild fowl, of tame fowl, and of birds.  
¶ The xvi chapter treateth of flesh, wild and domestical.  
¶ The xvii chapter treateth of particular things of fish and flesh.  
¶ The xviii Chapitre treateth of roast meat of fried meat, of sudden or boiled meat, of bruled meat and of baken meat.  
¶ The xix chapter treateth of roots.  
¶ The twenty chapter treateth of certain usual herbs.  
¶ The xxi chapter treateth of fruits.  
¶ The xxii chapter treateth of spices.  
¶ The xxiii chapter showeth a dyate for sanguine men.  
¶ The xxiiii chapter showeth a dyate for flematycke men.  
¶ The xxv chapter showeth a dyate for choleric men.  
¶ The xxvi chapter doth show a dyate for melancholy men.  
¶ The xxvii chapter treateth of a dyate and of an order to be used in the pestiferous time of the pestilence & the sweating sickness.  
¶ The xxviii chapter treateth of a dyate for them the which be in an ague or a fever.  
¶ The xxix Chapitre treateth of a dyate for them the which have the Ilyacke, or the colic and the stone.  
¶ The xxx chapter treateth of a dyate for them the which have any of the kinds of the gouts.  
¶ The xxxi Chapitre treateth of a dyate for them the which have any kinds of lepored.  
¶ The xxxii chapter treateth of a dyate for them the which have any of the kinds of the falling sickness.  
¶ The xxxiii chapter treateth of a dyate for them which have any pain in their head.  
¶ The xxxiiii chapter treateth of a dyate for them the which be in a consumption.  
¶ The xxxv chapter treateth of a dyate for them the which be asmatycke men, being short winded or lacking breath.  
¶ The xxxvi chapter doth show a dyate for them the which hath the palsy.  
¶ The xxxvii Chapitre doth show an order & a dyate for them that be mad & out of their wit.  
¶ The xxxviii chapter treateth of a dyate for them which have any kind of the dropsy  
¶ The xxxix chapter treateth of a general dyate for all manner of men or women being sick or whole.  
¶ The xl chapter doth show an order or a fashion, how a sick man shall be ordered in his sickness. And how a sick man should be used that is likely to die.   
¶ Here endeth the Table.   

¶ Here followeth the dyetary or the regiment of health.  


GALEN PRINCE OF physic.    

¶ The first chapter doth show where a man should cytuate or set his mansion place or house for the health of his body.  
WHat man of honour or worship, or other estate, the which doth pretend to build a house or any mansion place to inhabit himself. Or else doth pretend to alter his house, or to alter old building in to commodious and pleasant building, not only for his own proper commodity, wealth, & health, but also for other men the which will resort to him: having also a respect to his posterity. ¶ first it is necessary and expedient for him to take heed, what council God did give to Abraham, and after that to take heed what council God did give to Moses, and to the children of Israel, as it appeareth in the xiii chapter of Exodi. and the twenty chapter of Numeri, & the vi chapter of Deutronomii. And also in the book of Levites, saying first to Abraham. Go thou forth of thy country & from thy cognation or kindred. And come thou in to the country the which I will show to the a country abunding or plentiful of milk and honey. ¶ Here is to be noted that where there is plenty of milk there is plenty of pasture, and no skarsyte of water, & where there is plenty of honey there is no skarsyte but plentyfulnesse of woods, for there be more bees in woods, and so consequently abundance of honey, than there be bees, or honey, or wax in the hives in gardyns or orchards, wherefore it appeareth that whosoever will build a mansion place or a house, he must cytuat and set it there where he must be sure to have both water and wood, except for pleasure he will build a house in or by some city or great town the which be not destitude of such commodities. But he the which will dwell at pleasure, and for profit, and health of his body he must dwell at elbow room having water and wood annexed to his place or house, for if he be destytuted of any of the principals, that is to say first of water for to wash and to wring, to bake and to brew, and divers other causes specially for apparel the which might fall by fire were a great dyscommodyous thing. And better it were to lack wood than to lack water the premisses considered, although that wood is a necessary thing, not only for fuel, but also for other urgent causes, specially concerning building and teperations.   

¶ The second chapter doth show a man, how he should build his house or mansion, that the prospect be fair & good for the conservation of health.  
AFter that a man have chosen a convenient soil and place according to his mind and purpose to build his house or mansion on, he must have afore cast in his mind, that the prospect to and fro the place be pleasant, fair, and good to the eye, to behold the woods, the waters, the fields, the vales, the hills, & the plain ground. And that every thing be descent and fair to the eye, not only within the precinct of the place appointed to build a mansion or a house to see the commodities about it, but also it may be placable to the eyes of all men to see & to behold when they be a good dystauntce of from the place, that it do stand commodyously. For the commodious building of a place doth not only satisfy the mind of the inhabytour, but also it doth comfort and rejoiceth a man's heart to see it, specially the pulcruse prospect. For my conceit is such that I had rather not to build a mansion or a house, than to build one without a good respect in it, to it, & from it. For and the eye be not satisfied, the mind can not be contented. And the mind can not be contented the heart can not be pleased, if the heart & mind be not pleased, nature doth abhor. And if nature do abhor, mortification of the victual, and animal, and spiritual powers do consequently follow.   

¶ The third chapter doth show a man to build his house in a pure & a fresh air to lengthen his life.  
THere is nothing except poison that doth putrefy or doth corrupt the blood of man and also doth mortify the spirits of man, as doth a corrupt and a courageous air. For Galyen terapentice nono sayeth, whither we will or will not we must grant unto every man air, for without the air no man can live. The air can not be to clean and pure, considering it doth compass us round about, and we do receive it in to us, we can not be without it, for we live by it as the fish liveth by the water. Good air therefore is to be praised. For if the air be fryske, pure, and clean about the mansion or house it doth conserve the life of man, it doth comfort the brain. And the powers natural animal and spiritual, engendering and making good blood, in the which consisteth the life of man. And contraryly evil and corrupt airs doth infect the blood, and doth engender many corrupt humours, and doth putrefy the brain, and doth corrupt the heart, & therefore it doth breed many diseases & infirmities thorough the which man's life is abrevyated and shortened. Many things doth infect, putrefy, and corrupteth the air, as the influence of sundry stars, and standing waters, stinking mists, and marshes, caryn lying long above the ground, moche people in a small room lying uncleanly, and being filth and sluttysshe, wherefore he that doth pretend to build his mansion or house, he must provide that he do not cytuat his house nigh to any marsshe or marysshe ground, that there be not nigh to the place stinking and putrified standing waters, pools, ponds, nor myers, but at leastwise that such waters do stand upon a stony or a gravayle ground mixed with clay, and that some fresh spring have a recourse to nourish and to refresh the said standing waters. Also there must be circumspection had that there be not about the house or mansion no stinking dyches, gutters, nor canelles, nor corrupt dunghylles, nor sinks, except they be oft and divers times mundyfyed and made clean. Sweping of houses and chambres aught not to be done as long as any honest man is within the precynct of the house, for the dust doth putryfy the air making it dence. Also nigh to the place let neither flax nor hemp be watered, & beware of the snoffe of candles, and of the savour of apples for these things be courageous and infective. Also misty & cloudy days, impetous and vehement winds, troublous and vaporous wether is not good to labour in it to open the pores to let in infectious air. Furthermore beware of pissing in drawghtes, & permit no common pissing place be about the house or mansion, & let the common house of casement be over some water, or else elongated from the house. And beware of empting of piss pots and pyssing in chymnes, so that all evil and courageous airs may be expelled, and clean air kept unputryfyed. And of all things let the buttery, the cellar, the kitchen, the larder house, with all other houses of offices be kept clean, that there be no filth in them, but good & odiferous savours, and to expel & expulse all corrupt & courageous air, look in the xxvii chapter of this book.   

¶ The four chapter doth show under what manner & fashion a man should build his house or mansion, in exchewing things that shorteneth man's life.  
When a man doth begin to build his house or mansion place he must provide (saith jesus christ) before that he begin to build for all things necessary for the performation of it, lest that when he hath made his foundation, & can not finish his work that he hath begun, every man will deride him saying. This man did begin to build, but he can not finish or make an end of his purpose, for a man must consider the expense before he do begin to build, for there goeth to building many a nail, many pins, many lathes, and many tiles or slates or straws, beside other greater charges, as timber, boards, lime, sand, stones or brick, beside the workmanship and the implements. But a man the which have puruyd or hath in store to accomplish his purpose, and hath chosen a good soil and place to cytuat his house or mansion, and that the prospect be good, and that the air be pure, fryske and clean. Then he that will build, let him make his foundation upon a gravaly ground mixed with clay, or else let him build upon a roche of stone, or else upon an hill or a hills side. And order & edify the house so that the principal and chief prospectes may be Eest and weest, specially North east, South east, and South weest, for the merydyal wind of all winds is the most worst, for the Southwind doth corrupt and doth make evil vapours. The east wind is temperate, fryske, and fragraunt. The weest wind is mutable. The North wind purgeth ill vapours, wherefore better it is of the two worst that the windows do open plain North than plain South, although that jeremy saith, from the North dependeth all evil. And also it is written in Cantica cantorum. Rise up North wind and come thou South wind and parfyat my garden. Make the hall under such a fashion, that the parlour be annexed to the head of the hall. And the buttery and pantry be at the lower end of the hall, the seller under the pantry set somewhat abase, the kitchen set somewhat a base from the buttery and pantry, coming with an entry by the wall of the buttery, the pastry house & the larder house annexed to the kitchen. Than divide the lodgings by the circuit of the quadryvyall court, and let the gate house be opposyt or against the hall door (not directly) but the hall door standing a base, and the gate house in the middle of the front entering in to the place, let the prive chamber be anaxed to the chamber of estate, with other chambres necessary for the building, so that many of the chambres may have a prospect in to the Chapel. If there be an utter court made, make it quadryvyal with houses of easementes, and but one stable for horses of pleasure, & see no filth nor dung be within the court, nor cast at the back side, but see the dung to be carried far from the mansion. Also the stables and the slaughter house, a dyery if any be kept should be elongated the space of a quarter of a mile from the place. And also the back house and brew house should be a distance from the place and from other building, when all the mansion is edified and built, if there be a moot made about it, there should some fresh spring come to it, and divers times the moot aught to be skowered and kept clean from mud and weeds. And in no wise let not the filth of the kitchen descend in to the moot. Furthermore it is a commodious and a pleasant thing to a mansion to have an orcherd of sundry fruits, but it is more commodious to have a fair guard repleted with herbs of aromatyck & redolent savours. In the garden may be a pool or two for fish if the pools be clean kept. Also a park repleted with dear & conies is a necessary and a pleasant thing to be annexed to a mansion. A dove house also is a necessary thing about a mansion place. And among other things a pair of butts is a decent thing about a mansion, & other while for a great man necessary it is for to pass his time with bowls in an aly, when all this is finished, and the mansion replenished with Implementꝭ. There must be a fire kept continually for a space to dry up the courageous moysters of the walls, & the savour of the lime and sand. And after that a man may lie and dwell in the said mansion without taking any inconvenience of sickness.   

¶ The .v. chapter doth show how a man should order his house concerning the implements to comfort the spirits of man. ☜  
WHen a man hath built his mansion, and hath his houses necessary about his place, if he have not household stuff or implements the which be needful, but must borrow of his nayghbours, he than is put to a shefte and to a great after deal, for these men the which do brew in a botyl and bake in a walet, it will be long or he can by jacke a salet, yet every thing must have a beginning, and every man must do after his possessions or ability, this notwithstanding better it is not to set up a household or hospitality than to set up household lacking the performation of it, as now to run for malt, and by and by for salt, now to send for bread, and by and by to send for a sheeps head, and now to send for this, & now to send for that, and by & by he doth send he can not tell for what, such things is no provision, but it is a great abusion. Thus a man shall lose his thrift, and be put to a shefte, his goods shall never increase, and he shall not be in rest nor peace, but ever in cark and care, for his purse will ever be bare, wherefore I do council every man, to provide for himself as soon as he can, for if of implements he be destytuted, men will call him light witted, to set up a great house, and is not able to keep man nor mouse, wherefore let every man look or he leap, for many corns maketh a great heap.   

¶ The uj chapter doth show how a man should order his house and household, and to live quietly.  
Who soever he be that will keep an house, he must order the expenses of his house according to the rent of his lands. And if he have no lands he must order his house after his lucre winning or gains. For he that will spend more in his house, than the rents of his lands, or his gains doth attain to, he shall fall to poverty, and necessity will urge cause and compel him to sell his land, or to waste his stock, as it is daily seen by experience of many men, wherefore they the which will eschew such prodygalyte and inconvenience, must divide his rents portion & expenses, whereby that he doth live in to iii equal portions or parts. ¶ The first part must serve to provide for meat and drink, & all other necessary things for the sustention of the household. ¶ The second portion or part must be reserved for apparel, not only for a man's own self, but for all his household, & for his servants wages, deducting somewhat of this portion in alms deed to poor neighbours and poor people, fulfilling other of the vii works of mercy. ¶ The iii portion or part must be reserved for urgent eauses in time of need, as in sickness, reparation of houses, with many other cotydyall expenses, beside rewards & the charges of a man's last end. If a man do exsyde this order he may soon fall in det, the which is a dangerous thing many ways beside the bringing a man to trouble. And he that is ones behind hand and in trouble, he can not be in quietness of mind, the which doth perturb the heart, & so consequently doth shorten a man's life, wherefore there is no wise man but he will eschew this inconvenience, & will cast before what shall follow after. And in no wise to set up a household, before he hath made provision to keep a house. For if a man shall buy every thing that belongeth to the keeping of his house with his penny, it will be long or he be rich, and long or that he can keep a good house. But he is wise in my conceit that will have or he do set up his household ii or iii years rend in his coffer. And if he have no lands than he must provide for necessary things or that he begin household, least that he repent himself after, through the which he do fall in to pencyfulnes, and after that in to sickness & diseases, living not quietly, whereby he shall abrevyate his life.   

¶ The vij chapter doth show how the head of a house, or a howseholder should exercise himself, for the health of the soul & body.  
AFter that a man hath provided all things necessary for his house and for his household, expedient it is for him to know, how he should exercise himself both bodily and ghostly. For there is no catholic or christian man living, but he is bound in conscience to be more circumspecter about the wealth of his soul than the health of his body. Our saviour jesus Chryst saith, what shall it profit unto man if he get all the world and lose himself, and bring him self to a detriment, wherefore it appeareth that a man ought to be circumspect for the health and wealth of his soul. For he is bound so to live, that night and day and at all hours he should be ready, than when he is called for to depart out of this world he should not fear to die, saying these words with saint Ambrose. I fear not to die, because we have a good god, when a man hath prepared for his soul, and hath subdued sensuality, and that he hath brought himself in a trade, or a usage of a ghostly or a catholic living in observing the commandments of God, than he must study to rule and to govern them the which be in his household, or under his custody or dominion, to see that they be not idle, for king Henry the eight said when he was young, idleness is chief masters of vices all. And also the head of a house must over see that they the which be under his tuyssyon serve god the holy days as diligently, ye and more dylygentler than to do their work the feryall days, refraining them from vice and sin, compelling them to observe the commandments of God, specially to punish swearers, for in all the world there is not such odyble swearing as is used in England, specially among youth & children, which is a detestable thing to here it, and no man doth go about to punish it. Such things reform than may an howseholder be glad not ceasing to instruct them the which be ignorant, but also he must continue in showing good example of living, than may he rejoice in God and be merry, the which mirth & rejoicing doth lengthen a man's life, and doth expel sickness.   

¶ The eight chapter doth show how a man should order himself in sleeping and watching, and in wearing his apparel.  
When a man hath exercised himself in the day time as is rehearsed, he may sleep sound and surely in god what chance soever do fortune in the night. Moderate sleep is most praised for it doth make perfit digestion, it doth nourish the blood, and doth qualyfye the heat of the liver, it doth acuate, quicken, & refresheth the memory, it doth restore nature, and doth quiet all the humours & pulses in man, and doth animate, and doth comfort all the natural and animal and spiritual powers of man. And such moderate sleep is acceptable in the sight of God the premisses in the aforesaid chapter observed and kept. And contraryly immoderate sleep and sluggishness doth humecte and maketh light the brain, it doth engender rheum and impostumes, it is evil for the palsy whither it be universal or particular, it is evil for the falling sickness called Epilencia, Analencia, & Cathalencia, Appoplesia, Soda, with all other infirmities in the head, for it induceth and causeth oblyvyousnes, for it doth obfuske and doth obnebulate the memory and the quickness of wit. And shortly to conclude it doth perturb the natural, and animal, and spiritual powers of man. And specially it doth instygate and lead a man to sin, and doth induce and infer brevity of life, & detestably it displeaseth God. Our lord jesus christ did not only bid or command his disciples to watch, but did anymat them and all other so to do saying. I say not only to you watch, but to all men I say watch. And to Peter he said, mightest not thou one hour watch with me, although these holy scriptures with many other more the which I might allygate for me, although they be not greatly referred to this sense, yet it may stand here with my purpose & matter without reprehension. These matters here need not to be rehearsed, wherefore I do return to my purpose, and do say that the moderation of sleep should be measured according to the natural complexion of man, and in any wise to have a respect to the strength and the debility to age & youth, and to sickness & health of man. ¶ first as concerning the natural complexion of man, as sanguyne and choleric men vii hours is sufficient for them. And now considering the imbecyllyte and weakness of nature a flemytycke man may sleep ix hours or more. melancholy men may take their pleasure, for they be receptacle and the drags of all the other humours. ¶ Secondaryly youth and age would have temporance in sleeping. ¶ Thirdly strength may suffer a brount in watch, the which debility and weakness can not. As I will show by a familiar example. There were two men set at the dice together a day and a night & more, the week man said to him I can play no longer. The strong man said to him fie on the bench whystler wilt thou start away now. The week man to satisfy the strong man's mind, apꝓyted, & desire playeth with his fellow through the which he doth kill himself. The strong man doth himself little pleasure all things considered, the which I do pass over, wherefore I will return to the sick man, which may sleep at all times when that he may get it, but if he may sleep at any time best it is for him to refrain from sleep in the day, & to take his natural rest at night when all things is or should be at rest and peace, but he must do as his infirmity will permit and suffer. whole men of what age or complexion soever they be of should take their natural rest and sleep in the night, & to eschew merydyall sleep. But an need shall compel a man to sleep after his meat, let him make a pause, and than let him stand and lean and sleep against a cupboard, or else let him sit up right in a chair & sleep. Sleeping after a full stomach doth engender diverse infirmities, it doth hurt the splen, it relaxeth the sinews, it doth engender the dropsyes and the gout, and doth make a man look evil coloured. Beware of venerious acts before the first sleep, and specially beware of such things after dinner or after a full stomach, for it doth engender the cramp, the gout, and other displeasures. To bedward be you merry, or have merry company about you, so that to bedward no anger nor heaviness, sorrow nor pencyfulnes do trouble or disquiet you. To bedward and also in the morning use to have a fire in your chamber to waste and consume the evil vapours within the chamber, for the breath of man may putrefy the air within the chamber. I do advertise you not to stand nor to sit by the fire, but stand or sit a good way of from the fire taking the flavour of it, for fire doth aryfye & doth dry up a man's blood, and doth make stark the sinews & joints of man. In the night let the windows of your house, specially of your chamber be closed, when you be in your bed lie a little while on your left side, & sleep on your right side. And when you do wake of your first sleep make water if you feel your bladder charged, and than sleep on the left side, and look as oft as you do wake so oft turn yourself in the bed from the one side to the other. To sleep grovelling upon the stomach and belly is not good, whiles the stomach be slow and tarde of digestion, but better it is to lay your hand or your bedfelowes hand over your stomach, than to lie grovelling. To sleep on the back upright is utterly to be abhorred, when that you do sleep let not your neck neither your shoulders, neither your hands nor feet, nor no other place of your body lie bare undyscovered. Sleep not with an empty stomach, nor sleep not after that you have eaten meat one hour or two after. In your bead lie with your heed somewhat high, lest that the meat which is in your stomach thorough eructuations or some other cause ascend to the gryfe of the stomach Let your night cap be of scarlet, & this I do advertise you for to cause to be made a good thick quylt of cotton, or else of pure flocks or of clean woull, and let the covering of it be of white fustyan, and lay it on the feather beed that you do lie on, and in your bead lie not to hot nor cold, but in a temporance. Old ancient doctors of physic saith. viii. hours of sleep in Summer & ix hours of sleep in winter is sufficient for any man, but I do think that sleep aught to be taken as the complexion of man is, when you do rise in the morening, rise with mirth and remember God. Let your hosen be brusshed within and without, and flavour the inside of them against the fire, use linen socks or linen hosen next your legs, when you be out of your bed stretch forth your legs and arms and your body, cough and spit and than go to your stole to make your egestyon, and exonerate yourself at all times that nature would expel. For if you do make any restryction in keeping your egestion or your urine or ventosity, it may put you to displeasure in breeding divers infirmities. After you have evacuated your body, & trussed your points, kayme your head oft, and so do diverse times in the day. And wash your hands and wrists, your face and eyes and your teeth with cold water, & after that you be appareled walk in your garden or park a thousand pace or two, & than great and noble men doth use to here mass, & other men that can not do so but must apply their business, doth serve God with some prayers surrendering thanks to him for his many fold goodness, with asking mercy for their offences, & before you go to your refection moderately exercise your body with some labour or playing at the tennis, or casting a bowl, or paysing weights or plomettes of led in your hands or some other thing to open your poors, and to augment natural heat. At dinner & supper use not to drink of sundry drinks, & eat not of divers meats but feed of two or three dishes at the most. After that you have dined & supped labour not by and by after, but make a pause sitting or standing upright the space of an hour or more with some pastime, drink not much after dinner. At your supper use light meats of digestion, & refrain from gross meats, go not unto bed with a full nor empty stomach. And after your supper make a pause or you go to bed, and go to bed as I said with mirth. Furthermore as concerning your apparel in winter next your shirt use to were a petticoat of scarlet, your doubletuse at pleasure, but I do advertise you to line your jacket under this fashion or manner, by you fine skins of white lamb & black lamb, and let your skinner cut both the sortis of the skins in small pieces tryangle wise, like half a quarrel of a glaze window. And than sew together a white piece and a black like a hole quarrel of a glass window, & so sew up together quarrel wise as much as will line your jacket, this fur for wholesomeness is praised above sables or any other fur, your exteryall apparel use according to your honour. In summer use to were a scarlet petticoat made of stamele or lynsye wolsey. In winter and summer keep nor your head to hot nor bind it to straight, keep ever your neck warm. In summer keep your neck and face from the son, use to were gloves made of goote skins perfumed with amber degrece. And beware in standing or lying on the ground in the reflyxyon of the son, but be movable. If you shall common or talk with any man, stand not still in one place if it be on the bare ground, or grass, or stones, but be movable in such places, stand nor sit upon no stone nor stones, stand nor sit long bareheed under a vault of stone. Also beware that you do not lie in old chambres which be not occupied, specially such chambres as mice, rats, and snails resorteth unto, lie not in such chambres the which be deprived clean from the son & open air, nor lie in no low chamber except it be boarded. Beware that you take no cold on your feet and legs, and of all wether beware that you do not ride nor go in great and impyteous winds.   

¶ The ix chapter doth show that repletion or surfeiting doth moche harm to nature/ and that abstinence is the chefyst medyson of all medysons.  
GAlen declarying Hypocrates sentence upon eating to much meat saith. More meat than accordeth with nature is named repletion, or a surfeit. repletion or a surfeit is taken as well by gurgitations or to much drinking, as it is taken by epulation of eating of crude meat, or eating more meat than doth suffice or can be truly digested. Or else repletion or a surfyt is when the stomach is farced or stuffed, or repleted with to much drink & meat, that the liver which is the fire under the pot is subpressed that he can not naturally nor truly decoct, defy, ne digest the superabundaunce of meat & drink the which is in the pot or stomach, wherefore divers times these impediments doth follow, the tongue is deprived of his office to speak, the wits or senses be dull & obnebulated from reason. Sloth and sluggishness consequently followeth, the appetite is withdrawn. The head is light and doth ache, and full of fantasies, & divers times some be so sopytyd, that the malt worm playeth the devil so fast in the head, that all the world runneth round about on wheels, than both the pryncepall members & the official members doth fail of their strength, yet the pulsies be full of agility. Such repletion specially such gurgitations doth engender divers infirmities thorough the which brevity and shortness of life doth follow. For the wise man saith, that surfeits do kill many men, and temporance doth prolong the life. And also it is written Eccle. xx. xvii. That there doth die many more by surfeit, than there doth by the sword, for as I said surfeiting engendereth many infirmities, as the Idropyses, the gowtꝭ, lepored, sausfleme & pimples in the face, vehement impressions, ●ndygest humours, opilations, fevers, and putrefactions. And also it doth perturbate the head, the eyes, the tongue, and the stomach, with many other infirmities. For as Galen saith, over moche repletion or surfeing, causeth strangulation and sudden death, for as I said the stomach is so inferced, and the liver is so sore obpressed that natural heat and the poors be extincted, wherefore abstinence for this matter is the most best and the parfytest medysone that can be. And in no wise eat no meat unto the time the stomach be evacuated of all ill humours by vomit or other convenient ways, for else crude and raw humours undigested will multiply in the body to the detriment of man. Two meals a day is sufficient for a rest man, and a labourer may eat three times a day, & he that doth eat ofter liveth a beestly life. And he that doth eat more than ones in a day, I advertise him that the first refection or meal be digested or that he do eat the second refection or meal. For there is nothing more hurtful for man's body than to eat meat upon meat undigested. For the last refection or meal will let the digestion of the first refection or meal. Also sundry meats of divers operations eaten at one refection or meal is not laudable, nor it is not good to sit long at dinner and supper. An hour is sufficient to sit at dinner, and not so long at supper. England hath an evil use in sitting long at dinner and at supper. And english men hath an evil use, for at the beginning at dinner and supper he will feed on gross meats. And the best meats which be wholesome and nutratyve and lieth of digestion is kept for servants, for when the good meat doth come to the table thorough feeding upon gross meat, the appetite is extinct when the good meet doth come to the table, but man's mind is so avydous although he have eat enough when he seth better meat come before him against his appetite he will eat, whereupon doth come repletion and surfeits.   

¶ The ten chapter treateth of all manner of drinks, as of water, of wine, of ale, of bear, of cider, of mead, of metheglin, and of whey.  
WAter is one of the four Elementis, of the which diverse liquors or drinks for man's sustenance be made of, taking their original and substance of it, as ale, bear, mead, and metheglin▪ water is not wholesome sole by itself for an english man, considering the contrary usage, which is not concurraunt with nature, water is cold, slow, and slack of digestion. The best water is rain water so be it that it be clean and purely taken. Next to it is ronning water, the whithe doth swiftly run from the east in to the west upon stones or pybles. The third water to be praised is river or broke water, the which is clear ronning on pebbles and gravayl. Standing waters the which be refreshed with a fresh spring is commendable, but standing waters, and well waters, to the which the son hath no reflyxyon, although they be lighter than other ronning waters be, yet they be not so commendable. And let every man be ware of all waters the which be standing, and be putrified with froth, duckemet, and mud, for if they bake, or brew, or dress meat with it, it shall engender many infirmities. The water the which every man ought to dress his meat with all, or shall use baking, or bruing, let it be ronning, and put it in vessels that it may stand there ii or iii hours or it be occupied, than strain the upper part thorough a thick lynnyn cloth, and cast the inferyall part away. If any man do use to drink water with wine, let it be purely strained, and than seth it and after it be cold let him put it to his wine, but better it is to drink with wine stilled waters, specially the water of strawberes or the water of buglos or the water of endyne, or the water of cycory, or the waters of southystell, and daundelyon. And if any man be cumbered with the stone or doth burn in the pudibunde places, use to drink with white wine the water of haws, and the water of milk, look for this matter in a book of my making named the breviary of health.  

¶ Of wine.  
¶ All manner of wines be made of grapes, except respyse the which is made of a berry. Chose your wine after this sort, it must be fine, fair, & clear to the eye, it must be fragrant and redolent having a good odour and flavour in the nose, it must sprinkle in the cup when it is drawn or put out of the pot in to the cup, it must be cold & pleasant in the mouth, and it must be strong and subtle of substance: And than moderately drunken it doth acuate and doth quicken a man's wits, it doth comfort the heart, it doth scour the liver, specially if it be white win it doth rejoice all the powers of man, and doth now rysshe them, it doth engender good blood, it doth comfort and doth nourish the brain and all the body, and it resolveth phlegm, it engendereth heat, and it is good against heaviness and pencyfulnes, it is full of agility, wherefore it is medicinable, specially white wine, for it doth mundify and cleanse wounds & sores. Furthermore the better the wine is, the better humours it doth engender, wine must not be to new nor to old, but high wines as malmyse may be keep long. And because wine is full of fumosyte, it is good therefore to allay it with water. wines high and hot of operation doth comfort old men and women, but there is no wine good for children & maidens, for in high Almaigne there is no maid shall drink no wine, but still she shall drink water unto she be married, the usual drink there & in other high countries for youth is fountain water, for in every town is a fountain or a shallow well, to the which all people that be young & servants hath a confluence and a recourse to drink. Mean wines as wines of Gascony, french wines, & specially raynysshe wine that is fined is good with meat, specially claret wine. It is not good to drink neither wine nor ale before a man doth eat somewhat although there be old fantastical sayingis to the contrary. Also these hot wines as malmesye, wine course, wine greek, romanysk, romny, seek, alygaunt, bastard, tire, osay, Muscadel, caprycke, tint, roberdany, with other hot wines be not good to drink with meat, but after meat, & with oysters, with saledes, with fruit a draft or two may be suffered. Old men may drink as I said high wines at their pleasure. Furthermore all sweet wines and gross wines doth make a man fat.   

¶ Of ale.  
¶ Ale is made of malt and water, and they the which do put any other thing to ale then is rehearsed, except yeast, barm, or godesgood, doth sofystical their ale. Ale for an english man is a natural drink. Ale must have these properties, it must be fresh and clear, it must not be ropy nor smoky, nor it must have no waif nor tail. Ale should not be drunk under .v. days old. New ale is unwholesome for all men. And sour ale and dead ale the which doth stand a tilt is good for no man. Barley malt maketh better ale than oaten malt or any other corn doth, it doth engender gross humours, but yet it maketh a man strong.   

¶ Of bear.  
¶ Bear is made of malt, of hops, and water, it is a natural drink for a dutch man. And now of late days it is much used in England to the detriment of many english men, specially it killeth them the which be troubled with the colic and the stone & the strangulion, for the drink is a cold drink: yet it doth make a man fat, and doth inflate the belly, as it doth appear by the dutch men's faces & belies. If the bear be well served and be fined & not newi, t doth qualyfy the heat of the liver.   

¶ Of cider.  
¶ Cider is made of the juice of peers, or of the juice of apples, & other while cider is made of both, but the best cider is made of clean peers the which be dulcet, but the be'st is not praised in physic, for cider is cold of operation, and is full of ventosity, wherefore it doth engender evil humours, and doth suage to much the natural heat of man, & doth let digestion, and doth hurt the stomach, but they the which be used to it, if it be drunken in haruyst it doth little harm.   

¶ Of mead.  
¶ Meade is made of honey and water boiled both together, if it be fined and pure it preserveth health, but it is not good for them the which have the Ilyacke or the colic.   

¶ Of metheglin.  
¶ Metheglin is made of honey & water, and herbs boiled and sodden together, if it be fined and stolen, it is better in the regiment of health than mead.   

¶ Of whey.  
¶ whey if it be well ordered, specially thai whey the which doth come of butter, is a temperate drink and is moist, and it doth nourish, it doth cleanse the breast, and doth purge red colour, and good for sausfleme faces.   

¶ Of poset ale.  
¶ Poset ale is made with hot milk & cold ale, it is a temperate drink, and is good for a hot liver, and for hot fevers, specially if cold herbs be sudden in it.   

¶ Of coyte.  
¶ Coyte is a drink made of water, in the which is laid a sour and a salt levyn iii or four hours, them it is drunk, it is a usual drink in Pycardy, in flanders, in Holande, in Brabant, and Selande.  
¶ To speak of a ptysan, or of oxymel, or of aqua vite, or of hippocras, I do pass over at this time, for I do make mensyon of it in the breviary of health.    

¶ The xi chapter treateth of bread. ☜  
AVycen saith, that breed made of wheat maketh a man fat, specially when the bread is made of new wheat, and it doth set a man in temporance. Bread made of fine flower without leaven is slow of digestion, but it doth nourish moche if it be truly ordered and well baken, when the bread is leavened it is soon digested as some old Authors saith, but these days is proved the contrary by the stomach of men, for leaven is heavy and ponderous. Bread having to much brand in it is not laudable. In Rome and other high countries their loves of bread be little bigger than a walnot, and many little loves be joined together, the which doth serve for great men, and it is safferonde, I praise it not. I do love manchet bread, and great loves the which he well mowlded and thorough baken, the brand abstracted and abjected, and that is good for all ages. Mestling bread is made half of wheat and half of Rye. And there is also mestling made half of rye and half of barley. And ill people will put wheat and barley together, bread made of these aforesaid grain or corns, thus poched together may fill the gut, but it shall never do good to man, no more than horse bread or bread made of beans and peason shall do, howbeit this matter doth go moche by the education or the bringing up of the people, the which have been nourished or nutryfyde with such bread. I do speak now in barlyes or maltes part to be eaten and also drunken, I suppose it is to much for one grain, fox barley doth engender cold humours, and peason and beans, and the substance coming from them repletyth a man with ventosity, but and if a man have a lust or a sensual appetited to eat and drink of a grain bysyde malt or barley, let him eat and drink of it the which may be made of oats. For haver cakes in scotland is many a good lord and lords dish. And if it will make good haver cakes consequently it will do make good drink or evil, every thing as it is handled. For it is a common proverb, God may send a man good meat, but the devil may send an evil coke to dystrue it, wherefore gentle bakers sophystycate not your bread made of pure wheat, if you do where evil ale brewers and ale wives for their evil brewing & evil measure, should clack and ring their tankardes at dim myls dale, I would you should shake out the remnant of your sacks standing in the thames up to the hard chin and iii inches above, that when you do come out of the water you might shake your ears as a spaniel that verily cometh out of the water. gentle bakers make good bread, for good bread doth comfort, confirm, and doth stablish a man's heart, beside the properties rehearsed. Hot bread is unwholesome for any man, for it doth lie in the stomach like a sponge hausting undecoct humours, yet the smell of new bread is comfortable to the head and to the heart. ¶ Soden bread as symnels and crackenels, and bread baken upon a stone, or upon iron, and bread that saffron is in, is not laudable.  bread and hard crustꝭ, & pasty crusts, doth engender colour, adust, and melancholy humours, wherefore chyp the upper crust of your bread. And who so doth use to eat that second crust after meat, it maketh a man lean. And so doth wheten bread the which is full of brand. ¶ Bread the which is nutritive & praised in physic should have these properties. first it must be new, but a day & a night old, nor it is not good when it is past four or .v. days old, except the loves be great, nor it must not be moldy nor musty, it must be well moulded, it must be thorough bake, it must be light & not heavy, and it must be temporatly salted. Old bread or stolen bread doth dry up the blood, or natural moister of man, & it doth engender evil humours, and is evil and tarde of digestion, wherefore there is no surfeit so evil as the surfeit of eating of evil bread.   

¶ The twelve chapter treateth of pottage, of sew, of stewpottes, of gruel, of ferment, of pease pottage, of almond milk, of rice pottage, of caudles, of cullese, and of other broths.  
ALL manner of liquid things as pottage, sew, & all other broths doth replete a man that eateth them with ventosyte. Pottage is not so much used in all christendom as it is used in England. Pottage is made of the liquor in the which flesh is sudden in, with putting to chopped herbs, and otemel and salt. The herbs with the which pottage is made with all, if they be purc, good, and clean, not warm eaten, nor infected with the corrupt air descending upon them, doth comfort many men, the ventofyte notwithstanding. But for as much as divers times, many parts of England is infected with the pestilence, thorough the corruption of the air, the which doth infect the herbs. In such times it is not good to make any pottage, nor to eat no pottage. In certain placs beyond see where as I have travailed in, in the pestilence time a general commandment hath been sent from the superiority to the commonalte, that no man should eat herbs in such infeccyous times.  

¶ Of sew and stewpottes.  
¶ Sew and stewpottes, and gruel made with otmell, in all the which no herbs be put in, can do little displeasure, except that it doth replete a man with ventosity, but it relaxeth the belly.   

¶ Of ferment.  
¶ ferment is made of wheat and milk, in the which if flesh be sudden, to eat it is not commendable, for it is hard of digestion, but when it is digested it doth nourish, and it doth strength a man.   

¶ Of pease pottage & bean pottage.  
¶ Pease pottage and bean pottage doth replete a man with ventosity. Pease pottage is better than bean pottage, for it is sooner digested, & lesser of ventosity, they both be abstercyne and do cleanse the body. They be compytent of nutriment, but bean pottage doth increase gross humours.   

¶ Of almond milk & of rice pottage.  
¶ Almon milk and rice pottage, Almone be hot and moist, it doth comfort the breast and it doth mollify the belly, and provoketh urine. rice pottage made with almond milk doth restore and doth comfort nature.   

¶ Of ale brews, caudelles & colesses.  
¶ Ale brews, caudelles, and colesses for week men and feeble stomachs, the which can not eat solydate meat is sustered. But caudles made with hemp seed, and collesses made of shrimps doth comfort blood and nature.   

¶ Of honey sops and other broths.  
¶ Honey sops & other broths of what kind or substance soever they be made of, they doth engender ventosity, wherefore they be not good nor wholesome for the colic nor the Illycke, nor other inflatyve impediments or sicknesses, specially if honey be in it, the sayings of Plyne, Galene, Auycene, with other Authors notwithstanding, for in these days experience teacheth us contrary to their sayings & wrytyngis, for although the nature of man be not altered, yet it is weker, and nothing so strong now as when they lived. etc.    

¶ The xiij Chapitre treateth of whit meat, as of eggs, butter, cheese, milk, crayme. etc.  
IN England there is no eggs used to be eaten, but hen eggs: wherefore I will first write & pertract of hen eggs. The yolks of hen eggs be cordyalles, for it is temporatly hot. The white of an egg is viscus & cold and slack of digestion, and doth not engender good blood, wherefore whosoever that will eat an egg, let the egg be new, and roast him rear and eat him, or else poche him for poached eggs be best at night, & new rear roasted eggs be good in the morning so be it they be tired with a little salt and sugar, than they be nutryve. In Turkey and other high christian lands annexed to it, they use to seth two or three bushels of eggs together hard, and pull of the shells, & souse them, and keep them to eat at all times, but hard eggs be slow and slack of digestion, and doth nutryfye the body grossly. Roasted eggs be better than sodden, fried eggs be nought, Duck eggs & geese eggs I do not praise, but pheasant eggs and partreges eggs physic singularly doth praise.  

¶ Of butter.  
¶ Butter made of crayme, and is moist of operation, it is good to eat in the morning before other meats, French men will eat it after meat. But eaten with other meatis it doth not only nourish, but it is good for the breast and lungs, and also it relax and mollify the belly, douche men doth eat it at all times in the day, the which I did not praise when I did dwell among them/ considering that butter is unctyous, and every thing that is unctyous is noisome to the stomach for as much as it maketh lubryfactyon. And also every thing that is unctuous That is to say butteryshe, oil, grese, or fat doth swim above in the brinks of the stomach, as the fatness doth swim above in a boiling pot, the excess of such nawtacyon or superfyce will ascend to the oryse of the stomach, and doth make eructuasyons/ wherefore eating of moche butter at one refection is not commendable, nor it is nor good for them the which be in any ague or fever, for the ventuosyte of it doth auge and augment the heat of the liver, a little portion is good for every man in the morening if it be new made.   

¶ Of Cheese.  
¶ Cheese is made of milk, yet there is four sorts of cheese: which is to say, green cheese, soft cheese, hard cheese, and spermyse/ Grene cheese is not called green by the reason of colour, but for the newness of it/ for the whey is not half pressed out of it, and in operation it is cold and moist. Soft cheese not to new nor to old is best, for in operation it is hot and moist. Hard cheese is hot and dry and evil to digest. Spermyse is a cheese the which is made with curds and with the juice of herbs, to tell the nature of it I can not/ considering that every milk wife may put many juices of herbs of sundry operation & virtue, one not agreeing with another. But and if they did know what they did gomble together without true compounding, and I knowing the herbs, than I could tell the operation of spermyse cheese, yet beside these four natures of cheese, there is a cheese called a rewene cheese, the which if it be well ordered doth pass all other cheses none excess taken. But take the best cheese of all these rehearsed, if a latel do good and pleasure The overplus doth engender gross humours for it is hard of digestion, it maketh a man costyfe and it is not good for the stone. Cheese that is good ought not be to hard nor to soft, but betwixt both, it should not be tough nor bruttell, it ought not to be sweet nor sour, nor tart, nor to salt, nor to fresh, it must be of good savour & taledge, nor full of eyes nor mites, nor maggots/ yet in hyghalmen the cheese the which is full of magotes is called there the best cheese, and they will eat the great magotꝭ as fast as we do eat comfetꝭ.   

¶ Of Milk,  
Milk of a woman, and the milk of a goat is a good restorative, wherefore these mylkes be good for them that be in a consumption, and for the great temperance the which is in them it doth nourish moche.  
¶ cows milk and ewes milk, so it be the beasts be young and do go in good pasture, the milk is nutritive and doth humect and moisteth the members, and doth mundify and cleanse the entrails, and doth allevyat & mitigate the pain of the lungs & the breast but it is not good for them the which have gurgulations in the belly, nor it is not all the best for sanguine men/ but it is very good for melancholy men, & for old men and children specially if it be foddyn, adding to it a little sugar.   

¶ Of Crayme,  
¶ Crayme the which doth not stand long on the milk & soddyn with a little sugar is nowrysshing. clouted crayme and raw crayme put together, is eaten more for a sensual apetyde, than for any good nowrysshement. Raw crayme undecocted eaten with strawberries, or hurts is a rural man's banquet. I have known such banquets hath put men in jeopardy of their lives.   

¶ Almon butter.  
¶ Almon butter made with fine sugar and good rose water, and eaten with the flowers of many vyolettes, is a commendable dish, specially in lent when the vyoletꝭ be fragrant it rejoiceth the heart: it doth comfort the brain: & doth qualyfye the heat of the liver.   

¶ been butter.  
¶ been butter, is used moche in lent in divers countries, it is good for plowmen to fill the paunch, it doth engender gross humours, it doth replete a man with ventosity.    

¶ The xiiij chapter, treateth of fish.  
OF all nations & countries, England is best served of fish, not only of all manner of see fish, but also of fresh water fish, and of all manner of sorts of salt fish.  

¶ Of See fish.  
¶ fishes of the see the which have scales or many fins, be more wholesomer than the fresh water fish, the which be in standing waters. The elder a fish is so much he is the better, so be it that the fish be soft and not solydat, if the fish be fast and solydat the younger the fish is, the better it is to digest: but this is to understand, that if the fish be never so solydat it must have age/ but not overgrown: except it be a young porpesse the which kind of fish is neither praised in the old testament nor in physic.   

¶ Fresh water fish.  
¶ The fish the which is in rivers and brooks be more wholesomer, than they the which be in pools, ponds, or mootꝭ, or any other standing water, for they doth labour and doth scour themself. fish the which liveth & doth feed on the moved, or else do feed in the fen or morysshe ground doth saver of the moved which is not so good as the fish that fedyth and doth scour themself on the stones or gravel or sand.   

¶ Of Salt fish.  
¶ Salt fish the which be powdered and salted with salt, be not greatly to be praised specially if a man do make his hole refectyon with it the quality doth not hurt, but the quantity, specially such salt fishes as will cleave to the fingers when a man doth eat it And the skin of fishes be utterly to be abhorred, for it doth engender vyseus phlegm and colour adust. All manner of fish is cold of nature, and doth engender phlegm, it doth little nowrysshe/ fish and flesh ought not to be eaten together at one meal.    

¶ The xu Chapitre, treateth of wild fowl, and tame fowl birds.  
OF all wild foul, the pheasant is most best: Although that a partreche of all fowls is soon digested▪ wherefore it is a restorative meat, and doth comfort the brain and the stomach: & doth augment carnal lust. A wood cock is a meat of good temperance. quails & plovers and lapwynges doth nourish but little, for they doth engender melancholy humours, young turtle doves doth engender good blood. A crane is hard of digestion, and doth engender evil blood. A young herensew is lighter of digestion than a crane. A buzzard well killed and ordered is a nutritive meat A byttoure is not so hard of digestion as is an herensew. A shoveller is lighter of digestion than a byttoure, all these be noyful except they be well ordered and dressed. A pheasant hen. A more cock and a more hen except they be sutt abroad they be nutritive All manner of wild fowl the which liveth by the water they be of discommendable nowrysshement.  

¶ Of tame or domestical fowl.  
¶ Of all tame fowl a capon is most best. For it is nutritive and is soon digested. A hen in winter is good and nutritive. And so is a chyken in summer, specially cockrellies and polettes, the which be untrodden. The flesh of a cock is hard of digestion: but the broth or gely made of a cock is restorative, pygyons be good for choleric & melancholy men, goose flesh and duck flesh is not praised except it be a young green goose young peechyken of half a year of age be praised, old peacocks be hard of digestion.   

¶ Of Birds.  
¶ All manner of small Birds, be good and light of digestion, except sparrows which be hard of digestion, Tytmoses, colmoses and wrens, the which doth eat spiders and poison be not commendable, of all small birds the lark is best: than is praised the black bird & the thrush. Rasis and Isaac praiseth young staares, but I do think because they be bitter in eting, they should engender colour.    

¶ The xvi chapter, treateth of flesh, of wild and tame beasts.  
Beef is a good meat for an english man, so be it the be'st be young, & that it be not kowe flesh. For old beef and kowe flesh doth engender melancholy and leporouse humours: if it be moderately powdered that the groose blood by salt may be exhausted, it doth make an english man strong the education of him with it considered. Martylmas beef which is called hanged beef in the roof of the smoky house is not laudable, it may fill the belly and cause a man to drink, but it is evil for the stone, and evil of digestion and maketh no good juice. If a man have a peace hanging by his side and another in his belly, that the which doth hang by the side shall do him more good if a shower of rain do chance: than that the which is in his belly, the appetite of man's sensuality notwithstanding.  

¶ Of Veal.  
¶ Veal is nutritive meat: and doth nourish moche a man, for it is soon digested whereupon many men doth hold opinion that it is the best flesh and the most nutritive meat that can be for man's sustenance.   

¶ Of Mutton and lamb.  
¶ Mutton of Rasis and Aueroyes, is praised for a good meat, but Galen doth not laud it, and sewrely I do not love it considering that there is no be'st that is so soon infected: nor there doth happen so great murrain and sickness to any quadrupeded beast as doth fall to the sheep. This notwithstanding, if the sheep be brought up in a good pasture and fat and do not flavoure of the wool it is good for sick persons, for it doth engender good blood.  
¶ lambs flesh is moist and flumatycke wherefore it is not all the best for old men, except they be melancholy of complexion, it is not good for phlegmatic men to feed to much of it doth hurt.   

¶ Of Pork brown, bacon, & pig.  
¶ where as Galen with other ancient and approbat doctors doth praise pork I dare not say the contrary against them, but this I am sure of, I did never love it: And in holy scripture it is not praised, for a swine is an unclean be'st and doth lie upon filthy & stinking soils, and with stercorus matter divers times doth feed in England, yet in Hyghalmen and other high countries except (spain & other countries annexed to spain) doth keep their swine clean, and doth cause them once or twice a day to swim in great rivers, like the water of Ryne, which is above Coleyne, but spaynyerdes with the other regions annexed to them, keep the swine more fylthyer than englysse persons doth. Further more the jeve, the Sarason, the Turks, concerning their polytycke wit and lerening in physic, hath as much wit, wisdom, reason, and knowledge for the savyte of their body: as any christian man hath, and noble physicians, I have known amongs them: yet they all lacked grace, for as much as they do not know or knowledge jesus christ, as the holy scripture telleth us and them. They loveth not pork nor swines flesh, but doth vituperat & abhor it, yet for all this they will rate adders, which is a kind of serpents, as well as any other christian man dwelling in Rome, & other high countries, for adders flesh there is called fish of the mountain This notwithstanding physic doth approbat adders flesh good to be eaten, saying it doth make an old man young, as it appeareth by a heart eating an adder maketh him young again. But pork doth not so, for if it be of an old hog not clean kept it doth engender gross blood, & doth humect to much the stomach, yet if the pork be young it is nutritive.  
¶ Bacon is good for carters and plowmen, the which be ever labouring in the earth or dung, but & if they have the stone and use to eat it they shall sing woe be the pie: wherefore I do say that coloppes and eggs, is as wholesome for them: as a tallow candle is good for a horse mouth, or a piece of powdered beef is good for a blereyed mare, yet sensual appetite must have a swing, all these things withanding, pork is convertible to man's flesh.   

¶ Of Brawn.  
¶ Brawn is an usual meat in winter amongs english men, it is hard of digestion the brawn of a wild boor, is moche more better than the brawn of a tame boor, if a man eat neither of them both it shall never do him harm.   

¶ Of pigs.  
¶ pigs specially sow pigs is nutryttyve and made in a gelye, it is restorative so be it the pig be fleed the skin taken of, and than stewed with restoratyves, as a cock is stewed to make a gely. A young fat pig in physic is singularly praised if it be well ordered in the roasting, the skin not eaten.   

¶ Of kid.  
¶ young kids flesh is praised above all other flesh, as Avicen, Rasis, & Aueroyes saith, for it is temperate and nutritive although it be somewhat dry. Old kid is not praised.   

¶ Of wild beasts flesh.  
¶ I have gone round about christendom and overthwart christendom, & a thousand or two and more miles out of christendom, yet there is not so much pleasure for heart & hind, buck, and do: and for roo buck and do, as is in England, & although the flesh be dispraised in physic/ I pray god to send me part of the flesh to eat physic not withstanding. The opinion of all old physicians was & is that venison is not good to eat pryncipaylly for two cause, the first cause is that the be'st doth live in fere: for if he be a good wood man, he shall never see no kind of dear, but at the ten bit on the grass, or brosing on the tree, but he will lift up his head & look about him, the which cometh of tymorysnes, and tymorosyte doth bring in melancholy humours. wherefore all Phyonsuchons saith that venison which is the second cause doth engender choleric humours & of truth it doth so: wherefore let them take the skin and let me have the flesh, I am sure it is a lords dish, and I am sure it is good for an english man, for it doth animate him to be as he is: which is strong and hardy/ but I do advertise every man for all my words not to kill and so to eat of it except it be leefully, for it is a meat for great men. And great men do not set so much by the meat as they do by the pastime of killing of it.   

¶ Of Hare's flesh.  
¶ A hare doth no harm nor displeasure to no man, if the flesh be not eaten, it maketh a gentleman good pastime. And better it is for the houndꝭ or dogs to eat the hare after they have killed it, as I said than man should eat it: for it is not praised neither in the old Testament neither in physic, for the bible saith the hare is an unclean beast. And physic sayeth hare's flesh is dry and doth engender melancholy humours.   

¶ Of Conies flesh.  
¶ Conies flesh is good, but rabettes flesh is best of all wild beasts/ for it is temperate and doth nourish, and singularly praised in physic, for all things the which doth suck is nutritive.    

¶ The xvij chapter, doth treat of particular things, of fish and flesh.  
THe heads of fish, and the fatness of fish specially of Salmon and Conger is not good for them the which be disposed to have rewmatycke heads. And the heads of lampryes, & lamprons, & the string the which is within them, is not good to eat refrain from eating of the kins of fish, and flesh & bornet meat, and brown meat, for it doth engender viscus humours, and colour & melancholy. And doth make opilations. The brains of any be'st is not laudable, except the brain of a kid, for it is evil of digestion and doth hurt a man's appetite and the stomach, for it is cold and moist, and viscus a hot stomach may eat it, but it doth engender gross humours. The brain of a woodcock and of a snype and such like is commestyble. The forepart of all manner of beasts & fowls be more hotter and lighter of digesty on, than the hinder parts be. The mary of all beasts is hot and moist, it is nutritive if it be well digested, yet it doth mollify the stomach, and doth take away a man's appetite. wherefore let a man eat pepper with it. The blood of all beasts & fowls is not pray fed, for it is hard of digestion. All the inwardis of beasts and of fowls, as the heart the liver the lungs, and tripes, and trylybubbes: with all the entrails is hard of digestion, and doth increase gross humours. The fatness of flesh is not so much nutritive as the leenes of flesh, it is best when leene and fat is mixed one with another. The tongues of beasts be hard of digestion and of little nowrysshement. The stones of a cockerel, & the stones of other beasts that hath not done their kind be nutritive.   

¶ The xviij Chapitre, treateth of roast meat, of fried meat and of bake meat.  
WIth us at Mount pylour, and other universities is used boiled meat at dinner, and roast meat to supper: why they should do so I can not tell unless it be for a consuetude. For boiled meat is lighter of digestion than roasted meat is. Bruled meat is hard of digestion, & evil for the stone. Fried meat is harder of dygeston than broiled meat is, and it doth engender colour and melancholy: Bake meat which is called flesh that is buried, for it is buried in past, is not praised in physic. All manner of flesh the which is inclined to humydyte should be roasted. And all flesh the which is inclined to dryness should be sodde or boiled. ¶ fish may be sod, roasted, broiled & baken, every one after their kind, and use & fashion of the country, as the coke and the physician will agree and devise. For a good coke is half a physician. For the chief physic (the council of a physician except) doth come from the kitchen, wherefore the physician and the coke for sick men must consult together for the preparation of meat for sick men. For if the physician without the coke prepare any meat except he be very expert, he will make a werysse dish of meat, the which the sick can not take.   

¶ The xix Chapitre, treateth of Roots and first of the roots borage, and of bugloss.  
THe roots of Borage and bugloss sudden tender and made in a succade, doth engender good blood, and doth set a man in atemporaunce.  

¶ The roots of Alysaunder and Enulacampana.  
¶ The roots of Alysaunder sudden tender, and made in succade is good for to destroy the stone in the reins of the back & bladder The roots of Enulacampana sudden tender and made in a succade is good for the breast, and for the lungs, and for all the interyall members of man.   

¶ The roots of percelly, & of fennel.  
¶ The Roots of percelly sudden tender and made in a succade is good for the stone, and doth make a man to piss. The roots of Fenell sudden tender & made in a succade is good for the lungs and for the sight.   

¶ The roots of turnepes & persnepes.  
¶ Turnepes boiled and eaten with flesh, augmentyth the seed of man, if they be eaten raw moderately, it doth provoke a good apetyde. Persnepes sudden & eaten doth increase nature, they be nutritive, & doth expel urine   

¶ Radysshe roots, and Caretes.  
¶ Radysshe roots doth break wind & doth provoke a man to make water, but they be not good for them the which hath the gout. Caretes sudden and eaten doth auge & increase nature & doth cause a man to make water.   

¶ The roots of Rapes.  
¶ Rape roots if they be well boiled they do nourish, if they be moderately eaten, immoderately eaten they doth engender ventosity, and doth annoy the stomach.   

¶ Of Onions.  
¶ Onions doth provoke a man to venerious acts, and to sompuolence, & if a man drink sundry drinks it doth rectyfy and reform the varyete of the operation of them: they maketh a man's apetyde good, and putteth away fastydyousnes.   

¶ Of Leeks.  
¶ Leeks doth open the breast, and doth provoke a man to make water, but they doth make and increase evil blood.   

¶ Of Garlic.  
¶ Garlic of all roots is used & most praised in Lombardy, and other countries annexed to it, for it doth open the breast, & it doth kill all manner of worms in a man's belly, which be to say, lumbrici, ascarides, and cucurbitini which is to say long worms, small little long worms which will tykle in the fundament, and square worms: it also hetyth the body and desoluyth gross winds.    

¶ The twenty Chapitre, treateth of usual Herbs. And first of Borage, and bugloss.  
BOrage doth comfort the heart, and doth engender good blood, and causeth a man to be merry, & doth set a man in temporance. And so doth bugloss for he is taken of more vygor & strength & efficacy.  

¶ Of Artochockes, and Rokat.  
¶ There is nothing used to be eaten of Artochockes but the head of them, when they be almost ripe they must be sudden tender in the broth of heef, & after eat them at dinner, they doth increase nature, and doth provoke a man to beneryous acts. Rokat doth increase the seed of man, and doth stumulat the flesh, and doth help to digestion.   

¶ Of Cykory, and endive.  
¶ Cykory doth keep the stomach and the heed in temporance, and doth qualyfy colour. endive is good for them the which have hoot stomachs and dry.   

¶ Of white Beets, and Purslane.  
¶ white Beets be good for the liver, & for the spleen, and be abstersive. Purslane doth extinct the ardour of lassyvyousnes, and doth mitigate great heat in all the inward parts of man.   

¶ Of Time, and Parsley.  
¶ Time breaketh the stone, it doth dissolve winds. And causeth a man to make water. Parsley is good to break the stone, and causeth a man to piss, it is good for the stomach, & doth cause a man to have a sweet breath.   

¶ Of lettuce, and Sorrel.  
lettuce doth extinct venerious acts, yet it doth increase milk in a woman's breast, it is good for a hot stomach, and doth provoke sleep, and doth increase blood, and doth set the blood in a temporance. Sorrel is good for a hot liver, and good for the stomach.   

¶ Of Penyryall, and Isope.  
¶ Penyryall doth purge melancholy, and doth comfort the stomach & the spirits of man. Isope cleanseth viscus phlegm, & is good for the breast and for the lungs.   

¶ Of Roosmary, and Roses.  
¶ Roosmary is good for palses, and for the falling sickness, and for the cough, and good against cold. Roses be a cordial and doth comfort the heart & the brain.   

¶ Of Fenell, and any.  
¶ These herbs be seldom used, but their sedes be greatly occupied. Fenell sede is used to break wind, and good against poison. any seed is good to cleanse the bladder, and the reins of the back: & doth provoke urine and maketh one to have a soot breath.   

¶ Of Sawge, and Mandragod.  
¶ Sawge is good to help a woman to conceive, and doth provoke urine. Mandragor doth help a woman to conception, and doth provoke a man to sleep.   

¶ Of all herbs in general.  
¶ There is no Herb, nor weed, but god have given virtue to them, to help man. But for as much, as Plyne, Macer, and Diascorides with many other old ancient and approbat Doctors hath written and pertracted of their virtues, I therefore now will write no further of herbs, but will speak of other matters that shallbe more necessary.    

¶ The xxi Chapitre, treateth of fruits, and first of figs.  
AVicen saith that figs doth nourish more than any other Fruit, they doth nourish marvelously, when they be eaten with blanched Almonds. They be also good roasted, & stewed. They do cleanse the breast & the lungs, & they do open the opilations of the liver & the spleen. They doth steer a man to venerious acts, for they doth auge and increase the seed of generation. And also they doth provoke a man to sweat: wherefore they doth engender lice.  

¶ Of great raisins.  
¶ Great raisins be nutritive specially if the stones be pulled out. And they doth make the stomach firm & stable. And they doth provoke a man to have a good appetite, if a few of them be eaten before meat.   

¶ Of small raisins of Corans.  
¶ small raisins of Corans, be good for the reins of the back, and they doth provoke urine. Howbeit they be not all the best for the spleen, for they maketh opilation.   

¶ Of Grapes.  
¶ Grapes sweet and new, be nutritive, & and doth stumulat the flesh. And they doth comfort the stomach and the liver, and doth avoid opilations. Howbeit, it doth replete the stomach with ventosity.   

¶ Of peaches, of Meddlers, & Ceruyces.  
¶ peaches doth mollify the belly and be cold, Meddlers taken superfluous doth engender melancholy. And Ceruyces be in manner of like operation.   

¶ Of Strawburyes, cherries, & hurts.  
¶ Strawburyes, be praised above all buries for they do qualyfye the heat of the liver, & doth engender good blood eaten with sugar. cherries doth mollify the belly and be cold. Hurts be of a groser substance. wherefore they be not for them the which be of a clean diet.   

¶ Of Nuts great and small.  
¶ The walnut & the banocke be of one operation. They be tarde and slow of digestion, yet they doth comfort the brain if the pith or skin be pilled of, and than they be nutritive. filberts be better than hazel Nuts: if they be new and taken from the tree, and the skin or the pith pulled of, they be nutritive, & doth increase fatness, if they be old they should be eaten with great raises. But new nuts be far better than old nuts, for old nuts be choleric, and they be cuyl for the head and evil for old men. And they doth engender the palsy to the tongue, yet they be good against venom. And immoderately taken or eaten doth engender corruptions, as biles blains & such putryfaction.   

¶ Of Peason, and beans.  
¶ Peason the which be young be nutritive Howbeit they doth replete a man with ventosity. Beans be not so much to be praised as peason, for they be full of ventosity although the skins or husks be ablated or cast away, yet they be a strong meat, and doth provoke venerious acts.   

¶ Of Pears, and Appulles.  
¶ Pears the which be mellow and doulce & not stony doth increase fatness engendering waterysshe blood. And they be full of ventosity. But wardens roasted stewed, or baken be nutrytyne, and doth comfort the stomach specially if they be eaten with comfettes. Apples be good after a frost have taken them or when they be old, specially red apples, and they the which be of good odor & mellow, they should be eaten with sugar or confettes, or with fennel seed, or any seed because of their ventosity, they doth comfort than the stomach and doth make good digestion, specially if they be roasted or baken.   

¶ Of Pomegranates, & quinces.  
¶ Pomegranates be nutritive, and good for the stomach. Quinces baken the core pulled out doth mollify the belly, and doth help digestion, and doth preserve a man from dronkenshyppe.   

¶ Of Daates, and Mylons'.  
¶ Daates moderately eaten be nutritive but they doth cause opilations of the liver and of the spleen. Mylons' doth engender evil humours.   

¶ Of gourds, of Cucubres, & pepones.  
¶ Gourds be evil of nowrysshement, Cucumbers, restraineth veneryousnes or lassyvyousnes, or luxuryousnes. Pepones be in manner of like operation: but the pepones engendering evil humours.   

¶ Of Almonds, and Chefteyns.  
¶ Almonds causeth a man to piss: they do mollify the belly, and doth purge the lungs. And vi or vii eat before meat preserveth a man from dronkenshyp. Chesteynes doth nourish the body strongly, & doth make a man fat, if they be thorough roasted and the husks abjected, yet they doth replete a man with ventosyte or wind.   

¶ Of Prunes, and Damysens.  
¶ Prunes be not greatly praised, but in the way of medysyne, for they be cold & moist. And Damysens be of the said nature: for the one is old and dried, and the other be taken from the tree vi or vii damysens eaten before dinner be good to provoke a man's appetite, they doth mollify the belly and be abstersyves the skin and the stones must be ablated and cast away and not used.   

¶ Of olives, and Capers.  
¶ olives condyted, and eaten at the beginning of refectyon doth corroborate the stomach and provoketh appetyde. Capers doth purge phlegm, and doth make a man to have an appetite.   

¶ Of Oranges.  
¶ Oranges doth make a man to have a good appetite, and so doth the rinds, if they be in succade, & they doth comfort the stomach, the juice is a good sauce and doth provoke an appetite.    

¶ The xxij Chapitre, treateth of spices, and first of Gynger.  
Gynger doth heat the stomach and helpyth digestion, grenegynger eaten in the moreninge fasting doth acuat and quicken the remembrance.  

¶ Of Pepper.  
¶ There be iii sundry kyndis of pepper, which be to say white Pepper, black Pepper, & long Pepper. All kinds of peppers to heat the body and doth dissolve phlegm & wind & doth help digestion, and maketh a man to make water. Black pepper doth make a man lean.   

¶ Of Cloves, and Mace.  
¶ Cloves doth comfort the sinews, & doth dysolue, and doth consume superfluous humours, restoryth nature. Maces is a cordial and doth help the colic: & is good against the bloody flix and laxes.   

¶ Of Grains, and Safferon.  
¶ Grains be good for the stomach and the head. And be good for women to drink. Safferon doth comfort the heart & the stomach but he is to hot for the liver.   

¶ Of Nutmeges, & Cynomome.  
¶ Nutmeges be good for them the which have cold in their head, and doth comfort the sight and the brain & the mouth of the stomach, & is good for the spleen. Cynomome is a cordial, wherefore the Hebrecyon doth say why doth a man die & can get Cynomome to eat: yet it doth stop & is good to restrain fluxes or laxes.   

¶ Of Lyqueryce.  
¶ Lyqueryce is good to cleanse and to open the lungs & the breast, & doth lose phlegm.    

¶ The xxiij chapter, showeth a diet for sanguine men.  
sanguine men behoote and moist of complexion, wherefore they must be circumspect in eating of their meat, considering that the purer the complexon is, the sooner it may be corrupted, & the blood may be the sooner infected/ wherefore they must abstain to eat inordinately fruits and herbs and roots, as garlic onions and leeks, they must refrain from eating of old flesh, and eschew the usage of eating of the brains of beasts: & from eating the udders of keyn. They must use moderate sleep, and moderate diet or else they will be to fat and gross. fish of muddy waters be not good for them. And if blood do abound cleanse it with stufes, or by fleubothomye,   

¶ The xxiiij chapter showeth a diet for phlegmatic men.  
phlegmatic men be cold and moist: wherefore they must abstain from meats, the which is cold. And also they must refrain from eating viscus meat, specially from all meats the which doth engender fleumatycke humours, as fish, fruit, and white meat. Also to eschew the usage of eating of crude herbs special to refrain from me ate the which is hard and slow of digestion: as it appeareth in the properties of meats above rehearsed. And to beware not to dwell nigh to waterysshe and morysshe ground. These things be good for fleumatycke persons moderately taken, onions, garlic, pepper, ginger. And all meats the which be hot and dry. And sauces the which be sour. These things following doth purge phlegm polypody, netyll, elder, agarycke, yreos, maiden here, and stechados.   

¶ The xxv Chapitre, showeth a diet for choleric men.  
Colour is hot and dry wherefore Coloryke men must abstain from eating hot spices, and to refrain from drinking of wine, and eating of Colorycke meat: howbeit Colorycke men may eat groser meat than any other of complexions, except their education have been to the contrary. Colorycke men should not be long fasting. These things following do purge colour: Fumytory Centory, wormwood, wild hops vyoletes, Mercury, Manna, Reuberbe, Eupatory, tamarinds, & the whey of butter.   

¶ The xxvi Chapitre treateth of a dyetarye, for Melancholy men.  
melancholy is cold & dry, wherefore Melancholy men must refrain from fried me ate, and meat the which is over salt. And from meat that is sour & hard of digestion, and from all meat the which is burnet and dry. They must abstain from immoderate thirst, and from drinking of hot wines, and gross wine as red wine And use these things Cow milk, Almon milk, yolks of rear eggs. Boiled meat is better for Melancholy men than roasted meat All meat the which willbe soon digested, & all meats the which doth engender good blood. And meats the which be temperately hot be good for Melancholy men. And so be all herbs the which be hot and moist. These things following doth purge Melancholy, quyckbeme, Seen, stechados, hartystounge, maiden here, pulyall mountane, borage, organum, sugar, and white wine.   

¶ The xxvij Chapter, treatyth of a diet, and of an order to be used in the pestiferous time of the pestilence & sweating sickness.  
When the Plagues of the Pestilence, or the sweating sickness is in a town, or country, with us at Mountpylour, and all other high regions and countries that I have dwelled in, the people doth i'll from the contagious and infectious air preservatives with other council of physic notwithstanding. In lower and other baase countries, houses the which be infected in town or city, be closed up both doors & windows: & the inhabitors shall not come a broad, neither to church: nor to market, nor to any house or company, for infecting other the which be clean without infection. A man can not be to ware: nor can not keep himself to well from this sickness, for it is so vehement and so parlous, that the sickness is taken with the savour of a man's clothes the which hath visited the infectious house, for the infection will lie and hang long in clothes And I have known that when the straw & rushes hath been cast out of a house infected the hogs the which did lie in it, died of the pestilence: wherefore in such infectious time it is good for every man that will not fly from the courageous air to use daily, specially in the morning and evening to burn juniper, or Rosemary, or rushes, or Gay leaves, or Maierome, or Franckence, bengavyn. Or else make this powder. Take of storax calamity half an ounce, of frankincense an ounce, of the wood of Aloes, the weight of vi d. mix all these together. Than cast half a spoonful of this in a chaffyngdysshe of coals. And set it to fume abroad in the chambers, & the hall, and other houses. And you will put to this powder a little Lapdanum: it is so moche the better. Or else make a pomemaunder under this manner. Take of Lapdanum iii drams, of the wood of Aloes one dram, of amber of grease ii drams, and a half, of nutmegs, of storax calamity of each a dram and a half, confect all these together with Rose water & make a ball. And this aforesaid Pomemaunder doth not only expel courageous air, but also it doth comfort the brain, as Barthelmew of Montagnave saith, & other modernall doctors doth affirm the same: who so ever that is infected with the pestilence/ let him look in my brevyary of health for a remedy. But let him use this diet, let the Chamber be kept close. And keep a continual fire in the Chamber of clear burning wood, or char coal without smoke, beware of taking any cold, use temporat meats and drink, and beware of wine, bear, & cider, use to eat stewed or baken wardens if they can begotten if not eat stewed or baken peers with comfettes, use no gross meats, but those the which be light of digestion.   

¶ The xxviij Chapitre, showeth of a diet, the which be in any Fever or ague.  
I Do advertise every man that hath a Fever: or an ague, not to eat no meat vi hours before his course doth take him. And in no wise as long as the Ague doth induce, to put of shertte nor dowblet, nor to rise out of the bed, but when need shall require and in any wise not to go, nor to take any open air. For such provision may be had that at uttermost at the third course he shall be delivered of the Fever using the medsynes the which be in the breviary of health. And let every man beware of casting their hands & arms at any time out of the bed, in or out of their agony, or to sprawl with the legs out of the bed, good it is for the space of iii courses to wear contynewelly gloves, and not to wash the hands. And to use such a diet in meat & drink as is rehearsed in the pestilence.   

¶ The xxix Cpapitre, treateth of a diet for them, the which have the Iliacke, or the colyck, & the stone.  
THe Iliacke and the colic be engendered of ventosity, the which is intrused, or enclosed in two guts, the one is called Ilia. And the other is called Colon. For these two infirmities a man must beware of cold. And good it is not to be long fasting. And necessary it is to be laxative and not in no wise to be constupat. And these things following be not good for them the which have these aforesaid infyrmytꝭ, new bred, stolen bred, nor new ale. They must abstain also from drinking of beer, of cider, and red wine, and cinnamon Also refrain from all meats that honey is in eschew eating of cold herbs, use not to eat beans, peson, nor pottage, beware of the usage of fruits. And of all things the which doth engender wind. For the stone abstain from drinking of new ale, beware of beer, and of red wine, and hot wines, refrain from eating of red hearing, matylmas beef and bacon, and salt fish, and salt meats. And beware of going cold about the middle specially about the reins of the back. And make no restryctyon, of wind and water: nor siege that nature would expelle.   

¶ The xxx Chapitre, treateth of a diet for them the which have any kinds of the gout.  
THey the which be infected with the gout, or any kind of it, I do advertise them not to sit long bolling and bybbing dicing and carding, in forgetting themself to exonerat the bladder and the belly when need shall require, and also to beware that the legs hang not without some stay nor that the bootꝭ or shoes be not over straight, who soever hath the gout must refrain from drinking of new ale, and let him abstain from drinking of beer and red wine, Also he must not eat new breed, eggs, fresh salmon, eyes, fresh hearing, pylcherdꝭ, oysters: and all shell fish. Also he must eschew the eating of fresh beef, of goose, of duck, & of pygyons. Beware of taking cold in the leg, or riding, or going wet-shod. Beware of venerious actis after refection, or after or upon a full stomach. And refrain from all things that doth engender evil humours and be inflatyve.   

¶ The, xxxi. chapter, treateth of a diet for them the which have any of the kinds of lypored.  
HE that is infected, with any of the four kinds of the lepored must refrain from all manner of wines, & from new drinks, and strong ale, than let him beware of riot and surfeiting. And let him abstain from eting of spices, and daates, and from tripes & podynges, and all inwards of beasts. fish and eggs, & milk is not good for leprous persons: and they must abstain from eating of fresh beef, and from eating of goose, duck and from water fowl and pigeons. And in no wise eat no venison, nor hare flesh and such like.   

¶ The xxxii Thapytre, treateth of a diet for them, the which have any of the kinds of the falling sickness.  
WHo so ever he be, the which have any of the kinds of the falling sickness must abstain from eating of white meat, specially of milk he must refrain from drinking of wine, new ale, and strong ale. Also they should not eat the fatness of fish, nor the heads of fish, the which doth engender rheum. Shell fish, eyes, salmon, hearing, & viscus fishes be not good for Epilentycke men. Also they must refrain from eating of garlic, onions, leeks, chybbolles, and all vaperous meats, the which doth hurt the head: venison, hare flesh, beef, beans, and peason be not good for Epilentycke men. And if they know that they be infected with this great sickness, they should not resort where there is great resort of company, which is in church in sessions and market places on market days, if they do the sickness will infest them more there, than in any other place, or at any other time They must beware they do not sit to nigh the fire, for the fire will overcome them, and will induce the sickness. They must beware of lying hot in their bed, or to labour extremely, for such things causeth the grief to come the ofter.   

¶ The xxxiij chapter, treateth, of a diet, the which have any pain in the head.  
MAny sickness, or infirmities and impediments may be in a man's head▪ wherefore who so ever have any impediment in the head must not keep the head to hot, nor to cold, but in a temporance. And to beware of engendering of rheum, which is the cause of many infirmities. There is nothing that doth engender rheum so much as doth the fatness of fish and the heads of fish, and surfestes, & taking cold in the feet: and taking cold in the nape of the neck or head. Also they the which have any infirmity in the head must refrain of immoderate sleep specially after meat Also they must abstain from drinking of wine, and use not to drink ale and beer the which is over strong: vociferation hallowing, crying, and high singing is not good for the head. All things the which is vaporous or doth fume, is not good for the head. And all things the which is of evil savour as caryn, synkes, wyddrawghtes, piss bowls snoffe of candles, dunghylles, stinking canellies, and stinking standing waters, & stinking marshes, with such courageous airs doth hurt the head and the brain, and the memory. All odiferous savours be good for the head and the brain and the memory.   

¶ The xxxiiij Chapitre, treateth of a diet for them the which be in a consumption.  
WHo soever he be that is in a consumption must abstain from all sour and tart things as vinegar & alceger, & such like. And also he must abstain from eating of gross meats the which be hard and slow of digestion. And use cordyallies and restoratyves and nutritive meats. All meats and drinks the which is sweet & that sugar is in be nutritive▪ wherefore sweet wines be good for them the which be in consumption moderately taken. And sour wine, sour ale, and sour breed is good for no man. For it doth fret away nature, and let them beware that be in consumption of fried meat, of bruled meat, and brunt meat the which is over roasted. And in any wise let them beware of anger & pencyfulnes. These things following be good for them the which be in consumptions a pig or a cock stewed and made in a gely, cockrellies stewed, gootis milk and sugar, almond milk in the which rice is sudden, and rabbetes stewed. etc.   

¶ The xxxv Chapitre treateth of a diet for them the which be asmatyke men, being short winded or lacking breath.  
Shortness of wind cometh divers times, of impedymentꝭ in the lungs, and straightness of the breast opylatyd thorough viscus phlegm: and other while when the head is stuffed with rheum called the pose letteth the breath of his natural course. wherefore he that hath shortness of breath: must abstain from eating of nuts specially if they be old: cheese and milk is not good for them, no more is fish and fevyte, and raw or crude herbs. Also all manner of meat, the which is hard of digestion is not good for them. They must refrain from eating of fish specially from eating fish the which will cleave to the fingers: & be viscus & slime & in any wise beware of the skins of fish & of all manner of meat the which doth engender phlegm. Also they must beware of cold. And when any house is a sweping to go out of the house for a space in to a clean air The dust also that riseth in the street thorough the vehemens of the wind or otherwise, is not good for them. And smoke is evil for them, and so is all thing that is stopping. wherefore necessary it is for them to be laxative.   

¶ The xxxvi Cpapitre, treateth of a diet for them, the which have the palsy.  
THey the which have the palsy, universal, or particular must beware of anger, hastiness, and testynes, & must beware of fear, for thorough anger or fear divers times the palsy do come to a man. Also they must beware of drokennes, and eating of nuts, which things be evil for the palsy of the tongue, coldness and courageous, and stinking filthy airs be evil for the palsy. And let every man beware on lying upon the bare ground or upon the bare stones, for it is evil for the palsy, the savour of Castory, & the savour of a fox is good against the palsy.   

¶ The xxxvij Chapitre, doth show an order and a diet for them the which be mad, and out of their wit.  
THere is no man the which have any of the kinds of madness: but they ought to be kept in safeguard for divers in convenience that may fall, as it appeared of late days of a lunatycke man named Mychell, the which went many years at liberty, & at last he did kill his wife and his wife's sister, & his own self. wherefore I do advertise every man the which is mad, or lunatycke or frantycke, or demonyacke to be kept in safeguard, in some close house or chamber, where there is little light. And that he have a keeper the which the mad man do fear. And see that the mad man have no knife nor shears nor other edge toll, nor that he have no girdle except it be a week list of cloth, for hurting or killing himself. Also the chamber or the house that the mad man is in, let there be no painted clothes, nor painted wallys, nor pictures of man nor woman or fowl or be'st: for such things maketh them full of fantasies, let the mad persons head be shaven once a month: let them drink no wine nor strong ale, nor strong beer, but moderate drink, and let them have iii times in a day warm suppings, and little warm meat. And use few words to them, except it be for reprehension, or gentle reformation if they have any wit or perseverance to understand.   

¶ The xxxviij chapter, treateth of a diet for them the which have any of the kinds of the Idropyses.  
Saint Beede sayeth the more a man doth drink that hath the Idropise, the more he is a thirst, for although the sickness doth come by superabundaunce of water, yet the liver is dry. whether it be alchytes Iposarca, Lencoflegmancia, or the tympany. They that hath any of the four kinds of the Idropyses must refrain from all things the which be constupate and costive, and use all things the which be laxative/ nuts and dry almonds and hard cheese is poison to them. A ptysane and posset ale made with cold herbs doth comfort them: who so ever he be, the which will have a remedy for any of these four kinds of the Idropyses, and will know a declaration of these infirmities, and all other sicknesses, let him look in a book of my making named the breviary of health. For in this book I do speak but of dyetes, and how a man should order his mansion place. And himself & his bowsholde, with such like things: for the conservation of health.   

¶ The xxxix chapter, treateth of a general diet, for all manner of men and women, being sick or hole.  
THere is no man nor woman, the which have any respect to themself, that can be a better Phesytion for their own safeguard, than their own self can be to consider what thing the which doth them good. And to refrain from such things that doth them hurt or harm. And let every man beware of care, sorrow, thought, pencyfulnesse, and of inward anger. Beware of surfeits, and use not so much veneryouse acts. Brehe not the usual custom of sleep in the night. A merry heart and mind, the which is in rest and quietness, without adversity, and to much worldly business causeth a man to live long, and to look youngly although he be aged, care and sorrow bringeth in age and death, where let every man be merry: and if he can not let him resort to merry company to break of his perplexatyves. ¶ Furthermore I do advertise every man to wash their hands oft every day: And divers times to keyme their head every day And to plounge the eyes in cold water in the morning. Moreover I do council every man to keep the breast and the stomach warm. And to keep the feet from wet, and other while to wash them, and that they be not kept to hot nor to cold, but indifferently. Also to keep the head and the neck in a moderate temporance not to hot nor to cold, and in any wise to beware not to meddle to much with venerious actis: for that will cause a man to look agedly: & also causeth a man to have a brief or a short life. All other matters pertaining to any particular diet, you shall have in the dyetes above in this book rehearsed.   

¶ The xl chapter, doth show an order, or a fashion, how a sick man should be ordered, And how a sick man should be used that is likely to die.  
Who so ever that is sore sick, it is uncertain to man, whether he shall live or die. wherefore it is necessary for him that is sick to have two or iii good keepers, the which at all times must be diligent, and not sleepish sloudgysshe, sluttysshe. And not to weep and wail about a sick man, nor to use many words/ nor that there be no great resort to common and talk, For it is a business a whole man to answer many men, specially women that shall come to him. They the which cometh to any sick person ought to have few words or none: except certain persons the which be of counsel of the Testament making, the which wise men be not to seek of such matters in their sickness, for wisdom would that every man should prepare for such things in health And if any man for charity will visit any person, let him advertise the sick to make every thing even bytwext god and the world & his conscience. And to receive the ryghtis of holy church, like a catholic man. And to follow the counsel of both physicians which is to say the physician of the soul, & the physician of the body, that is to say the spiritual counseyl of his ghostly father, and the bodily counsel of his physician concerning the receipts of his medsons to recover health. For saint Augustyn saith he that doth not the commandment of his physician doth kill himself. Furthermore about a sick person should be redolent savour, and the chamber should be replenished with herbs & flowers of odyferouse savour. & certain times it is good to be used a little of some perfume to stand in the middle of the chamber. And in any wise let not many men, and specially women be together at one time in the chamber, not only for babbling, but specially for their breathes. And the keepers should see at all times that the sick persons drink be pure, fresh & stolen, and that it be a little warmed, turned out of the cold. If the sick man wax sycker and sycker, that there is lykle hope of amendment but signs of death, than no man ought to move to him any worldly matters or business: but to speak of ghostly and godly matters. And to read the passion of christ. & to say the psalms of the passion, and to hold a cross or a pyctour of the passion of christ before the eyes of the sick person. And let not the keepers forget to give the sick man in such agony warm drink with a spoon, and a spoonful of a cawdell or a colesse. And than let every man do endeavour himself to prayer, that the sick person may finish his life Catholyckely in the faith of jesus christ And so depart out of this miserable world. I do beseech the Father, and the son, and the holy ghost thorough the merit of jesus Christ's passion, that I and all Creatures living may do. AMEN.    

¶ Imprinted by me Robert wire/ dwelling in saint Martyns parish beside charing Cross, at the sign of saint Iohn evangelist.  
For Iohn Gowghe, Cum privilegio regali. Ad imprimendum solum.  
 printer's device of Robert Wyer (McKerrow 68): "St. John the Evangelist with eagle"