❧: A compendious regiment or a Dyetary of health made in Mountpyllyer, by Andrew Board of physic Doctor, newly corrected and imprinted with divers additions dedicated to the armipotent Prince and valyent Lord Thomas Duke of Norfolk.  
  

¶ The preface or the proheme.  
☞ To the armipotent Prince and valyent lord Thomas Duke of Norfolk Andrew Board of physic doctor r doth surrender humyle commendation with immortal thanks.  
AFter the time that I had traveled for to have the notition & practs of physic in divers regions and countries & returned in to England and required to sary and to remain and to continue with sir Robert Drewry knight, for many urgent causes. Your grace hearing of me did send sir John Baruyngham now being knight to me to come to your grace to have my counsel in physic for your infirmities. The message done, I with festination & diligence did not prolong the time but did come to your grate according to my deuts. The which was in the time, when lord Thomas cardinal archbishop of York was commanded to go to his see of York. And after my coming to you and feeling the pulses of your heart: the pulses of your brain, and the pulses of your liver, and that I had lean your urine & your egestyon I durst not to enterprise or meddle with out the counsel of Master doctor Buttes, the which did know not only your complextion & infirmity but also he did know the usage of your diet. And the imbe●yllyte and strength of your body, with other qualities exuedyent & necessary to be known, but briefly to conclude your recuperating or recovering your health. And for singular trust and high favour the which the king had to you was compocated to be in the presence of his majesty, I than did pass over the sees again and did go to all the universities and great Scloles the which be approbated with in the precynet of Thrystendome for to have the practs of physic, I saying many expedient things in divers regions at the last I did stay myself at Mountpllyoure which is the head university in all Europe for the practs of physic & surgery or thyrmig I being there. And having a cotydyal remembrance upon your bountiful goodness, d●d consult with many egregyous Doctors of physic what manner that I m●ghte write the which might be acceptable for the conservation of the health of your body. The said doctors knowing my zeal and true intention had to you, did advertise me to make a book of diet not only for your grace but also for your noble posterity and for all men living wherefore I do nomyaate this book The Dyetary of health, the which doth pertract how a man should order himself in all manner of causes partening to the health of his body, if your grace or any man will have further knowledge for divers infyrmites' let him look in a book of my making named the Brevyary of health. And where I have dedicated this book to your grace. And have not ornated it with eloquence & retorycke terms, the which in all manner of books and writings is used these modernall days. I do submit me to your bountiful 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 bewere of pentyfulnes, trusting to your affluent goodness to take no displeasure with any of the contents of this book, but to accept my good will & diligent labour. And furthermore I do trust to your supper abundant gracyousnes, that you will consider the love and zeal, the which I have to your prosperity, and that I do it for a common weal, the which I beseech Jesus christ long to continue to his will and pleasure in this life. And after this transitory life to remunerate you with celestial joy and eternal glory  
From Mountpyller. The fift day of may. The year of our Lord Jesus christ. M. CCCCC. XLVII.   

☞ 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 belth of his body.  
¶ The second chapter doth show a man how he should build his house, and that the ꝓspect be good for the conservation of health.  
☞ The third chapter doth show a man to build his house i a pure and a fresh air for to lengthen his life.  
¶ The fourth 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. seven. chapter doth show how the head of a house, or a household should exercise himself for the health of the soul & body.  
¶ The. viii. chapter doth show how a man should order himself in sleeping, and watching, and in his apparel wearing.  
¶ The. ix. chapter doth show the replection or surfeiting doth much harm to nature, & that abstinence is the chiefest medison of all medyson  
¶ The. x. charpiter treateth of all manner of drinks, as of water of wine, of ale, of vere, of cider, of mead, of metheglin, & of whey.  
¶ The▪ xi. chapter treateth of bread.  
¶ The▪ xii. Chapit treateth of pottage, of sew of stew pots, of grewel, of ferment, of peses pottage, of almond milk, of rise pottage, of caudles, of cullese, of alebrues, of honey sops, and of all other manner of broths.  
¶ The. xiii. Chapit treateth of white meat as of eggs, butter, cheese, milk, crayme, posettes, of almond butter, and of bean butter.  
¶ The. xiiii. chapter treateth of fish.  
¶ The. xv. chapter treateth of wild foul of tame foul, 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. chapit treateth of roast meat of fried meat, of sudden or boiled meat, of bruled meat and of beacon meat.  
¶ The. nineteen. chapter treateth of roots.  
¶ The. xx. chapter treateth of herbs.  
¶ The. xxi. chapter treateth of fruits.  
☞ The. xxii. chapter treateth of spices.  
¶ The. xxiii. chapter showeth a diet for sanguine men.  
¶ The. xxiiii. chapter showeth a diet for flematyke men.  
¶ The. xxv. chapter showeth a diet for choleric men.  
¶ The xxvi. Chapter doth show a diet for melancholy men.  
¶ The. xxvii. chapter treateth of a diet & of an order to be used in the pestiferous time of the pestilence & the sweating sickness.  
¶ The. xxviii▪ chapter treateth of a diet for them the which be in an ague or a fever  
¶ The xxix. chapter treateth of a diet sore them the which have the Ilyacke, or the colic and the stone.  
¶ The. thirty. Chapter treateth of a diet for them the which have any of the kinds of the gottes.  
¶ The. xxxi. chapter treateth of a diet for them the which have any kinds of lepored  
¶ The. xxxii. chapter treateth of a diet for them the which have any of the kinds of the falling sickness.  
¶ The. xxxiii. chapter treateth of a diet for them which have any pain in their head  
¶ The. xxxiiii. Chapter treateth of a diet for them the which be in a consumpeyon.  
¶ The. xxxv. chapter treateth of a diet for them the which be asmatycke men, being short winded or lacking breath.  
¶ The. xxxvi▪ chapter doth show a diet for them the which hath the palsy.  
¶ The xxxvii. chapter doth show an order and a diet for them that be mad and out of they● wit.  
¶ The. xxxviii. Chapter treateth of a dytte for them the which have any kind of dropsy  
¶ The. xxxix. chapter treateth of a general diet 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. And here followeth the Dyetary of health.   

☞ The first chapter doth show where a man should cytuate for 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 altar his house, or to altar old building in to commodious and pleasant building, not only for his own proper commodity, wealth, and 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 counsel 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. & the. xx. chapter of Numeri, & the. vi. chapter of Deutro. 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 into the country the which I will show to thee, a country abunding or plentiful of milk and honey. ¶ Here is to be noted that where there is plenty of milk, there is is plenty of pasture and no skarsite of water, & where there is plenty of honey there is no skarsyte but plentifulness 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 cytuate 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 destitute 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 & wood annexed to his place or house, for if he be destituted of any of the principal les, that is to say first of water for to wash and to wring, to bake and to hrewe, and divers other causes specially for apparel that which might fall by fire were a great discommodyous 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 reparations.   

¶ The second chapter doth show a man how he should build his house or mansion, that the prospect be fair and good for the conservation of health.  
AFter that a man have chosen a convenient soil and place according to his mind & 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 ●ales, the hills, & the plain ground. And that every thing be descent & 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 wh●n they be a good distance 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 prospect in it, to it, and from it. For and the eye be not satisfy, the mind can not be contented. And the mind can not be contented the heart can not be pleased, if the heart and mind be not pleased, nature doth abhor. And if nature do abhor, mortification of the vital, and animal, and spiritual powers do consequently follow.   

¶ The third chapter doth show a man to build his house in a pure and a fresh air to lengthen his life.  
THere is no thing except poison that doth put ryfye or doth corrupt the blood of man, and also doth mortify the spirits of man, as doth a corrupt and a contagyous air. For Galyen terapentice nono saith, 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 infe●tc the blood, & doth engender many corrupt humours, and doth putrefy the brain, and doth corrupt the heart, & therefore it doth breed many dice asses & infirmities thorough the which man's life is abrevyated and shortened. Many things doth infect, putrefy, and corrupteth the air, as the influente of sundry stars, and standing waters, stinking mists, & marshes, caryn lying long above the ground, moche people in a small room lying uncleanly, and being filthy and sluttesshe, wherefore he that doth pretend to build his mansion or house, he must provide that he do not cytuat his house nigh to any marsh or marysshe ground, that there be not nigh to the place stinking and putry●yed standing waters, pools, ponds, nor mires, but at lest wise that such waters do stand upon a stony or a gravayle ground mixed with clay, and that some fresh spring have a recourse to nury she 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 chambers ought not to be done as long as any honest man is within the precynct of the house for the dust doth puttrify the air making it dence. Also nigh to the place let not her 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 and cloudy days, impetuous and vehement wind, 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 draughts, and permit no common pissing place be about the house or mansion, and let the common house of easement be over some water, or else elongated from the house. And beware of empting of piss pots and pissing in chymnes. so that all evil and conragyous airs may be expelled, and clean air kept unputrysyed. And of all things let the buttery, the ●eller, the kitchen. the larder house, with all other houses of offices be kept clean, that there be no filth in them, but good & odiferous sovours, and to expel & expulse all corrupt & courageous air, look in the. xxvii. chapter of this book.   

☞ The fourth chapter doth show under what manner and fashion a man should build his house or mansion, in exchening things that shorteneth man's life.  
When a man doth begin to build his house or mansion place he must puyde (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, and 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 slatꝭ 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 accomplished 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 East and weest, specially North east, South east, and Southweest, for the merydy all winds of all winds is the most worst, for the South wind doth corrupt and doth make evil vapours. The East wind is temperate, fryse, 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 canticorum. 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 & 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 into the place, let the prive chamber be one red to the chamber of a state, with other chambers necessary for the building, so that many of the chambers may have a prospect into 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 dery if any be kept should be elongated the space of a quarter of a mile from the place. And also the bake 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 wot made about it, there should some fresh spring come to it, and divers times the moot aught to be showered 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 gardayn 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 man zion. 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 implements. 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, & hath his houses necessary about his place, if he have not houshode stuff or implementꝭ the which be needful, but must borrow of his neighbours, he than is put to a shefte & to a great after deal, for these men the which do brew in a botyl & bake in a walet, it will belong or he can buy Jack a salet yet every thing must have a beginning, & every man must do after his possessions or ability, this natwithstandinge 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 be 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 sheaf, his goods shall never increase, and he shall not be in rest nor peace, but ever in cark and care, for his porse 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, & he is not able to keep man nor mouse, wherefore let every manloke or he leap for many corns maketh a great heap.   

☞ The sixth chapter doth show how a man should order his house and household, and to syve quietly.  
WHoso ever he be the 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 wynuing or gains. For he that will spend more in his house, than that rents of his lands, or his gains doth attain to be shall fall to poverty, & necessity will urge cause & compel him to sell his land, or to waste his stock, as it is daily seen by experience of many men, wherefore they be that which will eschew such ●digalyte & inconvenience, musie divide his rents portion & expenses, whereby that he doth live into. iii equal portions or ꝑtes.  

☞ The cyrst part must serve to provide for mere 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 neigh bours and poor people, fulfilling the. seven. works of mercy. ¶ The third portion or part must be reserved for urgent causes in time of need, as in sickness. reparation of houses, with many other catydyall 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 to man trouble. And he that is ones behind band 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. two. or three years rend in his co●er. And if he have no lands than he must provide for necessary things or that he begin house hold, lest that he repent himself after, through the which he do fall into pencifulnes, & after that in to sickness & diseases, living not quietly, whereby he shall abrevyate his life.    

☞ The. seven. chapter doth show how the head of a house, or a householder should exersyce himself, for the health of the soul and 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 bodre. Our saviour Jesus christ saith, what shall it profit unto man if he goat all the world and lose himself, and bring himself 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 and when he is called for to de part out of this world, he should vat fear to die, saying the 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 ob serving 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 al. And also the head of a house must over see that they which be under his tuyssyon serve god the holy days as diligently, ye and more dylygentler than to do their work the seryall 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 Englange, 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 a householder 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. viii. Chapit doth show how a man should order himself in sleeping and in ●erynge his apparel.  
When a man hath exercised himself in the day time as is rehearsed, he may sleep soundly 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 nurysshe the blood, & doth qualyfye the heat of the liver, it doth acuate, quicken & refresheth the memory, it doth restore nature, & doth quiet all the humours & pulses 〈◊〉 man, & doth animate, & doth comfort all the natural & animal & 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 slugglysshenes doth humecte and maketh light the brain, it doth engender rheum & 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 instigate 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 allygated for me, be not greatly referred to this sense, yet it may stand here with my purpose and 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 complextion 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. seven. hours is sufficient for them. And now considering the imbecyllyte and weakness of nature a flematycke man may sleep. ix. hours or more. melancholy men may take their pleasure, for they be the receptacle & the drags of all the other humours. ¶ Secondaryly youth and age would have temperance in sleeping. ¶ Thirdly strength may suffer a brounte in watch, the which debility and weakness cannot. 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 benchewhystler wilt thou start away now. The week man to satisfy the strounge man's mind, appyted & desire, playeth with his fellow, throghe 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 sylte up right in a chair & sleep. Sleeping after a full stomach doth engender diverse infirmities, it doth hurt the sp●n, it relaxeth the sinews, it doth engender the dropsyes and the gout, and doth make man look evil coloured. Beware of Ueneryous 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 ●edwaade 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 groucling upon the stomach and belly is not good, one●es the stomach be slow and tarde of digestion but better it is to lay your hand or your bed fellows hand over your stomach, than to lie grovelling. To sleep on the back upright is utterly to be abhorred, when the you do sleep let not your neck neither your shoulders, no there 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 bed lie with your head some what high, lest that the meat which is in your stomach thorough eructuations or some other cause ascend to the oryfice 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 wool, and let the covering of it be of white sustyan, and lay it on the feather bed that you do lie on, and in your bed 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 morning, 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 bobye, cough and spite and than go to your stole to make your egestyon, and exoncrate 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 cuacuated your body, & trussed your points, kayme your head oft, and so do divers 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 than 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 la meat than accordeth with nature is named replection, or a surfeit. Replection or a surfeit is taken as well by gurgitations or to much drinking, as it is taken by epulation of eatig of crude meat, or eating more meat than doth suffice or can be truly digested. Or else replection 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 superabundance 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 wytes or senses be dull & obnebulated from reason. Sloth & slugy sheen consequently followeth, the appetite is withdrawn. The head is light & doth ache, & full of fantasies, & divers times some be so sopyled, that the malt worm playeth the devil so fast in the head, that all the world runneth round about on wheels then both the principal 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 su●fetes do kill many men, and temporance doth prolong the life. And also it is written Eccle. xxxvii. That there doth die many more by surfeit, than there doth by the sword, for as I said, surfeiting engendereth many infyrmites', as the Idropses, the gouts, lepored, sausfleme & pimples in the face, behement impressions, undy gest 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 surfetinge, causeth articulation & sudden death, for as I said the stomach is so inferced, and the liver is so sore oppressed 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 vomed 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 after 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 while let the digestion of the first refeccy on or meal. Also sondre 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 & supper they will feed on gross meats. And the best meat which be wholesome and nutritive and light of digestion is kept for servants, for when the good meat doth come to the table thorough feeding upon gross meat, the appe tide is extinct, 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 replection and surfeits.   

¶ The. x chapter treateth of all manner of drink, as of water, of wine, of ale, of bear of cider, of mead, of metheglin and of whey.  
WAter is one of the four Elements, of the which divers liquors or drinks for man's sustenance be made of, taking their original and sustance of it, as ale, bear, mead, and metheglin, water is not wholesome sole by itself for an english man, consyde ring the contrary usage, which is natroncurraunt with nature, water is cold, slow, and slake 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 which doth swiftly run from the east into the west upon stones or pybles. The third water to be praised is river or broke water, the which is clear ronning on pybles & 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 reflextion, 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 purryfyed with froth, duckemeat, and mod●●, for if they bake, or brew, or dress meat with it, it shall ingendre 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. two. or. three hours or it be occupied, than strain the upper part thorough a thick linen cloth, and cast the inferyall part away. If any man do use to drink water with wine, let it be purely strained, & then 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 endive, or the water of cycory, or the water of southystel, & dandelyon. And if any man be cumbered with the stone or doth burn in the pudybunde places, use to drink with white wine the water of haws, & the water of milk, voke 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. Those your wine after this sort, it must be fine, fair & clear to the eye, it must be fragraunte 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 wine it doth rejoice all the powers of man, and doth nury she 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 kept 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 and maids, 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 wattr, 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, ronny, 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 & 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 than is rehearsed, except yeast, barm, or godesgood, doth sophistycat their ale. Ale for an english man is a natural drink. Ale must have these properties, it must be fresh & 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 a●e 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 & the stone & the strangulyon, for the drink is a cold drink: yet it doth make a man fat, & doth inflate the belly, as it doth appear by the dutch men's faces & belies. If the bear be well brewed and fined, it doth qualyfye the heat of the iyver.   

☞ 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 best is not praised in physic, for cider is cold of operation, and is full of bentosyte, 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 the whey the which doth come of butter, is a temperate drink and is moist, and it doth nourish, it doth cleanse the breast, & 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 & a salt levyn. iii. or iiii. hours, them it is drunk it is a usual drink in Pycardy, in Flaunders, in Holande, in Brabrant, & in Selande, it doth but quench the thirst.  
¶ To speak of aptysan, or of oxymel, or of aqua vite, or of hippocras, I do pass over at this time, for I do make mention of it in the breviary of health.    

¶ The. xi. chapter treateth of bread.  
avicen saith, that bread 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 nurysshe much if it be truly ordered & well baken, when the bread is levyned it is soon digested as some old auctors saith, but these days is proved the contrary by the stomach of men, for leaven is heavy & ponderous Bread having to much brand in it is not laudable. In rome & 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 be well moulded and thorough baken, the brand abstracted & 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 berly. And ill people will put wheat and barley together, bread made of these aforesaid grain or corns, thus ꝓched 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, how be it this matter doth go moche by the education or the bringing up of the people, the which have been nurysshed or nutryfyde with such bread. I do speak now in barlyes or manltes part to be eaten and also drunken, I suppose it is to much for one grain, for barley doth engender cold humours, and peason and beans, and the sustance coming from them repleteth 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 haue● cakes in Scotland is many a good lord and lords dish. And if it will make good haver cakes consequently it will 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 evil cooks to dystrue it. But wives & maids & other brewer's, the which doth dystrue malt the which should make good ale. And 〈◊〉 the which that doth not till their pote● 〈◊〉 euyn●● false measure I would they were 〈…〉 their, pootes and ta●…cardes at dymynge●dale. A●…yll bakers the which ●…reade of wheat but will ●…ith where, or do not or ●…yu●nge good weight I 〈◊〉 they 〈…〉 bo peep thorough a 〈◊〉 for ●…de doth comfort, confirm, ●…onnes her●▪ beside the property●● 〈…〉 unwholesome ●…any man, ●or it doth lie in the stomach like a sponge hausting undecoct humours, yet the smell of new bread is comfortahle to the head and to the heart. ¶ Soden bread as symnels and crackenels, & bread baken upon a stone, or ●yon iron, and bread that saffron is in, is 〈◊〉 laudable. Burnt bread and hard crustꝭ, 〈◊〉 crusts, doth engender colour adust, and melancholy humours, wherefore chyp the 〈…〉 crust of your bread. And who so doth 〈…〉 the second crust after meat, it ma●…e. And so doth wheten bread 〈…〉 o● orande. ¶ Bread y● whi●… & praised in physic should 〈…〉. first it must be new, 〈…〉, nor it is not good 〈…〉. 〈…〉 or. ●● days old, except y● 〈…〉 it must not be muldy nor ●…melt mylded, it must be tho●… must be light & not heavy, and it must be temperately salted. Old bread or stolen bread doth dry up the ulode, or natural moister of man, and it doth engender evil humours, and is evil and tarde of digestion wherefore there is no surfytte so evil as the surfytte of eating of evil bread.   

¶ The▪ xii. chapter treateth of pottage, of few of stewpottes, of gruel, of formentye, of pease pottage, of almond milk, of rise votage, 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 bentosyte. Pottage is not so much used in all christendom as it is used in England. Pottage is made of the liqnor in the which flesh is sudden in, with putting to chopped herbs, & otmell & salt The herbs with the which pottage is made withal, if they be pure, good, and clean, not wan eaten, nor infected with the corrupt air descending upon them, doth comfort many men, the bentosyte notwithstanding. But for as much as divers times, many parts of Englaude 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 ●●te no pottage. In certain places 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 infectious times.  

❧ Of sew and stewpottes.  
¶ Sew & stewpottes, & gruel made with otmel, in 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, it is hard of digestion, but when it is dygest dit doth purysshe, and it doth strength a man but flesh soded in milk is not commendable.   

☞ 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 abstercyve 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, Almonds be hot and moist, it doth comfort the breast and it doth mollify the belly, and provoketh ●ryne. rice pottage made with almond milk doth restore and doth comfort nature.   

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

☞ Of honey sops & other broths.  
¶ Honey sops & other broths of what kind or substance so ever 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, Balen, 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, & did practs & making ye●okes.    

¶ The. xiii. Chapyt treateth of white meat ●o of eggs, butter, cheese, milk, and crayme. etc.  
IN euglande there is no eggs used to be eaten but hen eggs: wherefore I will first write and pertract of hen eggs The yolks of hen eggs be cordials, for it is temporatly hot. The white of an egg is viscus & cold & slack of digestion, and doth not engender good blood, wherefore whosoever that will eat an egg, let the egg be new & roast him rear & eat him, or else potche him for potched eggs be best at night, land new rear roasted eggs be good in the morning so be it they be tired with a little salt & sugar than they be nutritive, In Turkey and other b●●he christian lands avexed 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 bard eggs be slow and slack of digestion, and doth nutryfy the body grossly. Roasted eggs be better than sodden, fried eggs be nought, Duck eggs & goose eggs I do not praise, but peasant eggs and partridge eggs physic singularly doth praise.  

¶ Of butter  
¶ Butter made of crayme is moist of operation, it is good to eat in the morning before other meats, French men will eat it after meat. Bu● eaten with other meatis it doth not only nourish, but it is good for the breast and lungs, and also it doth relax and doth mollify the belly, dutch men doth eat it at all times in the day, that which I did not praise when I did dwell among them, considering that butter is unctuous, an● every thing that is unctuous is noisome to the stomach for as much as it maketh lubrifaction. And also every thing that is unctuous that is to say butteryshe, oil, grease, or fatdothe swim above in the brinks of the stomach, as the fatness doth swim above in a boiling pot, the excess of such naucation or superfyce will ascend to the orifice of the stomach, & doth make eructuasions, wherefore eating of much butter at one refection is not commendable, nor it is not 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 eveey man in the morning if it be new made.   

☞ Of cheese.  
Cheese is made of milk, there be four sorts of cheese: which be to say, green cheese, soft cheese, hard cheese, and spermyse, Cheese is made of milk, there be four sorts of cheese: which be to say, green cheese, soft cheese, hard cheese, and spermyse, Grene cheese is not called green by the reason of the 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 operacyou 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 & 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 a greing 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. iiii natures of cheese, there is a cheese called a rewene cheese, the which if it be well ordered doth pass all other cheses no ne excess taken. But take the best cheese of all these rehearsed, if a little do good and pleasure The overplus doth engender gross humours for it is hard of digestion, it maketh a man constyfe and it is not good for the stone. Cheese that is good ought not to be hard nor to soft, but betwixt both, it should not be tough nor brutel, it ought not to be sweet nor sour, nor tart, nor to salt, nor to fresh, it must be of good savour & taledge, not full of eyes nor mites, nor maggots, yet in hyghalmen the cheese the which is full of maggots is called there the best cheese, and they will eat the great magotꝭ as fast as we do eat comfetes.   

☞ Of milk.  
¶ Milk of a woman, & 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 nurysshe much.  
¶ cows milk and ewes milk, so it be that the beasts be young & do go in good pasture the milk is nutritive & doth humect, & moisteth the members, & doth mundify & cleanse the entrails, and doth allevyat & mitigate the ●…ne 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 sanguyne men, but it is very good for melancholy men, & for old men & children specially if it be sodden, adding to it a little sugar.   

¶ Of Crayme.  
❧ Crayme the which doth not stand long on the milk & sodden with a little sugar is nourishing. Clouted crayme and raw crayme put together, is eaten more for a sensual apetyde, than for any good nurysshement. Raw crayme undecocted eaten with strauberyes, 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 de fragrant it rejoiceth the heart: it doth comfort the brain: and 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 filth paunch, it doth engender gross humours it doth replete a man with ventosity.    

¶ The. xiiii. Chapyt, treateth of fish.  
OF all nations & countries, Engl●…e is best served of fish, not only of all manner of see fish, but also of fresh water fish, & of all manner of sorts of salt fish.  

☞ Of See fish.  
❧ fishes of the see the which have scales or many fins, be more wholesome 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 over grown: except it be a young porpasse the which kind of fish is no there praised in the old testament nor in physic.   

☞ Fresh water fish.  
¶ The fish the which is in rivers & brooks be more wholesomer, than they the which be in pools, ponds, or moots, or any other standing water, for they doth labour & doth scour themself fish the which liveth & doth feed on the moved, or else doth 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 refection 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 ingendre viscus phlegm & colour adust. All manner of fish is cold of nature, and doth engender phlegm, it doth little nurysshe, fish and flesh ought not to be eaten together at one meal.    

¶ The. xv. chapter, treateth of wild fowl, And tame foul birds.  
OF all wild foul, the Fesaunte it most best, Although that a Partreche of all fowls is soonest digested. Wherefore it is a restorative meat, & doth comfort the brain and the stomach: & doth augment carnal list. A wood cock is a meat of good temperance. quails & plovers & lapwynges doth nourish but little, for they doth engender melancholy humours, young turtle doves doth engender good blood. A crane is hard of digestion, & doth engender evil blood. A young herensew is lighter of digestion than a crane. A buzzard well killed & ordered is a nutritive meat A byttoure is not so hard of digestion as is an hernesew. A shoveller is lighter of digestion than a byttoure, all these be noyful except they be well ordered & dressed A fesannte hen. A more cock & a more hen except they suit abroad they be nutritive. All manner of wild foul the which liveth by the water they be of dyscommendable nurysshement.  

¶ Of tame or domestical foul.  
¶ Of all ●ame ●oule a Capon is most best. For it is nutritive and is soon digested. A ●enne in winter is good and nutryt●ue. And so is a chyken in summer, specially cockrelles and polettes, the which ●e untrodden. The flesh of a cock is hard o● digestion: but the broth or gely made of a co●ke is restorative, pygyons be good for choleric & melancholy men, ●ose flesh and duck flesh is not praised except it be a young gren● goose young pechyken of half a year of age be praised, old peacocks be hard of digestion.   

❧ Of birds.  
¶ All manner of small Birds, ●e 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 praised the black bird & the thursshe. Rasis and Isaac praise the 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 good meat for & english man so be it the be'st be young, & that it be not cow flesh. For old beef & cow flesh doth engender melancholy and leprous bumours: 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 ●anged beef in the ●ofe 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, & evil of digestion & maketh no good juice. If a man have a peace hanging by his side & 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 natwtstandig.  

☞ 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 Balen doth not laud it, and surely I do not love it considering that there it no be'st that is so soon infected: nor there doth happen so great mur ren and seckenes to any quadruped be'st as doth fall to the sheep. This natwithstanding 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 phlegmatic wherefore it is not all the best for old men except they be melancholy of complexion nor bit is not good for phlegmatic men to feed to much of it, for the flesh is waterysshe.   

¶ Of pork, brawn, bacon, & pig.  
❧ Where as Balen wi●h other ancient & 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 beast and do the lie upon filthy & stinking soils, and with ster●orus matter divers times doth ●ede in England, yet in Hyg●almen 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 Spaynerdes with the other regions annexed to them, keep the swine more fylthyer than english people doth. Further more the Jeve, the Sarason, the Turks, concerning their poyltycke wit and learning in physic, hath as much wit, wisdom, reason, & knowledge for the savyte of their body, as any christian man hath. And many expert 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 & them. They loveth not pork nor swine's flesh, but doth ●ytuperat and a●orr● it, yet for all this they will eat adders, which is a kind of, serpents, as well as any other christian man dwelling in Rome, and other high countries, for adders flesh there is called fish of the mountain. This notwithstanding physbke doth approbut adders flesh good to be eaten, saying it doth make an old man young, as it appeareth by an heart eating an adder maketh him young again. But pork doth not so, ●or if it be of an old hog not clean kept it doth engender gross blood, & doth ●ume●● 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, ebut and if they have the stone and use to eat it they shall sing woe be the pie, where fore 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 n●twitwstandynge.   

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

❧ Of pigs.  
¶ pigs specially sow pigs is nutritive and made in a gelye, it is restorative sob it the pig be fleed the skin taken of, and than stewed with restoratyves, as a cock is stewad 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. Oloe 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 ●oo 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 olde●phy sycyons was and is that venison is not good to eat principally for two causes, the first cause is that the be'st doth live in fere: for it he be a good wood man, he shall never see no kind of dear, but at the. x. 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 physicians saith that venison which is the second cause doth ingendre 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 englishman, 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 leeful. 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 herme nor displeasure to man, if the flesh be not eaten, yet he maketh gentlemen good pastime. And better it is for the bounds or dogs to eat the hare after they have killed it, 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 saith hare's flesh is dry and doth ingendre melancholy humours.   

¶ Of Conies flesh & Rabettes.  
¶ 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. xvii. chapter doth treat of particular things, of fish and flesh▪  
THe heads of fish, and the fatness of fish specially of Sam●n and Cunger is not go●d for them the which be disposed to have reumaty●ke heads. And the beds of lampryes, and lamprons, and the string the which is within them, is not good to eat refrain from eating of the skins of fish, and flesh & borned meat, and brown meat, for it doth engender viscus humours, and colour and melancholy. And doth make opilations. The brains of any best is not laudable, except the brains 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 would coke and of a snype and such like is commestyble. The fore part of all manner of beasts and fowls be more hotter and lighter of dygesty on, than the hinder parts be. The marry of all beasts is hot and moist, it is nutritive if it be ●…ll digested, yet it doth mollify the stomach, and doth take away a manes appetyde, wherefore let a man ●ate pepper with it. The blood of all beasts & fowls is not praised, for it is hard of digestion. All y● innards of beasts and of fowls, as the heart the liver the longs, and tripes, and trylybubbes, with all the entrails is herd of digestion, and doth increase gross humours. Then fatness of flesh is not so much nutritive as the lenes of flesh, it is best when lean and fat is mixed one with another. The tongues of beasts be hard of digestion and of little nurysshement. The stones of a co●ke●●ll, and the stones of other beasts that hath not done their kind be nutritive.   

¶ The. xviii. chapter, treateth of roast meat, of fried meat ●nd of bake meat.  
WIth us at Montpilour, & other universities is used boiled meat at dner, & 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 thanrosted meat is. Bruled meat is hard of digestion, & evil for the stone. Fried meat is harder of digestion than bruled meat is, & it doth engender colour & melancholy. bake meat which is called flesh that is bere, for it is bured 〈◊〉 paste, 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, bruled & baken every one after their kind, & use a fashion of the country, as the coke and the physician will agree & devise. For a good coke is half a physician. For the chief physic (the council of a phisetion 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 cook prepare any meat except he be very expert, he will make a werysshe dish of meat, the which the sick can not take.   

¶ The. nineteen. Chapter treateth of roots & first of the roots of borage and bugloss.  
THe roots of Borage & bugloss sudden tender and made in a succade doth engender good blood, and doth set a man in a temporance.  

¶ The roots of Alysaunder and Enula campana.  
❧ The rotes of Alysaunder sudden tender, and made in surcade is good for to destroy the stone in the rains of the back & bladder. The roots of Enulacampana sudden tender & made in a luccade is good for the breast, & for the lungs, & for all the interyall members of man.   

¶ The roots of Percelly, & of Fenel.  
¶ 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 rotes of Turnepes & Persnepes.  
¶ Turnepes boiled and eaten with flesh, augmenteth 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 rotes, and Caretes.  
¶ Radisshe 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 somnolence, and 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 Lekes.  
¶ 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 Lomberdy, 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 tycle in the fundament, and square worms, it also hetythe the body and desolueth gross winds.    

¶ The. xx. chapter, treateth of herbs. And first of Borage, and bugloss.  
BOrage doth comfort the heart, and doth ingendre good blood, and cause a man to be merry, and doth set a man in temperance. And so doth bugloss for he is taken of more vygor and strength, and 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 beef, and after eat them at dinner, they doth increase nature, and doth provoke a man to veveryons acts. Rokat doth increase the seed of man, and doth stymulat the flesh, and doth help to digestion.   

❧ Of Cykory, and endive.  
¶ Cycory doth keep the stomaeke & the heed in temperannce, and doth qualyfy colour. endive is good for them the which hath hot stomachs and dry.   

❧ Of white beets, and purslane.  
¶ white beaten 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 and doth cause a man to have a sweet breath.   

☞ Of lettuce, and Sorrel.  
¶ Lettyse doth extinct venerious acts, yet it doth increase milk in a woman's breast, it is good for a hot stomach, & doth provoke sleep, and doth increase blood, and doth set the blood in a temperance. 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 Rosmary, and Roses.  
¶ Rosmary is good for the palsy, and for the falling sickness, and for the cough, and good against cold, Roses be a cordynall and doth comfort the heart and the brain.   

☞ Of Fenell, and any.  
¶ These berbes be seldom used, but their sedes be greatly occupied. Fenell sede is used to break wind, & 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 sweet breath.   

¶ Of sauge. and Mandragod.  
¶ Sauge is good to help a woman to conceive, and doth provoke urine. Mandragod 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 writ no further of herbs, but will speak of other matters that shallbe more necessary.    

¶ The. xxi. chapter, treateth of fruits, and first of figs.  
AUicen 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, & steved. They do cleanse the breast & the lungs, & they do open the opilations of the liver & the spleen. They doth steer a mam to venerious acts, for they doth auge & inerease the seed of generation. And also they do provoke a man to sweat: wherefore they do engender lice.  

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

☞ Of small raisins of Corans.  
¶ Small raisyns of Corans be good for the reins of the back, & they do provoke urine. howbeit they be not all the best for the spleen, for they make oppilation.   

¶ Of Grapes.  
¶ Grapes sweet and new, be nutritive, and doth stymulat the flesh. And they do comfort the stomach and the liver, and doth avoid oppilations. Howbeit they do replete the stomach with ventosity.   

¶ Of peaches, of meddlers, and ceruices.  
¶ peaches doth mollify the belly, & be cold. Meddlers taken superfluous doth engender melancholy. and Ceruices be in man of like operation.   

¶ Of strawberries, cherries, and burtes.  
¶ Strawberries be praised above all berries, for they do qualify the heat of the liver, and doth engender good blood, eaten with sugar. Theries doth mollify the bailie, & be cold. Hurts be of a groser substance, wherforethey be not for them the which be of a cleave diet.   

¶ Of nuts great and small.  
¶ The walnut & the hanocke be of one opera cyon. 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 iucrease 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 evil 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 putrefaction.   

¶ Of Peason, and beans.  
¶ Peason the which be young be nutritive howbeit they doth replete a man with vento site. 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 strong meat, and doth provoke venereous acts.   

¶ Of Pears, and Apples.  
¶ 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 nutritive, and doth comfort the stomach specially if they be eaten with comfettes. Apples be good after a frost have taken them or they the which be of good odor & melowe, they should be eaten with sugar or confettes, or with fennel seed, or anis sedes 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 gore pulled out doth mollify the belly, & doth help digestion, & doth preserve a man from drunkship.   

¶ Of Dates, and Mylons'.  
¶ Dates moderately eaten be nutritive but they doth cause oppilations of the liver & of the splen. Mylons' doth engender evil humours.   

¶ Of gourds, of cocumbers, & pepones.  
¶ Gourds be evil of nurysshement, cocumbers, restraynethe veneryousnes or lassyvyousnes, or luxuryousnes. Pepones be in manner of like operation: but the pepones tngen derythe evil humours.   

¶ Of Almonds, and Chesteyns.  
¶ Almonds causeth a man to piss: they do mollify the belly, and doth purge the lungs And. vi. or. seven. eat before meat preserveth a man from drunkship. 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 medicine, 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 seven. damysen eaten before dinner be good to provoke a man's appetite, they doth mollify the belie and be abstersive: the skin and the stones must be ablated and cast owaye and not used.   

* Of olives, and capers.  
¶ olives condyted, & eaten at the begynnige of refection doth coroborate the stomach & 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, & so doth the rinds if they be in succade, & they doth comfort the stomach, the juice is a good sauce & doth provoke an apetyde.    

☞ The. xxii. chapter treateth of spices, and fyts●e of singer.  
GYnger doth heat the stomach & helpeth digestion, Grene ginger eaten in the morning fasting doth acuate and quicken the remembrance.  

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

¶ Of Cloves and Maces.  
¶ Cloves doth comfort the sinews & doth dissolve, and doth consume superfluous humours, restoreth 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 and the stomach but he is to hot for the liver.   

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

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

* The. xxiii. Chapter showeth a diet for Senguine men  
SAnguine men be hot & moist of complexcyon, wherefore they must be circumspect in eating of their meat, considerig that the purer the complexion is, the sooner it may be corrupted, & the blood may be the sooner infected, wherefore they must abstain to eat in ordinately fruits and herbs & roots as garlic onions & likes, they must refrain from eating of old flesh, & eschew the usage of eating of the brains of beasts: & from eating the udders of keyne. They must use moderate sleep & 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. xxiiii. chapter showeth a diet for phlegmatic men.  
phlegmatic men be cold & 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 ingendre phlegmatic humours, as fish, fruit, and white meat. Also to eschew the usage of eating of crude herbs special to refrain from meat 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 phlegmatic 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 Pglypody, netyll, elder, agarycke, yreos, maiden hear, and stechados.   

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

¶ The. xxvi. chapter treateth of a dietarye for melancholy men.  
melancholy is cold & dry, wherefore Melancholy men must refrain from fried meat, and meat the which is over salt And from meat the which is sour and hard of digestion, and from all meat the which is burnet and dry. They must abstain from immoderate thirst, & from drinking of hot wines, and gross wine as redewyne 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 and 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. Seen, quekbeme, Seen, s●…cados, Hearts tongue, maiden here, pulyall mountane, borage, organum, sugar, and white wine.   

☞ The. xxvii. chapter treateth of a diet and of an order to be used in the pestiferous time of the pestilence and sweating sickness.  
When the Plagues of the Pestilence, or the seating sickness is in a town or country, with us at Mountpylour and all other high regions & countries that I have dwelled in, the people doth i'll from the contagious & infectious air pnseruatyves with other counsel of Physic natwitstanding In lower & other base 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 & 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 & 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 infeccyous time it is good for every man that will not fly from the contagyous air to use daily, specially in the morning & evening to burue Juneper, or Rosemary, or rushes, or Bay leaves, or Maierome or frankincense, or Bengavin 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 chafing dish of coals, and set it to fume abroad in the chambers, & the hall, & other houses, and you will put to this powder a little Lapdanum: it is so much the better. Or else make a pomemaunder under this manner. Take of Lapdanum. three drams, of the wood of Aloes one dram, of Amber of grease. two. drams, & a half, of nutmegs, of storax calamity of each a dram & a half, confect all these together with Rose water, & make a bal. And this aforesaid Pomemaunder doth not only expel contagious airs, 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 reme by. 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. xxviii. chapter, 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 in dure, to put of shirt nor doublet, 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 shallbe delivered of the Fever dsing 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. three courses to wear continually gloves & not to wash the hands. And to use such a diet in meat and drink as is rehearsed in the pestilence.   

¶ The. xxix. chapter, treateth of a diet for them, the which have the Ilyacke, or the colic, and the stone.  
TJe Iliacke & 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 & not in no wise to be constupate. And these things following be not good for them that which have these afore said ifirmites', hot bread, nor new ale. They must abstain also from drinking of beer, of cider, & red wine, & 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 that which doth engender wind. For the stone abstain from drikinge of new ale, bewarde of beer, & of red wine, & hot winꝭ refrain from eating of red hearing, martylmas beef & baken, & saltfysshe, & salt meats. And beware of going cold about the middle specially about the reins of the back. And make no restryctyon, of wind & water: nor egesty on that nature would expelle.   

¶ The. thirty. Chapter, treateth of a diet for them the whtch 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 & bybbing, dicing & carding, in forgetting themself to cronerat the bladder and the belly when need shall require, & also to beware that the legs hang not without some stay nor that the boots or shoes be not over straight, who soever hath that gout must refrain from drinking of new ale, and let him abstain from drinking of beer & red wine. Also he must not eat new bread, eages, fresh salmon, eyes, fresh hearing, pylcherdes, oysters, & all shell fish. Also he must eschew the eating of fresh beef, of goose, of duck, & of pygyons. Beware of taking cold in the legs, 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 ingendre evil humours & be inflatyve.   

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

¶ The. xxxii. Chapter, treateth of a diet for them, the which have any of the kinds of the falling sickness.  
WHo soever he be, that have any of the kyndis of the falling sickness must abstain from eating of white meat, specially of milk he must refrain from drinking of wine, new ale, & strong ale. Also they should not eat the fatness of fish, nor the heads of fish, the which doth engender rheum. Shel fish, eyes, salmon, hearing, & viscus fyfthes be not good for Epilentyeke men. Also they must refrain from eating of garlic, onions, lekes, chybboles, & all vaperous meats, the which doth hurt the head: benison, hare flesh, beef, beans, & peason be not good for Epilentyke 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 & 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, & will induce the sickness. They must beware of lying hore in their bed, or to labour extremely, for such things causeth the grief to come the ofter.   

¶ The. 34. chapter, treateth of a diet for them the whiehe have any pain in the heed.  
MAny sickness, or infirmities & impediments may be in a man's head, wherefore whosoever have any impediment in the head must not keep the head to hot, nor to cold but in a tēporaū●e. 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 & the heads of fish, & surfestes, & taking cold in the feet: & taking cold in the nape of the nycke or head. Also they that which have any infirmity in the head must refrain of immoderate sleep specially after meat. Also they must abstain from drinking of wine, & use not to drink ale & bear 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, sinks wynkraughtes pissebolles snoffe of candles, dunghylles, stinking cannels, & stinking standing waters, & ●ynkyng marshes, with such courageous eyes 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. xxxiiii. Chapter 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 & tart things as vinegar & alegar, & such like. And also he must abstain from eating of gross meats she which be hard & slow of digestion. And use cordials & restoratyves and nuttytyve meats. All meats & drinks the which is sweet & that sugar is in be nutritive. Wherefore sweet wines be good for them the which be in consumpcyons moderately taken And sour wine, sour ale, sour bread is good for no man. For it doth fret away nature, & let them beware that be in a consumption of fried meat, of bruled meat, & 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 inconsumptions a pig or a cock stewed & made in a gely, cockrelles stewed, gotꝭ milk & sugar, almond milk in the which rice is sudden, & rabbertꝭ stewed, & new laid eggꝭ & rear yolks of eggꝭ & rice sudden inalmon milk.   

¶ The. xxxv. chapit treateth of a diet for them the which be asmatyke men, being short winded or lacking breath.  
Shortness of wind cometh divers times of impediments in the lungs, & straightness of the breast opylated thorough vyseus phlegm, & other while when the heed 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: and cheese and milk is not good for them, no more is fish and fruit, & 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 vyscus & slime & in any wise beware of the skins of fish and 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 into a clear air. The dust also that riseth in the street thorough the vehemens of the wind or other wise, is not good for them. And smoke is evil for them, & so is all thing that is stopping, wherefore necessary it is for them to be laxative, & to be in a clean & pure air.   

¶ The. xxxvi. Chapit 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, & testynes, & must beware of fear, for thorough anger or fear divers times the palsy do come to man. Also they must beware of drunkenness, & eating of nuts, which things be evil for the palsy of the tongue, coldness & courageous, & vynking 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, and the savour of a Fox is good against the palsy.   

¶ The. xxxvii. Chapter, 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 inconvenience that may fall, as it appeared of late days of a lunatycke man named Michael, 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 roll, nor that he have no girdle except it be a wekelyste of cloth, for hureing or killing himself. Also the chamber or the house that the mad man is in, le● there be no painted clothes, nor painted walls, nor pyotures of man nor woman or foul or be'st: for such things maketh them full of fantasies, let the mad persons heed the shoven ones a month, let them drink no wine nor strong ale, nor strong beer, but moderate drink, and let them have. three 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 what reprehension or reformation is.   

¶ The. xxxviii. Chapter, treateth of a diet for them the which have any of the kinds of the Idropyses.  
Saint Beede saith the more a man doth drink that hath the Idropyse, 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 Ipo sacra. Len●oflegmancia, or the tympany. They that hath any of these four kinds of the Idropyses must refrain from all things the which be constupat and costive, and use all things the which be laxative, nuts and dry almonnes and hard cheese is poison to them. Aptysane and posset ale made with cold herbs doth comfort them: whosoever 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, & how a man should order his mansion place. And himself & his household, 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 physyon for their own save guard, 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, though, pencyfulnesse, & of inward anger. Beware of surfeits, and use not to much veneryouse acts Break not the usual custom of sleep in the night. A merry heart and mind, the which is in rest & quietness, without adversity, causeth a man to live long, & to look youngly although he be aged, care & sorrow bringeth in age & death, wherefore let every man be merry: & if he can not let him resort to merry company to break of his ꝑplexatyves. ¶ 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 counsel every man to keep the breast & the stomach warm. And to keep the fere from wet, & 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 ●eueryous acts: for that will cause a man to ioke agedly: and 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 reversed.   

¶ The. xl. Chapter, doth show an order, or a fashion, how a sick man should be ordered. And how a lick man should be used 〈◊〉 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 three good keepers, the which at all times must be diligent, and not slepysshe sloug gysshe nor 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 non: except certain persons she which be of counsel of the Testament making, the which wise men be not to seek of such matteers in their sickness, for wisdom would that every man should prepare for such things in health And if any man for charity will beset any person, let him advertise the sick to make every thing even betwixt god & the world & his conscience. And to receive the rights of holy church, like a catholic man. And to follow the council of both physicians which is to say the physician of the soul, & the physician of the body, that is to say the spiritual council of his ghostly father, and the bodily council of his physician concerning the receipts of his medsons to recover health. For saint Augustyne saith he that doth not the commandment of his physician doth kill himself. furthermore about a sick person should be redolent savourꝭ, and the chamber should be replenished with herbs & flowers of odyferouse savonr, & certain times it is good to use some perfumes 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, & that it be a little warmed, turned out of the cold. It the sick men w●… 〈…〉 sycker, that there is little hope 〈…〉 ●…ndemēt but signs of death, than no man ought to move to him any wordly matters or business: but to speak of gho●ly and godly matters. And to read the passion of christ, & to say the psalms of the passion, and to hold a cross or a pycrour 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, with asponeful of a caudle del or a colesse. And than let every man endeavour himself to prayer, that the sick person may finish his live Cathol●…ely in the faith of Jesus christ. And so depart out of this miserable world. I do beseehe the Father, and the son, & the holy ghost throw the merit of Jesus Christ's passion, that I and all creatures iyving may do so.  
Amen.   

¶ Imprinted at London in Fleetstreet at the sign of the George next to saint Dunston's church by William powel. In the year of our Lord god. M. CCCCC. LXVII.