to the Sailor, no Shippe can sayle without Hempe, ye sayle clothes, the shroudes, staies, tacles, yarde lines, warps & Cables can not be made. Plowman, No Plowe, or Carte can be without ropes [* Fol. xxviii. b.] *halters, trace &c. Fisher and The Fisher and Fouler muste haue Hempe, to make their nettes. Archer. And no Archer can wante his bowe string: and the Malt man for his sackes. With it the belle is rong, to seruice in the Church, with many mo thynges profitable whiche are commonly knowen of euery man, be made of Hempe.
[From his Regyment, ? 1557.]
[Fol. E. i.]
Whole men of what age or complexion so euer they be of, shulde take theyr naturall rest and slepe in the nyght: and to eschewe merydyall sleep. After Dinner, sleep standing But and nede shall compell a man to slepe after his meate: let hym make a pause, and than let hym stande & lene and against a cupboard. slepe agaynst a cupborde, or els let hym sytte upryght in a chayre and slepe. Slepynge after a full stomacke doth ingendre dyuers infyrmyties, it doth hurte the splene, it relaxeth the synewes, it doth ingendre the dropses and the gowte, and doth make a man looke euyll [* Fol. E. i. b.] colored. *Beware of veneryous actes before the fyrste slepe, and specyally beware of suche thynges after dyner or after a full stomacke, for it doth ingendre the crampe and the gowte and other displeasures. Before bedtime be merry. To bedwarde be you mery, or haue mery company ahoute you, so that to bedwarde no angre, nor heuynes, sorowe, nor pensyfulnes, do trouble or dysquyet you. To bedwarde, and also in the mornynge, Have a fire in your bedroom, vse to haue a fyre in your chambre, to wast and consume the euyl vapowres within the chambre, for the breath of man may putryfye the ayre within the chambre: I do advertyse you not to stande nor to sytte by the fyre, but stand a good way off it. but stande or syt a good way of from the fyre, takynge the flauour of it, for fyre doth aryfie and doth drye vp a mannes blode, and doth make sterke the synewes and ioyntes of man. Shut your windows. In the nyght let the wyndowes of
your howse, specyallye of your chambre, be closed. [* Fol. E. ii.] Whan you* be in your bedde,[1] Lie first on your left side. lye a lytle whyle on your lefte syde, and slepe on your ryght syde. And whan you do wake of your fyrste slepe, make water yf you feel your bladder charged, & than slepe on the lefte side; and looke as ofte as you do wake, so oft turne your selfe in the bedde from one syde to the other. To sleep groveling on the belly, is bad; To slepe grouellynge vpon the stomacke and bely is not good, oneles the stomacke be slowe and tarde of dygestion; but better it is to laye your hande, or your bedfelowes hande, ouer your stomacke, than to lye grouellynge. on the back upright, is worse. To slepe on the backe vpryght[2] is vtterly to be abhorred[1]: whan that you do slepe, let not your necke, nother your sholders, nother your hands, nor feete, nor no other place of your bodye, lye bare vndiscouered. Slepe not with an emptye stomacke, nor slepe not after that you haue eaten meate one howre or two after. In your bed lye with your head somwhat hyghe, leaste that the [* Fol. E. ii. b.] *meate whiche is in your stomacke, thorowe eructuacions or some other cause, ascende to the oryfe (sic) of the stomacke. Wear a scarlet nightcap. [Let your nyght cap be of scarlet:] and this I do aduertyse you, to cause to be made a good thycke quylte of cotton,
Have a flock bed over your featherbed. or els of pure flockes or of cleane wolle, and let the couerynge of it be of whyte fustyan, and laye it on the fetherbed that you do lye on; and in your bed lye not to hote nor to colde, but in a temporaunce. Olde auncyent Doctors of physicke sayth .viii. howres of slepe in sommer, and ix. in wynter, is suffycent for any man: but I do thynke that slepe oughte to be taken as the complexion of man is. On rising, remember God, brush your breeches, put on Whan you do ryse in the mornynge, ryse with myrth and remembre God. Let your hosen be brusshed within & without, and flauer the insyde of them agaynst the fyre; vse lynnen sockes, your hose, or lynnen hosen nexte your legges: whan you be out of your bedde, stretch, stretche forth your [* Fol. E. iii.] *legges & armes, & your body; [cough, and spytte], and go to stool. than go to your stoole to make your egestyon, and exonerate youre selfe at all tymes, that nature wolde expell. For yf you do make any restryction in kepynge your egestyon or your vryne, or ventosyte, it maye put you to dyspleasure in breadynge dyuers infyrmyties. After you haue euacuated your bodye, Truss your points, comb your head, & trussed your poyntes,[3] kayme your heade oft, and so do dyuers tymes in the day. wash your hands and face, And wasshe your handes & wrestes, your face, & eyes, and your teeth, with colde water; and after yt you be apparayled, take a stroll, walke in your gardyn or parke, a thousande pase or two. [And than great and noble men doth vse to here masse], & other men that can not do so, but muste applye theyr busynes, doth pray to God. serue god with some prayers, surrendrynge thankes to hym for hys manyfolde goodnes, with askynge mercye
for theyr offences. And before you go to your [* Fol. E. iii. b.] refecti*on, moderatly exercise your body with some labour, Play at tennis, or wield weights. or playeng at the tennys, or castyng a bowle, or paysyng weyghtes or plommettes of leede in your handes, or some other thyng, to open your poores, & to augment naturall heate. At meals, At dyner and supper[4] vse not to drynke sundry drynkes, and eate not of dyuers meates: eat only of 2 or 3 dishes; but feede of .ii. or .iii. dysshes at the moste. After that you haue dyned and supte, laboure not by and by after, but make a pause, syttynge or standynge vpryght the space of an howre or more with some pastyme: drynke not moch after dyner. let supper-dishes be light. At your supper, vse lyght meates of dygestyon, and refrayne from grose meates; go not to bed with a full nor an emptye stomacke. And after your supper make a pause or you go to bed; and go to bed, as I sayde, with myrth.
[Furthermore] as concernynge your apparell. In wynter, next your shert Wear a scarlet petycote. vse you to weare a petycote of scarlet: your [* Fol. E. iv.] dowb*let vse at plesure: But I do aduertyse you to Line a jacket with white and black lambskin sewn diamond-wise. lyne your Iacket vnder this fasshyon or maner. Bye you fyne skynnes of whyte lambe & blacke lambe. And let your skynner cut both ye sortes of the skynnes in smale peces triangle wyse, lyke halfe a quarell of a glasse wyndowe. And than sewe a] MS. a a togyther a whyte pece and a blacke, lyke a whole quarell of a glasse wyndowe: and so sewe vp togyther