[(12)] Put of your clothes in winter by the fire side: and cause your bed to bee heated with a warming panne:
vnless your pretence bee to harden your members, and to apply your selfe vnto militarie discipline. This outward heating doth wonderfully comfort the inward heat, it helpeth concoction, and consumeth moisture.
[(13)] Remember before you rest, to chew down two or three drachmes of mastick: for it will preserue your body from bad humours.
[(14)] Pray feruently to God, before you sleepe, to inspire you with his grace, to defend you from all perils and subtelties of wicked fiends, and to prosper you in all your affaires: and then lay aside your cares and businesse, as well publicke as priuate: for that night, in so doing, you shall slepe more quietly. Make water at least once, and cast it out: but in the morning Look at your water in a Urinal. make water in an vrinal: that by looking on it, you may ghesse some what of the state of your body. Sleep first on your right side with your mouth open, Have a hole in your nightcap. and let your night cappe haue a hole in the top, through which the vapour may goe out.
[(15)] In the morning remember your affayres, and if you be troubled with rheumes, as soone as you haue risen, vse diatrion piperion, or eate white pepper now and then, and you shall be holpen.
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