2nd part.
Also to prosecute our former purpose, On rising, empty your bladder and belly, nose and lungs. when you arise in the morning, to auoyd all superfluities, as well by vrine as by the belly, which doe at the least euery day. Auoid also from the nostrils and the lungs all filthy matter, as wel by clensing, as by spittle, and Cleanse your whole body. clense the face, head, and whole body; & loue you to be cleane and wel apparelled, for from our cradles let vs abhor vncleannes, which neither nature or reason can endure. When you haue done these things, Say your Prayers. remember to powre foorth your prayers vnto God with a cleare voice, that the day may be happy and prosperous vnto you, that God may direct your actions to the glory of his name, the profit of your country, & the conseruation of your bodies. Walk gently, Then walke ye gently, and what excrements soeuer do slip down to the inferiour parts, being excited by [* Page 42.] *naturall heate, go to stool. the excretion thereof shall the better succeed.
[As for your businesses], whether they be publike or priuate, let them be done with a certaine honesty; then afterwards let your hunting iourneyes bee performed; Work in the forenoon. apply your selues to studie and serious businesse the
houres of the fore-noone, and so likewise in the after-noone, till twoor three houres before supper: Always wear a precious stone alwaies in your hands vse eyther Corall or yellow Amber, or a Chalcedonium, or a sweet Pommander, or some like precious stone to be worne in a ring; in a ring vpon the little finger of the left hand: haue in your rings eyther a Smaragd, a Saphire, or a Draconites, which you shall beare for an ornament: for in stones, as also in hearbes, there is great efficacie and vertue, but they are not altogether perceived by vs: hold a crystal in your mouth; hold sometime in your mouth eyther a Hyacinth, or a Crystall, or a Granat, or pure Gold, or Siluer, or else sometimes pure Sugar-candy. For Aristotle doth affirme, and so doth Albertus Magnus, that a Smaragd worne about the necke, is good against the Falling-sicknes: for the virtue of precious stones is great. for surely the vertue of an hearbe is great, but much more the vertue of a precious [* Page 43.] *stone, which is very likely that they are endued with occult and hidden vertues. Eat only twice a day. [Feede onely twice a day], when yee are at mans age: neuerthelesse to those that are subiect to choller, it is lawfull to feede often: beginne alwayes your dinner and supper with the more liquid meates, sometimes with drinkes. Don’t drink between dinner and supper. In the time betweene dinner and supper, abstain altogether from cups, vnlesse necessitie or custome doe require the same: notwithstanding the same custome being so vitious, must be by little and little changed.
I would not that you should obserue a certaine houre, either for dinners or suppers, as I haue sufficiently told you before, lest that daily custome should be altered into nature: and after this intermission of this custome of nature, hurt may follow; for custome doth imitate nature, and that which is accustomable, the very same thing is now become naturall.
Take your meate in the hotte time of Summer in cold places, In Winter eat in but in the Winter let there bee a bright
fire, hot well-aired places. and take it in hotte places, your parlors or Chambers being first purged and ayred with suffumigations, which I would not haue you to [* Page 44.] *enter before the suffumigation bee plainely extinct, lest you draw the fume by reason of the odour.
[And seeing one and the same order] of diet doth not promiscuously agree with all men, take your meate in order, as is before said, and sometimes also Fast for a day now and then. intermit the vse of meats for a whole day together, because through hunger, the faults of the stomacke which haue beene taken eyther by much drinking or surfetting, or by any other meanes, may be depelled and remoued.
By this meanes also your bodies shall be better accustomed to endure and suffer hunger and fasting, eyther in iourneyes or wars. Eat more at supper than dinner. Let your suppers bee more larger then your dinners, vnlesse nightly diseases or some distilations doe afflict you.