Then who so knowes by nature’s worke in these,
Of metalles or of mynes the force to heale,
May sooner giue his iudgement in disease,
For curing by the bath, and surer deale
With sickly people of the publique weale,
And also finde of fountaynes salt, or hote, or cold,
And for to heale by them the sicke with honour bee bold.[426]
14.
The Citie eke of Bathe I founded there,
Renouned far by reason of the welles: