Three prose versions of the Secreta Secretorum / edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Steele and a glossary by T. Henderson

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Steele, Robert Benson, b. 1860

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.

1898

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"Three prose versions of the Secreta Secretorum / edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Steele and a glossary by T. Henderson." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/SSecr. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2025.

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Of thingis that makith þe body lene. Capm. 49m.

tHese thingis are they that makith þe body lene. Excesse of mete and drynke, ouyr moche travayle, moche stondyng in the sonne, moche goyng, moche slepyng afore mete, moche wrath, moche fere, and bathyng in watris þat be of Sulphure nature. Etyng of salt metes, drynkyng of oold wyn, ouirmoche to vse chambir worke. Ipocras seith that who so bathe him with fulle wombe shalle haue seeknes in the bowelis, and also he that lythe with women wombe fulle. And also he þat etith oft tymes hoot fisshe, or that drynketh mylke and wyne medlid, is able forto be a lepre, þus saith ypocras.