mowe pisse, and also thi ballokis wolle ake, and in thi bowellis
thou shalt be disesid, and also in thi lunges; and there may
engendir the, the stone.
I haue redde that ther was a kyng, and [he] made a gret assemble
of alle the beste phisiciens in Inde, and in Grece, and
comaunded hem to make him such a medicyn so nobil and profitable
that ther shulde nede noon othir helpe to mannys hele. The
Grekis seiden that who so euyr dranke euery morowe twies his
mouth fulle of hoot watir þat it shulde make a man hoole, and
þat him shulde nede noon othir medicyne. The phisiciens of
ynde seiden that who so ete the graynes of whijt mylle fastyng
with watir cresses it profitith moche, or who so ete eche morowe
of alibi Amei 7 dragmes, and of swete grapis and Reysynes, he
shalle haue no dowte of flewme, and he shalle haue the bettir
vndirstondyng, and he shalle haue no quarteyne, and who so
etith notes or ffygis with leves of Rewe, that day him thar drede
of no venyme. And euyr peyne the to kepe the naturalle hete
of thi body, for the distruccioun of thi body cometh of two
thingis and two causis, that on is naturelle and þat othir is ayens
kynde. The naturalle distruccioun is for the contrariete of
complexioun of man, for whan age surmounteth, the body it must
nedis noye. And that that is ayens kynde, it cometh of accident
aduenture as by swerd, spere, ston, or any case that cometh
of seeknes, by yville governaunce, and excesse of metis and [folio 21b]
drynkes, for some metes are smale, and some metes are grete,
and some are mene. Smale metis engendren good and clere
blood, as bred of good whete, Chekenys, Eggis, hennes. Grete
metis ben goode for hoot men that travaylen, and namely aftir
mete. The mene metis ben goode, for they engendren no
swellyng, no superfluytees, noon yville humoures as kedis, lambis,
and geldid shepe, for they are hote and moyste, alle though they
ben harde whan they ben rostid and hoot in the wombe.