The French academie Fully discoursed and finished in foure bookes. 1. Institution of manners and callings of all estates. 2. Concerning the soule and body of man. 3. A notable description of the whole world, &c. 4. Christian philosophie, instructing the true and onely meanes to eternall life. This fourth part neuer before published in English. All written by the first author, Peter de la Primaudaye, Esquire, Lord of Barre, Chauncellour, and Steward of the French Kings house.

The eight dayes worke.

OF Ielousie and the kinds thereof: how it may bee either a vice or a vertue: how true zeale, true ie∣lousie & indignatiō proceed of loue: of their natures & why these affections are giuen to man. Cha. 57. 502

Of reuenge, cruelty and rage, & what agreement there is among them: what shame and blushing is, and why God hath placed these affections in man: and of the good and euill that is in them. c. 58. f. 505

Of pride, with the consideration thereof as well in na∣ture intire as corrupted: of the originall therof, and of such as are most inclined thereunto: what vices accompany it: how great a poison it is, and what remedie there is for it. c. 59. 508.

Of the naturall powers of the soule, and what sundrie vertues they haue in the nourishment of the body: of their order & offices: of their agreemēt & neces∣sary vse: where their vegitatine soule is placed in the body, and what vertue it hath to augment the same, chap. 60 f. 511.

What instruments the soule vseth in the body, about the naturall workes of nourishing and augmenting: of the ventricle or stomacke, and of the figure, ori∣fices and filaments it hath: of the stomacke, and of what substance and nature it is: of the causes of hun¦ger & of appetite: of the inferiour orifice. c. 61. 514

Of the intrals and bowels, & of their names & offices: of the nature of the three smaller guts: & of the o∣ther three that are greater: of the instructiōs which we may learne by these things. c. 62. 517.

Of the mesentery & Mesareon: of the Meseraical veins of the Pancreas or sweet bread, and of their nature and office, of the liuer, and of his nature & office of the roots, bodies and branches of the veines: of their names and vses, & of the similitude betweene them and the arteries. c. 63. 520.

Of the blood, and of other humours in the body: of their diuersity and nature, and of the agreement they haue with the elements: of the similitude that is betwixt the great garden of this great world, and that of the litle world, touching the nourishment of things contained & preserued in them. c. 64. f. 523