of them selues in their pasture when 'they be lustily disposed and in good health. Though in training of the bodie by waye of exercise, there be not so much regard had to the mirth of the minde, as to the motion of the bodie: and yet being an exercise it may not be vnpleasant. In which kinde it is noted to be vehement, wherein both strength is vsed to make the body spring, and swiftnesse to make it nimble: being naturally an interrupted race, as running is a continued leape. It serued the olde world in game for brauerie, and shew of actiuitie: in war∣fare to skip ouer diches and hard passages, in Physicke for an exercise of health, whereby it became more stately and impe∣riall, bycause the first famous Romain Emperor Augustus Caesar, being troubled with the Ischiatica and stone in his bladder, and also hauing some weaknesse in his left legge and feet, vsed this running leape, or leaping race to helpe himselfe thereby. There be diuers kindes of leaping wherof I will tuch the most likely.
[ 1] Leaping and springing without intermission is good to en∣crease the naturall heat, to helpe digestion, to dispatche raw humours, though afterward it anoie the head and brest, by∣cause it shaketh the head verie vehemently: and by reason of much bending and so pressing the backe, it oftimes breaketh [ 2] some canall in the breast or lungues. To leape running is good for such diseases of the head, as haue troubled it lōg. It helpeth the bulke, bycause it vseth no violent bending, nor pressing of the bodie, it fetcheth downe such needeles fumes, as otherwise would haue ben aspiring vpward: it chearisheth weake legges: which prosper not by nurriture, thorough some trembling and [ 3] benummed flesh. Leaping as we do commonly call it and vse it, doth driue idle superfluities downward thoroghly, but by∣cause it shaketh the bulke to sore, both by to violent mouing and to forcible strayning, it is not good for it: though it shew a verie deliuer and an actiue bodie: both to stirre and to do any thing else. It driueth also the stone from the kidneies into the bladder: yet it hurteth the knees by reason of violent and continuall bending them. The Lacedemonian wymen, whose picture Callimachus the painter, for his foolish curiosity named 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, as Plinie reporteth, vsed to leape so, as their heeles did hitte their hippes, which manner of leaping doth