forth by word or afterward maintained it, seing he was helde for no bodie that could not, or but for a dastard which would not learne the sleight to swimme. The traine came bycause it was then best to learne, when the iointes were most pliable, & yet strong withall. The ende was either to saue themselues in fightes by sea, or in flightes by lande, where they were to passe riuers, or to assaile enemies by water, or for other such seruices: as what if Leander say it serues for loue, and bring both Hero to witnesse, which was partaker of the euill, and Musaeus the Poete, which described their misfortune? Which considera∣tions may recommende swimming to vs also: who may stand in neede of it, vpon the same causes, and in the like euentes that they did. But bycause it is so necessarie, it would not be vn∣curteously entertained, and therefore regard must be had in what water ye swimme, for if ye swimme in springes which are naturally hoat, it is stuffing, and yet good for the palsie so he that swimmeth do vse bladders, to ease him selfe withall, and lighten his labour. To swimme in marsh waters, & pooles, infecteth both the head and all the residue of the bodie, by∣cause rotten, and corrupt vapours, enter the pores of the bo∣die, together with the moysture. It is reasonable good swim∣ming in lakes and standing meres, which the larger they be and the clearer, the more commodious and wholesome to swimme in. But no kinde of fresh water is so good to swimme in, as the running riuer is, cheifly for them, which be in health, to whom besides many other commodities, it serueth for a pre∣paratiue to sleepe. Yet it is not good abiding long in any fresh water, for feare of perishing the sinnes both with cold & moy∣sture, whose issues be the crampe, and the swimmers daunger. But nothing at all, be it neuer so good for health, be it neuer so defensible to saue, can be gotten without perill in prouing. And why should swimming dreame of securitie, & neuer thinke to drowne? Doth it not deale with water, where there is no warrant, but wisedome to forsee? pointe the place, pointe the fight, pointe the daunger and a pointe for daunger: but where you cannot appointe the particularitie, ye cannot warrant the perill. Cocles, scaped, it was in a small riuer, and reskue at hand. Scoena the centurion scaped, he was neare both shippe