Approved directions for health, both naturall and artificiall deriued from the best physitians as well moderne as auncient. Teaching how euery man should keepe his body and mind in health: and sicke, how hee may safely restore it himselfe. Diuided into 6. sections 1. Ayre, fire and water. 2. Meate, drinke with nourishment. 3. Sleepe, earely rising and dreames. 4. Auoidance of excrements, by purga. 5. The soules qualities and affections. 6. Quarterly, monethly, and daily diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the authour.

Shew me a way how to make Tossepots and drunkards to hate wine.

Cause a Drunkard to drinke with white wine the blossomes of Rie, gathered at such time as the Rie blossometh: or else take three or foure Eeles aliue, and let them lie in wine till they die, and afterward cause this wine to be drunken off by such as are giuen to be drunk: or else take a greene Frog, which is ordinarily found in fresh springs, and let the same lie in wine till she die; otherwise marke diligently where the Owle haunteth, that so you may get some of her egs: frie them and giue them the drunken gallant to eate. But in vaine labours the Phisitian to cure the bo∣dies intemperance, while the soule sleepes in sinne, while the reasonable faculties lie troa∣den and trampled vnder these worldly plea∣sures. Awake then, thou sensuall man, and shoote inwardly into the lightsome cause of health, which is no other then sobrietie, fa∣shioned after the spirituall image of the Trini∣tie. But if thy nature be so sterne, if thy soules aduantage be no solide reason in thy iudge∣ment to conuert thy brutish liuing, yet let ex∣amples of the bodies griefes terrifie thy lust∣full

thoughts from such vaine dregs. Looke but on the countenance of a drunkard, and is not he disfigured? Doth not his nose seeme rotten, withered, or worme-eaten? Doth not his breath stinck, his tongue falter? Is not his body crazed, subiect to gouts and dropsies? It is written of olde Father Ennius, that by emp∣tying of bottels he got the gout and many o∣ther dolours. As Mounsieur du Chesne out of Celius Rhodiginus translated these verses into French:

Le bon pere Ennius seicha tant les bouteilles, Qu'il fut geine de goutte et douleurs nompareilles.

More would I inueigh against the Lapithes of our age, had not I of late taxed them in my first Circle of the Spirit of Detraction.