pure waters,What kind of waters are best. for they be mingled with sundry aires, corruptions, grosenesse, and saltnes, notwithstanding in all our meats and drinkes water is vsed, and amon∣gest all liuing creatures can not be sor∣borne, both man, beast, fish, foule, hearb, and grasse.Auic. lib. 1. fen. 3. de dispositioni∣bus aquarum. And (as Auicen saieth) the clay water is pure, for clay cleanseth the water, and is better than water that run∣neth ouer grauell, or stones, so that it bee pure clay, voyde of corruption. Also wa∣ters running toward the east, be pure, comming out of hard stony rockes, and a pinte of that water is lighter than a pint of the standing water of welles or pooles. The lighter the water, the better it is. Also waters that are put in wine, &c. ought first to bee sodden ere it be occupied colde, and so the fire doth cleanse it from corruption. Standing waters, and wa∣ter running neare vnto cities and towns, or marish ground, woods, and fennes bee euer full of corruption, because there is so much filth in them of carrions and rotten dung, &c. Ice and snowe waters be very grose, and bee hurtefull to the bodies of men and beasts. To drinke colde water is euill, for it will stoppe the body, and 0