z. ¶How a kynge ought to kepe his body.
MOost beloued sone kynge Alexandre / trust ••ot in women / nor in theyr werkes / nor seruyces / and company not with them.
[Thus endeth the secrete of secretes of Arystotle]
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- The yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC.xxviij. the. vij. day of August the. xx yere of the reygne if our moost dradde souerayne and naturall kynge Henry the. viij. defender of the fayth. [1528]]
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And yf necessyte were that thou must haue cōpany of a woman. ••o so that thou mayst knowe that she is true to the / and holsome of her bodye. For whan thy persone is betwene the armes of a woman / thou arte as a Iew•••••• / put / and restynge in the handes of a marchau•• ••••••at careth not to whome it is ••ol∣de. And beynge betwene her handes / is the poyson of thy welfare / and also the destruccyon of thy body. Beware therfore dere sone / of suche w••men / for they be venymous and deedly. For it is no newe thynge to knowe that by theyr venym many mē haue dyed. Thou knowest well that many kynges haue for••he∣red and shortened theyr lyues and haue dyed by poy¦son. Also dere sone Alexander beware that thou put not thy trust in one physycyen onely. For one physy∣cyen maye hurte the / and shor••ely do to the mothe harme And therfore yt thou mayst / do so that thou haue many physycyēs. And that they be of one agre∣ment. And yf thou wylt haue ony medycyn / take it not but by the councell of them all. And that they be such as knoweth the qualyte and nature of the thyn¦ges that ben put / and necessary in the medycyne.
And that it be of a certayne weyght and measure / as the medycyne requyreth it. For by equall porcyōs of weyght and measure the arte of physyke is com∣pownded. ¶And thynke on dere sone that whan thou was in the parties ofynde / many people ma∣de to the grete presentes and fayre. Amonge the whi¦che was s••nte a fayre mayden whiche in her chyld∣heed had be nourysshed with venym of serpentes / wherby her nature was conuerted in to the nature of serpentes. And than yf I had not wysely beholden
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her and by my artes and wyt knowen her / bycau∣se that cōtynually / and without shamefastnesse euer she loked in the faces of the people / I perceyued that with ones bytynge she wolde haue put a mā to deth as sythen thou hast seen the experyence before ••he.
And yf I had not knowen her nature / at the fyrst ty¦me that thou had medled with the sayd m••yde thou haddest ben deed without remedy. Fayre sone kepe thy noble soule / whiche is gyuen to the and ••ent fro•• the company of aungelles the whiche is takē to the of god for to kepe. Not that thou soyle & ••arre it but y• it be put amonge the wyse & gloryfyed spyry••••s.