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[Thus endeth the secrete of secretes of Arystotle]

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[Thus endeth the secrete of secretes of Arystotle]
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[[London] :: Imprynted by Robert Copland at Londo[n] in the flete-strete at the sygne of the Rose garla[n]de,
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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Education of princes -- Early works to 1800.
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"[Thus endeth the secrete of secretes of Arystotle]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A21368.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.

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B. ¶Of dyuers meates for ye stomake.

WHā ye body is fat & full of vapours grosse meates is good for it. & of ye nourysshȳg of suche a body / ye dygestyō is grosse / & of grece quātyte for ye great heate / & va∣pours of ye body. And whā the bodye is sklneder & drye / subtyll & moyste meates be good for it. And ye dygestiō therof is of smal quātyte for ye streyt¦nesses of ye cōduytes. And it is grete wysdome & scyen¦ce for a man to vse suche meates as ben good & apper∣tenēt to his cōplex yō / that is to wyte yf he fede hym wt hote meates tēperatly. But yf the heare be to gre∣uous & brēnynge wtin the body by ouer stronge wy∣nes & hote meates / or other accydentes / thā cōtrary meates & drynkes wyl do grete ease & prouffyte yt is to wyte suche as ben colde. ¶Of the stomake.

¶Yf thy stomake be to hote thā hote & cours meates be good. For such a stomake is lyke a myghty fyre for to brēne gret weyght of logges. But whā ye stomake is colde & feble thā it is good to haue lyght & subtyle meates. ¶The sygnes to knowlege ye stomake.

¶The sygnes of a stomake yt is of an yll & weyke dy¦gestyō is whā ye body is vnlusty / heuy / & slouthful / ye face is swollē / & he yaneth oftē / & hath payne in his eyē / & bolketh often & rudely / & ye bolkyng is lowre & vnsauery / watry & stynkīg / & therby is bredde wyn¦des & swellynge of the bely & ye appetyte of mea•••• is marde. Therfore swete sone beware of meates and drynkes yt may hurte or be contrary to thy helth.

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