CCXI sociable letters written by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.

CXL.

MADAM,

YOu writ in your last Letter, that the Lady G. D. takes Cooling Julips in the Morn∣ing, and Cordials when she goes to Bed, to Di∣gest Crude Humours; but my Reason says, she is in an Errour, as for Example, Dry Wood and Wet Wood, or Sear Wood and Green Wood, although there should be put much Fire to the Green, or Wet VVood, it will not hastily Burn, nay, such VVood doth oftener put Out the Fire, than the Fire doth Inkindle the VVood, for the moist Vapors that Issue, or are Drawn forth by the Heat of the Fire, do Destroy that Heat that Drew those Vapors out, whereas on the other side, Dry, or Sear VVood, when Kindled, and all of a Firy Flame, fling but a little VVater on it, and it will Quench out the Flaming Fire. The like are the Bodies of Mankind, they are easier Cooled, when Inflamed, Applying Cool∣ing Liquors, as Julips, Ptisan, Barly Water, and the like, than to Heat them with Cordials, when they are full of Raw, Crude, and Waterish Hu∣mours; for Fevers, although Violent, if they Proceed from no other Cause but a Supernatu∣ral Heat, are Sooner, and Easier Cured, than Cold Palsies, and other Cold Diseases; where∣fore it is better to take Hot things first, and Cool∣ling

after, than to take Hot things after Cool∣ing, for Hot thinps after Cooling do rather make a Smothering Heat, than a Concocting, Digesting, or Expelling Heat, so as it only fills the Body full of Vapors, like as Wet, or Green Fuel fills a Room with Smoak, but a Healthful Body must neither be too Hot, nor too Cold, nor too Dry, nor too Moist. And so leaving the Lady D. G. to her Julips and Cordials, I rest,

Madam,

Your faithful Friend and Servant.