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FOr such victuals (saith the most industrious Pliny,) are the most wholesome and agreeable: Nature is but one, therefore she doth most delight in one kinde of meate and drink. Whence followes this conse∣quence,
Thou shouldest never at one meal feed upon divers sorts of meats & drinks.
For they are of an Heterogeneous nature, and the fire of Nature, which is but one and the same cannot work equally upon them all, and prepare (legitimately) a nutriment for his own body, out of divers and diffe∣ring cibations. Every thing the nea∣rer it is to unitie, is by so much the more perfect and durable. There are infinite sorts of Trees which live ve∣ry long, but they use all of them (without change) onely one kind of nutriment: But if it be so, that thou canst not abstaine from variety of meats, yet be sure (if possibly thou canst) that they have some agree∣ment and correlation amongst them∣selves: For Contraries, (as Hippo∣crates affirmes) will move sedition and differences, while some of them are sooner, some latter digested and communicated to the body. Octa∣vius Augustus, would never have above three dishes of meat to his sup∣per: Imitate him, and use not too
much indulgence towards thy selfe, so shalt thou live the longer and the better.