Phisicke against fortune, aswell prosperous, as aduerse conteyned in two bookes. Whereby men are instructed, with lyke indifferencie to remedie theyr affections, aswell in tyme of the bryght shynyng sunne of prosperitie, as also of the foule lowryng stormes of aduersitie. Expedient for all men, but most necessary for such as be subiect to any notable insult of eyther extremitie. Written in Latine by Frauncis Petrarch, a most famous poet, and oratour. And now first Englished by Thomas Twyne.

Of bodily health. The thirde Dialogue.

IOY.

MY health is prosperous.

Reason.

Whatsoeuer I sayd er•• while concernyng beautie, imagine that it were now agayne repeated.

Ioy.

My bodily health is strong.

Reason.

Behold howe olde age commeth against thee, garded with a thousande kindes of sundrie diseases to inuade good health, and in the meane whyle pleasure fighteth agaynst thee a familyar combat.

Ioy.

The health of my body is ioyfull.

Reason.

An vnaduised ioyfulnesse, which vseth to make the pos∣sessours thereof carelesse and necligent, and many tymes to pro∣cure those diseases, whiche the distrustful carelesnesse of the party hath feared, as redie to impaire his good health.

Ioy.

The health of my body is good.

Reason.

Vse it well, els it is but a smal good: Yea, it is a great euyll, yf (as it is woont,) it mini∣ster cause of some offence. Good health hath been dangerous and hurtfull to many, that myght with more safetie haue been sicke in their beddes.

Ioy.

I am in very good health of body.

Reason.

A very good thyng truely, and muche profitable, whether a man hath ought to doo with the body, or with the minde. But lyke as there resteth the force of poyson in the rootes of certayne hearbes, whiche being corrected by minglyng of other thinges with them, there is an holsome drinke made of many things togeather, which before consistyng but of one thing, wo••••••e haue been hurtfull: So lykewyse bodily health, to the ende it be not harmefull to him that hath it, ought to be tempered with none other thing, then by adioynyng thereunto the good health of the minde. A sicke mynde dwelleth in no place woorse then in an whole body.