The breuiarie of health vvherin doth folow, remedies, for all maner of sicknesses & diseases, the which may be in man or woman. Expressing the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Latin, Barbary, and English, concerning phisick and chirurgerie. Compyled by Andrew Boord, Doctor of phisicke: an English-man.

The 163. Chapter doth shew of Ioye or Myrth.

* 1.1GAudium is the latin word. In English it is named Ioy or Myrth. In gréeke it is named Hidonae.

The cause of Myrth.

¶ Myrth commeth many wayes, the principall myrth is when a man doth lyue out of deadly sinne, & not in grudge of cōscience in this world, and that euery man doth reioyce in God, and in charitie to his neighbour, there be many other myrthes and consolacions, some being good & laudable, and some vytuperable, laudable myrth is one man or one neighbour to be mery with an other, with honestie & vertue, with out swearing or slaundering, and rybaldry speaking. Myrth is in Musicall instrumentes, and ghostly and god∣ly singing, myrth is when a man liueth out of debt, and may haue meate and drinke and cloth, although hée haue neuer a pany in his purse, but now a dayes he is mery that hath Golde and siluer, and ritches with lechery, & all is not worth a blew poynte.

A remedy.

I do aduertise euery man to remēber that he must dy, how, whan, and what time he can not tel, wherfore let euery mā amend his life and commit himselfe to the mercy of God.

For Gala, looke in the Chapter named Lac.

For Gangina, looke in the Chapter named Tubercula.

Notes

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  Myrth.