¶
Of
the
dyfference
of
astronomy
.
ALexander
fayresone
,
I
praye
thee
that
yf
thou
mayst
do
it
,
that
thou
ryse
not
,
nor
eate
,
nor
drynke
,
nor
do
any
other
thynge
,
but
by
the
councell
of
somethat
knoweth
and
hath
the
scyence
in
knowlegynge
the
sterres
and
astronomye
.
And
thou
shalt
wyte
my
dere
sone
that
almyghty
god
hath
made
nothynge
without
cause
,
but
hath
done
euery
thynge
reasonably
.
And
by
certayne
scyences
&
wayes
,
the
wyse
phylozopher
Platon
sought
and
felte
the
operacyons
of
all
thynges
composed
of
the
foure
elementes
,
&
the
humoures
contraryes
.
And
hadde
also
the
knowledge
of
the
thynges
created
and
formed
.
And
also
my
dere
sone
Alexander
I
praye
the
beleue
not
suche
fooles
whiche
saye
that
the
scyence
of
the
planettes
is
so
harde
to
be
knowen
,
and
that
none
maye
come
therto
.
Surely
they
be
fooles
and
wote
not
what
they
saye
.
It
is
a
noble
thynge
to
knowe
thynges
whiche
be
to
come
.
Yf
thou
knowest
the
thynges
whiche
be
to
come
,
thou
and
other
persons
maye
put
remedy
by
good
prayers
.
And
requyre
the
creatoure
that
hath
ordeyned
thē
to
retourne
theyr
malyce
,
and
ordeyne
them
otherwyse
.
Thynke
nor
dere
sone
that
god
hath
ordeyned
and
predestynate
such
thynges
,
but
that
by
his
power
he
maye
chaunge
them
otherwyse
whan
he
pleaseth
.
Wyte
thou
deresonne
that
the
good
people
praye
to
our
creatoure
with
orysons
and
deuout
petycyons
,
by
fastynge
&
sacrefyces
,
byalmesse
and
other
maner
,
axynge
of
pardon
of
theyr
synnes
and
doynge
penaunce
,
that
our
lorde
maye
retorne
and
remembre
suche
predestynacyons
whiche
other
do
feare
so
moche
.
¶
Retorne
we
deresone
to
our
fyrste
purpose
,
wyte
thou
that
astronomye
is
deuysed
in
.
iiij
.
partes
.
That
is
to
wyte
in
ordynaunce
of
sterres
,
In
the
dysposycyon
,
of
sygnes
,
and
of
theyr
elongacyons
.
Of
the
mouynge
of
the
sonne
.
And
this
partre
is
called
scyence
of
astronomy
:
The
other
parte
is
of
the
knowledge
of
the
mouynge
of
the
sayes
&
of
the
moone
.
And
this
partye
is
called
astronomye
.
And
is
the
worthyest
,
of
sterres
,
planettes
,
and
sygnes
.
And
,
there
is
M.
xxviij
.
planettes
sygned
and
formed
,
of
the
whiche
we
shall
speke
more
playnly
.
¶
Of
the
gouernayle
of
helth
.
HEalth
amonge
all
thynges
is
to
be
gott●n
&
hath
more
than
any
myght
of
r●chesses
.
For
the
kepynge
of
helth
is
by
vsynge
of
equall
thynges
conioy●ned
to
thē
body
,
as
by
aftemperaunce
of
humoures
.
For
the
gloryous
god
hath
ordeyned
them
,
and
gyuen
dyuers
remedyes
to
the
aftemperaunce
of
the
humoures
to
the
kepynge
of
helth
.
And
hath
shewed
it
to
his
holy
men
and
prophetes
,
and
to
many
other
Iust
men
whiche
he
dyde
chuse
and
enlumyned
with
the
holy
ghoste
,
in
his
sapyence
dyuyne
,
and
myghty
.
And
hath
gyuen
them
the
gyftes
of
the
scyence
of
these
thynges
here
after
folowynge
.
These
phylosophers
put
the
begynnynge
of
it
.
That
is
to
wytte
they
of
ynde
,
of
Grece
,
and
of
Athenes
.
Whiche
phylosophers
were
Iust
and
perfyte
,
and
theyr
wr●tynges
were
the
begynnynge
of
scyence
and
secretes
.
For
in
theyr
wrytynges
is
nothynge
founde
to
be
reproued
nor
sp●ylt
,
but
approued
of
all
wysemen
▪
¶
Of
the
gouernayle
of
sycke
people
.
ALl
wyse
and
naturall
phylosophers
saye
that
man
is
made
and
composed
of
foure
contrary
humours
,
the
whiche
haue
alwaye
nede
to
be
susteyned
with
meate
and
drynke
.
The
substaunce
wherof
behoueth
to
yssue
and
be
corrupte
yf
any
do
alwaye
eate
and
drynke
,
and
he
shulde
waxe
weyke
and
fall
in
great
dyseses
and
haue
many
inconuenyences
.
But
yf
he
eate
and
drynke
temperatly
and
he
shall
fynde
helpe
of
lyfe
,
strength
of
body
,
and
helth
of
all
the
membres
The
wyse
phylosophers
saye
that
yf
any
man
trespace
the
god
of
nature
,
and
the
good
maner
of
lyuynge
,
be
it
into
moche
eatynge
and
drynkynge
,
or
to
moche
slepynge
,
or
wakynge
,
into
moche
walkynge
or
restynge
,
beynge
to
laxatyfe
,
or
to
moche
lettynge
of
blode
or
to
lytell
,
it
can
not
be
but
he
must
fall
into
many
dyseases
,
and
greues
.
Of
the
whiche
dyseases
I
haue
bryefly
founde
,
and
therin
I
wyll
shewethe
my
councell
,
and
remedy
for
the
same
.
All
wyse
Phylosophers
accordeth
in
one
saynge
.
Who
so
kepeth
hym
fro
ouer
moche
eatynge
and
drynkynge
,
&
from
that
excesses
aforesayde
,
and
kepeth
temperaunce
,
he
shall
be
helthfull
of
his
bodye
/
and
lyue
longe
.
For
I
can
fynde
no
man
but
he
is
of
this
opynyon
,
and
wylsay
that
aldelectable
thynges
of
the
worlde
,
be
it
inpleasure
of
the
body
,
it
is
but
for
to
lyue
the
longer
in
them
.
But
for
a
more
secrete
ye
ought
to
enforce
you
to
do
suche
thynges
as
ben
belongynge
to
longe
lyfe
,
and
not
to
folowethe
appetyte
,
that
is
to
wyt
not
to
put
lye
meate
vpon
●eate
.
And
dere
sone
I
haue
herde
often
spoken
of
ypocras
whiche
kepte
manytymes
dyete
to
the
ende
that
he
myght
lyue
andendure
the
longer
.
Not
for
to
lyue
and
endure
for
the
meate
and
drynke
.
Also
dere
sone
it
is
great
holsomnesse
to
be
purged
of
superfluytes
&
euyll
humours
whiche
ben
in
the
body
.
¶
In
howe
many
maners
a
man
maye
kepe
his
health
.
GOod
sone
I
praye
the
haue
in
thy
mynde
stedfastly
these
certayne
instruccyons
&
kepe
thē
.
Knowe
thou
that
helth
is
chyefly
in
two
thynges
.
The
fyrst
is
let
a
man
vse
suche
meates
and
drynkes
as
he
hath
ben
nourysshed
with
.
The
seconde
that
he
purge
hym
of
yll
humours
that
be
corrupte
and
greue
hym
.
For
the
body
of
man
is
fedde
with
meates
&
drynkes
whiche
nourysshe
it
by
naturall
heate
that
dryeth
,
nouryssheth
and
fedeth
the
moystnesse
therof
.
¶
Of
dyuers
meates
for
the
stomacke
.
WHan
the
body
is
fatte
and
ful
of
vapours
,
grosse
meates
is
good
for
it
.
And
of
the
nourysshynge
of
suche
a
bodye
,
the
dygestyon
is
grosse
,
and
of
great
quantyte
for
the
great
heate
,
and
vapours
of
the
body
And
when
the
body
is
sclender
&
dry
a
subtyll
and
moyste
meates
be
good
for
it
.
And
the
dygestyon
therof
is
of
small
quantyte
for
the
streytnesses
of
the
conduytes
.
And
it
is
great
wysdome
and
scyence
for
a
man
to
vse
suche
meates
as
ben
good
and
appertenent
to
his
complexyon
,
that
is
to
wyt
yf
he
fede
hym
with
hote
meates
temperatly
But
yf
the
heate
be
to
greuous
and
brennynge
with
in
the
body
by
ouer
stronge
wynes
and
hote
meates
,
or
other
accydentes
than
contrary
meates
and
drynkes
wyll
do
great
ease
and
profyte
,
that
is
to
wyt
suche
as
bencolde
.
¶
Of
the
stomacke
.
¶
Yf
the
stomacke
be
to
hote
,
than
hote
&
cours
meates
be
good
.
For
suche
a
stomacke
is
lyke
a
myghty
fyre
for
to
brenne
great
weyght
of
logges
.
But
whan
the
stomacke
is
colde
and
feble
than
it
is
good
to
haue
light
and
subtyll
meates
.
¶
The
sygnes
to
knowledge
the
stomacke
.
¶
The
sygnes
of
a
stomacke
that
is
of
an
yll
and
weyke
dygestyon
is
whan
the
body
is
vnlusty
,
heuy
,
and
slothful
the
face
is
swollen
,
and
he
yaneth
often
,
and
hath
payne
in
his
eyen
,
and
holketh
often
and
rudely
and
the
bolkynge
is
sowre
and
vnsauery
,
watry
and
styukynge
,
and
therby
is
bredde
wyndes
and
swellynge
of
the
bely
&
the
appetyre
of
meate
is
marde
.
Therfore
swete
sone
be
ware
of
meates
&
drynkes
that
may
hurte
or
becontrary
to
thy
health
.
¶
An
epystle
of
great
value
.
MOste
dere
sone
Alexander
sythe
it
is
so
that
the
body
of
man
is
corruptyble
by
dyuersyte
of
complexyon
,
and
of
contrarye
humours
that
be
in
it
,
wherby
often
there
commeth
corrupcyon
to
it
,
I
thought
to
delyuer
the
some
thynge
that
shall
be
necessary
and
profetable
to
the
.
In
the
whiche
I
wyll
treate
of
the
secretes
of
physyke
whiche
shall
please
the
For
certayne
dyseases
come
to
a
kyng
whiche
be
not
honest
to
shewe
to
physycyons
.
And
yf
thou
wylt
obserue
this
lesson
,
thou
shalt
haue
no
nede
of
Physycyons
,
except
in
causes
that
may
come
in
battayle
,
the
which
may
be
exchewed
.
Alexander
fayre
sone
whan
thou
rysest
from
thy
slepe
,
walke
and
stretche
thy
membres
eqally
and
combe
thy
heed
,
for
stretchynge
of
the
lymbes
gyueth
force
,
and
combynge
reyseth
the
vapours
that
ben
come
in
slepynge
and
putteth
them
from
the
stomacke
.
In
somer
was
she
thy
heed
in
colde
water
,
whiche
shall
yelde
the
naturall
heate
,
and
shall
because
of
appetyte
to
meate
.
Than
clothe
thee
with
goodly
and
ryche
apparell
.
For
the
hert
of
man
delyteth
in
the
beholdynge
of
precyous
meates
and
clothynge
.
Than
rubbe
thy
tethe
with
some
cours
lynnyn
,
or
other
thynge
that
is
hote
and
drye
of
compleccyon
,
and
swete
of
smell
for
it
is
holsome
for
the
tethe
,
and
kepeth
them
clene
,
clenseth
the
stenche
of
the
muoth
and
clereth
the
voyce
,
and
gyueth
appetyte
to
eate
.
And
rubbe
the
heed
often
in
the
same
wyse
for
it
openeth
the
claustres
of
the
brayne
,
and
thycketh
the
necke
and
other
members
,
and
clenseth
the
face
and
the
syght
,
and
prolongeth
stowpynge
of
age
,
and
amendeth
the
blode
.
Also
anoynt
the
somtyme
with
swete
smellynge
oyntementes
,
as
the
tyme
requyreth
,
for
in
suche
swetenesse
thy
herte
taketh
great
pleasure
,
&
is
nourysshed
therby
.
And
the
spyryt
of
lyfe
taketh
refeccyon
in
good
odoures
:
and
the
blod
renneth
merely
throughe
▪
the
baynes
of
the
body
.
After
that
take
somtyme
an
electuary
of
a
wood
called
Aloes
/
and
Rubarbe
whiche
is
a
precyous
thynge
,
to
the
pryce
of
foure
pens
,
whiche
thou
shalte
fynde
wrytten
in
the
boke
of
physycke
,
and
this
shall
do
the
moche
good
,
for
it
voydeth
the
heate
of
the
Mouth
,
of
the
Stomacke
,
and
warmeth
the
body
and
wasteth
wyndes
,
and
maketh
good
taste
and
sauoure
.
After
this
I
councell
thee
that
thou
be
often
with
thy
noble
and
wyse
menne
of
thy
realme
,
and
speke
to
them
of
thy
besynesses
that
thou
hast
to
do
.
And
gouerne
them
sadly
accordynge
to
theyr
good
customes
.
¶
Of
the
maner
to
trauayle
.
OR
euer
thou
eate
,
or
thyne
appetyte
commeth
at
thyne
houre
accustomed
do
som
trauayle
,
that
is
to
wytte
walke
or
tyde
a
lytell
,
or
do
some
other
worke
,
for
it
helpeth
the
bodye
moche
,
it
avoydeth
all
ventosytees
,
and
maketh
the
body
lyghter
,
stronger
and
lustyeth
the
Stomacke
,
and
wasted
euyll
humours
of
the
body
and
maketh
the
flewme
of
the
stomacke
descende
.
¶
Of
the
maner
of
eatynge
.
¶
Fayre
sone
whan
thy
meate
is
set
afore
thee
,
eate
of
suche
as
thou
desyrest
moste
,
resonably
,
with
well
leuayned
breed
.
And
eate
of
suche
as
ought
to
be
fyrste
eaten
.
For
there
be
two
maners
of
dygestyon
of
meate
in
a
man
,
that
is
to
wyt
,
softe
,
and
harde
.
For
in
the
bottō
is
moste
heat
for
to
make
meate
,
bycause
it
is
moste
flesshely
,
and
nighest
the
heat
of
the
lyuer
wher
with
the
meate
is
soden
and
dygested
¶
Of
abstynence
of
meate
.
WHan
thou
eatest
,
eate
by
leasure
,
thoughe
thou
haue
great
appetyte
to
eate
.
For
yf
thou
eate
gredelye
noughty
humoures
do
multyplye
the
stomacke
is
laden
the
body
is
greued
,
the
hert
is
hurte
,
and
the
meate
remayneth
in
the
stomackes
botome
vndygested
.
¶
Howe
pure
water
ought
not
to
be
dronken
.
ALso
beware
deresone
that
ye
drynke
no
pure
water
,
specyally
whan
thou
haste
eaten
meate
.
But
yf
thou
be
wonte
therto
.
For
as
soone
as
the
water
is
vpon
the
meat
,
it
coleth
the
stomacke
,
and
quencheth
the
heate
of
the
dygestyon
and
comforte
of
the
meate
.
It
letteth
dygestyon
and
greueth
the
body
.
Yf
thou
muste
ned●s
drynke
water
alone
,
take
it
the
mooste
temperatlye
,
and
as
lytell
as
thou
mayst
.
¶
Of
the
maner
to
slepe
.
WHan
thou
hast
taken
thy
refeccyon
and
haste
luste
to
slepe
lye
downe
on
asofte
bedde
and
slepe
temperatly
.
And
fyrste
lye
downe
on
the
leftesyde
,
and
slepe
theron
a
reasonable
space
,
for
the
lefte
syde
is
colde
and
hath
nede
of
warmeth
.
And
yf
thou
fele
any
payne
in
thy
bely
or
in
thy
stomacke
,
than
lay
therto
a
souerayne
medycyne
,
that
is
a
warme
lynnē
cloth
layde
theron
,
wyt
thou
dere
sone
that
trauayle
is
good
and
gyueth
heate
to
the
stomacke
,
but
after
dyner
it
is
a
noughty
thynge
for
the
meate
abydeth
vndygested
in
the
botome
of
the
stomacke
,
and
therof
be
bredde
many
dyseases
.
And
slepe
before
fedynge
it
is
not
good
,
for
it
maketh
the
body
leaue
and
dryeth
the
humoures
.
But
slepynge
after
fedynge
is
good
,
for
it
fulfylleth
the
body
and
gyueth
force
,
and
nourysshynge
therto
.
For
whan
the
body
of
man
resteth
,
than
the
naturall
heate
draweth
the
heate
that
was
spredde
in
all
the
membres
in
to
the
botome
of
the
stomacke
and
gyueth
strengthe
therto
vpon
the
refeccyon
of
the
meate
.
And
heate
requyreth
rest
.
Therfore
some
phylosophers
haue
sayd
that
it
is
better
and
holsomer
to
eat
at
nyght
than
in
the
mornynge
,
for
the
eatynge
in
the
mornynge
bycause
of
the
heate
of
the
day
greueth
the
stomacke
,
and
the
body
is
more
trauayled
therwith
.
And
moreouer
the
person
chafeth
in
trauaylyng
doynge
his
besynesse
,
in
goynge
and
spekynge
,
and
many
other
thynges
that
belongeth
to
the
body
of
man
,
by
the
whiche
heate
that
is
outwarde
towarde
none
the
naturall
heat
that
is
inwarde
is
weyked
&
appeyred
,
and
the
meate
is
harde
to
dygest
.
But
at
nyght
it
is
more
easy
and
lesse
greued
with
the
heat
of
traueyle
.
And
the
here
and
members
of
man
ben
more
in
quyet
by
the
coldnesse
of
the
nyght
that
gyueth
naturall
heate
to
the
stomacke
.
¶
The
kepynge
of
custome
or
wont
.
THou
shalte
vnderstande
my
dere
sone
that
he
that
is
wonte
to
eate
but
one
meale
often
is
dyseased
,
for
the
stomacke
is
without
dygestyon
&
the
body
hath
small
nourysshynge
.
And
he
that
is
accustomed
to
eate
at
one
tyme
ones
,
another
tyme
twyse
,
he
shall
lyghtly
perceyue
that
it
doth
hym
harme
,
for
custome
chargeth
nature
.
¶
How
one
ought
to
chaunge
custome
.
ANd
yf
nede
constreyne
the
toch
aungethy
custome
,
do
it
wysely
,
that
is
to
wytte
by
lytell
and
lytell
.
And
so
by
the
grace
of
god
thy
chaungynge
shall
be
good
.
But
aboue
althynges
beware
that
thou
eate
not
tyll
thou
fele
thy
stomacke
empty
and
that
it
hath
made
good
dygestyon
of
the
fyrst
meale
.
And
this
thou
mayst
knowe
by
the
desyre
that
thou
shalte
haue
to
thy
meate
:
and
by
thy
spatle
that
turneth
subtylly
in
thy
inouth
,
And
yf
thou
eate
without
nede
or
appetyte
the
heate
of
thy
Stomacke
shall
be
made
colde
as
yse
.
And
yf
necessyte
be
that
thou
must
eate
,
&
haue
an
appetyte
therto
,
the
kynde
heate
of
thy
stomacke
wyll
be
as
hote
as
fyre
,
and
of
good
dygestyon
.
And
beware
that
whan
thy
appetyte
commeth
that
thou
eate
not
forthwith
,
for
it
wyll
gather
yll
humours
of
thy
body
in
to
thy
stomacke
,
whiche
wyll
hurte
thy
brayne
.
And
yf
thou
tary
ouer
longe
or
thou
eate
,
it
wyll
feble
thy
stomacke
,
and
the
meate
wyll
do
thy
body
no
good
.
And
yf
so
be
that
thou
mayste
not
eate
as
soone
as
thy
appetyce
requyreth
,
and
that
thy
stomacke
be
full
of
yll
humours
do
so
that
thou
mayst
vomyte
or
thou
eate
,
and
after
that
vomyte
take
an
electuary
,
&
eate
surely
¶
Of
the
foure
seasons
of
the
yeare
.
OVr
intencyon
is
to
treat
in
this
boke
of
the
foure
seasons
of
the
yere
,
with
the
qualyte
,
property
,
contraryte
,
and
dyfference
of
eche
of
them
.
And
they
ben
certayne
seasons
of
the
yeare
deuyded
as
foloweth
.
That
is
to
wytte
prymtyme
or
vere
begynneth
whan
the
sonne
entreth
in
the
sygne
of
Aries
,
and
lasteth
.
iiij
.
score
and
.
xiij
.
dayes
,
&
.
xviii
.
houres
,
and
the
fourthe
parte
of
an
houre
.
That
is
to
wyt
from
the
.x.
day
in
the
ende
of
Marche
,
to
the
foure
&
twenty
daye
of
Iune
.
And
in
this
season
the
dayes
&
nyghtes
benegall
of
length
The
wether
is
fayre
.
The
warme
wether
commeth
.
The
snowes
melte
,
ryuers
renne
swyft
and
clere
,
and
waxe
warme
,
the
moystnesse
of
the
earth
ryseth
to
the
heyght
of
trees
,
&
causeth
them
to
smell
swete
.
Medowes
and
graynes
sprowte
and
corne
groweth
and
all
floures
take
coloure
,
byrdes
ben
clothed
with
newe
robes
,
and
enforce
them
to
synge
.
Trees
ben
decked
with
leues
&
floures
,
and
the
landes
with
sedes
.
Beestes
engender
and
all
people
take
strength
and
lust
.
The
earth
is
arayed
goodly
,
and
is
as
a
fayre
bryde
clothed
with
Iewelles
of
dyuers
colours
bycause
she
shulde
semethe
fayrer
at
her
weddynge
.
¶
Of
Prymtyme
,
and
what
it
is
.
THe
prymtyme
is
hote
and
moyste
temperatly
as
the
ayre
.
This
season
the
blode
moeueth
and
spredeth
to
all
the
membres
of
the
body
,
and
the
body
is
parfyse
intemperate
complexyon
.
In
this
seasonchekyns
,
kyddes
,
&
poched
egges
ought
to
be
eaten
,
with
let
uses
and
gotes
mylke
in
the
sethre
monethes
.
Prymtyme
begynneth
whan
the
sonne
entreth
the
sygne
of
Aries
and
lasteth
.
xcii
.
dayes
,
an
houre
and
a
halfe
fro
the
x
daye
of
Marche
to
the
x
.
daye
of
Iune
.
In
this
season
is
the
best
lettynge
of
blode
of
any
tyme
.
And
than
is
good
to
trauayle
and
to
be
laxatyfe
And
to
be
bathed
.
And
to
eate
suche
thynges
as
wyll
purge
the
bely
.
For
all
dyseases
that
commeth
,
eyther
by
purgynge
or
bledynge
,
retorneth
anone
in
this
Prymetyme
.
¶
Of
somer
and
what
it
is
.
SOmer
begynneth
whan
the
Sonne
entreth
the
fyrste
poynt
of
the
creuyce
,
and
lasteth
.xcij.
dayes
,
and
an
houre
and
a
halfe
.
That
is
to
wyt
fro
the
.x.
day
of
Iune
to
the
.x.
daye
of
September
.
In
this
season
the
dayes
be
longe
and
the
nyghtes
short
.
And
in
all
regyons
encreaseth
and
abateth
theyr
heate
and
the
see
is
calme
,
and
the
ayre
mek
and
fayre
The
flours
wyther
and
serpentes
encrease
and
shed
theyr
venym
,
&
sprede
theyr
strength
.
The
myghtes
of
mannes
body
be
fortyfyed
.
And
all
the
worlde
is
full
of
welth
,
as
the
fayre
bryde
that
is
goodly
stature
and
in
perfyte
age
.
The
season
of
somer
hote
&
drye
,
and
than
coler
is
moeued
.
And
in
this
season
is
good
to
bewar●
of
al
thynges
that
be
hote
and
drye
of
complexyon
.
And
take
hede
of
to
moche
eatynge
or
drynkynge
for
therby
is
the
kyndly
heate
quenched
In
this
season
eate
meates
of
colde
and
moyst
complexyon
,
as
deale
,
mylke
with
vyneygre
,
&
potages
made
with
barly
meale
.
Eate
fruyt
of
eygre
sauour
,
as
Pommegarnetes
,
and
drynke
small
wynes
,
and
vse
not
the
company
of
women
.
In
this
season
let
thee
not
blode
,
but
yf
great
nede
compell
the
.
Vse
lytell
trauayle
,
and
seldome
bathynge
.
¶
Of
Autumpne
,
or
heruest
.
HEruest
entreth
whan
the
sonne
commeth
in
to
the
fyrste
degre
of
the
balaunce
and
lasteth
.xci.
dayes
and
an
houre
and
a
halfe
.
That
is
to
wyt
fro
the
.x.
daye
of
Septembre
to
the
.x.
daye
of
Decembre
.
In
this
season
the
daye
and
nyght
be
of
one
lengthe
.
And
than
the
dayes
waxe
shorte
&
the
nyghtes
longe
.
The
ayre
is
●●rke
,
and
the
Wyndes
entre
the
North●n
regyons
or
septentryon
.
The
wether
chaungeth
,
and
the
Ryuers
and
Sprynges
waxe
lesse
.
The
Orcheyardes
and
Fruytes
wydereth
.
The
beautye
of
the
Earth
faydeth
.
Byrdes
cease
theyr
syngynge
.
Serpentes
seke
theyr
holes
where
they
assembled
theyr
lyuynge
in
Somer
for
the
tyme
of
Wynter
.
The
earth
is
as
an
olde
naked
woman
that
goeth
from
youth
to
age
.
This
season
of
Haruest
is
colde
and
drye
,
this
tyme
blacke
coler
is
moeued
.
In
this
season
is
good
to
eate
meates
that
be
hote
and
moyst
as
Chekyns
,
Lambe
,
and
drynke
olde
Wynes
,
eate
swete
Reasyns
.
And
kepe
thee
from
all
thynges
that
brede
blacke
coler
,
as
lyenge
with
Women
more
than
in
somer
,
nor
bathe
thee
not
but
yf
great
nede
requyre
it
to
be
done
In
this
season
yf
a
man
haue
nede
of
vomytynge
,
do
it
at
noone
in
the
hotest
of
the
daye
.
For
at
that
tyme
all
the
superfluytes
of
mannes
body
gathereth
togyther
.
Also
it
is
good
to
purge
the
Bely
with
a
medycyne
ordeynen
therfore
and
other
thynges
that
ben
to
expulce
blacke
coler
and
to
refrayne
humours
.
¶
Of
Wynter
and
wha
it
is
.
WYnter
commeth
whan
the
Sonne
entreth
the
fyrste
degre
of
the
sygne
of
Caprycorne
and
lasteth
.lxx.
dayes
,
and
an
houre
and
a
halfe
.
And
begynneth
the
x
.
daye
of
Decembre
,
and
contynueth
to
the
.x.
daye
of
Marche
.
In
this
season
the
nyghtes
ben
longe
and
the
dayes
short
,
it
is
verye
colde
.
The
wynes
be
in
the
presse
,
and
the
leues
fall
,
and
Herbes
leeseth
all
theyr
strength
or
the
moste
parte
.
All
Bestes
hydeth
them
in
Caues
and
Pyttes
of
Hylles
.
The
ayre
and
the
wether
is
darke
.
And
the
earth
is
lyke
an
olde
decrypyte
persone
,
that
by
great
age
is
naked
and
nyghe
to
the
death
.
Wynter
is
verye
colde
and
moyst
,
and
than
behoueth
the
to
vse
hote
Meates
,
as
Chekyns
,
Hennes
,
Motton
and
other
hote
and
fatte
flesshe
,
eate
Fygges
,
Nuttes
,
and
drynke
grene
Wynes
.
And
beware
of
to
moche
laxe
and
bledynge
,
and
eschewe
company
of
women
,
for
it
wyll
feble
thy
Stomacke
,
and
bathes
be
good
.
And
for
the
great
colde
the
naturall
heate
entreth
into
the
body
,
and
therfore
the
dygestyon
is
better
in
Wynter
than
in
Somer
.
And
in
Heruest
the
Bely
is
colde
,
and
than
the
poores
ben
open
by
heate
of
the
season
,
and
reproueth
the
naturall
heate
of
all
the
partes
of
the
body
.
And
therfore
the
Stomacke
hath
but
lytell
heate
,
wherby
the
dygestyon
is
febled
,
and
the
humours
assemble
there
.
¶
Of
naturall
heate
.
SOne
Alexander
I
praye
thee
kepe
the
kyndly
heate
of
thy
body
,
and
thou
shalt
haue
longe
health
.
For
the
body
of
man
dyeth
in
.
ii
.
maners
.
One
is
by
great
age
the
whiche
ouercommeth
the
bodye
and
dystroyeth
it
.
The
other
is
accydentally
,
as
by
wepynge
,
syckenesse
or
other
aduenture
.
¶
Of
thynges
that
fatteth
the
body
.
RYght
dere
sone
these
bē
thynges
that
fatteth
the
bodye
.
That
is
to
wytte
ease
of
the
bodye
and
fyllynge
it
with
deynty
meates
&
drynkes
,
and
Mylke
,
and
than
to
slepe
on
a
softe
bed
.
All
swete
smellynge
floures
in
theyr
season
,
and
bathynge
in
fresshe
Waters
.
But
yf
thou
bathe
the
,
tary
not
longe
in
it
,
and
haue
swete
smellynge
thynges
in
the
Bathe
.
And
neuer
drynke
Wyne
but
it
be
well
tempered
with
water
.
And
specyallye
in
Wynter
make
water
of
floures
called
Assynini
and
put
it
in
to
thy
Wyne
,
for
it
is
hote
of
nature
.
And
in
Somer
vse
Vyoletes
and
floures
of
Malowes
and
other
thynges
that
be
colde
,
and
vse
to
vomyte
ones
in
a
moneth
specyally
.
For
vomytes
wassheth
the
body
and
purgeth
it
of
wycked
humours
and
stynke
that
is
in
it
.
And
yf
there
be
but
fewe
humours
in
the
Stomacke
,
it
comforteth
the
naturall
heate
.
And
whan
thou
hast
vomyted
dwyllyngly
,
the
body
wyll
fyll
it
with
good
humydyte
&
be
of
good
dysposycyon
to
dygest
.
And
yf
thou
gouernethe
thus
,
thou
shalt
be
mery
at
thy
Herte
,
lusty
with
reasonable
healh
and
good
vnderstandynge
,
glory
and
honour
,
and
ouer
all
thyne
enemyes
vyctory
.
Also
I
wyll
that
thou
delyte
in
the
beholdynge
of
goodlye
persons
,
or
in
redynge
of
delectable
bokes
,
or
in
werynge
of
precyous
garmentes
,
and
goodly
Iewelles
,
as
the
tyme
requyreth
.
¶
Of
thynges
that
leaneth
the
bodye
.
THese
be
the
thynges
that
maketh
the
Bodye
to
be
leane
,
weyke
,
and
drye
,
to
moche
eatynge
,
to
moche
trauelynge
,
to
moche
walkynge
in
the
sonne
,
to
moche
goynge
,
to
moche
slepynge
afore
noone
melancoly
,
feare
,
to
Bathe
in
water
of
the
nature
of
brymstone
,
eatynge
salte
meates
,
to
moche
drynkynge
of
olde
wyne
,
to
be
to
laxe
,
and
ouer
moche
lettynge
of
Blode
.
For
Ypocras
sayth
that
he
that
Bathe
hym
with
a
full
Bely
,
or
lyeth
with
a
Woman
shall
haue
syckenesse
in
his
entrayles
.
And
also
to
renne
,
or
to
ryde
,
or
to
moche
trauayle
after
meate
bredeth
a
great
dysease
called
Palsey
.
And
moche
eatynge
of
fysshe
,
or
mylke
and
wyne
togather
ypocras
sayth
it
wyll
make
one
lazar
.
¶
Of
the
fyrst
parte
of
the
body
.
OF
the
foure
partes
of
the
body
the
heed
is
the
fyrst
For
in
the
beed
gadereth
all
superfluytes
,
and
euyll
Humours
,
whiche
thou
shalte
sele
and
knowe
by
these
sygnes
folowynge
.
The
eyes
bē
troubled
,
the
herynge
is
thycked
and
the
nose
strylles
ben
stopped
,
yf
thou
fele
suche
a
dysease
take
an
Herbe
called
wormwood
,
and
sethe
it
in
swetewyne
tyll
the
halfe
be
wasted
,
than
holdeit
in
thy
mouth
and
wasshe
it
many
tymes
therwith
tyll
thou
fele
that
it
doth
the
good
,
and
eate
whyte
Mustarde
sede
powdred
with
thy
meate
.
And
yf
thou
do
not
thus
thou
mayst
happen
to
haue
some
dysease
,
and
specyally
inthyne
eyes
,
in
thy
brayne
,
&
in
other
partes
of
thy
body
.
¶
Of
the
seconde
parte
of
the
body
.
THe
seconde
parte
of
the
body
is
the
bulke
,
yf
dysease
come
there
thou
shalt
know
it
by
these
sygnes
folowynge
.
The
tongue
is
lette
,
the
mouth
is
salt
,
bytter
,
and
vnsauer●
.
The
mouth
of
the
Stomacke
sowre
withgrese
in
all
thy
membres
.
It
behoueth
the
to
eate
but
lytell
and
to
vomyte
,
than
eate
a
lytell
Suger
of
roses
with
aloes
and
take
good
comfortynge
spyces
and
eate
an
elctuary
named
Dionisium
.
And
yf
thou
do
not
thus
,
thou
mayst
fall
in
dyseases
of
that
syde
,
of
the
Raynes
,
and
Feuers
and
specyally
of
the
Tongue
wherby
thou
shalt
not
properly
speke
,
and
dyuers
other
maladyes
.
Decoccyon
of
Yysope
is
good
.
¶
Of
the
thyrde
parte
of
the
body
.
THe
thyrde
parte
of
the
body
is
the
wombe
,
yf
it
be
combred
with
euyll
Humours
thou
shalt
knowe
it
by
these
sygnes
.
The
Bely
wyll
Swell
with
payne
and
styfness●
in
the
knees
,
goynge
a
slowe
pace
.
It
behoueth
to
vse
some
subtyle
and
lyght
Meates
,
as
is
sayd
before
with
the
gouernynge
.
And
yf
thou
do
not
thus
there
wyl
folowe
ache
in
the
hyppes
,
in
the
mylte
,
in
the
backe
,
and
other
ioyntes
,
and
in
the
lyuer
,
with
yll
dygestyon
.
¶
Of
the
fourth
parte
of
the
body
.
THe
fourth
parte
of
the
body
ben
the
genytours
.
Yf
superfluyte
and
noughty
humours
gather
in
them
thou
shalt
knowe
by
these
sygnes
.
The
appetyte
wyll
waxe
colde
,
and
rednesse
wyll
appere
vpon
them
and
vpon
the
share
.
Than
must
thou
take
a
sede
called
Api●
with
Fenellsede
and
the
roote
of
Mugwort
,
and
of
another
called
Acham
,
and
atracies
.
And
with
these
Herbes
put
the
Rotes
in
good
whyte
Wyne
,
and
drynke
a
quantyte
of
it
euery
mornynge
with
a
lytell
water
and
hony
and
eate
not
moche
after
it
.
And
yf
thou
do
not
thus
thou
shalte
haue
Payne
in
the
Bladder
,
and
Lyuer
,
and
shalte
not
pysse
,
and
shalt
haue
grefe
in
the
Intrayles
and
Lunges
with
brekynge
of
the
Stone
.
Swete
sone
Alexander
I
haue
rede
also
the
Hystoryes
of
a
myghty
kynge
,
whiche
assembled
all
the
best
Phylosophers
that
were
in
Ynde
and
Grece
,
commaunded
them
to
make
a
medycyne
so
profytable
that
he
shuld
nede
none
other
for
his
helth
.
The
Grekes
sayd
he
that
Drynketh
euery
Mornynge
twyse
his
Monthfull
of
warme
Water
shall
haue
a
good
ende
,
and
shall
nede
none
other
medycyne
.
The
Physycyons
of
Ynde
sayd
that
it
is
good
to
eate
eueryday
Fastynge
aquantyte
of
Greynes
of
whytehony
.
And
mesemeth
that
who
so
taketh
one
of
these
sayd
Medycynes
by
reason
shall
not
haue
payne
in
his
Wombe
,
nor
ought
not
to
feare
Palsey
,
nor
Gowte
,
nor
ache
in
his
Ioyntes
.
And
who
so
Eateth
euery
mornynge
.
vij
.
Dragmas
of
clusters
of
swete
Wyne
grapes
,
shall
not
feare
that
dysease
of
flew
me
,
and
it
wyll
amende
his
mynde
,
and
claryfye
his
vnderstandynge
,
and
he
nedeth
not
to
doubte
Feuer
quattaynes
.
And
who
so
Eateth
in
the
Mornynge
a
Fygge
with
Nuttes
and
aquantyte
of
leues
of
Rue
,
that
day
shall
not
nede
to
feare
Venym
.
¶
Of
naturall
heate
.
MOste
myghty
kyng
I
requyre
the
to
study
the
maner
to
kepe
the
naturall
heate
of
thy
body
,
with
the
moysture
therof
,
in
the
whiche
.
ij
.
thynges
lyeth
the
helth
of
the
person
.
And
knowe
thou
that
the
dystruccyon
of
the
bodye
commeth
in
two
thynges
,
one
is
naturall
,
and
the
other
is
agaynst
nature
.
And
for
the
contraryte
of
the
complexyon
of
man
,
and
whan
age
surmounteth
the
bodye
it
behoueth
for
to
dye
.
Otherwyse
vnnaturally
by
aduenture
,
as
by
wepynge
,
or
stones
,
or
by
syckenesses
and
lacke
of
helpe
,
or
by
Venym
:
and
other
chaunces
.
¶
Of
the
qualytes
of
Meates
.
FVrther
more
it
is
good
that
thou
knowe
the
nature
of
meates
,
for
some
ben
grosse
,
orcours
,
and
some
ben
lyght
and
subtyle
.
The
subtyle
bredeth
thynne
blode
,
and
good
,
as
pure
whyte
,
Chekyns
,
and
newe
layde
Egges
Grosse
meates
ben
good
for
suche
as
ben
of
hote
humours
,
Labourers
,
fastynge
,
and
that
slepe
after
meales
.
Meane
meates
bredeth
no
Hote
nor
superfluous
Humours
,
as
the
Flesshe
of
Lābes
,
yonge
Porke
,
and
other
that
ben
hote
and
moyst
,
but
suche
meates
chaunge
often
in
rostynge
to
hardnesse
to
heate
,
&
dryenesse
.
And
they
ought
to
be
eaten
forthwith
after
rostynge
,
and
ben
good
yf
they
be
so
taken
with
good
spyces
.
Some
meates
bredeth
melancoly
,
as
Befe
Cowes
Flesshe
,
and
all
Flesshe
that
is
cours
and
drye
Other
that
bredeth
and
fede
in
moyst
and
watry
,
and
shadowy
places
ben
more
subtyle
,
better
and
holsomest
.
¶
FINIS
.