Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s423" xml:space="preserve">It h ath been deſired; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s424" xml:space="preserve">That ſomething ſhould be ſignified,
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            touching his Diet; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s425" xml:space="preserve">And the Regiment of his Health: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s426" xml:space="preserve">Of
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            which, in regard, of his Univerſal Inſight into Nature, he
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            may (perhaps,) be to ſome, an Example. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s427" xml:space="preserve">For his Diet;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s428" xml:space="preserve">It was rather a plentiful, and liberal, Diet, as his Sto-
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            mack would bear it, then a Reſtrained; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s429" xml:space="preserve">Which he alſo com-
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            mended in his Book of the Hiſtory of Life and Death. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s430" xml:space="preserve">In
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            his younger years, he was much given to the Finer and Light-
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            ter ſort of Meats, As of Fowles; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s431" xml:space="preserve">and ſuch like: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s432" xml:space="preserve">But after-
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            ward, when he grew more Judicious; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s433" xml:space="preserve">He preferred the ſtron-
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            ger Meats; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s434" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as the Shambles afforded; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s435" xml:space="preserve">As thoſe Meats,
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            which bred the more firm and ſutſtantial Juyces of the Bo-
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            dy, and leſs Diffipable: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s436" xml:space="preserve">upon which, be would often make
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            his Meal; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s437" xml:space="preserve">Though he had other Meats, upon the Table. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s438" xml:space="preserve">You
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            may be ſure; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s439" xml:space="preserve">He would not neglect that Himſelf, which He ſo
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            much extolled in his Writings; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s440" xml:space="preserve">And that was the Uſe of Ni-
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            ter: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s441" xml:space="preserve">Where eof he took in the Quantity of about three Grains,
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            in thin warm Broath, every Morning, for thirty years toge-
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            ther, next before his Death. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s442" xml:space="preserve">And for Phyſick, he did, indeed,
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            live Phyſically, but not miſerably; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s443" xml:space="preserve">For be took only a
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            Maceration of Rhubarb; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s444" xml:space="preserve">Infuſed into a Draught of White
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            Wine, and Beer, mingled together, for the Space of half an
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            Hour; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s445" xml:space="preserve">Once in ſix or ſeven Dayes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s446" xml:space="preserve">Immediately before his
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            Meal, (whether Dinner, or Supper,) that it might dry, the
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            Body, leſſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s447" xml:space="preserve">which (as he ſaid,) did carry away frequently, the
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            Groſſer Humours of the Body, and not diminiſh, or carry
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            away, any of the Spirits, as Sweating doth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s448" xml:space="preserve">And this was no
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            Grievous Thing to take. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s449" xml:space="preserve">As for other Phyſick, in an ordinary
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            way, (whatſoever bath been vulgarly ſpoken;) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s450" xml:space="preserve">he took not. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s451" xml:space="preserve">His
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            Receit, for the Gout; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s452" xml:space="preserve">which did, constantly, eaſe him of his
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            Pain, within two Hours, Is already ſet down in the End, of the
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            Natural Hiſtory.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s454" xml:space="preserve">It may ſeem, the Moon, had ſome Principal Place, in the
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            Figure of his Nativity. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s455" xml:space="preserve">For the Moon, was never in her
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            Paſsion or Eclipſed, but he was ſurprized, with a ſudden Fit, of
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            Fainting: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s456" xml:space="preserve">And that, though he obſerved not, nor took any pre-
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            vious Knowledge, of the Eclipſe thereof; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s457" xml:space="preserve">and aſſoon as the
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            Eclipſe ceaſed, he was reſtored, to his former ſtrength again.</s>
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