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

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            be moderate, and which (as was noted before) is not ſwift, nor to the utmoſt ſtrength,
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            nor unto wearineſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11389" xml:space="preserve">But in Exerciſe and Frication there is the ſame reaſon and caution,
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            that the body may not perſpire or exhale too much: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11390" xml:space="preserve">Therefore Exerciſe is better in
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            the open air than in the houſe, and better in Winter than in Summer; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11391" xml:space="preserve">and again, εxer-
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            ciſe is not onely to be concluded with Unction, as Frication is, but in vehement Ex-
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            erciſes Unction is to be uſed both in the beginning and in the end, as it was anciently
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            to Champions.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11393" xml:space="preserve">That Exerciſe may reſolve either the ſpirits or the juices as little as may be, it is
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            neceſſary that it be uſed when the ſtomach is not altogether empty: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11394" xml:space="preserve">and therefore that
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            it may not be uſed upon a full ſtomach, (which doth much concern health) nor yet
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            upon an empty ſtomach, (which doth no leſs concern long life) it is beſt to take a
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            breakfaſt in the morning, not of any Phyſical Drugs, or of any Liquors or of Raiſins,
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            or of Figs, or the like; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11395" xml:space="preserve">but of plain Meat and Drink, yet that very light, and in moderate
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            quantity.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11397" xml:space="preserve">Exerciſes uſed for the irrigation of the members, ought to be equal to all the mem
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0324-02" xlink:href="note-0324-02a" xml:space="preserve">7.</note>
            bers; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11398" xml:space="preserve">not (as Socrates ſaid) that the Legs ſhould move, and the Arms ſhould reſt, or
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            on the contrary; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11399" xml:space="preserve">but that all the parts may participate of the motion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11400" xml:space="preserve">And it is alto
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            gether requiſite to long life, that the Body ſhould never abide long in one poſture, but
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            that every half hour, at leaſt, it change the poſture, ſaving onely in ſleep.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11402" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe things which are uſed to Mortification may be transferred to Vivification; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11403" xml:space="preserve">for
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            both Hair-ſhirts, and Scourgings, and all vexations of the outward parts, do fortifie the
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            Attractive force of them.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11405" xml:space="preserve">Cardan commends Nettling, even to let out Melancholly: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11406" xml:space="preserve">but of this we have no ex-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0324-04" xlink:href="note-0324-04a" xml:space="preserve">9.</note>
            perience; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11407" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, we have no good opinion of it, leſt, through the venemous
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            quality of the Nettle, it may with often uſe breed Itches and other diſeaſes of the skin.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11408" xml:space="preserve">And touching the Operation upon the Outward Parts for their Attraction of Aliment,
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            thus much.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head96" xml:space="preserve">The Operation upon the Aliment it ſelf for
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          the Inſinuation thereof. 7.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head97" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſtory.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11410" xml:space="preserve">THe vulgar reproof touching many Diſhes doth rather become a ſevere Re-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0324-05" xlink:href="note-0324-05a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note>
            former than a Phyſician; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11411" xml:space="preserve">or howſoever it may be good for perſervation of
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            health, yet is is hurtful to length of life, by reaſon that a various mixture of
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            Aliments, and ſomewhat heterogeneous, finds a paſſage into the veins and juices of the
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            body more lively and chearfully than a ſimple and homogeneous diet doth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11412" xml:space="preserve">beſides, it
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            is more forcible to ſtir up Appetite, which is the ſpur of Digeſtion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11413" xml:space="preserve">Therefore we
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            allow both a full Table, and a continual changing of Diſhes, according to the Seaſons of
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            the year, or upon other occaſions.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11415" xml:space="preserve">Alſo that opinion of the Simplicity of Meats without Sawces is but a ſimplicity of
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0324-06" xlink:href="note-0324-06a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note>
            judgment; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11416" xml:space="preserve">for good and well-choſen Sawces are the moſt wholeſome preparation of
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            Meats, and conduce both to health and to long life.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11418" xml:space="preserve">It muſt be ordered, that with Meats hard of digeſtion be conjoyned ſtrong Liquors
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0324-07" xlink:href="note-0324-07a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note>
            and Sawces that may penetrate and make way; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11419" xml:space="preserve">but with Meats more eaſie of digeſti-
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            on, ſmaller Liquors and fat Sawces.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11421" xml:space="preserve">Whereas we adviſed before, that the firſt Draught at Supper ſhould be taken warm;
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            </s>
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0324-08" xlink:href="note-0324-08a" xml:space="preserve">4.</note>
            now we adde, that for the preparation of the ſtomach, a good draught of that Liquor
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            (to which every man is moſt accuſtomed) be taken warm half an hour before meat
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            alſo, but a little ſpiced, to pleaſe the taſte.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11424" xml:space="preserve">The preparation of Meats, and Bread, and Drinks, that they may be rightly hand-
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            led, and in order to this Intention, is of exceeding great moment howſoever it may
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            ſeem a Mechanical thing, and ſavouring of the Kitchin and Buttery; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11425" xml:space="preserve">yet it is of more
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            conſequence than thoſe Fables of Gold and precious Stones, and the like.</s>
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