part is hurt, it is deprived of its gifts, or faintly performs its office.

Hence it is, that drunkards dote, reeland ftumble, becaufe their 'Drmk^ds iuk brains are elowded with grofle and thick vapours. But fince all ndi:uloli^' men that arc drunk with wine do appear more ridiculous in their cuftoms and manners, for none play the fools more (and make all that fee them laugh, when they look upon their faces, eyes, and behaviour) than fuch as drink themfelves drunk with beer ; For thefe fall not every way, but onely backward, and lye on their backs j bur fuch as are drunk with wine fall forwards, and ly up¬ on their faces: So that thefe hurt their cheeks, forehead, nofes,
and
120 Men of grojje bodies are not fo long-lived as thofe that are flender .Book II.
and faces,by falling ^ but thofe, their fhoulders and hinder part of their head. Aud the fame you may behold when they fall fall afleep in their cups. For they that are whittled with Ale or Beer, flecp open mouthed, with their head leaning on their fhouldersj but fuch as are whittled with wine fleep with their face and chin leaning upon their bread. The reafon is, becaufe the fumes and vapours of wine rife to the forepart ©f the head, and pofiefle them- felves of the forepart of the body ; but the vapours ol Ale and Beer fly to the hinder part of the head and body. Hence it is that thefe are fleepy and forgetful, and not fo full of prate, and clamorous.
CHAP. XX.
Men that are tall and grojje bodied > are fometimes not fo long-lived as thofe that are {lender , and cannot fo flout lyjlruggle with difeafes . But commonly little men will drink more wine , than grojje men , and will be longer bef ore they be drunk .
DAily examples fhew, that men with grofle fat bodies are fpungy, and cannot fo well refill difeafes. For they are loa¬ ded with their body, that their fpirits are not fo lively, merry, and ready. Whereupon when any little difeafe comes upon them, or light inconvenience, they are faint-hearted, and complain very much. For they are call down with the very firft brufh, and their mind fails them. And if any dangers by Sea or Land be to be un¬ dergone, or any thing falls out amide, they prefently tremble and are pale with fear. That is fo, becaufe their native heat is feeble, and their fpirits fmall, and their blood colder ; and farther, be¬ caufe the natural venue is fent far and a great way, which being compacted and united in a fmall body, is better than that which is difperfed. To which relates that Sentence of Hippocrates , Men naturally very grolle bodicd,are fhorter-livcd than flender-bodied- men .* and again, A tall man is comely and good in youth : buc in old age it is an unprofitable burden, and worfe than a little body.
rbe memvei For oic* mcns bodies grow crooked,and become heavy and unweil-
and greatnefle : yet little men have imbred natural forces flronger
than they, and there are many gifts and ornaments of body and mind that appear in them, and they are very quick-witted, and have nimb le minds : and they not onely exceed the others or equal them in tne chearfulnefle of their minds, but for flrength, fwife- neffe, eating and drinking.
I have feen fometimes dwarfs almofl, and very little men (but their beard was long, and their whole body hairy, which is an argument of exceeding heat ) enter the lifts of drinking with very jlrong men, who were not for all this the lead moved by the force of the wine, (though no man in thefe conflicts defer ves to be com¬ mended , and the victory is not praife-wortby ; ) whereas the
others
Ch.2 1. They that eat a moderate breakfaff^will eat more jreeiy at dinner. 1 2 i
others were fo drunk, that they were grown ftupid, and neither their foot, hand or tongue could do their office. The caufe of thefe things confifts nor onely in the capacioufntfle of the veins and re¬ ceptacles, but in the native heat that is very large, that quickly conquers and conlumcs all, and in a ftrong brain chat will not ea- fily admit the vapours. For it fallsout almoft with them as with 4f(muef,om burnt bricks, and glowing hot iron, that is fometimes fprinkled Giort\n^iro*i with water ; or tile to dry thirty land. For prefently it drinks in all the moyfturc, or it vanifheth into a very thin vapour fo that they have no need to piffe often, for their imbred heat con fumes all. Now that which the intenfive heat doth in men, the fpun- ginclTe of the body, loofenefle and foftnelTe of it, doth in women :
For women once given to wine will drink beyond rcafon, and al- woman moft miraculoufly, and it will be long ere they be drunk ; but by muchwilr reafon of the large and loofe paflages they arc forced to make wa¬ ter now and then : wherefore they are juftly infamous to men that know of their drunkennefle. But old people can leaft of all en¬ dure to drink much wine : For they arc dry of body, and without old mtnfoo* moyfturc, and their heat is feeble ; fothac much plenty of wine hurts them, but a little doth refrefh them, and makes them mer¬ ry. Wherefore it concerns old men above all others to preferve their natural heat, wherein is comprehended primogenial moy¬ fture, which is the fubjeft of vital heat and l'pirit, and comes from the fubft ance of the feed, with fit and moderate meats and drinks. For thefe are the Forts of health and fickneflc, and the Seminaries of long life. *•
CHAP. XXI.
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They that eat a moderate break faff in the mornings wilt eat more freely dt dinner 5 and if they drink much wine it will offend them lejj e. By the way3 whether it be wholefome to eat much breads
SOme there are that ufetofaft till noon; which as I miflike not, lo I think it not alwayes expedient, that any man fhould eat nothing till dinner, efpecially one that hath a hot ftomach : as every cholerick perfon, or one that is forced to labour hath, and Students that ftudy much. For their vital fpirits are extenua- ted, and the forces of their body will fail. Butin this bufinefte cufiomcis to be kept, and we muft obferve what every ones age, time, the climate, and the habit and ufe of the body requires. Fot youth and cold weather, and a Northern climate require much meat, and to eat often, otherwife the body wafts and confumes.
But old people and fuch as are come to their decrepid age, can
faft longer, and have no appetite, nor do they hunger after meat
much 5 yet they defire meat at times to preferve them, though
not in iuch abundance. For as the flame in Lamps is extinguifhed Gal. 1. 1 *
by muchoyl, fo is the beat of old men by much eating and cram- -i
x ‘ ing
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122
They that eat a moderate breakfafl^ill eat more freely at dinner. Book IJ#
Old men are underpropped with meats.
wine drank early in the morning is per¬ nicious,.
A (imife froth the J^itcbin.
It is not good to fa^ long.
We are fooner drunk at din¬ ner than at Supper.