and then the desire of ding and plant last the same endeavour and labour under  take cheerful and with good will do refresh spirit but with a cion and  unwillingness fret and deject they therefore it confer long life either that a  have the be to institute life so as it may be free suitable to his own or else  to lie such a command upon his mind that whatsoever be impose by fortune it  may rather lead he than drag he neither be that to be take towards the  government of the affection that espe ciall care be take of mouth of the  stomach Espe cially that it be not too much for that part have a great  dominion over the affection especial the daily affection than either the heart  or brain only those thing except which be wrought by potent vapour as in  drunkenness and melancholy touch the operation upon the spirit that they may  remain youthful and renew their vigour thus much which we have do the more  accurate for that there for the most part among physician and other author  these operation a deep silence but especial because the operation upon the  spirit and their wax again be the most realy and Compendious way to long life  and that for a twofold compendiousness one because the spirit work Compendious  upon the body the other because Vpours and the affection Compendious upon the  spirit so as these attain the end as it be in a right line other thing rather  in line circular the operation upon the exclusion of the air the history the  exclusion of the air ambient tend to length of life two way first for the  external air next the Native spirit the air may be say to the spirit of man  confer not a little to do most of all upon the juice of the and hasten the  Desiction thereof and the exclusion of it be effectual to length of life  another effect which follow the exclusion of air be much more subtle and  profound namely that the bedie close up and not perspring by the poor detain  the spirit within and turn it upon the hard part of the body whereby the  spirit mollify and intenerate they of this thing the be explain in the of  inanimate body and it a axiom almost infallible that the spirit discharge and  issue forth dry body detain melt intenerate they and it further to be assume  all heat do proper nuate and moisten and contract and dry only accident lead  the life in Dens and where the air receive not the sunbeam may be effectual to  long life for the air of it self do not much towards the depredation of the  body unless it be stir up by heat certain if a man shall recall thing pass to  his memory it will appear that the stature of man have be ancient much great  than those that succeed as in Sicily and some other place but this kind of man  lead their life for the most part in cave now length of life and largeness of  limb have some affinity the cave also of Epimenides walk among the fable I  suppose like wise that the life of anchorite be a thing resemble the life in  cave in respect the sunbeam can not much pierce thither nor the air receive  any great change or Inequalitles this be certain both the Simeon Stylita's as  well Daniel as Saba and other columnar anchorite have be exceed long live  likewise the anchorite in our day close up and immure either within wall or  Pillar be often find to be long live next unto the life in be the life on  mountain for as the beam of the sun do not penetrate into cave so on the top  of mountain be destitute of reflection they be of small force but this be to  be understand mountain where the be clear and pure namely whether by reason of  the Drinasse of the valley cloud and vapour do not ascend as it be in the  mountain which encompass Barbary where even at this day they live many time to  a hundred and fifty year as have be note before and this kind of air of cave  and mountain of his own proper nature be little or nothing predatory but such  as we be which be predatory through the heat of the sun ought as much be  possible to be exclude from the body but the air be prohibit exclude two way  first close the poor by fill they up to the close of the poor coldness of the  air go naked whereby the skin be make hard wash in cold water astringent apply  to the skin such as be mastic myrrh myrtle but much more may we satisfy this  operation by yet those rare use especial in summer which be make of astringent  mineral water such as may safe be use as water participate of steel and  coppera for these do potent contract the skin as for fill up the poor paint  and such like ous daub and which may most commodious be use oil and fat thing  do nolesse conserve the substance of the body than colour and varnish do  preserve wood the ancient Briton paint their body with woad and be exceed long  live the picts also use paint and be think by some to have derive their name  from thence the brasilian and Virginians paint themselves at this day who be  especial the former very long live in so much that sive year ago the French  jesuits have speech with some who remember the building of which be do a  hundred and twenty year since and they be then at man estate Johannes de time  who be report to have extend his life to three hundred year be ask how he  preserve himself so long be say to have answer by oil without and by honey  within the Irish especial the wild Irish even at this day live very long  certain they report that within these few year the countess of Desmond live to  a hundred and forty year of age and breed tooth three time now the Irish have  a fashion to chafe and as it be to baste themselves with old salt butter  against the fire the same Irish use to wear saffron linen and shirt which  though it be at first devise to prevent vermin yet howsoever I take it to be  very useful for lengthen of life for saffron all thing that I know be the best  thing for the skin and the comfort of the flesh see it be both notable  astringent and have beside a Oseosity and subtle heat without any acrimony I  remember a certain englishman who when he go to sea carry a bag of saffron  next his stomach that he may conceal it and so escape custom and whereas he be  wont to be always exceed seasick at that time he continue very well and feel  no provocation to vomit Hippocrates advice in winter to wear clean linen and  in summer fonle linen and besmear with oil the reason may seem to be because  in summer the spirit exhale most therefore the poor of the skin will be fill  up hereupon we be of opinion that the use of oil either of olive or sweet  almond to anoint the skin therewith will principal conduce to long life the  anoint will be do every morning when we rise out of bed with in which a little  bay-salt and saffron be mix but this anoint must be light do wool or some soft  sponge not lie it on thick but gentle touch and wet the skin it be certain  that even the oily themselves in great quantity draw some what from the body  but contrary in small quantity be drink in by the body therefore the anoint  will be but light as we say or rather the it self will be besmear with oil it  may haply be object that this anoint with oil which we commend though it be  never in use with we and among the Italian be cast off again be ancient very  familiar among the grease and Roman and a part of their diet and yet man be  not long live in those day than now but it may right be answer oil be in use  only after bath unless it be perhaps among champion now hot bath be as much  contrary to our operation as anointings be congruous see the one open the  passage the other stop they up therefore the bath without the anoint follow be  utter bid the anoint without the bath be best of all beside the anoint among  they be use only for delicacy or if you take it at the best for health but by  no mean in order to long life and therefore they use then withal precious  ointment which be good for deliciousness but hurtful to our intention in  regard of their heat so that seem not to have say amiss nec grammatical case  clear to destroy use Olivi that odoriferous grammatical case not supplant the  use of oil olive anoint with oil to health both in winter by the exclusion of  the cold airc and in summer by detain the spirit within and prohibit the  resolution of they and keep off the force of the air which be then most  predatory see the anoint with oil be one of the most potent operation to long  life we have think good to add some caution lest the health shall be endanger  they be four accord to the four Inconvience which may follow thereupon the  first inconvenience be that by repress sweat it may engender disease from  those excrementitious humour to this a Remeby must be give by purge and  clyster that evacuation may be due perform this be certain that evacuation by  sweat common advance health and derogate from long life but gentle purger work  upon the humour not upon the spirit as sweat do the second be that it may heat  the in time inflame it for the spirit shut in and not breathe forth acquire  heat this inconvenience may prevent if the nsually to the cold part and that  at time some proper cool be take of which we shall straight speak in the  Opertion upon the blood the three be that it may the head for all from without  strike back the vapour and send they up unto the head this inconvenience be  remedy by purger especial clyster and by shut the mouth of the stomach strong  with Stipticks and by comb and rub the head and wash it with convenient lie  that something may exhale and by not omit competent and good exercise that  something also may perspire by the skin the four inconvenience be a more  subtle evil namely that the spirit be detain by the close up of the poor be  likely to multiply it self too much for when little issue forth and new spirit  be continual engender the spirit increase too fast and so prey upon the body  more plentiful but this be not altogether so for all spirit close up be dull  for it be blow and excite with motion as flame be and therefore it be less  active and less generative of it self indeed it be thereby increase in heat as  flame be but slow in motion and therefore the remedy to this inconvenience  must be by cold thing be sometime mix with oil such as be motionless and  myrtle for we must altogether disclaim hot thing as be say of Csia neither  will it be unprofitable to wear next the body garment that have in they some  unctuosity or oleosity not aquosity for they will exhaust the body less be  those of woollen rather than those of linen it be manifest in the spirit of  odour that if you lie sweet powder among linen they will much soon lose their  smell than among woollen and therefore linen be to be prefer for delicacy and  neatness but to be for our operation the wild Irish as soon as they fall sick  the first thing they do be to take the sheet off their bed and to wrap  themselves in the woollen clothes some report that they have find great  benefit in the conservation of their health by weating scarlet be coat next  their skin and under their shirt as well down to the neither part as on the  upper it be also to be observe that air accustom to the body do less prey upon  it than new air and often change and therefore poor people in small cottage  who live always within the smell of the same chimney and change not their seat  be common longestliv'd notwithstanding to other operation especial for they  who spirit be not altogether dull we judge change of air to be very profitable  but a mean must be use which may satisfy on both side this may be do by remove  our habitation four time a year at constant and set time unto convenient seat  that so the body may neither be in too much peregrination nor in too much  station and touch the operation upon the exclusion of air and avoid the  predatory force thereof thus much the operation upon the blood and the  Sanguifying heat the history the two follow operation answer to the two  precedent and be in the relation of passive to actives for the two precedent  intend this that the spirit and air in their action may be the less  depredatory and the two latter that the blood and juice of the body may be the  less depredable but because the blood be a irrigation or Watering of the juice  and member and a to they therefore will put the operation upon the blood in  the first place concern this operation we will propound certain counsel few in  number but very powerful in virtue they be three first there be no doubt but  that if the blood be bring to a cold temper it will be so much the less  dissipable but because the cold thing which be take by the mouth agree but ill  with many other intention therefore it will be best to find out some such  thing as may be free from these inconvenience they be two the first be this  let there be bring into use especial in youth clyster not purge at all or  absterging but only cool and some what open those be approve which be make of  the juice of lettuce Purstaine liverwort houseleek and the of the seed of flay  wort with some temperate open decoction and a little Canphire but in the  decline age let the and purslaine beo leave out and the juice of borrage and  and the like be put in their room and let these clyster be retain if it may be  for a hour or more the other be this let there be in use especial in summer  bath of fresh water and out Luke warm altogether without emollient as mallow  Mercury milk and the like rather take new whey in some good quantity and but  that which be the principal in this intention and new we advice that the bath  the body be with oil with some thickeners whereby the quality of the cool may  be receive and the water exclude yet let not the poor of the body be shut too  close for when the outward cold close up the body too strong it be so far from  further coolness that it rather forbid it and stir up heat like unto this be  the use of Blodders with some decoction and cool juice apply to the inferior  region of the body namely from the rib to the privy part for this also be a  kind of bath where the body of the liquor be for the most part exclude and the  cool quality admit the three counsel remain which belong not to the quality of  the blood but to the substance thereof that it may be make more firm and less  dissipable and such as the heat of the spirit may have the less power over it  and as for the use of the file of gold leaf gold powder of pearl precious  stone coral and the like we have no opinion of they at this day unless it be  only as they may satisfy this present operation certain see the Arabian grease  and physician have such virtue to these thing it can be altogether nothing  which so great man have observe of they and therefore omit all opinion about  they we do very believe that if there can be some such thing convey into the  whole mass of the blood in minute and fine portion over which the spirit and  heat shall have little or no power absolute it will not only resist  putrefaction but arefaction also and be a most effectual mean to the  prolongation of life nevertheless in this thing several caution be to be first  that there be a most comminution second that such hard and solid thing be void  of all malignant quality lest while they be disperse and lurk in the vein they  breed some inconvenience three that they be never take together with meat nor  in any such manner as they may stick long lest they beget dangerous  obstruction about the mesentery last that they be take very rare that they may  not congregate and together in the vein therefore let the manner of take they  be fast in white wine a little oil of almond mingle therewith excercise use  immediate upon the take of they the simples which may satisfy this operation  be in stead of all gold pearl and coral for all metal except gold be not  without some malignant quality in the dissolution of they neither will they be  Beatrice to that exquisite fineness that leaf gold have as for all glassy and  transparent we like they not as we say before for fear of corrosion but in our  judgement the and more effectual way will be by the use of wood infusion and  decoction for there be in they sufficient to cause firmness of and not the  like danger for breed obstruction but especial because they may be take in  meat and drink whereby they will find the more easy entrance into the vein and  not be void in excrement the wood fit for this purpose be sander the oak and  vine as for all hot wood or something rosennie we reject they notwithstanding  you may add the woody stalk of rise marry dry for rise marry be a Shrub and  exceed in age many tree also the woody stalk of ivy but in such quantity as  they may not yield a unpleasing taste let the wood be take either boil in  broth or infuse in must or ale before they leave work but in broth as the  custom be for guaiacum and the like they will be infuse a good while before  the boil that the firm part of the wood and not that only which lie lose may  be draw forth as for ash though it be for cup yet we like it and touch the  upon the blood thus much the operation upon the juice of the body the history  there be two kind of body as be say before in the touch inanimate which be  hardly consume hard thing and fat thing as be see in metal and stone and in  oil and wax it must be order therefore that the juice of the body be somewhat  hard and that it be fatty or Sub-roscide as for hardness it be cause three way  by aliment of a firm nature by cold condense the skin and flesh and by  exercise bind and compact the juice of the body that they be not soft and  frothy as for the nature of the aliment it ought to be such as be not easy  dissipable such as be beef swine flesh deer goat kid swan goose ring dove  especial if they be a little powder fish likewise salt and dry old cheese and  the like as for the breed oaten breed or breed with some mixture of pea in it  or barley breed be more solid than wheat and in wheat breed the course cheat  breed be more solid than the pure the inhabitant of the or cade which live  upon salt fish and general all FishEaters be long live the monk and her mite  which feed spare and upon dry aliment attain common to a great age also pure  water usual drink make the juice of the body less frothy unto which if for the  dullness of the spirit which no doubt in water be but little penetrative you  shall add a little nitre we conceive it will be very good and touch the  firmness of the Alimens thus much as for the condensation of the skin and  flesh by cold they be long live for the most part that live abroad in the open  air than they that live in house and the inhabitant of the cold country than  the inhabitant of the hot great store of clothes either upon the bed or back  do resolve the body wash the body in cold water be good for length of life use  of hot bath be nought touch bath of astringent mineral water we have speak  before as for exercise a idle life do manifest make the flesh soft and  dissipable exercise so it be without overmuch sweat or weariness make it hard  and compact also exercise within cold water as swim be very good and general  exercise abroad be better than that within house touch Frications which be a  kind of exercise because they do rather call forth the aliment than harden the  flesh we will inquire hereafter in the due place have now speak of harden the  luyees of the body we be to come next to the oleosity or fattiness of they  which be a more perfect and potent intention than induration because it have  no inconvenience nor evil annex for all those thing which pertain to the  harden of the juice be of that nature that while they prohibit the absumption  of the aliment they also hinder the reparation of the same whereby it happen  that the same thing be both propitious and adverse to length of life but those  thing which pertain to make the juice oily and roscid help on both side for  they render the aliment both less dissipable and more reparable but whereas we  say that the juice of the body ought to be full of dew and fat it be to be  note that we mean it not of a visible fat but of a Deminesse disperse or if  you will call it radical in the very substance of the body neither again let  any man think that oil or the fat of meat or marrow do engender the like and  satisfy our intention for those thing which be once perfect be not bring back  again but the aliment ought to be such which after digestion and maturation do  then in the end engender oleosity in the juice neither again let any man think  that oil or fat by it self and simple be hard of dissipation but in mixture it  do not retain the same nature for as oil by it S life be much long in consume  than water so in or it stick long and be late dry as we note before to the  irroration of the body roast meat or bake meat be more effectual than boil  meat and all preparation of meat with water be inconvenient beside oil be more  plentiful extract out of dry body than out of moist body general to the  irroration of the body much use of sweet thing be profitable as of sugar honey  sweet almond pine apple Pistaccio's date raisin of the sun Corrans fig and the  like contrary all sour and very salt and very bite thing be opposite to the  generation of full of dew juice neither will we be think to favour the  manichees or their diet though we commend the frequent use of all kind of seed  and and root in meat consider all breed and breed be that which make the meat  firm be make either of seed or of root but there be nothing make so much to  the irroration of the body as the quality of the drink which be the convoy of  the meat therefore let there be in use such drink as without all acrimony or  Sourenesse be notwithstanding subtle such be those wine which be as the old  woman say in Plautus old age Edentula toothless with age and ale of the same  kind mead as we suppose will not be ill if it be strong and old but because  all honey have in it some sharp part as appear by that sharp water which the  chemist extract out of it which will dissolve metal it be better to make the  same potion of sugar not light infuse in it but so incorporate as honey use to  be in mead and to keep it to the age of a year or at least six month whereby  the water may lose the crudity and the sugar acquire subtlety now ancientness  in wine or beer have this in it that it engender subtlety in the part of the  liquor and acrimony in the spirit whereof the first be profitable and the  second hurtful now to rectify this evil commixture let there be put into the  vessel before the wine be separate from the swine flesh or well boil that the  of the wine may have whereupon to ruminate and seed and so lie aside their  mordacity in like manner if ale shall be make not only with the grain of wheat  barley oat pea and the like but also shall admit a part suppose a three part  to these grain of some fat root such as be Potado root pith of burr root or  some other sweet and esculent root we suppose it will be a more useful drink  for long life than ale make of grain only also such thing as have very thin  part yet not withstand be without all acrimony or mordacity be very good in  salad which virtue we find to be in some few of the flower namely flower of  ivy which infuse in vinegar be pleasant even to the taste marigold leave which  be use in broth and flower of betony and touch the operation upon the juice of  the body thus much the operation upon the bowel for their extrusion of aliment  the history what those thing be which comfort the principal bowel which be the  fountain of namely the liver heart and brain to perform their function well  whereby aliment be distribute in to the part be disperse and the of the whole  body be accomplish may be derive from Physisians and from their prescript and  advice touch the spleen kidney mesentery gut and lung we speak not for these  be member minister to the principal and where as speech be make touch health  they require sometime a most especial consideration because each of these have  their disease which unless they be cure will have influence upon the principal  member but as touch the prolongation of life and reparation by aliment and  retardation of the inconcoction of old and as for those thing which accord to  the different state of every man body may be transfer into his diet and the  regiment of his life he may collect they out of the book of which have write  of the comfort and preserve the four principal for conservation of health have  common needs of no more than some short course of physic but length of life  can be hope without a orderly diet and a constant race of medicine but we will  propound some few and the house and who strength and goodness fundamental to  the other concoctions ought so to be guard and confirm that it may be without  hot next astrict or bind not lose furthermore clean not surcharge with foul  humour and yet in regard it be nourish from it self not from the vein not  altogether empty or hungry last it be to be keep ever in because appetite  sharpen digestion I wonder much how that same to drink to drink drink which be  in use among the ancient be lie down again I know a physician that be very  famous who in the beginning dinner and supper will eat a few spoonful of very  warm broth with much and then will present wish that it be out again say he  have no of the broth but only of the warmth we do very conceive it good that  the first draught of wine or ale or any other drink to which a man most  accustom be take at supper warm wine in which gold have be quench we conceive  will be very good once in a meal that we the gold confer a virtue thereunto  but that we know that the of all metal in any kind of liquor do leave a most  potent astriction now we choose gold because beside that astriction which we  desire it leave nothing else behind it of a metalline impression we be of  opinion that sop of breed dip in wine take at the amid of the meal be better  than wine it self especial if there be infuse into the wine in which the sop  be dip rise marry and citron peel and that with sugar that it may not slip too  fast it be certain that the use of quince be good to strengthen the stomach  but we take they to be better if they be use in that which they call quiddeny  of quince than in the body of the quince themselves because they lie heavy in  the stomach but those Quiddenies be best take after meal alone meal dip in  such thing as be good for the stomach above other simples be these rise marry  Maslicke sage mint we allow peel of aloe mastic and saffron in winter time  take before dinner but so as the aloe be not only oftentimes wash in rise  water but also in vinegar in which tragacanth have be infuse and after that be  for a few hour in oil of sweet almond new draw before it be make into peel  wine or ale wherein have be infuse with a elecampane and Yellow will do well  take at time and that especial in winter but in summer a draught of white wine  allay with strawberry water in which wine powder of pearl and of the shell of  Crey fish exquisite Beatrice and which may perhaps seem strange a little chalk  have be infuse do excellent refresh and strengthen the stomach but general all  draught in the morning which be but too frequent use of cool thing as of juice  decoction whey barley water and the like be to be avoid and nothing be to be  put into the stomach fast which be pure cold these thing be better give if  needs require either at five in the afternoon of else a hour after a light  breakfast often fast be bid for long life beside all thirst to be avoid and  the be to be keep clean always moist oil of olive new and good in which a  little mithridate have be dissolve upon the backbone just against the mouth of  the do wonder the stomach a small bag fill with lock of scarlet wool steep in  red-wine in which myrtle and citron peel and a little have be infuse may be  always wear upon the stomach and touch those thing which comfort the stomach  thus much see many of those thing also which serve for other operation be  helpful to this the liver if it be preserve from torrefaction or and from  obstruction it needs no more for that looseness of it which begers Aquosities  be plain a disease but the other two old age approach induce hereunto  appertain most especial those thing which be set down in the operation upon  the blood we will add a very few thing more but those select principal let  there be in use the wine of sweet or if that can be have the juice of they new  express let it be take in the morning with a little sugar and into the glass  into which the expression be make put a small piece of Citronpill green and  three or four whole cleave let this be take from February till the end of  April bring also into use above all other herb water cress but young not old  they may be use either raw in salad or in broth or in drink and after that  take wort aloe howsoever wash or correct be hurtful for the liver and  therefore it be never to be take ordinary contrariwise rhubarb be sovereign  for the liver so that these three caution be interpose first that it be take  before meat lest it dry the body too much or leave some impression of the  Stipticitie thereof second that it be macerate a hour or two in oil of sweet  almond new draw with rise water before it be infuse in liquor or give in the  proper substance three that it be take by turn one while simple another while  with tartar or a little bay-salt that it carry not away the light part only  and make the mass of the humour more obstinate I allow wine or some decoction  with steel to be take three or four time in the year to open the more strong  obstruction yet so that a draught of two or three spoonful of oil of sweet  almond new draw ever go before and the of the body especial of the arm and  side constant follow sweeten liquor and that with some fatness be principal  and not a little effectual to prevent the and saltness and torrefaction and in  a word the oldness of the liver especial if they be well incorporate with age  they be make of sweet fruit and root as namely the wine and julip of raisin of  the sun new jujuba's dry fig date parsnip Potado's and the like with the  mixture of licorish sometime also a julip of the Indian grain which they call  Maiz with the mixture of some sweet thing do much to the same end but it be to  be note that the intention of preserve the liver in a kind of softness and  fatness be much more powerful than that other which pertain to the open of the  liver which rather tend to health than to length of life save that that  obstruction which induce torrefaction be as opposite to long life as those  other arefactions I commend the root of Snecory spinage and be it clear of  their piths and boil till they be tender in water with a three part of  whitewine for ordinary salad to be eat with oil and vinegar also asparagus  pith of artichoke and burr root boil and serve in after the same manner also  broth in the spring time of vine and the green blade of and touch the preserve  of the liver thus much the heart receive benefit or harm most from the air  which we breath from vapour and from the affection now many of those thing  which have be former speak touch the spirit may be transfer hither but that  indigested mass of cordial collect by physician avail little to our intention  notwithstanding those thing which be find to be good against poison may with  good judgement be give to strengthen and fortify the heart especial if they be  of that kind that they do not so much resist the particular poison as arm the  heart and spirit against poison in general and touch the several cordial you  may repair to the table already set down the goodness of the air be better  know by experience than by sign we hold that air to be the best where the  country be level and plain and that lie open on all side so that the soil be  dry and yet not barren or sandy which put forth wild thime and eyebright and a  kind of marjoram and here and there stalk of calamint which be not altogether  void of wood but set with some tree for shade where the sweet brier rise smell  something musky and aromatically if there be river we suppose they rather than  good unless they be very small and clear and Gravelly it be certain that the  morning air be more lively and refresh than the evening air though the latter  be prefer out of delicacy we conceive also that the air with a gentle wind be  more wholesome than the air of a serene and sky but the best be the wind blow  from the west in the morning and from the north in the afternoon