The Salerne Schoole doth by thefe lines

impart

All health to Englands King, and doth aduife

From care his head to keepe, from wrath his

heart,

Drinke not much wine, fuz light, and foone arife,

When meate is gone, long fitting breedeth

fmart:

And after-noone ftill waking keepe your eyes.

When mou'd you find your felfe to

Natures Needs,

Forbeare them not, for that much dan-

ger breeds,

Vfe three Phyficions ftill; firft Doctor Quiet,

Next Doctor Merry-man, and Doctor Dyet.

White Muskadell, and Candie wine, and

Greeke,

Do make men's wits and bodies groffe and fat;

Red wine doth make the voyce oft-time

to feeke,

An hath a binding qualitie to that;

Canarie, and Madera, both are like

To make one leane indeed: (but wot you what)

Who fay they make one leane, would

make one laffe

They meane, they make on leane vpon

a staffe.

Wine, women, Baths, by Art or Nature warme,

Vs'd or abus'd do men much good or harme.

Foure humors raigne within our bodies

wholly,

And thefe compared to foure Elements,

The Sanguine, Choller, Flegme, and Melancholy,

The latter two are heauie, dull of fence,

Th' other two are mor Iouiall, quicke and

Iolly,

And may be likened thus without offence,

Like ayre both warme and moift, is Sanguine

cleare,

Like fire doth Choler hot and drie appeare.

Like water cold and moift is Flegmatique,

The Melancholy cold, drie earth is like.

Complexions cannot vertue breed

or vice,

Yet may they vnto both giue inclination,

The Sanguine game-fome is, and nothing nice,

Loue Wine, and Women, and all recreation,

Likes pleafant tales, and news, playes, cards

& dice,

Fit for all company, and euery fafhion:

Though bold, not apt to take offence,

not irefull,

full:

But bountifull, and kinde, and looking cheere-

Inclining to be fat, and prone to laughter,

Loues mirth, & Mufick, cares not what

comes after.

The Flegmatique are moft of no great

growth,

Inclining to be rather fat and fquare:

Giuen much vnto their eafe, to reft and floth,

Content in knowledge to take little fhare,

To put themfelues to any paine moft loth.

So dead their fpirits, fo dull their fences are:

Still either fitting, like to folke that

dreame,

Or elft ftill fpitting, to auoid the flegme:

One qualitie doth yet thefe harmes reparie,

That for the moft part Flegmatique are faire.

The Melancholly from the reft doe varie,

Both fport and eafe, and company

refufing,

Exceeding ftudious, euer folitary,

Inclining penfiue ftill to be, and mufing,

A fecret hate to others apt to carry:

Moft conftant in his choife, tho long a chufing,

Extreme in loue fomtime, yet feldom

luftfull,

Sufpitious in his nature, and miftruftfull,

A wary wit, a hand much guien to fparing,

A heauy looke, a fpirit little daring.

But yet thofe daies I grant, and all the reft,

Haue in fome cafes iuft impediment:

As firft, if nature be with cold oppreft,

Or if the Region, Ile, or Continent

Do fcorch or freize, if ftomacke meate

deteft:

If Baths or Venus late you did frequent,

Nor old, nor yong, nor drinkers great are fit,

Not in long fickeneffe, nor in raging fit,

Or in this cafe if you will venture bleeding,

The quantity muft then be moft exceeding.

The Heart and Liuer, Spring & Summers

bleeding,

The Fall and Winter, hand and foot doth

mend,

One veine cut in the hand, doth help ex-

ceeding

Vnto the fpleene, voyce, breft, and intrailes

lend,

And fwages griefes that in the heart are

breeding.

But here the Salerne Schoole doth make an end:

And here I ceafe to write, but will not ceafe

To wift you liue in health, and die in peace:

And ye our Phyficke rules that friendly read,

God grant that Phyficke you may neuer need.

FINIS.