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things fo precious and of ſo greate effectes againſt benome: 
now haue we ts treate of the laſt parte which we pꝛomiſed 
ta doe, and how we ought to keep and pꝛeſerue our felues, € 
net to fal into fo greate a danger, as ot᷑ them is declared, fo 
that it is better to k pe cur ſelues from daunger, thẽ to fall 
therein. Herrein the ancient wꝛiters haue bin very circum⸗ 
ſped. Amangſt the ret it bath beene an ancient tuſtome in 
Princes Courts ⁊ other great eſtates, to haue their taſters 
as well in their meate as of their dꝛinke forthe eſchewing 
of popſon, and fo by the meanes thereol they affure them⸗ 
ſelues to be out of peril fo2 that matter, the which lurelx is 
allowable and a gost cuſtome ⁊ neceſſarie for the ſafegars 
and health ol ang Pꝛince oꝛ Loe, fo: i there be any hurte 
in the meate oꝛ inthe dꝛinke it thal light firi vpon thé that 
doe eate 02 dꝛinke thereof and not vpon the Pꝛincs oꝛ other 
high eſtate, in whole life and health greate matters doe de « 
pende. 
Trueth it is that in thele daxes it is done moze loꝛa te⸗ 
remonp x eſtate, then fer health a fafety of life, this oꝛder 
is vſed amonglt great eſtates, moze foꝛ cuſtome then foz any 
thing elle, for this purpofe the common people haue it in 
eſtimation, ſo that at this pꝛeſent it is vied contrarie to that 
end and puͤrpeſe it was ment, foꝛ they ble nowe taking of a 
litle bꝛead and bꝛinging it with the meat and fo talk it:that 
dene, they caſt it away, and like wie they dꝛiinke a dꝛop al 
wyne oz water: t it᷑ it choulde be vſed as it ought to bee, the d 
fhould cat and dzinke thereof thaoughlp , for other wiſe th 
popſon, if there be any, cannot be diſterned before it come in 
tothe Pꝛinces mouth Allo the Loꝛdought to command that 
there be pꝛepared fo2 him diuers meat es, foꝛ that if he miſ⸗ 
lxke ot one, he may taſt of another: fo2 being of diners ſoꝛts 
he maꝑ taſte of cache a little, and eating litle at onte of ane 
‘that were infected, it wauld doe leſſe burte then if he ſhould 
eat ot one diſt being inletted filling himſelk ther with ale 
being either dethem inlected and eating much theroßßit = 
