Ofthe hearbe Efcuerconera. Fol zs. 
ewꝛe there were many graines of arſenyke, which as vet 
were not diſſolued. J was called ¢ J gathered out of p ewe 
moze thé xx.ſmal grains of arſenike:⁊ within certain daies 
after the Gentlemen fel fick, whereby J did coniedure p it 
was not the firt time that they pretended to poyſon him: € 
fince that, he bath bin ſicke a longtime. And thus much ¥ 
afirme that it p cup had not bin altered of his colour c been 
infected,it had not bin perceined. T hereloꝛe it is neceſſarie 
that the teficls and tinages where wine ¢ water are kepft, 
be ffopt foꝛ feare leaſt any venomous thing fall therein, as 
ſpyders Sallamanqueſas andother like venomeus beaſts, 
and therefore it is nought to dꝛinke with vellels oꝛ cuppes 
that haue narrow mouths:fa2 it is beſt to fee What one dꝛin⸗ 
keth in a cleere veſſel and bzoade, fo it is god fo2 them that 
da regarde their health It is good to haue a pace ot a right 
Unitoꝛnes ome in a ſmall chaine of golde, that it map ber 
fwilled continuallp in the water that chall be dzunke, It 
would do well, foꝛ not onely it taketh alway the ſuſpition of 
the venom but doth put tothe dꝛinke a meruellous coꝛdiall 
vertue. Allo pou mult not ſtãd by the fire that is made wilh 
benomons wood, faz the fmoke doeth popſan, as if you fouls 
take popfon,and to ſet in the chamber coales when they Do 
begin to kindle many haue died ther with: let pour apparel 
be kept by ſuch as you haue truſt in. tos in them may be put 
things that may do notable hurt. and fo; al that, as is fü 
Boeth much profit to haue trutie ſeruants, and that the p va 
ſuch whome poumay truſt, and that ther bee of a Ab par 
rentage, and ſticke not ta reward them well. And aboue all 
atber let the Philiti that bath the charge of your bealth,be 
learned and erperimented.diferete ans ofa gd indgemet, 
and that be be riche and ol a good kinred, andbecing fach 
ane he wil nat Doe any thing that be dug vt nat to doe fing 
thatin bis handes is the lite and healtz of tye Patlter s 
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