and of the vertues thereol. Poly. 
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them, and do participate of ſuch cares and troubles, x thoſe 
that are much exertiſed in bodily buſtnes, in efpecially the 
ſouldierlike exertiſes oꝛ other great crercifes, ⁊ they which 
do ioꝛnie, and ineſpetiallp long ioꝛnies giuing to vnderſtäd 
all cozpozat and ſpirituall exerciſes. And after he hath done 
this, hee doeth moderate it in this maner ſaying But ſuche 
which haue nottheſe cares, t dzinketh without them when 
they are idle and in pleaſure, dooe nat exertiſe themſelues: 
theſe people as they haue not heat to conſtraine the to dꝛink 
told, let them not do it, neither is is conuenient foꝛ them ta 
Dink it, let thé content themſelues with cold water, as nar 
ture bath bꝛought it forth, without putting it to cole in any 
| —— thing, ſeeing they haue not needs of that which is mot 
vs ; 
Moꝛeduer he faith, although they liue tolelp,and do no ere 
ertiſe, and are without cares, if the time were warm, 02 ve⸗ 
ry hot, they may dꝛinke the water cold, J doe meane that in 
the countries wher it is not cold, they may put it to be made 
colde ſa that it be not verie cold. Che ſelfeſame is confirmed 
by Galen himſelfe in his 3 booke of meates and in the boke 
ofthe diſeaſe of the reines, where be ſaith, that the vſe ok cold 
water cooled with ſnow, vnto ſuch as are verie whot,¢ ſuch 
as are fat, and ſuch as do exerciſe themſelues ¢ labour much, 
that fuch may dꝛinke verie cold, chiellp it they be vled theres 
vnto, foꝛ ſuch as are actuſtomed to dꝛink it, do fuffer ¢ carty 
it better and moze without hurt, then ſuch as do nat vſe it, ſoz 
ſuch ought ta dꝛinke it with moꝛe reſpede and conũderati⸗ 
on. a ‘ 
And albeit the water bath fo great benefite in it, as wer 
haue ſaide, fo2 the tonſeruation ot health, it hath greater te 
heale Feuers and other diſeaſes: and thereupan Hipocrates 
and Galen treated berie particularlp, inelpecially Galen in 
the nienth or his Methodo doth repꝛehend there Fraſtstra- 
to, and ſuch as do follow him, which did fozbid the vſe e tald 
water. vnto ſuch as were ficke of the Feuers. End in bis 
firſt booke of his * like reaſon * 
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