and of the vertues there ol. Pol. 83 
ſuall water, certaine dꝛaughts ene after another, betauſe he 
ſhould not dꝛinke much at one time, loꝛ the reaſon afoꝛeſaid. 
The felſſame ſaith Raſis in the 7 of his Continent in the 
places {peaking of the ſaid griet:at the firſt giue vnts ſuch to 
dink continnally water of now, chiellp if p ſaid diſcaſe pꝛa⸗ 
£29 ofa melancholy humoꝛ. And in p ſecond part he conicleth: 
thé to go dwel in a told toũtryx, z ifthey cannot doit, that they 
vſe to dꝛink Mow, z cõtinually p water therof The 3 is that 
luch as haue na remedy to be faũd p they wil be conſerued w 
giving thé to dꝛink p water ol ß now cõtinually. And being 
Witing oftgis,¢ healing of a Getlema p could nat fetch his 
bꝛeath, x was al fivolé,¢ flept not in man daies, ⁊ had a griet 
at the hart, and with letting him blood e giuing him to dʒink 
water of fnow cõtinuallꝑ, he was healed, not waut great ad⸗ 
miration ot᷑ al men: for he was takento be but as a dead mã. 
Amato Lucitano in the 7. Centuris ſpeaketh of une ; has 
à bot burning keuer, x loʒ the great heat ⁊ inſlãmation, he had 
in the thꝛote, could not wallom down any thing, w a peere 
of feoſt, chewing it cõtinually, not onelpit toe alway p diffi⸗ 
tultnes ofthe ſwallowing down, z in the inflamation in his 
thꝛoate, but did allo cafe him much ol his feuer. 
It is bicd todꝛink at this dax made cold with ino inal plas 
ces, where it is to be had:loʒ with this maner of making told, 
they find moze allurante ⁊᷑ cõtentment, th in al the reſt. And 
fo We ſa it is vſed in the courts of kings. pꝛintes.⁊ al great 
men a loʒos, and common people that are there reũdent.Anꝭ 
to this day with the vie the rot, it bath not bin ſeen, that it bath 
tauſed any kind of diſeaſe: which if it han bene hurtful e had 
cauſed any cõmon diſeaſe oꝛ patitcular in io man vceres as 
it bath beene died, it woulde haue beene ſerne: rather wee 
haue had manx examples, that it bath dane good, and hatt 
conferued thoſe which are whole, that they chould not fail 
ficke,¢ ſuch as are ſicke haue bin healed of their infirnuties. 
Here I dos ſe many being ficke , and hauing greate occaũ⸗ 
ons ot ſicknes, after that they dꝛinke cold, are whole ftraight 
wap g when they hau giuen auer the vl of it cger ache 
