THE PRINTED EDITIONS. 89 
Lavender, and the primrose of the spring, 
Tansey, and water-cresses, comfort bring 
To all such members as the palsie shake, 
When in the very greatest kind they quake. 
Sage doth both councell, and keep nature sounde, 
Where sage then groweth, happy is the ground. 
The same eee was ena in 1609, 1617, 1624, 
1634, * 1649, * e dedication to that of 1634 
a soe Holland) and attributes it 
to his father Pileain Holland, doctor of physic. 
In the library of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, amongst 
Brian Twyne’s Collections, is a manuscript of this 
ith an English translation, bearing date 1575. 
t is entitled, the Maintenance of Health, translated 
and collected by William Withie 
The puisante kinge of Britannye 
The schole of famous mem 
Salernum, biddes him selfe to fins. 
If healthe he woulde and kepe the same 
Geve cares noe place within thy brest ; 
Lett fretting furies be supprest ; 
To muche of wine use not to swi 
Suppe you but lighte, eate not acd fill; 
t meate to sitte so longe a time, 
To rise is not soe greate a crime ; 
At none geve not thye selfe to slepe ; 
Nor use thy water for to kepe. 
He maye that liste this to observe 
Him selfe long time in healthe preserve. 
tc 
