THE PRINTED EDITIONS. 93 
Yt purgeth flume, it helpes to digest, 
Whille pepper is good for paine of the brest. 
The fever approchinge this pepper will fryghte, 
Alsoe the shakinge yt abandoneth quyghte, 
He concludes, as the usual editions of the Regimen 
Salutis, with a lines on the four quarters of the year, 
of which the last is :— 
Utilis est es sit cum moderamine potus. 
W hich he thus translates, continues, and concludes : 
Thy selfe geve to quietnes, els take you plesure, 
A Godes name drincke well, but drincke in mesure. 
My paines (in this precepte) beinge taken well, 
Will make m more—and soe fare ye well, 
The labor accepted herein that I tooke, 
Maye cause make me take more, in some other booke. 
Fare you well. Finis quoth Withie, 
Oxoniw, 1575, completa die mensis Februarii primo. 
It is followed by Joachim Camerarius’s quatrains upon 
e diet to be observed every month of the year, and a 
The latter is very meagre, the translation correspondent. 
