132 'THE SALERNE SCHOOLE. 
Although you may drinke often while you dine, 
Yet after dinner touch not once the cup, 
I know that some physitians do assigne 
To take some liquor straight before they sup : 
But whether this be meant by been or wine, 
A controuersie ’tis not yet tane 
o close your stomacke well, Me aes sutes, 
Cheese after Flesh, Nuts after Fish or Fruits. 
et some haue said (beleeue them as you will), 
One Nut doth good, two hurt, the third doth kill. 
Some Nut, gainst poyson is preseruatiue; 
Peares, wanting wine, are poyson from the tree, 
But bak’t Peares counted are restoratiue, 
Raw Peares a poyson, bak’t a medicine be: 
Bak’t Peares, a weak-dead-stomacke do reuiue, 
Raw Peares are heauy to digest we see, 
Drinke after Peares, take after Apples order 
To haue a place to purge your selfe of ordure.. 
Ripe Cherries breed good blood, and help the stone, 
If Cherry you do eat, and Cherry-stone. 
Coole Damsens are, and good for health by reason 
They make your intrayles soluble and <eeEaly 
Let Peaches steepe in wine of newest s 
Nuts hurt their teeth, yt with their os “ding cracke, 
With euery ’Nut tis yood to eat a Reason 
For though they hurt the splene they help the back = 
A plaister made of Figges by some men’s telling, 
Is good against all kirnels, boyles, and swelling, 
With Poppy ioyn’d, it drawes out bones are broken, 
By Figs are lice engendred, Lust prouoken. 
