THE SALERNE SCHOOLE. 133 
Eat Medlars if you haue a looseness gotten, 
They bind, and yet your vrine they augment, 
They haue one name more fit to be forgotten, 
While hard and sound they be they be not spent, . 
Good Medlars are not ripe till seeming rotten, 
For meddling much with Medlars some are shent. 
New Rhennish-wine stirs vrine, doeth not binde, 
But rather loose.the belly, breeding wind, 
Ale, humours breeds, it addes both flesh and force, 
Tis loosing, coole, and vrine doth inforce. 
Sharpe Vinegar doth coole, withall it dries, 
And giues to some ill humour good correction : 
It makes one melancholy, hurts their eyes, 
Nor making fat, nor mending their complection : 
It lessens sperm, makes appetite to rise : 
Both taste and scent is good against infection. 
Turnep hurts the stomacke, wind it breedeth 
Stirs vrine; hurts his teeth thereon that feedeth : 
Who much thereof will feed, may wish our nation 
Would well allow of Claudius’ proclamation. 
Tt follows now what part of euery beast 
Is best to eat: first, know the heart is ill, 
It is both hard, and heauy to disgest, 
The Tripe, with no good iuice our flesh doth fill: 
The Lites, are light, yet but in small request: 
But outer parts are best in Physicke’s skill. — 
{ Ifany braines be good (which is a question), 
Hennes braine is best, and lightest of disgestion: 
{ In Fennell-seed this vertue you shall find, 
Porth of your lower parts to drive the wind. 
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