THE SALERNE SCHOOLE. 
As tastes are diuers, so Physitians hold 
They haue as sundry qualities and power, 
Some burning are, some temperate, some cold, 
Cold are these three: the tart, the sharpe, the sour : 
Salt, bitter, biting, burne as hath been told, 
Sweet, fat, and fresh, are temperate euery houre. 
{{ Foure special vertues hath a sop in wine, 
It maketh the teeth white, it cleeres the eyne, 
It addes vnto an empty stomacke fulness 
And from a stomacke fill’d, it takes the dulness. 
If to an vse you haue your selfe betaken, 
en 
Yea though it better were, yet seemes it strange, 
ing vse is as a second nature taken. 
With nature custome walkes in equal range. 
{1 Good dyet is a perfect way of curing 
And worthy much regard and health assuring, 
A King that cannot rule him in his dyet, 
Will hardly rule his Realme in peace and quyet. 
They that in Physicke will prescribe you food, 
Six things must note we here in order touch, 
First, what it is: and pis for what tis good, 
And when ; and where ; how often ; and how much, 
Who note not this, it cannot be withstood, 
They hurt, not heale, yet are too many such. 
Coleworts broth doth loose, the substance bind, 
Thus play they, fast and loose, and all behind. 
But yet if at one time you take them both, 
The substance shall giue place vnto the broth. 
