146 THE SALERNE SCHOOLE. 
Against these seuerall humours ouerflowing, 
As seuerall kinds of physicke may be good, 
As diet-drink, hot-baths, whence sweat is growing, 
With purging, vomiting, and letting blood : 
Which taken in due time, nor ouerflowing, 
Each maladies infection is withstood. 
The last of these is best, if skill and reason, 
Respect age, strength, quantity, and season; 
Of seuenty from seuenteene, if blood abound, 
The opening of a veyne is healthfull found. 
Of Bleeding many profits grow, and great, 
The spirits and sences are renewed thereby, 
Though these mend slowly by the strength of meat, 
But these with wine restor’d are by and by: 
By bleeding, to the marrow commeth heat 
It maketh cleane your braine, releeues your eie, 
It mends your appetite, restoreth sleepe, 
Correcting humours that do waking keepe: 
All inward parts and sences also clearing, 
It mends the voyce, touch, smell, taste, and hearing- 
Three speciall months, September, April, May, 
There are in which tis good to ope a veyne, 
In these three months the moon bears greatest sway, 
Then old or young, that store of blood containe, 
May bleed now, though some elder wizards say, 
daies are ill in these, I hold it vaine: 
September, April, May, haue daies a peece, 
That bleeding do forbid and eating Geese, 
And those are they forsooth of May the first, 
Of tother two the last of each are worst. 
