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of which only one copy is known. His Certaine Necessary 

 observations For Healthy a poem illustrating his interest in practical 

 hygiene, was printed as a broadside, of which a copy is bound up 

 in his 'booke of notes', MS. 183 (f. 4), and is dated (in MS.) 1596, 

 though a copy of the poem itself, written by a clerkly hand, is 

 dated 1603 (MS. 184, f. 77 b). The volumes of MSS. contain many 

 verses in Welsh, praising various members of the Salusbury family, 

 copies of letters from Sir Henry Sydney, the Earl of Essex, Sir 

 Walter Raleigh, and other notabilities, English poems by Sir John 

 Salusbury and his circle, a few medical recipes, and stray quotations 

 and verses. 



Sir John's own muse drew less from a knowledge of plants than 

 did the muse of Robert Chester, though there are, as in all Eliza- 

 bethan poetry, references to ' choyse and sweetest flowers ', sweet 

 Briere and sweet Eglantine. And one of his verses, on Pride, 

 entitled A Conceite, ends with the lines 



And those that grow of sundry seeds 

 At last do proue but stinking weeds 

 And if pure wheat be sowde in tares 

 The wheat Assuredly it mars. 



finis John Salusbury. 



but they can hardly be cited as showing exceptional cultural lore. 



The names of many herbes are contained in his medical recipes, 

 of which the following is a specimen : 



Tacke a certain amand milke mayde Whit these ierbes Tacke plantain, 

 ribbe Whorthe, knott grasse, cheaper purse, confery of evere one a handfull, 

 strabury leaves, sanicula, of evere one halfe a handefull. Let this by boylet in 

 a quantitie of faier Water of this Liquor macke an amand milke. 



This is excelent against a consumcion, waste, or runninge of the raynes, or 

 brekinge of a vayne & within the boodie, or anye foule matter wthin manes 

 boodye. [Christ Church MS. 184, f. 33 ^ 



^ By another hand in the same volume is A Dietary for those who have weak 

 backs, in ten 4-line stanzas : 



1. Good sir yf you lack the strengthe in your back 



and wolde have a Remediado 

 Take Eryngo rootes and Marybone tartes 

 Redde wine and riche Potato. 



2. An oyster pie and a Lobsters thighe 



hard eggs well drest in Marow 

 This will ease your backes disease 

 and make you a good Cocksparrowe. 

 4. An Apricock or an Artichock 

 Anchovies oyle and Pepper 

 These to use doe not refuse 



twill make your backe the better. 

 10. The milke of an Asse will bringe to passe 

 all thinges in such a matter. 

 When this is spente you must be contente -, 



with an ounce of Synamon water. * 



[Christ Church MS. 184, f. 35 

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