S2 *^^^^ Compleat Eorfs-man^ CHAP. ll. 



v&rmuch heat too fuddenly confumeth and deftroyeth -the moi- 

 fture j howbeit there mult be a neceflity that the heat mull hare 

 a kind of regality and dominioa over the moifture, otherwifc 

 it will never be able to nourifli the body as it ought. 

 1. The fecond caufe of long life, is the moderation of their 



Modcra- natural appetite of eatings it being available either in exceft 

 tion in |-Q i^^jj aji(i deftroy, or in moderation to fave : whereby the 

 eating. Horfe Ihall daily repair the decay of his humidity, by fupply 

 of moderate nourilhment, and never overwhelm or fupprefs 

 his heat with too great abundance of moifture, nor mix his 

 Humidum Radkah with too much fuperfluous impurities-, for 

 extreams are evermore perillous and il],as well in excefs as in de- 

 feat : For as too much eating ( be the meat nev^er fo good and 

 wholefome) hindereth good digeftion, ana isgendrcth Cru- 

 dities, together with an evil habit of the Stoitiach *, {6 like- 

 wife too fpare a diet doth as much weaken arivi decay nature, by 

 rcafon that the heat which thereby v/iii drife in the ftomach^ 

 will (iril over-charge, and afterwards conquer the Radical 

 moifture; both which are fri^tidstoiicknefs and death. 

 3. The third caufe of long life is moderate labour, a matter 



Moderate very much effedual to digertio^., and therefore to long life, 

 .labour, dilating, and fpreading nut irn; nt into every member of the 

 body : for over-much reft t.eedeth m the body iiiper- abun- 

 dance of bad humours, which cooleth the body, for want of 

 which moderate execcife, ir is as it were caftinto a fleep, and 

 ^in a manner through Ijmpifhnefs befotted and benummed* : 

 from whence doth fprii ?, another mifchief equivalent to the 

 former, to wit, acolledion ofexcrementalluperfluities, occa- 

 fioned through lazinefs, and idienefs, by realcjn that theHorie, 

 Tor want of modetatc cxerciie, is not able to digeft his receiv- 

 ed nutriment; by which m^ans many maladies are engendred 

 in his body prociecding from corruption in the blood, crudi- 

 ties ia the ftomach, and the like; becaufe he hath in his body 

 (as a man may properly fay j a very fink or ftanding-pool of un- 

 natural humours. And therefore 1 give all men this caveat, 

 fit. to be very careful thev do not put their Horles to over- 

 jaauchiabour and travel, until fiiich tiine as they havewell di- 

 gefted their meai ; for that by their immoderate exercife,they 

 over-dog their ftomachs, a&i fo-they cannot have atruecon- 



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