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13. Of His Habit 



He accouters his person according to the fashion, if 

 it be one that is not troublesome and uneasie for 

 men of heroick exercises and actions. He is neat and 

 cleanly; which makes him to be somewhat long in 

 dressing, though not so long as many effeminate 

 persons are. He shifts ordinarily once a day, and 

 every time when he uses exercise, or his temper is 

 more hot than ordinary. 



14. Of His Diet 



In his diet he is so sparing and temperate, that he 

 never eats nor drinks beyond his set proportion, so 

 as to satisfie onely his natural appetite: he makes 

 but one meal a day, at which he drinks two good 

 glasses of small-beer, one about the beginning, the 

 other at the end thereof, and a little glass of sack in 

 middle of his dinner, which glass of sack he also uses 

 in the morning for his breakfast, with a morsel of 

 bread. His supper consists of an egg, and a draught 

 of small-beer. And by this temperance he finds 

 himself very healthful, and may yet live many years, 

 he being now of the age of seventy-three, which I 

 pray God from my soul, to grant him. 



15. His Recreation and Exercise 



His prime pastime and recreation hath always been 

 the exercise of mannage and weapons ; which heroick 

 arts he used to practise every day; but I observing 

 that when he had over-heated himself, he would be 

 apt to take cold, prevailed so far, that at last he left 

 the frequent use of the mannage, using nevertheless 



