132 THE BIOLOGY OF DAILY LIFE. 



again remind the reader of the Bounty of Nature. I 

 have spoken of nettles as staving off starvation, but 

 Health is equally far from starvation as from gluttonous 

 repletion in her Diet. In the beautiful words of the 

 poet Spencer : 



" There Alma, like a virgin queene most bright, 

 Doth florish in all beautie excellent ; 

 And to her guestes doth bounteous banket dight, 

 Attempred goodly well for health and for delight."* 



* The Faery Queene, Canto xi., 2. 



