The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge made by Andrew Borde, of physycke doctor : A compendyous regyment; or, A dyetary of helth made in Mountpyllier / compyled by Andrewe Boorde, of physycke doctour. Barnes in the defence of the berde: a treatyse made, answerynge the treatyse of Doctor Borde upon berdes / edited, with a life of Andrew Boorde, and large extracts from his Brevyary, by F.J. Furnivall.

  • Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549.
Date:
1870
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Credit: The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge made by Andrew Borde, of physycke doctor : A compendyous regyment; or, A dyetary of helth made in Mountpyllier / compyled by Andrewe Boorde, of physycke doctour. Barnes in the defence of the berde: a treatyse made, answerynge the treatyse of Doctor Borde upon berdes / edited, with a life of Andrew Boorde, and large extracts from his Brevyary, by F.J. Furnivall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rise with mirth. Brush and air your breeches. Wear linen hose. Stretch your legs, go to stool. truss your points, and comb your head. Wash in cold water. Walk a mile or two. Hear mass, or pray to God. Play tennis, or work your dumb-bells. Eat of 2 or 3 dishes only, and then amuse yourself for an hour. that slepe ought to he taken as the complexyon of man is. whan you do ryse in the morenynge, ryse with myrth, Jand remembre God. Let your hosen he brusshed within and without, and flauour the insyde of them agaynst the fyre; vse lynnen sockes or lynnen hosen next your legges. whan you be out of your bedde, stretche forth your legges and armes, and your body; coughe and spyt, and than go to your stole to make your egestyon; and exonerate your selfe at all tymes that nature wold expell. For yf you do make any restryction in kepynge your egestion, or your vryne or ventosyte, it maye put you to dyspleasuxe in bredyng dyuers infyrmyties. After you haue euacuated your body, & trussed your poyntes, kayme your heade oft; and so do dyuerse tymes in the daye. And wasshe your handes and wrestes, your face and eyes, and your tethe, with colde water. & after that you be apparelled, walke in your gardayne or parke a thousande pace or two; & than great and noble men doth vse to here masse, & other men that can not do so, but must applye theyr busynes, doth serue God with some pray- ers, surrenarynge thankes to hym for his manyfolde goodnes, with askyng mercye for theyr offences. & before you go to your refection, moderatly exercyse your body with some labour, or playing at the tennys, or castyng a 2bowle, or paysyng wayghtes or plomettes of ledde in your handes, or some other thynge, to open your poores, and to augment naturall hete. At dyner & supper vse not to drynke of3 sondry drynkes; & eate not of dyuers meates, but fede of two or thre 4 dysshes at the moste. After that you haue dyned & supped,5 laboure not by-and-by after, but make a pause, syttynge or standyng vpright the space of an houre or more, with some pastyme ; drynke not moch after dyner. At 1 sign. E .i. 2 E .i. back. 3 AB omit “of.” 4 jj. or .iij. A. 5 and supte.