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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    Don’t eat several meats at a meal. Sit only an hour at dinner. Englishmen sit too long at it. and stupidly eat gross meat first, leaving the best for the servants. Men are so greedy. gested. For the last refeccyon or meale wyll let the dygestyon of the fyrste refeccyon or meale. Also sondry meates of dyuers operacyons eaten at one re- feccion or meale, is not laudable; nor it is not good to syt longe at dyner and supper. An houre is suffycyent to syt at dynner; and not so longe at supper. Englanae hath an euyll vse in syttynge longe at dyner and at supper. And Englysshe men hath an euyll 1vse ; for, at the begynnynge at dyner and supper he wyll fede on grose meates, And the best meates which2 he holsome and nutratyue, and lyeth 3 of dygestion, is kept for ser- uauntes : for whan the good meate doth come to the table, thorowe fedynge vpon grose meate, the appetyde is extynct whan the good meet doth come to the table; hut mawnes mynde is so auydous, althoughe he haue eate ynouglie, whan he seth4 better meate come before hym, agaynst his appetyde he wyll eate; wherupon doth5 come replecyon 6 and surfetes. Water is not wholesome by itself. Water is bad for an Englishman. % The .x. Chapytre treateth of al ma- ner of drynkes, as of water, of wyne, of ale, of here, of cyder, of meade, of metheglyn, and of whay. Ater is one of the foure Elements, of the whiche dyuers lycours or drynkes for mawnes sustynaunce be made of, takyng theyr ory- gynall and substaunce of it, as ale, here, meade, and metheglyn. water is not holsome,7 sole by it selfe, for an Englysshe man, consyde8rynge the contrarye vsage, whiche is not concurraunt with nature: water is 1 E .iv. not signed. s the whiche AB ; meate which P. 3 lyght BP. ? Lyetli is A.Sax. lid, mild. * seeth AB. 5 (io AB. 6 replexion AB. 7 See Forewords, p. 74. 8 E .iv. back.