"The 'Salerne Schoole' doth by these lines impart All health to England's king, and doth advise From care his head to keepe, from wrath his hart. Drink not much wine, sup light and soon arise, When meat is gone long sitting breedeth smart; And afternoon still waking keep your eies. . . . . . Use three physicians still--first Doctor _Quiet_, Next Doctor _Merriman_ and Doctor _Dyet_. "Of bleeding many profits grow and great The spirits and sences are renew'd thereby, Thogh these mend slowly by the strength of meate, But these with wine restor'd are by-and-by; By bleeding to the marrow commeth heate, It maketh cleane your braine, releeves your eie, It mends your appetite, restoreth sleepe, Correcting humors that do waking keep: All inward parts and sences also clearing, It mends the voice, touch, smell, and taste, and hearing. "_Three special months_, _September_, _Aprill_, _May_, There are in which 'tis good to ope a vein-- In these three months the moon beares greatest sway, Then old or young, that store of blood containe, May bleed now, though some elder wizards say, Some daies are ill in these, I hold it vaine; September, Aprill, May have daies apeece, That bleeding do forbid and eating geese, And those are they, forsooth, of May the first, Of t'other two, the last of each are worst. "But yet those daies I graunt, and all the rest, Haue in some cases just impediment, As first, if nature be with cold opprest, Or if the Region, Ile, or Continent, Do scorch or freez, if stomach meat detest, If Baths you lately did frequent, Nor old, nor young, nor drinkers great are fit, Nor in long sickness, nor in raging fit, Or in this case, if you will venture bleeding, The quantity must then be most exceeding. "When you to bleed intend, you must prepare Some needful things both after and before: Warm water and sweet oyle both needfull are, And wine the fainting spirits to restore; Fine binding cloths of linnen, and beware That all the morning you do sleepe no more; Some gentle motion helpeth after bleeding, And on light meals a spare and temperate feeding To bleed doth cheare the pensive, and remove The raging furies bred by burning love. "Make your incision large and not too deep, That blood have speedy yssue with the fume; So that from sinnews you all hurt do keep. Nor may you (as I toucht before) presume In six ensuing houres at all to sleep, Lest some slight bruise in sleepe cause an apostume; Eat not of milke, or aught of milke compounded, Nor let your brain with much drinke be confounded; Eat no cold meats, for such the strength impayre, And shun all misty and unwholesome ayre.