[Footnote 1-1: Compare what Bulleyn says: --slepe. The night is the best time: the daie is euill: to slepe in the fielde is perilous. But vpon, or in the bedde, liyng firste vpon the right side, untill you make water: then vpon the lefte side, is good. [a]But to lye vpon the backe, with a gaping mouth, is daungerous: and many thereby are made starke ded in their slepe: through apoplexia, and obstruccion of the sinewes, of the places vitalle, animall, and nutrimentalle. _Bullein’s Bulwarke, The booke of the vse of sicke men and medicenes_, fol. lxx. See also Sir John Harrington’s directions from Ronsovius: “They that are in health, must first sleepe on the right side, because the meate may come to the liuer, which is to the stomack as a fire vnder the pot, and thereby is digested. To them which haue but weake digestion, it is good to sleepe prostrate on their bellies, or to [b] haue their bare hands on their stomackes: and to lye vpright on the backe, is to bee vtterly abhorred.” p. 19. [Sidenotes to Footnote: [a] How to lie in bed. [b] Who should put their hands on their stomachs.]] [Footnote 2: This wenche lay _upright_, and faste slepte. Chaucer. _The Reeves Tale_, l. 4192, ed. Wright.] [Footnote 3: [a] Fricacion is one of the euacuacions, yea, or clensynges of mankinde, as all the learned affirmeth: that mankinde should rise in the mornyng, and haue his apparell warme, stretchyng foorthe his handes and legges. Preparyng the bodie to the stoole, and then [b] begin with a fine Combe, to kembe the heere vp and down: then with a course warme clothe, to chafe or rubbe the hedde, necke, breast, armeholes, bellie, thighes, &c., and this is good to open the pores. 1562 _Bullein’s Bulwarke_, The booke of the vse of sicke men and medicenes, fol. lxvij. See Vaughan below, No. 2, p. 133. [Sidenotes to Footnote: [a] Of Frication [b] and combing the head.]] [Footnote 4: Drunkards, bench-wislers, that will quaffe untill thei are starcke staring madde like Marche Hares: Fleming-like Sinckars; brainlesse like infernall Furies. Drinkyng, braulyng, tossyng of the pitcher, staryng, pissyng[*], and sauyng your reuerence, beastly spuyng vntill midnight. Therefore let men take hede of dronke{n}nes to bedward, for feare of sodain death: although the Flemishe[†] nacion vse this horrible custome in their vnnaturall watching all the night. _Bullein_, fol. lxix-lxx, see also fol. xj.] [Footnote 4*: Compare A. Borde of the “base Doche man,” in his _Introduction_.] [Footnote 4†: I am a Flemyng, what for all that Although I wyll be dronken other whyles as a rat. A. Borde, _Introduction_.] * * * * * * * * * William Vaughan’s Fifteen Directions to preserve Health. (From his _Naturall & Artificial Directions for health_, 1602, p. 57-63.) Declare vnto mee a dayly dyet, whereby I may liue in health, and not trouble my selfe in Physicke.