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(1) I will: first of all in the morning when you are about to rise vp,
stretch your self strongly: for thereby the animall heate is somewhat
forced into the outward partes, the memorie is quickned, and the bodie
strengthened.
(2) Secondarily, rub and chafe your body with the palmes of your hands,
or with a course linnen cloth; the breast, back, and belly, gently: but
the armes, thighes, and legges roughly, till they seem ruddy and warme.
(3) Euacuate your selfe.
(4) Put on your apparell: which in the summer time must be for the most
part silke, or buffe, made of buckes skinne, for it resisteth venime and
contagious ayres: in winter your vpper garment must be of cotton or
friezeadow.
(5) When you have apparelled your selfe hansomely, combe your head
softly and easily with an Iuorie combe: for nothing recreateth the
memorie more.
[Sidenotes:
1. Stretch yourself. 2. Rub yourself. 3. Go to stool. 4. Put on
your clothes. 5. Comb your head.]
(6) Picke and rub your teeth: and because I would not haue you to bestow
much cost in making dentrifices for them; [a] I will aduertise you by
foure rules of importance how to keepe your teeth white and vncorruyt
(_sic_), and also to haue a sweete breath. First, wash well your mouth
when you haue eaten your meat: secondly, sleepe with your mouth somewhat
open. Thirdly, spit out in the morning that which is gathered together
that night in the throate: then take a linnen cloth, and rub your teeth
well within and without, to take away the fumositie of the meat and the
yellownesse of the teeth. For it is that which putrifieth them and
infecteth the breath. But least peraduenture your teeth become loose and
filthy, I will shew you [b] a water farre better then pouders, which
shall fasten them, scoure the month, make sound the gums, and cause the
flesh to growe againe, if it were fallen away. Take halfe a glasse-full
of vineger, and as much of the water of the mastick tree (if it may
easily be gotten) of rosemarie, myrrhe, mastick, bole Armoniake, Dragons
herbe, roche allome, of each of them an ounce; of fine cinnamon halfe an
ounce, and of fountaine water three glassefulles; mingle all well
together and let it boile with a small fire, adding to it halfe a pound
of honie, and taking away the scumme of it; then put in a little
bengwine, and when it hath sodden a quarter of an houre, take it from
the fire, and keepe it in a cleane bottle, and wash your teeth
therewithall as well before meate as after; if you hould some of it in
your mouth a little while, it doth much good to the head, and sweetneth
the breath. I take this water to be [c] better worth then a thousand of
their dentifrices.
[Sidenotes:
6. Clean your teeth.
[a] (How to keep the teeth sound and the breath sweet. [b] Use
Vaughan’s Water made after this recipe. [c] It’s better than
1000 Dentrifices.)]
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