Education -- Early works to 1800; England -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800; Etiquette; Home economics -- Early works to 1800; Table
(7) Wash your face, eyes, eares and hands, with fountaine water. I have
knowne diuers students which vsed to bathe their eyes onely in well
water twise a day, whereby they preserued their eyesight free from all
passions and bloudsheds, and sharpened their memories maruaylously. You
may sometimes bathe your eyes in rosewater, fennell water, or eyebright
water, if you please; but I know for certaintie, that you neede them not
as long as you vse good fountaine water. Moreouer, least you by old age
or some other meanes doe waxe dimme of sight, I will declare vnto you,
[a] the best and safest remedie which I knowe, and this it is: Take of
the distilled waters of verueine, bettonie, and fennell one ounce and a
halfe, then take one ounce of white wine, one drachme of Tutia (if you
may easilie come by it) two drachmes of sugarcandy, one drachme of Aloes
Epatick, two drachmes of womans milke, and one scruple of Camphire: beat
those into pouder, which are to be beaten, and infuse them together for
foure and twenty houres space, and then straine them, and so vse it when
you list.
[Sidenotes:
7. Wash. [a] The best remedy for dim sight.]
(8) When you haue finished these, say your morning prayers, and desire
God to blesse you, to preserue you from all daungers, and to direct you
in all your actions. For the feare of God (as it is written) is the
beginning of wisedome: and without his protection whatsoeuer you take in
hand, shall fall to ruine. Therefore see that you be mindfull of him,
and remember that to that intent you were borne, to weet, to set foorth
his glorie and most holy name.
(9) Goe about your businesse circumspectly, and endeauour to banish all
cares and cogitations, which are the onely baits of wickednesse. [a]
Defraud no man of his right: for what measure you giue vnto your
neighbour, that measure shall you receiue. And finally, imprint this
saying deepely in your mind: A man is but a steward of his owne goods;
wherof God one day will demaund an account.
[Sidenotes:
8. Say your Prayers. 9. Set to work. [a] Be honest.]
(10) Eate three meales a day vntill you come to the age of fourtie
yeares: as, your breakefast, dinner, and supper; yet, that betweene
breakefast and dinner there be the space of foure houres, and betwixt
dinner and supper seauen houres: the breakfast must be lesse then
dinner, and the dinner somewhat lesse then supper.
[Sidenote:
10. Eat only three meals a day.]
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