378 IJ\!des for the Meaji4re of Eating. Make not your Table a :Bait to Glttttons. §. 47• If I fi10uld here prefume to give you any Rules for judging of a right meafure, Phyficio~s Ru!ef for t~e would think 1 went beyond my Calling, and {ome of them might be offended at a defign that tend. l\.k~f~'re ot erh fu much to their imrovcrHhing, and thofe_ t?at f~rve the greedyW?rm would be more offendt4. Eaur:;,. Therefore I !hall only gJVe Y.ou thtfe general mttmauons. z, Nature JS conttnt wirh a little ; but Vtnur pm.:() Appetite is never ~ontent t-t!l _it have drown~d Nlture. 2-lt is the per[e{/ion of concoliion, and cMtcatJt:S tji, g_oodHrj! of the n~tnmcnt that .'s more cond_uc1ble to healeh, than d~e quantJ1) : 3· Nature will eafi. ji d.11 il.i qilal ller overcome hVJCC the quantHy of fome hght and paffable noun£hment, than half fa much of debu) ';oif.t;uod grofs and heavy meats (Therefore rhofe that prefcribe juH twdve Ounces a day, without diffe– fotu. Sent c. rencing meats that fo much differ, do much miHake.) 4• Ahealthful firong body mu{} have more Juvrnum virthan the weak and fickly. 5· Middle aged perfons mufi have more than old ~olks or children, tuscH) N 1 hd 6. H~~rd Labourtrl muH have more, than eafie Labourers; and thefc more than the Idle, or Students r.imis. Socrlit. or any that flir but little. 7· A body of clofe Pores, that evacu1teth little by fweat or tranfpiration, mull have lefs, efpecially of moiHure, than another. 8. So mull a cold and flegmatick conflitution~ 9• So mufi .a flomach that corruptcth its food, and catleth it fof(h by periodical bilious evacuati– ons. 10. That which troublerh the O:omach in the digefiion is too much, or too bad, unlefs wirh very weak fickly perfons. 1 1. So is that toomuch or bad which maketh you more d11U for fiudy,or rno 1 e htavy and untit for hbour ( unltfs fome difeafe be the principal caufe.J 12· A body that by txcejiis already filled with cruditiu, fhould take lefs th1n another, that nature may have time to digc:fi and wafie them. 13. Every one Chould labour to know the temperature of tl<lcir own bodies, and what difeafes they are matt enclined to, and fo have the judgement of their Phyficion or fame skilful perfon, to give them (uch directions as are fuitable to their own p:uticular temperature and difeafes: 14· Hud Labourers err more in the quality than the qumtity, pmly ihrough poverty, partly through ignorance, and partly through appetite, while they refufe that which is more wholfome (as meer Bread and Be<r) if it be lefs pleafing to them. I 5· lfl may prefume to conjecture, ordinarily vtry hard Labourer I ~xceed in quantity about a fourth pJrt: Sb.'/J·kttpers and perfons of eajif'f Trades do ordin:uily exceed about a rhird part: Voluptuou; Gentlem~n and their Strvingmen, and other fervanrs of theirs that have no hard labour, do ufually exceed about halfio half: ' ( But fiill I except perfons that are exrraordinarily temperate through weak._nefi)or through wifdom); And the fame Gentlemen ufu~ ally exceed in Variety, CojllinefJ, Cttriofity and 1ime, much more than they do in quamiJy ( fo that they are GluttonJ of the tirll magnitude). The Childrm of thofe that govern not th<ir appetites, but lee them ear and drink, as much and as often as they defire ir, do ufually exceed above half in half, and lay the foundation of the difeafes and miferies of all their lives. All this is about the truth, though the Belly believe it not. 1:·,.iUT pr.wp. 9· 48~ When you are once grown wife enough to know what in mtafure, ar.d time, and quality is ta uoJt audit. fiuejl f or your bealt!J, go not btyond rh;t upon any imporcuniry of Appttiu, or offritndJ; for all Stncc. that is beyond that, is Glimony and fi:ufuality, in irs degree. Dire{J. 8. 9· 49· DireCl:. S. If you can l•»f:<fly avoid it, mak,.t nat yo:<r 1able a foar't of1tmpwionto your . felva or RtberJ. I know a greedy apprtite will make any Tab/~ that hach bur neceffariu, a fnare to it ~0('0t~k;v';t~ f:lf: But do not y~u unmce./Jarily become DtviiJ, or tempters t? your felves or orhers. 1. For ff<!!a– counrcl at ltty, fiudy not Dtbczonfi1t[J too much : unlefs for fame weak d1fiempered fiomachs, the belt meat is Jean ufe ~r:cr that which Ieaveth behind it in the mouth, neither a noublefome loathing, nor an eager appetite af· m('at to iet tcr more, for the tajleJ fake : Butfuch as Bread is, that leaveth the Palate in an indifferent moderation. ~~~o~: :ll~~fon The c.uJious invemions of ne~ and ~iliciou.s d.i!hes, meerly to pleaf~ the Appe•ite, is Gluttony inviting ~nd a Fr:aber to greater GIHttony : Excefs m !J<.!!alay to mvlte to excefs m fi!!:anwy. or aPro:v:t~g . . . . . to vomtt 1t up again, tbat you m:ay thew fome mercy to theu bod1e~, tf yotl wtll n1ew mne to thm fouls. 9· 50· ObjrCl:. But (you'll fay ) I ]hall bt thought niggardly or fordid, and rtproacbul /;,bind my hac~ ifmy 1ablebt fo fitted to tbe temperate and abjlinent. 11 Senfu,Jift A•fw. This is the pleading of Pridt for Gluttony: Rather than you will be talkt againfi by belly• c~r~ngdto~ godJ, or ignorant fhfhly people, you will fin agai~fi God, and prepare a Feafi or Sacrifice for B•cclnH ~.,:~~~on~ or V''!IU! : The ~ntic:nt Chrifiians were torn with Beali~, btcaufe rhey would not ca~.a little_Frank,jn– his bmiliw, ctnfe rnto the fire on the Altar of an Idol : And will you feed fo many Id,! bt!w fo loberally to C~to a.niww:d avoid rheir cenfure? Did not I tell you, that Gulo(ity is an irrational vice? Good and temperate ~om,l ~annat perfons will [peak wdl of you for it: And do you more regard the judgement avd.efieem of bd· ,~heofe1~:tfl~~ ly·gods ? · is wifer than 9· 51. Object. But it iJ 110t 011ly riototts/yxurioHJ perfonJ th.1t I mtau: I have no f•cb at my 1ablt : bisbJain.Era[. But it wiU bt the matter of obloquy tven to good people, and thoje t~at areJober. AH[w. I told you fome meafure of Gluttony is .become a common ji1t : and many are tainted with it through cuj!omt, that otherwife are good and fober: But !hall they therefore be left os uncurable' or !hall they make all others as bad as they' And mull we all commit that fin, which fome fober people are grown to faVour? You bear their cenfures about different Opinions in Religion, and other mat– ters of diffelence : and why hot here? The deluded Q!akers may be witneffes againfiyou, that while they run into the cotltrary exti'Cam; cary bear the deepefi cenf101res of a11 the world abou"t the~. And tannot you for honefi 1tmptranct and Sobriety bear the cenfures of fome difiempered or ~mlty per– fons that are of another mmd : Cej!amly m thl1 they are no Temperate p<rfons, when they plead for txctji and the baill of fmfu•lity wd inttmperanct:
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