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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Frugal Life - A Paradox - -Author: Ortensio Lando - -Contributor: William E. A. Axon - -Release Date: May 12, 2022 [eBook #68053] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team - at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images - generously made available by The Internet Archive) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FRUGAL LIFE *** - - - - - - The Frugal Life. - - “_That a Spare Diet is - better than a splendid - and sumptuous._” - - A PARADOX: - _By Ortensio Lando, M.D._ - 1543. - - With Introduction - by .... - WILLIAM E. A. AXON. - - MANCHESTER. - 1899. - - - - -THE PARADOX OF A FRUGAL LIFE. - - - - -INTRODUCTION. - - -The friendship of Nicholas Ferrar, the head of the remarkable -household at Little Gidding, and of the saintly George Herbert, is a -pleasant episode of seventeenth century history. One of its results -was the appearance at Cambridge in 1634 of a little volume, entitled -“Hygiasticon.” This contains a translation, believed to be by Ferrar, -of the treatise on dietetics by the learned Jesuit, Leonard Lessius, -George Herbert’s version of Luigi Cornaro’s book on Long Life, and “A -discourse translated out of Italian that a spare diet is better than a -splendid and sumptuous.” This version was made by one whose initials, -T.S., have not been deciphered. The name of the original author was -equally unknown to bibliographers. It is, in fact, the twenty-fourth of -the “Paradossi” printed at Lyons in 1543. This book, although it has -no author’s name attached, is known to be the production of Ortensio -Lando, sometimes known by his Latin name of Hortensius Tranquillus. He -was born at Milan about the end of the fifteenth century, and died at -Venice about 1553. He was a graduate in medicine of the University of -Bologna, and for years led the life of a wandering scholar, but finally -settled at Venice where he died. He was the author of fifty or more -books.[A] This seventeenth century version of Lando’s paradox whilst -not slavish, makes an excellent presentation of the spirit and aim of -the original. In the few places where the English writer has amplified -the additional matter is noteworthy. It has, therefore, been thought -sufficient to modernise the spelling, modify the arrangement and -punctuation, and substitute here and there a modern word for one that -sounded less crude in the seventeenth than in the nineteenth century. - -When a scholar, such as Ortensio Lando was, undertakes to defend -paradoxes he is not always to be taken too seriously, but in this -praise of frugal life and simple diet there is an accent of sincerity -that carries conviction. - - WILLIAM E. A. AXON. - - - - -THAT A SPARE DIET IS BETTER THAN A SPLENDID AND SUMPTUOUS--A PARADOX. - - -I verily believe, however I have titled this opinion, yet it will by no -means be allowed for a Paradox by a number of those, whose judgement -ought to bear the greatest sway. And, to speak freely, it would seem -to me very uncouth, that any man that makes a profession of more -understanding than a beast, should open his mouth to the contrary, -or make any scruple at all of readily subscribing to the truth and -evidence of this position, that a frugal and simple diet is much better -than a full and dainty. - -Tell me, you that seem to demur on the business, whether a sober and -austere diet serves not, without further help, to chase away that -racking humour of the gout, which by all other helps that can be used, -scarce receives any mitigation at all; but, do what can be done, lies -tormenting the body, till it have spent itself. Tell me whether this -holy medicine serve not to the driving away of headache, to the cure -of dizziness, to the stopping of rheums, to the stay of flukes, to -the getting away of loathsome diseases, to the freedom from dishonest -belchings, to the prevention of agues, and, in a word, to the clearing -and draining of all ill humours whatsoever in the body. Nor do the -benefits thereof stay only in the body, but ascend likewise to the -perfecting of the soul itself: for how manifest is it, that through -a sober and strict diet, the mind and all the faculties thereof -become waking, quick, and cheerful, how is the wit sharpened, the -understanding solidated, the affections tempered, and, in a word, the -whole soul and spirit of a man freed from encumbrances, and made apt -and expedite for the apprehension of wisdom, and the embracement of -virtue? - -The ancient sages, were, I am sure, of this opinion; and Plato in -particular made notable remonstrance of it; when upon his coming into -Sicily from Athens, he did so bitterly condemn the Syracusian tables, -which being furnished with precious and dainty cates, provoking -sauces, and rich wines, sent away their guests twice a day full of -good cheer. But what wouldst thou have said, oh, Plato! if thou hadst -perhaps lighted upon such as we Christians nowadays are; amongst whom, -he that eats but two good meals a day, as we term them, boasts himself, -and, is applauded by others for a person of great temperance and -singular good diet? - -Undoubtly, our extravagance in this matter, having added prologues -of breakfasts, interludes of banquets, epilogues of rere-suppers to -the comedy would have caused thee to turn thy divine eloquence to the -praise of those Syracusion gluttons, which, in respect of our usages -and customs, might seem great masters of temperance. - -Nay, very Epicurus himself, however, he may thank Tully’s slanders, his -name is become in this regard so infamous, yet placed his chief delight -this way in no greater dainties than savoury herbs, and fresh cheese. - -But I would fain once understand from these gluttons, that seem born -only to waste good meat, what the reason may be, that nowadays the -store of victuals is so much abated, and the price enhanced of that -it was in time of old, when yet the world appears to have been then -much fuller of people than it now is? Undoubtedly, that scarcity -and dearness under which we labour, can proceed from nothing but -our excessive gluttony which devours things faster than Nature can -bring them forth. And that plenty and cheapness, which crowned their -happy days, was maintained and kept on foot chiefly through the good -husbandry of that frugal and simple diet which they used. - -S. Jerome, writing of the course of life held by those good fathers -that retired themselves into the deserts of Egypt, the better to serve -God, tells us, that they were so enamoured of spare and simple diet, -that they censured it in themselves for a kind of riot, to feed on -anything that was dressed with fire. The same in every point doth -Cassian report, in his relations of the holy monks and hermits of his -time. - -I find in ancient physicians, that the inhabitants of the old world -were such strict followers of sobriety, that they kept themselves -precisely to bread in the morning; and at night they made their supper -of flesh only without addition of sauces, or any first or second -courses. And by this means it came to pass, that they lived so long and -in continual health without so much as once hearing the names of those -many grievous infirmities that nowadays vex mankind. - -What think you might be the cause, that the Romans, the Arcadians, -and the Portugals passed so many hundred of years, without having any -acquaintance at all with physic or physicians? Surely nothing else -but their sober spare diet, which when all is done, we are ofttimes -constrained to undergo, and ever indeed directed and advised unto, -by those who really practise this divine science of physic, for the -recovery and conservation of their patient’s health, and not covetously -for their own gain. I read in approved histories, that Ptolemy, -upon some occasion or other out-riding his followers in Egypt, was -so pressed with hunger, that he was fain to call in at a poor man’s -cottage, who brought him a piece of rye-bread; which when he had eaten, -he took a solemn oath, that he never in all his life tasted better, nor -more pleasing meat: and from that day forward, he set light by all the -costly sorts of bread, which he had been formerly accustomed unto. - -The Thracian women, that they might bear healthful, strong, and hardy -children, ate nothing but milk and nettles, and the greatest dainties -that the Lacedemonians had amongst them, was a certain kind of black -pottage, that looked no better than melted pitch, and could not by -computation stand in above three half-pence a gallon at the most. The -Persians, that in their time were the best disciplined people on the -earth, ate a little Nasturtium[B] with their bread; and that was all -the victuals that this brave nation used, when they made conquest of -the world. - -Artaxerxes, the brother of Cyrus, being overthrown in battle, was -constrained in his flight to sit down with dry figs and barley-bread -which upon proof he found so good, as he seriously lamented his -misfortune, in having,--through the continual cloying of artificial -dainties, wherewith he had been bred up,--been so long time a stranger -to that great pleasure and delight, which natural and simple food -yields, when it meets with true hunger. - -True it is, our stomach is a troublesome creditor, and ofttimes -shamelessly exacts more than its due: but undoubtedly, if we were not -partial, and corrupted by the allurements of that base content which -dainties promise, we might easily quiet the grudgings and murmurings -thereof. It’s not the stomach, I wis, which would rest apayed with -that which is at hand; but the satisfaction of our capricious -fancies, that makes us wear out our selves, and weary all the world -besides with uncessant travel in the search of rarities, and in the -compounding of new delicacies. If we were but half as wise as we -ought to be, there need none of all this ado that we make, about this -and that kind of Manchet, Dutch-bread, and French-bread: and I know -not what new inventions are brought on foot, to make more business -in the world; whereas with much less cost and trouble we might be -much better served with that which grows at home, and is to be found -ready in every thatched cottage. That which is most our own, and that -which we therefore perhaps, fools as we be, most contemn in this -kind,--barley-bread I mean,--is by all the old physicians, warranted -for a most sound and healthful food. He that eats daily of it, say -they, shall undoubtedly never be troubled with the gout in the feet. - -Shew me such a virtue in any of these new inventions, and I’ll yield -there were some reason perhaps in making use of them, if they might -with ease and quiet be procured. But to buy them at the price of so -much pains, time, and hazard as they cost us, undoubtedly too much, -although they brought as much benefit as they do prejudice. Consider -well, I pray, whether it be not a thing to make a wise man run beside -himself, to see such a ransacking of all the elements by fishers -and fowlers, and hunters; such a turmoiling of the world by cooks -and comfit-makers, and tavern-keepers and a numberless many of such -needless occupations; such a hazarding of mens lives on sea and land, -by heat and cold, and a thousand other dangers and difficulties; and -all forsooth in procuring dainties for the satisfaction of a greedy -maw, and senseless stomach, that within a very short while after must -of necessity make a banquet of itself to worms. - -What an endless maze of error, what an intolerable hell of torments and -afflictions hath this wicked gluttony brought the world unto. And yet, -wretched men that we are, we have no mind to get out of it, but like -silly animals led by the chaps, go on all day long, digging our graves -with our teeth, till at last we bring the earth over our heads much -before we otherwise need to have done. And yet there was a certain odd -fellow once in the world, I would there were not too many of the same -mind nowadays! Philoxenus by name, that seriously wished he might have -a swallow as long and as large as the cranes, the better to enjoy the -full relish of his licorish morsels. Long after him, I read of another -of the same fraternity, Apicius, I trow, that set all his happiness in -good cheer: but little credit, I am sure, he hath got by the means; no -more than Maximinus, for all he was an Emperor, by his using every meal -to stuff into his paunch thirty pounds of flesh, beside bread and wine -to boot. But Geta deserves, in my opinion, the monarchy of gluttons, as -he had of the Romans. His feasts went alway according to the letters -of the alphabet, as when P’s turn came, he would have plovers, and -partridges, and peacocks, and the like; and so in all the rest, his -table was always furnished with meats whose names began with one and -the same letter. - -But what do I raking up this carrion? Let them rot in their corruption -and lie more covered over with infamy than with earth. Only, to give -the world notice who have been the great masters of this worthy science -of filling the stomach and following good cheer, I have been enforced -to make this remembrance of some of their goodly opinions and pranks. -Which let who so will be their partner in: for my part, I solemnly -avow, that I find no greater misery than to victual the camp, as the -proverb is, cramming in lustily over night, and to be bound next -morning to rise early and to go about serious business. - -Oh what a piece of purgatory is it, to feel within a man’s self those -qualms, those gripings, those swimmings, and those flashing heats that -follow upon over-eating! And what a shame, if our foreheads were not of -brass, and our friends before whom we act them, infected with the same -disease, would it be to stand yawning, stretching, and perbreaking the -crudities of the former day’s surfeit! - -On the contrary, what a happiness do I prove, when after a sober -pittance I find sound and quiet sleep all night long, and at peep of -day get up as fresh as the morning itself, full of vigour and activity -both in mind and body, for all manner of affairs! Let who will take his -pleasure in the fulness of delicates; I desire my part may be in this -happy enjoyment of my self, although it should be with the abatement of -much more content than any dainties can afford. - -When I was last at Messina, my lord Antonio Doria, told me that he -was acquainted in Spain with an old man who had lived above a hundred -years. One day having invited him home and entertained him sumptuously, -as his lordship’s manner is, the good old man instead of thanks told -him, “_My lord, had I been accustomed to these kind of meals in my -youth, I had never come to this age which you see, nor been able to -preserve that health and strength both of mind and body, which you make -shew so much to admire in me._” - -See now! here’s a proof even in our age, that the length and happiness -of men’s lives in the old world was chiefly caused by the means of -blessed temperance. But what need more words in a matter as evident -as the sun at noonday, to all but those whose brains are sunk down -into the quagmire of their stomachs? I’ll make an end with that which -cannot be denied, nor deluded, nor resisted; so plain is the truth, -and so great is the authority of the argument; and this it is: Peruse -all histories of whatever times and people, and you shall always find -the haters of a sober life and spare diet to have been sworn enemies -against goodness and virtue: witness Claudius, Caligula, Heliogabalus, -Clodius the tragedian, Vitellius, Verus, Tiberius, and the like. And on -the contrary, the friends and followers of sobriety and frugality to -have been men of divine spirits, and most heroical performances for the -benefit of mankind; such as were Augustus, Alexander Severus, Paulus -Æmilius, Epaminondas, Socrates, and all the rest who are registered for -excellent in the lists of princes, soldiers and philosophers. - -A spare diet then is better than a splendid and sumptuous, let the -Sardanapaluses of our age prattle what they list. Nature, and reason, -and experience, and the example of all virtuous persons prove it to be -so. He that goes about to persuade me otherwise shall lose his labour, -though he had his tongue and brain furnished with all the sophistry and -eloquence that ever Greece and Italy could jointly have afforded. - - - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[A] A full account of his life and works has been prepared for the -Royal Society of Literature by the present writer (“Transactions, -1899”). Those who are interested in Nicholas Ferrar should consult -Professor J. E. B. 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Axon</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: May 12, 2022 [eBook #68053]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FRUGAL LIFE ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter hide"><img src="images/coversmall.jpg" width="450" alt="" /></div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/title.jpg" alt="" /></div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> - -<h1>The Frugal Life.</h1> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - -<p class="ph1">“<span class="u">That a Spare Diet is<br /> -better than a splendid<br /> -and sumptuous.</span>”</p> - - -<p class="ph2">A PARADOX:<br /> - -<i>By Ortensio Lando, M.D.</i><br /> - -1543.</p> - - -<p class="ph1">With Introduction<br /> -by ....<br /> -WILLIAM E. A. AXON.</p> - - -<p class="ph2">MANCHESTER.<br /> - -1899.</p> -</div></div></div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</span> - -<p class="ph3">THE PARADOX OF A FRUGAL LIFE.</p> - -<h2 class="nobreak">INTRODUCTION.</h2> -</div> - -<div> - <img class="drop-cap" src="images/drop-cap.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="drop-cap">THE friendship of Nicholas Ferrar, the head -of the remarkable household at Little Gidding, -and of the saintly George Herbert, is a -pleasant episode of seventeenth century history. -One of its results was the appearance at -Cambridge in 1634 of a little volume, entitled -“Hygiasticon.” This contains a translation, -believed to be by Ferrar, of the treatise on dietetics by the learned -Jesuit, Leonard Lessius, George Herbert’s version of Luigi -Cornaro’s book on Long Life, and “A discourse translated out of -Italian that a spare diet is better than a splendid and sumptuous.” -This version was made by one whose initials, T.S., have not been -deciphered. The name of the original author was equally unknown -to bibliographers. It is, in fact, the twenty-fourth of the -“Paradossi” printed at Lyons in 1543. This book, although it has -no author’s name attached, is known to be the production of -Ortensio Lando, sometimes known by his Latin name of Hortensius -Tranquillus. He was born at Milan about the end of the -fifteenth century, and died at Venice about 1553. He was a graduate -in medicine of the University of Bologna, and for years led the life -of a wandering scholar, but finally settled at Venice where he died. -He was the author of fifty or more books.<a id="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> This seventeenth century -version of Lando’s paradox whilst not slavish, makes an excellent -presentation of the spirit and aim of the original. In the few -places where the English writer has amplified the additional -matter is noteworthy. It has, therefore, been thought sufficient to -modernise the spelling, modify the arrangement and punctuation, -and substitute here and there a modern word for one that sounded less -crude in the seventeenth than in the nineteenth century.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span>When a scholar, such as Ortensio Lando was, undertakes to -defend paradoxes he is not always to be taken too seriously, but -in this praise of frugal life and simple diet there is an accent of -sincerity that carries conviction.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">William E. A. Axon.</span></p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak">THAT A SPARE DIET IS BETTER THAN A SPLENDID<br /> -AND SUMPTUOUS—A PARADOX.</h2> -</div> - - -<p>I verily believe, however I have titled this opinion, yet it will by no -means be allowed for a Paradox by a number of those, whose judgement -ought to bear the greatest sway. And, to speak freely, it would seem to -me very uncouth, that any man that makes a profession of more understanding -than a beast, should open his mouth to the contrary, or make -any scruple at all of readily subscribing to the truth and evidence of this -position, that a frugal and simple diet is much better than a full and -dainty.</p> - -<p>Tell me, you that seem to demur on the business, whether a sober and -austere diet serves not, without further help, to chase away that racking -humour of the gout, which by all other helps that can be used, scarce -receives any mitigation at all; but, do what can be done, lies tormenting -the body, till it have spent itself. Tell me whether this holy medicine -serve not to the driving away of headache, to the cure of dizziness, to the -stopping of rheums, to the stay of flukes, to the getting away -of loathsome diseases, to the freedom from dishonest belchings, to the -prevention of agues, and, in a word, to the clearing and draining of all -ill humours whatsoever in the body. Nor do the benefits thereof stay -only in the body, but ascend likewise to the perfecting of the soul itself: -for how manifest is it, that through a sober and strict diet, the mind and -all the faculties thereof become waking, quick, and cheerful, how is the -wit sharpened, the understanding solidated, the affections tempered, and, -in a word, the whole soul and spirit of a man freed from encumbrances, -and made apt and expedite for the apprehension of wisdom, and the embracement -of virtue?</p> - -<p>The ancient sages, were, I am sure, of this opinion; and Plato in -particular made notable remonstrance of it; when upon his coming into -Sicily from Athens, he did so bitterly condemn the Syracusian tables, -which being furnished with precious and dainty cates, provoking sauces,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</span> -and rich wines, sent away their guests twice a day full of good -cheer. But what wouldst thou have said, oh, Plato! if thou hadst perhaps -lighted upon such as we Christians nowadays are; amongst whom, he -that eats but two good meals a day, as we term them, boasts himself, and, -is applauded by others for a person of great temperance and singular -good diet?</p> - -<p>Undoubtly, our extravagance in this matter, having added prologues of -breakfasts, interludes of banquets, epilogues of rere-suppers to the -comedy would have caused thee to turn thy divine eloquence to the -praise of those Syracusion gluttons, which, in respect of our usages and -customs, might seem great masters of temperance.</p> - -<p>Nay, very Epicurus himself, however, he may thank Tully’s slanders, -his name is become in this regard so infamous, yet placed his chief delight -this way in no greater dainties than savoury herbs, and fresh cheese.</p> - -<p>But I would fain once understand from these gluttons, that seem -born only to waste good meat, what the reason may be, that nowadays -the store of victuals is so much abated, and the price enhanced of that it -was in time of old, when yet the world appears to have been then much -fuller of people than it now is? Undoubtedly, that scarcity and dearness -under which we labour, can proceed from nothing but our excessive -gluttony which devours things faster than Nature can bring them forth. -And that plenty and cheapness, which crowned their happy days, was -maintained and kept on foot chiefly through the good husbandry of that -frugal and simple diet which they used.</p> - -<p>S. Jerome, writing of the course of life held by those good fathers that retired -themselves into the deserts of Egypt, the better to serve God, tells -us, that they were so enamoured of spare and simple diet, that they -censured it in themselves for a kind of riot, to feed on anything that was -dressed with fire. The same in every point doth Cassian report, in his -relations of the holy monks and hermits of his time.</p> - -<p>I find in ancient physicians, that the inhabitants of the old world were -such strict followers of sobriety, that they kept themselves precisely to -bread in the morning; and at night they made their supper of flesh only -without addition of sauces, or any first or second courses. And by this -means it came to pass, that they lived so long and in continual health without -so much as once hearing the names of those many grievous infirmities -that nowadays vex mankind.</p> - -<p>What think you might be the cause, that the Romans, the Arcadians, -and the Portugals passed so many hundred of years, without having any -acquaintance at all with physic or physicians? Surely nothing else but -their sober spare diet, which when all is done, we are ofttimes constrained<span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</span> -to undergo, and ever indeed directed and advised unto, by those -who really practise this divine science of physic, for the recovery and -conservation of their patient’s health, and not covetously for their own -gain. I read in approved histories, that Ptolemy, upon some occasion or -other out-riding his followers in Egypt, was so pressed with hunger, that -he was fain to call in at a poor man’s cottage, who brought him a piece of -rye-bread; which when he had eaten, he took a solemn oath, that he -never in all his life tasted better, nor more pleasing meat: and from that -day forward, he set light by all the costly sorts of bread, which he had -been formerly accustomed unto.</p> - -<p>The Thracian women, that they might bear healthful, strong, and -hardy children, ate nothing but milk and nettles, and the greatest dainties -that the Lacedemonians had amongst them, was a certain kind of black -pottage, that looked no better than melted pitch, and could not by computation -stand in above three half-pence a gallon at the most. The Persians, -that in their time were the best disciplined people on the earth, ate a -little Nasturtium<a id="FNanchor_2" href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a> with their bread; and that was all the victuals that -this brave nation used, when they made conquest of the world.</p> - -<p>Artaxerxes, the brother of Cyrus, being overthrown in battle, was constrained -in his flight to sit down with dry figs and barley-bread which -upon proof he found so good, as he seriously lamented his misfortune, in -having,—through the continual cloying of artificial dainties, wherewith -he had been bred up,—been so long time a stranger to that great pleasure -and delight, which natural and simple food yields, when it meets with true -hunger.</p> - -<p>True it is, our stomach is a troublesome creditor, and ofttimes shamelessly -exacts more than its due: but undoubtedly, if we were not partial, -and corrupted by the allurements of that base content which dainties -promise, we might easily quiet the grudgings and murmurings thereof. -It’s not the stomach, I wis, which would rest apayed with that which is -at hand; but the satisfaction of our capricious fancies, that makes us -wear out our selves, and weary all the world besides with uncessant -travel in the search of rarities, and in the compounding of new delicacies. -If we were but half as wise as we ought to be, there need none of all this -ado that we make, about this and that kind of Manchet, Dutch-bread, and -French-bread: and I know not what new inventions are brought on foot, -to make more business in the world; whereas with much less cost and -trouble we might be much better served with that which grows at home, -and is to be found ready in every thatched cottage. That which is most -our own, and that which we therefore perhaps, fools as we be, most<span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</span> -contemn in this kind,—barley-bread I mean,—is by all the old physicians, -warranted for a most sound and healthful food. He that eats daily of it, -say they, shall undoubtedly never be troubled with the gout in the feet.</p> - -<p>Shew me such a virtue in any of these new inventions, and I’ll yield -there were some reason perhaps in making use of them, if they might with -ease and quiet be procured. But to buy them at the price of so much -pains, time, and hazard as they cost us, undoubtedly too much, although -they brought as much benefit as they do prejudice. Consider well, I pray, -whether it be not a thing to make a wise man run beside himself, to see -such a ransacking of all the elements by fishers and fowlers, and hunters; such -a turmoiling of the world by cooks and comfit-makers, and tavern-keepers -and a numberless many of such needless occupations; such a hazarding of -mens lives on sea and land, by heat and cold, and a thousand other -dangers and difficulties; and all forsooth in procuring dainties for the -satisfaction of a greedy maw, and senseless stomach, that within -a very short while after must of necessity make a banquet of itself to -worms.</p> - -<p>What an endless maze of error, what an intolerable hell of torments -and afflictions hath this wicked gluttony brought the world unto. And yet, -wretched men that we are, we have no mind to get out of it, but like -silly animals led by the chaps, go on all day long, digging our graves with -our teeth, till at last we bring the earth over our heads much before we -otherwise need to have done. And yet there was a certain odd fellow once in -the world, I would there were not too many of the same mind nowadays! -Philoxenus by name, that seriously wished he might have a swallow as -long and as large as the cranes, the better to enjoy the full relish of his -licorish morsels. Long after him, I read of another of the same fraternity, -Apicius, I trow, that set all his happiness in good cheer: but little credit, I -am sure, he hath got by the means; no more than Maximinus, for all he -was an Emperor, by his using every meal to stuff into his paunch thirty pounds -of flesh, beside bread and wine to boot. But Geta deserves, in my opinion, -the monarchy of gluttons, as he had of the Romans. His feasts went alway -according to the letters of the alphabet, as when P’s turn came, he would -have plovers, and partridges, and peacocks, and the like; and so in all the -rest, his table was always furnished with meats whose names began with -one and the same letter.</p> - -<p>But what do I raking up this carrion? Let them rot in their -corruption and lie more covered over with infamy than with earth. -Only, to give the world notice who have been the great masters of this -worthy science of filling the stomach and following good cheer, I have -been enforced to make this remembrance of some of their goodly opinions -and pranks. Which let who so will be their partner in: for my part, I<span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span> -solemnly avow, that I find no greater misery than to victual the camp, -as the proverb is, cramming in lustily over night, and to be bound next -morning to rise early and to go about serious business.</p> - -<p>Oh what a piece of purgatory is it, to feel within a man’s self those -qualms, those gripings, those swimmings, and those flashing heats that -follow upon over-eating! And what a shame, if our foreheads were not -of brass, and our friends before whom we act them, infected with the -same disease, would it be to stand yawning, stretching, and perbreaking -the crudities of the former day’s surfeit!</p> - -<p>On the contrary, what a happiness do I prove, when after a sober -pittance I find sound and quiet sleep all night long, and at peep of day -get up as fresh as the morning itself, full of vigour and activity both in -mind and body, for all manner of affairs! Let who will take his pleasure -in the fulness of delicates; I desire my part may be in this happy -enjoyment of my self, although it should be with the abatement of much -more content than any dainties can afford.</p> - -<p>When I was last at Messina, my lord Antonio Doria, told me that he -was acquainted in Spain with an old man who had lived above a hundred -years. One day having invited him home and entertained him -sumptuously, as his lordship’s manner is, the good old man instead of -thanks told him, “<i>My lord, had I been accustomed to these kind of meals in -my youth, I had never come to this age which you see, nor been able to preserve -that health and strength both of mind and body, which you make shew so much -to admire in me.</i>”</p> - -<p>See now! here’s a proof even in our age, that the length and happiness -of men’s lives in the old world was chiefly caused by the means of -blessed temperance. But what need more words in a matter as evident -as the sun at noonday, to all but those whose brains are sunk down into -the quagmire of their stomachs? I’ll make an end with that which cannot -be denied, nor deluded, nor resisted; so plain is the truth, and so -great is the authority of the argument; and this it is: Peruse all -histories of whatever times and people, and you shall always find the -haters of a sober life and spare diet to have been sworn enemies against -goodness and virtue: witness Claudius, Caligula, Heliogabalus, Clodius -the tragedian, Vitellius, Verus, Tiberius, and the like. And on the -contrary, the friends and followers of sobriety and frugality to have been -men of divine spirits, and most heroical performances for the benefit of -mankind; such as were Augustus, Alexander Severus, Paulus -Æmilius, Epaminondas, Socrates, and all the rest who are registered for -excellent in the lists of princes, soldiers and philosophers.</p> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span>A spare diet then is better than a splendid and sumptuous, let the -Sardanapaluses of our age prattle what they list. Nature, and reason, -and experience, and the example of all virtuous persons prove it to be so. -He that goes about to persuade me otherwise shall lose his labour, though -he had his tongue and brain furnished with all the sophistry and -eloquence that ever Greece and Italy could jointly have afforded.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="ph4">FOOTNOTES:</p> -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">[A]</a> A full account of his life and works has been prepared for the Royal Society -of Literature by the present writer (“Transactions, 1899”). Those who are interested -in Nicholas Ferrar should consult Professor J. E. B. 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