thoute a kyng. Thus muche of exercise, and for exercise. To
the which I wolde now ioyne honeste companye betwene man and
woman, as a parte of natural exercise, and healpe to y^e
emptieng & lightning the bodye in other tymes allowed, in this
sweating tyme for helthes sake, & for feare of opening the
bodye, and resoluing the spirites, not approued, but for dout,
that w^t lengthing the boke, I shold wery y^e reader. Therfore I
let y^t passe & come to sleping & waking, whiche without (31)
good ordre, be gretly hurtful to the bodie. For auoiding the
whiche, I take the meane to be best, and against this sweat
moste commendable. But if by excesse a man must in eyther part
offend, I permit rather to watch to muche, then to lie in bedde
to longe: so that in watchinge, there be no way to surfetting.
Al these thinges duely obserued, and well executed, whiche
before I haue for preseruation mencioned, if more ouer we can
sette a parte al affections, as fretting cares & thoughtes,
dolefull or sorowfull imaginations, vaine feares, folysh loues,
gnawing hates, and geue oure selues to lyue quietly, frendlie,
& merily one with an outher, as men were wont to do in the old
world, when this countrie was called merye Englande, and euery
man to medle in his own matters, thinking theim sufficient,
as thei do in Italye, and auoyde malyce and dissencion, the
destruction of commune wealthes, and priuate houses: I doubte
not but we shall preserue oure selues, bothe from this sweatinge
syckenesse, and other diseases also not here purposed to be
spoken of.

[_The cure or remedy._] But if in leauinge a parte these or some
of them, or negligently executing them, it chaunceth the disease
of sweating to trouble our bodies, then passinge the bondes and
compasse of preseruation, we must come to curation, the way to
remedie the disease, & the third and last parte (as I first
sayed) to be entreated in this boke. The principalle entente
herof, is to let out the venime by sweate accordinge to the
course of nature. This is brought to passe safely two waies, by
suffring and seruing handsomly nature, if it thruste it oute
readily and kindely: and helping nature, if it be letted, or be
weake in expellinge. Serue nature we shall, if in what time so
euer it taketh vs, or what so euer estate, we streyghte lay vs
downe vppon oure bedde, yf we be vp and in oure clothes, not
takyinge them of: or lie stille, if we be in bed out (32) of our
clothes, laiyng on clothes