ent patrimony
belonging to our family, now in the possession of mine elder brother,
William Burton, Esquire. [3206]Barclay the Scot commends that of Greenwich
tower for one of the best prospects in Europe, to see London on the one
side, the Thames, ships, and pleasant meadows on the other. There be those
that say as much and more of St. Mark's steeple in Venice. Yet these are at
too great a distance: some are especially affected with such objects as be
near, to see passengers go by in some great roadway, or boats in a river,
_in subjectum forum despicere_, to oversee a fair, a marketplace, or out of
a pleasant window into some thoroughfare street, to behold a continual
concourse, a promiscuous rout, coming and going, or a multitude of
spectators at a theatre, a mask, or some such like show. But I rove: the
sum is this, that variety of actions, objects, air, places, are excellent
good in this infirmity, and all others, good for man, good for beast.
[3207]Constantine the emperor, _lib. 18. cap. 13. ex Leontio_, "holds it an
only cure for rotten sheep, and any manner of sick cattle." Laelius a Fonte
Aegubinus, that great doctor, at the latter end of many of his
consultations (as commonly he doth set down what success his physic had,)
in melancholy most especially approves of this above all other remedies
whatsoever, as appears _consult. 69. consult. 229._ &c. [3208]"Many other
things helped, but change of air was that which wrought the cure, and did
most good."

MEMB. IV.
_Exercise rectified of Body and Mind_.

To that great inconvenience, which comes on the one side by immoderate and
unseasonable exercise, too much solitariness and idleness on the other,
must be opposed as an antidote, a moderate and seasonable use of it, and
that both of body and mind, as a most material circumstance, much conducing
to this cure, and to the general preservation of our health. The heavens
themselves run continually round, the sun riseth and sets, the moon
increaseth and decreaseth, stars and planets keep their constant motions,
the air is still tossed by the winds, the waters ebb and flow to their
conservation no doubt, to teach us that we should ever be in action. For
which cause Hieron prescribes Rusticus the monk, that he be always occupied
about some business or other, [3209]"that the devil do not find him idle."
[3210]Seneca would have a man do something, though it be to no purpose.
[3211]Xenophon wisheth one rather to play at tab