retur_:
naught for queasy stomachs, insomuch that frequent use of it may breed a
quartan ague.

_Goat._] Savanarola discommends goat's flesh, and so doth [1352]Bruerinus,
_l. 13. c. 19_, calling it a filthy beast, and rammish: and therefore
supposeth it will breed rank and filthy substance; yet kid, such as are
young and tender, Isaac accepts, Bruerinus and Galen, _l. 1. c. 1. de
alimentorum facultatibus_.

_Hart._] Hart and red deer [1353]hath an evil name: it yields gross
nutriment: a strong and great grained meat, next unto a horse. Which
although some countries eat, as Tartars, and they of China; yet [1354]
Galen condemns. Young foals are as commonly eaten in Spain as red deer, and
to furnish their navies, about Malaga especially, often used; but such
meats ask long baking, or seething, to qualify them, and yet all will not
serve.

Venison, Fallow Deer.] All venison is melancholy, and begets bad blood; a
pleasant meat: in great esteem with us (for we have more parks in England
than there are in all Europe besides) in our solemn feasts. 'Tis somewhat
better hunted than otherwise, and well prepared by cookery; but generally
bad, and seldom to be used.

_Hare._] Hare, a black meat, melancholy, and hard of digestion, it breeds
incubus, often eaten, and causeth fearful dreams, so doth all venison, and
is condemned by a jury of physicians. Mizaldus and some others say, that
hare is a merry meat, and that it will make one fair, as Martial's epigram
testifies to Gellia; but this is _per accidens_, because of the good sport
it makes, merry company and good discourse that is commonly at the eating
of it, and not otherwise to be understood.

_Conies._] [1355]Conies are of the nature of hares. Magninus compares them
to beef, pig, and goat, _Reg. sanit. part. 3. c. 17_; yet young rabbits by
all men are approved to be good.

Generally, all such meats as are hard of digestion breed melancholy.
Areteus, _lib. 7. cap. 5_, reckons up heads and feet, [1356]bowels, brains,
entrails, marrow, fat, blood, skins, and those inward parts, as heart,
lungs, liver, spleen, &c. They are rejected by Isaac, _lib. 2. part. 3_,
Magninus, _part. 3. cap. 17_, Bruerinus, _lib. 12_, Savanarola, _Rub. 32.
Tract. 2._

_Milk._] Milk, and all that comes of milk, as butter and cheese, curds,
&c., increase melancholy (whey only excepted, which is most wholesome):
[1357]some except asses' milk. The rest, to such as are sound, is nutritive
and good, es