hen he sucked, which made him such a murderer,
and to express her cruelty to a hair: and that of Tiberius, who was a
common drunkard, because his nurse was such a one. _Et si delira fuerit_
([2113]one observes) _infantulum delirum faciet_, if she be a fool or dolt,
the child she nurseth will take after her, or otherwise be misaffected;
which Franciscus Barbarus _l. 2. c. ult. de re uxoria_ proves at full, and
Ant. Guivarra, _lib. 2. de Marco Aurelio_: the child will surely
participate. For bodily sickness there is no doubt to be made. Titus,
Vespasian's son, was therefore sickly, because the nurse was so,
Lampridius. And if we may believe physicians, many times children catch the
pox from a bad nurse, Botaldus _cap. 61. de lue vener._ Besides evil
attendance, negligence, and many gross inconveniences, which are incident
to nurses, much danger may so come to the child. [2114]For these causes
Aristotle _Polit. lib. 7. c. 17._ Phavorinus and Marcus Aurelius would not
have a child put to nurse at all, but every mother to bring up her own, of
what condition soever she be; for a sound and able mother to put out her
child to nurse, is _naturae intemperies_, so [2115]Guatso calls it, 'tis
fit therefore she should be nurse herself; the mother will be more careful,
loving, and attendant, than any servile woman, or such hired creatures;
this all the world acknowledgeth, _convenientissimum est_ (as Rod. a Castro
_de nat. mulierum. lib. 4. c. 12._ in many words confesseth) _matrem ipsam
lactare infantem_, "It is most fit that the mother should suckle her own
infant"--who denies that it should be so?--and which some women most
curiously observe; amongst the rest, [2116]that queen of France, a Spaniard
by birth, that was so precise and zealous in this behalf, that when in her
absence a strange nurse had suckled her child, she was never quiet till she
had made the infant vomit it up again. But she was too jealous. If it be
so, as many times it is, they must be put forth, the mother be not fit or
well able to be a nurse, I would then advise such mothers, as
[2117]Plutarch doth in his book _de liberis educandis_ and [2118]S. Hierom,
_li. 2. epist. 27. Laetae de institut. fil. Magninus part 2. Reg. sanit.
cap. 7._ and the said Rodericus, that they make choice of a sound woman, of
a good complexion, honest, free from bodily diseases, if it be possible,
all passions and perturbations of the mind, as sorrow, fear, grief,
[2119]folly, melancholy