melancholy, or dry of complexion: _Tales_ (Galen thinks) _de facile
melancholicis aegritudinibus capiuntur_.

_Pork._] Pork, of all meats, is most nutritive in his own nature, [1351]
but altogether unfit for such as live at ease, are any ways unsound of body
or mind: too moist, full of humours, and therefore _noxia delicatis_, saith
Savanarola, _ex earum usu ut dubitetur an febris quartana generetur_:
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.