The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge made by Andrew Borde, of physycke doctor. A compendyous regyment, or, A dyetary of helth made in Mountpyllier / compyled by Andrewe Boorde, of physycke doctour ; Barnes in the defence of the berde : a treatyse made, answerynge the treatyse of Doctor Borde upon berdes ; edited, with a life of Andrew Boorde, and large extracts from his Breuyary, by F.J. Furnivall.

Date:: 1870

Credit: The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge made by Andrew Borde, of physycke doctor. A compendyous regyment, or, A dyetary of helth made in Mountpyllier / compyled by Andrewe Boorde, of physycke doctour ; Barnes in the defence of the berde : a treatyse made, answerynge the treatyse of Doctor Borde upon berdes ; edited, with a life of Andrew Boorde, and large extracts from his Breuyary, by F.J. Furnivall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$called at the end ' Barnes in the defence of the Berde,' and is, on account of its connection ^Yith Boorde, reprinted at the end of this volume. The book opens thus : It was so, worshypful syi-^ that at my last beynge in Mount- pyUour, I chaunsed to be assocyat Avith a doctor of Physyke / which at his retorne had set forth Mj. Bakes to is prynted in Fleet strete, toitliin Temple Barre, the xoliiclie holies were compyled togyther in one volume named the Introductorie of Knowledge / whervpon there dyd not resort only vnto hym, marchauntes, gentyhnen, and wym- men / but also knyghtes, and other great men, whiche were desyrouse to knowe the efiycacyte and the effecte of his aforesayd bokes. Now this looks certainly as if the Introduction was at first believed by Boorde's acquaintances to have been intended to contain his other two books written in or before 1542, namely, the Dyetary and Brewyai-y; but as Boorde himself says he meant to have an Anatomy in his Introduction, and evidently much other matter on physic (p. 14-15 above), we need not speculate further on Barnes's words. What we know is, that the Introduction must have been published after the Breicyary of 1547, and the AstronaniT/e doubtless, of the same year. I say the same year, for the Preface of the Breiiyary shows that a treatise on Astronomy was wanted to ac- not a few cut short like to the beard of marques Otto, some made round like a rubbing brush, other with a pique de vant (0 fine fashion !) or now and then, suffered to grow long, the barbers being growen to be so cunning in this be- halfe as the tailors. And therfore if a man haue a leane and straight face, a marquesse Ottons cut will make it broad and large; if it be platter like' a long slender beard will make it seeme the narrower; if he be wesell-becked, then much heare left on the cheekes will make the owner looke big like a bowdled hen, and so grim as a goose ; if Cornells of Chelmeresford sale true, manie old men doo weare no beards at all.—Harrison's Description of Enn- land, ed. 1586, p. 172, col. 2. jt j j See on this Beard question the curious and rare poem,—by Wey 1 see the Eoxb. Club print of it— The Pilgrymage and the wayes of Jerusalem, in a paper MS of Mr Henry Huth's, about 1500 A.D., quoted below, p. 182, Prestes of the New la we : The thyrd Seyte beyn prestis of oure lawe, That synge masse at \>e Sepulcore ; At ]>e. same graue there oure lorde laye. They S)mge fje leteny eucry daye. In oure maner is her songe, Saffe, here berdys he ryght longe ; » That is );e geyse of }p&i centre, The lengcr \ie herds, the hettyr is he ; The ordere of hem be barfote freeres ... noOKDE. 2$

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