other, the Grand Signior himself is not excused. [3213]"In our memory” (saith Sabellicus) “Mahomet the Turk, he that conquered Greece, at that very time when he heard ambassadors of other princes, did either carve or cut wooden spoons, or frame something upon a table.” [3214]This present sultan makes notches for bows.  The Jews are most severe in this examination of time.  All well-governed places, towns, families, and every discreet person will be a law unto himself.  But amongst us the badge of gentry is idleness:  to be of no calling, not to labour, for that’s derogatory to their birth, to be a mere spectator, a drone, fruges consumere natus, to have no necessary employment to busy himself about in church and commonwealth (some few governors exempted), “but to rise to eat,” &c., to spend his days in hawking, hunting, &c., and such like disports and recreations ([3215]which our casuists tax), are the sole exercise almost, and ordinary actions of our nobility, and in which they are too immoderate.  And thence it comes to pass, that in city and country so many grievances of body and mind, and this feral disease of melancholy so frequently rageth, and now domineers almost all over Europe amongst our great ones.  They know not how to spend their time (disports excepted, which are all their business), what to do, or otherwise how to bestow themselves:  like our modern Frenchmen, that had rather lose a pound of blood in a single combat, than a drop of sweat in any honest labour.  Every man almost hath something or other to employ himself about, some vocation, some trade, but they do all by ministers and servants, ad otia duntaxat se natos existimant, imo ad sui ipsius plerumque et aliorum perniciem, [3216]as one freely taxeth such kind of men, they are all for pastimes, ’tis all their study, all their invention tends to this alone, to drive away time, as if they were born some of them to no other ends.  Therefore to correct and avoid these errors and inconveniences, our divines, physicians, and politicians, so much labour, and so seriously exhort; and for this disease in particular, [3217]"there can be no better cure than continual business,” as Rhasis holds, “to have some employment or other, which may set their mind awork, and distract their cogitations.”  Riches may not easily be had without labour and industry, nor learning without study, neither can our health be preserved without bodily exercise.  If it be of the body, Guianerius allows that exercise which is gentle, [3218]"and still after those ordinary frications” which must be used every morning.  Montaltus, cap. 26. and Jason Pratensis use almost the same words, highly commending exercise if it be moderate; “a wonderful help so used,” Crato calls it,” and a great means to preserve our health, as adding strength to the whole body, increasing natural heat, by means of which the nutriment is well concocted in the stomach, liver, and veins, few or no crudities left, is happily