| A vehement, and a voluntary stirring of ones body, which alters the breathing whose ends is to maintain health and to bring the body to a very good habit Mulcaster, 53. | Helps nature by motion in all these her workings and ways for health: to increase and encourage the natural heat, that it may digest quickly and expel strongly: to fashion and frame all the parts of the body to their natural and best hauious: to help to rid the needless and superfluous humors: refuse and rejected excrements. Running— warms the body, strengthens the natural motions, provokes appetitie, helps against distilling of humors and cattarah, Dancing — drys away numbness & certain palsies , comforts the stomach, strenthens weak hips, faint legs & freatishing feet, Riding— healthful for the hips and stomach, clears the instruments of all the senses, thickens thin shankes, stays loose bellies. Mulcaster, 45, 48-49. |
| Moderate running, dancing, riding, walking, leaping, swimming, hunting, shooting, & playing at the ball. Mulcaster, 48, 49, 54. |
| Winter or summer, morning or evening, before meat, fair weather, little wind, not to much cold. Mulcaster 88, 116. | Very moderate to avoid altering to much for fear of great distemperature, Signs at which to stop exercise — 1) when a vapor mingled with sweat is sensibly perceived to proceed from the body, when the veins begin to swell, and the breathing to alter & 2) continue as long as the face and body have a fresh color, the motion shall be quick and in proportion and no weariness worth the speaking shall be felt. Mulcaster 45, 118-119. |