Introductory Poem To A Brefe Treatise Of Phisick Poem by William Baldwin

Who so desyreth health got, to preserue:
And lost, to procure: ought chefely to knowe
Suche naturall thynges, as therto maye serue:
Great knowlege wherof, this boke wil him show.

Whiche smal though it seme contayneth as much
Of arte to be knowen of them that are wyse,
As byg myghty bokes agastfull to tuche,
As well for the wayght, as for the heauy pryce.

Reade it therfore all ye that loue your healthe,
Learne here in an houre, elles where in a yere
Scarce red, the which Langton willing our welth
Hath englyshed brefe, as it doth appere.

To whome the free geuer of your so great gayne,
Yelde thakes & prayses, a payment for his payne.