Phisicke Against Fortune

English translation of the stoical dialogue De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae, known to nearly all the great writers of the Renaissance. Contains chapters on dancing, ball games, gambling, wrestling, hunting & hawking, libraries, "elephantes & cammelles," schoolmasters, spectacles & shows, pictures, alchemy, toothache, gout, blindness, deafness, & lechery.