Peacham's Compleat Gentleman 1634 Author:Henry Peacham Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: fhare at all in Nobility or Gentry: as Painters, Stage- players, Tumblers, ordinary Fidlers, Inne-keepers, Fencers, Iuglers, Dancers, Mountebanckcs, Bcarewar... more »ds, and the like; (except the cuftome of the place determine the contrary) as Herodotus and Xenopho n witnefle to have beene obferved, both among the Egyptians, Scythians, and Corinthians. The reafon is, becaufe their bodies are A faint and fpent with labour and travaile, and men that are at their worke, Ajpdui« less