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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14665	The optick glasse of humors. Or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phlegmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth, and their externall intimates laide open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature. Lately pend by T.W. Master of Artes.	Walkington, Thomas, d. 1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 24967; ESTC S119414	78,133	198

Tongilianus habet nasum scio non nego sed iam Nil prater nasum Tongilianus habet Tongilian has a goodly nose I wis●e But naught besides a nose Tongilian Tongiliani● And no doubts it will be liker the latter then the former Venus had her mole Helena her staine Cynthia her spots the Swan her ieaty feete the clearest day some clowd nay there is nothing but if we once eye it ouer so absolutely perfect not the smoothest writer of all which at lest a Critick perusing of him for some blemish and imperfection merites not either Aristarchus his blacke pile or Momus his sponge If in the fairest thinges be such deformitie how many more staines may then be found in this ofspring of my brain which dare not scarcely make compare with the fowlest Looke for better and more generous wine of the old vinetree for as Plinie sayth vetustioribus semper vitibus vinum melius nouellis copiosius would I coulde either arrogate the former or chalenge the latter vnto my selfe but howsoeuer I could not possibly please all for as the Poet speaks to one Ledotus Qui possis rogo te placere cunctis Cum iam displiceas tibi velvns T' is sure that at least I should not please my selfe I might better fit a many humors in sif ting out some more pleased poeticall subiect more correspondent to their fancy and my facultie as intreating merily of some new discouered Isle with Lucian to inuent with him some such hyperbolicall lies as that of Hercules 〈◊〉 whose footsteps were found to be the bignes of an aker of ground to tell with him of flyes and pismires as big as twelue Elephants to fraight some pamphlet de lapsu vulcani who as Homer writes was falling out of heauen into the Isle Lemnos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a whole day to make some mery prognostication of strange wonders that are to ensue as them of Ioachimus Fortius Ringelbergius capitulated in that chapter whose title is Ridicula quaedam iucunda not to plunge my selfe in these grand phisicall matters I know these are appertinent to the Muses also Ouid his Nux the Culex Maro writ Erasmus did in folly dye his wit The Frog fight Homer made and of da●e Mouse And Ianus Dousa praisd Pediculus Hubaldus on baldmen did ver●ifie Each of whose numbers words began with C. Beza praisd 〈◊〉 Apuleius th' Asse Plutarch Grillus who by Circe changed was A quarta●e ague Fauorine did commend His darlings sparrow so Catullus pend To which the Poet Sunt etiam Musissua ludicra mista Camanis Ot●a c. Tragicall Melpomene her selfe wil now and then put on the comicall start vp Sage Apollo laughes once yearly at his own beard lesse naked face the modest Muses haue their maddest reuils the darkesomst water has his gildy streames wise men will sometimes play with childrens rattles But I haue already imployed some imbeziled howrs takē from the treasury of the Muses golden time to the gilding ouer of the like rotten subiects as they that haue bin intimate with m● are not igmorant as in my Tetligomurmomachia a centurie of latin Epigrams an Echo and some other trifles which I durst not let come abroad in the chill Criticall aire lest hap they mought haue been frettisht for want of learninges true cloathing Now haue I chosen to mingle my delight with more vtilitie aiming not onely at witte but wisedome I know the Paracelsian will vtterly condemne my endeauour for bringing the foure Humours on the stage again they ha uing hist them off so long ago the rather be cause I once treat not of their three minerals Sal Surphur and Mercurius the Tria omnia of their quicksiluer wits which they say haue chiefe dominion in the body it consisting of them and are the causes of each disease and cure all againe by their Arcana extracted out of them but I waigh it not since the tongue of an aduersary cannot detract from verity If any the like Carpfish whatsoeuer chaunce to nibble at my credite hee may perchaunce swallow downe the sharp hook of reproach and infamie ere he be aware which hee cannot like the Scolaopendra cast vp againe at his pleasure I doubt not but to haue him in a string Reader thine eyes are to take their turnes in a gardin wherein are growing many weedes yet some flowers passe by the former with kind silence cull out and gather the latter for thine owne science and perhaps thou maist distill the sweetest wa ter from the bitterest wormewood as Maro built his walls by Ennius his rubbish If thou thy selfe hast better Candidus imperti si non his vtere mecum Idem qui pridem Thine if mine T. W. THE Titles and Contents of the seuerall Chapters as they are handled in in this present booke 1 OF Selfe knowledge cap. 1. 2 That the soule sympathizeth with the body and followeth her cr●sis and temperature cap. 2. 3 Whether the internall faculty may bee knowne by the externall phisiognomy and visage cap. 3. 4 That a dyet is to bee obserued of euery one cap. 4. 5 How man derogates from his excellency by surfeit of his vntimely death C. 5 6 Of Temperaments Cap. 6. 7 Of diuersitie of witts according to the diuerse temperature of the body cap. 7. 8 Of the spirits cap. 8. 9 Of a cholericke complexion cap. 9. 10 Of a sanguine temperature cap. 10. 11 Of the phlegmati● humor cap. 11 12 Of a melanche ●ick complection C. 12. 13 Of the cōceits of melancholy cap 13. 14 Of the dreames which accompany each complection cap 14. 15 Of the exactest temperature of all whereof Lemnius speaketh cap 15. The close to the whole worke in verse FINIS Of Selfe knoweledge Chap. 1. AS Hesiod in his Theogonie saith that the ●gly night 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 begat two fowle monsters Somnum somnium So we may not vnfitly say that the inueloped and deformed night of ignorance for the want of that coelestiall Nosce teipsum begettes two mishapen monsters which as the Sepia's inkie humor doe make turbulent the cristallinest fountaine in man Somatalgia and Psychalgia the one the dyscrafie of the body the other the malady and distemperature of the soule For he that is incanoped and intrenched in this darkesome misty cloud of ignorance being like the one-footed Indian people Sciopodes whose foote is so big that it shades them from the rayes of the Sunne or rather like the Cyclops when Vlisses had be rest him of his one eye he hath no true lampe of discretion as a polestar to direct the shippe of his life by in respect either of his mortall or immortall part from being hurried vpon the shelues mas●y rockes of infelicity Of what hie esteeme and prizelesse value this rare selfeknowledge is euer was it is very conspicuous and apparēt vnto the dimmest apprehension of all if it doe but iustly ballance in the scoale of com mon reason wisdome

vpon Fuscus in his Epigrames of all men they haue most leadē conceits and drossy wits caused especially by their excessiue intemperance which thickneth their blood corrupteth their spirites and other organons wherein the soule shoulde cheefely shew her operation Giue mee leaue to speake a little of the ayre how it receaued into the body doth either greately aduantage or little availe the mind It is certaine that the excellency of the soule followes the purity of the heauens the temperature of the ayre therefore because Boeot●a had a●ery * rennish soyle a grosse and vnrefined ayre the ancient writers to decypher and shaddow out a dull witt in any one were wont to say Boeoticum hic habit inge●ium this man is as wise as a woodcock his wits in a consumption his conceit is as lancke as a shotten Herrin I doe not cōcord with the Poet in that triuial verse but I doe carry the comma a little further and say C●lum non 〈◊〉 mutant qui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 At least if I must needes take coelum for aire I will say The aire to vary is not onely found But wit 's a forreiner in f●rreine ground The ayre hath his etymologie from the greeke worde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to breath it consistes of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because the learned say that it is the beeginning and ending of mans life for when wee begin to liue wee are sayd to inspire when we die to expire as the priuation of the aire deprives vs of our being and the aire being purged and clensed from his pestilent qualities causeth our well-beeing so the infection of the aire as in the extinguishing of some blazing comet the eructation of noysome vapours from the bosome of the earth the disastrous constellation or bad aspect of some maleuolent planet the vamping fumes that the Sun eleuates from boggs and fennish grounds the inflammation of the ayre by the intense heate of the sunne as when in Homers Iliad Phaebus is fained to send forth his direfull arrowes among the Grecians and ●o bring in the pestilence vppon them this infection causeth our bodyes first to bee badly qualified and tainted with a spice of corruption and so by consequent our very soules to be ill affected AEneas Syluius in his Cosmography writing of the lesser Asia records a strange thing concerning the ayre beeing putrified hee sayes that hard by the cittie Hierapolis there is a place tearmed Os PLVTONIVM in the vally of a certaine mountaine where Strabo witnesseth that he sent sparrowes in which forth with as soone as they drew in the venemous noysome ayre they fel downe dead no doubt but the corrupted ayre would haue had his operation vppon other more excellent creatures thē were those little birds if they durst haue attempted the entrance in But to a question what reason can be alleag'd that those who won vnder the pole neare the frozen zone and in the septentrionall climate should haue such gyantly bodies and yet dwarfish wits as many authors doe report os them and wee fee by experience in trauaile the rudenes and simplicitie of the people that are seated far north which no doubt is intimated by a vulgar speach when wee say such a man hath a borrell wit as if wee said boreale ingenium Whereof that old-english prophet of famous memory whome one fondly ●earm'd Albion● ballade maker the cunnicatcher of time and the second dish for fooles to feede their splenes vpon G. Chaucer tooke notice when in his prolog to the Frankleines taile he saies But Sir● because I am a ●orrell man At my beginning first I yow beseach Haue me excusd of my rude speach The Philosophers to this question haue excogitated this reason to wit the exceeding chilnes of the aire which doth possesse the animall spirits the chiefe attendants of the soule to exequute the function of the agent vnderstanding with contrary qualities the first being cold and drie the last hote and moiste though this reason most auaile for our purpose speaking how the minde can bee affected with the ayre yet I must needs say I thinke they are beside the cushian others affirme and with more reason that they are dul-witted especially by the vehement heat which is included in their bodies which doth inflame their spirits thick●n their blood and therby is a cause of a new grosse more then ayry substance conioynd with the spirits for extreame heat doth generate a grosse adust choler which comes to be mixed with the blood in the veines and that brings a condensation and a coagulation to the blood for their extraordinary heat it is apparant by their speedy concoction and by the externall frigidity of the ayre that dams vp the pores of their bodies so greatly that hardly any heat can euaporate this also by deep wels which in winter time be luk● warme and in summer season exceeding cold now to proue that where the blood is thickned and the spirits inflamed there vsually is a want of wit the great peripate● him selfe affirmeth it to bee a truth where he saith that buls such creatures as haue this humor thick are commonly deuoid of wit yet haue great strength and such liuing thinges as haue an attenuated blood and very fluid doe excell in wit and pollicy as instance is giuen in Aristotle of bees We must note here that this is spoke of the remoter parts neare vnto the pole lest we derogate any thing from the praise of this our happy Ileland another blisfull Eden for pleasure all which by a true diuision of the climes is situated in the septentrional part of the world wherein there are and euer haue beene as praegnant wits as surpassing politicians as iudicious vnderstandings as any clime euer yet afforded vnder the cope of heauen But I doe here passe the limits of laconisme where as I should in wisdome imitate the Aegyptian dogs in this whole tractate who doe drinke at the riuer Nilus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in haste and by stealth lest the Crocodile should pray on them and who doth fitly cary the name and conditions of the Crocodile no writer is ignorant of I will therefore end with the iteration of the Thesis that the soule followes the temper of the body and that whiles it is inherent in the body it can n●uer partake so pure a light of vnderstāding as when it is segregated and made a free denizen in the heauenly citty and free holde of the saintes Corporis in gremi● d●m spiritus c. when our imprisoned soule once more being free Gins scale the turret of eternitie From whence it once was raught captiue 〈◊〉 By this vsurping tyrant corps he● bane Which subiugates her vnto s●ttish will And schooles her vnder passions want of skill Then shall our soul● now chock't with fenny care With Angel● frollicke in ap●rer aire This low NADIR of darknes must it she●de Till is aloft toth'radiant ZENITH wende Cap. 3.

the hollow inferiour part of the liuer which place is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Galen whose forme is long and somewhat round ending with a co●us hard by the stem of the venaca ua which strikes through the liuer from whence all the veines are deriued through the whole body it takes two slender veins from that stem which makes this probable that the choler may infect the blood and cause the morbus ictericus or iaundise to disperse it selfe ouer all the parts of the body there is a double procession or way of choler into the duodenum intrals downward or into the ventricle vpward the euacuation is easy in the former but difficult in the latter If the lower passage be damind vp with the thick sedimentes of grosse choler as oftentimes it commeth to passe then it as cendes into the ventricle there procures excretion hinders the concoctiō euer corrupts some part of the nutriment without a long fast and takes away the stomacke yet others thinke that choler is generated in the ventricle also that it is also a vessell apt to receiue it This humour infectes the veines stirs vp sudden anger generates a consumption with his heat shortens the life by drying vp the radical moisture Aristotle after him Plinie with many mo do af firm that those mē which want the vesicle of choler are both strong and couragious and liue long Yet Vesalius sayth although he imagins that there may be some conueiance of choler from the liuer into the duodenum so that it do not before gather into a vesicle he could finde by experience none such hitherto Many things there be which cause this maladious humour to accrue to such a measure that it will bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an incurable thing among which we wil note some All fa● of meates sayth Galen such as are burnt are both hard to concoct hauing no sweet in y●e do greatly increase the cholericke humour for the acrimony which is in them All kinde of Olerae or salt meats are not onely ill for this complection but almost for all as all the phisa●ions do affirme and Athenaeus to this purpose saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. al kind of potherbs brinish-natur'd meats are obnoxious to the stomack being of a gnawing nipping purching quality Again dulce vini● non est 〈◊〉 picrocholis sweet wine is not wholsom ●or cholericke complections as Hippocrates●itnesses ●itnesses They are called picrocholi who ●aue a redundance of yellow bitter choler Antinous no doubt did partly for this dis●wade Vlisses from drinking sweet wine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●t howsoeuer this sweet wine doth not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the same H●mer speaks Iliad ● as also Athen●s notes lib. 1. Deipno but also is a great generator of choler yea all sweet meates are nurses of this humor honny especially is cholerick for sweete wines this is Galens reason first in that much calidity doth make bitter these sweet humors againe because such wines be vsually thicke neither can they speedily passe by the Ouretêres into the bladder whereby it coms to passe that they do not clense choler in their passage but rather increase the power of it such wines be Theraeum Scybelites much sweet thick and black as Galen calls them Againe too violent and much motion is not good for this complection as Galen also saith much eating is also dangerfull for this humour Then all thinges that do drie vp the moisture in the body as watching and care c. vigilantia maximé exiccat corpus saith Galen So doth care euen consume and burne the body cura therefore it is called quasi cor vs rens To these I may associate ioyn our adulte● rate Nic●tian or Tobacco so called of the K● sir Nicot that first broght it ouer which is the spirits Incubus that begets many vgly and deformed phantasies in the braine which being also hot and drie in the second extenuates and makes meager the body extraordinarily whereof it may bee expected that I at this instāt so wel occasioned shold write something and sure not impertinent to the subiect we haue now in hand This then in briefe I will relate concerning it Of it owne nature not sophisticate it cannot bee but a soueraigne leafe as Monardis sayth especially for externall maladious vlcers and so in his simple it is for cacochymicall bodies and for the consumption of the lungs and T●ssick if it be mixed with Coltes foot dryed as it hath beene often experienced But as it is intoxicated and tainted with bad admixture I must answer as our learned Paracelsian did of whom my selfe did demaund whether a man might take it without impeachmēt to his health who re plied as it is vsed it must needs be very pernicious in regard of the immoderate too ordinary whiffe especially in respect of the taint it receiues by composition for sayth he I grant it will euacuate the stomack and purge the head for the present of many feculent and noisome humors but after by his attractiue virtue it proueth Caecias humorum leauing two ponds of water as hee tearmed them behinde it which are conuer ted into choler one in the ventricle another in the braine which accords with that of Gerard their herbalist in his 2. book of plants cap. 63 of Tobacco or Hēbane of Peru Trinidada for he affirmeth that it doth indeed euacuate ease one day but the next it doth generate a greater flow of humors euen as a well saith hee yeeldes not such store of water as when it is most drawne and emptyed Againe it is very obnoxious of al to a spare and extenuated body by reason of setting open the pores into which cold doth enter and we know as Tully saies lib. xvi epist. 403. citing the Poet cuius singuli versus sunt illi singula testimonia euery of whose particular verses is to him axiomatical as he saies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is colde is a bane and deadly enemy to a thin and spare body And since that phisicke is not to be vsed as a continual alimēt but as an adiument of drooping nature at an extremity and beside that seeing euery nasty and base Tygellus vses the pipe as infants their red coralls euer in their mouths and many besides of more note and esteeme take it more for wantonnes then want as Gerard speakes I could with that our generous spirits would pretermit the too vsuall not omit the phisic all drinking of it I wold entreat more copiously of it but that many others chiefly Gerard and Monardis in his booke intituled the ioyfull newes out of the new found worlde or west Indies which Frampton translated haue eased mee of that labor so that I may abridge my speech Choler is twofold either naturall or not naturall the naturall choler is twofolde either that which is apt for