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A05313	The touchstone of complexions generallye appliable, expedient and profitable for all such, as be desirous & carefull of their bodylye health : contayning most easie rules & ready tokens, whereby euery one may perfectly try, and throughly know, as well the exacte state, habite, disposition, and constitution, of his owne body outwardly : as also the inclinations, affections, motions, & desires of his mynd inwardly / first written in Latine, by Leuine Lemnie ; and now Englished by Thomas Newton.; De habitu et constitutione corporis. English	Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1576 (1576)	STC 15456; ESTC S93449	168,180	353

so shak● of and forgottē appoint onely foure to wit them that be cōpound vnto whō they haue geeuen names not of their qualities but somwhat vnaptly of those cōmonly termed knowē humours y is to say Sāguine Cholerique Phlegmatique Melācholique by y squyer leauel of whō they wold haue these 4. differēces of cōplexiō or tēperature to be reduced tryed Which dealīg reasonīg of theirs as it sauoreth of populer iudgmēt learning to the common sort very plaussble so standeth it not with the precise opynion and censure of them that would haue eche thing skanned and measured in his righte nature and kinde In the meane season I as one desirous to recōcyle Physitions thus factiously iarrynge in opynion and woulde God this vniformitye and attonement were also broughte to passe in matters of Religiō for the better quieting of many mens Consciences both parties shall suffer the chiefe place to be assigned and geeuen to the hoate and moyst Complexion excepting alwayes as I said before the temperatest of all whereunto as at a marcke we must direct our mynd and leauel our whole matter that by it euery man may trye his owne nature which so lōg as it is in his perfect strength vigour quality produceth bringeth foorth a Sanguine man. And thus there is in a maner no differēce neither preiudiciall to anye partye eyther to call it by the name of a hoate and moyst Complexion or els by the terme of a Sanguine man who by the benefite of this holesome humour conteyneth hath within him these qualities albeit Bloud it selfe for wee will keepe all thinges wythin their prescripte limittes doth not engender and cause heate and moystnes but rather heate and moysture produceth Bloud Now Bloud of all iuyces and humours is the best and to mans life an alimente and maintener chiefly appropriat famylier and domesticall for throughe the force furtheraunce of vitall Spirite which is the preseruer and sēder of natural heate into euery part of the bodye Bloud is conueighed by the cunduytes and Vesselles of the Arteryes and Veynes so both nourisheth mainteyneth and preserueth the whole body And for that this pure cleare defecate loouely and amyable Iuyce is the special thing that conserueth euery lyuinge Creature in his beynge wherein also consisteth the lyfe and vigour of euerye nature that lyueth by breath therefore the Hebrew Lawmaker Moses by the direction and appointmente of God himselfe forbadde all maner of bloud to be eatē because the lyfe of al Creatures cōsisteth in bloud is therwyth nourished and mainteyned euen as the flame of a Candle is with the Oylie weeke as it plainly appeareth by a man that bleedeth verye much whose bodye is then in euery part cold wanne for want thereof fayntinge and in a maner readye to geeue vp the Ghost I haue knowen many whose vitall spyrite bleedinge out and yssuinge together wyth their bloud haue been thereby brought into great daunger of their liues And therefore this treasure of Lyfe must moste carefullye be conserued because it is of all Humours the most excellent wholesome Nowe as the Arteries which abounde more wyth vitall spyrite then wyth bloud spring from the heart so the Veynes which conteyne more bloud then ayrie spyrite proceede and spryng frō the Lyeuer and are dispersed abroad in brauches and fibres into euerye yea the verye furtheste places of the body For the Lyuer is the shoppe and chiefe workemaster of grosse thicke bloude althoughe the first oryginall thereof be ascribed to the Heart by whose power faculty the bloud is made and throughly wrought being endued wyth vitall spyrite conueigheth naturall heat to eche part of the body Bloud and vital Spyrite are in their chiefest Pryme and most abound in lusty and flourishing yeares albeit there is no age that lacketh the same although in old worne age bloud begynneth to draw to a coldnes the vital spyrit then neyther so hoate neither so stronge and effectuous which thinge as it is in them well to bee obserued and perceyued by their frequente gestures and often moouing of the body and the partes thereof yet specially maye it be seene noted by their colour which in a yonge lusty Stryplyng and youthfull body of good constitution is ruddy and fresh but in them that be further stryken in yeares or further of from this temperamente is not so pure so beautifull nor so pleasaunt to behold for that all their comelynesse beauty is eyther faded awaye or throughe some euill humours and hidden imperfection or blemishe appeareth in them worse then in the yonger sort So many being affected or distēpered in their Splene wombe Lyuer ventricle and Lunges are commonly either pale yelow tawnie dunne duskie or of some other ill fauoured colour There is no surer way sayth Galene certainly to knowe the humours and iuyce in a Creature then by the colour and outward complexion If the body loke very whyte it is a token that phlegme in that body chiefely reigneth most aboundeth If it be pale or yelow it argueth the humour to bee greatly Melancholique and Cholerique and the bloude to be freshe and reddye if it be blackish it betokeneth blacke adust Choler specially if no outwarde accidentall occasion happen as great heate or chafing labour or wearynesse or if the mynde bee not intoxicate and perplexed wyth affectes and passions as Angre Ioye Sorow Care pensyuenes for these make the humours sometyme to resort vnto the skynne vtter parts and sometime to hyde and conueyghe themselues farre inwardly and for this cause wee see men y are fumish and testy to be in a marueylous heat proceeding not of any sticknesse or discrasse but of ▪ the motion and stirring of the humours againe them that be affrighted and in mynde amazed to be pale Some to loke as wanne as Lead some whyte and swartie sometyme blewyshe sometime of sondrye colours all which betoken crude humours and raw iuyce to beare rule and swaye in the bodye eyther of phlegme glasselyke toughe or of some other sort or els many rottē humours clamped vp in y bodye which by outward tokēs and signes bewray shew themselues what they be and what they signifie They therefore that be of a hoate and moyst constitution and haue greate store of bloude wythin theim are of a purple and reddie coloure softe warme and smooth skinned comely of stature of reasonable feacture fleshye bodyed and a little roughe aburne heyred redde or yealow bearded and comely bushed of which feac●ure plight and bodely shape the Scripture witnesseth that Dauid was who beyng after that Saule was cast of and reiected appointed King and onnoy●ted by Samuel was of a brownish Complex●ō excellent beauty well fauoured in sight and 〈◊〉 ●●tenaūce very cheerefull and amyable Such a comety grace and Princelye shape was to be scene in the moste victorious Prince Philip Kinge

and cheerish it For if it be sincere and pure not mingled wyth anye straunge or forrayne quality it causeth tranquillity of minde frameth maners in good order fashiō and finally qualifyeth and calmeth all affections The minde of man to honestie it frames And vvith the loue of vertuous life enflames But if it be any whitte infected or wyth anye vyce soyled then is the quietnes of the minde disturbed and stirred to manye inconuenient enormities For as great blustering wynds vppon the Sea and Lande cause greeuous terrible and raginge tempestes and much other harme to ensue So likewyse if the Spirites be disquieted oute of frame they ingender and procure diuers sortes of affections in the minde carye the same mauger all reason like a shippe wythout guide and Rother vppon the rockes of sondry inconueniences Now the thinges wherewyth our inwarde Spirites are moste dulled quenched and damnifyed are these fulsome Ayre ouermuich carnal copulation vnseasonable watching excessiue heate chafing and labour longe fasting heauines of the minde and sadnesse Accordinge to that saying of the wyse man A mery hart maketh a lustie age but a sorovvfull Spirit dryeth vp the bones Heauinesse bringeth olde age before the times and carefulnes vveareth avvaye a mans dayes But quiet and seasonable sleepe good pure wel relished wyne meery company moderate exercise sweete sinelles and fragraunt sauours refreshe the Spirits quicken and reuiue them yea being dulled and greatly impayred Which is euident to be seene in such as falling into traūces and lying for a time as dead yet by the smell of sweete sauours are broughte againe and recouered into theyr former state For seinge that the Spirite is a certayne vapour effluence or expyratiō proceding out of the humours it standeth vs vppon to vse the moste exquiste diet that may be to th end that the meates and nourishmēts being laboured into good holesome iuyce may make the Spirits pure syncere and perfect And thus sweete ayre pleasaūt sentes deuoyd of grosse and fustie vapours strykinge vp into the brayne do marueylously comfort and clarifye the instruments of the Senses and enable them to do perfourme al theyr proper actions And although the Heart in a mā be as the Wel spring or fountaine from whom the Spirits are deriued because the Arteryes come from it euen as synewes from the Brayne and veynes from the Lyuer yet notwithstanding accordinge to the diuersitye and nature of the place they are called by other names and haue other powers appropriate vnto them Of these and al other faculties reigning in man the principall and oryginall beginning is at the very principles and beginninge of generation to witte generatiue seede and femynine bloude which be afterwarde conserued and maynteyned by nourishmentes euen as the flame is wyth oyle and out of these the Spirits proceede For the better vnderstāding of all which things I will particularly set downe the procreation of the Spirits wyth theyr nature power differēce and effectes beginninge first at the powers and faculties natural For by theyr office is it brought to passe that the meate we eate is concocted turned into the nourishmēt of the body Also ther be foure vertues whereby all lyuing Creatures wyth meate receyued are nourisshed encreased The first attractiue the secōd retentiue the third digestiue and the fourth expulsiue To wich vertues or powers appendant and belonging to all the parts of the body the first chiefe originall of the Spirites oughte to be referred For first assoone as the meate is mynced chawed wyth the teeth it descēdeth into the stomack beinge thither attracted then digested and made substantiall and turned to the proper nourishmēt and encrease of the member And such part or porcion thereof as serueth not to this vse it refuseth and reiecteth Here therefore the Spirite hath his first beginning And if nature be good stronge in this office of digestion it happeneth thereby that the Spirites be made pure cleare and syncere but if concoction bee hindred or any other distemperatnes happen thē is the meate altered and chaunged into vaporous belchinge stinking fumes and fulsome breathing which ascending vp out of the stomack disturbe and hurt the brayne and minde insomuche y such persons are easely quicklye prouoked to brawlinge chiding strife and dissention For when the Humours be not sufficiently and ynough concoted and attenuate vnpure Spirites proceede out of them enforcing a manifest alteration of the state aswell of the body as of the minde And therefore in anye wyse cruditie is to be auoyded because it maketh ill humours troubled Spirits aswell of meates of good iuyce as of those y are bad albeit the diseases engendred by want of concoction of meates hurtfull bee worse and of more daunger For they cause loathsome smelles and fulsome belchings and make the body to breake oute illfauourably in euerye place wyth scabbes botches blaynes and mangmesse For when there is aboundance of humours in the body it cānot be chosē but Agues must nedes bee engendred of that continuall obstruction and putrefaction and stoare of diseases muste needes spring oute thereof vnlesse those excrementes by continual labour and conuenient exercise be purged and the humours reduced into good bloud For then a sweete pleasaūt sente proceding therout comforteth the head and tempereth and connenientlye moysteneth the brayne Otherwyse if concoction be troubled there do strike vp into the head grosse fumie vapours such as by exāple we see greene woode to make that is smered and couered ouer wyth pitch and talowe And hereupon it happeneth that the minde sometime conceyueth straunge and absurde imaginations yea sometimes falleth into dotage rauing madnesse phrensie melancholy furie or some other distemperaunce But if the Stomacke do his parte and office throughly if concoction be not altogether hindered and that the passages aboute the Lyuer and the other partes of the body do giue free passge to the humours then the vaspours ascēding vp into the head are nothing so hurtfull neyther do they greatlye disturbe and trouble the inward minde and yet is not a man altogether cleare and free from affections but they be such I saye as hee hath in his owne power easely to qualifye stay and inhibite Naturall Spirite therefore beinge made of the purest alimente in the Lyuer is the beginninge of the residue For by it is the vitall spirite and the animall also nourished insomuch that the power or facultie animall vseth the spirit natural as an instrument to these great affections and motions whereunto retecting and litle regarding right reason we are many times prouoked For euen as in a ciuill tumulte and sedicious vprore among the common people the Magistrate hath much ado to appease and mollifye the wilfull peoples rage and headinesse so likewise reason is not able easely to subdue the lewd affections and vnbrydled motions that grow by immoderate gurmandyze surphet and dronkennesse

and lowde reading of bigge tuned sounds by stoppes and certayne Pauses as our Comicall felowes now do that measure Rhetorick by theyr peeuish Rhythmes it will bryng exceeding much good to the Breast and Muscles No lesse ease and profite lykewyse shall a man thereby finde for the openyng of hys pypes and expelling thence al obstructions specially if hee vse himselfe a litle to holde in his breath and pinching together his lyppes wyth his cheekes full blowen to let his breath gushe oute wyth a full sturdye sounde But this in yonge men sayth Galene is to bee moderated till they be at consistente Age and in mornynges when the body is emptye and not infarced neyther wyth the nightly exercyse of venerous pastimes afore wearyed and weakened This Exercyse also of al others is most chiefly cōueniēt good for them that eyther by imperfectiō of nature or by negligēce of Nurses are crooke-backed For the Muscles of their bulke breast and the lappes or bellowes of theyr Lōges being drawen together crooked toward theyr backs causeth thē to be shortwynded which by this meanes is greatly eased they therby made to fetche their wynd a great deale better with more facility Horses of good courage breed● when they feele the Spurre with coursinge tramplinge and f●tching the capre caryre or curuetty do the very same thinge naturally with their snuffing Nosethrils a tokē wherby to know good coragious Horse which men do when they holde in theyr breath stroute out their C. jeekes This trick to make thē snuffe y Horscorsers vse by pinching them by the Noses and if thereupon they forthwyth puffe and blowe they take it for a certayne signe and sure token that the same horse is good and hath in him no hidden nor secrete fault For if he pace not well if he fling oute wyth his heeles and kicke if he haue a stiffe legge or a blynde eye and such like outward impediment it is euident by sight and loking on to be perceyued by other outward tokens ought and may easelye be found out and tryed I could heere repeate a great sort of other exercises moe as Dyce Tables Cardes but because they bee the pastimes recreations of ydle persons to be done standing still or sittinge and againe be not in y nōber of cōmendable delights laudable solaces I haue spared in this place to speake anye thing of them For men of good nature and disposition when they haue any spare time from their other earneste busynesse desyre frequente such solaces sportes as are ioyned with honesty such as are the pleasures of the countrye practize of husbādry which brīgeth with it not only pleasure but profite gaine also the plentifully without any dislykīg toyle For the master or owner of the ground needes not with his owne handes to moyle toyle digge and delue plough and carte sow harrowe breake cloddes to digge aboute his trees and cleanse awaye the superfluous and hurtful earth sithence he may take lesse paynes by committing the doing thereof to his Hindes and meigniall Hyerlings whom he may dayly ouersee and by word of mouth berke or figne appointe what he will haue to be done and taken in hand Which thing is meant by Terence where he bringeth in one old mā reprouing an other for drudging and moylinge in his grounde himselfe saying thus The toyle and labour vvhich thou takest vvith thyne ovvne hands if thou vvouldest bestovv the same in ouerseeinge thy folkes and setinge them to their busynesse thou shouldest haue more vvorke done by a great deale The owners foote maketh a fruitfull fielde sayth the Prouerbe and the Maysters eye fatteth the horse Now when we leaue of from exercyse and come to our meate and drincke which restoreth strength we must be very wary carefull that we ouercharge not our stomackes wyth superabundaunce and saciety For as too much abstinence and hunger is oftentymes hurtfull so too much fulnes and saciety is neuer profitable holesome for there wyth the Stomacke is too-much stuffed and distempered with cruditye engendring oppilation and putrefaction the verye breeders and procurers of Agewes and al other diseases To maynteyne preserue bodely health in perfect stay and soundnes all thinges are to be done in due order and by right choyse of iudgement so that according to the precept of Hyppocrates Labour or Exercyse Meate Drynck carnal Acte all muste be vsed in measure and be done in their due time and order Hereby wee see that by his opynion healthynes must take his beginning at Exercyse after which meate and drincke commeth next then Slepe and last of an carnall Act meetest for them sayth Galene ● vsually haue recourse thereto and feele sheve by leaste harme that is for 〈◊〉 Age for so Olde age and dry bodyes it is exceedingly hurtfull and most pernitious Neyther ●●it without daunger and harme to be frequēted of those that be of 〈◊〉 Complexions specially being vsed oute of season or immoderately or when the weather is hote In the Spring time it is more tolilerable and holesome after that the bodye is with moderate 〈…〉 meate and brincke heated and moystened and being also before sleepe For by this meanes the wearynesse 〈…〉 doing is by Sleepe incontineutly 〈◊〉 cased and repayred ¶ Emptynesse and Repletion THis moderation is in other thinges also to be obserued as when the body requyreth with meate and brincke to the refreshed or being wyth humours app●ete defyreth 〈◊〉 prouided alwayes that good consideration be had what strength the bodye is of what nature is able to beare and how farre herein a man may safely apuenture Which thing also in well and cyrcumspectly to be waighed and 〈◊〉 of in openyng of Veynes in prouokinge sweate in procuring laskes in skowringe and purginge the Entrailes and prouokinge vomites for in these regard and respecte muste be had both of time age custome nature and Countrey Neither ought any man of custome to vse and try any of these experiences rashly vpon himself except great cause therunto moue him or that he be troubled with much aboundaunce of noysome humours which requyre eyther by purgation or els by euacuation to bee expelled For in euerye Coūtry almost there be some which at all seasōs of the yeare vse to be let bloude or els by scaryfyinge the skinne to be cupped to the no small hindraunce daunger and empechmēt of their health for together with the bloude which is the treasure of lyfe there passeth out no smal deale of the vitall Spirite whereby the whole bodye falleth into great coldnes and nature weakened therby made lesse hable to performe her woorke and function So likewyse others without any aduyse of the Physitions wyll swallowe Pylles dryncke Purgations whereby they enfeeble their strength and hasten old age before the time The same now and then happeneth to sondry

of Spayne and souereigne Ruler of all the lowe Countreyes his Grace being heere wyth vs the last yeare at Zickzey outwardly arguyng in him a most myld nature and a mynde most vertuously disp●sed There be yet manye other notes markes and tokēs appertayning to this Constitucion which a man may not alwayes safely truste vnto as infallible because they suffer alteration and chaūge by age and yeares yea almost in euery momente of tyme but yet so that by them appeareth alwayes certayne and vndoubted tokens that the state of the same bodye aforetime hath beene and was in this ryght good case plight constitutiō albeit now altered or perhaps clene decayed For as greate huige and sumptuous houses beynge falne downe and decayed shewe euidently by the ruynes and delapidations therof of what hugenesse and magnificence they earst were howe curious and busye the frame was howe skilful and industrious the Architecte and workeman was so in a laudable state Constitution and habite of body which is decayed and faded from his former disposition there appeare certayne reliques notes and tokens of the good temperament that aforetime was in the same Albeit sometime through greeuous sicknes or by some great mysfortune and outward calamity mans nature is so frushed and damped that al the vigour of the body all the beauty comelynes and shape thereof is nypped and cleane abolyshed like a goodly fayre buildyng that is eyther by tempeste shaken battered or by mysfortune of fyer vtterly burnte and wasted Thus feare astonment sodaine a●frighting the dread of daungers or death sodainly threatened do so wast and destroy the powers forme shape and beauty and so cleane altereth some mē frō that they were afore as though they had neuer bene the same Whereof there happened in our tyme a notable and straunge example in a yong Gentleman of noble byrthe and Parentage Who in the Court of the late Emperour Charles they farre ouershooting himselfe wythout regard of dutye remorse or reuerence of the place had carnallye defloured a certayne yong Gentlewoman whom he loued exceedingly which fac● to be perpetrated vpon the bodyes of yonge Ladyes and noble virgins is accompted a thinge most haynous punishable by death yea although no force be offered to the damosell and although by secrete cōsent and apparant likelyhoodes she greatly seeme not to ret●●t an amorous suite to her in such sort tendered This Gentleman therfore was cōmitted to pryson lookynge the next day folowinge to be executed put to death For this is narowly loked vnto y no●e presumyng or daring to cōmit any such villanie or to distein the Honour of the Princes Court with such lewd filthy pollution shal escape scotfree or go away vnpunished according to the greatnes of those his wilful libidinous demerites Languishyng all y nighte in great perplexitye griefe agonie sorowe al the while conceyuyng inwardly in mind the terrour dread of death so neere approchīg he was so altered and chaunged that at his arreignment the next day none of his owne famyliar acquaintāce neyther yet the Emperour himselfe could knowe him So much had the horrour of death the despayre of any pardon win fewe houres pallifyed his colour and altered the state of his former cōstitution All his beauty comely shape fresh cōplexion was as it were so faded and exiled his face so incrediblie dis●nowledged his colour of fresh cleare turned into wan swartye death-like his countenaunce to behold loathsome vglie his head couered ouer with graye heyres farre vnmeete for those yeres his beard sluttish dryueling filthy with spattering sneuel deformed The Emperour earnestly fixing his eye vppon him suspecting him not to be the self same man which had committed the fact mistrusted that some other person had beene put in his place whereuppon he commaunded present search to be made y matter to be throughly boulted out whether it were the selfe same party or no and whether his hoare heyres and gray beard were counterfeited by some confectioned oyntments artificially for the nonce coloured or no. But the matter being found true and plaine and no deceipte nor coloured collusion therein vsed his Maiestie was at the sight therof so astonned that his former resolution and purpose to haue the saide Gentleman punished was now tourned into compassiō ouer his pytifull case and iudging him to haue alreadye suffered punyshment suffycient pardoned him hys lyfe and remitted his offence The honourable Nicholas Mychault of Indeuelda a Gentleman in great fauour wyth hygh Prynces of all Noblemen worthylie esteemed demaunding of mee on a tyme sitting at the table the cause of thys so straunge and sodayne chaunge I aunswered that the very cause thereof proceeded of nothinge els then of his extreeme feare and vehement thinking vpon that daunger wherewyth he saw himselfe distressed the remēbraunce and cogitation whereof searched the very innermost Senses in his body For that trouble affection so neerely touched him and so greuously perplexed his mynd y al vital heat spyrit was in him in a maner vtterly extincte whereby eche part of the body streightwayes altered and chaūged frō the fresh comely colour which they had before into an vglie and vnsightly habite insomuch that the rootes of the hayres which he y vaporous humyditie that lyeth within the skinne be nourished and preserued fresh in colour when the same humydity fayleth and in place thereof a cold dry quality reigneth do drye vp and cleane lose their former ●atyue Complexiō and colour euen as grasse that wantinge the moystnes of the earth to cōfort it cānnot but wyther patch away For euen as the Leaues of Trees the braūches of greene Vynes seruing to defend y grapes from the iniury of weather are by extremyty of heate hayle rayne and Northren blastes which sometime blusterouslye blowe in the Sōmer season altered from a pleasaunt greene verdure into a yealowysh tawnie colour So lykewyse the natural Complexion Iustynesse and shape of the body drowpeth and decayeth and the hayres which of thēselues are no part of y body but an appentise superfluitye and ornamente to the body lackinge the strength and humyditye the nourisheth them become hoarye and graye longe before their due time which thinge wee see commonly happen to all those that spende their time in the warres or in daungerous traueyles on the Sea or which bee much troubled visited with sicknesse wherein is a certaine ymagination of verye death in their myndes For they remember and looke for nothing els they thinck vppon nothing somuch when they stand in battayle array ready at the sound of the Trompet to ioyne with the Enemye and to try it out by dent of sworde but euen there presently eyther to slay or be slaine makinge accompte thence neuer to escape aliue vnlesse peraduenture they be such as wyth longe custome haue so hardened and enured theyr mindes in many lyke daungerous bruntes that they neyther

shyning brightnes clarifye illuminate all the senses whose mynisterie the minde vseth making them ready and apte throughlye to atchieue and execute their due offices actions and charges And therefore this old Verse althoughe not curiouslye penned and fyled which is common almoste in euerye mans mouth seemeth to me not altogether absurd neyther much swaruinge from truth Mens sapit Pulmo loquitur Fel suscitat iras Spen ridere facit cogit amare iecut In English thus VVitte from the Mynde Speach frō the Lūges From Gall proceedeth Ire From Mylte is caused Laughter from The Lyuer Loues desire From the functions of which Entrailes the Heart which is the founteyne of lyfe and natural heat and the oryginall of vitall spyrite is not excluded as in whom resteth the chiefest and moste pryncipal power and faculty in the exployting of any thinge incident to Nature Of it such famous men as excell and be renowmed for wysedome and experience are called Cordati they that want and are further of from the same are termed by names taken of the impotencie imperfection of the mynde in that behalfe of such affections as differ moste from Temperaunce and moderation Herevppon are they that nosle themselues in Slouth ydlenesse negligence lazynesse ease neyther addicting themselues to any profitable studie tendinge to the Glorye of God neyther to their owne auayle and furtheraunce in dyrectinge them to anye vertuous lyuinge are called Socordes And an other sort worse then these called Vecordes be they which ymagine and deuise in their mind nothing but fraud collusion deceipt murther treachery burninge treason spoyle of their felow cytizens destruction to their natiue Countrey and finally in theyr mindes laye the Platforme and weaue the toyle of most villanous myschyeues Which inwarde vyces and gracelesse outrages of the mynde euidētly and apparaūtly descry and shew oute themselues in the eyes face countenaunce forehead eyebrowes and in all the outward shape and habite of the body besyde if it so happen that they be therein taken tardye they frette and fume they slampe and stare they stand mute and speachlesse they stagger and solter they cogge and dissemble they wrangle face out the matter they flatly denye the deede or else aunsweare so doubtfullye and perplexedlye y a mā cānot tel ▪ wher to haue them finally eyther they will laye the faulte in an other mans necke as did Adam or els coigne odde shyftes to cleare themselues And if we be desyrous to haue a paterne of such a one let vs beholde Catiline a factious yonker as Salust reporteth and armed wyth the brandes of sedition against his frendes and Conntrey whose colour through the conscience of his vngratious deedes disquietnes of mynde was pale as ashes and without anye bloude his eyes terrible and grymme his pace gate somewhile quicke and somewhyle slow and in whose face and countenaunce a very harebrained and raging madnesse appeared Wyth the like furie and outrage was kinge Saule incensed to commit murthers manye other detestable enormyties Cayn also stynged with the same furyes and remorse of mynde for killinge his brother fell into desperation and vtterly mystrusted any forgeeuenes or mercy For when as the Lord God examyned him of the murther which he had committed and charged him with the haynous cruelty thereof Cain as thoughe he had bene guyltlesse in the matter flatly aunsweared that hee could neither tell what was become of his brother neyther where hee was nor howe he fared nor what he did but impudētly auerred himself vtterly ignoraūt of al dealings touching the same Of the defectes of the heart and infirmity of the minde and reasonable part are they termed Excordes in whom is restaunte some parte of Melancholie but the same brutishe for they be voyd of reason foolish blockeheaded doltishe dull and doating whom some plain wryters cal insensate S. Paule reprouing the Galathians of foolishnes calleth them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say grossewitted dullards blockes fooles and not of capacity able to conceiue thinges good and holesome but starters backe from the profession and doctrine wherein he had instructed them And therefore the Brayne or principalitye of Reason conspyreth and agreeth with the strēgth and power of the heart and these twaine do mutually ayde one an other so that they in whom reigneth wit reason iudgemente and vnderstanding are very aptly called Cordati discrete and wyse For by the meanes of those helpes and furtheraunces they stoutly attempte and couragiously compasse great and waightye matters and what soeuer the mynde conceyueth they by direction and guyding of wysedome bring to passe and execute The other afore rehearsed Entrailes haue also their proper force and efficacie as the Gal ministreth cause and occasion to Anger brawlinge contention chydinge and quarellinge The Lyuer abounding with Bloud heated with Wyne incyteth the Reynes to the desyre of amorous embracements fleshly concupiscence lecherous lust riot and lasciuiousnes The heart by help of the Lūges the vocal Artery and tongue which serueth for vtteraunce of woordes and internall deuises expresseth and vttereth the cogitatiōs and meanings of the mynde The Splene or Mylt if it be not otherwise empeached maketh a man exceedingly to delite in iestinge laughter myrth pastime and wātonnes mynding no earnest matters but letting the world slyde geeueth himselfe to passe the time merilye Contrariwyse if it bee surcharged and ouerwhelmed with toomuch cōfluxe of fylthye Humour and be debarred or disappoynted of the ordinarye helpe and ayde of the Lyuer either through imbecillity or obstruction then bringeth it manye discommodities and annoyaunces no lesse hurtful and preiudicial to the mynde then to the bodye as Heauynesse sorowe sadnesse feare and dread of myssehappe to come carefulnesse thought desperation distrust that ▪ is to say cleane out of hope of any better Fortune Which affections and perplexities cast a mā into exceeding griefe torment vexation and martyrdome wearing away his beauty and wasting his bodely comelynesse and making him to loke lyke syluer al fustyed wyth chimney soote or as bright and handsome things in a reekie house that are besmered dusked and smoked For when the dregges refuse of Humours haue recourse thyther in greater abundaunce then the heate and naturall power of the member is able to wield and qualefye the greater is the decaye thereof and much more daungerously is it oppressed For as a Porter or labouringe man which caryeth burdens heauier then his strength will allowe cannot but fall downe vnder the waight thereby many times hurtinge both himselfe and spoyling his cariage So when greater stoare of Melancholique iuyce is conueighed deryued into this viscous member then it is eyther able to beare or by concoctiō to ouercome it is thereby sundry wyse distempered and brought into many diseases For when the Splene is affected the Stomacke consequently suffreth cruditie loathing of

meate and is much infested wyth breakinge of sower wynde vpwarde the Hypochondrion or wast and the heart strings inflated and swolne the body becommeth slender and thinne the gummes vlcered with mattry wheales the teeth wān coloured rustie loose hoarish rotten theyr mouth stinking their Chawes rammishe And throate vpbelching fulsome breathes Into the number of these sicklie distemperaūces and affects of the Mylt I reckē also the diseases that of old writers were named Stomaracce Scelotyrbe in Dutch namely of the Phryselanders of whom manye in the Sprynge and Autume be ther with troubled vulgarly called Schoirbuick of some Barbarous wryters Scarrificatiō of the belly It cōmeth is engēdred of much corrupte baggage and filthye ●yncke of naughtye Humours which shyfting out of the Mylte into the Stomack beerayeth the teeth and gummes with a certaine loathsome and contagious infection and for that a parte thereof falleth downe into the feete it is presently seene that the Leggs and Knees shrincke together and waxe weake the ioynts lewse and enfeebled the colour alonge the Thighes and Hammes euen to the soale of the foote of sundry hewes and vglie to beholde The nature and curatiō of which disease because it is exactly discoursed and learnedly handled already in a seuerall booke by it selfe by D. Guil. Lemnie I deeme superfluous needlesse here ●n this place any further to prosecute But all these discommodities and inconueniences of the Mylt might the better be borne withal so that the lowest members and the abiect ignoble parts were onely subiecte to the harmes annoyaunces thereof and yet are these no lesse necessary in a body then Pryuies and Synks in a house which serue to scoure and cary out al fylty Sullage but when the principall members and Organes of witte and Reason chaunce with semblable harme to be attached and with sundry affectiōs be distēpered the case requyreth greater diligence and care to be employed for the packinge awaye of such backfrendes and ennemyes For the fulsome vapours which as it were out of a dampishe Marshe or stinkinge Camerine stryke vpward do annoy the Brayne with greeuous and odious fumes and distemper the Spirits Animall wyth a straunge and forreine quality Hereof commeth disquietnes of mynde and alienation of right witts absurde cogitations troublesom Dreames gyddinesse of the head ringing of the eares dazeling of eyes mournefall sighes trembling and beating of heart a mynde sorowfull cōfortlesse perplexed pensiue and feareful insomuch that they which be in this sort affected distrust be afrayed aswell of their frends as of their enemyes looking about them for feare of daunger euery mynute of an houre trembling at euery smal noyse and wagging of a leafe ready for feare to runne into a mouse hoale althoughe there be no cause of anye such feare at all and if they be demaūded y cause why they so pine away themselues with needelesse care and bootelesse sorowe eyther they will make no aunsweare at all or if they do very vnwillingly wyth much ado Insomuch that thereupon they wil desyre to shift and conueighe themselues oute of all companye not abyding anye felowship nor conference with frends but peaking in darke corners and secrete solitary places lyke Timon syrnamed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because he hated all men and Bellerophō who as Homere reporteth assayed to shake of his carefull thoughtes and pensiue dolours by bestowing himselfe in some waste wildernesse or solytary corner For he poore soule in queachie vvoods did stalk Abroad in Fields vvaylesse soyles aloane No sight of men no company no talke Could hee abyde but fret his hart vvith moane By many and sundrye wayes do men fall into this ill case and habiting who afore were cleare free ynough from it Some by the stayinge of their Hemorrhoides and stopping of their naturall Purgations or Flowers or by the restraynt of some ordinary and accustomed issue Some be brought into it through long sorrow and heauynesse for the death of their Parentes or some greate losse of worldly wealth or finally by myssing and beyng disappointed of some great desyre and expectation which they hoped had of some thing to come to passe Yea there be some that haue fallen into this Melancholike habite by watchinge in the nighte at their Studye at vnseasonable houres by leading a peakish and solitary life by hunger penurie and streict fare or els by vsing and accustoming some kinds of nourishments whereby they brought themselues into a cold drye distemperaunce Many through the conscience of their former myssedeedes and remorse of their wicked and abhominable lyfe aforetime ledde haue plūged into these Melācholike affects dryuing thēselues many times into such great incōueniēces that what with blindnesse furi● madnesse wāte of right mynde they become weary of their liues and suffer manye horrible and bitter torments For as Iuuenal right aptly sayth Aye lasting sorovv thought pyning care Surpryseth their distressed mynds ful sore It slaketh not at meales and daily fare But day by day encreaseth more more In night vvhē Sleepe should vvearyed limms restore And fresh againe to vvonted labours make Their guilt vvil not permit them rest to take Streightvvayes repayres into remēbraunce than Their Sacryledge and sinne against their God Ech flash of lyghtning makes them pale vvan They svveat for feare they loke for vvreckful rod Of Diuine Iustice vvho amysse haue trod Their steps on earth one thunder clap vvil make Their harts like Aspen leafe to pant and quake Behold here gētle Reader the panges vexations feares and torments of a wicked mynde of an afflicted Conscience denounced by God to lighte vppon so many as forsake his lawes and rebelliously contemne his commaūdements inso much y as the Prophet sayth he sendeth vppon them the Spyrit of dizzenesse or gyddynesse maketh them to erre in euery good worke euē as a Drunken man staggereth in his vomyte so that by reason of their blyndnesse of Hearte contempte of God and his Worde in any distresse or calamitye yea in the horror of Death they haue nothing wherewithall to comfort their weakenesse or to salue their troubled consciences withal but haue al theyr witts deuyses thoughts perplexed and confused because they leane to a broken wall that is to a thing without strength not able to relieue them but rather sit to hurte them and as Esay sayth They put their trust in a broken staffe of Reede Whereby he meaneth that they repose their hope and confidēce in that which is so farre from being able to helpe stay them that it rather hurteth so many as leane vnto it and as Ezechel sayth bruiseth and renteth theyr handes There are besyde these manye other Examples whereby God putteth the wicked in feare and threateneth plagues to such as despyse forsake his word and Commaundement If thou sayth he refuse to harken to the voyce of the

Bedde and with the other counterfect dead men fedde very well and largelye and after Supper was hee broughtt into a Sleepe by a drincke of purpose made for that intent For they that bee distraught of their right witts must be handled artyficially and by no way so soone recured and broughte into order as by Sleepe So by Sybilla as Virgill wryteth was tamed That Hellish Curre enradge vvith hungry crop That Cerberus vvith throates vvyde open three VVas luld brought a sleepe vvith charmed sop VVhich vp he slapt vvith fangs full meerely As gub that hurled vvas to him for fee VVith druggs and hony made full svvete to bee It resteth now to shew by what meanes order Melancholike affections many be expugned or at least mitigated Fyrst we must search out howe and whereupon this disease toke his beginning and in what part if consisteth For seyng there be iii. differences of Melancholie one principally affecting the Brayne and other the whole bodye the thirde Hypocondriacall or flatuous which comming of crudity and ill Humours distempereth the Brayne by consente these do requyre to be by sundry and seueral wayes recured If the whole bodye therefore be opplete and filled wyth Melancholie iuyce it shal be best to beginne the cure wyth letting the party Bloud in the reste this remedie is thoughte vnprofitable and to no purpose except ouermuch abundaūce of Bloud seeme to requyre the same Thus also for the Stitch swelling of the Splene or for a Quartaine Ague it is right excellēt and good to be let bloud in the Veyne called Splenetica in the inside of the left Arme. Furthermore forasmuch as these kinds of mē be for the most parte costyue it shal be very profitable and requisite gently to make them soluble laxatyue with Aloe Epithyme smal fearne For when the Entrailes be slipperye and that the excrements may conueniently scowre awaye and be auoyded lesse vapours and fumosyties do ascend and stryke vp warde wherefore Hippocrates is of opynion that it is righte holesome for persons Splenetique and Melancholicke to be laxatiue Finallye that the Hemerrhoydes swellinge of the Ueynes with Melācholyke bloud swellinge of the tuell and the Pyles to breede and swell in the Fundemente and neyther partes is for theym that be frantique and out of the righte course of their wits very good And although euill Spyrites dommixe thēselues with humours making y same a great deale fiercer and vehementer yet the chiefeste cause and founteine of all this mischiefe and inconuenience is to bee imputed to the outrage and domination of Humours For when noysom Humours be purged grosse fumosities dispersed the furie is well calmed and the mind broughte agayne into his former state and perfection Therefore it shal be moste for their ease profite to procure euacuatiō to the whole body namely by the part whereby nature most alloweth to be purged and that leysurably and by conueniente order of times for it is not good to stirre such coales as these wyth any stronge medicines and purgations then must they haue prescrybed vnto them a right good and precise diet and eschue all such things as engēder thick bloud as Beefe and Bulles flesh Bacon and such as hath beene long bryned or hanged in the smoke and hardned wherūto are to be added Brawn Beares flesh and Venyson ofred Deere whiche cōmonly is brought in for a seruice at Noble mens tables Hares flesh which cōmonly is vsed for a festiuall dish to furnish out the Table when frends meete to make meerye Insomuch that I cannot but meruayle at the vsuall fashion of Dutchmen and Netherlanders amonge whom this fleshe is as highly estemed desyred as anye neyther thincke they any banquet sumptuous festiuall ynough vnlesse one dish therof be Hare whereas no flesh in y world is neerer of nature vnto Melacholie then it For it is cold dry vnlesse the seely beast bee firste well coursed and hunted for that is the way to make it somewhat more hoat toothsome and holesome Euery part of this beast is of a drying force vertue is endued with an astringent facultye both the hayres the skinne the bloud the Mawe and the flesh For the Mawe of a Hare myngled wyth red Wyne and dronck stoppeth the bloudy Flixe y commeth of the excoriation and gnawīg of the bowelles it also stayeth womens termes the haires being burnt or chopped smal are a present and right souereigne thing to stay any great fluxe of bloude in a wounde The Brayne wasteth the superfluous moysture and dryuelinge of the mouth and maketh the teeth to grow y Huckle boane the commissures ligaments thereof are good to breake the stone The flesh also of an Hare if it be much eaten and vsed cureth the rewine that falleth out of the head and helpeth y Epilepsie or falling Sicknes which is a disease engendered of grosse and clammie Phlegme so that ech one of these doth sufficientlye proue this Beast to be drye Melancholike as the whole condition and nature thereof plainly sheweth namely the fleshe which in colour enclyneth to a blacknesse Now whereas some both of old later time haue beene and yet be perswaded that the eating of Hares flesh maketh men pleasaunt and merily disposed and not that onely but also in bodelye shape and coūtenance to be faire galant beautiful I do not thinke neither am I of opyniō the any such thing can happen through eating the flesh of such a fearefull and timorous seely Creature but the rather hereuppon it had his beginning because whē meery Compaignions are disposed to make good cheere they commonly vse to inuite call into their compaignies some beautifull Damosells and pleasaunt Peates to passe away the time more merily whereas they that be of small accoumpt and harde fauoured to the eye are neuer requested vnto any such pleasurable assembly but be suffred to sit still at home being reputed in cōparison but as grosse Stuffe of the second sort and such as neuer according to the prouerbe tasted or eate of an Hare Which thinge the Poet Martial in a certayne pleasaunt Epigrāme doth intimate vnto his Ladye and Mistresse in words to this effect O Gellia Lady myne thou sayest vvhen Hare thou sendste to mee Dayes seuen Marke thou shalt be fayre and beautifull of glee If these thy vvords svveete heart be true and roue not out of square Then surely Gellia thou thy selfe not yet hast eaten Hare Which opynion of auncient long time agone in many mens heads settled I suppose hereuppon toke his first beginning for hither to of none hath it beene expounded that he which had been at any solemne festiual banquet such I means wherein Hare is one seruice appeareth for the next seuen dayes curteous pleasaunt iocund and ful of mery conceipts For when a man hath bene in pleasaunt company and at good cheere where all thinges