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A16845	A treatise of melancholie Containing the causes thereof, & reasons of the strange effects it worketh in our minds and bodies: with the physicke cure, and spirituall consolation for such as haue thereto adioyned an afflicted conscience. ... By T. Bright doctor of physicke.	Bright, Timothie, 1550-1615.	1586 (1586)	STC 3747; ESTC S106464	155,522	312

it into like felowship of displeasure euen but for that it pleaseth not like as in a troubled sea a great vessell is more easily stirred with smal strength then in the calme hauen or quiet streame so our spirites and organicall instruments of passion the parte tossed with stormy weather of internall discontentment is with litle occasion disquieted yea with the shaking of a rush that hath no show of calming those domesticall stormes that arise more troublesome and boisterous to our nature then all the blustering windes in the Ocean sea For when our passion is once vp by such occasion the commoÌ„ sense is also caried therewith and distinction of outward thinges hindered at the least if not taken away all things being wayed by that which nature findeth offeÌ„ce at within euen as the tast altered in feauers by cholerick vapours maketh sweete thinges seeme bitter and vnpleasaunt which of themselues are most delectable to the tast and would greatly satisfie the same partie the bitter relish through that taint of choller once taken away And in this sort in my opinion ariseth the disorderly vnruly passion of choller both increased where some occasion is offered and procured by inward disposition of the bodie and spirit when there is no pretence or shewe of cause This is seene as plainly in mirth and ioye which riseth as well vpon inward harmonie of spirit humour and complexion as vpon glad tidings or externall benefite whereof we take reioycing A bodie of sanguine complexion as commonly we call it although complexion be another thing then condition of humors the spirits being in their iust temper in respect of qualitie and of such plenty as nature requireth not mixed or defiled by any straunge spirit or vapor the humours in quantity qualitie rated in geometricall and iust proportion the substance also of the bodie and all the members so qualified by mixture of elementes as all conspire together in due proportion breedeth an indifferencie to all passions Nowe if bloud abound and keepe his sincerity and the body receaue by it and the spirits rising from the same a comfort in the sensible partes without doubt then as anger without cause externall rose vpoÌ„ inward displeasure so this spirit these humours and this temper may moue an inward ioy wherof no externall obiect may be accompted as iust occasion This is the cause that maketh some men prone to ioy and laughter at such thinges as other men are not drawne with into any passion and maketh them picke out and seeke for causes of laughter not onely to moue others to the like but to expresse their mery passioÌ„ which riseth by the iudgement of our senses imparted to the hart not regarding whether the cause be inward or outward that moueth which taketh comfort thereat as though the obiect were externall This especially commeth to passe if the bloud be such about the hart as his purenesse sincerenesse with sweetnesse that carieth moderation of temper doth so comfort and mollifie it that it easily aptly enlargeth it self theÌ„ such bloud or such vapor that hath this tickling qualitie causeth a delight conceiued in the braine and communicated with the hart procureth a comfortable gratulation and inward ioy of that whereof nature taketh pleasure For as we haue sights tastes smelles noyses pleasant obiectes without vs and on the contrary part as manie odious and hatefull which do force our senses so haue we also all these internall pleasaunt or vnpleasaunt as we haue of sensuall obiects internall so in like manner pleasure displeasure is communicated froÌ„ within of the braine to the heart of such things as we are not able directly to referre to this or that qualitie as we see it fareth with tasts oftentimes such mixtures may be in sauces that something may please vs we cannot expresse what raysed of the compositioÌ„ This chiefly falleth to our bodies when that which giueth this occasion carieth force of gentle and light spirits as wine and strong drinke and all aromaticall spices which haue a power to comfort the braine and hart and affect all our bodie throughout with celeritie and quicknesse before their spirits be spent in the passage then the braine giueth merie report the hart glad for it selfe and all the fellow members as it were daunceth for ioy and good liking which it receaueth of such internall prouocations TheÌ„ as we see wine giue occasion of mirth by his excellent spirit wherewith our spirit is delighted and greatly increased if it be drunke with moderation so such as are of merie dispositions enioy a naturall wine in their bodies especially harts braines which causeth them to laugh at the wagging of a feather and without iust matter of laughter without modest regard of circuÌ„stance to beare them selues light ridiculous this my friende M. I take to be the cause of merrie greekes who seeke rather to discharge them selues of the iocond affection stirred vp by their humour then require true outward occasion of solace and recreation Nowe as before I haue sayd that choler procureth anger not as cause but as occasion so likewise bloud thus tempered and replenished with these aromaticall and merie spirits giueth occasion only of this pleasantnesse and is no cause thereof the hart making iust claime to these affections as the only instrument vnder the soule chiefe author of these vnruly companions which instrument is so disposed that obeying the mind and those naturall rules whereby all things are esteemed good or bad true or false to be done or not to be done no otherwise then by a ciuill subiection ruled by counsell no constraint it repugneth oft times all the strong coÌ„clusions whatsoeuer reason can make to the contrary Thus you vnderstaÌ„d how a man may be angrie and merie without externall obiect or outward cause now let vs consider howe sadnesse and feare the points which most belong to this discourse and your present state may also arise without occasion of outward terror either presently molesting or fearing vs by likelihood or possibility of future danger As the nature of choler is subtile hote bitter and of a fretting and biting qualitie both it selfe and the vapors that passe from it and bloud temperate sweet and full of cheerefull and comfortable spirits answerable to those we haue ingenerate especially if they become aromaticall as I may terme them and of a fragrant nature by naturall temper or by meanes of diet so melancholie of qualitie grosse dull and of fewe comfortable spirits and plentifully replenished with such as darken all the clernesse of those sanguineous and ingrosse their subtilnesse defile their purenesse with the fogge of that slime and fennie substance and shut vp the hart as it were in a dungeon of obscurity causeth manie fearefull fancies by abusing the braine with vglie illusions locketh vp the gates of the hart whereout the spirits should breake forth vpon iust occasion to the comfort of all the family of their

spoken for the vrine This then is one hinderaunce why the vrine can not be retracted the way being made vp by those skinnes the manner of the entraunce such of that excremeÌ„t into the bladder why such stopping can not be in them as falleth out by closing of poores that happeneth to other partes through euacuation for these passages are neither opeÌ„ because they be full nor closse because they be emptie but are the one for the other at our voluntary pleasures to this is the largenes of the passages to be added which hinder the close sinking of all sides together whith the position of the body downeward direct and thus much for the difference of the retention and excretion and how by reason the partes containing the exerement no calling backe of humors can be as in other parts which haue fluxe and refluxe free Touching the manner of excremeÌ„t this difference also is to be holden that vuch humours as are not yet seperated for euacuation follow the course of spirites and ebbe and flow with them being within the regiment of nature which the vrine contained in his naturall vrinall and attending the opening of the passage and destitute of those actiue spirites can not doe and this I take to be the causes why in extreame passions of feare vrine may passe against his wil that notwithstanding can shed no teares by the same extremity The third pointe remaineth for the more easie declaration of this dolefull gesture of what disposition of body they are of who are apt to teares They are almost altogether of a moist rare and tender body especially of brayne and heart which both being of that temper carie the rest of the parts into like disposition this is the cause why children are more apt to weepe then those that are of greater yeares and women more then men the one hauing by youth the body moist rare soft and the other by sex Whereby teares both easily flow and are supplied with plentifull matter if with rarenes of body and humidity the braine aboue the rest exceede that way and the eyes be great vaynes passages there about large theÌ„ waÌ„teth ther nothing to the fouÌ„tain of tears eueÌ„ vpoÌ„ smal occasioÌ„ coÌ„trarily they which haue their bodies drier by nature and more coÌ„pact and the passages and poores close as men in comparison of women children such hardly yeeld forth that signe of sorrow though the occasion may require it Thus you vnderstaÌ„d what occasion moueth weeping how taken and what state of bodie they be of that easily water their cheekes when sorow and calamitie afflicteth Now let vs consider the matter of teares what it is and whence particularly and properly they flow and manner how The matter is the excrementitious humiditie of the brayne not contained in the vaynes for else would teares not be cleare nor of a waterish colour but resembling the colour of vrine receiue a tincture from the thinnest parte of the blood and so appeare yellow except the straining of the humour might seeme to clarifie them which can not so be For straining although it cast away impuritie it altereth not colour as strayne claret wyne as ofteÌ„ as you will it keepeth stil the colour Againe the tincture of yellow being of a cholericke whay in the blood which is most thinne would nothing hinder the passage of the teare nor remaine behind in the strainer Then we may resolue vpon this point that teares rise of the brains thinnest most liquide excrement whereof being the moystest part of the whole bodie and twise so much in quantitie as the braine of an oxe it hath great plenty euen more then anie other part both in respect of his temper and largenesse This excrement is voyded ordinarily by the palate the nose and the eyes by certaine passages ordained for vaines arteries and sinues from that carnell which is placed in the sadle of the bone called the wedge which is direct ouer the palate of the mouth this carnell is there placed that the excremeÌ„t might not rush suddenly into these parts but gently distill into them The most ordinarie passage of thinne humour is by the pallate and nose the pallate receaueth it directly the nose from the eyes lest they should be molested by continuall fluxe into the eyes it floweth by the passage of the second couple of nerues which serue to moue the eye not entering the substance of them but passing on all sides floweth to the eyes and from thence is receaued of the fleshly carnell in the inner corner of the eye and so passeth into the nose and voydeth out to purge the head thereby and this is the ordinarie course of that humiditie which voyded from the braine into the nose VpoÌ„ occasioÌ„ of grief or trouble of smoke or wind this thinne liquor floweth froÌ„ all partes is receaued of another fleshly carnell vnder the vpper eye lid towards the eares from thence also watereth them and trickleth downe the cheekes So then you perceaue the matter of teares by what streames it voydeth and how it is conueighed it remaineth last of all to lay open vnto you what causeth the fluxe out of the eyes seeing ordinarily it should passe into the nose or through the palate be voyded out at the mouth and how in weeping nature dischargeth her self of this excrement For clearing of which point you must call to remembrance the kinde of passion wherewith nature is charged in matter of griefe or feare which is an enforcement of flight into her owne center not hauing whither else to flee whereby she gathereth in one her spirits and bloud calleth them in partly withdrawing them from that fearefull obiect partly by vniting of forces inableth her selfe to make greater resistance against that which annoyeth These spirites are such as passe from the principall partes of the heart braine and liuer and giue life nourishment sense and motion to the rest of the members of our bodies So then the braine being thus replenished with his flowing spirites is fuller then it was before and of necessitie warmer heat alwayes accompanying spirit with the spirite refloweth also the bloud and humours and that all may become safe nature maketh such contraction of the substaunce of the braine and partes thereabout that as one desirous to hold fast with his hand that which is apt to flowe forth loseth by his hard handlinge and compression which otherwise he might retaine so it expresseth that which by thinnesse is readie to voide and forcing with spirit pressing with contracted substance signifieth by shower of teares what storme tosseth the afflicted hart and ouercasteth the cheerfull countenaunce And this is the manner of the watering of the sorowfull cheekes and visage disfigured with lamentatioÌ„ which being by this double meanes inforced issue in more plentie then the passage into the nostrells can readilie discharge the aboundance whereof drencheth the eyes ouerflowing the brimmes of the eye liddes filleth the bosome

then a childe is able sufficiently to way downe by his strength of hand a smithes bellow that is forced by poyces to finish that which streÌ„gth would perform at once Neither is the speach interrupted and broken only by the disorderly expiratioÌ„ but the inspiratioÌ„ being by sobs cutteth also the voyce marreth the distinct pronuÌ„tiatioÌ„ the cause whereof as also of sighing I will deliuer vnto you in the next chapter Thus you haue sobbing excepted the reasons of all the partes of weeping so farre as my coniecture by reason in matters so hidden can gather I will proceede to the causes of sighing and sobbing and how they be procured and by what meanes and so finish the whole mournefull gesture of weeping CHAP. XXVII The causes of sobbing and sighing and how weeping easeth the heart BEsides the former actioÌ„s of sorow weping is for the most part accompanied if it be vehement with sobbes and sighes of which two sobbing is neuer without weeping sighes are ordinarie and common vppon causes that force no teares as euery one hath experieÌ„ce For vnderstanding of the causes of sobbes it is necessarie for you to call to minde that which hath bin said of the vse of the Diaphragma or midriffe and the outward intercostalls or outward muscles betwixt the ribbes and the manner how the hearte is affected in griefe and sorrowe The dilating of Diaphragma is to enlarge the chest for taking breath This is onely required if we be not more theÌ„ ordinarilie vrged to breath which if we be then doe the outwarde muscles of the ribbes dilate the chest also and so encrease the inlargement Now when matter of griefe inforceth teares the Diaphragme and the muscles receiue a weakenes by reason of retraction of spirites that they are faine for the dilatation of the chest to make mo pulls then one as you heard before in the motion of contraction so that the breath is not drawen at one straining of their coares and fibers but by diuers inspiration besides the heat of those partes being retracted maketh them lesse plyable vnto the force of the muscles whereby the respiration is with more difficultie perfoormed which requireth more vse of dilatation then before by reason the heate about the heart it selfe is now greater then before the passion which bringeth thereto a kind of suffocation That cooling of the heart which is sensibly felt by suddaine euill tydinges or mishappe vnlooked for or whatsoeuer new calamitie riseth through accesse of the blood and spirits which although they be hote yet wanting somewhat of that heate which is ferueÌ„t and naturall to the heart and of the heat of those spirites which are resident there for the time seemeth to coole in comparison of the heat which the heart felt before as a maÌ„ would cast hote water to that which boyleth most feruently which although it be hote yet inferiour in degree to the heate of feruentnes it mitigateth the scalding heate and slaketh the boyling In like manner at the first recourse of these humours and raunging spirites although the heart seeme to receiue a chilling yet anone by contraction and plenty of spirites which are apt to take heat it receiueth a greater necessitie of breathing which being not aunswered through imbecillitie of the breathing parts dischargeth the office of respiration by sobbes which should be persormed by one draught of breath And these I take to be the causes of sobbing Sighing hath no other cause of mouing then to coole and refresh the hearte with fresh breath and pure aire which is the nourishment and foode of the vitall spirites besides the cooling which the heart it selfe receiueth thereby The heart being contracted as hath bene said deliuereth not so freely his sootie and smokie excrementes whereby the spirites become impure and it boyleth with more distemper which necessitie of fresh spirite and coole ayre enforceth a deeper enlargement of the chest then is ordinarie in which not only the midriffe playeth his parte but outward intercostalls or middle muscles of the ribbes besides certaine of the shoulders doe their indeuour to this so necessary an office Moreouer it is very probable that the midriffe by accesse of humours and vapours to the partes there about is charged with vaperous superfluitie which is by stretching it selfe as in yawning auoyded when the muscles are distended by any vapour of what sort soeuer it be of being plentifull and aboundant it stirreth them to a contraction which causeth a kinde of pressing wherby they deliuer themselues of this excrement This in yawning causeth that gaping sometimes accompanied with streaking when we finde our selues vnlustie and vndisposed to stirre or exercise which falling to the midriffe may cause a kinde of sighing when a man hath no cause as hauing cause it helpeth it foreward For whosoeuer yawneth shall perceiue his chest and midriffe dilated in such manner as in sighing feele about the heart a kinde of refreshing euen as when he sigheth To these causes may be added the weight of the hart which is by reason of the accesse of humours about his vaynes and arteries to his contraction increased whereby it lyeth more heauily vpon the midriffe then before the burthen whereof it seeketh to ease it self of by such streitching which somewhat lifteth vp the hearte for the time and so the Diaphragma is recoÌ„forted so that the necessity of fresh aire the cooling of the hearte the easing of the burthen therof vpoÌ„ the midriffe the auoiding of vaporous excrements out of the midriffe seeme to me causes final the midriffes dilatatioÌ„ whose motion the whole chest followeth the efficient cause of sobing sighing And thus much coÌ„cerning the two dolorous actions of sighing sobbing whereto after I haue added how it easeth the heart to weepe sobbe I will end this chapter By reason of the withdrawing of the blood spirites about the heart in feare and sorow it is necessary that much vapour should arise stirred vp by the heat therof working vpoÌ„ the moisture these vapours besides the ordinarie excrements of the brayne before mentioned may yeeld another parte vnto teares being congeled in the brayne and vpper partes that are thicke coole membranous inclosed with the skull and placed ouer the rest as a stillitorie helme ouer the bodie Now weeping by making auoydaÌ„ce to these vapours doth discharge that fulnes wherewith it was before strayned and oppressed These vapours cause that rednes in the cheekes and about the eares of those that weepe heateth the face and causeth the head to ake whereof the heart being eased receiueth a farther enlargement then at the beginning of the griefe and so enioyeth that small comfort which weeping affoordeth It may seeme probable that the sobbing and sighing differing onely in that sobbes are sighinges interrupted and sighes sobbes at large if they be not vehement and long by agitation of the chest expelling of the smothered vapours and drawing in of fresh aire geue also some comfort if they be vehement then shake

they be diuerse all action of internall senses which are ministers and seruants of studie whether it be of learning or of meditation and inuention which later kind farre more toyleth the bodie then the former and therefore farther of is it to be remoued Of internall senses I take phantasie to be the greatest wast of these spirits most apt to thicken the bloud if it be excessiue For that imitateth the inuentiue action of the mind and in a lower degree if it be vehement continuall maketh great wast of those two instruments spirit and heate in the me lancholicke bodie For as the action is such is the spirit and part thereof purer subtiler thinner as the actioÌ„ is of more excellency farther remoued from corporall practise and draweth nigher to the cleere and pure actions of the minde If the melancholicke be ouer much contemplatiue it shall then be meete for him to withdrawe his mind to corporall actions of grosser sort that as the mind by speculation after a sort disioyneth it selfe from the bodie so the bodily exercise may reuoke it againe into the former fellowship and exercise of bodily action The outwarde senses because they consist rather in a kinde of passion their vse doth not greatly hinder the thinnesse which we require against melancholie except they be ouer trauelled with watching which hath great force to drinke vp the spirites moisture and so to alter the bodily state into a melancholie disposition tedious to mind and body In their actes it is to be obserued that they be not in anie respect irkesome or odious For if they be such the heart continually where the obiect is presented nowe growne tender thorough the internall passion flieth at the shadow of euerie thing that carrieth the smallest shewe of discontentment and reclaiming his spirites about him selfe leaueth the outwarde partes destitute of conuenient measure and by aboundance about it selfe corrupteth them in time for want of sufficient respiration and breathing which no lesse ingendreth melancholie then the former disorders afore mentioned and as for the fearefull passion it increaseth it directly and keepeth that immoderate feare in vre Of all sensible obiectes the visible except they be pleasaunt and proportionall giue greatest discontentment to the melancholike If besides their horriblenesse of shape or without it they represent anie significant type of tragicall calamitie or mention that wherewith the melancholicke apprehension faigne anie fearefull obiect much more such spectacles are to be shunned of the melancholickes And because darkenesse is as it were a patterne of death it also is as much as may be to be auoyded and all cheerefull sights agreeable to vertue and pietie and to be embraced and sought after which as the other sorte close vp the spirites and geueth the heart assaults of hostilitie may allure them out againe and set free the distressed affection and yeelde comfort to the amazed heart Next to visible thinges the audible obiect most frighteth the melancholicke person especialy besids the vnpleasantnesse if it carieth also signification of terror here as pleasant pictures and liuely colours delight the melancholicke eye and in their measure satisfie the heart so not onely cheerefull musicke in a generalitie but such of that kinde as most reioyceth is to be sounded in the melancholicke eare of which kinde for the most part is such as carieth an odde measure and easie to be discerned except the melancholicke haue skill in musicke and require a deeper harmonie That contrarilie which is solemne and still as dumpes and fancies and sette musicke are hurtfull in this case and serue rather for a disordered rage and intemperate mirth to reclaime within mediocritie then to allowe the spirites to stirre the bloud and to attenuate the humours which is if the harmony be wisely applyed effectuallie wrought by musicke For that which reason worketh by a more euident way that musicke as it were a magicall charme bringeth to passe in the mindes of men which being forseene of wise law giuers in times past they haue made choice of certaine kindes thereof and haue reiected the other as hurtfull to their common wealthes which agreement betwixt concent of musicke and affection of the minde when Aristophenes perceaued he therby was moued to thinke that the mind was nothing else but a kind of harmonie In the other senses the obiectes onely are to be choysed sweete in tast pleasant in smell and soft to be felt that all outward things may allure and giue courage in steed of that cowardly timiditie wrought by the humour Motion doth much more if it be vehement and drawe to the nature of labour and withall continuall For that drieth the bodie excessiuely And although for the present it be hotter through such trauell yet consuming the spirite and moysture which are matter of this heate in the ende it decayeth also as fire without fuell and the lampe without oyle As these actions of bodie and minde being ouer vehement and excessiue bereaue the humour of spirite and waste the naturall heat which being spent whatsoeuer else is of the body is more grosse and earthie becommeth a lake of melancholie euen so if altogether these actions cease that neither the minde nor bodie bestow themselues in good studies and exercises then on the contrary part this worketh the same that the other excesse doth and euen as water that standeth and is not stirred corrupteth waxeth grosse and thicke and like as the lampe that wanteth aire goeth out though plenty of oyle be ministred euen so without this stirring of spirites humours blood all settle into a grosse residence of melancholie and the whole masse of bloud easily degenerateth vnto that humour and for want of exercise the naturall fire being slakened and the spirite thereby ingrossed that which indued with both with iust measure and equalitie conuenient was before a cheerefull iuyce comfortable to all the parts and a sweete deawe to the earthy substance congealeth into a grossenesse farre vnmeet for that vse and of a quite contrarie disposition CHAP. XXXVIII How melancholicke persons are to order themselues in their affectiont AS in studies exercises of the braine sense voluntary motion great moderation is to be kept of melancholy persons euen so no lesse regarde if not more is to be had of them in restrayning their affectioÌ„s and guiding them with such wise conduct as at no time they breake forth into outrage and shake of the gentle and light yoake which reason imposeth I will not now dispute whether vehement study or disorderly perturbations is more to be taken heed of onely take you no lesse care in the one then in the other except you finde your selfe to haue fallen into excesse and to haue surfeted more of this then of that excesse If you haue so vnequally exceeded and the effect hath preuayled with you that kind wherof you haue most cause to complaine there refraine and employ those giftes of wisedome and vertue wherein in times

past you haue bene a patterne to others and there keepe the straightest hand where the lists of reason are most like to be broke through You haue had declared how the excessiue trauaile of animall actions or such as springe from the braine waist and spende that spirite which as it is in the world the only cheerer of all thinges dispenseth that life imparted of God to al other creatures so in mans nature is the only comfort of the terrestriall members which spirite being consumed or empaired leaueth the Massy patrs more heauie grosse and dull and farther of remoued from all prompt and laudable action of life this effect as it is wrought by that kinde of disorder in like manner a perturbation wheron reason sitteth not and holdeth not the raine is of the same aptnes to disturbe the goodly order disposed by iust proportion in our bodies putting the parts of that most consonaÌ„t pleasant harmony out of tune deliuer a note to the great discontentment of reason and much against the mindes will which intendeth far other then the corporall instrument effecteth If you will call to minde histories you may remember how some haue died of sorrow and othersome of ioy and some with feare some with ielousie and othersome with loue haue bin bereaued of their witts euen those most excellent in al the parts of reason and sound vnderstanding and therby haue made such perturbance of spirit in their braines that for credite of wisedome and in steade of reputation of discreite men they haue through these latter kindes of vnbridled affections worthely caried the name of fooles and men voide of all discreete consideration in the whole race of their life following This commeth to passe in some by troubling of spirite only which require not alone due quantity and temper but a calme setling and tranquillity moued indifferently as iust matter of perturbation shall giue occasion In othersome by lauish waste and predigall expence of the spirite in one passion which dispensed with iudgement would suffice the execution of many worthy actions besides Hereto may furthermore adde that as a member of the corporall body ouer vehemeÌ„tly forced by straining is in perill of luxation sometimes thereby becommeth altogether disioynted and the parte looseth the freedome of flexible motion euen so the spirite ouerforcible strained to one vehement passion carieth the disposition of the parte therewith and in giuing ouer by too much yeelding to the violence of our passion staÌ„deth as it were crooked that way and with an ouer reach of the raigning perturbation being past recouery inclineth wholly whereto it was forcibly driuen Wherefore the perturbations are discreetely so to be ruled as alwayes there do remaine sufficient power in reasons hande to restraine Of these some perturbations directly immediatly increase both passion and humour of which sorte are saddenes and feare Other some passing measure not so much of theÌ„selues procure either as they doe feeble the melaÌ„cholicke bodies as anger and ioy both by excessiue effusion of spirites and suddaine alteration from the heartes contraction to such dilatation as those affections procure In ioy if it breake forth into immoderat laughter then doth it more feeble the melancholickes and breath out there spirites and leaue a paine in their sides and bellies which partes are greatly trauailed in laughter For although it should seeme meete in respect of the thinning of the humor by flowing of spirite and blood into the outward partes from the inward center and alteration of the passion by the contrary affection yet the feeblenes of their bodies and skant of spirites their humors being vnapt for plentiful supplie respect not that consideration but require such an expulsion of one affection by the other that the bodie it selfe notwithstanding sustaine no detrement otherwise the combate would be so sore that nature not being able to beare the force of ech passion would be dissolued by violence of that contention So that as all matter of feare is to be abandonned excessiue ioy is also to be eschewed as a great feebler of melancholick persons chiefly if they be women or of tender and rare habite If the melancholie rise of any perturbation that especially is to be altered brought into a mediocrity wherof the passion take first beginning Among them feare and heauines are of most force and as they are procured according to the vehemency of the cause so the kinde of heauines and feare more or lesse encouÌ„tereth reason and frighteth the melancholicke heart We both feare and are sadde for the losse of those things which with delight and pleasure in time past we enioyed and are tormented with despaire and griefe when in those thinges which we desire there is no hope to lay hold on Among the sundrie sortes of subiectes to these passions some are of necessity and some of pleasure Such as are of necessity either respect the natural maintenance of our bodies and liues or honest reputation amongest men The naturall maintenaÌ„ce of life is of such force in this case that it moueth beyonde measure euen the wisest and most setled and admitteth no moderation If it be imbecillitie of body voide of paine it is borne more tolerable Reputation meÌ„ of vertuous and couragious disposition tender as their liues wherby they are in a manner in like case and sometimes more affected with hazard thereof then if life were in daunger The reason is because credite and estimation toucheth the whole person of the man and not either minde or body onely hath the least meanes being oncelost to be recouered againe and besides the disgrace in this life man being immortall in soule standeth in awe of the perpetual note of infamy which may remaine after his death This passion is most hardlie borne of the ambitious and proude man in respect of that opinion he entertaineth of his owne worthines next vnto him it setleth deep in the minde enlarged with the vertue called magnanimitie in respect his honor aunswereth not his merites The obiectes which are pleasant if they be naturall and not helonging to any one part but vnto the whole nature of which sorte is that loue which vpholdeth the propagation of kinde and is the onely glue to couple the ioynts of this great frame of the world together Here reason is often times failed of the passion and carried captiue submitteth where it should haue preemineÌ„ce rule If it be of other things which nature hath not so wedded together the losse is borne with more tolleration and where there is peril of want in them despaire toucheth more lightly In respect of their owne nature such is the condition of the thinges we desire in this world But because the diuerse qualities of men taketh them sometimes otherwise therfore that passion and those occasions most vrge as the partie is therwith most passionate some one way some an other as nature bendeth or education hath framed In these cases of griefe and

and are not altogether ignorant of the precepts of phisicians whereby this warning might seeme lesse to appertaine vnto you yet coÌ„sidering your present infirmity and vpon what graines moments and points of time this practise standeth I counsell you all other except the directioÌ„ of diet that hath binbefore declared vse of those familiar things which euery one daily putts in practise without the aduise of the phisician whose present eye may behold euery necessity you vtterly abstaine and take my labour herein as a poynting of the finger to that which I iudge meet for you being in a place far distant wher necessity may coÌ„pell you to vse what meanes of counsell you caÌ„ get not such as you would and vpon the view of these manifold meanes of bodely health consider how much more the Lords prouideÌ„ce is ready at all neede to coÌ„fort our soules in so much as the one is far more excellent then the other Thus hauing giuen this warning I proceed to deliuer the naturall helps and ordinarie remedies we doe vse in this case wherein your bodely health now standeth Hetherto you vnderstaÌ„d what outward causes are to be remoued and what to be brought in stead of them contrary in operation and breeders of a better tempered humour The next consideration according to the method of curing is to be had of such inward cause as resteth in the body and hath bene the effect of the outward annoyance that is here the melancholick humour and complexion of the bodie now degenerated thereby The humour requireth euacuation and emptying and because your body is not only melancholicke vnder the ribbes but the whole masse of your blood is chaunged therewith it shall be first necessarye to open a vaine that both thereby you may be disburthened in parte of that heauy load and nature hauing lesse of that kinde to deale withall may alter the remnant into a more milde and pleasant iuice thinne it in substance and temper it with naturall heate and moisture in quality Before any vaine be opened a clister is first to be receaued that may clense the entrailes and diminish some part of the humour seated in those parts it wold be made of marshmallowes holyhockes pelletory of the wale mercurie beetes aretch violet leaues polipody borrage buglosse chammomile hoppes dill and melilote annise seeds and fennell decocted in ale or beere and the decoction being made an ounce of Confectio hamech with a drame of Hiera pichra added thereto Hony wherein rosemarye flowers haue bene steeped and oyle of dill of ech an ownce and a halfe this or such like according to the discretion of the learned phisiciaÌ„ The morning following the vaines are to be emptied the necessity of the passioÌ„ compared with the force and strength which moderateth all kinde of euacuatioÌ„ though the desease require large emp tying And because melandcholy blood is thicke and grosse therfore easily floweth not though the vaine be opened it shall helpe the bleeding to exercise your body a while before with such moderation that it be equally warmed and the spirite and blood stirred vp The Orifice would be somewhat large that no lett be to the issue the grossenes of the blood may haue the free passage yet so that it be no larger then is requisite for wasting of spirits wherof melaÌ„choly persons haue no store to spare In the body the middle vaine of the left arme is fittest to be opened which respecteth both head liuer and splene that betwixt the little finger and the next is of small vse In such as haue the addust melancholy seated in their brains the head vaine is more direct for reuulsion and those about the head it selfe for euacuating and deriuing The tokens of seating there only are with altered fancie and imagination the bodie else carying no melancholicke signes no sower belching after meate nor heate with windinesse which all rise of the melancholy humour stopping the mesaraicke vaines and so procuring that vnnaturall suffocating heate which many melancholick persons complaine of The quantitie which I would haue you spare let it be no lesse then nine or ten ownces except the present action of opening minister other consideration Nowe because you haue had in times past the benefite of bleeding hemorhods which now a long time are stopped at such seasons as they were wont to open or now when they giue any signe of fulnesse swelling or paine they would also be opened by applying a redde onion to the place or annointing it with the iuyce of garlicke or with bulles gall or rubbing it with a figge leafe or with horsleeches well purged and prepared and so applied the easiest way by opening the inwarde vaines of the ankle such like remedies as may prouoke the bloud his vsuall way and bring nature in minde of her wonted discharge of that humour which being stopped breedeth as Hipocrates saith and experience maketh proofe frensies melancholies pleurisies hard milts dropsies and contrarily opened flowing moderatly deliuereth from them all If this melancholy falleth vnto maidens or women their ordinarie course faile them the vaines of the hammes or ancles are to be cut and drinkes of opening rootes fenell persly butchers brome madder and such like with germander goolds herbe grace mugwort and nep are to be much vsed with sittinges and bathinges in mallowes chammomile and nep peniroyall bay leaues fetherfew and such like which haue vertue in that case decocted in water wherein so much honie hath bene dissolued as will giue it a tast of sweetnesse if greater force be required then a dramme of the troches of myrre in the former decoctioÌ„ are most forcible the opening of vaine before mentioned would be procured at the accustomed time at the full mone in the elder sort and the chaunge in the yonger The thicker the bloud is the more the melancholick may spare and the thinner the lesse Thus much I iudge necessarie for one kind of euacuation which although it letteth out good bloud withall as in all bleeding yet here lyeth the benefit that nature is partly disburthened and so more easilie gouerneth the rest and by vertue of her natural heate and spirit correcteth with smaller helpe that which therin is farther to be reformed the spirites haue free libertie and great scope is giuen to the harts dilating the action peculiar to a cheerfull disposition The other kinde of euacation is by purging which leaueth the bloud entrie only it cleanseth the bodie of that grosse and thicke settelinge and is more peculiar and directly singleth out the melancholie from the other humours and because this humour is thicke and hardly moueth and the passages veines of the body closer then whereby it may easily passe according to Hipocrates rule both bodie and humour are to receaue a preparation and the parts of the body to be loosened and enlarged the humor made more flowing and thinne both which may be brought to passe with one meanes

distinct in all partes The purest part which we call in comparison and in respect of the rest bloud is temperate in qualitie and moderate in substance exceeding all the other parts in quantitie if the bodie be of equall temper made for nourishment of the most temperate parts and ingendring of spirits The second is fleume next to bloud in quantitie of a waterie nature cold and moyst apt to be conuerted into the substance of purebloud if nature faile not in her workinge ordained for nourishment of moyster partes The thirde is melancholie of substance grosse and earthie cold and drie in regard of the other in quantity inferiour to fleume fit nourishment for such partes as are of like temper The fourth choler fierie hote and driest of qualitie thinne in substance least in quantitie and ordained for such parts as require subtiller nourishment and are tempered with greater portion of the fierie element These differences nature hath so distinguished that although in veine and place they remaine linked together yet in facultie and vertue they are diuerse the one from the other which as they fit the varietie of parts bloud the temperate and the rest such partes as haue like declining from temperate so by the maruelous working of nature these varieties of humours are entertained by nourishmentes inclining to like disposition although no nourishment can be vtterly voide of all these parts no not those that are counted most to encline to any one humour as beefe and veneson to melancholie honie and butter to choler and fish to fleume Hereof riseth then this humour melancholie euen from nourishments as all the humours do and although not of such excellent vse yet as necessarie for the maintenance of life and substance of the bodie as anie other neither do these humoures fall into mans nature onely but what soeuer liuing creature hath bloud can not be destitute of them as partes thereof more or lesse according to their diuerse complexion Thus then as man consisteth of partes requiring this diuersitie of foode necessarie it was and so ordained by God such humours might aunswer in like varietie and as humours are diuerse so likewise the matter whereof they should be wrought could not be of one sort and therefore all kinde of nature ordained for nourishment affoord this choyce some in greater scarsitie this or that to the end no state of body should complaine Here you may moue a question not impertinent to the matter in hande whether some bodies do not turne good nourishment of the purest sort into greater quantitie of melancholie then other some and whether that of nourishment which of it selfe would yeeldstore of the best iuyce by melancholicke or rather cold and drie disposition of the bodie can so be altered as to faile of that store wherewith by nature it is replenished and in steede thereof yeeld this grosse thicke cold earthie humour whereof I nowe discourse Againe whether these humours are in such natures as yeeld nourishment and so by separation only after any Anaxagorian manner appeare or rather are made as a stoole out of timber bread of corne wine of grape c. CHAP. III. VVhether good nourishment breedeth not store of melancholie by fault of the bodie whether it turneth not into melancholie and whether these humours are found in nourishments or rather are made out of them THESE questions are not voide of probabilitie on both sides which to the ende the truth may lye the more apparant I will not stick to declare vnto you It should seeme as the obiection importeth that which before hath bene attributed to the kind of nourishment should rather rise of the bodie nourished coÌ„sidering how it altereth which it embraceth for nourishment as consider the earth it selfe the mother very nurse of all corruptible thinges howe out of the same soyle not halfe a foot betwixt the wholesome fruit and soueraigne medicine both spring vp together with deadly poison yea how in the self same creature what strange diuersitie of nature ariseth of the selfe same nourishment as in the pastinacamarina whose substance flesh is wholsome to eat yet the taile carrieth a most deadly weapon wherewith whatsoeuer is wounded perisheth without recouerie not by anie foraine tincture but by the nourishment altered in that part into such a pernicious disposition The same is also found in the flies Cantharides whose bodie exulcerateth all parts but especiallie the bladder and is not inferiour to the chiefe poisons contrarilie the wings help wherein the bodie hurted which may be no small reasons of of doubt whether the humors be found in nourishments or rather are made by a certaine disposition of the bodie as who would imagine bloud could euer be made of yron which notwithstanding the Ostridges alter in such sort as by no heate of fire it can be sooner molten then it is digested in the stomach of that fethered foule nowe nature digesteth nothing but to make vse of nourishment thereof else whatsoeuer entreth into the bodie passeth as it cometh and hath no welcomming but is refused as impertinent nature bestowing no handling therof more then a skilfull painter to counterfait the fashion of some excellent beautie would dip his pensill in the mire in steed of perfect colour To these probabilities may be added how some natures chaunge into a farre diuerse qualitie that which they haue receaued then it stood by nature as the family of Marsie in Italie Psillie in Lybia which was so teÌ„pered that they did without hurt sucke the poyson of vipers and without perill did vsually hunt them and so by necessary consequence to be gathered that they did receaue nourishment by them What soeuer entreth into the stomach either is altered into familiaritie of nature or else hauing an actuall power not hindered altereth with repugnancie the nature which hath receaued it If it altereth it wholly then destroyeth it if in part then carieth it on the one part nourishing and alimentarie vertue and on the other a medicinable power so it should seeme these Psillie euen by vertue of nature made nourishment of that which to other is deadly poyson Whereupon it may be gathered that nourishments in some bodies haue not such power as I haue said before seeing they be made in certaine of poyson The same may be declared in duckes and hennes which feede vpon toads notwithstanding their flesh we feed of with health and strength to our bodies Quailes likewise feede of neesing powder seeds and feldfares of hemlocke the one much approching nigh vnto and the other famous by the Athenian executions for most infamous poison all which notwithstanding their flesh is not refused at the tables of the most delicate and daintiest hereby in apparance it seemeth that it skilleth not much what meat is receaued in respect of sustaining this or that complexion seeing that poysons may be made by vertue of concoction familiar nourishment yea which is more auailable to vphold this matter and straunge

greater facillitie wasted by natures strife and resistance Nowe it followeth to declare howe the other vnnaturall melancholy annoyeth with passions abuseth vs with couÌ„terfet cause of perturbation whereof there is no ground in truth but onely a vaine and fantasticall conceit CHAP. XVIII Of the vnnaturall melancholie rising dy adustion how it affecteth vs with diuerspassions BEsides the former kindes there are sortes of vnnaturall melancholie which I call so rather then the other bicause the other offendeth onely in qualitie or quantitie these are of another nature farre disagreeing from the other by an vnproper speech called melancholy They rise of the naturall humors or their excrements by excessiue disteÌ„per of heate burned as it were into ashes in comparison of humour by which the humour of like nature being mixed turneth it into a sharp lye sanguine cholericke or melancholicke according to the humour thus burned which we call by name of melancholie This sort raiseth the greatest tempest of perturbatioÌ„s and most of all destroyeth the braine with all his faculties and disposition of action and maketh both it the hart cheere more vncomfortably and if it rise of the naturall melancholy beyond all likelihood of truth frame monst ous terrors of feare and heauinesse without cause If it rise of choler then rage playeth her part and furie ioyned with madnesse putteth all out of frame If bloud minister matter to this fire euery serious thing for a time is turned into a iest tragedies into comedies and lamentation into gigges and daunces thus the passion whereof the humour min streth occasion by this vnkindly heate aduaunceth it selfe into greater extremities For becomming more subtile by heate both in substance spirit it passeth more deeply into all the parts of the instrument it selfe and is a conueyance also to the humour of the same kind making away for naturall melancholie wherewith it is mixed into the verie inward secrets of those instruments wherof passions are affected euen hart and braine Thus affected you haue men when desperate furie is ioyned with feare which so terrifieth that to auoid the terrour they attempt sometimes to depriue theÌ„ selues of life so irksome it is vnto them through these tragicall conceits although waighing and considering death by it self without comparison and force of the passion none more feare it theÌ„ they These most seeke to auoyde the society of men and betake them to wildernesses and deserts finding matter of feare in euery thing they behold and best at ease when alone they may digest these fancies without new prouocations which they apprehende in humane societie If choller haue yeelded matter to this sharpe kind of melnncholie then rage reuenge and furie possesse both hart and head and the whole bodie is caried with that storme contrarie to persuasion of reason which hath no farther power ouer these affections then by way of counsell to giue other direction whereof the hart it selfe is destitute and taking these discomfortes of the credit of the senses according thereto it applieth it selfe working and disposing the ingenerate wisedome it is indued with vnto these particulars which the corporall instruments corruptly offer vnto it which ministreth doubt and question to some not well aduised in this point whether reason it selfe be not impaired by these corporall alterations and the immortall impatible mind hereby suffreth not violeÌ„ce which is farre otherwise if we duly way the matter For the mad man of what kinde soeuer he be of as truly concludeth of that which fantasie ministreth of conceit as the wisest onely therein lieth the abuse and defect that the organicall parts which are ordained embassadours notaries vnto the mind in these cases falsifie the report and deliuer corrupt recordes This is to be helped as it shall be declared more at large hereafter by counsell only sincerely ministred which is free from the corruptions of those officers and deliuereth truth vnto the mind wherby it putteth in practise contrary to these importunate and furious sollicitors This furie is bred because choler thus adust getteth a greater egernesse of qualitie and molesting the inward parts and toyling the spirits ingendreth a greater inwarde disquiet and discontentment then cruder choler doth procure The third sort is of merie melaÌ„cholie which riseth of the bloud ouer heated in such sort as I haue declared Of all the rest of humours bloud is most temperat and mild of disposition and comforteth the bodie as hath bene mentioned whose substaunce receauing that burning heat whereof riseth the third kind of this vnnaturall melancholie procureth it to be of a nature quicke and fresh and indueth it with a spirite of a nature somewhat more itching and as it were of a tickling qualitie then bloud it selfe For of it selfe being if it be pure and perfect nutsweete or milkesweete by this heate becommeth first suger or hony sweet which hath more force of affecting and obtayneth a more subtile and quicke spirit afterward by operation of heate this sweetnesse is conuerted into a mild saltnesse voyd of fretting which tickling and itching in these melancholicke bodies cause them rather to be giuen to a ridiculous and absurd meriment then a sound ioye of hart and comfortable gladnesse which forceth them into laughter somtimes that without ceasing to the tyring and wearying of their bodies no perswasion of reason is able to call them to more sobrietie We may see in boyling of milke what sweetnesse is procured vnto it thereby howe hony much boyled becometh salt bitter such is the force of heat in bloud that it turneth that milke sweet tast into hony sweet and that into a gentle itching brackishnes whereby the melancholicke bodies being as it were tickled render from their foolish fantasie and false liking of the hart many absurd and ridiculous gestures and speeches and as farre altered this way as the melancholick on the other side snatch at smal occasions or none at all ofttimes of answering this fond humor in outward lightnesse of gesture countenance Thus you heare in what sort the humoures seeme to affect the mind euerie one singled and keeping apart from his other fellowe humours which as they be tempered with the other naturall or compounded together with one or twaine of the like vnnaturall sortes of melancholie make many distinctions and differences of melancholie passions as some more sadde the other some more merie some quieter other some more prone to rage and furie and as the humors haue their courses as for the yeare bloud in the spring choller in sommer melancholie in autumne fleume in winter for the houre according to Soranus Ephesius opinion bloud from three of the clocke in the morning till nine of the same day choler from nine of the morning till three at after noone melancholie froÌ„ 3. at after noone till nine at night and fleume from nine at night til the third of the morning I say if a man obserue all these varieties by mixture and season

they the hart and midriffe too much and cause a sorenesse about those partes especially about the hart spoone which is most trauelled in sobbing and whereto the midriffe is fastened Thus much concerning those actions which are animall and ly in our power some absolutely and some after a sort to do or not to do altered by passion of sorowe and falling into melancholie persons it resteth to shewe howe melancholie procureth this laughing and weeping and so to proceede to those naturall actions which are altred by this humour with the reason of such effects CHAP. XXVIII Howe melancholie causeth both weeping and laughing and the reasons how IT hath bene before declared how melancholy causeth feare and sorowe of hart by false imagination raised through fearefull vapours rising to the braine and passing by the hart euen before the imagination be moued causeth a contraction thereof which is the action of feare this feare breedeth sorowe the sorow and feare accompanying ech other make such contractioÌ„ as before hath bene sayde to be cause of teares the matter being partly supplied by the ordinary excrements of the braine and partly through those vapours which arise from the hart ouercharged with concourse of humours which are retracted by the spirites who vpon matter of discontentment hast vnto the place of defence and assemble together flying the irksome obiect and addressing them selues as it were to make resistance The partes about the eyes being porous and rare the braine moyst and the partie apt to weepe vpon this melancholie disposition springeth that issue of teares out of melancholicke eyes and these I suppose to be the causes why melancholicke persons without anie outward occasion fall into weeping and lamentation Why they laugh and that excessiuely the cause is of more difficultie to finde out and the reason not so manifest whereof as I am ledde by coniecture and probabilities I will deliuer you mine opinion You may remember how the midriffe next vnto the hart is the chiefe cause of laughter so that of necessitie one of these must be affected in that action The heart is alwayes affected in true laughter and not alwayes in a fained kind which is only a shaking of the chest and retraction of the lippes without the liuely and chearfull eye fraught with the ioyfull spirites which replenish the merie countenaunce This kinde is that which melancholicke persons without obiect breake out into except the melancholie rise of adustion of bloud and become blacke choller which affecteth also the heart with a faigned conceit of merinesse euen as wine giueth it comfort and stirreth the spirits to that liuelines cheare wherof euery one hath experience Nowe then for the better laying open this melancholick action we are to distinguish of laughter wherof there be two sorts the one is true and vnfaigned rising from a comfort and reioycing of the hart and the other a counterfet and false wherein the heart receaueth no contentment but either it selfe or the midriffe moued dissorderly with shaking by anie annoyance and moueth also the chest and muscles of the iawes and checkes by consent of nerues and so counterfetting a laughinge gesture wherein the heart taketh no pleasure The former kinde may rise of inward cause as well as outward when the vapour of adust melancholie of bloud or rather when it first taketh that heate perfumeth the heart with a pure cleare fume whereat it is allured to ioye and cheare which vapour and fume risinge of the most mildest and temperate humour before the full adustion be accomplished and mixed with the other humours and spirites breedeth that pleasaunt vaine which ouertaketh melancholicke persons which peraduenture otherwise not so delayed would turne the heart to annoyance This way melancholie carrying a winie and aromaticall spirit raised by that heat may procure an harty laughter not only dispose as wine doth the spirit thus raysed being more familiar theÌ„ that of wine so compelling as it were the hart to break forth into that actioÌ„ of reioycing The false kinde of laughter which proceedeth first from the midriffe most commonly is affected by melancholie through a tickling vapor or spirite which riseth froÌ„ the lower parts and stirreth the midriffe as they which are wouÌ„ded in the chest and vpon dressing are there about touched do plainly perceaue to moue shake and retract it selfe whose motion the chest followeth and to force out a count erfet manner of laughter whereof the hart hath no part nor countenance sauing the girning of the mouth which is here but small maketh anie pleasant shew This accident pertaineth chieflie to that melancholie which resteth about the splene the mesaraicke vaines and port vayne of the liuer which breatheth an itching and tickling breath whereof the midriffe takinge the sence shaketh moueth with indeuour to shun the vnwelcome ghest and to auoyde the touch thereof Now that being once moued the other instruments of laughter aunswere with like motion and all agree in this counterfet gesture which in appearance seemeth like the pleasaunt looke of a light and merily disposed hart This accident of laughter for the most part is wheÌ„ the melancholy passion beginneth or anon after before the bloud getteth a farther egernesse and those iolie spirites be wasted which after they once be spent the heat either outragious or delayed or distinguished by vnaptnes of matter theÌ„ is the comedy turned into tragedy pleasantnes into fury in the end mirth into mourning much like as it fareth with such as intemperatly take in their cups are ouer surfeted with wine or strong drink these of them that are of nature cold and dry of this melancholie complexion voyd of adustion at the first cup receaue a maruelous cheering about the hart the drinesse and coldnesse of their inward parts being soked and steeped as it were like dry leather in oyle if they proceed farther the former modestie anon altereth it selfe into the contrarie extremitie of chat and excessiue babling the spirit of the wine ouerruling the spirit of their natural complexion yet a litle more sipping and this melancholy receaueth such heat as rage and furie entreth possession of hart and braine and as he had taken a draught of Circes cup he fareth in respect of maners behauiour as though he were turned into a wild beast In the end with farther carouses of excesse the wine for the while quite dispos sessing the spirits of their regiment office and quenching as it were the one heate delaying the naturall heat of his body with immoderate quaÌ„tity the mirth chere the pleasant talk the rage furie giue place in steed of that iolitie succedeth silence stupiditie sleep sottishnesse So in melaÌ„cholie while that drie subtile spirit is supplied with conuenieÌ„t matter is lightned in the melancholick part all is on the hoigh for a time which being consumed by heat the store therof being but small in respect of the grosse resideÌ„ce the melancholick

person becometh afterward sad heauy vncherful Thus you perceiue I think sufficiently how melancholick persons some laugh some weepe in the same melancholicke what causeth mirth what teares Before I proceede to the naturall actions chaunged and depraued by melancholy I cannot passe ouer an action which is verie vsuall to melancholicke folke and that is blushing with shunning of the looke and countenaunce of men which the Grecians call Dysopia and because it requireth a larger discourse then the ende of this Chapter will suffer I will treate of them in the next CHAP. XXIX The causes of blushing and bashfulnesse and why melancholicke persons are giuen thereunto THE affection that moueth blushinge is shame howsoeuer it riseth either vppon false conceit or deserued cause Shame is an affection of griefe mixed with anger against our selues rising of the conscience of some knowne or supposed to be knowne offence either in doing that which ought not to be done or omitting that which was requisite of vs to be done This description I will vnfold vnto you more at large that in shame euery one is grieued experience maketh plaine besides reason leadeth thereunto Euerie passion of the heart is with ioye or with griefe either sincere and simple or mixed as in ridiculous occasions in shame there is no absolute ioye nor comfort therefore there must needs be a displeasantnesse or else a mixt disposition of sorowe and cheare this there is not by reason shame casteth downe the countenance filleth the eye with sorow and as much as may be withdraweth the liuely and comfortable spirit into the center of the bodie not vnlike vnto feare and sadnesse It appeareth mixed with anger by reason euerie one feeleth a kinde of indignation within him selfe and offereth as it were a vehement inablinge of him selfe for the offence wee are angrie with our selues because the fault is ours and from vs riseth the cause of griefe as in absolute anger the cause is from other and vpon others we seeke the reuenge Where there is no conscience there can not be any sense of fault for that it is which layeth our actions to the rule and concludeth them good or bad so although the fault be committed in deede and yet no conscience made thereof it is taken for no offence neither can giue cause of this internall grief reuengement To these clauses I ad an offence knowne or so supposed for otherwise though a man be grieued and sorie therefore yet before it be knowne to others is he not ashamed This causeth that men make no doubt of doing that in secret which for shame they would not do openly yea in such thinges as of them selues are not dishonest nor disalowable Moreouer it riseth vpon offence committed in that thing which lay in our power as we tooke it to remedie or better to haue discharged our selues in doing or omitting Therefore no man is ashamed of an ague or of the goute or to haue broken his legges or anie such occasion as to haue bene spoyled or to die c. but onely in those thinges wherein we take our selues to haue our part and to rise vpon our owne default so are we both ashamed of the action and of all tokens thereof Nowe seing that all offence is neither in doing amisse or neglecting that should be done in either of both consisteth matter of shame The description of shame thus being declared I proceede to shewe howe it forceth rednesse into the eares and cheekes and causeth vs neither to beare other mens countenaunces and lookes nor with courage and boldnesse to beare vp our owne The griefe that nature conceaueth from our selues is not so straunge as that which is foraine and outward but farre more familiar and thence therefore in all partes more known Moreouer the cause is more transitorie and fading especially if the offence be small and of no great note Againe the griefe is not for anie depriuation of that whereof the vse is so necessarie as losse of friendes goodes perill pouertie do all import nor of anie singular pleasure wherein nature or will tooke their chiefe contentment These qualities of shame ioyned with anger procureth that rednesse in the face which we call blushing The tincture of redde ariseth on this sort the heart discontented with the opennesse of the offence maketh a retraction of bloud and spirit at the first as in feare and griefe and because it feeleth no greater hurt then of laughter or rebuke of worde or such like touch seeketh no farther escape then a small withdrawing of the spirite and bloud by the first entrance of the perturbation so that the necessitie being no more vrgent the bloud and spirit breake forth againe more vehemently and fill the partes about the face more then before and causeth the rednesse This is helped forwarde with that anger which is mixed with shame which forceth in some sorte these retracted spirites and bloud to reflowe with more strength as we see the bloud soone vp of a cholericke person The passion is not so vehement to close vp the spirits and to retaine anie longer time for the cause before alledged and although it were yet would the anger and inwarde reuengement make way to the bloud and spirites to geue that shamefast colour Thus you vnderstand what maner of perturbation causeth blushing what it is and how it breedeth the staine but you wil peraduenture say why do not all that are ashamed blush and why some more then other some This I suppose to be cause in blushing these pointes are to be considered for answer of this question the qualitie of the bloud and spirit the passage nature or substaÌ„ce of the face which receiueth this reflux If the blud be grosse and thicke and the passages not so free then is the course of bloud slow the couÌ„tenance little altered If the skin be ouer thick or ouer rare theÌ„ doth it not admit throgh the thicknes of the spirites or at the least maketh not that shew nor retaineth them through the rarenes and thinnes and by exoperation make no apparaunce of rednes this is the cause why many ashamed be not so ready to blush Besides this disposition of spirite humour and substance of the face the measure of the shame more or lesse helpeth and hindereth blushing For some there are affected more vehemently and othersome moderately othersome not a whit who blush not because they are not at all ashamed By that hath bin declared you may gather why the yonger sort and women easily blush euen through rarenes of their body and spirites ioyned with simplicitie which causeth doubt of offence and this is the cause why we commend blushers because it declareth a tender heart and easily moued with remorse of that which is done amisse a feare to offend and a care least it should coÌ„mit ought worthy of blame Furthermore it sheweth a conscience quicke and tender and an vpright sentence of the minde agreable to this

ingrauen maximes of good and euill and thus much shall suffice you for blushing As for the shunning of mens countenances and bashfulnes either in beholding or being beheld it riseth vpon a giltines in conceite or in effect in that we feare is knowen to others wherein we haue offended or stand in doubt we shall offend This conceit causeth vs to hide our selues and to withdraw our presence from the society of meÌ„ whom we feare doe view our faultes in beholding vs and wherof our presence stirreth vp the remembraunce Wherefore we being desirous to couer and hyde our offence seeke also to be hiddeÌ„ and couered who haue deserued the blame especially from such of whome we haue greatest reuerence and of whose estimation and censure we stand most in awe of Now because the vewing of another causeth the like from him againe therfore doth the guilty minde abstaine ther from that it prouoke not the eye of another whome he doth behold especially if the other party looke vpoÌ„ him againe then is he presently outcountenanced through the guiltie conceite and ielousie of the crime which he suspect to be reueiled Moreouer the countenance being as it were the grauen character of the mind the guilty person feareth least that be red in his forehead whereof he is guilty in his heart which augmenteth the griefe when he seeth himselfe eyed more then by turning aside his owne countenance when he beholdeth it not Thus much touching the former bashfull actions whether they rise vpon cause or opinion only it remaineth of this chapter to shew how melancholicke persons are much subiect to both though they haue committed nothing deseruing rebuke or worthy of shame That which befalleth youth by their tender age in blushing the same in a manner happeneth to melancholicke persons by their complexion youth and children if they come in place of reuerend persons will easily blush not of any fault committed but of reuerence to the parties nature as it were secretly in respect condemning her imperfections in that age whereof the presence of both maketh a kinde of comparison Moreouer the nature carefull of that which is seemely and decent not acquainted with such presence doubteth of error and vncomelinesse and distrusting it selfe blusheth as if offence had bene committed This is the cause why the yong take occasion sooner then the aged and why reuerend and vnacquainted presence causeth this passion They which are of mo yeares by reason of experience and further knowledge which breedeth an assurance more hardly blush and familiarity and custome maketh greater boldnes Euen so the melancholick person through his internall mislike and cause of discouragement hath litle assurance or contentment in his actions whatsoeuer Whereby without cause he easily groweth into a conceite of some absurdity committed where none is this causeth him to blush and to expresse by outward rednes of colour the internall passion especially this befalleth him if he carrie any conscience of former vice committed then doth that ouercharge and set all out of order chiefely if it mingle the passion with feare and the quality of the blood and spirite largenes of poores and disposition of the skinne in the face aunswere thereunto But how will you say can the melancholy person haue his spirite and blood so disposed which I haue declared to be grosse and thicke and the passages of their bodies not free Trueth it is that all melancholicke persons are not so disposed to this action of blushing by reason they are of blood spirite and body vnapt thereunto but certaine only who haue melancholy not equally disposed but resteth vnder the ribbes anoieth chiefly with his vapour and who are such not from their parents but by some accident of diet or euill custome which notwithstanding retaine as yet the same disposition of their firme partes they had before or haue some other humour of thinner substaÌ„ce wherby their blood is not so dull of ebbing flowing these I take to be the melancholick blushers only and the rest in all respects farre remoued there from whose swartnes of the skinne with other impediments both hindereth the recourse of the blood and if they did blush ouershadoweth the colour The same cause which stirreth blushing in melancholicke men forceth them to auoide assemblies and publike theaters and this is common to all melancholickes howsoeuer they be tempered in their bodies euen the opinion and fancy of some disgrace from others who are greatly displeased with themselues and by their erronious conceite preuent the sentence of others vpon themselues and condemne that vniustly which ducly wayed and without passion hath no desert of blame Thus much for these actions of blushing and bashfullnes CHAP. XXX Of the naturall actions altered by melancholy HItherto you haue had declared the alteration of such actions as lie in our power are for the most part arbitrarie it followeth to shew vnto you the rest which are natural are not at our becke but are performed by a certaine instinct of nature wil we nil we These actioÌ„s are of appetite or of nourishmeÌ„t the actioÌ„s of appetite are of meate and drinke or of procreation Touching appetite of meate melancholy persons haue it for the most part exceeding and farre surpassing their digesture The cause why it is through an aboundance of melancholy which easily passeth from the splene the sincke of that humour to the stomach whose sowernes prouoketh an appetite of nourishment to delay that sharpnes which molesteth the mouth thereof that you may with more facility conceiue this pointe marke what I shall say of the splene the stomach and the passage of that humour thereinto The splene lieth vnder the short ribbes on the left side of the stomach backward and is ordained to purge the blood of melaÌ„cholick iuice which it draweth vnto it self by meane of vaines and being satisfied with some parte wherewith it is nourished the remnaunte sower of taste and as a naturall sawce it belcheth as it were into the stomach whose sharpnes causeth a kinde of griefe and knawing therein especially about the entrance which is most sensible so prouoketh the appetite of nourishment by whose sweete and familiar iuice the sharpnes or sowernes of the other is dulled and tempered so the byting eased Besides this sence which the quallity of melancholy offereth to the stomach it according to the nature of all thinges of that taste bindeth and contracteth the stomach which may also be another cause of the encrease of that paine which inforceth to seek after nourishment Thus then the stomach being subiect vnto the splenetick humour as it exceedeth or is more sowre so doth this appetite more increase Now in persons melancholicke the superfluity of this humor is in great aboundance which thereby the more forceth the appetite and this I take to be one cause of that greedy hunger which is more insatiable in melancholicke men then in others To this may be added the desire that nature hath to seeke

fancy ouertaken with gastly sumes of melaÌ„choly and the whole force of the spirite closed vp in the dungion of melancholy darkenes imagineth all darke blacke and full of feare their heartes are either ouertender and rare so easily admitte the passion or ouer closse of nature serue more easily to imprison the chearefull spirites the causes of comforte to the rest of the bodie whereby they are not in one respect only fainte harted and full of discourage but euerie smal occasion yea though none be they are driuen with tide of that humour to feare eueÌ„ in the middest of security Here it first proceedeth froÌ„ the mindes apprehension there from the humour which deluding the organicall actions abuseth the minde and draweth it into erronious iudgement through false testimony of the outward reporte Here no medicine no purgation no cordiall no tryacle or balme are able to assure the afflicted soule and trembling heart now painting vnder the terrors of God there in melancholy the vayne opened neesing powder or bearefoote ministred cordialls of pearle Saphires and rubies with such like recomforte the heart throwne downe appaled with faÌ„tasticall feare In this affliction the perill is not of body and corporall actions or decay of seruile and temporall vses but of the whole nature soule and body cut of from the life of God and from the sweet influence of his fauour the fountaine of all happines and eternall felicity Finally if they be diligeÌ„tly coÌ„pared in cause in effect in quality in whatsoeuer respect these vnreuerent and prophane persons list to match them they shall appeare of diuerse nature neuer to be be coupled in one felowship as more particularly shal be shewed hereafter The cause here is the seuerity of Gods iudgement summoning the guilty conscieÌ„ce the subiect is the sinnefull soule apprehending the terror thereof which is not momentary or for a season but for euer and euer the issue of this affliction is eternall punishment satisfactory to the iustice of the eternall God which is endlesse and whose seuerity admitteth no mediation neither that extended to one ioynte sinue or vaine but to all neither that of the body only but of the soule whose nature as it is impatible of all other thinges and of all other thinges in greatest peace assurance and tranquillitye so once shaken by the terrours of Gods wrath and blasted with that whirlewinde of his displeasure falleth and with it driueth the whole frame of our nature into extreame miserie and vtter confusion so farre they are abused who iudge these cases as naturall and such is the calamity of those whom the prophane ones of this world propound vnto themselues as matter of scoffe and derision laboring by al meanes to benumme the sense of that stinge which sinne euer carrieth in the tayle what pretence so euer it sheweth of right profit or pleasure in face of outward appearance to delude the foole simple in his wayes skillfull to do euill sottish in the pathes of righteousnes and vtterly ignorant of her rule and wherein nature giueth some sparke of light more distinctly to discerne euen there with corruption of affection like to stubburne vnbroaken horse shaketh of reason dispiseth her manage and layeth the noble ryder in the dust In respect of you my deare M. I know this discourse were superfluous who standeth in neede of salue to the sore and beareth not the least touch of this gale but because my purpose in this labour is not only to informe and to comforte you but also for the instruction of others beare with this and passe it ouer as not belonging vnto you but to the foole of whome Solomon speaketh that followeth wickednes like an Oxe that goeth to the slaughter and as a foole to the stockes for correction and as a bird hasteth to the snare not knowing that he is in dauÌ„ger Touching your particular estate that you may iudge thereof more sincerely you are to esteeme of it as mixed of the melancholick humour and that terror of God which as it is vpon the wicked an entrance into their eternall destructioÌ„ so vnto you it is as I shall hereafter at large make proofe a fatherly frowning only for a time to correct that which in you is to be reformed and an admonition of farther circumspection in your wayes and course of life hereafter For the first pointe you may remember your swolne splene with windnes and hardenes vnder the left ribbes the hemeroydes not flowing according to their vsuall manner the blacknes and grossenes of that blood which hath ben taken from you vpon occasion your dreames ordinarily fearefull your solitarines and exceeding sadnes with almost all kinde of accidentes which accompanie melancholy For the other part whereof most you complaine the manner leadeth me to iudge thereof otherwise then naturall both because such is indeede the feare terror of God sent vpon man and no effect of any creature or cause besides as also because the obiect or mouing cause is in reason and cleare vnderstanding voide of all abuse of fancy such as of necessity inforceth these lamentable effects which your soule feeleth desireth the release of vpon you the crosse falleth more heauily in so much as you are vnder the disaduantage of the melancholicke complexion whose opportunity Sathan embraceth to vrge all terror against you to the fall But remember that he who hath redeemed vs passed vnder these feares hath sanctified them to his redeemed and according to his example who was heard in that which he feared when in the dayes of his flesh he did offer vp prayers and supplications with stroÌ„g crying and teares vnto him that was able to saue him from death so follow him in hope and patience who hath obtained the victory not for him selfe onely but for all such as in like temptation depend vpon him To the end my labour may giue you a more perfect direction in this heauy case what is naturall and what is according to the good pleasure of God in the other distresse aboue nature I will make particular distinction of both in the Chapter following to your clearer vnderstanding CHAP. XXXIIII The particular difference betwixt melancholy the distressed conscience in the same person VVHatsoeuer molestation riseth directly as a proper obiect of the mind that in that respect is not melancholicke but hath a farther ground then fancie and riseth from conscience condemning the guiltie soule of those ingrauen lawes of nature which no man is voide of be he neuer so laborous This is it that hath caused the prophane poÃ«ts to haue fained Hecates Eumenides and the infernall furies which although they be but fained persons yet the matter which is shewed vnder their maske is serious true and of wofull experience This taketh nothing of the body nor intermedleth with humour but giueth a direct wounde with those firie dartes which men so afflicted make their mone of Of this kinde Saule was possessed to whom the Lord sent an

what was the tryall God blessed the last dayes of Iob more theÌ„ the first euen so though the present afflictioÌ„ be grieuous vnto you and all hope faile in respect of your feeling yet the Lord when he hath proued you and found you his pure and sincere beloued sonne the like issue are you assured of with comforte in this life and eternall saluation in the life to come Thus leauing a more plentifull consolation vnto your godly friendes who dayly frequent you especially such as are preachers of the word and ministers of Gods grace I proceed to instruct you in that I iudge your body staÌ„deth in neede of that howsoeuer hability faile in performaÌ„ce of the offices of friendships on my part towards you my sincere affection and vnfayned loue vnto you may be at the least testified by my endeuour wherein if I be tedious partly it is of forgetfulnes of that consideration being ouercaried with desire to benefite you and partly bicause in your case I also comprehend the estate of many one at this day in like sort affected and afflicted who if they receiue any meanes of coÌ„forte by this my trauaile they may be more beholding vnto my frieÌ„d M. pray for his release Thus my good M. you haue the testimonie of my good will in this part of counsell I confesse I am not so meet for it as your case requireth but so haue I discharged that office wherto the dutie of friendship bindeth me If my presence may supply the defect I will not faile you wherin anie part of mine abilitie may serue your waÌ„ts I will nowe proceede to the cure of your bodie whose disorder increaseth your heauinesse and ioyneth hand with this kind of temptation CHAP. XXXVII The cure of melancholy and howe melancholicke persons are to order them selues in actions of the mind sense and motion AS the ordinarie cure of all diseases helps of infirmities are to be begun with remouing of such causes as first procured the infirmitie except they be remoued of them selues through their nature neither stable nor permanent by succession of a contrarie cause of the same kinde euen so the first entry of restoring the melancholicke braine and heart to a better state of conceit and cheere is the remouing of such causes as first disturbed iudgement and affection or are therto apt with inducing of causes of contrarie operation The causes of all diseases are either breach of dutie and some errour coÌ„mitted in the gouernment of our health or such accidentes as befall vs in this life against our wills and vnlooked for From the same also do arise the workes of melancholie whereof I intreate and you desire to be released Our diet consisteth not onely as it is commonly taken in meate and drinke but in whatsoeuer exercises of mind or bodie whether they be studies of the braine or affections of the hart or whether they be labours of the bodies or exercises only Besides vnto diet house habitation and apparel do belong which are causes of maintenance or ouerthrowe of health as they be affected To these also the order of rest and sleepe is to be added as a great meanes taken in due time and in conuenient moderation to preserue health or to cause sicknesse if otherwise it be taken immoderately too scant or disorderly Of the labours of the mind studies haue great force to procure melancholie if they be vehement and of difficult matters and high misteries therfore chiefly they are to be auoyded the mind to be set free from all such trauel that the spirits which before were partly wasted might be restored and partly employed vpon hard discourses may be released to the comfort of the hart and thinning of the bloud Besides such actions approching nigh vnto or being the verie inorganicall of the soule cause the mind to neglect the bodie whereby easily it becmometh afterward vnapt for the action and the humours skanted of the sweet influence thereof and spirit setle into a melancholie thicknesse and congele into that cold and drie humour which rayseth these terrours and discouragements Wherfore aboue all abandon working of your braine by any studie or conceit and giue your mind to libertie of recreation from such actions that drawe too much of the spirit and therby wrong the corporall meÌ„bers of the bodie For in maintainance of health it is specially to be obserued that the employing of the parts either of mind or bodie with their spirite is to be carried with such indifferencie and discretion that the force which should be common to manie be not lauishly spent vpon any one Nowe studie of all actions both because it vseth litle help of the bodie in comparison of other and because the minde chieflie laboureth which draweth the whole bodie into sympathie wherby it is neglected as it were for a time and the most subtile purest spirits thereby are consumed is to be giuen ouer in the cure of this passion or if the affection can not be tempered wholly therefrom then such matter of studie is to be made choyse of as requireth no great contention but with a certaine mediocritie may vnbend that stresse of the minde through that ouer vehement action and withall carie a contentednesse thereto and ioy to the affection Nowe as all contention of the mind is to be intermitted so especially that whereto the melancholicke person most hath giuen him selfe before the passion is chieflie to be eschued for the recouerie of former estate and restoring the depraued conceit and fearefull affection For there if the affection of liking go withall both hart and braine do ouer prodigally spend their spirits and with them the subtilest partes of the naturall iuyce and humours of the bodie If of mislike and the thing be by forcible constraint layd on the distracting of the mind from the promptnes of the affection breedeth such an agonie in our nature that thereon riseth also great expeence of spirit and of the most rare and subtile humours of our bodies which are as it were the seate of our naturall heate the refiner of all our humours and the purifier of our spirites As that kind of studie wherein the melancholicke hath spent him selfe is to be auoyded or intermitted and one of a milder and softer kinde to be inferred in place thereof so much lesse anie straunge studie of difficultie and much trauell of the braine is to be taken in hand as it were to turne the minde into a contrarie bent For herein the straungenesse besides difficultie giueth cause of trauaile and toile vnto our nature so that both these extremities are to be eschued of you as most daungerous and hurtfull and the mind to be retired to such a tranquillitie as the naturall heate and spirits may haue free scope to attend vppon the corporall actions of preparing the bloud and thinning of the grosse iuice into a moderate substance as is according to good disposition of the bodie In studie I comprehend although

feele of discontentment This emptying of stoole vomit is so often to be repeated by such distaÌ„ce of time as need requireth the strength of the melancholick will beare and the humor admitteth of preparation especially the spring fall craue this emptying at large CHAP. XLI The maner of strengthning melaÌ„cholick persons after purging with correction of some of their accidents BEtwixt the spaces of purging regard is alwayes to be had of strengthening the stomach liuer and splene with some ointment and fomentatioÌ„ outwardly of a moderate astrictiue vertue and some inward medicine compounded of such simples as are accompted familiar and simpatheticall to those partes as of inward thinges to the stomach mintes betony wormewood suger roses maslites galaÌ„ga mace cloues cinnamon amber ginger c of which potions powders and electuaries would be made and vsed for the stomach Of the same matter fomentations would also be made especially of Cammomill roses wormewood and agrimony Of compoundes conserue of wormewood of sage flowers of Enula campana of mintes are singuler comforters of the stomach and bowels the same vertue haue greene walenuts preserued embliske myrobolans and greene ginger lozeÌ„ges of Aromaticum rosatum Dianisi The ointementes are to be made of red roses corrall masticke mintes cloues cinnamon gumme aloes with oyle of wormewood masticke quinces c and here the emplaister of a crust of bread described of montagnana greatly strengtheneth the stomake as also the stomach plaister of mesue For the liuer these are meetest strengtheners liuerwoorte maiden heare agrimony fumitory hoppes asparagus wormewood horehound germander saunders yuorie roses raysinges runcus odoratus Calamus aromaticus c of which stuffe potions powders electuaries are to be receiued inwardly and fomentations oyles ointments and plaisters to be applied outwardly Of compoundes conserue of fumitory conserue of wormewood conserue of maiden heare Dialacca Diacurcuma Diacostum open obstructions and leaue a strengthening vertue in the part of the splene hoppes doddar ceteracoke heath caper barkes tamariske acorus gumme lacca centaurie be peculiar comforters Of inward compoundes diacosthum diacalamentum diacappairis conserue of ceterach Of outward meanes oyle of capers oyle of spike and oyle of lillies compounded with maslich cloues cinnamon saffrone coftus and Calamus aromaticus are openers and comforters of the splene and of oyntmentes martiatum magnum of plaisters Diaphenicon c. These wholesome medicines after the purges haue satisfied the phisicians intention would be vsed and much applied both in respect of the parties disposition through the melancholicke humor and also by reason these doe sustaine the greatest force of purgations and preparations afore said and whose natures are easily dissolued and alwayes require a strengthening simple mixt with the rest though they be of contrary operation In the meane while of this preparation and purging both in respect of the fancy of the brayne and affection of the hearte and the complexion of both put out of frame by the humour these two are chiefely to be respected with cordialls and medicines appropriate Cordiall simplesare these borrage buglosse the iuice of pippins and parmaines balme Carduus benedictus scabions basill seede vincois horad beasar stone yuorie pearle saphyre iacint corall amber limon and citron pile cinnamon cloues wine suffran angellica marygooldes with a number of like nature the great prouidence of God being such that this noble part of the hearte hath moe helpes and comforts peculiar thereunto then any parte of our body besides The compoundes vsuall are these conserue of borrage and buglosse flowers of oraÌ„ge flowers of gilly flowers and carnations diamagaritoÌ„ calidum the electuary of pretious stones letificans Galeni mithridate dianthos c. Of the decoction of which hearbs afore mentioned epithemes may be made and quilts of the powder of them besprinckled with malmsey vineger Which forme of outward medicine made of simples agreeable to the stomach is good thereto also to be applied whose mouth doth greatly agree with the hearte and easily driueth into passion As the hearts affection is to be corrected by amending the instrumeÌ„t so the braines conceite requireth no lesse regard for which these medicines following are yeelded to our coÌ„fort sage betony sweet mariorume rosemary chaÌ„momil mirtle rue peony spite storax benoyne cloues muske amber greece Of compoundes coÌ„serue of rosemary flowers of acorns of betony of stechas sage peony and primerose Dambra Diamoschum dulce and amarum Neither is the braine and heart only cheered coÌ„forted by the inward receiuing of these simples only but whatsoeuer of them is of pleasant and fragraunt smell that agreeth with ech giueth recreation and increase to the spirits of both So that sweete smels are both in respect of hearte and braine most comfortable to the melancholicks Thus the melaÌ„cholick body dieted prepared purged strengthened what is there more to be done of naturall meanes only this After all this course taken and diligently obserued so long as it shall seeme expedieÌ„t and necessary to the learned phisiciaÌ„ for the health of this melaÌ„cholick patient among whome I accompt you the subiect of this my couÌ„sell nature must haue a time and respit giuen to try her owne streÌ„gth according to the counsell of Ruphus and not to be tiered with medicine the diet notwithstaÌ„ding being kept diligently which hath bin prescribed and all kinde of honest exercise and recreation practised procured If the melaÌ„choly be adust which it is not in you then breedeth it a kinde of fury and madnes and requireth a cooling perticular consideration whereof because it is very rare in respect of the other kinde entereth into the rancke of euident desease I minde not here to discourse being only willing thus far to satisfie your desire wherein your case such as are in like coÌ„ditioÌ„ with you require it If any accidentes befall you through this infirmity of hardnes of body you may vse the clister before mentioned without the purging medicines with three ownces of oyle and as much of hony or you may take an handefull of mallowes holylock violet leaues beete and fetherfew annise seedes or fennell seedes halfe an ounce beaten with an handfull of course where branne tied in a linneÌ„ cloth boyled in thinne whay to a pint of which being strained adde oyle and honie with halfe a spoonefull of salt and receiue it for a clister or drinke fasting a spoonefull or twayne of sweete sallet oyle in a draught of whaye or eate a quarter of an ownce of conserue of damaske roses with xxx graines of the purest salt peter and drinke it and especially let your broathes alwayes haue some soluble hearbes that may giue you that benefite as mallowes violettes mercurie aretch beetes and such like If your sleepe fayle you through vehemency of cogitation and feare let your hands and feete be washed with the decoction of dill chammomill lettice poppie mallowes and willowe leaues and annointe them with oyle of poppie seedes made by

attribute an action of so necessary vse as are the perturbations vnto that which is no organe of our bodies but only matter of foode and nourishment of which sort are all the humours keeping them selues within compasse of good temper Moreouer if through anger the hart be moued first then is it first troubled and the perturbations wrought before the humour receaue impression if the humor admit first the motion of the thing louely or hurtfull impart that to the heart then should it receiue a degree of excellencie aboue the hart in this respect being more attendant vpon the spirit the chiefe steward of this facultie then the hart is which next to the spirit hath greatest place in the bodie But why theÌ„ say you haue the Philosophers defined anger a boyling of the bloud about the hart if it be according to that definition then the more cholericke a man is so much the more angry is he because the choler is first apt to boyle as it were brimstone to the match in respect of the other humours That definition of anger is to be taken not by proper speech but by a metonymicall phrase whereby the cause is attributed to the effect For first the heart moueth kindled with anger then the bloud riseth which being cholericke encreaseth the heate but addeth nothing to the passion nowe because we sensibly feele an extraordinarie heate about our hearts when we be moued to angrie passions therefore they haue defined anger by that effect which boyling riseth not of the quality of the bloud but by a strife of a contrary motion in the heart at one time the one being a contraction of it selfe and a retraite of the bloud and certaine spirits not farre of with mislike of that offendeth as in feare which commandeth euen from the extreme and vtmost parts whereby it gathereth great heate within which breathing out againe with reuenge causeth through vehemency suddennesse of the motion that boyling of heat procured of anger especially if it be not deliuered by word and deede whereby liberty is giuen for the passion to breake foorth which restrained in any sort breedeth an agony of such feruency as it may resemble the scalding of a boyling chaldron not vncouered or an hote furnace closed vp in all vents Moreouer if perturbation should be caused of humour to whether should we attribute it to the naturall humor or to the excrement the excrement is far remoued froÌ„ the hart is not so ready to affect it a great distaÌ„ce being betwixt their seueral places in iauÌ„des the gal ouerflowing the body passing through the vaines staining all parts we see them not so affected more angry then at other times or their bodies being cleered from the tincture of yellownes If it be the naturall humor that is to say the subtilest part of the bloud alwayes contained in the hart whether you vnderstand that bloud which is comprehended in the two bosoms or that wherwith the hart is sustained nourished in euery part why is not theÌ„ the hart alwayes affected without intermission with such passions as the bloud enclineth vnto seeing it is alwayes present keepeth his disposition alike If you will haue it of neither but of that which is coÌ„tained in the great vain rushing with violence into the right side of the hart the quality of that bloud being of cooler temper theÌ„ that which the heart hath already embraced should serue to mitigate the mood rather then to adde mo stickes to the fire To conclude this point lest I should seeme to fight with a shadow if either humor or excrement should haue part in mouing affections no counsel of philosophy nor precept of wise men were comparable to calme these raging passions vnto the purging potions of Phisitians in this case the Elleborans of Anticera the Colocynthis of Spaine and the Rhubarb of AlexaÌ„dria aboue all the schools of Diuinitie or Philosophy The lesse I labour against these humors in the kinds of naturall perturbations or such as rise vpon occasion because I thinke the errour is sone remoued requireth no long reasoning The other sort which moue vs without cause or externall obiect either to sadnes anger feare or ioy because they seeme altogither to be effects of humors no other cause being apparent whereto to ascribe them I will more copiously debate this point in the Chapter following CHAP. XVI VVhether perturbatioÌ„s which are not moued by outward occasions rise of humours or not and how WE do see by experience certaine persons which enioy all the comfortes of this life whatsoeuer wealth can procure and whatsoeuer friendship offereth of kindnes and whatsoeuer security may assure them yet to be ouerwhelmed with heauines and dismaide with such feare as they can neither receiue consolation nor hope of assurance notwithstanding ther be neither matter of feare or discontentment nor yet cause of daunger but contrarily of great coÌ„fort and gratulation This passioÌ„ being not moued by any aduersity present or imminent is attributed to melancholie the grossest part of all the blood either while it is yet contained in the vaines or aboundeth in the splene ordained to purge the blood of that drosse and setling of the humours surcharged therwith for want of free uent by reason of obstruction or any wayes else the passage being let of cleare auoydance The rather it seemeth to be no lesse because purgation opening of a vayne diet and other order of cure and medicine as phisick prescribeth haue bene meanes of chaunging this disposition and mitigatioÌ„ of those sorowes and quieting of such feares as melancholie persons haue fancied to themselues haue as it seemeth restored both wit and courage Hitherto we haue bene led by reason of the obiection from humors which imported great power in them of affecting the minde It was answered before generally whatsoeuer was done in the body of any parte to be done organically and that was applied specially to certaine obiections before aunswered it remaineth here that the same be applyed also to our humours which haue no other power to affect the minde then to alter the state of the instrumentes which next to the minde soule it selfe are the only causes of all direct action in the body So here we are to consider in what sort the humours moue these perturbations aboue mentioned whether as cheefe workers instruments or other kinde of helpers and so how they may claime any interest in terrifying or soliciting the minde this way or that way as the obiections before mentioned would beare vs in hand It hath ben declared before how the mind is the sole mouer in the body and how the rest of the partes fare as instrumentes and ministers whereby in naturall affections the humors are secluded from cheefe doers and being no organicall partes serue for no instrumentes For whatsoeuer hath any constant and firme action in our bodies the state of health remayning firme is done either by soule or by the

fellowe members whereby we are in heauinesse sit comfortlesse feare distrust doubt dispaire and lament when no cause requireth it but rather a behauiour beseeminge a heart vppon iust cause and sound reason most comfortable and chearfull This doth melancholie work not otherwise then the former humours giuing occasion and false matter of these passions and not by any disposition as of instrument thereunto Of all the other humours melancholie is fullest of varietie of passion both according to the diuersitie of place where it setleth as brayne splene mesaraicke vaines hart womb and stomach as also through the diuerse kindes as naturall vnnaturall naturall either of the splene or of the vaines faultie only by excesse of quantitie or thicknesse of substance vnnaturall by corruption and that either of bloud adust choler or melancholie naturall by excessiue distemper of heate turned in comparison of the naturall into a sharpe lye by force of adustion These diuerse sorts hauing diuerse matter cause mo straunge symptomes of fancie and affection to melancholike persons then their humour to such as are sanguine cholericke or flegmaticke which fleume of all the rest serueth least to stir vp any affection but breeding rather a kind of stupiditie and an impassionate hart then easily moued to embrace or refuse to sorowe or ioye anger or contentednesse except it be a salte fleume theÌ„ approcheth it to the natur of choler in like sort therof riseth anger frowardnes CHAP. XVII How melancholy procureth feare sadnes dispaire and such other passions NOw let vs consider what passions they are that melancholy driueth vs vnto and the reason how it doth so diuersly distract those that are oppressed therewith The perturbations of melancholy are for the most parte sadde and fearefull and such as rise of them as distrust doubt diffidence or dispaire sometimes furious and sometimes merry in apparaunce through a kinde of SardoniaÌ„ and false laughter as the humour is disposed that procureth these diuersities Those which are sad and pensiue rise of that melancholick humour which is the grossest part of the blood whether it be iuice or excrement not passing the naturall temper in heat whereof it partaketh and is called cold in comparison onely This for the most part is setled in the spleane and with his vapours anoyeth the harte and passing vp to the brayne counterfetteth terible obiectes to the fantasie and polluting both the substance and spirits of the brayne causeth it without externall occasioÌ„ to forge monstrous fictions and terrible to the conceite which the iudgement taking as they are presented by the disordered instrument deliuer ouer to the hart which hath no iudgement of discretion in it self but giuing credite to the mistaken report of the braine breaketh out into that inordinate passion against reason This commeth to passe because the instrument of discretion is depraued by these melancholick spirites and a darknes cloudes of melancholievapours rising from that pudle of the splene obscure the clearenes which our spirites are endued with and is requisite to the due discretion of outward obiectes This at the first is not so extreame neither doth it shew so apparauntly as in processe of time when the substance of the brayne hath plentifully drunke of that spleneticke fogge whereby his nature is become of the same quality and the pure and bright spirites so defiled and eclipsed that their indifferency alike to all sensible thinges is now drawen to a partiality and inclination as by melancholy they are inforced For where that naturall and internall light is darkened their fansies arise vayne false and voide of ground euen as in the externall sensible darkenes a false illusion will appeare vnto our imagination which the light being brought in is discerned to be an abuse of fancie now the internall darknes affecting more nigh by our nature then the outward is cause of greater feares and more molesteth vs with terror then that which taketh from vs the sight of sensible thinges especially arising not of absence of light only but by a presence of a substantiall obscurity which is possessed with an actuall power of operation this taking hold of the brayne by processe of time giueth it an habite of depraued conceite whereby it fancieth not according to truth but as the nature of that humour leadeth it altogether gastely and fearefull This causeth not only phantasticall apparitions wrought hy appreheÌ„sion only of common sense but fantasie an other parte of internall sense compoundeth and forgeth disguised shapes which giue great terror vnto the heart and cause it with the liuely spirit to hide it selfe as well as it can by contraction in all partes from those counterfet goblins which the brayne dispossessed of right discerning fayneth vnto the heart Neither only is common sense and fantasie thus ouertaken with delusion but memory also receiueth a wound therewith which disableth it both to keepe in memory and to record those thinges whereof it tooke some custody before this passion and after therewith are defaced For as the common sense and fantasie which doe offer vnto the memory to lay vp deliuer but fables in stead of true report and those tragicall that dismay all the sensible frame of our bodies so eyther is the memory wholly distract by importunity of those doubtes and feares that it neglecteth the custody of other store or else it recordeth and apprehendeth only such as by this importunity is thrust therupon nothing but darkenes perill doubt frightes and whatsoeuer the harte of man most doth abhor And these the senses do so melancholikely deliuer to the mindes consideration which iudging of such thinges as they offered not hauing farther to do in the deeper examination that it applyeth those certayne ingenerate pointes of reason and wisedome to a deceitfull case though it be alwayes in the generall and if particularities be deliuered vp a right in them also most certaine and assured For those thinges which are sensible and are as it were the counterfettes of ourward creatures the reporte of them is committed by Gods ordinaunce to the instruments of the brayne furnished with his spirite which if it be as the thinges are in nature so doth the minde iudge and determine no farther submitting it selfe to examine the credite of these senses which the instrumentes being faultles and certaine other considerations required necessary agreeable vnto their integrity neuer faile in their busines but are the very first groundes of all this corporall action of life and wisedome that the minde for the most parte here outwardly practiseth If they be contrary so also doth the minde iudge and pursueth or shuneth for these sensible matters reposing trust in the corporall ministers whose misereport no more ought to discredite the minde or draw it into an accessary crime of error then the iudiciall sentence is to be blamed which pronounceth vpon the oth and credite of a iurie impanelled of such as are reported men of honesty credite and discretion though their verdict be not peraduenture

according as the cause committed to them doth require The memory being thus fraight with perills past and embracing only through the braynes disorder that which is of discomforte causeth the fantasie out of such recordes to forge new matters of sadnes and feare whereof no occasion was at any time before nor like to be giuen hereafter to these fansies the hart answering with like melancholicke affection turneth all hope into feare assurance into distrust and dispaire ioye into discomforte and as the melancholie nature or bodie any waie corrupt defileth the pure and holesome nourishment conuerteth it into the same kinde of impuritie and as the fire of all kinde of matter giueth increase of heate whether it be wood stone metal or liquor so the body thus possessed with the vnchearefull and discomfortable darknes of melaÌ„cholie obscureth the Sonne and Moone and all the comfortable planetts of our natures in such sort that if they appeare they appeare all darke and more then halfe eclipsed of this mist of blackenes rising from that hidious lake and in all thinges comfortable either curiously pryeth out and snatcheth at whatsoeuer of mislike may be drawen to the nourishment of it selfe or else neglecteth altogether that which is of other qualitie then foode and pasture of those monsters which nature neuer bred nor perfect since conceiued nor memorie vncorrupt would euer allow entertainement but are hatched out of this muddie humour by an vnnaturall temper bastard spirite to the disorder of the whole regiment of humane nature both in iudgement and affection Thus the hart a while being acquainted with nothing else but domestical terror feareth euery thing and the brayne simpathetically partaking with the hartes feare maketh doubt distrusteth suspecteth without cause alwayes standing in awe of grieuaunce wher with in time it be commeth so tender that the least touch as it were ones naile in an vlcer giueth discouragement thereto rubbing it vpon the gale exulcerate with sorow and feare neither only doubleth it sorrow vpon smal occasion but taketh it where none is offered euen as the Cholerick man feedeth his passioÌ„ with ridiculous causes of displeasure For first the generall being in al natures actions before the particular the heart by the braine solicited to passioÌ„ vsed to grief feare taketh the accustomed way of flight and auoydance abhorring fearing those thinges which of themselues are most amiable and gratefull at the first not being a duised whereto to apply the passion euen as one condemned to death with vndoubted expectation of execution fearing euerie knock at the prison doore hath horrour though the messenger of pardon with knock require to be admitted let in and euery messenger where daunger is feared though he come with cherefull countenance giueth cause of distrust when there may be assurance euen so the heart ouercome with inward heauines and skared with inward feares faireth as though whatsoeuer cause of affection and perturbation were minister of present griefe or messenger of future daunger by mistaking only and withdraweth it selfe and shroudeth it as secrete and closse as nature will suffer from that which if custome had not bent it another way vppon aduisement now banished through swiftnes and vehemeÌ„cy of passion it would haue with ioyful cheare embraced For eueÌ„ as we se in outward sense the ey or the eare long and vehemently affected with colour or sound or the nose with strong sent retaine the verie colour sound and sent in the instrumentes though the thing be remoued that yeelded such qualities so the internall senses molested continually with this fearefull obiect of internall darknes esteemeth euery thing of that nature the true qualitie thereof being obscure by that which hath taken possession of theÌ„ before The brayne thus affected and the heart answering his passion thereafter driueth vs into those extremities of heauy moode which assaile and dispossesse of right vse of reason those who are melancholickly disposed much more if the heart be as melancholickly bent as the brayne then diuerse times doth it preuent the fancie with feare and as a man transported with passioÌ„ is vtterly bereft of aduisemeÌ„t causeth the senses both outward inward preposterously to conceiue as the heart vainely feareth This melancholy as the parts are diuerse actions vary so doth it as it is seated or passeth this or that way breed diuersity of passion as in the heart a trembling in the stomach a greedy appetite in the brayne false illusions and in the other partes as they are disposed so deprauing their actions it causeth much variety of effects which are not in the nature of the humor but as it disturbeth the actiue instrumentes no more then darknes causeth some to stuÌ„ble other some to go out of their way wander other some to bringe to passe such purposes as light would bewray hinder alas they be disposed occupied which take theÌ„ to their busines in the dark not through any such effectuall operatioÌ„ of darkenes which is naught else but meere absence of light Neither doth so many straunge sortes of accidentes follow melaÌ„cholie through diuersity of parts only but as the custome of life hath bene before the fancie heart some way vehemently occupied there through this humour all the faculties afore named are carried the same way as it were with the streame of a tide driuen with a boysterous wind which causeth that melancholicke men are not all of one nature passionate this way the one taking his dolorous passion from his loue another from his wealth the other froÌ„ his pleasures whereof his melancholie beareth him in hand the present losse or imminent daunger of that wherein affection in former times had surest footing on the other part which before a man most abhorred that nowe that humor vrgeth with most vehemencie Againe as it is mixed with other humours either keeping mediocrity or abounding so likewise breaketh it forth into such diuersities manie times into plaine contrarieties of conceit and perturbation Thus you vnderstand howe feares and sorowes rise without cause from naturall melancholie whether it be iuyce or excrement not through chiefe action as from worke of facultie but by abuse of instrument through occasion If the spleneticke excrement surcharge the bodie not being purged by helpe of the splene then are these perturbations farre more outragious and harde to be mitigated by counsell or perswasion and more do they enforce vs the partes being altered with corporall humour then with spirituall vapour and so are the passions longer in continuance and more extreeme in vehemencie For as the flame carrieth not such force of burning as the cole neither contayneth the heate so longe euen so the partes affected with the humour which carrieth both grossenesse of substance with continuall supplie of that dimme vapour settleth a more fixed passion of feare and heauinesse then that which riseth from the vapour onely partly of the owne accorde more easily vanishing and partly with

this coldnes and drynes riseth hardnes whereof the flesh of melancholy persons is except the melancholy rise of some disorder of diet or passions and hath not yet entred so farre vpon the complexion Of colour they be black according to the humour whereof they are nourished and the skinne alwayes receauing the blacke vapors which insensibly do passe from the inward parts taketh die and staine thereof sauing that in the beginning it may come to passe otherwise the body white and bloud blacke nature for a time seruing her selfe of that which is purest and leauing the grossest in the vaines till for want of better in the end it be faine to take of the melancholicke which before it disdained then altereth it the colour and fairenesse is turned into morphe maketh euident the humour which gaue the die hath obscured the former beautie And thus are the qualities of melancholie bodies altered by this grosse earthie and darke humour CHAP. XXII How melancholie altereth those actions which rise out of the braine TOuching actions which rise from the brain melancholie causeth dulnesse of conceit both by reason the substance of the braine in such personnes is more grosse and their spirite not so prompt and subtile as is requisit for readie vnderstandinge Againe almost all the senses standing in a kinde of passiue nature a substance cold and drie and by consequent hard is not so meete thereto which as it serueth well to retaine that which is once ingrauen so like adamant it keepeth in comparison of other tempers that which once it hath receaued whereby as they are vnfit to commit readily to memorie so retaine they that is committed in surer custodie Sometime it falleth out that melancholie men are found verie wittie and quickly discerne either because the humour of melancholie with some heate is so made subtile that as from the driest woode riseth the clearest flame and from the lyes of wine is distilled a strong burning aqua vitae in like fort their spirits both from the drinesse of the matter and straining of the grosse substance from which they passe receauing a purenesse are instrumentes of such sharpnesse which is the drie light that Heraclitus approued To this other reasons may be added as exercise of their wittes wherein they be indefatigable which maketh them seeme to haue that of a naturall readinesse which custome of exercise and vse hath found in them Moreouer while their passions be not yet vehemeÌ„t whereby they might be ouercaried melancholy breedeth a ielousie of doubt in that they take in deliberation and causeth them to be the more exact curious in poÌ„dering the very moments of things to these reasons may be added the vehemencie of theyr affection once raysed which carieth them with all their faculties therto belonging into the deapth of that they take pleasure to intermeddle in For though the melancholie man be not so easily affected with any other passion as with those of feare sadnesse ielosie yet being once throughly heat with a coÌ„trarie passion retaineth the feruency thereof farre longer time then anie other complexion and more feruently boyleth therewith by reason his heart and spirite hath more solliditie of substance to entertayne deepely the passion which in a more rare and thinne sooner vanisheth away Thus greedinesse of desire in those thinges which they affect maketh them diligent and painefull warie and circumspect and so in actions of braine and sense not inferiour to the best tempers as also it maketh them stiffe in opinion Their resolution riseth of long deliberation because of doubt and distrust which as it is not easily bred so it is also harde to remoue Such persons are doubtfull suspitious and thereby long in deliberation because those domesticall feares or that internall obscuritie causeth an opinion of daunger in outwarde affaires where there is no cause of doubt their dreames are fearefull partly by reason of their fancie waking is most occupied about feares and terrours which retayneth the impression in sleepe and partly through blacke and darke fumes of melancholie rising vp to the braine whereof the fantasie forgeth obiectes and disturbeth the sleep of melancholy persons These persons are also subiect to that kinde of suffocation in the night which is called the mare wherein with some horrible vision in dreame they are halfe strangled and intercepted of speech through they striue to call This happeneth through grosse melacholicke vapours in them which cause horrible and fearefull apparitions by reason of the nature of that humour and the fancie prone through custome to conceaue on the worse parte and stoppeth theyr winde by occupying the passages of such spirits as rise from the braine and flowe into the nerues which serue certaine muscles of respiration it happeneth chiefly when they lye on their backe and somewhat too low with their heade because both the midriffe a chiefe muscle of respiration is more pressed with the bowelles which lye vnder it the stomach is not so firmely closed whereby vapours more easily haue vent and the whole bulke of the chest in that position of the bodie lying more heauily vppon them requireth greater force of mouing facultie whose spirit receaueth impediment of passages by these thicke and melancholicke fumes and thus are the actions of the braine altered by melancholie CHAP. XXIII Howe affections be altered TOVCHING their affections of feare and sadnesse sufficiently hath bene sayd before sauing whether is first in place and possesseth first the melancholicke heart it may make some question In mine opinion feare is the verie ground and roote of that sorowe which melancholick meÌ„ are throwne into For a continuance of feare which is of daunger to come so ouerlayeth the heart that it maketh it as nowe present which is only in expectation and although the daunger feared be absent yet the assurednesse thereof in the opinion of a melancholicke braine is alwayes present which ingendreth a sorow alwayes accompanying their feares They are hardely moued to anger except a biting and fretting choler be mixed with their melancholie or the melancholy be of an adust kind by reason they be ouer passion at another way and haue their partes of grosser sense then easily to be offended and the heart not ready to be moued being of a colder and drier nature or so affected by the humor which being once throughly kindled with that passion retayneth the heate longer and is not easily brought againe into the former temper Enuious they are because of their owne false conceaued want whereby their estate seeminge in their owne fantasie much worse then it is or then the condition of other men maketh them desire that they see other to enioy to better their estate this maketh them couetours of getting though in expence where their humour moueth them with liking or a voydance of perill more then prodigall Ielousie pricketh them because they are not contented with any moderation but thinke all too little for supply of their want especially if it stand in

consideration Touching the first of the two latter how the affection is moued for weeping I take it necessarie the passion be not very extreame nor of the highest degree of sorow neither so light and geÌ„tle that the obiect be contemned For the first if the perturbation be too extreame and as it were rauisheth the conceite and astonieth the heart then teares being ordinary and naturall to a kinde of mediocritie of that passion are not affoorded to an extraordinary affection euen as a ioy suddaine and rare taketh away for the present the signification of reioycing and turneth the comforte which should be receiued into an admiration in steade of mirth and cheare so in greate extremity offeare and heauines sorow being conuerted into an astonishment the senses rauished and the benuÌ„med therewith the teares are dryed vp or stayed being effectes of ordinary and of naturall passion and others more straunger come in place as voydaunce of vrine ordure For as cold in a kinde of degree moueth sense and the same extreame becommeth and taketh it quite away and as exceeding brightnes blindeth or at the least dazeleth the sight aswell as darknes obscureth the obiect so an occasion of feare being beyond ordinary coÌ„passe of naturall passion seemeth to the heart vnderstanding of another sort then whereat to sorow or teares belong and the tokens of ordinarie affection are due which flow not by reason through that greate perturbation nature is wholly violated and keepeth no course of accustomed order or because such is the flight of nature from that which she so abhorreth that hiding her self in her owne ceÌ„ter she draweth with her those humidities which easily follow with the spirites and blood and are not seperable for vsuall excretion besides that contraction of her poores whereby the effluxe of teares is hindered this in my opinion is the cause why extremity of terror or heauines refraineth teares especially if a fright haue gone before which is of greatest force to make this perturbation and to shut vp the poores of our bodies This appeareth in such as are scarred whose haire seemeth to stand vpright stiffe through that contraction So then the same cause of passion in kind differing by degrees both dolorous full of calamity nowe causeth abundance of weeping gusheth out into brookes of teares and anon dricth them al vp through destruction of the minde and stupiditye as it were of the hearte as though the cause of morning were altogether remoued If you do require example in the selfe same person of weeping and refraining from teares in the same kind of obiect yet differing in degree that is most singuler which is reported by Aristotle in the second booke of his thetoricke out of Herodotus of Amasis king of Aegypt We are moued with compassion only sayeth he at the affliction of such familiars as are not very nighly knitte vnto vs either by acquaintance or affinitie and of the calamitie of diuerse most deere friends or allies we haue not compassion but we are affected with their hurte as with our owne wherfore it is reported of Amasis that although he did not weepe for his sonne whome he sawe led to be put to death yet at the calamitie of his friende Philippus he shed teares for that which in his friend was pityfull shewed in his sonne horrible and terrible to behold now terror chaseth away swalloweth vp alcoÌ„passion Which history of Amasis maketh cleere al doubt in this point and confirmeth that which we propound by the reason of one of the most grauest philosophers As this ouer vehement feare dryeth vp these springes of teares or shutteth vp the passages that no way is giuen for them to distill so the cause being light and not greately vrging the heart nature vseth not to make such shew of sorow so that at small matters or so taken no man vseth to weepe Children for want of vnderstanding in a manner weepe at all occasions of offence alike which tyme and age afterward correcteth Thus then in my opinion the affection is to be disposed for weeping euen in a meane betwixt that light regard of perill or calamitie wherewith no man is moued to teares and that vehement extremitie which ingendreth amazednes and astonishment wherewith nature either is benummed as it were and dazeled with the extremitie of passion and neglecteth her ordinarie signification of sorow in a case so farre extraordinarie or else so farre withdraweth her selfe into the center of the bodie with her spirite blood and humiditie and closeth vp her poores so straightly that neither matter of teares is readie nor passage free for them to distill by For the naturall passages and such as depend not vpon voluntarie opening or shutting as of the bladder stoole so farre only are open as they be distended and filled with blood humour spirite which being withdrawen as in a dead bodie they close together like an empty bagge But why theÌ„ say you do some make vrine for feare and why doth not nature withold it aswell as teares being a kinde of excremeÌ„t not much vnlike The reafon is readie such retention as is performed by muscle animall faculty descending from the brayne by sinues is of another sorte then that which is accomplished by astriction of poore againe such excrementes as are already congregated into a place of recept from whence they are to be voided out of the body hereafter are not of like coÌ„dition with that which hath as yet no seperatioÌ„ For the first pointe the bladder as also the fundament haue ech of them a certaine round muscle which hath power of opening and closing within it self which opening way is giuen to the excrement that of it selfe finding passage issueth out of the bodie or without opening and it be a liquid excrement as vrine is if the muscle shutt not close or retentiue feebled it voydeth also though not so plentifully as being full open Now in feares that exceede the spirites influent into that muscle as al are such that pertaine to sence and motion are caled backe as I haue before declared to their proper fountaines and so it being left destitute receiueth a kinde of paraliticall disposition for the time and fayleth in his office which is the cause of such vnuoluntary excretion Now if you consider remember how the vrine passeth from the kideneys by those loÌ„g vessels you shall well perceiue there can be no refluxe backward though it be forced for they disceÌ„d not directly opening theÌ„selues as a touch hole into a gune but sloplings betwixt the substance of the bladder with certaine slender and thinne skinnes which immediatly after the entraunce of the humour close vp in such sort as the fuller the bladder is the firmer is their hold as you may see in the leather clacke of a paire of bellowes experience hereof is made manifest in a bladder which being blowen retaineth the aire and suffereth not to vent though it haue enterances such as I haue

euill spirite to encrease the torment and Iudas the traytor who tooke the reuenge of betraying the innocent vppon him selfe with his owne handes such was the anguish that Esau felte when he found no repentance after he had sold his birthright for a messe of pottage and such is the estate of all defiled consciences with hainous crimes whose harts are neuer free from that worme but with deadly bite thereof are driuen to dispaire These terrible obiectes which properly appertaine vnto the minde are such as onely affect it with horror of Gods iustice for breach of those lawes naturall or written in his word which by duty of creation we are holden to obey For the minde as it is impatible of anie thing but of God onely that made it so standeth it in awe of none but of him neither admitteth it any other violence then from him into whose handes it is most terrible and fearefull to fall This causeth such distresse vnto those that feele the torment hereof that they would redeeme it gladly if it were possible with anie other kind yea mith suffering all other kind of miserie This hath befallen vnto the wisest among men while the integritie of their vnderstanding hath stood sound it taketh of a sodaine like lightning and giueth no warning Here the puririe of the bloud and the sinceritie and liuelinesse of the spirits auayle nothing to mitigate the paine but onely the expiatorie sacrifice of the vnspotted lambe On the contrarie part when anie conceit troubleth you that hath no sufficient grounde of reason but riseth onely vpon the frame of your brayne which is subiect as hath bene before shewed vnto the humour that is right melancholicke so to be accoÌ„pted of you These are false points of reason deceaued by the melancholie braine and disguised scarres of the heart without abilitie to worke the pretenced annoyaunce neither do they approch the substaunce and the substantiall and soueraigne actions of the soule as the other doeth This estate happeneth by degrees and getteth strength in time to the encumbrance of all the instrumentall actions and driue the braine into a sottishnesse and obscure the cleare light of reason Here the humour purged and the spirite attenuate and refreshed with remedie conuenient the brayne strengthened and the hart comforted with cordiall are meanes most excellent ordayned of God for this infirmitie And to deliuer you in a word the difference whatsoeuer is besides conscience of sinne in this case it is melancholie which conscience terrified is of such nature so beset with infinite feares and distrust that it easilie wasteth the pure spirit congeleth the liuely bloud and striketh our nature in such sort that it soone becommeth melancholicke vile and base and turneth reason into foolishnesse and disgraceth the beautie of the countenance and tranfor meth the stoutest Nabucadnezar in the world into a brute beast so easily is the body subiect to alteration of minde soone looseth with anguish and distruction thereof all the support of his excellencie Besides this in you vaine feares and false conceits of apparitions imagination of a voyce sounding in your eares frightfull dreames distrust of the consumption and putrifying of one part or other of your bodie the rest of this crue are causes of molestation which are whelpes of that melancholicke litter are bred of the corrupted state of the body alaltered altered in spirit in bloud in substance and complexion by the aboundance of this settling of the bloud which we call melancholie This increaseth the terrour of the afflicted minde doubling the feare discouragement shutteth vp the meanes of consolatioÌ„ which is after another sort to be conueyed to the minde then the way which the temptation taketh to breed distrust of Gods mercy pardon For that hath sinne the meanes which needeth no conueyaunce but is bred with vs entreth euen into our conceptioÌ„ neither is the guiltinesse brought vnto vs by foreine report but the knowledge riseth from the conscience of the offender the meanes I meane the outwarde meanes of consolation and cure must needs passe by our senses to enter the mind whose instrument being altred by the humor their sincerity stained with the obscure and dark spots of melancholy receiue not indiffereÌ„tly the medicine of coÌ„solatioÌ„ So it both mistaketh that which it apprehendeth and deliuereth it imperfectly to the minds consideratioÌ„ As their brains are thus euill disposed so their harts in no better case acquainted with terror ouertbrown with that fearful passioÌ„ hardly set free the cherfull spirits feebled with the corporall prison of the body hardly yeeld to persuasion of comfort what soeuer it bringeth of assurance This causeth the release of the affliction to be long hard and not answerable to the swiftnesse of the procuring cause hauing so many wayes top asse encountring so many lets before it meet with the sore For as the cause respecteth not time nor place no circumstance of person nor condition seeketh no opportunity of corporall imbecillity but breakeath through all such considerations beareth downe all resistance so the comfort requireth them all agreable missing any one worketh feble effects slow Here the coÌ„forters person his maner the time place may hinder the consolatioÌ„ here the braine hart being as it were the gates entraunce vnto the soule as they be affected ayd or hinder the consolatioÌ„ so that the conscieÌ„ce distressed falling into a melaÌ„choly state of body therby receiueth delay of restoring in respect of outward meanes though the grace of God his mercy his comfortable spirit gracious fauor in like swiftnesse without meanes may restore the minde thus distressed which lieth equally open to the kind of cure eueÌ„ as it lay to the wound Thus I coÌ„clude this point of difference marke betwixt melancholy and the soules proper anguish whose only cause proceedeth from Gods vengeance wrath apprehended of the guilty soule neither doth melancholy alone though it may hinder the outward meanes of consolation as it hath bin before shewed any thing make men more subiect vnto this kind of afflictioÌ„ First because the body worketh nothing vpon the soule altogether impatible of any other sauing of God alone 2. The torment is such as riseth froÌ„ an efficient that requireth no dispositioÌ„ of means God himself 3. The coÌ„fort is not procured by any corporal instrumeÌ„ts so neither is the discoÌ„fort procured or increased that way moreouer the cause the subiect the proper effects are other then corporall For although in that case the hart is heauy deliuering a passioÌ„ answerable to the fearfull apprehension yet the sense of those that are vnder this crosse feele an anguish farre beyond all afflictioÌ„ of naturall passion coupled with that organicall feare and heauinesse of heart The melancholy disposeth to feare doubt distrust heauinesse but all either without cause or where there is cause aboue it inforceth the passion Here both the most vehement cause

vrgeth and alwayes carieth a passioÌ„ therwith aboue the harts affection euen the entry of those torments which caÌ„not be coÌ„ceaued at full as our nature now staÌ„deth nor deliuered by report Here in this passion the cause is not feare nor passionate griefe but a torment procuring these affections and euen as the punishment of bodily racking is not the passion of the hart but causeth it only so the hart fareth vnder this sore of the mind which here properlie fretteth and straineth the sinnes of the soule wherefrom the heart taketh his grieuous discouragement and fainteth vnder Gods iustice Hitherto you haue described that which your soule feeleth not to instruct you but that other may more truly iudge of the case and the distinction betwixt melancholy it may be more apparant CHAP. XXXV The affliction of mind to what persons it befalleth and by what meanes ALthough no man is by nature freed froÌ„ this affliction in so much as all men are sinners and being culpable of the breach of God lawes incurre the punishment of condemnation yet is the melancholicke person more then any subiect therunto not that the humor hath such power which hath before bin declared to stand far a loofe of such effect but by reason the melaÌ„cholicke person is most doubtfull iclous of his estate not only of this life but also of the life to come this maketh him fall into debate with him selfe to be more then curious who finding his actions not fitting the naturall or written line of righteousnesse waÌ„ting that archpiller of faith assurance in Christ Iesus our hope partly thorough feare findeth the horror and partly if it please God so far to touch feeleth the verie anguish due vnto the sinner in that most miserable condition falleth into flat dispaire This commeth to passe when the curious melancholy carieth the minde into the senses of such misteries as exceed humayne capacity and is desirous to know more theÌ„ is reuealed in the word of truth or being ignorant of that which is reuealed thorough importunate inquirie of a sudden falleth into that gulfe of Gods secret counselles which swalloweth vp all conceit of man or angell and measuring the trueth of such depth of misteries by the shallow modill of his owne wit is caught deuoured of that which his presumptuous curiositie moued him to attempt to apprehend Of melancholy persons especially such as are most contemplatiue except they be well grounded in the word of God remoue not one haire therfrom in their speculations are this wayes most ouertaken receaue the punishment of ouer-bold atteÌ„pt of those holy things which the Lord hath reserued to his owne counsell while they neglect the declared truth propounded for rule of life and practise in written wordes reuealed not remembring the exhortation of Moyses to the children of Israell the secrets are the Lords but the reuealed will appertaineth to vs our children And this in mine opinion is one cause wherefore melancholicke personnes are more prone to fall into this pitte then such as are in their organicall members otherwise affected Nowe contemplations are more familiar with melancholicke persons then with other by reason they be not so apt for action consisting also of a temper still and slowe according to the nature of the melancholie humour which if it be attenuated with heate deliuereth a drie subtile and pearcing spirite more constant and stable then anie other humour which is a great helpe to this contemplation As the melancholicke is most subiect to the calamitie before mentioned and especially the contemplatiue so of them most of all such whose vocation consisteth in studie of hard pointes of learning and that philosophicall especially of Nature haue cause in this case to carie a lowe saile and sometime to strike and lay at the anker of the Scriptures of God lest by tempest of their presumption they be caried into that whirle poole whereout they be in daunger without the especiall grace of Gods mercie neuer to deliuer them selues Such except they be well ballaced with knowledge of the Scriptures and assurance of Gods spirite are neuer able to abide the ouglinesse of their sinnes when they shall be once vnfolden and the narrowe point of reprobration and clection propounded vnto their melancholicke braines and hearts and most miserale polluted soules vnacquainted with Gods couenaunt of mercie and that earnest of his fauour the comfortable spirit of his grace Of such as haue some knowledge in the worde and practise of obedience the want of the true apprehending of gods reuealed wil touching election and reprobation and the right method of learning conceauing the doctrine causeth some to stumble and fall at this stone For as a sworde taken at the wrong end is readie to wound the hand of the taker held by the handle is a fit weapon of defence euen so the doctrine of predestination being preposterously conceiued may through fault of the conceiuer procure hurt whereas of it selfe it is the most strong rocke of assurance in all stormes of teÌ„ptations that can befall vnto bodie or soule The one part of predestination is Gods immutable will the cause and rule of all iustice and vttermost of all reason in his workes the other part is the execution of that will according to mercie or iustice sauing or condemning with all the meanes thereto belonging Christ Iesus in those of whom the Lorde will shewe mercie and the iust desert of a sinner on whome he is determined to shewe the iustice of his wrath If this most comfortable doctrine and the firme ancher of our profession be not in all partes equally apprehended we may not onely misse the benefite therof through our owne fault but receiue wounde and daungerous hurte thereby For if the consideration be bent vpon Gods will and counsel only without respect of the means it is impossible but the frailty of mans nature must needes be distracted into diuerse perilous and desperate feares finding nothing in it selfe that may answere his iustice and withstand the fearefull sentence of condemnation if it stay in the meanes of his iustice only and haue not eye vpon his mercy in his sonne Christ then likewise ariseth an assurance of eternall destruction to the conscieÌ„ce defiled and the guilty soule deformed with iniquity if the meanes of his mercy be regarded without farther respect of his eternall decree and immouable iustice then is there also no assurance of his mercy vnto miserable man who melteth like snow and vanisheth like a vapour before his iustice and doubting of the continuance of his fauour alwayes hangeth in suspence All these considerations thus seuerally falling into the melancholick person moue doubt and care and either breed a resolute desperatnes or a continuall distrust tossing hither and thither the soule not established by knowledge and faith in Gods eternall counsell the most wise iust and mercifull meanes of his execution which being perfectly knowne according to the word

lest God be dishonoured by their conuersatioÌ„ so are they ielouse of their pretious faith lest it be not in such measure as they defire or in truth be none at all wherein they may easily be deceaued first in the discerning then in the measure and portion Touching the discerning thus may they be ouertaken when the inward feeling thereof doth not aunswere their desire and the actions proceeding therfrom do not satisfie their thirst of righteousnesse whereby reliefe may rise to the nourishment of faith the satisfying of that holy appetite they are discouraged and entangled with spirituall cares from which a more aduised consideration agreable to Gods worde might easily deliuer them Touching the portion their fault lyeth in this that they measure the excellencie thereof and the power partly by measure and quantitie and not by vertue wherewith through Gods mercifull grace it is indued to the saluation of all those that haue it but in measure of a graine of mustard seede which both errours are to be corrected by pondering of the case not by that we iudge but by that God him selfe hath geuen rule of both touching the sense of faith the sinceritie of the fruites and increase of measure all being his giftes and graces dispenced vnto vs according to his mercie and wisedome as is most for his glorie and expedient for vs. For if we duly weigh from whence we are fallen and howe deepe into this degenerate nature wherein we are captiues of Sathan and slaues of all iniquitie we shall receaue comfort of the least sparke of faith and may praise God and receaue comfort in the smallest worke of obedience perfourmed in sinceritie though not in perfection and if we finde the increases slowe and the victorie harde in this our warfare let vs consider with whome we fight and for what crowne and howe both heauen and earth was moued at our redemptiion and the same power concurred thereto as in our first creation And as the great and mightie oakes are slower in attaining their full grouth then shrubs and weedes whose enduring is for many ages when the other in short time wither and fadde away so esteeme your encrease of heauenly graces slow but sure euerlasting as immortalitye that you may be as a beame or a piller in the teÌ„ple of God for euer and euer Neither are we to accompt the nature of any thing according to our sense or to the shew it maketh For then should the most fruitefull tree in winter be takeÌ„ for barren and the lustie soile dry and vnfruitefull while it is shut vp with the hard frost but rea son as in other deliberatioÌ„s so in this must lead vs being guided by the word of God rightly to iudge of the presence life of faith in our souls which being the shield in this our spirituall warfaire endureth much battering many bruntes and receiueth the forefront of the encounter oft times faireth as if it were pearced through and worne vnfit for battaile yet is it in deede of nature inuincible and repelleth whatsoeuer ingine the enimy inforceth against vs and staÌ„deth firme rooted whatsoeuer storme Sathan raiseth for the displacing thereof How then are we to behaue our selues in this temptation wheÌ„ both the sence of faith is dulled in vs and the fruites minister discontentment you remember the saying of the Apostle the graces and mercy of God is without repentance and Christ Iesus whome he loueth to the end he loueth them if then you haue in times past felt that gift of the spirit which you haue done haue ioyed therin be assured it is a marke neuer to be defaced of your election firme staÌ„ding in Gods fauour For what moued the Lord to bestow the grace but his owne mercy that he bestoweth who caÌ„ take away if he himself take it froÌ„ vs for some deserte of ours did not he foresee the same loÌ„g before so why did he not withold his mercy but as he knew vs when we were straungers from him and loued vs when we hated him and had nothing which might prouoke his mercy but our misery so is his goodnes continued vpon vs still for his owne sake and not at all for our deseruing that all being subiect to his condemnation he might be glorified in the saluation of some for that righteousnes sake which is in his sonne and that oblation of his offered vp not for himselfe but for others from whose righteousnes so much is detracted as we attribute vnto our selues or seeke to attaine vnto in respect of satisfying Gods iustice and so much impaired of Gods mercy as we shall rest vpon any vertue or power in our selues whereby to auoid his veÌ„geance of iustice Our election as it first riseth from God and is established in his immutable counsell and decree and lyeth in no power else befide so the hazard thereof is not committed to the aduenture of our frailty but the continuance and stablenes in the same decree hath the fouÌ„dation For alas the wofull experience of Adams frailty in his best estate giueth sufficient testimony and more then sufficient what hope there is of continuance of grace if the assuraÌ„ce of our saluation should depend vpon our keepe who without support of God are like the wynde inconstant and as fraile as the tender hearbs and want all habil tie of withstaÌ„ding the affaults of our enimie and constant perseuerance in any religious vertue and worke of pietie Then if the foundation of our election lie in the counsell of God and be founded vpon his decree who hath reuealed the one but the Spirit of the Lord and what is able to vndermine the other where the Lord himselfe hath layed the corner stone This assurance in time past the Spirite of God hath confirmed vnto you you haue felt it with pleÌ„ty of heauenly ioy and comfort and if in the coÌ„flict of temptation you esteeme the strength according to that remaineth after the battaile or that which you feele being somewhat tyred in the conflict you may here giue vauntage to the ennemy through discouragement and loose the field as much as lieth in you wher there is hope of assured victory For be it that you feele the hability weake and the ennemy strong and your owne corruption vpon the point to preuaile yet consider there is a roote of this vertue whose fruite and braunches although these stormy teÌ„pestes may nippe and shake yet the sappe shall neuer be dried vp in the roote neither can anie euill winde of Sathan so blast that the immortall seed be at any time quit withered yea though all his fiery dartes be thereto with all might and maine employed but that the storme being blone ouer by the spirite of grace and the comfortable sunne of consolation shining vpon our gloumie heartes it will budde forth againe into blossome fruit and braunch as a most beautifull tree in the paradice of God Let the comparison of bodely sicknes and the consideration

of that kinde of frailty giue comforte vnto you in your case although in an other kinde yet in this respect not vnlike We haue experieÌ„ce how diuerse times the desease preuaileth ouer the sicke persons that actions faile and faculties seeme quite to be spent neither hand nor foote is able to do their duetie the eye is dimme the hearing dull the tast altered and the tounge distasteth all things eue of most pleasant relish and the weak and feeble pacient seemeth to attend the time of dissolution when yet notwithstanding there remaineth a secret power of nature and a forcible spark of life that ouercoÌ„meth all these infirmities and consumeth them like drosse rendereth to the body a greater purity firmenes of health then before the sicknes it did enioy Euen so esteeme of the spirituall case and consider that your soule is sicke and not dead and faith is assailed but not ouercome only haue patience to attend the finishing of this secret worke which passeth all conceite and capacity of man and you shall see these burning feauers of temptations to be slaked and cooled by the mercy and grace of Christ and that sparke of faith which lieth now hidde and ouerwhelmed with heapes of temptation and seemeth to be vtterly quenched to breake forth againe and to consume these straunge causes of the desease of the soule and as nature after a perfect crise dischargeth her self either by stoole vomite sweat or bleeding or such like euacuations to the recouerie of former health so shall you feele all these doubtes and feares and terrors remoued and strength of faith restored with such supply as it shall be able to make euident proofe what secrete vertue laye hid and yet not idle in all this vncomfortable plight which offereth you temptation of dispaire Seing then that you are yet but vnder the conflict and not ouercome haue good cheare in the succession which as in Christ it is victorious ouer head so are we his parts members to looke for the same crowne of glory who both ouercome in him through him in our selues shall in the ende be possessed of the victory and receiuethe crowne of immortality As for that which your owne conceit corrupted by melancholy perswadeth you wherin Sathan is busie and omitteth no oportunity giue no credite thereunto but as it is so esteeme it a delusion which time will discouer and lay open as you your selfe shall hereafter most planly discerne I graunt you the temptation it selfe though your body were free from this infirmity is of the greatest kinde such as doth not skirmish only lightly vpon our soules but setteth the maine battaile against our most happy estate in so much as it forced our Sauiour to cry my God my God why hast thou forsaken me But what then are we therefore to be discouraged no no here appeareth rather the aboundance of Gods grace and the mightie supporte of his power which euen in the middest of hel preserueth his and suffereth not so much as their garments to take any smell of the flame but euen from theÌ„ce is able to raise them to his celestiall kingdome place them which his sonne in the throne of glory And if you dewly consider the price of our redemption how prerious it was how it could not be obtayned without shedding of the most pretious heartblood of the sonne of God you must thinke the quarrell to be no other to the ende but a matter of blood of strife of sweate of feare of ielousie and whatsoeuer affection goeth with affecting a glorious triumph in all the meÌ„bers of Christ both inwardly and outwardly in the spirite and in the body as our head himselfe could finde in dispensation though he sued vnto his father therefrom with aboundance of tears and thinke that it is Gods busines we are in haÌ„d with and that we are inabled of him and accoÌ„pt not these smal venies of SataÌ„ for deadly wouÌ„des which are no thing other but practises and exercises of the spirituall courage and circumspection and introductions to that vse of the whole armour of God where against no force of the enemy shall preuaile though the attempt seeme to be full of perill terror But you say you feele small strength of faith no support of that hope which maketh not ashamed Beware least you iudge vniustly of the wayes of God esteeme that for small which is great and vile which in the sight of God is most pretious For herein the ennemy may take encouragement to your great disaduantage You feele not that taste thereof you sometimes felt and do you iudge therefore you are bereued vtterly thereof what consider the soule is now sick distestaeth much wholesome meate of consolation and loatheth many pleasaunt and fragraunt cuppes of comfort and counsell and yet the indeuours of Gods childre in this behalfe and the sweete waters of heaueÌ„ly comfort are not therefore of themselues bitter or vnsauory so you are not to measure the absence of this grace by that you presently but by that in times past while the soule stoode free from this disease of teÌ„ptation trial you haue felt of comfort in the spirite through an acceptable measure of faith according to the dispensation of Gods grace and not according to our fancy but as he shal think meete to be ministred vnto vs. Neither is the tryall of faith only to be taken according as the soule feeleth it in it selfe but also and sometimes as in such temptations as these wherein you now trauaile onely by the course and trade of life which hath passed before and those fruites which are euident to the eye of others who can iudge more sincerely then the afflicted whose vnderstandinges are somewhat altered through Sathans terrors But againe you say the course of life past and your estate present hath nothing aunswered the holines of your vocation and that sinceritie the Lord requireth so that here also the comforte faileth you What then are you therefore reprobate No but it argueth want of faith not so but place for farther increase of faith and the fruits thereof Those whome the Lord hath chosen to be his worshipers and hath redeemed and consecrated holy to himselfe and prepared good workes for them to walke in they be his plantes and ingraffed oliue brauÌ„ches in his sonne which take not their full perfection at once but accorglorie And if you duly consider the price of our redemption how pretious it was how it could not be obtained without shedding of the most pretious hart bloud of the Sonne of God you must thinke the quarrell to be no other to the ende but a matter of bloud of strife of sweate of feare of ielousie and whatsoeuer affection goeth with affecting a glorious triumph in all the members of Christ both inwardly and outwardly in the spirit and in the bodie as our head himselfe could finde no dispensation though he sued vnto his Father therfore with aboundance

is able with ease to worke our anoyance in all respects This giueth him knowledge of our mindes more perfectly who apprehendeth the same by the least shew and inclination of our affection wil. Not that he knoweth our harts entirely and perfectly which is proper to God only the framer of the hart but only through that triall and experience which not one onely particular man hath ministred vnto him but euen our whole race from Adam to this present this maketh him not to expect anie outward signification of speach or gesture to conceiue our intents and purposes but out of our vniuerfall corruption whereof he hath continuall proofe he hath layed vp matter of argument to discouer the vanity of our mindes and the secret thoughtes of our heart which after he hath found he suggesteth as he seeth occasion wherto we must incline instigation of sinne disobedience against God his holy commandemeÌ„ts His temptatioÌ„s are properly such as neither our natures seme to incline vnto but in a generality to all kinde of wickednes nor the world doth either allure vs or inforce vs especially the children of god who are partakers of his spirit finde them most straunge and such as they abhorre the very least conceite of them finde no parte of their nature to incline vnto them howsoeuer in other respectes they complaine of frailty Of this kinde are certaine blasphemies suggested of the Deuill and laying of violent handes of them selues or vpon others neither moued ther to by hate or malice or any occasion of reuenge of the same sort is the dispaire and distrust of gods mercy and grace besides many other as taking away the seede of the word out of the heart of the negligent hearers the suggesting of errors such like without our natures speciall inclination that way but rather contrarily affected And as he is a spirite an effectuall worker in other meanes so when he applieth his proper trauaile he attempteth the most daungerous assaults to our saluation and entereth so deep that knowing the iudgement is the fountaine of all vertuous action there he maketh traine and after a spirituall manner seeketh possession thereof to the vtter descouraging of all your actions that depend thereon knowing that it once being at his deuotion the corporall grosse actions bodely vices neede no great prouocation Other temptations rise of our owne rebellious heartes vnto the holy commandementes of God or froÌ„ the wordely allurements which as baites entice vs froÌ„ the way of obedience or else from terrors of life which scar vs with threate of perill if we embrace the way of piety and of holines and setteth before vs a greater awe of men then we haue of feare reuerence of God Now among these temptations falleth your present estate especially Sathan employeth his force to your iudgement and not against the strength of carnall iudgement only but against that which the Spirite of God hath taught and sealed vnto you in your conscience both suggesting vnto you those blasphemous conceites which your heart vtterly abhorreth the least thought and remembraÌ„ce of and raiseth that doubt of Gods fauour which now diuersly distracteth you Remember I pray you how the spirite of God calleth him the tempter the deceiuer of the world and the accuser of the faithfull the Dragon and old serpent a lyer and the father of lies by which epethites and descriptions you may consider his power his malice and his craft to deceaue and to abuse you neuer before acquainted with his practises as at this present you haue experience of and not take all that your minde conceiueth of any manner of impiety whatsoeuer to be from you but from Sathan who as he hath power to tempt and to trie to cast before you these stumbling blockes whereat he would haue you fall so hath he no power to fasten them vpoÌ„ your minde and to giue them setteling your owne conscience bearing you witnes how much repugnant they are to your desires The rather are you to accompt theÌ„ as froÌ„ him because they be such as are altogether coÌ„trary to your former conuersation whereto you haue felt your nature incline before and such as haue no inforcement nor inticemeÌ„t from any creature but from him Wherefore though such kinde of thoughts doe assaile the hart that being guilty of so great sinne your coÌ„scieÌ„ce might be so much the more defiled and the discouragement the greater yet aunswere them againe by the word of God which is the sworde of the spirite and wayte the happie ende of the conflict with patience and accompt not these small venies of Sathan for deadly wounds which are nothing else but practises exercises of your spirituall courage circumspection introductions to that vse of the whole armour of God where against no force of the enemie shall preuaile though the attempt seeme to be full of perill and terrour But you say you feele small strength of faith and no support of that hope which maketh not ashamed Beware least you iudge vniustly of the wayes of God and esteeme that for small which is great and vile which in the sight of God is most pretious For herein the enemie may take encouragement to your great disaduauntage You feele not that taste thereof you sometimes felt and do you iudge therefore you are bereued vtterlie thereof what consider the soule is nowe sicke and distasteth much wholesome meate of consolation and loatheth many pleasaunt and fragrant cuppes of comfort and counsell and yet the indeuours of Gods childreÌ„ in this behalfe and the sweete waters of heaueÌ„ly comfort are not therefore of themselues bitter or vnsauory so you are not to measure the absence of this grace by that you presently but by that in times past while the soule stoode free from this disease of teÌ„ptation trial you haue felt of comfort in the spirite through an acceptable measure of faith according to the dispensation of Gods grace and not according to our fancy but as he shal think meete to be ministred vnto vs. Neither is the tryall of faith only to be taken according as the soule feeleth it in it selfe but also and sometimes as in such temptations as these wherein you now trauaile onely by the course and trade of life which hath passed before and those fruites which are euident to the eye of others who can iudge more sincerely then the afflicted whose vnderstandinges are somewhat altered through Sathans terrors But againe you say the course of life past and your estate present hath nothing aunswered the holines of your vocation and that sinceritie the Lord requireth so that here also the comforte faileth you What then are you therfore reprobate No but it argueth waÌ„t of faith Not so but place for farther increase of faith and the fruits thereof Those whome the Lord hath chosen to be his worshipers and hath redeemed and consecrated holy to himselfe and prepared good workes for them to walke in

be of abilitie the house would not want ornament of picture of gay and fresh colours in such matter as shall be most pleasaunt and delightfull and of all ornamentes of house and home a pleasaunt gardin and hortyeard with a liuelie springe is aboue all domesticall call delight meetest for the melancholy heart and brayne His apparell would be decent and comely and as the purse will giue leaue somewhat for the time sumptious as also the whole houshold furniture belonging vnto him Of colour light or chaungeable except the place grauity of the melancholy person refuseth colours and here no kinde of seemely ornament would be omitted which might entice the senses to delight and allure the inclosed spirites to solace theÌ„selues the outward parts of their bodies here brouches chaines ringes may haue good vse with such like ornament of iewell as agreeth with the hability and calling of the melancholicke and those not onely curious and pretious by arte but especially garnished with precious stones that are said to haue vertue against vaine feares and basenes of courage Of which sorte are these following the Carbuncle for vertue the chiefe of stones The Calcedonye of power to put awaye feare and heauines of hearte a cleerer of the Spirites and chaser away of fantasticall melancholy visions The ruby auayleable against fearfull dreames The lacint a great cheerer of the heart and procurer of fauour The Turcoyse a comforter of the Spirites The Chrysophars of like vertue The Corneole a mitigater of anger and meete for molancholickes of the furious sorte Stones of baser sorte and yet of singuler vertue are the Chalydony or swallow stone found in the mawes of young swallowes against madnes and the Alectorian or Cockes stone of a watery colour found in the mawe of a Cocke or Capon after he be nine yeares olde aboue all commended for giuing strength and courage and wherewith as it is reported the famous Milo Crotonien alway stoode inuincible Thus haue you the whole order of the melaÌ„cholie diet I doe not remember any thing particular and peculiar vnto them necessary more theÌ„ hath bene hitherto declared wherefore in the next chapter I will also lay open what phisicke helpe is requisite in this case and so recommend the successe and fruite of my labour to the blessing of God vpon you and such as are partakers of like affliction As for the furious melancholy I leaue it to be cured as desease and sicknes and will not meddle therewith in this place being impertinent to my purpose which respecteth onely your estate and such like condition of others CHAP. XL. The cure by medicine meete for melancholie persons BEfore I enter to treate of the cure by medicine one word of admonition touching the vse of the medicines and meanes shall be first necessary both for your sake others who may hereafter haue vse of this my counsell my meaning is not to make you a phisicien or to giue warrant by this my labour to any rashly without direction of the learned phisicien to aduenture practise vpon this aduise as the common sorte is to venterous to attempt what they read of medicine deliuered in their vulgar toung but that seing the manifold good meanes which god in his great prouidence and mercy hath ordained for the releefe you may take courage in the consideratioÌ„ of his goodnes herein and receiue refreshing by the view of his aide though it be a farre of which the discreete application of the wise phisiciaÌ„ who is made of God for the health of men shall bringe nigh vnto you and ioyning with this strength of melancholy chase it farre from you and render vnto you the former good disposition of your body and desired tranquillitie of your minde For medicine is like a toole instrument of the sharpest edge which not wisely guided nor handled with that cunning which thereto appertaineth may bringe present perill in steade of health and where it should be a suecour and maintenance of life for want of arte may worke a contrary effect daungerous and deadly To the right applying of medicine besides the particular considerations belonging properly to the arte of phisicke wherein exercise maketh the phisician prompt and expert sharpe of iudgement and circuÌ„spect in the cure you your selfe know what furniture of philosophie is necessary euen the whole course of arts and knowledge of nature but onely to prepare and to giue hability of conceiuing and learning the rules of preseruing and restoring the health of mans body which we call phisicke so that as Galen sayeth in a booke of that title a phisician ought to be a philosopher the best philosopher maketh the best phisician neither ought any to be admitted to touch so holy thinges that hath not passed the whole discipline of liberall sciences and washed himselfe pure and cleane in the waters of wisedome and vnderstanding The abuse at this day is great and commoÌ„ defrauding the simple forte in their substance and hurting of their bodies vnder the pretence of experieÌ„ce of secretes and hid misteries of remedies which these masked theeues murtherers alleage for color of their lewdnes That as I am perswaded there are not so many honest and painefull men of any one trade in the lande as their be lewde cousoning varletts that to auoide the trauaile of honest labour feede vpon the simplicitie of the people and make the pretence of phisicke the cloake of their idlenes Othersome there be of a curiositie not knowing what they doe bould to attempt out of an english booke the practise of any recite and will not sticke to encounter the iudgement of the wisest and best practised phisician These are vnthankefull and presumpteous Vnthankefull in that they acknowledge not from whome they haue receaued these wholesome meanes presumpteous in hazarding the health of an other and aduenturing their owne credit vpon the receite of a medicine with perill of life where it is bestowed which of it selfe is but an instrument onely and worketh good or hurte as it is applied and guided to the application whereof the long studies the knowledge of so many partes of philosophie and learning the peregrinations and conferences of learned men make proofe and giue sufficient testimony both what is requisite and how farre of they be from modestie and honesty that being vnfurnished altogether of euery parte of these necessary helpes dare attempt the application of medicine whose nature they know not and of what dispositioÌ„ the body or part is wherto it is to be applied they are vtterly ignoraunt But one will say they doe sometimes good they doe so but oftentimes hurte and more hurt theÌ„ presently appeareth and with that good they in one respect doe in diuerse besides they leaue the body crased and make it afterward subiect to greater infirmitie there cure being imperfect accidentall vncertaine void of rule and reason wherefore although you haue for your part passed your course in philosophy good learning

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