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

nutrition as of these parts which be proportionable vnto it in qualities hot drie and this is disper sed into the veines and flowes throughout the whole body mixed with blood the other is excremētall vnfit to nourish which purged as a superfluous humour from the blood is receiued into the vesicle or vessel and bladder that is the receptacle of choler entearmed the gall And this vsually when the vessell is surcharged distils from thence into the duodenum first thē into the other intrals c. that which is not naturall is of four sorts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The first is vitelli● bilis of th● coulour of an egge yolke generated of palew choler ouerheated with the acrimony of vnnaturall caliditie The second is porr● cea of a leeky nature or greene coulour The third c●rulea of a blewish or azure colour The last aeruginosa of a rusty col●r And all these be generated in the ventricle b● sharp tart and sweet nutriments as leeks mullard burnt meats honny so fat meat● and all such as engender noysomnes vpo● the stomach Whereupon coms our common disease called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for sorro● and vehement exercise cause the yello● choler to flow in the ventricle by whic● men being griped and pinched with pain● within do labor of this euill which indeed hath a wrong name giuen it for it is onely an affection or passion of the orifice of the ventricle the mouth of the stomack not of the heart as Galen witnesseth Now to discerne a man of a cholerick complection he is alwaies either oringe or yellow visag'd because hee is most inclined to the yellow iaundice or a little swarthy reddehaird or of brownish coulour very mege● and thin soon prouokt to anger soon appeasd not like the stone asbestos which once being hot cannot be quenched he is lean-fac'd slēder bodied like Brutus Cassius He is according to his predominant element of fire which is most full of leuity most inconstant and variable in his determinations easily disliking that which hee before approued and of al natures in that this complectiō is counted to surpasse the cholericke man for changeablenes is repu ted among the wise to bee most vndiscreet and vnwise And indeed mutablenes and inconstancy are the intimates and badges whereby fooles are knowne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wise men be like vnto quadrangled stones But fooles like turning Globes are fickle ones And if at any time he prooue constāt and sted fast it is as Fortune is cōstans in leuitate sua stable in his instability Let vs now discend from fire to aire Cap. X. Of a sanguine temperature THe purple rose whose hi● encomium that witty Poetresse Sappho in a sweete Od●nce sang did not meri● to bee adornd with such beauteous titles of wordes to be lim'd out in so liuely colours of Rhetorick nor to be invested with such a gorgeous and gallant sute of poetry as this goldē crasis this happy temperature and choise complection this sanguine humor is worthy of a panegyrical toung and to be lim'd out with the hand of art it selfe Sappho thus speaketh of the rose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Which we may turne and change for our vse on this manner if there were a mo narch or prince to be constituted ouer all temperatures this purple sanguine complection should no doubts aspire to that hie preheminence of bearing rule for this is the ornament of the body the pride of humors the paragon of complections the prince of all temperatures for blood is the oile of the lampe of our life If we doe but view the princely scarlet robes he vsually is inuested with his kingly throne seated in the mids of our earthly citty like the Sun amid the wandring Planets his officers I mean the veines and arteries which are spred throughout this whole Politeia yea disperst in euery angle to execute his command and carry the liuely influence of his goodnesse reuiuing those remote parts which without his influence woulde otherwise be frettish with a chilnes and in a short time be mortified If we do but cast our eies vpon these glorious mansions the sumptuous pallaces wherein he doth inhabit the Dadalian costly Labyrinths where in he takes his turnes If wee consider his wise subtle counsailours which dayly consort with him for the good estate of his whole kingdome the 〈◊〉 spirits the very seate of diuine reason it selfe the fountaines of pollicy If we marke this that his departing is the procurer of a ciuill mutinie and dissension between our soule and body and that his meere absence bringe● in a dissolution of our temperate political state if we waigh his excellent qualities he is endowed with wherein consists the vnion of the parts of the whole I meane hea● and moisture If we note his delicat viand his delicious fare he feedes vpon in his purity his maiesty in aspiring so hie his humlitie in as it were debasing himselfe so low as to take notice of his lowest subiect the most inferiour part to kisse euen our to● as it is in the prouerbe to do vs good If we note the mighty potentates that rebe● and wage warre against him to ruinate his kingdome as Acrasia Angor Inedi● all in● continence and intemperance of Bacch● Cer●s and Venus Care Famine and the like If we poise all these together many m●e we cannot but imagin that the blood is either a caelestiall maiesty or a terrestriall deity that among all the humors it doth farre excell all and that hee which is possessed with a sanguine pure complection is graced with the princeliest and best of all For the externall habit of body for rare feature they go beyond al that haue this temper being most deckt with beautie which consists in a sweet mixture of these two colours white and redde and for the gifts of the minde it is apparent likewise to our vnderstāding that they do surpasse al hauing such pure tempered refined spirits neither do I thinke that either melancholick men according to Aristotle or cholericke men according to the opinion of Petrus Crinitus are inriched with a greater treasury of wit for if the soule do follow the tēperature of the body as certainely it doth they then must needs excell for inuention who haue this best complectiō Their spirits sure haue the most exact temper of all wherwith the soule as being in a paradise is cheefly delighted Among all the humors the sanguine is to be preferd saith the Antiqu●ry first because it coms nearest vnto the principles groūd works of our life which stands in an attempered heat moisture Secondly because it is the matter of the spirits where of chiefly dependes our life the operation of our vegetatiue animall vertue yea it is the chiefe instrument wherewith our reasonable soule doth operate for this is the philosophers climax In the elements consists the body in the

body the blood in the blood the spirits in the spirits soule Thirdly because it is a nutriment for all and singular parts of what qualities soeuer It is tearmed in Hebrue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sanguis for his nutrition and sure it is as it were the dam or nurse from whose teats the whole body doth suck out and draw life Fourthly in that this humor being spēt our life also must needs vanish away therfore some philosophers as it is wel known to the learned did not onely surmise but constantly auer that the soule was blood because it being effused the soule also doth flit from the body but that was a madde dreame no doubts if the sound of iudge ment had awoke them they woulde haue confessed themselues to haue been enwrap ped in a clowdy errour They also that affirme men of this constitution to be dullards and fooles to haue a pound of folly to an ounce of pollicy they themselues do seeme not to haue so much as a dram of discretion and do erre the whole heauens I confesse a sanguine complection may be so as any other in their discrasie yet not as it is a pure sanguine complection but as there is mixed with the blood either the grosse sediments of melancholy or the lenta materies pituitae tough phleume when the blood is also ouerheated by reason of hot choler or any other accidentary cause that generates a surplussage of blood or endues the spirits with a grosenes and too hot a qualitie more then their nature can well sustaine with keeping their perfection and puritie From whence the blood hath his originall it is apparently knowne especially to them which are skild in the autopsie of Anatomie the seat or fountaine head of it is vena caua a great hollow veine which strikes through the liuer from whence it is conueighed by many cesterns passages and conduit pipes throughout the whole body like spraies and branches from the stemme of a tree It hath his essēce from the chymus or juice of our aliment concocted his rednesse is caused by the vertue of the liuer assimilating it vnto his owne colour To speake more of the externall habit and demeanour of man that hath this complection he euer hath an amiable looke a flourishing fresh visage a beautiful color which as the poet saith doth greatly commend one if all other thinges be wanting N●e minor his aderat subli●is gratia formae Quae vel si desint coetera cuncta placet With vertues grac'd full debonaire was I Which all defac'd more highly dignifie They that are of this complection ar● very affable in speach and haue a gracious faculty in their deliuery much addicted to witty conceits to a scholerlike 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being fac●tosi not ac●tosi quipping without bitter taunting hardly taking any thing in dogeon except they be greatly moued with disgrace especially wisely seeming eyther to take a thing some times more offensiuely or lesse greiuously then they do ●loaking their true passion they bee liberally minded they carry a constant louing affection to them chiefly vnto whom they be endeared and with whom they are intimate and chained in the links of true amitie neuer giuing ouer till death such a conuerst freind except on a capitall discontent they are very hairy their head is commonly a 〈◊〉 or amber-coloured so their ●eards they are much delighted with a musicall consent and harmony hauing so sw●e a s●pathy themselues of soule and body And but for one fault they are ●ainted with they more well be tearmed Heroe● hominum and that is 〈◊〉 reason of that liuely abounding humour they are somewhat too prone to Venery which greatly alters their blessed state of cōstitutiō drinks vp their hu●dum rad●le enfeebleth the diuinest powers consumes their pith and spends the substance of the braine for sperma is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as many philosohhers not without great reason affeuere not ter ●ncoctus sanguis therefore as Macrobius saith Hippocrates cals 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that coitus est paruus morbus comitialis and but for this they were supereminēt aboue all men but their rare qualities and admirable vertues do more then coūterpoize this naturall fault For his resolutiō he is like the center immoueable neuer caried away with the heady streame of any base affection but lies at the anchor of confidence and boldnes he is neuer lightly variable but beeing proudly harnest with a steely hart he wil run vpō the push of great danger yea hazard his life against all the affronts of death it selfe if it stand ether with the honour of his soueraigne the welfare and quiet of his own country the after fame and renowne of himselfe els is he chary and wary to lay himselfe open to any daunger if the finall end of his endeauour and ●oile bee not plausible in his demur ring judgement Cap. 11. Of the Phlegmaticke humour THis humour is called of the Graecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and of the Latines vsually Pituita which as Aetius noteth is so tearmed quasi petens vitam by reason of the extreame cold moi sture it hath being correspondent to the watry element whereby it doth extinguish the naturall heate in man and being caried with the blood by his grosse substance doth thicken it and stop the currents passages of the blood at least doth taint it with a cōtrary passiue destructiue qualitie Yet of al the humors the phisicions say and it is not improbable this commeth nearest vnto the best for it is a dulcet humour which being concocted is changed into the essence of blood and serues especially for the nutriment of the Phlegmaticke parts as the braine the Nuch● or soft pappe and marrow of the chein bone but this is naturall which of al these humors doth sonest digres into another grosse cold nature which will in processe of time proue that pernicious humor wherof AEtius speaks their is thē to be noted phlegma naturale wherof we spok euē now non naturale of which these proceed Phlegm● 1. Crassum 2 Gypseum 3 Falsum 4 Acetosum 5 Tenue some others For the first that which is thicke is a crude substanee by multiplication in the ventricle the bowels or the braine or the blood whereof Hippocrates aduiseth men to euacuate themselues by vomit euery moneth in his booke de victus ratione priua●rum But for the bowels it needes not so much as for the braine and ventricle for nature hath so ordained that the yellow choler that flowes from the gall into the duod●num should purge the entralls and wash away these Phlegmaticke superfluities and this in time will turne to the nature of Gypseum phlegma which is of a slimier and in time of a more obdurate nature insomuch it will grow as hard as plaister with long remaining in one place like fen water that turns into the nature of mudde and this is it that staies in the ioints and causeth

Lo Craesus which was of Lydia king Met he not that he sat vpon a tree Which signified that he should honged be Many moe be rehearsed in that place which is worthy to bee read wherein the poet shewes himselfe both a Diuine an Historian a Philosopher and Phisicion In treating of dreames wee will not intetmeddle with these the ominous and fatall dreames wee read of in the sacred writ One portentous dream I will recite which comes to my memory and which I my selfe heard related of the party that dreamed it There was one that dreamed she was walking in a greenish meade all fragrant with beautifull flowers and flourishing plants who whiles she wondred and stood as amaz'd at the glory of the spring an auncient sire all withered aud lean-fac'd with eld the very embleme of death made toward her with a greene bow in his hand sharpning it at the end whoe as shee fled away from his pursuit did dartit often at her the branch three times comming very neare her yet did not touch her at all who when hee see he could not preuaile with his aime vanished eft away and left the bow behind and shee as astounded and affright with the dreame presently awooke now marke the sequel of it within three daies after shee was for recreation sake walking in a greenish inclosure hard by a pond side and on a suddaine her brain was so intoxicate distempered whether with a spice of a vertigo or what amazing disease soeuer I know not but shee was hurried into a deepe pond with her head forward being in great peril of drow ning and if shee had not caught fast hold by chance on a branch that hung ouer the water shee had beene drowned indeed These also are fatall dreames as when we dreame of Eagles flying ouer our heade it portends infortunatenes to dreame of mariages dauncing and banquetting foretels some of our kinsfolkes are departed to dreame of siluer sorrow if thou hast it giuen thy selfe of gold good fortune to loose an axill tooth or an eye the death of some speciall friend to dreame of bloody teeth the death of the dreamer to weep in sleepe ioy to contemplate ones face in the water and to see the dead long life to hādle lead some melācholick disease to see a Hare death to dream of chickins and birds commonly ill lucke all which and a thousand more I will not auer to be true yet because I haue found them or many of them fatall both by mine owne and others experience and to be set downe of I arned men and partly to shewe what an ominous dreame is I thought good to name them in this chapter Vaine dreames be whē a man imagins hee doth such things in his sleepe which he did the day before the species being strongly fixed in his phantasie as if he hauing read of a Chim●ra Sphynx Tragelaphus Centaurus or any the like poeticall fiction sees the like formed in his phantasies according to their peculiar parts such as when wee dreame wee are performing any bodily exercise or laughing or speaking c. these also may bee fatall as if wee dreame wee do not any thing with the same alacritie with the like cunning and in the same excellency in our sleepe as we did them in the day time they foreshew some perturbation of body so saith the Physicion in his treatise of dreames for hee saith that those dreames which are not aduerse to diurnall actions and that appeare in the purity of their sub iects and eminency of the conceiued species are intimates of a good state of health as to see the Sunne and Moone note clipsed but in their sheene glory to journey without impediment in a plaine soile to see trees shoot out and ladened with variety of fruites brookes sliding in sweete meades with a soft murmure cleare waters neither swelling too hie nor running nie the channell these sometimes are vaine and portend nothing at all some times they signifie a sound temperature of body The last kind which is most appertinent to our treatise is a dreame Naturall this ariseth from our complections when humours beene too aboundant in a wight as if one bee cholericke of complection to dreame of fire-workes exhalations comets streking blazing meteors skirmishing stabbing and the like If sanguine to dreame of beautifull women of flowing streames of bloud of pure purplecolors If Phlegmaticke to dreame of suroūding waters of swimming in riuers of torrents and suddaine showers c. If Melancholicke to dreame of falling downe from hie turretres of trauailing in darke solemne places to lie in caues of the earth to dreame of the Diuell o● blake furious beastes to see any the like terrible aspects Albertus magnus dreamed that he druncke blacke pitch who in the morning when he awoke did voide an abundance of blacke choler Concerning these forenamed cōplectionate dreames looke Hippocrates de in somniis sect 4 But these may belong more vn to a distemperature by a late misdiet in any complection confusedly then to a natural complection indeed as when a man after a tedious wearisome iourney doth inflame his body with too much wine in his sleep he shall see fires drawn swords and strange phantasmaes to affright him of what complection soeuer he be so if wee ouerdrinke our selues we shall dreame our nature beeing welnie ouercome that we are in great danger of drowning in the waues so if wee feed on any grosse meates that lie heauy vpon our stomacke and haue a dispepsy or difficult concoction wee shall dreame of tumbling from the top of hie hils or walls and waken withall before wee come to the bottome as we know by experience in our owne body though not of a melancholick constitution yet it should seeme too that this humor at that instant domineeres especially by reason of the great tickling of our splen in falling from any hie roome which we eath perceine when wee awake suddenly out of that dream They that are desirous further to quench their thirst concerning this point let them repaire vnto the fountaines I meane to the plentifull writinges of such learned authors as write of dreames more copiously as of Cardane that writes a whole treatise de insomni●s and the Alphabet of dreames and Peter Martyr part 1. com pla cap. 5. and many others Cap. XV. Of the exactest temperature of all whereof Lemnius speakes THey that neuer haue rellished the verdure of dainty delicates thinke homely fare is a secōd dish saith the Poet they that neuer haue beene rauished with the sense-bereauing melody of Apollo imagine Pans pipe to be surp●ssing musick they that neuer haue hearde the sweet-voicd Swan the Nightingale sing their sugred notes do perswade them selues that Grashops Frogs with their brekekekex coax can sing smoothly when they crouk harshly as Charon in Aristoph bidding Bacchus as he past to hell in his boate ouer Ach●on to row hard for then he should hear a