plausible delightfull and populer I will depaint and set downe y nature and condition of the Humours that rule and beare sway in mans bodye because they produce and bringe forth their lyke qualities For Bloud is partaker of Hoat and moyste Choler of hoat and Dry Phlegme of Cold and moyste and Melancholie of Cold and dry Therefore that Temperament which is Hoate and moyst may very well be referred to a Sanguine man Hoat and dry to a Cholerique and so forth of the rest but yet so that wee confesse the Complexion and temperament of maÌ„ not to grow or proceede elsewhere then of the Elemental qualities for of theÌ„ haue they theyr names not of y Humours First therefore there be iiii Elements Fyer Ayre Earth Water which of al things made are the original beginnings Next are the Qualities that is to say the myxture of Hoat Cold Mayst and Dry of whoÌ„ proceede the differences of Complexions Last of all the foure Humours whose force and Nature the seede comprehendeth and conteyneth wythin it vnto whom besyde the qualities which are to it in steede of an Instrumente and not of a woorker the chiefe cause next vnder God of the fourmyng and creation of al the parts is truly to be attributed These holesome humours to the conseruation of health and mayntenaunce of lyfe are right necessary and profitable For of them do consist and of them are nourished the entyer parts of all Creatures and for this cause so long as a man lyueth he can neuer want these without great detrimeÌ„t dauÌ„ger of his health Notwythstanding according to the course of time and season of the yere according to the quality of the ayre enclosing vs accordinge to the condition of the place where we dwel and according to the nature of ech age they are encreased or dimynished For Bloud being the best of all the humours and endued with heate and moysture is in his chiefe pryme force in the Spring season namely peculier and proper to lustye flourishinge age which commonly is of a sanguine and ruddie colour which neuerthelesse wanteth not also in the other Natures Phlegme being like vnto water is of nature colde and moyst and taketh his encrease in wynter and engendreth diseases like vnto it selfe Choler beinge of qualitie hoate and drye resembleth tyer hath his most force in Sommer which although in sight and touching it appeare moyst and of colour yelowish like Maluesey yet in operacion power and effect it is hoat of ardent nature Melancholie not vnlike to Earth cold drye encreaseth and taketh force in Autumne this is the dryer and grosser part of bloud and the dreggie refuse thereof All these differences of humours wheÌ„ a veine is opened for it is not all pure bloude that gussheth thereout is plainly of all men to be perceyued First before it be cold it doth shewe and represent to the eye an ayrie fomy Spirit which by and by vanisheth awaye then an exact pure licour of most perfect and excellente ruddynesse y which is pure and right bloude in which there swymmeth Choler and sometime toughe clammye Phlegme sometime liquide and thinne according to the nature condition and state of maÌ„ Last of all if you tourne vp the whole masse or lumpe you shall finde Melancholie altogether of colour blacke And thus euerye humour abundinge in the bodye bewrayeth it selfe by his owne proper colour insomuch that sometime y bloud that issueth out of the veynes liquefyeth and is dissolued into Choler or Phlegme or clottereth thickeneth into MelaÌ„cholie reteyneth either no colour or very litle of bloud And if a man were disposed by taste to haue further knowledge in these humours he maye with his tongue and palate aswell iudge and discerne the relyce and tallage thereof as he doth their colour by his eye For Bloud is sweete in a maner of the relyshe and tast of mylke because it is much like and of kinne vnto it Choler is bitter of the nature of Gall Phlegme vnsauery as water and without all qualitye so longe as it is not rotten nor myxt wyth other humours for then is it eyther salt or sowrishe Melancholie is sharpe eigreâ— tarte These tastes and relyshes there is no maÌ„â—hat perceyueth and feeleth not when as in voanyting perbraking hee casteth vp any of them yea in sweate and euen in the spettle these tastes are manyfestlye descryed perceiued for of these hâ—â—mours they haue participate their powers facultyes and with their qualityes are they endned ¶ Of a Hoate and moyst Complexion and by the way of the disposition and nature of a Sanguine man The ij Chapter HAuing heretofore set downe the descriptioÌ„ of symple Complexions and temperatures which bee so termed for that they consiste of one onely quality bearyng swaye and dominion more theÌ„ any of y rest by course of my purposed work I am next to entreate of them that are compouÌ„d For in the very beginning and first entrauÌ„ce of this worke my promyse and ful intent was to set downe and describe such a Complexion and state of body as was in euery point perfect and absolute and to repulfe keepe away al such harmes and inconueniences as in anye wyse mighte empayre health or brynge the bodye from his good state into worse case and taking I haue therfore thought it good here in this place first to inserte the temperament that is hoat and moyst because it is nâ—ereste and lykest to the best For no state of body sauing onely the best and chiefeste is better or more commendable then this nor any that longer prolongeth life and keepeth backe Didage so that the same consist and be wythin y limittes and compasse of temperatnes that is of hoate and moyst Therfore sithens this state among al that be compound is accoÌ„pted chiefeste wee muste stande vppon the discourse therof the more narowly and precysely and the rather because sundry PhysitioÌ„s make no mo but soure differences grounding their reasons and not altogether painly that it is not possible as Galene wytnessethâ— that any temperature or distemperature can long continue alone and symple For somuch as necessarilye it adopteth and taketh to it an other For y Hoate consumynge wastinge moysture engendreth and bryngeth drynesse Cold consuming wasting nothing after a sorte encreaseth humour Semblably the Dry quality in those ages that a Creature groweth and encreaseth maketh it hoater but when it decreaseth and draweth towarde decay it maketh colde and dryeth the solide partes of the body but the Receyuers and conceptacles of the humours it filleth wyth excrements which thing in Oldmen is plainly to be discerned perceyued who abouÌ„de and are ful of Phlegme spitting spatteringe aâ— theyr mouth with their Noses euer dropping and sneuillye Which thing later Phisitions eueÌ„ of our time as yet obseruing reiecting symple temperatures which notwythstanding may not wel be
theyr lustyest time which haue no care no orderly respect nor choise in preseruation and maintenaunce of theyr bodely health To this very ende and effecte is that holesome admonition of the wyseman Take heede to thy selfe least thou die before thy time By which sayinge hee warneth euery one so to order and dispose his lyfe that throughe riot and vntemperate dealing he hasten not his death before his time and before he haue in a maner ruÌ„ne halfe his race Now let euery man coÌ„sider with himself how myserable and how wearysome also it is to haue a bodye neuer in health but altogether martyred with sicknes and soares reason beinge mastered banished and oppressed to haue the mind defiled and vtterly wyth inward vices polluted Howe can lyfe I say be vnto such a man pleasaunte or sweete or howe can the minde bee quiet and well stayed Forsomuch therefore as nothing is better then health let euery man diligently looke to the same and marke how much he hath swarued and strayed from moderate order and temperature This consideration wyth himselfe shall worke in him much good effecte and stand him in greate steede that in case his bodye be lustie and healthfull hee maye in the same state stil continue and cheerish it wyth helpes and preseruations thereto conuenient But if it be falleÌ„ into worse plight and not in so good case of soundnes as before it was then to seeke wayes and meanes how to recure bring it againe to his former state of healthines For as humours are easely chaunged one into another and suffer mutuall transmutacion throughe moderate exercise and such conuenient meats and nourishmeÌ„ts as to natural heat are cherishable So agayne the ill distempered state of bodye throughe holesome diet and order is made lustier and refourmed into better And euen as wee see members fractured burste wrenched and dislocated to be brought into theyr right places agayne so may health beinge empayred bee restored and reduced into his former integritie For the mindes and bodyes of men be in a maner as it were yong Sproutes trees which being artificially handled and cunninglye dealt wythall yea although afore wield and vnfruitfull yet as Virgill sayth If they be graft a nevve and put in other chaunged soyle From nature vvilde vvhich earst they had They quight and cleane recoyle And yeld such fruite as best you lyke by force of handy toyle Contrarywyse if the husbande be negligent carelesse his grounde becommeth barrayne rugged ouergrowen wyth wredes and disabled froÌ„ bearinge any grayne that is good or profitable The like reason is to be yelded of the mindes of men For there be many excellent witts and very towardly natures which by vnthrifty company and lewd education do degenerate from their good inclination of nature and become altogether rebellious wilfull lewde and barbarous Some againe whose nature is proue and inclinable to euill yet by helpe of learninge and good education are reclaymed and wonne from theyr froward disposition become worthy members stayes ornamentes in theyr Country And therefore no man is to thincke or perswade himselfe that an ill nature may not be altered sitheÌ„ce rude wittes not yet trayned to any discipline and learning may like soft waxe or as tractable and moyst claye be fashioned framed and made applyable to learne any knowledge and vertue any ciuilitye and by artificiall instruction bee trayned to conceyue Artes and behauiour both comely and commendable Thus likewyse in graffinge and planting which is as wittie a deuise as proper a feate as any we see wild trees to chaunge their olde nature and to beare fruite both holsome and toothsome Amonge wyeld Beastes also we see how the dilligence forecast wit and pollicie of man maketh them tame seruiceable An example hereof maye wee see in Mago a worthy Duke amonge the CarthaginiaÌ„s who as Plinie sayth was the first among them that durste wyth his hande stroake and handle a tamed Lion for which Acte his Countreyfolks attaynted him as one whom they thought not amisse to restrayne from liberty and debarre from authority for that his wysedom and wyse dealings seemed so excellent that they iudged him a man able to perswade any thing that him listed who had thus straungely trayned and tamed a wylde Lion. But that persons of Melancholique nature or of any other constitution whatsoeuer so that the distemperature haue not beene of to long coÌ„tinuaunce and the party to farre striken in age may be altered and brought to a better state there is no maÌ„ that needeth to doubt For who doth not plainly see that strong and very hoate wyne wyth cold water or other milder licour is may be alayed Semblably againe wyne that is smal myngled and of watry relice yet beinge put to other licour that is stronger and of a better grape is quickened and made both better and sharper And so humours in a man being eyther of themselues euil or meeting wyth others of other quality are through theyr coÌ„mixtion therewith qualifyed and waxe milder and leauinge theyr owne naturall qualitie are altered into an other of straunger nature effect and operation Thus is the heate of Choler by accesse and myxture of bloude phlegme mitigated Thus is phlegme by admixtion of yelow Choler heated and much â—bated from his owne colde and moyste quality becomming therby lesse hurtful to the body And in like sort may we conclude of all the rest Such nourishments and meates as engender good bloude iuyce are hereunto very auayleable out of which the humours spyrits which be the incensours and stirrers forwarde of the minde obtayne and receyue theyr nature Now there is nothinge more effectuall to make good perfecte digestion and to stirre vp the Spirites then sleepe exercise and wyne so the same be pure good and moderatelye vsed as the other also must bee For so doth it stirre vp make syncere liuely and cleare Spirites from whence proceedeth cheerefulnes ioy quicknes and myrth of the minde For the meates nourishments which by nature are laboured into humours being eaten and washed downe wyth good and holsome wyne haue freer passage into all the parts of the body and distribute theyr nourishment into them more effectually There is nothing therefore that so much banisheth phaÌ„syes sorrow out of a mans minde as pleasaunt merye companye and moderate vse of wyne And of this did that precise and sterne natured Zeno giue a notable example whose minde was so muche estraunged from all pleasaunte conceites ordinarye curtesies of coÌ„mon humanitye that hee was neuer at all moued wyth any affections no not such as be naturallye incidente and engraffed in euery man And yet when he was a litle whittled wyth wyne he began to chaunge his copye and to be as mery and as bone a companion as who was best And beinge on a time asked by one of his merye mates how it happened that he
and quality of the ayre or region be very hoate it likewyse bringeth forth and causeth hoate and quicke motions yet such as by reason of their tenuitie and thinnesse by litle litle wil be cooled And this is the cause that some of them when their bloud is vp will rashlye and vnaduisedlye attempte any thinge and not eare for any perills so they may bring to passe what their desire is to compasse Also when they conceiue in minde the doing of any thing as they be at the beginninge marueylous wilful tooto heady with mighte main to set forward their purpose hardly admitting anye counsel to the contrary so againe their minds many times be wauering vnstedfast and vnquiet except their inclinacions by the reyne of reason be the better bridled Their fickle and vnstedie heades novv this novv that deuise They flote in fancie to and fro and vvrangle sondry vvise Which thinge is commonly incident to angry persons and such as be desyrous of reuenge and to suche also as haue somewhere fixed their loue inordinately whose minds flootinge and ballancinge vp and downe with varietie of phantasies are easely and quickly caryed hither and thyther by affection neyther stedfast nor aduysedly resoluing vppon any certaine resolution But this Countrye borne people if they earnestly frame themselues to the attaynemente of anye Artes though the same be neuer so hard and curious yet do they profite in the same wonderfully cary away great commendation Such as haue thinne spirites temperatelye hoate haue sharpe and ready wittes and prompt and flowing vtteraunce vppon whom also these gifts of nature are bestowed that for deuyse and inuention they be very sharpe and ingenious for braue settinge oute and beautifyinge of a matter plentyfull and copious and suche as for the explayning of their meaninges and purposes haue talke and tongue at will. And as touching the inward inclination of their mindes and maners they be liuely felowes lusty dapper nimble lackinge no grace of pleasaunte gesture Manye of them which lacke good bringing vp and haue not beene trayned in learning and ciuilitie are of disposition wauering vnconstant captious deceitfull falseharted destrous of alterations and tumultes babblatiue and full of muche vaine tattling in consultacion and counsell so suttle and craftie that whatsoeuer they once conceyue in mynde or purpose to do without delay that do they iudge best forthwith to be enterprysed out of hande to be atchieued and whereunto so euer they addict their mindes therin proue they right excellente Seing therefore the diuersitie of spirits and the differences of wittes and maners proceedeth of the condition and nature of the Place Ayre Countrey and nourishmente let euery man foresee in himself which way he may best prouide for the maintenaunce of his health and to shunne all such thinges as may in any wise harme annoye crushel or empaire either his health or Spirits It is therefore most expediente to obserue the best order of diet and life that conueniently maye be folowed and to liue in the holesommest ayre For these be the things that restore health when it is decayed or empaired and which make the Spirites most pure and syncere For if the bodye do abounde and be full of ill humours if the Spirites bee vnpure and the brayne stuffed full of thicke fumes proceedinge of humours the bodye and Soule consequentlye cannot but suffer hurte and bee thereby likewise damnifyed Hence proceedeth as from the verye cause such rauing dotage distraughtnes of righte witts hence issueth blockishnes foolishnes madnes and furie in so much that they thinck sometimes to see those thinges that are not before their senses to see and to heare suche woordes as no man speaketh For imaginatiō in them is marred common sense which iudgeth and discerneth all thinges is preiudiced memorye decayed sighte dymmed their eyes dazelled and all the faculties of the Soule that is to saye all the naturall powers whereby it accomplisheth all his functiōs are enfeebled perfourme their offices duties and operations both faintly and remissely But if the Spirite animall be perfectly pure ayrie such as is the sent of Bloud exactlye laboured not onely the sight of their eyes is cleare and good but all the other Senses both external and internall are perfecte and perfourme their functions and ministeries orderlye duelie and conueniently ¶ Of the Spirit vniuersall generally inspired into the whole world all the parts therof Which being from God aboue breathed put into man infuseth and endueth his minde wyth speciall and peculiar giftes And by the waye also in this Chapter is entreated of good and ill Angells which being entermingled with the humours spirites cause sondry chaūges and mutations in mens minds The thirde Chapter THat power of the Spirite which is infused and breathed by God aboue into these lower bodyes is it that disposeth and moueth this frame and masse of the world fostereth strēgtheneth and cheerisheth all that is wythin the compasse and coape of Heauen conteyned stretchinge and extendinge his force farre and wyde For why this gouerneth and ruleth all thinges maketh all thinges fruitfull and vnto the same imparteth vitall heate Neyther is there anye cause why a man should thinck or perswade himself that there is any other power able to do these things then that Spirite by whom from the very beginninge the world and all such thinges as are visiblie seene wyth the eyes and sensiblie perceyued by the sences were brought into so comely and beautiful order For by the VVord of the Lord vvere al things made and by the breath of his mouth al the comlynes beautie and furniture thereof For he doth maintayne and strēgthen al thinges and giueth povver vnto euerye thinge to encrease and multiplye in their ovvne kinde and to maintayne and conserue themselues Thus the wonderfull Creatour of Nature by his word and Spirite put into all thinges y were created a power precreatorie the order of their encreasinge propagation for continuaunce of theyr kinde posteritie and succession y is to witte the Spirite of GOD beinge diffused into euery Creature susteyneth and maynteyneth Plantes and all liuing creatures aswell man as beasts by whom they liue and haue their beinge There is nothinge therefore in the whole worlde but it feeleth the strong power of God is satisfyed wyth the plenteousnes and fulnesse therof For when Heaūe and Earth were made and the first Elemēts that is the first beginnings of things constituted The Spirite of God moued vppon the waters that is to saye made moyste and liquide matter otherwyse barreyne to be fruitefull The very meaning of which saying Basill surnamed the Greate did verye well and liuelye expound in these woordes The Spirit of GOD sayth hee moued vpon the top or vpper face of the water That is to say did nourish and giue a vitall fruitfulnes and a quickeninge Soule to the moyste Element and to all other
Creatures in such sort that all thinges wyth the Spirite of God were moystened warmed euen as a Bird or Fowle that sitteth vpon her egges who gyueth vitall power and heate to that whereuppon she doth sit and couer An example whereof we are to take at a Hen which giueth life vnto her egges bringeth oute frō thence the shape of a perfect creature Now whereas the Spirite of God is said to swymme vppon the waters or to rest vppon a moyst Element this is to be vnderstoode of the fecunditie that is infused and put into it But whereas the vniuersall nature of thinges and all Creatures that breath and haue being do enioy this gifte of Diuine spirit through the vertue thereof haue their essēce yet namely and aboue al others Mē by singuler priuiledge speciall prerogatiue are fully endued wyth all things haue their minds taken out of a porcion of Gods owne spirite as Cicero sayth or rather accordīg to the testimony of the holy Scriptures haue receyued the breath of life and an Image after the similitude of God himselfe The Poet Ouid had from the Hebrevves a litle sparke of vnderstanding touching this opinion and that did he vtter in these Verses Gods Spirite vvithin vs vvorketh still His motions in our hartes vve finde This sacred feede directes out vvill And vvith his povver enflames our mind Which sentence S. Paule beinge studyed in a more heauenlye kind of Philosophie went about to inculke into the minds of the Athenians with intent to draw thē frō their old rooted superstitions inueterate errours to perswade thē in beholding the goodly frame beautiful workemāship of the world with al the furniture and ornamēt therof wherin Almighty God sheweth out to al men a taste or proofe piece of his diuinitie therby to acknowledge his diuine power and by seinge his woorkes to agnyze his omnipotencie For in this sort he preached vnto them God vvhich made the vvorld and all that are in it and is Lorde of Heauen and Earth dvvelleth not in Temples made vvith handes neither is vvorshipped vvith mens hands as though hee needed any thing seing he himselfe giueth life and breath to all men euery vvhere For in him vve liue moue and haue our being as a certaine of your ovvne Poets sayth for vvee are also 〈◊〉 Generation Now man at the hands of his Creatour being furnished wyth such excellent gifts and garnishmentes of minde as first to be endued wyth a natural and internall spirite and then to be moued and inspyred with a Diuine spirite hath also notwithstanding externall spirites recoursing into his body and mynde Men of olde tyme called them by the name of Genij the bookes of the holy Byble termeth them in respect of their office and mynisterye Angels which is asmuch to say as Messengers because they bringe the cōmaūdmentes and will of God vnto vs. S. Paule calleth them mynistring Spirits appointed to certayne offices and purposes and to mynister for their sakes which shal be heyres of Saluation Cicero and others that neuer knew God nor religion aright calleth them familiar or domestical Gods hauing vnder their protection the care of mans lyfe and safetye and giueth them the name of Lares or Penates or Dij Tutelares And of them they make two sorts the good Angels and the badde because the good pricketh a man forward to grace goodnes vertue honesty the other eggeth him to lewdnes mischiefe shame villany and all kinde of loose dishonestie For this is their onely drift and pretence specially to plunge a man in as much mischeife as they can drawe him from God as farre as may be Now for so much as Spirits be without bodies they slyly and secretly glyde into the body of man euen much like as fulsome stenche or as a noysome and ill ayre is inwardly drawē into the body and these not onely incense and pricke a mā forward to mischiefe but also like most pestilent Counsellers promyse to the party reward impunitye By this meanes the wylie Serpente enueigled Adam Sayinge You shall not die therfore but ye shall be as Gods knovving good and euill For the Deuill hauinge his name hereof is most subtile and crafty and lacketh not a thousand sleightes and pollicies to bryng a mā to mischiefe Yea his fetch is slyly to insinuate himselfe into our mindes cogitations counselles and willes albeit it is not easye for him to bring his purpose aboute for so muche as Eod alone knoweth the heartes of men and vnto him onely be all our deuyses and thoughts open and manifest Hee is sayth Paule the discerner of the thoughtes and of the intentes of the hearte neyther is there any Creature vvhich is not manifest in the sight of him but all thinges are naked open to his eyes Which thinge also Dauid declareth God sayth he is the tryer of the verye hart and Reynes That is to saye hee perfectlye searcheth out and knoweth all thinges findeth a way into the most secrete corners and innermost places And hee bringeth in an example taken from the intrayles that bee fardest of For there is nothing in mās body inwarder then the heart and Reynes in somuch that the concocted meate must be conueyghed by many crooked bywayes wyndings before it can be brought thyther Furthermore he specially nameth those partes for that out of them chiefely the thoughtes and cogitacions of the mynde and all lycentious lustes and dissolute desyers do proceede and springe which are not nor cannot lye hyd or vnespyed of God. Forsomuch therefore as these deuilles bee ayrie spyrits and aswell by long vse and practise as also by pollicie of nature are of greate experience and by long tryall know much euen by coniectures and tokēs which they espy in the eyes countenaunce gesture and other motions of the body of man they slylie gather and ghesse the inward dispositions and thoughtes of the mynde whych to a man of great experience and witte is no great hard matter to do And therfore euen as lewde and deceitfull marchaunts practyse all wayes and meanes to spoyle others leauinge no occasion vnattempted to cyrcumuent and catche them at vnwares and vnprouyded so lykewyse the deuilles lye in wayte to catche vs at a vauntage and the godlyer anye one in conuersation of life maners is the busyer and earnester are they wyth theyr poyson to stinge him In such sorte the deuill was not awhit afrayde by al maner of shiftes to tempte euen Christe himselfe thinking to haue perswaded or inueigled him with Ambition Gluttonie or desyre of rule Souereignty Neyther was he ashamed to assaulte Paule also partly carying him into a boastinge and pryde of mynde aboue measure and partlye by incensynge his aduersaryes with spightfull rage and cruelty against him The holy man Iob also was wonderfully shaken vp and driuen to suffer the violent brunts
of his moste terrible temptations but God who rewardeth and recompenceth all thinges made an end of that conflict prescribing the Feend his limitts how farre he should extend his tyranny Whereby we are to learne and vnderstande that deuils can nothinge preuaile against vs neither do any further harme to vs thē it pleaseth God to suffer and permit them to do Now albeit their vse and fashion is manye sondry wayes to assault men which way to hurte them yet specially they seeke trye all such meanes as they can to vanquishe and seduce them with those inclynations and properties that are peculiar naturall and indifferente to all Thus do they incite and egge those that abound with Bloud and be sanguine complexioned to riot wātonnesse drunkēnes wastfulnes prodigality flithy and detestable loues horrible lustes incest and buggerie Them that be Cholericke to testines anger to brawling and chydinge contention rayling quarellinge fightinge murther robbery sedition discord and to put all these in proofe and practize they will minister many allurements and sondry occasions Them that be Melācholique vnto enuy emulation bitternesse hatred spright sorcery fraude subtlety deceipte treason sorrow heauinesse desperation distrust and last of all to a lamētable and shamefull end Them that be phlegmatick they helpe forward to slouth drowsynesse bitternesse sluggardy slacknes sleapines rechlesse vnhedynes and to a despysinge of all vertuous and good exercyses And furthermore as pure subtyle ayre breatheth into lyuīg Creatures into greene herbs a liuely and holsome spirite so likewise the good Angels imparte holesome ayre and with a pleasaūt sweete inspiratiō refresh our inward minds Againe as a pestilente winde induceth sickenesse and infection so do euill Spirites exhale breath out a pestiferous poyson to the mindes of men bring mischiefe and destruction For by them came the first spot ruine and destruction of mankinde so that there was no other way to bryng him to his first excellency dignity and perfection but onely by that most wōderful restorer Christ. And because the imbecillitye weakenes of mās nature is such that hee is not able to withstande the subtile ambushes deuises of this his moste raginge ennemy Sathan Christe being ascended into Heauen caused to be sent downe a Comforter to hold vs vp and giue vs inuincible courage against all the deuils crafty suggestiōs This is he that inspyreth into our mynds sondry good giftes assuringe vs of the good will of God towards vs and shakinge away all distruste bringeth vs by Christ vnto the father For he stirreth vp and comforteth our mindes and encourageth vs in such sort that boldlye with an assured truste we dare to hope and aske all thinges of him and cry vnto him for helpe by the name of Father Moreouer y Spirite which God hath inspyred into our harts doth certify and witnesse wyth our Spyrits that wee be his Sonnes and Heyres yea Coheyres wyth Christe The spyrite of God therefore confyrming oure mindes doth engraffe in vs fayth grounded vppon the word of God which fayth engendreth an assured trust confidence toward him wyth an vndoubted hope to obtaine his promises And forasmuche as these vertues be not ydle they do produce and bringe forth moste plentifull fruites of Charity to the perfourmaunce wherof the holy Ghoste the Comforter with his strēgth armeth vs and with his ayde protecteth vs in the truth to continue and perseuer constant stedfast and immutable wythout being seduced and caryed lightly into erronious opiniōs and superstition which is nothinge els as Eusebius witnesseth but a false and counterfeyte shadowe of true Relligion grounded vpon no sounde doctrine or foundation of Scripture In this sorte according to the saying of the Poet Horace Most of v's Poets old and yonge Mistake for vertue vice and wronge VVith cloake of vertue clad is vice deceyuing many one By bearing face and outvvarde shevve of honestie alone Seueritie it counterfaictes in deede yet nothing lesse Behauour counmaunce rayment gate All smelles of vertuousnes Yea borovved names of honestie and Vertue geeuen bee To vices as the cancard Chuffe and Snudge vvith vvealth and fee Is compted one that geuen is to thrift and husbandrie And it oftentimes falleth out sayth Cicero that many in seeking after the best thinges misse their purpose and are deceyued not so much vppon wyll as by mystaking theyr way and vsinge a wrong course Thus doth S. Paule deeme the Jewes not altogether forlorne and estraunged from godlynesse but ledde wyth a certayne feruentnes and zeale to Godward although not accordinge to knowledge so that they do not altogether erre in their affection towarde Godlynes but rather vppon ignoraunce and lacke of better vnderstandinge and because they go blindlye to worke and folter in their dealinges without any iudgemente they are destitute of the Spirit of god Wythin the leuell and daunger of this vice are al they that obstinately either maintaine or wilfully suffer anye olde inueterate errours such as can abyde nothinge of all that to be altered which by little and litle hath crept into vse by custome had some continuance Which mē if they had within them this bounteous Spirite no doubte there would not be such diuersity of opinions and doctrine in mens myndes as nowe there be But let no man thinck these thinges to be superfluously spoken or cleane besyde the purpose neyther let him lay in my dishe this sayinge of Horace A Flagon first began VVhy comes novv out a pitcher small or little pretie Canne For the heauenly Spirite is the guyde gouernour of the Spyrites of mans bodye which are then more qualefyed quieted and kept vnder better order when they be gouerned and ledde by the conducte and direction of this Spyrite For if they once begin tumultuously to ruffle styre vp sedition wythin the bodye This Spirite their fumishe fits restraynes And them to quiet order traynes ¶ Of the Elements of Humaine body and of the first qualities of beginnings of generation where of man consisteth and is made The fourth Chapter ALl the Complexion temperamente of mās bodye proceedeth from the powers of the Elementes and not of the Humours and of them is the whole bodye tempered and compounded The Elements be in number foure Fyre Earth Ayre and Water and vnto them are appendant so many qualytyes Hoate Colde Moyst Drye which of the Ayre encompassyng vs and of oure meates nourishinge vs do take and conceyue eyther profite or harme For being eyther in excesse or defecte the qualityes are depraued and corrupted and throughe theyr corruption engender many and sondry diseases But the thinges which dispose and affect our bodyes are sayth Galen of two sortes the one takyng his beginning euen at our Natiuity and byrth deryued and issuying from the very prynciples of Generation as from a roote which possiblie cannot bee auoyded the other such as man may declyne as
but procure to it selfe quietnes tranquillity which as Tullye witnesseth is the chiefeste pointe that helpeth vs in this lyfe to lyue well and happely Which none can haue sauing he that can subdue and mayster his affections and shake of the tyrannous yoke of lewd vices this is by no other meanes to be brought to passe but by a fyrme assured truste and beliefe in God onelye and the same to bee stedfastly grounded vppon his holye Worde and Heauenlye Spyrite by whose directioÌ„ a maÌ„ shal not fayle to haue the gyft of TeÌ„peperaunce to qualefye all his wilful affections to withdraw and keepe him backe from all licentious lust Insolencie immoderate ioye excessiue myrth hatred angre desyre of reuenge greedye scrapyng couetousnesse and all other victous affections whatsoeuer And by this meanes both the partes of man that is to saye both Soule Body which by a certayne Sympathie or mutuall consent and conspyracie agree together shal be in perfect state and soundnes withoute beinge wyth any Sicknesse or greeuous malady distempered ¶ Of a cold Complexion The viij Chapter BEcause the cold CoÌ„plexion is cleane coÌ„trary and opposite to the hoate Constitution and for that this is the worst of al others furthest from that state which is perfectest best I wil addresse my next speach to discourse vpon it to theÌ„d if it be possible it may be amended and brought to a better case For sithens lyfe doth consist in a temperature of hoate moyste whereby bodies encrease to their growth and attaine to manlye strength and stature worthelye and by good reason may this be accompted of al others the worst for that in euery point and respecte that tendeth to the furtheraunce of strength mayntenaunce of health it helpeth no whit neyther geeueth any encrease thereto at all For consideringe that in it there lacketh heate and all the powers and faculties naturall it is not able for the weakenes of the Instrumentes and Organes to attracte digest that nourishment y is moyste nor to make it lyke and consubstantial witht he body and meÌ„bers And euen as naturall heate of all the faculties in the bodye is strongest to do his functions so Cold is cleane contrarye vnto it and fit for no function specially concerninge the Acte of Nature in the alteration of nourishment For in it is no maner of vtilitie or help touchiÌ„g the conseruation maintenaunce of the bodye eyther in the offyce of concoction and digestion or in anye of the other vertues or powers of Nature But yet in this quality although it waÌ„t of integritye and temperature there is alwayes some heate but the same is very fainte weake and throughe colde blunte and feeble For if heat shoulde totallye fayle or bee vtterlye extinguished life coulde not continue Therefore in this body heate is not altogether consumed and wasted but cold is aboue it and ouercommeth it and in the mixture of the other qualityes is more in quaÌ„tity and stronger then any other and thereuppon hath it his name to be termed Cold. And therefore so longe as lyfe remayneth in man and anye portion of vitall heate in the body it is good and expedient by al wayes and meanes to styrre vp cheerishe naturall heate with nourishment exercyse conuenient that it be not through cold oppressed and troden downe For there is no greater enemyes thereto then Slouth ydlenes and cold meats as hereafter shal be more at large declared Some I thincke do marueile how men of this constitution and complexion can continue and liue sithens their bloud being cold theyr vertues Animal and Spirable be decayed and dead But let euery maÌ„ note that there be many Creatures of most cold nature as the Salamandet the Fyer worme the Torpedo of the Sea and many fishes moe wherof some be of nature so extreeme colde and chillinge that if they touch fyer they streightwayes quenche it as it were yce some do so astonne the lymmes of them that touche them that they haue no feelinge nor sense in their handes or lymmes a good whyle after There is no kinde of Fyshes which by myne owne experience I am able to aduouch and testifye that hath warme bloud sauynge Whorlepooles Porpeses and Seales or Sea Calues which haue hayrie skiÌ„nes Tonyes Dolphines and as many as are rough skinned or thicke leatherye hyded such as amonge those that liue aswell vppon land as in water are the Beuer and the Otter These haue warme bloude but all others haue cold And for this cause Monsters of the Sea being taken oute of the Water do by reason of theyr inward heate and store of warme bloude liue longe whereas other sortes of fishes aswell of the Sea as of fresh waters assoone as they bee taken oute of the Water or cast on shore geeue but certaine gaspes and die immediatly which is an vndoubted argumente and certaine token that in them is very muche cold and congealed humour and of heate very litle For which reason they bee not able to bee kept longe but will soone putresse if they be not streightwayes salted or put in pickle By this may easie contecture be made of what plight bodely state those persoÌ„s be which stil eate fyshe and lyue a solytarye life withoute keeping company with others and being forbidden fleshe which the Father of Nature hath created and appointed wyth thankesgeeuinge of all men to be eaten do commonly feede vpon rotten stinking Saltfysh Which kind of people for many of that stampe and disposition haue for many yeares vsed may aduyse in Phisicke I am wont to perswade counsell that they shoulde drincke after them good stronge and pure wyne and abandoning all idlenesse and slouth vse continuall Exercise I haue knowen sondry of them that throughe grosse and claminie glewysh phlegme haue gotten the Letharge or drowsse euill the Apoplexie the Crampe Polsey and Wâ—ye mouthes There is none of these persons but hee aboundeth and is replete wyth much Phlegme and Phlegmaticke excrementes which maketh them lumpish and sleapie forgetfull â—low of body and mynde pale coloured except some time at the comminge of some of their especiall frendes they bee heated with wyne and thereby haue dumpes dryuen out of their myndes For by this meanes their colour is made fresher and all heauie drowsynesse banished and chased out of their myndes If therfore thou desyre to haue a paterne of a colde complexioned person ryghtlye pourtrayed oute vnto thee set before thine eyes men that by profession of lyfe liue in this order and by their former wonted trade of dyet are broughte vnto this habite yea although aforetime they were of a disposition and maner of lyfe cleane contrary These men doe liue but their life is like the Periwinkle or Snaile whose substaunce consisting of a congealed licour concrete moysture is liquefied and resolued into the same Which thing is to be
tryed and prooued by castinge vpoÌ„ them Salt or glasse or Alume for therwith they presently resolue and consume into a liquide substaunce And as men and mute Creatures so also sondry Plantes and great stemmed hearbes are endued with this quality which by reason of their deletory coldnes bringe destruction vnto Creatures as â—eÌ„bane MaÌ„drake Napellus Solanum Mortiferum Aconitum the iuyce of black Popie called Opium which although in respect of their temperament and clementary qualitie they bee colde in the fourth and higheste degree yet by the benefite of vitall heate dissusing it selfe from celestiall thinges into these lower bodyes they doe liue and flourish in a freshe verdure For in euery nature especially humayne there is a certaine celestial or diuine vertue ouer beside that which is constituted of feede and of the feminine bloud For the warme calefactiue Spyrit which a litle afore we sayde was infused into the whole worlde and into all the particuler parts thereof laboureth vppon the Elementes and geeueth life to all thinges and finally woorketh in them that vertue and efficacie whereby throughe propagation they encrease and procreate kindes like to themselues and produce a Creature of the same nature they themselues be For the first procreation of lyuing creatures being produced made of Elementall concretion and of the Parentes Seede which is a portion or parte of the purest best concocted bloude then doth nature whose skilful workmaÌ„ship no hand nor curious craftesmaÌ„ is able by imitation to reseÌ„ble or reach vnto hauing her original diuine supernal applyeth the woorke she hath in framynge bringeth her thinges to perfect passe conueigheth the powers animall wyth the Spyrites vital and vertues effectuall into the matter she hath in hande by whose mynistery shee perfectly finisheth all the lymmes proportioneth all the lineaments fitteth them to the rest of the meÌ„bers of the bodye gyueth such shape proportion to the thinges animated as daily we see represeÌ„ted set before our eyes This wonderfull force of nature which we elswhere haue shewed to yssue flow froÌ„ the most abundant fountaine of Diuinity beinge diffused into ech part of the whole bodye moueth slyrreth the masse thereof directeth gouerneth the mynd and vnderstanding maketh the same applyable to sondry actions by whose benefite and help eueÌ„ those thiÌ„gs do liue haue their being which are stiffe and nummed with cold althoughe heate in theÌ„ be faint feeble which least it should altogether droupe be vtterly extiÌ„guished least thou cold quality wherto the drye is of affinity should toomuch preuaile encrease must be styrred vp excyted with hoate fomentatioÌ„s For wheÌ„ natural moysture is all wasted inward heat extinct theÌ„ death approcheth the whole frame of the body teÌ„deth to dissolution ruine It coÌ„meth theÌ„ to passe eueÌ„ as SalomoÌ„ by an elegaÌ„t apt similitude describeth that when the coÌ„position knittinge together of the body is lewsed a sonder streÌ„gth decayed gone theÌ„ shal maÌ„ be tourned again into dust froÌ„ wheÌ„ce he was taken made the Spirite shal retourne into his euerlastinge dwellinge to God which made it But to theud euery maÌ„ may perfectlye know the nature coÌ„dicion of this coÌ„plexion and constitucion I wil compendiously as it were by the way set downe certaine marks tokeÌ„s wherby it shal easely be knowen A cold ComplexioÌ„ if it be coÌ„pared to a hoate hath al properties coÌ„trary For eueÌ„ as heat beiÌ„g diffused into ech part of the body imparteth his quality vnto the humours maketh the body y parts therof to be of colour ruddie so cold imperteth his quality vnto the meÌ„bers humours maketh the body of colour pale and vnsightly But if we be disposed particulerly to marke obserue al the notes and tokens thereto incident we shall finde in the colde complexioned body all things contrary and diuerse from the hoate For the bodye is pilde and smoth the hayre loose and soft of colour partakinge wyth redde and white and quickly shedding The skinne in touching cold vnder it some store of fatnes For when heat in maÌ„s body is faiÌ„t dul fatnes engeÌ„dreth which as it much happeneth to the feminine Sexe so also breedeth it in many others that liue ydle at ease withoute labour or exercise And for this cause through immoderate coldnes the bodye waxeth grosse fat and corpulent againe by immoderate heate which melteth awaye and dissolueth fat the body is made leane and drye For there be manye thinges not comminge to man by nature or from his natiuitye and beginning but accidentally and otherwise procured as eyther by chaunginge of the ordinary custome of life or by alteration of diet or by heate labour slouth solitarinesse lumpishnes feare sorrowe care and sondry others many wayes chaunginge the state of the body making it somtime slender leane sometime fat corpulent Which thinges also to the making of the colour of the face bodye fayre or foule good or badde are of no lesse force and efficacie For what thinges soeuer do excite and stirre vp natiue heate as Laughter myrthe exercise wyne c. do make the face pleasauntlye freshlye coloured but such thinges as be cold suppresse heate as cold ayre and nypping wynd toomuch drynkinge of water immoderate sleepe ouermuch eatinge of cold meates feare sadnesse carefulnes such like make the body to be white coloured Thus they that be of cold Complexions are white coloured vnlesse this quality grow surmount to an excesse and great intension For then it declyneth to aswart and leaden colour such as we see in men in the cold Wynter the wynde being at North whose cheekes Noses lyppes fyngers and eares are swart and wanne wyth stiffe cold benummed But yet this commodity they haue by colde that it maketh them very hungry greedye of meate and not easely satisfyed albeit they do not well digeste nor concocte it And if the tunicles of their Stomack together wyth the cold haue in them any sowrish or sharpe humour they are in eating insaciable and very rauenous feeders which affecte is called Canina appeteÌ„tia the Dogges appetite or the hungry Sicknes which is qualefyed and taken away by drynking the purest stroÌ„gest Wyne To proue that appetite is sharpened wyth colde maye well appeare by Salades and sondry other sower and tarte Condimentes which wee vse in Sommer season to prouoke appetite wythal And as natiue heate maketh men nymble and actyue so cold causeth them to be slouthfull loytering sluggishe drowsy and vnapt to any labour or exercyse because they lacke the Instruments wherwyth to do any such functions Such persons haue foltering tongues and nothing ready in vtterauÌ„ce a nyce soft and womaÌ„nish voyce weake feeble faculties of Nature ill memory blockish wit doltish mynde courage for lack of heate slendernes of vital spyrit feareful and tymorous at
throughlye and exactly concocted and of the nature of those parts wherin they be laboured become in colour as wee see white and mylkie Thus also the Lyeuer being of substauÌ„ce as it were coagulate bloud engendreth a raddy liquide substaunce the Lunges causeth a fomie froathie licour the commissures or setting together of the Ioyntes a glewish humour the toÌ„gue spettle the holow bones produce and bring forth white marowe as the Ridge bone of the backe the brayne do where al 's thinges are exactlye laboured For in Lambes and other yong cattel the marow is not white but bloudy Euery part therefore of the body worketh his humour like to it selfe and transmuteth it into the nature wherof it selfe is No man therfore ought to thincke it absurdly spoken in sayinge and affyrminge Phlegme by the force and facultie of the Lyeuer to be altered and chaunged into Bloud And this liquide thinne humour in the bodyes of all Creatures is to purpose and vse no lesse profitable then necessary For being conueighed euery way into the Veynes it qualefyeth and alayeth the heate of Bloud Choler finally it maketh the Ioyntes nymble and styrringe kepinge them from beinge stiffe and lumpish through drynesse and last of al it nourisheth all Phlegmaticke members and them continueth in lusty state And although there be commonly no certaine place assigned where Phlegne resteth yet the greatest part is still in the Stomack or ventricle wherin the meate is first boyled and altered into a thinne iuyce or liquide substaunce For we see men that haue surcharged theyr Stomackes in vomyting and perbraking sometimes to cast vp great abundance of loathsome clammie tough Phlegme or to scowre and euacuate the same through the guttes those I meane that haue excessiuelye and ingluuiouslye surphetted eyther in eating or drinking Whose heades consequently being filled wyth moystysh vapours those fumosities strykinge vpwarde as in a Stillatorie grow into a thicke fylthy and sneuillie phlegme whereby throughâ— coldnes of the brayne the parties becommeth subiect and open to sundrye diseases as the Poze Murre Hoarsenes Coughe and many others of which sort is the Rheume or distillation of humours from the heade wherewith in the Lowe Countryes of Belgia both rich and poore highe and low in Wynter season are much troubled fynde by experience to bee true and yet they be people commonly healthy and as sounde as a Bell. In perfect Health and throughly sound But vvhen that Phlegme doth much abound Insomuch that I sometimes am dryuen into a wonder to consyder how such abundance of filthie humours shoulde rest in the head which nature one whyle at the mouth an other whyle at the Nose and Throte expelleth and purgeth The head therfore and the Stomacke namely and much more then any of the other parts are pestered with the excrement of Phlegme specially if a man vse to eate such meates as be cold and moyst and discontinue exercyse whereby it happeneth that this humour being too crude is very hardly to be concocted and brought into an holesome iuyce profitable auayleable for the body For it is a certayne vliginous moystishnes and superfluous excrement which ought rather to be sent out and purged that waye which nature speciallye alloweth and whereby most conuenientlye she is wonte to exonerate herselfe For as the originall of this inconuenience beginneth first at the Stomacke and afterward infesteth the heade as we may plainly perceiue obserue by Wyne copiouslye quaffed and swilled which althoughe it descende downe into the Stomacke yet doth it assayle and distemper the heade it standeth vs therfore vpoÌ„ carefully to foresee y in those parts as litle of this Phlegmaticke excrement as may bee bee engendred because the harme and inconuenience redoundeth to the generall harme and detrimente of the whole body And as it fareth in a Realme or Kingdome in a Common wealth in a Cruile Pollicie or Corporation in anye Honourable householde or worshipfull Famylie so likewyse in the Body of man that disease of all others is moste daungerous ill which taketh his oryginall beginning at the heade and principall members For the harme diffuseth and spreadeth it selfe into all the inferiour partes of the body and them greatly damnifyeth As for more plainnesse let euery man take an example at any house which he enioyeth hath in occupation For euen as those houses that wil hold out neither wynde nor weather be very vnholesome to dwell in and a greate backfrend to health or when the Ridges or Roofes thereof bee ill tymbred and for wante of good lookinge too runneth in ruine and taketh water as often as anye rayne falleth So lykewyse as longe as the heade is distempered and affected wyth this baggage Phlegme and distilling Humour both it and the rest of the body can neuer be in perfect health For beinge it selfe of a cold and moyste nature it quickly drinketh vp vapours out of a watrish stomack beyng thereby replete wyth humiditye moysteneth likewyse those partes that be vnder it yea this distilling Phlegme is as noysome and greeuous to it as a brawling and scoulding wyfe is to a quiet man. For out of the heade continually do Humours distill and lyke soote oute of a Chymney fall downe into the Throate Eares Nose Eyes Breast and Lunges wherupon happen tumors swelling of the eyes Bleyreyednesse drynesse of sight whyzzing and running in the eares hardnesse of hearing and sometime behinde the eares Impostumes botches and wexekernelles besyde many sortes moe for the Instrumentes of the tongue be affected the voyce hindered yea sometime stopped that a man is not able to vtter out a plaine worde The Synâ—wes Pellicles Muscles Wesantpype and Veynes of the throte called Iugulares and the partes that serue to frame y voyce beyng surcharged wyth toomuch Humour as in dronkeÌ„ persoÌ„sis manifestly to be seene make the tongue vnperfecte foltering and stammering and all the members to reele and staggar their words double and not intelligible insomuch that at sometimes they bee not able to speake one plaine word nor in seÌ„sible tearmes to declare their owne meaning And thereby being by nature otherwise vnreadye and in vtteraunce staggering and now also throughly whitteled soaked in Wyne theyr tongue doubleth slammereth and foltereth a great deale more insomuche that they bring oute their wordes by stoppes and pauses like theÌ„ that haue the hicket such persons cannot speake softly and stillie because their voyce commonly is stopped and kept back which maketh them to force out their words the lowder They must therefore earnestlye striue and accustome themselues roundly and distinctly to deliuer out theyr wordes for otherwyse their tongue through defaulte and imbecillitye and lackynge stablenesse fayleth them and furthereth them nothing in theyr pronunciation but chatter babble so obscurely that no man can vnderstand any thynge of that they saye For we see them to be scarce able to vtter euen a few
woords wyth one streynable tenor and treatable vniformitie but sometime slowly and dreamingly drawyng them oute and sometime powryng oute by lumpes the same as fast as the tongue can rolle The selfe same thinge which superfluitye and distemperaunce of drincke bringeth vnto the haunters thereof doth the dystillation of Humours and defluxion of Phlegme bryng to them that be troubled with the Catarrhe which beside these is accoÌ„panyed also wyth suÌ„dry other incoÌ„ueniences to euery one of sharpe iudgement wel knowen and easelye perceyued For who so is disposed exactlye to syfte and searche oute the verye markes and tokens of a Cold and moyste Complexion shall finde them throughe abundaunce of that Humour and qualitye to bee sleepie lazye slouthful drowsie heauie lumpish and nothinge quicke at their busynesse as they commonlye bee which mynde nothinge else then gurmandyze and bellycheere and vse seldome exercise Wee see also amonge Beastes Fowles and other Creatures both wyeld tame that such as vse litle or no exercise but lurke still in hoales and Caues and be peÌ„t vp and franked cowpes are neither so holesome neyther so sit for man to eate as others that are greatly exercysed and vse much styrryng Such waxe in deede very fat and grow bigger bodyed I cannot deny but the nourishmente which they geeue to the bodye is somewhat vnholesome and excrementall as amonge fyshes Ecles and other slippery fyshes that lye stil myeringe themselues in mudde vsing no exercise styring or agitation of body And this is the cause why Eeeles being deade contrary to the nature of all other fyshes floate not aboue water by reason that they feede vppon muddie and standing water But that euery man maye throughly and perfectly know the state and coÌ„dition of this Body it must be painted oute in his righte colours and is to be descrybed by his owne proper indications markes and tokens All they therefore that are of this habite if their Constitution be naturall and not accidentallye happeninge are grosse pursie and fatte bodyed their stature not so tall as bigge set and stronglye pitched their skinne soft white and vnhayrie their Muscles and Ueynes not appearing but lying inwardlye insomuch that when occasion serueth to bee lette Bloud the same Ueynes do not apparauntlye shewe oute themselues The hayres of theyr head be eyther whyte or duskie blacke or els of the colour of Barley strawe which will not fall of nor become balde till after a longe time 〈◊〉 but they soone waxe hoarye for wante of heate and imbecillity of the member which is not of ability to excoct the nutriment into the vse and comelynes of Hayres For hoarynesse is as it were a certayne refuse vinewed baggage of Phlegme putrefyed or a fustie dankâ—shnesse vnder the skinne wherof throughe wâ—nte of heate proceedeth hoarynesse and whytenesse of the Hâ—yres Such a lyke hoarie Downe or vinewed mouldynesse wee see to bee in Loaues of Breade and Pyes that bee somewhat longe kepte vnspente and also in Vaultes Arche Roofes Syelynges hoales and Cellers vnder the grounde and other musty fulsome dark fylthy and stinking places Their Pysse and Uryne whyte and verye little or rather nothinge at all ruddie Theyr Excrementes and Ordure thinne and liquide theyr Sleepe verye sounde and longer then health requireth not without stoare of sundry Dreames whereby and not vainly or deceitfully maye bee neerely coniectured and founde oute of what disposition the body is and what Humours therein chiefely reigne For the causes and original beginninges of these thinges proceede oute of the body which althoughe they be referrible to outward causes or to the actioÌ„s and deuyses which the mynde earnestly conceyueth deliberateth and forecasteth in the daye time yet is it easye ynoughe for the learned and skilfull Physition to discusse the meaninges and expounde the euentes thereunto incident For as concerning Dreames by Diuine motion sent into the mynde of man not depending vppon naturall causes none is able to yeld anye certaine interpretation wythout a speciall pryuiledge of Heauenlye inspyration Thus they that be of Cold and moyst ComplexioÌ„ in Dreames imagine and thincke themselues dyuinge ouer head and eares in Water or to be in Bathes Baynes which strayght wayes argueth great stoare of Phlâ—gme to fall out of the head into the nape of their necke Iawes vocall Arterye and Lunges Semblably if they dreame of Hayle Snow Yse storme Rayne it betokeneth abundance of Phlegme sometime thicke and grosse sometime thinne and liquide If a man in his Dreame thincke himselfe to be styfeled and strangled or his voyce stopped taken from him it argueth him to be subiecte and like ynough shortly to be troubled wyth the SquiÌ„zie priuation of speach murre or finallye eyther the Drowsye sicknesse or the Apoplexie In this sort as Galene wytnesseth there was a certayne man which dreamed that one of his Legges was turned into a Stone which man within a whyle after throughe a colde Humoure that fell downe into it was taken wyth the Palsey Now althoughe too scrupulous and curious obseruation of Dreames bee prohibited yet is there no charge geeuen to the contrary but that wee maye lawfullye search out the meaninges of all such as consiste wythin the compasse and reason of thinges naturall the Authour and conseruer whereof is God himselfe so that wee do the same without anye superstitious vanity of Diuination neyther therin fixinge any assured hope and trust neyther terrifyed wyth any feare of the euentes thereof Whensoeuer therefore naturall Dreames do happen wherein be neyther mockeryes nor illusions of mynde for all these are banished put to flight by reposing a firme and constant trust in God they admonishe and put euerye man in remembraunce to looke wel to his health and to amooue and decline all such occasions and inconueniences as may eyther empayre and damnifye health or enforce any perturbatioÌ„s of Dreames For the Imaginations and phantasyes which in Sleepe be offered and seene apparaÌ„tly in Dreames by night when a man is at rest to occurre busye his mynde are caused and styrred by vapours fumes proceeding out of the humours agitation of the Spyrite Animall in some of which Dreames and Imaginations the mynde renueth the memorie and thinketh vppon some busynesse and actions that fall for the daye some plainly signifye the abundaunce of Humours or els some earnest greedy desyre to coÌ„passe somewhat which we would very fayne bring to passe Hereupon they that are thyrstie glut themselues and swill vp drincke abundantly they that be hungry deuoure meate greedily and insaciablye Thus lykewise they whose Genitoryes and priuie partes be swelled with stoare of excrementall Seede and spermatike Humour or in the daye tyme did earnestly fixe their eyes and mynde vppon anye beautifull and fayre yonge Woman do in their Sleepe thinck themselues to enioy their desyred purpose and throughe imaginatiue dealinge wyth her defyle themselues wyth nightlye pollutions For the
then the Glassye and more cold then the Sweete Phlegme This doth pricke and byte the Stomacke wyth mordication annoyeth it for being endued with a sense most exquisite it is offended wyth that Humour which is of sharpest quality For the sauoure and relyce thereof is so tarte eigre and bytter that if it chaunce to be perbraked and caste vp by vomite as in Wynter and Autumne seasons happeneth it astonneth and bringeth out of tast the tongue the roofe of the mouth the Chawes and setteth the teeth on edge no lesse then Veriuyce or the iuyce of vnrype and sharpe grapes called of the fyner sort of Physitiōs Omphacion and of the common sorte Agresta in somuch that the relyce and tallage thereof will remayne and be hardlye qualefyed alayed or taken awaye This kinde of Phlegme settled in the mouth of the Stomack or ventricle and impertinge vnto it some porcion of his sowrnes and sharpenes engendreth an insaciable lustinge to meate and as wee saye a doggish appetite incident commonly to women wyth chyeld about iii. monthes after their conception speciallye if they be with child with a gyrle who being in heat feeble and of strength faint and quaisie it chaunceth that their natures be not wel able to cōcocte those Phlegmaticke humours and thereuppon it is that they haue such puelinge and squemishe stomacks and be so much troubled wyth wambling and belching For theyr chiefe desyre and special longing being for sharpe and sower things they greatly therby annoy their ventricle gather together many ill humours Not women onelye but men also be subiecte hereunto for whom the best way is to vse to eate meates of heating nature and to drincke wyne of the purest and best sort For if this Humoure should chaunce to putrefie within the bodye it then engendreth the Ague Epiala so called because they that haue the same be in body inwardlye of greate heate and outwardlye stiffe with extreeme Colde for this Humour beinge enkindled and sette on heate maye wel bee lykened to greene flame or as wet woode which sendeth out nothīg but stoare of thick moyst smoak by reason that moystnes letteth hindereth the heat that it cannot breake out they that haue this impediment for the most part haue not onely alteration and chaunge in their Complexion and coloure but annoyaunce and inconueniēce also in their mynds Salte Phlegme which hath some affynitie with Choler is engendred of the commixtion of Choler or of a saltishe or Whayie humiditye or els of Phlegme putrefyed the sharpenes whereof beinge once enkindled bryngeth not styffenes and colde but a shyueringe and shakinge to the whole body And among all the kinds of Phlegme none is worse nor more hurtful then is this For in what part of the body soeuer it settleth it breedeth and engendreth great dolours and painfull gryeues and through the byting force that is in it affecteth the members of the body with vlcerous lassitudes it defourmeth and vglyfyeth the skinne wyth dry skuruye skalie mangie and fylthye eruptions or breaking oute as Tettars Ringwormes Leprosie skurfe ytche skabbednes c. But if it be myxed wyth Melancholie other naughty Humours it bryngeth the skuruie Elephantiasis which is the Hebrevves Lepry the vlcerous Herpes rūning Cankers Frēch Pockes manye diseases moe which pitifully pearce eate the flesh euen vnto the hard boane Glassie Phlegme so called for that it resembbleth and is like to moltē Glasse is of al others the coldest wherefore it is very hardly to be concocted or brought into any holesom familier and domesticall humour It occupyeth and besiegeth for the most part the Heade stomack Entrailes payning them with very greeuous and troublesome discrasyes For it pricketh woundeth teareth a pieces tormēteth And this Phlegme beynge glewyshe and clammye like Byrdlyme or such as the stuffe is whereof drinkinge Glasses be made is so tough and lymie that skantly will it be parted asūder yea it cleaueth so fast to those narow conceptacles where it resteth that nature stryuing and bickering wyth such a straunge and vncouth Humour is dryuen to suffer greeuous payne and tormente before she can be able cleane to banish away and ridde herselfe from it Great is the inconueniēce and sundrye and intollerable be the diseases greeues caused therby as namely the Cholicke wrynging of the Guttes payne gryeping of the Bowelles difficultie and excoriation in auoyding naturall ordure great lust desire often to go to the stoole wythout beinge able to euacuate or auoyde any thinge at al vnlesse peraduenture a smal quātity of glassy Phlegme and fylthy baggage and that not without greate labour and enforcement of nature For remedy and ease of which affects and all other greeues and gryepinge of like sort my custome and vse is to amende and recure with nothing better then outwardly wyth fomentes and inwardly by inections and Clysters which skowreth and cleane washeth away al Phlegme before engrossed clamped and gathered together Herewyth are all those distemperaunces and annoyaunces of health in the lowest partes withoute daunger of any Agew qualifyed and holpen vnlesse the payne be too outragious and vehement for that therein is neither putrefaction nor inflāmatiō and also for the ignobility of the member But if this kind of Phlegme should assault any chiefe and pryncipall member and besyde putrefaction grow into inflammation it bringeth the Agues called Lipyrias and in this case the Patiente feeleth in the innermost partes of his Bowelles Cold in his vtter parts Heate For euen as the heat of the Sunne melteth dissolueth yse snow and hayle turneth the same into fluible liquide water so likewise doth the fits of an Agew cut asunder and liqueste grosse clottered Phlegme thus it is seene that in one and the same body there is both heat cold felt perceyued at one the selfe same time like as appeareth in thē that sit by a fyer hauīg wet moyst cloths vpō their backes or in them that handle snowe or yce with their hands whose members at one selfe same time and instant feele both heat and cold But for that the most part of mē be in Wynter specially troubled wyth one kynde or other of Phlegme it standeth them vppon diligentlye and by all meanes they can to accustome themselues to hoate meates and of the same to make exacte perfecte digestion For throughe cruditye and lacke of perfect concoction in the Stomacke is engendred great abūdaunce of naughty baggage and hurtufll Phlegme endaungeringe and euidently damnifying as much as any thing in the world els health and welfare Therefore all such thinges as be very Cold and Moyste must in any wise bee eschued as Sothernely wyndes plaine and smooth fyshes Wyeldings Crabbs and of herbs Lactuce Purselaine Cucumbers Melons Gourds Mushromes or if any of these come in place to be eaten let them be vsed wyth hoate sauces and condiments and conuenient
some one of the chiefest Ingredientes Polycleti Regula Lib. 20. Cap. 10. De Sacerd. De ratione concâ—onandi De Oratore Notes or markes of a body perfectly teÌ„perate Lib. 3. Ode 3. Rom. 8. Affections naturall A Enei 4. Iuuenal Sat. 10. The nature of Democritus and Hetaclitus Counterfaite gate Psalm 45. Christ a paterne of perfection Ioan. 1. Collos 2. Heb. 4. Ioan. 11. Christ voyd of all ill affections Collos 3. Heb. 13. Heb. 11. 1. Pet. 2. Hoate complexion Tokens of a hoate Complexion Degrees of heate in man. Black haytes Curled hayres Varietie diuersity of body Imagination VVomeÌ„s intemperaunce A true report Black hayre Yelovv Whyte Redde Lib. 2. de Temper Why children hâ—â—e no beaâ—des Much store of hayre how it commeth To make the bearde grow Women ful of hayres on their head Hayrie women lecherous Barenuesse inwomeÌ„ vnablenes in men to get ChildreÌ„ Heate causeth holdnes Lib. 11 Cap. 37 The suttlety of Aristomenes Iudie 15. 16. 1. Reg. 17. Iud. 3. Bold rashnes Vertues defaced and marred by vices Lib. 6. de Rep. Bigge voyce AEnei 1. Things not naturall Artis Medicae 85. Ayre Fulsome pestileÌ„t ayre more hurtful then pestilent meat Contraryes are remedied by their coÌ„traryes A Enei 10 Dogge-dayes Englande praysed for clenly trim minge their houses Learned me and aged greatly reuerenced in England Meate drincke Lib. 1 Cap. 3. Moyst nourishmeÌ„t fittest for children Lib. 2 de leg lib 1. de tuend Valetud Wyne hurt full to children Qualefiers and alâ—yers of the heate of bloud 〈…〉 Li. 1. Off. Ill customes must by little and litle be taken away Chaunge in olde men dauÌ„gerous Cicero in Senect Lib. 5. de tueÌ„d Val. The profite thâ—t coÌ„meth by exercise Order of exercise Slouthe and ease hurtful Aduertisement to the sâ—â—dious Horace in Arte Poet. Sortes of exercise FreÌ„ch king killed in runninge at the Tylt 1559. Gentler exercises Musick chereâ—h maketh meerie the mynd of man. De valet lib. 5. A fit exercise for crokebacked persons To try good horses RecreatioÌ„s not commeÌ„dable Husbandry praysed Heau sce 1. Act. 1. Saciety or fulnes of Stomacke to be eselievved Epidi 6. Aphor. 5. The harme of Venerie or Carnall CopulatioÌ„ BloudlettiÌ„g not rashlye to be enter pryled Bloud spirite the treasure of life Not good for men in health to vse medicine Vomite seldome to be prouoked De ratione vict lib. 1. When to vomite Eccle. 31. To what persons vomyting is hurtfull The commodities of sleepe epist. 4. The day appointed for labour and the night for rest Eight hours for Sleepe Sound Sleepers Whye children and Dronkerdes be sleepye Who bee soone awaked oute of sleepe Wylie winkers Catchpoles Iuuen. Sat. 1. Lib. 1. Amor. The maner howe to lye in bedde Lying vpon the backe very vnholsome dauÌ„gerous Sleeping in the day hurtfull The harmes of ouerwatching All meÌ„ subiect to affections The greate hurts of affections Angre Tuscul 5. Tranquility of mynde TemperaÌ„ce Goddes holye spirite subdueth qualy fieth outragyous affections Heate the stayer and maintener of lyfe Cold the decay spoile of life Cold coupled wyth heate In cold bodyes heate doth not altogether lacke Creatures in touching cold The bloude of Fishes is cold What sorts of fishes beinge taken oute of the water liue longest Eatynge of fishe hurtfull to them that are giuen to be solytarie Genes 1. Act. 10. 1. Tim. 4. Solytary lyuers subiect to the Apoplexie A Snayles life Venemous Herbes Eccle. 12. Tokens of a colde Complexion Idlenes maketh the body fat and cold Heate maketh good colour Cold wasteth and taketh awaye colour Wanne colour The hungry Sicknesse Cold things stirre vp appetite Cold persoÌ„s drowsie and vnweldie The help cure of a cold body Foules hard of digestion Meates fit for cold persons Gardeine store Hoat Condimentes If men bee loath to be sicke it followeth that they be loth to die Death dreadfull Sinne the cause of sicknes death Sap. 2. 2. Kindes of death De Senect To be long lyued Notes of a dry CoÌ„plexion Lib. 2. Metam Baldnes coÌ„meth for lacke of humour Dry brayne causeth ill Memory Good MeÌ„morye Restoringâ— of the memorye Galen lib. 5. de tuen Val. Lib. 6. de tuend val Hard wynes or of the second sort Mylke Herbes hauing vertue to make one to pisse Lib. 2. Sat. 4. Turpentine holesome Lib. 3. de tuen Val. lib. 5. tueÌ„ val PrepariÌ„g of TurpeÌ„tine To make Turpentine liquide and potable Sleepe Friction Lib. 2. de tuen Val. Sixe sorts of Frictions Lucae 7. Lib. 15. Artificiall Bath Naturall Bathes Carnal dealing wyth womeÌ„ very hurtfull to dry and cold complexioÌ„s Studying by night and Candlelight hurtful Bodelye health De tueÌ„d Valet Bodye and mynde sick and wel together â–ª A holesome exercise for students Moderate banquetting not discommeÌ„dable Recreation of the mynd Comelye mirth at the Table Sat. 1. Lib. Ser. 2. Sat. 2. Curiosity in searching to high miste-ries Eccle. 3. Eche thinge ought to be done in his due time right order Moyst CoÌ„plexion Heate in maÌ„ likened to the SuÌ„ne and moysture to the Moone The influeÌ„ce force of the Moone The tokens of a moyste body Graye eyes Moyst complexioÌ„s not geuen to be malicious spightful Moyste natures not fumish and testy Tokens of a moyst complexioned body Euery parte of the body is by it selfe seuerally to be considered hath his proper temperature The state of the mynde in moyst coÌ„plexions Why men be wyser then womeÌ„ Eccl. 42 Carnall lust in Sommer to meÌ„ hurtfull Rue prouoketh lust in women but taketh it vtterly awaye in men Diet meete for a moyst CoÌ„plexioÌ„ Diet ouer moyst hurtful Moderate sleepe good for moyst persons Moyst folks must sleepe but very litle Sat. 1. Lib. 2. Aphor. 44. Moystare feedeth nourisheth heate Accordinge to the nourishment that a maÌ„ is fed withall humours eyther encrese or diminish The grosse exhalacion of humours hurtfull to the minde as dead and fulsome wyne is to the body Concord harmony in mans body De Natu â–ª humana Humours after a sort are the elemeÌ„ts of man. Eunuch Act. 4. Scaen. 5. The force and vertue of Seede Sounde parents beget sound Children ElemeÌ„tes 4. Qualities 4. Humours 4. The nature of bloud Phlegme Choler MelaÌ„cholie In bloud all the other humous are mixed When a veine is opened all the humours are ocularly to be seene Humours haue both colour and tast Spettle and Sweat haue their force power of humours TueÌ„d Val Lib. 6. De TeÌ„p 1 Temperatures subiect to chasige Old men by nature dry but in conditioÌ„ moyst DissensioÌ„ diuersitie of opinions daungerous The profite of bloud Leuit. 17. The cause why Moses forbad the eating of Bloudâ— Bloude not rashlye nor vnaduisedly to be let WheÌ„ce thâ— Arteries Veynes spring The Lyuer the shop of Bloud The heart fountaine of bloud The colour sheweth what humours be in the body Tuend val lib. 4. Affectes of the mynde chaung the colour of the face and body 1.
Reg. 16. Philip king of Spaine A straunge example of a yongman sodainly become graye headed One sodainly gray headed Why some men euen sodainly are chaunged in Complex iâ—n and colour Imagination Luke 22. Feare of death more terrible theÌ„ death it self Who dye in maner with out paine The cause of fearefulnes when a man is in dauÌ„ger Lib. 3. Aeneid A wyseman sometime is put in â–ª feare AstonnishmeÌ„t of mind taketh away the feeling of pain Leuit. 19. Deut. 13. Dreames sometime sent from God. Cap. 2. Cap. 7. To what vse and purpose sleepe serueth The vertue and force of bloud as touching the framinge of the inwarde dispositioÌ„ maners of the mynde PersoÌ„s mere Sanguine for the most part starcke fooles CommeÌ„t 1. de nat human Man a Wolfe Mic. ca. 7. Man a Lyon Cap. 19. MaÌ„ an Ape Man a Foxe Children â–ª quick stirâ—â—nge and playing and the cause why Boylinge of bloud in youth like to spurging of newe wyne in the Tunne Playig with the heade what it signifyeth Sapien. 4. In Art. Poet. Lewd and ill disposed CouÌ„sellours do youth mutch harm Pers Sa. 5 Good counsell and vertuous education bringeth youth to goodnes Bloud vseth the helpe of other humours in framing the manners Difference betweene Sangâ—ine Cholerick Cholericke persoÌ„s great flouters SaÌ„guine curteous and myld natured Inciination of nature Best proportion measure of blod to other humours Horat. in Art Poet. Humours of more force then the plâ—nets Hor. lib. 1 epist. 2. Bloude eggeth a man to riot and wilfuines Ephemera or Diaria The English Sweate a kinde of the Ague Ephemera When the Sweatinge sicknes first began in Belgie Blinde Byards In what sort â—o sweat and how longe Englishmen subiect aboue other Countreyes to the swearinge sickenesse Iuuen. Sat. 5. Hoat and moyst ComplexioÌ„s subiect to putre faction Receiptes Laxatiue soluble Howe exercise is to be vsed The head taketh hurt by the disorder of the in feriour meÌ„bers Oppilation of the liuer from wheÌ„ce it coÌ„meth Tuend Val. 6. Wormwod holsome for the liuer Things puttinge away oppilation Harmes of Venetie carnall copulation Commodity of Venery Seede beiÌ„g corrupt is cause of much incoÌ„â—enience ModeratioÌ„ of Carnall dealinges Prou. 8. Whores in lecherous lust neuer satisfyed nor in rewards Art. Modic 86. Sperme or Seede Matth. 19 1. Cor. 7. Sapient 8 Continency and Chastity a speciall gift of God. Matth. 17 Phlegm the matter of Bloud The myxture of the Humours compared to wyne Mylke of Bloud The cause why Pytha goras Scholers woulde eate no Mylke Mylke in the breastes of yonge Children Kernellie fleshe as in the dugges Euery parte of the body hath his seueral vertue The vse and effect of Phlegme The place where Phlegme is Diseases ê“ocedinge of Phlegme Hora. lib. 1. epist. 1. The heâ—d Stomacke the engendrers coÌ„ceptacles of Phlegme The harmes of a bodye and of a Realm first beginne at the head Prou. 19. 17. A brawling wife is lyke the top of a house wher throughe it is euer dropping Diseases ê“ceedinge of Rewmes Catarthes DroÌ„ken meÌ„ stammer double in their speach Stammereâ—â— cannot speake softly Nature of persoÌ„s Phlegmatike What Beastes fowles fishes be holesomest to eate A dead Eâ—le floateth not aboue water why Notes of a cold and moyst body Whereof hoarie hayres come Hoaryneâ—â—e in meates Dreames shewe and bewray the disposition state CoÌ„plexion of the bodye Naturall Dreams interpretable Diuine Dreames Dreames of the Phlegmatick Leuit. 19. Deut. 13. Wee maye not rashlye credite all Dreames Pollution effluxion of Seede howe it hapneth Canis paneÌ„ somnians Cap. 29. A place of Esay expoâ—ded Tokens of a colde and moyst complexion Reason yelded howe these Prouerbes EmuÌ„cte naris Obesae naris first began Prayse of a Phlegmatike person Phlegmatik persoÌ„s must vse exercyse Lib. 1. Tuend Val. lib. 5. The Phlegmatik must vse light suppers Foure kinds and effectes of Phlegme Gal. de Plenit Sweete Phlegme Sower Phlegme Doggishe appetite Epiala Salte Phlegme Harmes of salt Phlegm Glassie or clammie Phlegme What parts of the body be subiect to Phlegme Vse of Clysters Heate dissolueth moysture euen as the SuÌ„ne doth yse All men in daunger to phlegme Crudlty engendreth Phlegme All thinges done by memory Memory resteth in the Braine Things hurtful to the Memory Carnal knowledge of women is a weakening to the body A dry brain hath litle remembrauÌ„ce A moyste braine vnhable to remember Old folk yonge Children haue ill memories but the reason of the one is contrary to the other Temperature of the braine the maintenaÌ„ce of Memory Memory the gifte of Nature and is by Arte holpen and made better The reason why childreÌ„ caÌ„ remeÌ„ber things long afore done The Nucha and nape of the necke must bee kept warm A maÌ„ would bee glad to forget some things Mans corrupt nature more prone to ill theÌ„ to good Themistocles wyshed to learn the art of forget fulnes Olde grudges are to be forgotteÌ„ Healthe the strengthe of the Memorye Crudity and surphet the spoylers of Memory Ad HereÌ„ Lib. 3. tit 7. Memorye greatly helped and preserued by lighte Suppers In som shauinge of the head is a helpinge to Memory in other some a hindraunce Shauinge of the Bearde helpeth Memory ThiÌ„gs good for the Memory Herbes that sharpen the witte Restoratiues and remedies for the Memory being empayred or decayed throgh coldnes moysture To restoare a Memorye seemig past all recouery Onyons ill both for the eyes Memory Lactuce dimmeth the sight Rapes very beneficial restoratiue â–ª for the eyes What sorts of Braynes be beste for Memory Washing of the head Coriander Conserue of Quinces Sweet smels coÌ„fortable to the spirits The confectioÌ„ of Anacardus good for the Memory To restoare speach To restoare the right vse of the toÌ„gue to them that haue the Apoplexie The vertue of Lignum Aloes A Cocke to crow continnally without ceassing All thinges subiect to chaunge A Cholerick man. Choler natural and besyde nature The office of Choler Anger what it is By what partes of the body Choler is purged Iaundice Wringynge of the small Gutts Notes wherby to know a hoate and dry CoÌ„plexion Virg. li. 4 Georg. Yealow hayre Redde beards Nature of Themistos cles Red beardâ— argueth not alwayes an ill disposed person Wylie Foxes Lib. 6. Sat. 3. Horat. in Art. Poet. Iuuen. Sat. 6. Pale or Citrine Choler Tertian Agues Burâ—ing Ageâ—es Lucan lib. 7. Cholericke folkes haue many dread full and terrible Dreames Howe to purge Choler Slepe whole som good for Cholericke folke Yolkie Choler Leekish or greeue Choler Lib. 2. praedict ca. 39 Rustie or Brassie Choler The Wolfe 〈◊〉 disease Virg. AEneid 1. Death Man subiect to many casualties What limitation oure prayers and wyshes ought to haue No man but is subiect to MelaÌ„choly Students muche troubled wyth MelaÌ„choly Two sorts of MelaÌ„choly Whereto MelaÌ„choly is like The taste relyce of MelaÌ„choly De locis affect lib. 3. cap. 5. The vse and Nature of the Mylt In curcul Act. 2. The Mylte hindereth agility and quicknes of body Mylt caÌ„not be taken away The Splene lykened to a Princes Exchequer or Treasury The Mylte causeth a maÌ„ to laugh be mery Wyne cheereth the hartes of them that bee seuere maketh them as merye as a Pye. What time Melancholike persons be out of measure mery Beste for grim and seuere folkes to vse mery company The souereigntye of the heart Cordati Socordes Vecordes Genes 3. Catiline 1. Reg. 20 Genes 4. Cain a patterne of desperation Gal. 3. Agreement betwene the Heart and the Braine The Gall is the fouÌ„teina of Anger Tâ—e Lyuer causeth lust and carnall desire The Mylte beinge in right case cause of myrthe and cherefulnes The Mylte affected maketh the mynde heauy and sad Perturbations of mind Diseases of the Splene Pers Sa. 4. Signes of a desteÌ„pered Brayne Tormentes of an vnquiet mynde Timon a hater of all men Iliad 3. Causes of MelaÌ„choly affections Torment of an vnquiet and guiltye conscience Saty. 〈◊〉 Remoâ—â—â— Consciâ—â— for wiâ—â— deedes Esay 〈◊〉 Despysinge of Gods word auenged and punished Esay 36 Leaning to a broken reede 4. Reg. 18. Ezech. 29. Deut. 28. Leuit. 26. Iere. 〈◊〉 Double câ—â—trition 1. Cor. 10. Notes of a cold drye ComplexioÌ„ PersoÌ„s Phâ—â—gmatick 〈◊〉 coloured Trophonius Denne S. Patrickes Purgatory Three sorts of vnnatural MelaÌ„choly The colâ—â— of Melaâ—â— choly enâ—â—â—med Signes of suche as bee subiecte to MelaÌ„choly StaÌ„meringe of tongue Melancholy hath some heate in it Melancholike persons fickle headed and vnconstant Affectes of Melancholie cold Doltishe or Asselike Melancholie The force of Melancholie much encreased Probl. sect 30. Quest 13. Sundry coÌ„ditions of Drouken folkes Sat. 10. Melancholyke folkes lecherous Drunkards in the act of generation very weake and feeble Lib. 1. Epist. 5. Lib. 2. epist. 2. Certaine historyes of Melancholike persons A notable story and reporte of a certaine Melancholike man. Such as hee sterued vp with famine elye vpoÌ„ the seueÌ„th day Slepe easeth the ydlenes of the brain or rauing Aneid 6. How to expunge and beat downe MelaÌ„choly Three sorts of MelaÌ„cholye WheÌ„ to let Melancholike persons bloud Good for Melancholike persons to bee laxatiue soluble Lib. 6. Aph. 48. Spirits shuffle themselues in amoÌ„g the humors Melancholy folkes must keepe them selues soluble Hare geeueth MelaÌ„cholike nourishment Hare the holesoÌ„â—er 〈◊〉 â—â—gâ—hly hunted Ahore good for manye purposes in Phisicke To eate a Hare a Prouerbe Moderate myrthe and baÌ„quetting stirreth vp a pleasaunt colour and reuiueth the Spirits The outvvard countenaunce of a man bewrayeth the inwarde affections of his mind Diet for Melancholicke persons Liquide meates do quickly non rish Such as bee subiecte to sicknes and quaisie must eate but little bread The cause that briÌ„geth a stronge breath Holesome exhortatioÌ„ Quietnes tranquillity of mynd maketh all in good order and frame Printed at London in Fleetstreete by Thomas Marsh 1576. Cum Priuilegio