♉ Necessary causes, as those six non-naturall things which are, Sect. 2. Memb. 2.

Diet offending in Sub. 3. Substance Bread; course and black, &c. Drink; thick, thin, sowr, &c. Water unclean, milk, oyl, vineger, wine, spices, &c.

Flesh Parts; heads, feet, entrals, fat, bacon, blood, &c. Kindes: Beef, Pork, Venision, Hares, Goats, Pigeons, Peacocks, Fen-fowl, &c.

Herbs, Fish, &c. Of fish; all shell-fish, hard and slimy fish, &c. Of herbs; pulse, cabbage, mellons, garlick, onions, &c. All roots, raw fruits, hard and windy meats.

Quality, as in Preparing, dressing, sharp sauces, salt meats, indurate, sowced, fried, broyled, or made-dishes &c.

Quantity Disorder in eating, immoderate eating, or at unseasonable times, & Subsec. 2. Custom; delight, appetite, altered, &c. Sub. 3.

Retention and evacuation, Subs. 4. Costivenesse, hot baths, sweating, issues stopped, Venus in excesse, or in defect, phlebotomy, purging, &c.

Aire; hot, cold, tempestuous, dark, thick, foggy, moorish, &c. Subs. 5. Exercise, Sub. 6. Unseasonable, excessive or defective of body or minde, solitarinesse, idlenesse, a life out of action, &c. Sleep and waking, unseasonable, inordinate, overmuch, overlittle, &c. Subs. 7.

Memb. 3. Sect. 2. Passions and perturbations of the minde, Subs. 2. With a digression of the force of imagination, Su. 2. and division of passions into Sub. 3.

Irascible Sorrow, cause and symptome, Sub. 4. Fear, cause and symptome, Sub. 5. Shame, repulse, disgrace, &c. Sub. 6. Envy and malice, Sub. 7. Emulation, hatred, faction, desire of revenge, Sub. 8. Anger a cause, Sub. 9. Discontents, cares, miseries, &c. Sub. 10.

Or concupiscible Vehement desires, ambition, Sub. 11. Covetousness, φιλαργυρίαν, Sub. 12. Love of pleasures, gaming in excess, &c. Sub. 13. Desire of praise, pride, vain-glory, &c. Sub. 14. Love of learning, study in excesse, with a digression of the misery of Scholars, and why the Muses are melancholy Sub. 15.

B. Symptomes of melancholy are either Sect. 3. General, as of Memb. 1. Body, as ill digestion, crudity, winde, dry brains, hard belly, thick blood, much waking, heavinesse and palpitation of heart, leaping in many places, &c. Sub. 1.

or Minde Common to all or most Fear and sorrow without a just cause, suspition, jealousie, discontent, solitarinesse, irksomnesse, continual cogitations, restlesse thoughts, vain imaginations, &c. Subs. 2.

Or Particular to private persons, according to Su. 3. 4.

Celestiall influences, as ♄ ♃ ♂ &c. parts of the body, heart, brain, liver, spleen, stomack, &c.

Humours Sanguine are merry still, laughing, pleasant, meditating on playes, women, musick, &c. Phlegmatick, slothful, dull, heavie, &c. Cholerick, furious, impatient, subject to hear and see strange apparitions, &c. Black, solitary, sad, they think they are bewitcht, dead, &c. Or mixt of these four humors adust, or not adust, infinitely varied.

Their severall customs, conditions, inclinations, discipline, &c. Ambitious thinks himself a King, a Lord; covetous runs on his money, lascivious on his mistris; religious, hath revelations, visions, is a Prophet, or troubled in minde, a scholar on his book, &c.

Continuance of time, as the humor is intended or remitted, &c. Pleasant at first, hardly discerned, afterwards harsh and intolerable, if inveterate. Hence some make three degrees, 1. Falsa cogitatio. 2. Cogitata loqui. 3. Exequi loquutum. By fits, or continuate, as the object varies, pleasing or displeasing.

Simple, or as it is mixt with other diseases, Apoplexies, Gout, Caninus appetitus, &c. so the symptomes are various.