By the same signs Galen brags, that he found out Justa, Boethius the Consuls wife, to dote on Pylades the Player, because at his name still she both altered Pulse and Countenance, as Polyarchus did at the name of Argenis. Franciscus Valesius, l. 3. med. contr. 13. denies there is any such pulsus amatorius, or that love may be so discerned; but Avicenna confirms this of Galen out of his experience, lib. 3. Fen. 1. and Gordonius, cap. 20. Their pulse he saith is inordinate and swift, if she go by whom he loves,

Langius, epist. 24. lib. 1. med. Epist. Nevisanus lib. 4. numer. 66. syl. nuptialis, Valescus de Taranta, Guianerius, Tract. 15. Valeriola sets down this for a Symptome, Difference of Pulse, neglect of business, want of sleep, often sighs, blushings, when there is any speech of their Mistress, are manifest signs.

But amongst the rest, Josephus Struthius that Polonian, in the fift Book cap. 17. of his Doctrine of Pulses, holds that this and all other passions of the minde, may be discovered by the Pulse. And if you will know, saith he, whether the men suspected be such or such, touch their arteries, &c. And in his fourth Book, 14. Chapter, he speaks of this particular Pulse, Love makes an unequall pulse, &c. he gives instance of a Gentlewoman a Patient of his, whom by this means he found to be much enamoured, and with whom: he named many persons, but at the last when his name came whom he suspected, her pulse began to vary, and to beat swifter, and so by often feeling her pulse, he perceived what the matter was.

Apollonius. Argonaut. lib. 4. Poetically setting down the meeting of Jason and Medea, makes them both to blush at one anothers sight, and at the first they were not able to speak.

—— totus Parmeno Tremo, horreoque postquam aspexi hanc,

Phædria trembled at the sight of Thais, others sweat, blow short, Crura tremunt ac poplites, —— are troubled with palpitation of heart upon the like occasion, cor proximum ori, saith Aristenætus, their heart is at their mouth, leaps, these burn and freeze, (for love is fire, ice, hot, cold, itch, feaver, frenzy, plurisy, what not) they look pale, red, and commonly blush at their first congress; and sometimes through violent agitation of spirits, bleed at nose, or when she is talked of:

which very sign Eustathius makes an argument of Ismenes affection, that when she met her Sweet-heart by chance, she changed her countenance, to a Maiden-blush. ’Tis a common thing amongst Lovers, as Arnulphus that merry-conceited Bishop, hath well expressed in a facete Epigram of his,

Alterno facies sibi dat responsa rubore, Et tener affectum prodit utrique pudor, &c.

Their faces answer, and by blushing say, How both affected are, they do bewray.

But the best conjectures are taken from such symptomes as appear when they are both present; all their speeches, amorous glances, actions, lascivious gestures will bewray them, they cannot contain themselves, but that they will be still kissing.

Stratocles the Physitian upon his Wedding day, when he was at dinner, Nihil prius sorbillavit, quam tria basia puellæ pangeret; could not eat his meat for kissing the Bride, &c. First a word, and then a kiss, then some other Complement, and then a kiss, then an idle question, then a kiss, and when he hath pumped his wits dry, can say no more, kissing and coiling are never out of season,

Hoc non deficit incipitque semper,

’tis never at an end, another kiss, and then another, another, and another, &c.

—— huc ades O Thelayra —— Come kiss me Corinna?

Centum basia centies, Centum basia millies, Mille basia millies, Et tot millia millies, Quot guttæ Siculo mari, Quot sunt sydera cœlo, Istis purpureis genis, Istis turgidulis labris, Ocellisque loquaculis, Figam continuo impetu; O formosa Neæra.

As Catullus to Lesbia.

Da mihi basia mille, deinde centum, Dein mille altera, da secunda centum, Dein usque altera millia, deinde centum.

—— first give an hundred, Then a thousand, then another Hundred, then unto the other Add a thousand, and so more, &c.

Till you equall with the store, all the grass, &c. So Venus did by her Adonis, the Moon with Endymion, they are still dallying and culling, as so many Doves, Columbatimque labra conserentes labris: and that with alacrity and courage,

Affligunt avidè corpus, junguntque salivas Oris, & inspirant prensantes dentibus ora.

Tam impresso ore ut vix inde labra detrahant, cervice reclinata, as Lamprias in Lucian kissed Thais, Philippus her in Aristænetus, amore lymphato tam furiosè adhæsit, ut vix labra solvere esset, totumque os mihi contrivit; Aretines Lucretia, by a suiter of hers was so saluted, and ’tis their ordinary fashion.

—— dentes illudunt sæpe labellis, Atque premunt arctè adfigentes oscula ——

They cannot I say, contain themselves, they will be still not only joyning hands, kissing, but embracing, treading on their toes, &c. diving into their bosomes, and that libenter, & cum delectatione, as Philostratus confesseth to his Mistress; and Lamprias in Lucian, Mammillas premens, per sinum clam dextrâ, &c. feeling their paps, and that scarce honestly sometimes: as the old man in the Comœdy well observed of his son, Non ego te videbam manum huic puellæ in sinum inserere? Did not I see thee put thy hand into her bosome? go to, with many such love tricks.