Part.I.Sect.2, .Catfes of Melanc/Joly. Mernb. r.SubC 5· 6o rowed from circumfor:mean Rogues and Gipfi.es, but out of the writings of worthy Philofophers,and Phyfirians, yet living fomeof them,and religious Profdfors in famous Univerfities, who are able to patronize that which they have faid, and vindicate themfdves from all cavillers and ignorant perfons. lr:::7~7.~~~::i1Ecundary, peculiar caufesdficient, fo called, in refpc:C\ ofthe other precedent, are either congenit 1 , intern..e, innat~, as they terme them, inward, mnate, and inbred; or elfe outward and advemirious, which happen to us after we are borne : congenite or borne with us, are either natural!, as old age, or pr<tter na. ~Lib.,,P<tb. turam (as b FernelitU.cals it) that dillemperature, ;ap,;;~; mim • • which we have from our Parents feed, 'it being an f'''P"""" ma!u hereditary difeafe. The firll of thefe, which is na- ':~':/':;.~,":, turall to all_, and which no man l~ving can avoid, is cold age, which being julfitinejfem<il cold and dne, and ofthe fame quahneas Melancholy 1s,mull ne~ds caufe it, Hoithi114m~~ '·. by diminution of fpirits and fubllance, and increafing of adull humours. ~'~:f.~~ .. t; Therefore 4 tMelanrthon ave~s out of Arijlotle, asa~1 undoubted trmh, s,: ri&.. ,tib.deA,._ nes pleru1Jque deltraffem (eneEla, that old men fam1harly dote, ob atram bima. -' !em, for blacke choler, which is then fuperabundanr in them: and Rhajis that 1 Ntctff'iUium ArabiAn Phyfitian in his CI?Jt.lib. I. cap.9. cals it' anecejfary •nd injipara. 'f;f:•=•:r-;:;._ b/e acci.dem, toalloldand decrepit p.erfons. After 70 J<ares (as the l'falEile:' t mtll fatth) allutroubleandforrow; ana common expenence confirmesthe ~Pf•·9o.<o. trmh ofitinweake old perfons, efpecially in fuch as have lived in aG!ion all their lives, had great imployment, much bufinelfe, much command, f M""""·"'lg. and many fervants to over-fee, and leave off ex abr11pto; as r Charles the hifl.lib.,. lift did to King Phi lip, refigne up all on a fuddcn; tl1<y are overcome with melancholy in aninllant: Or if they doe continue in fuch courfes, they dote at !all, ( femx bi& pucr) and are not able to manage th eir d!ates through common infirmities incident in their age; full of ache, forro1; gs~ntmorofi, and griefe, Children againe, dizards, they C~rle many times as they fir, ':Jtx;;·Jf;':,"" and talke tO themfelves, they are angry, wJfpith, difpleafed with every [,;,,, fiqu.,i-_ rhing,fo(}itiotU of aU, 1vayward,covetous,hard, (faith Tully) felfe,rvilled, (uper- ~::J.'~~11a;_ar~ flitious, (elfe~conceitcd, hrttggtrs and ~~~mirers oft!Jemfelves, as:; Baltl;afar C4· flute. jlalio hath truely noted ofthem. Thts naturall infirmity is moll eminent in · ~,~h;;.~:!: old women,and fuchas are poore,folitary ,live in moll bale elleem and beg· ri.mo"fi, jalla- gery, or fuch as are Wltches;Infomuch that WurtU,Baptijla Porta, Plncru bmwi,phllouti, Molitor,EdwictU,doereferreall that \>V itches are [aid to doe,ro Imagination :;;;:;!{;::;~: alone,an'd this humour ofmelancholy.A~d wher.easit iscontroverted,whe- &c ther th~ycan bewttch Cattle to deat h, nde m the Ayre upon a Coultlaffe ;:~,;"'de·~;~, our of a 'Chimney-rop,rransform~themfelv~s into Cats,Dogs,&c. mnfhte , 8 , t bod1esfrom place to place, meet 10 compan1es, and dance, as they doe,or have
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