• Di(contents, cares.,<&c. Memb; J.Sub[ 1 o. co?>{ibx.had amelancholy Jew to bis patienr,heafcribes this for a principall caufe; Irafcehawrlevihus decau.fls, He was eafily moved ro anger•. Ajax had no other beginning ofhis madndfe; anrl c;harle~ the 6. that Lunanck French King, fell into thts mifery, out of the extremme of hts paflion, ddire of revenge &malice,'incenfed agaiofi the Duke of Brittai?>,he could neither eat, drink, nor £Jeep for Come dayes together, and in the end about the Calends of July 139z,he became mad upon his horfe backe, drawing his fword, firiking fuch as came neare him promifcuou£ly,and fo continued all the d•yes of hislife,.dlmil.lib.ro. Gal.hift. l'ig•.flppm detxcid. ttrbi; HieroJ.lib.x.c. 37· bath fuch a fiory of Herod, that out ofan angry fit, became mad, u leaping out of his b~d,h~killcd Io.flppm ,and played many fuch Bedlam prankes, the whole Court could not r,nle him for a long time after;fometimes he was forry and repented, much grieved for that he had done, pojiquam deferhuit ira, by and byoutragious againe. In hot cholericke bodies,nothing fo loon caufeth madndfe, as this paflionof Anger, befidesmany other difcafes, as Ptle- .flm obferves,.:ap.z r.lib. r.de hum. ajfec1. cau.fls; fangoi?>em immi?>uit, fel afl. get: and as x r alejiu. controverts, med. controv .lib. 5. contro. 8. many rimes kils them quite out. If this were the worfi of this paflion,it weremore tolerable, Yhutitminesand[i.Gverts whole towms, • Cities, families, and lei?>gdomes;Nu!lapeftu humamgemriplNri.sftettt, faith Seneca, de lrA lib. r ~ No plague bath done mankinde fo much harme. Looke into our hifiories, and you!hall almofi meet with no other fubje~, but what a company • o~harebraines have done in their rage. Wee may doe well therefore, to put this in our proaflion amongll: the reil:; From aUhli?>d?>ef!e ofheart, from pride,vaiiJ. glor; ,asdh;pocrijie,f'om envj ,hatred a?>dmA/iGe1a?>gtr, aiJd aU foch jtftiferotu ptrturbatio?>s,goodLorddeliver 1#, , , . SuBSI!CT.ro: Diji;ontents ,, Cares ,Mi(eries,&c.cau(es. ~~;;;=::=s,g-i!i.,; Ifcontents, cares, croJfes, miferies, orwhatfoeveritis, "' ' that!hall caufe anymolefiarionof fpirits,griefe,anguilh, • ~ and perplexity, may well bee reduced to this head, (prepofierou£ly placed here in fome mens judgements they may feem) yet in that Arijilllt in his b Rhemicke "t~~~~:flll' defines th~fe cares,as he doth Envy,Emulation,&c.llill ~ by grtefe, I thinke I may well rankc them in this Irafci- . ble row;being thatthey are as therefi, both caufes and Symptome$ ofthts dtfeafe, producing the like inconveniences, and are mo fi pa~t acwmpanied with anguilh and paine. The common Etymology will evmc~ tt, CnrA qt~afi cor uro, Dementes cur4, in(omnes Ctlr£, damnofd cur&, trijies, mordaces, ~4rniftces, &c: biting,. eating, goawin·g, crueli .. bit. ter, ficke, fad, uoqutet, pale, tetncke, mtferable, intollerable cares, as the Poets 'call them, worldly cares, and are as many in number as the Sea fands_. d Ga!en,. Fermlim, Felix Plater, Yalefcus de Tarama, &c. reckon,aflltClt0ns,mtfertes,even all tbefecontentions,& vexations of the minde as prins;ipall caufes,in that they take away £1eepe, hinder conco&ion, dry up Oz ilie 105 rlll[en[<14 Rii· tawti.e Duct,tt ill ultiontrnverf~, ntctihNm cepit, nu quiettm, fld C(zluuk lnlirn 1391.t0111itcs occidit. u li1digmtiDnt nimiaflll'tns>am. m% impDuns, txitiitde!etio, furtn{tmnqn capiehat uta, &<. x Anirapl/fit bomintm inurimere. y Abrrnctby. z AsTroy,ftt- 'V.t:mtmorem Irt~s ob ir4m. ' asu~lttnUmrt4 tpmtt popu/11rumcqlllitJit .p.,, bLib.1: I?ltlidi4tfldrr loreta;r.bitfl eft drior,&c. clnfom7tts, . Cfaudumu~. Trlfles,Virg.Mordacts,Luc.E.dtZ· cts,Hor.mat(lte, ammtt,Ovid. tUJIJnofo,inquiettr,.Mart.VmJres,Rodrnttt. M4Nt.&c. d Gaim.IW.J. , t.7.dclociJiljfillis.JJfm:flncs fontm.,:timt intllllltholici, f::O"f;et{~f~ tmimibm,tt(~. boribtN,U&U.. risfuuin~ UrCitl1.'1::ttm.
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