the other side, _solis errat male sanus in agris_, wanders
alone in the woods; one despairs, weeps, and is weary of his life, another
laughs, &c. All which variety is produced from the several degrees of heat
and cold, which [2550]Hercules de Saxonia will have wholly proceed from the
distemperature of spirits alone, animal especially, and those immaterial,
the next and immediate causes of melancholy, as they are hot, cold, dry,
moist, and from their agitation proceeds that diversity of symptoms, which
he reckons up, in the [2551]thirteenth chap. of his Tract of Melancholy,
and that largely through every part. Others will have them come from the
diverse adustion of the four humours, which in this unnatural melancholy,
by corruption of blood, adust choler, or melancholy natural, [2552]"by
excessive distemper of heat turned, in comparison of the natural, into a
sharp lye by force of adustion, cause, according to the diversity of their
matter, diverse and strange symptoms," which T. Bright reckons up in his
following chapter. So doth [2553]Arculanus, according to the four principal
humours adust, and many others.

For example, if it proceed from phlegm, (which is seldom and not so
frequently as the rest) [2554]it stirs up dull symptoms, and a kind of
stupidity, or impassionate hurt: they are sleepy, saith [2555]Savanarola,
dull, slow, cold, blockish, ass-like, _Asininam melancholiam_, [2556]
Melancthon calls it, "they are much given to weeping, and delight in
waters, ponds, pools, rivers, fishing, fowling," &c. (Arnoldus _breviar. 1.
cap. 18._) They are [2557]pale of colour, slothful, apt to sleep, heavy;
[2558]much troubled with headache, continual meditation, and muttering to
themselves; they dream of waters, [2559]that they are in danger of
drowning, and fear such things, Rhasis. They are fatter than others that
are melancholy, of a muddy complexion, apter to spit, [2560] sleep, more
troubled with rheum than the rest, and have their eyes still fixed on the
ground. Such a patient had Hercules de Saxonia, a widow in Venice, that was
fat and very sleepy still; Christophorus a Vega another affected in the
same sort. If it be inveterate or violent, the symptoms are more evident,
they plainly denote and are ridiculous to others, in all their gestures,
actions, speeches; imagining impossibilities, as he in Christophorus a
Vega, that thought he was a tun of wine, [2561]and that Siennois, that
resolved within himself not to piss,