for fear he should drown all the town.

If it proceed from blood adust, or that there be a mixture of blood in it,
[2562]"such are commonly ruddy of complexion, and high-coloured," according
to Salust. Salvianus, and Hercules de Saxonia. And as Savanarola, Vittorius
Faventinus Emper. farther adds, [2563]"the veins of their eyes be red, as
well as their faces." They are much inclined to laughter, witty and merry,
conceited in discourse, pleasant, if they be not far gone, much given to
music, dancing, and to be in women's company. They meditate wholly on such
things, and think [2564]"they see or hear plays, dancing, and suchlike
sports" (free from all fear and sorrow, as [2565]Hercules de Saxonia
supposeth.) If they be more strongly possessed with this kind of
melancholy, Arnoldus adds, _Breviar. lib. 1. cap. 18._ Like him of Argos in
the Poet, that sate laughing [2566]all day long, as if he had been at a
theatre. Such another is mentioned by [2567]Aristotle, living at Abydos, a
town of Asia Minor, that would sit after the same fashion, as if he had
been upon a stage, and sometimes act himself; now clap his hands, and
laugh, as if he had been well pleased with the sight. Wolfius relates of a
country fellow called Brunsellius, subject to this humour, [2568]"that
being by chance at a sermon, saw a woman fall off from a form half asleep,
at which object most of the company laughed, but he for his part was so
much moved, that for three whole days after he did nothing but laugh, by
which means he was much weakened, and worse a long time following." Such a
one was old Sophocles, and Democritus himself had _hilare delirium_, much
in this vein. Laurentius _cap. 3. de melan._ thinks this kind of
melancholy, which is a little adust with some mixture of blood, to be that
which Aristotle meant, when he said melancholy men of all others are most
witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kind of
_enthusiasmus_, which stirreth them up to be excellent philosophers, poets,
prophets, &c. Mercurialis, _consil. 110._ gives instance in a young man his
patient, sanguine melancholy, [2569]"of a great wit, and excellently
learned."

If it arise from choler adust, they are bold and impudent, and of a more
harebrain disposition, apt to quarrel, and think of such things, battles,
combats, and their manhood, furious; impatient in discourse, stiff,
irrefragable and prodigious in their tenets; and if they be moved, most
violent, outra