who are cold and dry:" a melancholy man must not meddle with it, but in
some cases. Plutarch in his book _de san. tuend._ accounts of it as one of
the three principal signs and preservers of health, temperance in this
kind: [2989]"to rise with an appetite, to be ready to work, and abstain
from venery," _tria saluberrima_, are three most healthful things. We see
their opposites how pernicious they are to mankind, as to all other
creatures they bring death, and many feral diseases: _Immodicis brevis est
aetas et rara senectus_. Aristotle gives instance in sparrows, which are
_parum vivaces ob salacitatem_, [2990]short lived because of their
salacity, which is very frequent, as Scoppius in Priapus will better inform
you. The extremes being both bad, [2991]the medium is to be kept, which
cannot easily be determined. Some are better able to sustain, such as are
hot and moist, phlegmatic, as Hippocrates insinuateth, some strong and
lusty, well fed like [2992]Hercules, [2993] Proculus the emperor, lusty
Laurence, [2994]_prostibulum faeminae Messalina_ the empress, that by
philters, and such kind of lascivious meats, use all means to [2995]enable
themselves: and brag of it in the end, _confodi multas enim, occidi vero
paucas per ventrem vidisti_, as that Spanish [2996]Celestina merrily said:
others impotent, of a cold and dry constitution, cannot sustain those
gymnics without great hurt done to their own bodies, of which number
(though they be very prone to it) are melancholy men for the most part.

MEMB. III.
_Air rectified. With a digression of the Air_.

As a long-winged hawk, when he is first whistled off the fist, mounts
aloft, and for his pleasure fetcheth many a circuit in the air, still
soaring higher and higher, till he be come to his full pitch, and in the
end when the game is sprung, comes down amain, and stoops upon a sudden: so
will I, having now come at last into these ample fields of air, wherein I
may freely expatiate and exercise myself for my recreation, awhile rove,
wander round about the world, mount aloft to those ethereal orbs and
celestial spheres, and so descend to my former elements again. In which
progress I will first see whether that relation of the friar of [2997]
Oxford be true, concerning those northern parts under the pole (if I meet
_obiter_ with the wandering Jew, Elias Artifex, or Lucian's
_Icaromenippus_, they shall be my guides) whether there be such 4. Euripes,
and a great rock of loadst