saying is. _Medium
feret per epar_, as Cupid in Anacreon. For some such cause belike [4755]
Homer feigns Titius' liver (who was enamoured of Latona) to be still gnawed
by two vultures day and night in hell, [4756]"for that young men's bowels
thus enamoured, are so continually tormented by love." Gordonius, _cap. 2.
part. 2._ [4757]"will have the testicles an immediate subject or cause, the
liver an antecedent." Fracastorius agrees in this with Gordonius, _inde
primitus imaginatio venerea, erectio, &c. titillatissimam partem vocat, ita
ut nisi extruso semine gestiens voluptas non cessat, nec assidua veneris
recordatio, addit Gnastivinius_ _Comment. 4. Sect. prob. 27. Arist._ But
[4758]properly it is a passion of the brain, as all other melancholy, by
reason of corrupt imagination, and so doth Jason Pratensis, _c. 19. de
morb. cerebri_ (who writes copiously of this erotical love), place and
reckon it amongst the affections of the brain. [4759]Melancthon _de anima_
confutes those that make the liver a part affected, and Guianerius, _Tract.
15. cap. 13 et 17._ though many put all the affections in the heart, refers
it to the brain. Ficinus, _cap. 7. in Convivium Platonis_, "will have the
blood to be the part affected." Jo. Frietagius, _cap. 14. noct. med._
supposeth all four affected, heart, liver, brain, blood; but the major part
concur upon the brain, [4760]'tis _imaginatio laesa_; and both imagination
and reason are misaffected;, because of his corrupt judgment, and continual
meditation of that which he desires, he may truly be said to be melancholy.
If it be violent, or his disease inveterate, as I have determined in the
precedent partitions, both imagination and reason are misaffected, first
one, then the other.

MEMB. II.

SUBSECT. I.--_Causes of Heroical Love, Temperature, full Diet, Idleness,
Place, Climate, &c._

Of all causes the remotest are stars. [4761]Ficinus _cap. 19._ saith they
are most prone to this burning lust, that have Venus in Leo in their
horoscope, when the Moon and Venus be mutually aspected, or such as be of
Venus' complexion. [4762]Plutarch interprets astrologically that tale of
Mars and Venus, "in whose genitures [Symbol: Mars] and [Symbol: Mars] are
in conjunction," they are commonly lascivious, and if women queans; as the
good wife of Bath confessed in Chaucer;

_I followed aye mine inclination,
By virtue of my constellation_.

But of all those astrological aphorisms whi