em_? Can a man, saith Solomon, Prov. vi. 27, carry fire in
his bosom and not burn? it will hardly be hid; though they do all they can
to hide it, it must out, _plus quam mille notis_--it may be described,
[5253]_quoque magis tegitur, tectus magis aestuat ignis_. 'Twas Antiphanes
the comedian's observation of old, Love and drunkenness cannot be
concealed, _Celare alia possis, haec praeter duo, vini potum_, &c. words,
looks, gestures, all will betray them; but two of the most notable signs
are observed by the pulse and countenance. When Antiochus, the son of
Seleucus, was sick for Stratonice, his mother-in-law, and would not confess
his grief, or the cause of his disease, Erasistratus, the physician, found
him by his pulse and countenance to be in love with her, [5254]"because
that when she came in presence, or was named, his pulse varied, and he
blushed besides." In this very sort was the love of Callices, the son of
Polycles, discovered by Panacaeas the physician, as you may read the story
at large in [5255]Aristenaetus. By the same signs Galen brags that he found
out Justa, Boethius the consul's wife, to dote on Pylades the player,
because at his name still she both altered pulse and countenance, as [5256]
Polyarchus did at the name of Argenis. Franciscus Valesius, _l. 3. controv.
13. med. contr._ denies there is any such _pulsus amatorius_, or that love
may be so discerned; but Avicenna confirms this of Galen out of his
experience, _lib. 3. Fen. 1._ and Gordonius, _cap. 20._ [5257]"Their pulse,
he saith, is ordinate and swift, if she go by whom he loves," Langius,
_epist. 24. lib. 1. med. epist._ Neviscanus, _lib. 4. numer. 66. syl.
nuptialis_, Valescus de Taranta, Guianerius, _Tract. 15._ Valleriola sets
down this for a symptom, [5258]"Difference of pulse, neglect of business,
want of sleep, often sighs, blushings, when there is any speech of their
mistress, are manifest signs." But amongst the rest, Josephus Struthis,
that Polonian, in the fifth book, _cap. 17._ of his Doctrine of Pulses,
holds that this and all other passions of the mind may be discovered by the
pulse. [5259]"And if you will know, saith he, whether the men suspected be
such or such, touch their arteries," &c. And in his fourth book, fourteenth
chapter, he speaks of this particular pulse, [5260] "Love makes an unequal
pulse," &c., he gives instance of a gentlewoman, [5261]a patient of his,
whom by this means he found to be much enamoured, and with whom: