he named
many persons, but at the last when his name came whom he suspected,
[5262]"her pulse began to vary and to beat swifter, and so by often feeling
her pulse, he perceived what the matter was." Apollonius _Argonaut. lib.
4._ poetically setting down the meeting of Jason and Medea, makes them both
to blush at one another's sight, and at the first they were not able to
speak.

[5263] ------"totus Parmeno
Tremo, horreoque postquam aspexi hanc,"

Phaedria trembled at the sight of Thais, others sweat, blow short, _Crura
tremunt ac poplites_,--are troubled with palpitation of heart upon the like
occasion, _cor proximum ori_, saith [5264]Aristenaetus, their heart is at
their mouth, leaps, these burn and freeze, (for love is fire, ice, hot,
cold, itch, fever, frenzy, pleurisy, what not) they look pale, red, and
commonly blush at their first congress; and sometimes through violent
agitation of spirits bleed at nose, or when she is talked of; which very
sign [5265]Eustathius makes an argument of Ismene's affection, that when
she met her sweetheart by chance, she changed her countenance to a
maiden-blush. 'Tis a common thing amongst lovers, as [5266]Arnulphus, that
merry-conceited bishop, hath well expressed in a facetious epigram of his,

"Alterno facies sibi dat responsa rubore,
Et tener affectum prodit utrique pudor," &c.

"Their faces answer, and by blushing say,
How both affected are, they do betray."

But the best conjectures are taken from such symptoms as appear when they
are both present; all their speeches, amorous glances, actions, lascivious
gestures will betray them; they cannot contain themselves, but that they
will be still kissing. [5267]Stratocles, the physician, upon his
wedding-day, when he was at dinner, _Nihil prius sorbillavit, quam tria
basia puellae pangeret_, could not eat his meat for kissing the bride, &c.
First a word, and then a kiss, then some other compliment, and then a kiss,
then an idle question, then a kiss, and when he had pumped his wits dry,
can say no more, kissing and colling are never out of season, [5268]_Hoc
non deficit incipitque semper_, 'tis never at an end, [5269]another kiss,
and then another, another, and another, &c.--_huc ades O Thelayra_--Come
kiss me Corinna?

[5270] "Centum basia centies,
Centum basia millies,
Mille basia millies,
Et tot millia millies,
Quot guttae Siculo mari,
Quot