ators in her
horoscope agree with his, that they be not _in signis et partibus odiose
intuentibus aut imperantibus, sed mutuo et amice antisciis et
obedientibus_, otherwise (as they hold) there will be intolerable enmities
between them: or else get them _sigillum veneris_, a characteristical seal
stamped in the day and hour of Venus, when she is fortunate, with such and
such set words and charms, which Villanovanus and Leo Suavius prescribe,
_ex sigillis magicis Salomonis, Hermetis, Raguelis_, &c., with many such,
which Alexis, Albertus, and some of our natural magicians put upon us: _ut
mulier cum aliquo adulterare non possit, incide de capillis ejus_, &c., and
he shall surely be gracious in all women's eyes, and never suspect or
disagree with his own wife so long as he wears it. If this course be not
approved, and other remedies may not be had, they must in the last place
sue for a divorce; but that is somewhat difficult to effect, and not all
out so fit. For as Felisacus in his tract _de justa uxore_ urgeth, if that
law of Constantine the Great, or that of Theodosius and Valentinian,
concerning divorce, were in use in our times, _innumeras propemodum viduas
haberemus, et coelibes viros_, we should have almost no married couples
left. Try therefore those former remedies; or as Tertullian reports of
Democritus, that put out his eyes, [6300]because he could not look upon a
woman without lust, and was much troubled to see that which he might not
enjoy; let him make himself blind, and so he shall avoid that care and
molestation of watching his wife. One other sovereign remedy I could
repeat, an especial antidote against jealousy, an excellent cure, but I am
not now disposed to tell it, not that like a covetous empiric I conceal it
for any gain, but some other reasons, I am not willing to publish it: if
you be very desirous to know it, when I meet you next I will peradventure
tell you what it is in your ear. This is the best counsel I can give; which
he that hath need of, as occasion serves, may apply unto himself. In the
mean time,--_dii talem terris avertite pestem_, [6301]as the proverb is,
from heresy, jealousy and frenzy, good Lord deliver us.

SECT. IV. MEMB. I.

SUBSECT. I.--_Religious Melancholy. Its object God; what his beauty is; How
it allures. The parts and parties affected_.

That there is such a distinct species of love melancholy, no man hath ever
yet doubted: but whether this subdivision of [6302]Religio