[1736]leaping out of his bed, he killed Jossippus, and played many such
bedlam pranks, the whole court could not rule him for a long time after:
sometimes he was sorry and repented, much grieved for that he had done,
_Postquam deferbuit ira_, by and by outrageous again. In hot choleric
bodies, nothing so soon causeth madness, as this passion of anger, besides
many other diseases, as Pelesius observes, _cap. 21. l. 1. de hum. affect.
causis_; _Sanguinem imminuit, fel auget_: and as [1737]Valesius
controverts, _Med. controv., lib. 5. contro. 8_, many times kills them
quite out. If this were the worst of this passion, it were more tolerable,
[1738]"but it ruins and subverts whole towns, [1739]cities, families, and
kingdoms;" _Nulla pestis humano generi pluris stetit_, saith Seneca, _de
Ira, lib. 1._ No plague hath done mankind so much harm. Look into our
histories, and you shall almost meet with no other subject, but what a
company [1740]of harebrains have done in their rage. We may do well
therefore to put this in our procession amongst the rest; "From all
blindness of heart, from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy, from envy, hatred
and malice, anger, and all such pestiferous perturbations, good Lord
deliver us."

SUBSECT. X.--_Discontents, Cares, Miseries, &c. Causes_.

Discontents, cares, crosses, miseries, or whatsoever it is, that shall
cause any molestation of spirits, grief, anguish, and perplexity, may well
be reduced to this head, (preposterously placed here in some men's
judgments they may seem,) yet in that Aristotle in his [1741]Rhetoric
defines these cares, as he doth envy, emulation, &c. still by grief, I
think I may well rank them in this irascible row; being that they are as
the rest, both causes and symptoms of this disease, producing the like
inconveniences, and are most part accompanied with anguish and pain. The
common etymology will evince it, _Cura quasi cor uro, Dementes curae,
insomnes curae, damnosae curae, tristes, mordaces, carnifices_, &c. biting,
eating, gnawing, cruel, bitter, sick, sad, unquiet, pale, tetric,
miserable, intolerable cares, as the poets [1742]call them, worldly cares,
and are as many in number as the sea sands. [1743]Galen, Fernelius, Felix
Plater, Valescus de Taranta, &c., reckon afflictions, miseries, even all
these contentions, and vexations of the mind, as principal causes, in that
they take away sleep, hinder concoction, dry up the body, and consume the
substance of it. Th