1 Peter, v. 6, know thyself, acknowledge thy present misery, and make
right use of it. _Qui stat videat ne cadat._ Thou dost now flourish, and
hast _bona animi, corporis, et fortunae_, goods of body, mind, and fortune,
_nescis quid serus secum vesper ferat_, thou knowest not what storms and
tempests the late evening may bring with it. Be not secure then, "be sober
and watch," [2451]_fortunam reverenter habe_, if fortunate and rich; if
sick and poor, moderate thyself. I have said.

SECT. III. MEMB. I.

SUBSECT. I.--_Symptoms, or Signs of Melancholy in the Body_.

Parrhasius, a painter of Athens, amongst those Olynthian captives Philip of
Macedon brought home to sell, [2452]bought one very old man; and when he
had him at Athens, put him to extreme torture and torment, the better by
his example to express the pains and passions of his Prometheus, whom he
was then about to paint. I need not be so barbarous, inhuman, curious, or
cruel, for this purpose to torture any poor melancholy man, their symptoms
are plain, obvious and familiar, there needs no such accurate observation
or far-fetched object, they delineate themselves, they voluntarily betray
themselves, they are too frequent in all places, I meet them still as I go,
they cannot conceal it, their grievances are too well known, I need not
seek far to describe them.

Symptoms therefore are either [2453]universal or particular, saith
Gordonius, _lib. med. cap. 19, part. 2_, to persons, to species; "some
signs are secret, some manifest, some in the body, some in the mind, and
diversely vary, according to the inward or outward causes," Capivaccius: or
from stars, according to Jovianus Pontanus, _de reb. caelest. lib. 10, cap.
13_, and celestial influences, or from the humours diversely mixed,
Ficinus, _lib. 1, cap. 4, de sanit. tuenda_: as they are hot, cold,
natural, unnatural, intended, or remitted, so will Aetius have
_melancholica deliria multiformia_, diversity of melancholy signs.
Laurentius ascribes them to their several temperatures, delights, natures,
inclinations, continuance of time, as they are simple or mixed with other
diseases, as the causes are divers, so must the signs be, almost infinite,
Altomarus _cap. 7, art. med._ And as wine produceth divers effects, or that
herb Tortocolla in [2454]Laurentius, "which makes some laugh, some weep,
some sleep, some dance, some sing, some howl, some drink," &c. so doth this
our melancholy humour work several signs in