rmented in mind, [2487]"as they that have committed a
murder, and are pensive without a cause, as if they were now presently to
be put to death." Plater, _cap. 3. de mentis alienat._ They are afraid of
some loss, danger, that they shall surely lose their lives, goods, and all
they have, but why they know not. Trincavelius, _consil. 13. lib. 1._ had a
patient that would needs make away himself, for fear of being hanged, and
could not be persuaded for three years together, but that he had killed a
man. Plater, _observat. lib. 1._ hath two other examples of such as feared
to be executed without a cause. If they come in a place where a robbery,
theft, or any such offence hath been done, they presently fear they are
suspected, and many times betray themselves without a cause. Lewis XI., the
French king, suspected every man a traitor that came about him, durst trust
no officer. _Alii formidolosi omnium, alii quorundam_ (Fracatorius _lib. 2.
de Intellect._) [2488]"some fear all alike, some certain men, and cannot
endure their companies, are sick in them, or if they be from home." Some
suspect [2489]treason still, others "are afraid of their [2490]dearest and
nearest friends." (_Melanelius e Galeno, Ruffo, Aetio_,) and dare not be
alone in the dark for fear of hobgoblins and devils: he suspects everything
he hears or sees to be a devil, or enchanted, and imagineth a thousand
chimeras and visions, which to his thinking he certainly sees, bugbears,
talks with black men, ghosts, goblins, &c., [2491]_Omnes se terrent aurae,
sonus excitat omnis._ Another through bashfulness, suspicion, and
timorousness will not be seen abroad, [2492]"loves darkness as life, and
cannot endure the light," or to sit in lightsome places, his hat still in
his eyes, he will neither see nor be seen by his goodwill, Hippocrates,
_lib. de Insania et Melancholia_. He dare not come in company for fear he
should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches, or
be sick; he thinks every man observes him, aims at him, derides him, owes
him malice. Most part [2493]"they are afraid they are bewitched, possessed,
or poisoned by their enemies, and sometimes they suspect their nearest
friends: he thinks something speaks or talks within him, and he belcheth of
the poison." Christophorus a Vega, _lib. 2. cap. 1._ had a patient so
troubled, that by no persuasion or physic he could be reclaimed. Some are
afraid that they shall have every fearful disease they