ore than
any humour whatsoever," improves their meditations more than any strong
drink or sack. They are of profound judgment in some things, although in
others _non recte judicant inquieti_, saith Fracastorius, _lib. 2. de
Intell_. And as Arculanus, _c. 16. in 9. Rhasis_, terms it, _Judicium
plerumque perversum, corrupti, cum judicant honesta inhonesta, et amicitiam
habent pro inimicitia_: they count honesty dishonesty, friends as enemies,
they will abuse their best friends, and dare not offend their enemies.
Cowards most part _et ad inferendam injuriam timidissimi_, saith Cardan,
_lib. 8. cap. 4. de rerum varietate_: loath to offend, and if they chance
to overshoot themselves in word or deed: or any small business or
circumstance be omitted, forgotten, they are miserably tormented, and frame
a thousand dangers and inconveniences to themselves, _ex musca elephantem_,
if once they conceit it: overjoyed with every good rumour, tale, or
prosperous event, transported beyond themselves: with every small cross
again, bad news, misconceived injury, loss, danger, afflicted beyond
measure, in great agony, perplexed, dejected, astonished, impatient,
utterly undone: fearful, suspicious of all. Yet again, many of them
desperate harebrains, rash, careless, fit to be assassinates, as being void
of all fear and sorrow, according to [2515]Hercules de Saxonia, "Most
audacious, and such as dare walk alone in the night, through deserts and
dangerous places, fearing none."

_Amorous_.] "They are prone to love," and [2516]easy to be taken; _Propensi
ad amorem et excandescentiam_ (Montaltus _cap. 21._) quickly enamoured, and
dote upon all, love one dearly, till they see another, and then dote on
her, _Et hanc, et hanc, et illam, et omnes_, the present moves most, and
the last commonly they love best. Yet some again _Anterotes_, cannot endure
the sight of a woman, abhor the sex, as that same melancholy [2517]duke of
Muscovy, that was instantly sick, if he came but in sight of them; and that
[2518]Anchorite, that fell into a cold palsy, when a woman was brought
before him.

_Humorous_.] Humorous they are beyond all measure, sometimes profusely
laughing, extraordinarily merry, and then again weeping without a cause,
(which is familiar with many gentlewomen,) groaning, sighing, pensive, sad,
almost distracted, _multa absurda fingunt, et a ratione aliena_ (saith
[2519]Frambesarius), they feign many absurdities, vain, void of reason: one
suppose