and is therefore called fuga dæmonum : all which rightly used by their suffitus, dæmonum vexationibus obsistunt, afflictas mentes a dæmonibus relevant, et venenatis fumis, expell divels themselves, and all divelish illusions. Anthony Musa, the emperour Augustus his physician, cap. 6. de Betonia, approves of betony to this purpose; e the ancients used therefore to plant it in churchyards, because it was held to be an holy hearb and good against fearfull visions; did secure such places it grew in, and sanctified those persons that carried it about them. Idem fere Mathiolus in Dioscoridem. Others commend accurate musicke, so Saul was helped by Davids harpe. Fires to be made in such roomes where spirits haunt, good store of lights to be set up, odors, perfumes, and suffumigations, as the angel taught Tobias; brimstone and bitumen, thus, myrrha, briony root, with many such simples which Wecker hath collected lib. 15. de secretis cap. 15. 4 sulphuris drachmam unam, recoquatur in vitis albæ aquá, ut dilutius sit sulphur; detur ægro; nam dæmones sunt morbi (saith Rich. Argentine lib. de præstigiis dæmonum cap. ult.) Vigetus hath a far larger receipt to this purpose, which the said Wecker cites out of Wierus. sulphuris, vini, bituminis, opoponacis, galbani, castorei, &c. Why sweet perfumes, fires and so many lights should be used in such places, Ernestus Burgravius, lucerna vitæ et mortis, and Fortunius Lycetus assignes this cause, quod his boni Genii provocentur, mali arceantur; because good spirits are well pleased with, but evil abhor them. And therefore those old Gentiles, present Mahometans, and Papists have continual lamps burning in their churches, all day and all night, lights at funerals and in their graves; lucernæ ardentes ex auro liquefacto, for many ages to endure (saith Lazius) ne dœmones corpus lædant; lights ever burning, as those Vestall virgins, Pythonissæ maintained heretofore, with many such, of which reade Tostatus in 2 Reg. cap. 6. quæst. 43. Thyreus cap. 57. 58. 62. &c. de locis infestis; Pictorius Isagog. de dæmonibus, &c. see more in them. Cardan would have the party affected winke altogether in such a case, if he see ought that offends him, or cut the ayr with a sword in such places where they walke and abide ; gladiis enim et lanceis terrentur, shoot a pistole at them, for being aerial bodies, (as Cælius Rhodiginus, lib. 1. cap. 29, Tertullian, Origen, Psellas, and many holde) if stroken, they feel paine. Papists commonly injoyne and apply crosses, holy water, sanctified beads, amulets, musicke, ringing of bells, for to that end are they consecrated, and by them baptized, characters, counterfeit reliques, so many masses, peregrinations, oblations, adjurations, and what not? Alexander Albertinus a Rocha, Petrus Thyreus, and Hieronymus Mengus, with many other pontificiall writers, prescribe and set downe severall formes of exorcismes, as well to houses possessed with divels, as to dæmoniacal persons; but I am of Lemnius minde, 'tis but damnosa adjuratio, aut poti:.. ludificatio, a meer mockage, a counterfeit charme, to no purpose. They are fopperies and fictions, as that & absurde story is amongst the rest, of a penitent woman seduced by a magitian in France, at St. Bawne, exorcised by Domphius, Michaelis, and a company of circumventing friers. If any man (saith Lemnius) will attempt such a thing, without all those jugling circumstances, astrologicall elections of time, place, prodigious habits, fustian, big, sesquipedal words, spels, crosses, characters, which exorcists ordinarily use, let him follow the example of Peter and John, that without any ambitious swelling termes, cured a lame man, Acts 3. In the name of Christ Jesus rise and walke. His name alone is the best and only charme against all such diabolicall illusions, so doth Origen advise and so Chrysostome. Hæc erit tibi Antiqui soliti sunt hanc herbam ponere in cœmeteriis, ideo quod, &c. Non desunt nostrâ ætate sacrificuli, qui tale quid attentant, sed a cacodæmone irrisi pudore suffecti sunt et re infectâ abierunt. Done into English by W. B. 1613. baculus, hæc turris inexpugnabilis, hæc armatura. Nos quid ad hæc dicemus, plures fortasse expectabunt, saith St Austin; many men will desire my counsell and opinion what's to be done in this behalfe; I can say no more, quam ut vera fide, quæ per dilectionem operatur, ad Deum unum fugiamus, let them fly to God alone for helpe. Athanasius in his book De variis quæst. prescribes as a present charme against divels, the beginning of the 61 Ps. Exsurgat Deus, dissipentur inimici, &c. But the best remedy is to flye to God, to call on him, hope, pray, trust, relye on him, to commit ourselves wholly to him. What the practice of the primitive church was in this behalfe, et quis dæmonia ejiciendi modus, read Wierus at large, lib. 5. de Cura. Lam. meles. cap. 38 et deinceps. Last of all: If the party affected shall certainly know this malady to have proceeded from too much fasting, meditation, precise life, contemplation of Gods judgements, (for the divel deceives many by such meanes) in that other extream he circumvents melancholy it self, reading some books, treatises, hearing rigid preachers, &c. If he shall perceive that it hath begun first from some great loss, grievous accident, disaster, seeing others in like case, or any such terrible object, let him speedily remove the cause, which to the cure of this disease Navarrus so much commends, avertat cogitationem a re scrupulosa, by all opposite meanes, art, and industry, let him laxare animum, by all honest recreations, refresh and recreate his distressed soule; let him divert his thoughts, by himselfe and other of his friends. Let him reade no more such tracts or subjects, hear no more such fearful tones, avoid such companies, and by all meanes open himselfe, submit himselfe to the advice of good physicians and divines, which is contraventio scrupulorum, as he cals it; hear them speake to whom the Lord hath given the tongue of the learned, to be able to minister a word to him that is weary, whose words are as flagons of wine. Let him not be obstinate, head-strong, peevish, wilful, self-conceited (as in this malady they are) but give eare to good advice, be ruled and perswaded; and no doubt but such good counsell may prove as prosperous to his soule, as the angel was to Peter, that opened the iron gates, loosed his bands, brought him out of prison, and delivered him from bodily thraldome; they may ease his afflicted minde, relieve his wounded soule, and take him out of the jawes of hell it selfe. I can say no more, or give better advice to such as are any way distressed in this kinde, then what I have given and said. Only take! this for a corollary and conclusion, as thou tenderest thine owne welfare in this, and all other melancholy, thy good health of body and minde, observe this short precept, give not way to solitariness and idleness. Be not solitary. be not idle. SPERATE MISERI, Vis a dubio liberari? vis quod incertum est evadere? Age pænitentiam dum sanus es; sic agens, dico tibi quod securus es, quod pænitentiam egisti eo tempore quo peccare potuisti. Austin. THE TABLE. spots in the nailes signs of mel. 135. Black man ABSENCE a cure of love mel. 591. Absence over | good against mel. 457. Black eys best, 521. Black BANISHMENTS effects, 244; his cure and an- Cho- CARDANS father conjured up seven divels at Conscience what it is, 106. Contention, brawl- 730. Element of fire exploded, 325. Envie ing, law-suits, effects, 243. Continent, or in- and malice cause of mel. 175; their antidote, ward causes of mel. 246. Cookery taxed, 147. 416. Epicurus vindicated, 361. Epicurus meContent above all, 396; whence to be had, ibid. dicine for mel. 374. Epicures, atheists, hypoContentions cure, 427. Costiveness to some a crites, how mad and mel. 704. Epithalamium, cause of mel. 152. Costiveness helped, 465. 625. Eunuchs, why kept, and where, 612. Correctors of accidents in mel. 459. Correctors Evacuations how they cause mel. 154. Excento expel windiness and costiveness helped, 465. tricks and epicicles exple ded, 326. Exercise Cordials against mel. 454. Covetousness de- if immoderate, cause of mel. 158; before meales fined, described, how it causeth mel. 188. wholsom, 159; exercise rectified, 339; several Counsell against mel. 361, 594; cure of jea- kindes, when fit, 349; exercises of the minde, lousie, 650; of despair, 578. Cuckolds com- 351, 352. Exotick and strange simples cenmon in all ages, 457. Countrey recreations, sured, 439. Extasis, 441. Eys main instru346. Crocodiles jealous, 629. Cupping glasses, ments of love, 509; loves darts, 520; seats, oracauteries how and when used to mel. 453. tors, arrows, torches, ibid.; how they pierce, 524. Custome of diet, delight of appetite, how to be kept and yeelded to, 150. Cure of mel. unlawful rejected, 295; from God, 297; of head-mel. 449; over all the body, 462; of hypochondriacal mel. 463; of love mel. 584; of jealousie, 645; of despair, 723. Cure of mel. in himself, 361; or friends, 365. Curiosity described, his effects, 240. FACES prerogative, a most attractive part, 318. Fasting cause of mel. 150; a cure of love mel. 586; abused, the divels instrument, 681, 682; effects of it, ibid. Fayries, 123. Fear cause of mel. his effects, 172; fear of death, destinies fore-told, 239; a symptome of mel. 253; siga of love mel. 557; antidote to fear, 416. Flaxen hair a great motive of love, 519. Flegmatick mel. signs. 263. Fires rage, 84. Fiery dive's 122. Fish, what mel. 142. Fish good, 509. Fishes in love, 496. Fishing and fowling how and when good exercise, 342. Fools often beret wise men, 139; by love become wise, 576. Force of imagination, 167. Friends a cure mel. 366. Fruits causing mel. allowed, 309. Fumitory purgeth mel. 436. GAMING a cause of mel. his effects, 192. Gardens of simples where, to what end, 434. Gardens for pleasure, 346. Ger toleration of religion, by whom permit, and why, 702 Gentry, whence it came first, 385; base without DANCING, masking, mumming, censured, approved, 544; their effects, how they cause love mel. 542; how symptomes of lovers, 577. Deformity of body no misery, 383. Death foretold by spirits, 125. Death of friends cause of mel. 235, 236; other effects, ibid.; how cured, 410; death advantageous, 415. Despair, equivocations, 712; causes, 714; symptomes, 720; prognosticks, 722; cure, 723. Diet what, and how causeth mel. 140; quantity, 147; diet of divers nations, 148. Diet how rectified to cure, 306; in quantity, 310. Diet a cause of love mel. 508.; a cure, 585. Digression against all manner of discontents, 378; digression of ayr, 316; of ana-means, ibid. vices accompanying it, ibid.: true tomie, 92; of divels and spirits, 115. Discommodities of unequall matches, 654. Discontents, cares, miseries, causes of mel. 179; how repelled and cured by good counsell, 366, 578. Diseases why inflicted upon us, 82; their number, definition, division, 86; diseases of the head, 87; diseases of the minde more grievous then those of the body, 287. Disgrace, a cause of mel. 173, 242; qualified by counsell, 424. Dissimilar parts of the body, 95. Distemper of particular parts, causes of mel. and how, 247. Divels how they cause mel. 117; their beginning, nature, conditions, ibid.; feel pain, swift in motion, mortal, 119; their orders, 120; power, 127; how they cause religious mel. 669; how despair, 564; divels are often in love, 496; shall be saved, as some hold, 733. Divine sentences, 427. Divine miseries, 206; with the causes of their miseries, 207. Divers accidents causing mel. 235. Dotage what, 87. Dotage of lovers, 564. Dowry and money main causes of love mel. 531. Dreams and their kindes, 102. Dreams troublesome, how to be amended, 359. Drunkards, children often mel. 138. Drunkenness taxed, 148, 337. EARTHS motion examined, 328; compass, center, &c. 331; an sit animata, 327. Education a cause of mel. 219. Effects of love, 579, gentry when, 387; gentry commended. 39. Gesture cause of love mel. 526. Gifts and promises of great force amongst lovers, 546. God just judgement cause of mel. 82; sole cust sometimes, 114. Geography commended, 352 Geometry, arithmetick, algebra, commended 356. Gold good against mel. 438. a most bes tiful object, 479. Good counsell, a charm mel. 361; good counsell for love-sick persons 594; against mel. it self, 4; for such as jealous, 545. Great men 'aost part unhon 636. Gristle what, 94. Cts described, 9. HAND and paps how forcible in love a 520. Hard usage a cause of jealousie, Hatred cause of mel. 176. Hauking and hu ing why good, 341. Head mel. causes, 2 symptomes, 270; his cure, 449. Hearbs e sing mel. 143; curing mel. 309; proper to " diseases, ibid. Heavens penetrable, 327; nitely swift, 328. Hearing, what, 100. He immoderate cause of mel. 156. Health a tious thing, 244. Hell where, 320. Help fr friends against mel. 366. Hellebor white a black, purgers of mel. 445; black his vertta and history, 446. Hemorrogia cause of m 153. Hemrods stopped cause of mel. Hereditary diseases, 136. Hereticks their c ditions, 695; their symptomes, ibid. Hero loves pedegree, power, extent, 493; definition part affected, 499; tyranny, 500. Hippocrates jealousie, 633. Hypocrites described, 559. Honest objects of love, 482. Hope a cure of misery, 412. Hope and fear, the divels main engins to entrap the world, 676. Hops, good against mel. 435. Hot countreys apt and prone to jealousie, 630. Horse leeches how and when used in mel. 448, 46°. How oft 'tis fit to eat in a day, 310. How to resist passions, 363. How men fall in love, 522. Humours what they are, 93. Hydrophobia described, 89. Hypochondriacal mel. 112; his causes inward, outward, 248; symptome, 271; cure of it, 463. Hypochondries misaffected, causes, 250. 496; in men, 499; love a disease, 557; a fire, 561; loves passions, 558; phrases of lovers, 567; their vain wishes and attempts, 573; lovers impudent, 574; courageous, 568; wise, valiant, free, 574; neat in apparel, 576; poets, musitians, dancers, 577; loves effects, 579; love lost revived by sight, 589; love cannot be compelled, 617. Love and hate symptomes of religious mel. 683. Lycanthropia described, 88. MADNESS described, 88; the extent of mel. 285; a symptome and effect of love mel. 583. Made dishes cause mel. 146, 147. Maids, nuns, widows mel. 274. Magitians how they cause mel. 130; how they cure it, 295. Mahometans, IDLENESS a main cause of mel. 159; of love their symptomes, 693. Mans excellency, mimel. 507; of jealousie, 631. Jealousie a symp- sery, 81. Man the greatest enemy to man, 84. tome of mel. 258; defined, described, 626; of Many means to divert lovers, 588; to cure princes, 627; of brute beasts, 629; causes of them, 594. Marriage, if unfortunate, cause of it, 630, 632; symptomes of it, 640; prognos- mel. 242; best cure of love mel. 609; marriage ticks, 644; cure of it, 645, 651, &c. Jests how helps, 657; miseries, 602; benefits and comand when to be used, 225. Jews religious symp-mendation, 623. Mathematical studies comtomes, 685. Ignorance the mother of devotion, mended, 352. Medicines select for mel. 429; 677. Ignorance commended, 429. Ignorant against wind and costiveness, 465; for love mel. persons still circumvented, 677. Imagination 587. Melancholy in disposition, mel. equivowhat, 101; his force and effects, 167, &c. Im- cations, 90; definition, name, difference, 108; material mel. 110. Immortality of the soul part and parties affected in mel. his affection, proved, 104; impugned by whom, 710. Im- 109; matter, 110; species, or kindes of mel. portunity and opportunity cause of love mel. 112: mel. an hereditary disease, 136; meats 532; of jealousie, 639. Imprisonment cause causing it, 141, &c.; antecedent causes, 247; of mel. 226. Impostures of divels, 676; of particular parts, ibid.; symptomes of it, 251; politicians, 672; of priests, 673. Impediments they are passionate above measure, 258; humoof lovers, 620, 621. Impotency a cause of rous, 259; mel. adust symptomes, 265; mixt ealousie, 632. Impulsive cause of mans misery, symptomes of mel. with other diseases, 266; 32. Incubi an ccubi, 496. Inconstancy of mel. a cause of jealousie, 632; of despair, 714; overs, 600, 6C1. constancy a sign of mel. mel. men why witty, 279; why so apt to laugh, 258. Infirmities o body and minde, what weep, sweat, blush, 280; why they see visions, grievances they cause, 246. Inner senses des- hear strange noyses, speak untaught languages, cribed, 101. Injuries and abuses. ctified, 420. prophesie, &c. 281. Menstruus concubitus Instrumental causes of diseases, 83. Instru-causa melanc. 138. Memory his seat, 102. ental cause of mans misery, 83, 84. Interreters of dreams, 102. Inundations fury, 84. oy in excess cause of mel. 199. Issues when sed in mel. 449. Inward causes of mel. 246. KINGS and princes discontents, 184, Kissing main cause of love mel. 537; a symptome of ve mel. 555. LABOUR, busine, cure of love mel. 584. apis Armenius his virtues against mel. 445. ascivious meats to e avoided, 586. Laurel a irge for mel. 442. Laws against adultery, 13. Leo decimu, the popes scoffing tricks. Leoline prince of Wales his submission, 1. Leucata petra the cure of love-sick per608. Liberty of princes and great men, abused, 639. Libraries commended, 355. his site, 95; cause of mel. distempers, if t or cold, 247. Loss of liberty, servitude, prisonment, cause of mel. 226. Losses in neral how they offend, 237; cause of despair, 0, 565; how eased, 414. Love of gaming d pleasures, immoderate cause of mel. 191. ove of learning, over-much study, cause of el. 199. Loves beginning, object, definition, vision, 473; love made the world, 478; loves wer, 493; in vegetals, 495; in sensible creares, ibid.; loves power in divels and spirits, Men seduced by spirits in the night, 126. Metempsychosis, 104. Metals, minerals for mel. 436. Meteors strange, how caused, 325. Metoposcopy fore-shewing mel. 133. Milk a mel. meat, 142. Minde how it works on the body, 164. Minerals good against mel. 436. Ministers how they cause despair, 717. Mirach, mesentery, matrix, meseraick veines causes of mel. 247. Mirabolanes purgers of mel. 444. Mirth and merry company excellent against mel. 373; their abuses, 377. Miseries of man, 81; how they cause mel. 180; common miseries, 179; miseries of both sorts, 379; no man free, miseries effects in us, sent for our good, 381, 382; miseries of students and scholars, 203. Mitigations of mel. 427. Monies prerogatives, 479, 480. Moon inhabited, 329; moon in love, 494. Moving faculty described, 102. Mother how cause of mel. 139. Musick a present remedy for mel. his effects, 370; a symptome of lovers, 577; causes of love mel. 544. NATURAL mel. signs, 263. Natural signs of love mel. 552. Narrow streets where in use, 336. Nakedness of parts a cause of love mel. 526; a cure of love mel. 597. Necessity, to what it enforceth, 152, 233. Neglect and contempt, best cures of jealousie, 647. Nemesis |