in their fiſt, and in their handes to containe all things: and therefore they put not out their hands to take meate: for they dread that if they ſhould put forth their hands, part of the world ſhould fal and be loſt. Alſo ſome imagine, that an Angell holdeth vp the world, and would for wearineſſe let the world fall: and therfore they heaue their hands & ſhoulders to holde vp the world, that ſéemeth to thē is in point to fall, & rore & ſcrike ſtrongly, & ſtriue if Phiſitions make thē holde downe their handes. Alſo ſome thinke that they haue no heads: & ſome wéene that they haue leaden heades, or Aſſe heades, or ſome other euill ſhapen faſhion. And there be other, which if they heare Cockes crowe, they lyfte vp their hands and armes, and ſmite themſelues, and ſinging thinke themſelues to be Cockes: & at the laſt they be hoarce for great crieng, and dumbe alſo. Alſo ſome fall into euill ſuſpitions without recouerie: and therfore they hate, blame, and confound their friends, and ſomtime they ſmite and ſlaye them. Melancholy men fal into all theſe & many other wōderfull paſſions, as Galen, Alexander, & many other Authours ſay, ye which paſſions it were too long to recken all. And this we ſée each day, as it fell late of a Noble man, that fell into ſuch a madneſſe of melancholy, that he in no wiſe could be perſwaded, but yt he was a Cat, and therefore he would no where reſt, but vnder beds, where Cats waighted after Mice. Moreouer in puniſhment of ſinne, Nabuchodonoſor was puniſhed with ſuch a payne, as it is written in ſtories, that ſeauen yeares he thought that he was a Beaſt, through diuers ſhapes, lyke a Lyon, an Eagle, an Oxe, and other.
Now haue we treated ſufficiently of Melancholy, and of other humors kindly and vnkindlye, as it appertayneth to this worke, at this time.
FINIS LIBRI QVARTI.
¶INCIPIT LIBER QVINTVS.
FOraſmuch as we haue ſpoken of the properties of humours, we ſhall ſpeake now of the diſpoſition of members, that be made of the foreſayd humours and firſt of the properties therof in generall, and then of each ſomewhat in ſpeciall.
¶Of the properties of members in generall. Chap. 1.
AVicen ſaith, that members are bodyes made of the firſt meddlyng of humours. Either as it is ſayde, Secundum Iohannem, A member is a ſtedfaſt and ſadde parte of a beaſt, compoſed of things that be lyke either vnlyke, and is ordayned to ſome ſpeciall office: and by that it is called a ſtedfaſt parte, it is ſeperated from the part that is not ſtedfaſt, as a ſpirite. In that that it is ſayd to be made of things that be lyke and vnlyke, it is vnderſtoode, double diuerſitie of members, ſimple or vnlyke: and compounded, or of office. For the members be called members lyke and ſimple, the whole parts be of the ſame kinde with the whole, as euerye part of bloud is bloud, and ſo of other.
And ſuch ſimple members, and lyke, are rather in kinde, than the members or lymmes of office: for the ſimple, be partes of the lymmes that are compoſed: And the ſimple partes are rather in kinde, than the
