Water unclean, milk, oil, vinegar, wine, spices &c.

Parts: heads, feet, entrails, fat, bacon, blood, &c.

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Beef, pork, venison, hares, goats, pigeons, peacocks, fen-fowl, &c.

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Of fish; all shellfish, hard and slimy fish, &c.

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Of herbs; pulse, cabbage, melons, garlic, onions, &c.

All roots, raw fruits, hard and windy meats

Preparing, dressing, sharp sauces, salt meats, indurate, soused, fried, broiled or made-dishes, &c.

Disorder in eating, immoderate eating, or at unseasonable times, &c. Subs. 2

Custom; delight, appetite, altered, &c. Subs. 3

Costiveness, hot baths, sweating, issues stopped, Venus in excess, or in defect, phlebotomy, purging, &c.

Air; hot, cold, tempestuous, dark, thick, foggy, moorish, &c. Subs. 5.

Unseasonable, excessive, or defective, of body or mind, solitariness, idleness, a life out of action, &c.

Sleep and waking, unseasonable, inordinate, overmuch, overlittle, &c. Subs. 7.

Passions and perturbations of the mind, Subs. 1. With a digression of the force of imagination. Subs. 2. and division of passions into Subs. 3.

Emulation, hatred, faction, desire of revenge, Subs. 8.

Discontents, cares, miseries, &c. Subs. 10.

Love of pleasures, gaming in excess, &c. Subs. 13.

Desire of praise, pride, vainglory, &c. Subs. 14.

Love of learning, study in excess, with a digression, of the misery of scholars, and why the Muses are melancholy, Subs. 15.

B. Symptoms of melancholy are either Sect. 3.

Body, as ill digestion, crudity, wind, dry brains, hard belly, thick blood, much waking, heaviness, and palpitation of heart, leaping in many places, &c., Subs. 1.

Fear and sorrow without a just cause, suspicion, jealousy, discontent, solitariness, irksomeness, continual cogitations, restless thoughts, vain imaginations, &c. Subs. 2.

Or Particular to private persons, according to Subs. 3. 4.

Celestial influences, as ♄ ♃ ♂, &c. parts of the body, heart, brain, liver, spleen, stomach, &c.

Sanguine are merry still, laughing, pleasant, meditating on plays, women, music, &c.

Choleric, furious, impatient, subject to hear and see strange apparitions, &c.

Black, solitary, sad; they think they are bewitched, dead, &c.

Or mixed of these four humours adust, or not adust, infinitely varied.

Their several customs, conditions, inclinations, discipline, &c.