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THE Palenesse of the Colour, is a thing so Proper to those that are deeply in Love, that Diogenes, one day meeting a young Man that looked very pale, guessed him to be either a very En∣vious person, or else that he was in Love:
according to that of the Poet.
Palleat omnis Amans: Color hic est aptus Amanti.
It is the proper Colour & Badge of Love. But by the way it is to be noted, that we must not understand by this word Pale, a simple Decoloration, or whitenesse of * 1.1 the Skin, which, as the Philosopher saies, is, as it were, a kinde of Putrefaction of the skin: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 But rather a mixt Colour of White, & Yellow; or of White, Yellow, & Green: which Hippocrates calls 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Plutarch, and Lucre∣tius, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; and all Greeke Writers, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. For these words doe not signify a bare Green; but also a pale Colour, and such a one, as appeares to be in Corne, when as Immoderate Heat, and a Southerne wind hath ripened it too soone: as we may easily collect from that * 1.2 place of Galen, where, speaking of the A∣sians, he saies, that, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
When they see any looke pale, they presently aske, what's the reason they looke so 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Greene; making no difference at all betwixt these two words, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, pale; and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, greene. Now, (saies the same Author,) this pale colour is such, as we see in Fire, & Ocre, or Orpiment: and is caused in the body by the Permixtion of yellow choler with the thin waterish parts of the Blood. Which opinion of his is also confirmed by Phavorinus, who will have this word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to be derived from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, by ad∣ding 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 after 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and translating 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
Whence we perceave how grossely Ruellius is mistaken, on the 78. chapter of Dioscorides, where he very confidently denies, that we have the true Myrrhe, because it is not Green: supposing that 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 signifies only greene, and not yellowish; or rather such a colour, as ap∣pears to be in Hearbes that are dried, in * 1.3 Lentils, and in the dried pills of Pome∣granats: And therefore Hippocrates often∣times calls such pale folkes, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: and Aretaeus, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: and the Comedian, Oculos Her∣beos.
The Poëts also acknowledged this Co∣••our to be proper to Lovers, and not the * 1.4 white, when that they feign'd, that Cly∣••ia, * 1.5 dying for the love of the Sun, was tur∣ned into an hearbe of a pale and blood∣••esse colour, which the greekes call 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: which colour is for the most part the signe of a distempered Liver, accord∣ing to Galen: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which being caused by reason of the great abundance of yellow Choler, mixt with the crude Humors, and dispersed all over the body, it infecteth with its colour the skinne, which according to our Physitians, is To∣••tius Corporis Emunctorium. Whence it is, that by the ill colour of the skinne is knowne the badnesse of the Humours, that putrify within the Body. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, * 1.6 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; saith Hippocrates; The colour of the Humours, unlesse they retire into the most inward parts of the Body, appeares evi∣dently in the skinne: but chiefely in the Face, because that the skinne of that part is more thin and fine, then of any other part; and therefore the more apt to re∣ceive
the tincture of the Putrified Hu∣mours. But if by chance any small portion of Melancholy be mixed with the Cho∣lericke Humour, the party then becomes of a kind of tawny colour, or a darke green: which colour Plutarch and Aretae∣us expresse very aptly by the word, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
Probl. 4. sect. 38.
Con. 3. in 6. Epid.
Lib. de in∣tern. aff. Aret. l. 1. de caus. & sign. morb. Chrom. c. 13.
Ovid. Met. 4.
De diff. Resp.
Hip. I. de Hum.