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CHAP. XIX.
IT importeth very much to vnderstand how much humiditie or heate euery one hath in him,* 1.1 and according to the element that is most predominant in a man, such are his manners. The mixture of heat will make wrathfull men; for fire is actiue and p••rmanent. The mixture of cold•• maketh men colde; for colde is of a slow and heau•••• na∣ture. Some therefore of our sect are of the opinion, that wrath is enkindled in the breast, by reason of the blood that boyleth about the heart. The cause why this place is especially assigned vnto Anger, is no other, then that of all the whole bodie the breast is the hotest. They that haue more moisture in them, their Anger increaseth by little and little,* 1.2 because their heat is not prepared, but is gotten by motion. The displeasures therefore of children and women are more sharpe then they are continuing, and more feeble in the beginning. In drier ages wrath is vehement & strong, but without increase, not adding much vnto it selfe, because colde followeth the declining heate. Old•• men are testie and alwayes complaining as sicke men doe, and such as begin to recouer their health, or that by lassitude or bloud letting haue lost a part of their heat. In the same estate are they that are extremely transported with thirst and hunger, and who haue no bloud in their bodies, neither thriue by that they eat, but consume daily. Wine enkindleth wrath, because it increaseth heate according to euery mans nature.