Of a Feaver.
A Feaver is like a Stack of Hay that is laid up half wet, and half dry; This Moysture and Drought being met toge∣ther, strive for Preheminency, the Drought would drink up the Moysture, and the Moysture would dissolve the Drought; and if their Strength be equal, and the Strife be without inter∣mission, the Stack is set on Fire, caused by an equal, swift, con∣tinuated Motion, which consumes all, if it be not quenched out by a fresh Recruit of Moysture: for Drought takes the part of Fire, being the Child of Heat, which Heat is the Child of Fire, and so is the Grandmother of Drought. Thus a Feaver is caused by the Humours of the Body, which being not well tempered, sets the Barn, which is the Body, on Fire, by the Corruption therein; for Heat and Moysture are the Parents to Corruption. But there is a Natural Heat and Moysture, which produceth Legitimate Issues; and there is also an Adulterate Heat and Moysture, from whence proceed Bastardly Diseases, which are as Numerous, as Natural Children.