Votivæ Angliæ, Englands complaint to their king:, or, The humble desires of all the zealous and true-hearted Protestants in this kingdome, for a speedy and happy reformation of abuses in church government, being the onely meanes to remove these distractions, and to avert the judgement of God from us. : As they were expressed in sundry petitions, remonstrances and letters, lately presented from them to the king, upon sundry occasions. / Collected by a wel-wisher to reformation.

Of the Blood.

Blood is a humour hot, yet temperate, sweet and red, prepared in the meseraick veines, made in the liver of the temperate fat, and aieriall parts of the Chylus and flowes from hence to all parts of the body. Phylosophers affirme that we are nou∣rished with his humour only, Phisicians say with all four. The seeming contrariety may be compo∣sed by the distinguishing: thus blood is often taken for the whole masse conteined in the veines ap∣pointed to nourish the body now this masse is not homogenerall, but of a diverse nature. For the best and most temperate part of the blood is properly and in specie called blood, the hot and dry part of it is called colerick blood, the cold and moist part phlegmatick blood, the cold and dry, melan∣cholick blood, & this diversity is answerable to the qualities of the Chylus whereof it is made, there∣fore when Phylosophers say we are nourished with blood alone they understand the whole masse con∣tained in the veines, which neither Aristotle nor any other Phylosopher will deny to have parts of the foresaid qualities: these parts of the blood thus qualified, must not be taken for excrementi∣tious, but for alimentary humours, since they all nourish the body: here two things are questioned, first whether there be any pure blood in the veins without the 3. humors 2. Whether the blood be only a mixrure of the third sincere humors, so that

choler or rather colerick blood in the veins should be the same with that w^ch is in the Gall. I conclude negatively to both, and think that the blood is al∣wayes accompanied with the rest of the humours, which only resemble those which be separated and received into their proper vessells, this of humours is the best, the treasure of life, many excellent things are spoken hereof, insomuch that Empedocles and Critius say it is the soul, Chrysippus & Zeno say it nou∣risheth the soul. It is needles here to thrust in a rea∣son among others; why Almighty God sometimes forbad the eating hereof; as also to speak of the cir∣cular motion, how it resembles the fountains run∣ning to the sea and the sea supplying the fountains.