experientia multa perfecta, inquit commentator ejus Cardanus.  Tho.  Campanella Astrologiae lib. 4. cap. 8. articulis 4 and 5. insaniam amatoriam remonstrantia, multa prae caeteris accumulat aphorismata, quae qui volet, consulat.  Chiromantici ex cingulo Veneris plerumque conjecturam faciunt, et monte Veneris, de quorum decretis, Taisnerum, Johan. de Indagine, Goclenium, ceterosque si lubet, inspicias.  Physicians divine wholly from the temperature and complexion; phlegmatic persons are seldom taken, according to Ficinus Comment, cap. 9; naturally melancholy less than they, but once taken they are never freed; though many are of opinion flatuous or hypochondriacal melancholy are most subject of all others to this infirmity.  Valescus assigns their strong imagination for a cause, Bodine abundance of wind, Gordonius of seed, and spirits, or atomi in the seed, which cause their violent and furious passions.  Sanguine thence are soon caught, young folks most apt to love, and by their good wills, saith [4767]Lucian, “would have a bout with every one they see:”  the colt’s evil is common to all complexions.  Theomestus a young and lusty gallant acknowledgeth (in the said author) all this to be verified in him, “I am so amorously given, [4768]you may sooner number the sea-sands, and snow falling from the skies, than my several loves.  Cupid had shot all his arrows at me, I am deluded with various desires, one love succeeds another, and that so soon, that before one is ended, I begin with a second; she that is last is still fairest, and she that is present pleaseth me most:  as an hydra’s head my loves increase, no Iolaus can help me.  Mine eyes are so moist a refuge and sanctuary of love, that they draw all beauties to them, and are never satisfied.  I am in a doubt what fury of Venus this should be:  alas, how have I offended her so to vex me, what Hippolitus am I!” What Telchine is my genius? or is it a natural imperfection, an hereditary passion?  Another in [4769]Anacreon confesseth that he had twenty sweethearts in Athens at once, fifteen at Corinth, as many at Thebes, at Lesbos, and at Rhodes, twice as many in Ionia, thrice in Caria, twenty thousand in all:  or in a word, [Greek:  ei phulla, panta], &c.

       “Folia arborum omnium si
        Nosti referre cuncta,
        Aut computare arenas
        In aequore universas,
        Solum meorum amorum
        Te fecero logistam?”

       “Canst count the leaves in May,
        Or sands i’ th’ ocean sea? 
        Then count my loves I pray.”

His eyes are like a balance, apt to propend each way, and to be weighed down with every wench’s looks, his heart a weathercock, his affection tinder, or naphtha itself, which every fair object, sweet smile, or mistress’s favour sets on fire.  Guianerius tract 15. cap. 14. refers all this [4770]to “the hot temperature of the testicles,” Ferandus a Frenchman in his Erotique Mel. (which