These above-named remedies have happily as much power as that bath of Aix, or Venus’ enchanted girdle, in which, saith Natales Comes, “Love toys and dalliance, pleasantness, sweetness, persuasions, subtleties, gentle speeches, and all witchcraft to enforce love, was contained.”  Read more of these in Agrippa de occult.  Philos. lib. 1. cap. 50. et 45. Malleus malefic. part. 1. quaest. 7. Delrio tom. 2. quest. 3. lib. 3. Wierus, Pomponatis, cap. 8. de incantat. Ficinus, lib. 13.  Theol.  Plat. Calcagninus, &c.

MEMB.  III.
Symptoms or signs of Love Melancholy, in Body, Mind, good, bad, &c.

Symptoms are either of body or mind; of body, paleness, leanness, dryness, &c. [5238]_Pallidus omnis amans, color hic est aptus amanti_, as the poet describes lovers:  fecit amor maciem, love causeth leanness. [5239] Avicenna de Ilishi, c. 33. “makes hollow eyes, dryness, symptoms of this disease, to go smiling to themselves, or acting as if they saw or heard some delectable object.”  Valleriola, lib. 3. observat. cap. 7. Laurentius, cap. 10. Aelianus Montaltus de Her. amore.  Langius, epist. 24. lib. 1. epist. med. deliver as much, corpus exangue pallet, corpus gracile, oculi cavi, lean, pale,—­ut nudis qui pressit calcibus anguem, “as one who trod with naked foot upon a snake,” hollow-eyed, their eyes are hidden in their heads,—­[5240]_Tenerque nitidi corposis cecidit decor_, they pine away, and look ill with waking, cares, sighs.

       “Et qui tenebant signa Phoebeae facis
        Oculi, nihil gentile nec patrium micant.”

“And eyes that once rivalled the locks of Phoebus, lose the patrial and paternal lustre.”  With groans, griefs, sadness, dullness,

[5241]  ------“Nulla jam Cereris subi
Cura aut salutis”------

want of appetite, &c.  A reason of all this, [5242]Jason Pratensis gives, “because of the distraction of the spirits the liver doth not perform his part, nor turns the aliment into blood as it ought, and for that cause the members are weak for want of sustenance, they are lean and pine, as the herbs of my garden do this month of May, for want of rain.”  The green sickness therefore often happeneth to young women, a cachexia or an evil habit to men, besides their ordinary sighs, complaints, and lamentations, which are too frequent.  As drops from a still,—­ut occluso stillat ab igne liquor, doth Cupid’s fire provoke tears from a true lover’s eyes,

[5243] “The mighty Mars did oft for Venus shriek,
        Privily moistening his horrid cheek
        With womanish tears,”------

[5244]  ------“ignis distillat in undas,
Testis erit largus qui rigat ora liquor,”

with many such like passions.  When Chariclia was enamoured of Theagines, as [5245]Heliodorus sets her out, “she was half distracted, and spake she knew not what, sighed to herself, lay much awake, and was lean upon a sudden:”  and when she was besotted on her son-in-law, [5246]_pallor deformis, marcentes oculi_, &c., she had ugly paleness, hollow eyes, restless thoughts, short wind, &c.  Euryalus, in an epistle sent to Lucretia, his mistress, complains amongst other grievances, tu mihi et somni et cibi usum abstulisti, thou hast taken my stomach and my sleep from me.  So he describes it aright: