very disquietness of my heart." And Psalm cxix. 4, part 4 v. "My soul
melteth away for very heaviness," v. 38. "I am like a bottle in the smoke."
Antiochus complained that he could not sleep, and that his heart fainted
for grief, [1648]Christ himself, _vir dolorum_, out of an apprehension of
grief, did sweat blood, Mark xiv. "His soul was heavy to the death, and no
sorrow was like unto his." Crato, _consil. 24. l. 2_, gives instance in one
that was so melancholy by reason of [1649]grief; and Montanus, _consil.
30_, in a noble matron, [1650]"that had no other cause of this mischief."
I. S. D. in Hildesheim, fully cured a patient of his that was much troubled
with melancholy, and for many years, [1651]"but afterwards, by a little
occasion of sorrow, he fell into his former fits, and was tormented as
before." Examples are common, how it causeth melancholy, [1652]desperation,
and sometimes death itself; for (Eccles. xxxviii. 15,) "Of heaviness comes
death; worldly sorrow causeth death." 2 Cor. vii. 10, Psalm xxxi. 10, "My
life is wasted with heaviness, and my years with mourning." Why was Hecuba
said to be turned to a dog? Niobe into a stone? but that for grief she was
senseless and stupid. Severus the Emperor [1653] died for grief; and how
[1654]many myriads besides? _Tanta illi est feritas, tanta est insania
luctus_. [1655]Melancthon gives a reason of it, [1656]"the gathering of
much melancholy blood about the heart, which collection extinguisheth the
good spirits, or at least dulleth them, sorrow strikes the heart, makes it
tremble and pine away, with great pain; and the black blood drawn from the
spleen, and diffused under the ribs, on the left side, makes those perilous
hypochondriacal convulsions, which happen to them that are troubled with
sorrow."


SUBSECT. V.--_Fear, a Cause_.

Cousin german to sorrow, is fear, or rather a sister, _fidus Achates_, and