continual companion, an assistant and a principal agent in procuring of
this mischief; a cause and symptom as the other. In a word, as [1657]
Virgil of the Harpies, I may justly say of them both,

"Tristius haud illis monstrum, nec saevior ulla
Pestis et ira Deum stygiis sese extulit undis."

"A sadder monster, or more cruel plague so fell,
Or vengeance of the gods, ne'er came from Styx or Hell."

This foul fiend of fear was worshipped heretofore as a god by the
Lacedaemonians, and most of those other torturing [1658]affections, and so
was sorrow amongst the rest, under the name of Angerona Dea, they stood in
such awe of them, as Austin, _de Civitat. Dei, lib. 4. cap. 8_, noteth out
of Varro, fear was commonly [1659]adored and painted in their temples with
a lion's head; and as Macrobius records, _l. 10. Saturnalium_; [1660]"In
the calends of January, Angerona had her holy day, to whom in the temple of
Volupia, or goddess of pleasure, their augurs and bishops did yearly
sacrifice; that, being propitious to them, she might expel all cares,
anguish, and vexation of the mind for that year following." Many lamentable
effects this fear causeth in men, as to be red, pale, tremble, sweat,
[1661]it makes sudden cold and heat to come over all the body, palpitation
of the heart, syncope, &c. It amazeth many men that are to speak, or show
themselves in public assemblies, or before some great personages, as Tully
confessed of himself, that he trembled still at the beginning of his
speech; and Demosthenes, that great orator of Greece, before Philippus. It
confounds voice and memory, as Lucian wittily brings in Jupiter Tragoedus,
so much afraid of his auditory, when he was to make a speech to the rest of
the Gods, that he could not utter a ready word, but was compelled to use
Mercury's help in prompting. Many men are so amazed and astonished with