So in every human body, The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reason that they flow continually In some one part, and are not continent, Receive the name of humours. Now thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition :... Ben Jonson - Page 27by John Addington Symonds - 1886 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
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...human body, The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reafon that they flow continually In fome one part, and are not continent, Receive the name...of humours. Now thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itfelf Unto the general difpofition : As when fome one peculiar quality Doth fo poflcfs a Man, that... | |
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