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is a bone founde in the heart to ſuſteine the heart, as bones bée ſet in other members. And in the hearts of beaſts of great courage be thrée wombes or cells. And in the heart of a beaſt with a little heart be onely two chābers. And for this cauſe a wombe ought to be in the heart of a beaſt. For the heart muſt be the place of receiuing of pure bloud & temperate in quātitie & qualitie: and is ful hot & moiſt, for the heart is a member, in the which is the firſt vertue. Huc vſque Ari. li. 13. where he ſpeaketh much of this matter. Alſo liber. 16. he ſaith, that the heart of a beaſt muſt be complement, therefore the heart is made firſt, becauſe of the heate of the heart, & for the ſpringing of veines out therof, kinde hath ſet afore the heart a colde member, that is the braine. And therfore the head in generation is created after the heart. And it happeneth that the heart is grieued either by binding togethers of other members (as ſayth Conſtantine.) Or elſe by diſtemperaunce of it ſelfe. For if paſſing heat haue maſtrie in the heart, the bloud of the heart boyleth and moueth, and ſo the vitall ſpirite is grieued. For if the heart be conſtrained by ouermuch colde,[1] the bloud is congealed, and therefore commeth death. And ſometime the heart is grieued by ſome Poſtume, that infecteth the coffer thereof: and then the beaſt liueth not long. Alſo the heart ſometime quaketh, & that commeth of watrie moiſture ſhed and ſpread in the ſkinnes of the heart, the which moiſture letteth the due opening and cloſing thereof. And ſo it ſéemeth to a ſicke man, yt the heart moueth from place to place. Alſo it happeneth that the heart hath a default that cōmeth of waſting of ſpirites, and of ſpirituall vertue and of paſſing out of ſpirits. And this doth chaunce either of too great repletion that grieueth and confoundeth the vertue, or elſe of too greate waſting, that waſteth the vertue, as it fareth in them that haue a Cardiaca,[2] and in ſome men that ſweate too much or drinke too ſharpe drinke. Alſo ſometime the heart is grieued by ſome ſumoſities & ſmoake, corrupt and venimous entering to the heart, and corrupting the openings of the heart, wherevpon death followeth anone. Alſo ſometime the heart is grieued by ſtopping of the hollowe vaine, whereby the bloud that is the féeding of the heart, and of the vitall ſpirit, is warued. In theſe manners and in many other the heart is grieued as ſayth Conſtant. liber. 9. chap. 23. Galen in Tegni. ſayth, that the vertue and complection of the heart is knowne by theſe tokens:[3] That is to wit, by greate breathing and blowing, by ſwifte pulſe and thicke, and haſtie, by ſwift working, by wrath, hardineſſe, and madneſſe: by largeneſſe of breſt and haireneſſe thereof. All theſe bée tokens that heate hath maſterie in the heart. And al the tokens contrary to thoſe betoken the contrary héereof. Uppon the which place Haly in his comment ſaith, that in a man the heart is as a root and a more in a trée. The organe or long pipe that commeth of the left cell of the hart, is like the ſtocke or legge of the trée: the which a good waye runneth forth as boughs of a trée into two partes, of the which one goeth vpward and that other downward. They ſpread abroad & diuide as it were ſpraies or ſmall boughs into all the bodie, euen to the arteries of the head. And when the heart openeth, all the organes & vaines open together: & when the heart cloſeth, they cloſe alſo: and by opening of them colde ayre is drawen from the vtter part of the heart to the inward part thereof: and in cloſing thereof foule ſmoake that is bread in them, is wrong out and drawne out ſome deale: and by ye drawing out thereof the complection thereof is made euen. And as he ſaith the vertue of moouing that is pight in the heart, runneth and paſſeth by the weſon & vains to euery part of the body, and bringeth to euery of them proper life and proper kinde heate. The breaſt ſerueth the heart in opening of it ſelfe, and drawing in of colde aire, and cloſing of it ſelfe, and putting out of ſmeakye vapour that is bred in the heart. Wherefore if the breaſt, weſon, and vaines, and other inſtruments of lyfe be ſafe, the vertues be concordaunt in theyr workkings: and if they bée ſicke and grieued, the vertues bée not obedient.