Paˊssions of men.

Paˊssions of men. The diversity of passions is by naturalists, said to proceed from the contexture of the fibres, and different habitude of the humours of the body: choler incites to anger melancholy, or sadness; blood abounding to joy; because that choler vellicates the spirits, melancholy compresses them, blood dilates them, phlegm obstructs them; and these effects are in them sleeping as well as waking; those who abound with choler, are prone to dream of fires, burnings, brawls and fightings; the phlegmatic, or waters, inundations, drowning; the sanguine, of musick, dancing, and lasciviousness.

Definition taken from The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)

Fishes of Passage * Paˊstoral