University of Virginia Library

Vpon the foure Constitutions

As cold and drye attend on Age,
so hot and moist on Youth;
But hot and drye distempers show,
farre more then any doth:
The last (not worst) might well be first,
is cold and moist together,
Which giues digestion such free course,
as it exceeds the other:
All these appeare both heere and there,
but no distemper's worse
Our Gallants thinke, and so thinke I,
then Drynesse of the Purse.