WHY HAVE YOU NOT BLACK EYES,
AND A BETTER COMPLEXION? Nature abhors to be forced.

The two famous Philosophers of _Ephesus_ and _Abdera_, have their
different Sects at this Day. Some weep, and others laugh at one
and the same Thing.

I don't doubt but you have observed several Men laugh when they
are angry; others, who are silent; some that are loud; yet I
cannot suppose that it is the Passion of ANGER, which is in
itself different, or more or less in one than t'other, but that
it is the HUMOUR of the Man that is predominant, and urges him to
express it in that Manner. Demonstrations of PLEASURE, are as
various: One Man has a HUMOUR of retiring from all Company, when
any thing has happened to please him beyond Expectation; he hugs
himself alone, and thinks it an Addition to the Pleasure to keep
it a Secret, &c.

All which, I apprehend, is no more than saying; That there are different
_Dispositions_ in different _Persons_.

In another Place, he seems to understand by _Humour_, not only the
_Disposition,_ but the _Tone_ of the _Nerves_, of a Person,
thus,

"Suppose MOROSE to be a Man naturally splenetic, and melancholy;
is there any thing more offensive to one of such a DISPOSITION
(where he uses the Word instead of _Humour_) than Noise and
Clamour? Let any Man that has the Spleen (and there are enough in
England) be Judge. We see common Examples of this HUMOUR in
little every Day. 'Tis ten to one, but three Parts in four of the
Company you dine with, are discomposed, and started at the
cutting of a Cork, or scratching of a Plate with a Knife; it is
a Proportion of the same HUMOUR, that makes such, or any other
Noise, offensive to the Person that hears it; for there are
others who will not be disturbed at all by it.

At this Rate every _Weakness_ of _Nerves_, or _Particularity_ of
_Constitution,_ is HUMOUR.

It is true, he justly points out in another Place the different
Sentiments, which ought to be adapted to different _Characters_ in
_Comedy_, according to their different _Dispositions_, or, as he
phrases it, _Humours_: As for Instance, he very rightly observes,
That a Character of a splenetic and peevish HUMOUR, Should have
a satirical WIT. A jolly and sanguine HUMOUR should have a
facetious WIT.
--But still this is no Description of what is well felt, and known, by
the general Name of HUMOUR.

However, as what I have already quoted, may appear to