p." In "A Midsummer-Night's Dream" (v. 2),
Oberon, in blessing the bridal-bed of Theseus and Hippolyta, says:

"Never mole, hare-lip, nor scar,

* * * * *

Shall upon their children be."

The expression "hang the lip" meant to drop the lip in sullenness or
contempt. Thus, in "Troilus and Cressida" (iii. 1), Helen explains why
her brother Troilus is not abroad by saying: "He hangs the lip at
something." We may compare, too, the words in "1 Henry IV." (ii. 4): "a
foolish hanging of thy nether lip."

_Head._ According to the old writers on physiognomy, a round head
denoted foolishness, a notion to which reference is made in "Antony and
Cleopatra" (iii. 3), in the following dialogue, where Cleopatra,
inquiring about Octavia, says to the Messenger:

"Bear'st thou her face in mind? Is't long, or round?

_Messenger._ Round, even to faultiness.

_Cleopatra._ For the most part, too, they are foolish that are so."

In Hill's "Pleasant History," etc. (1613), we read: "The head very
round, to be forgetful and foolish." Again: "The head long, to be
prudent and wary."

_Heart._ The term "broken heart," as commonly applied to death from
excessive grief, is not a vulgar error, but may arise from violent
muscular exertion or strong mental emotions. In "Macbeth" (iv. 3),
Malcolm says:

"The grief, that does not speak,
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break."

We may compare, too, Queen Margaret's words to Buckingham, in "Richard
III." (i. 3), where she prophesies how Gloster

"Shall split thy very heart with sorrow."

Mr. Timbs, in his "Mysteries of Life, Death, and Futurity" (1861, p.
149), has given the following note on the subject: "This affection was,
it is believed, first described by Harvey; but since his day several
cases have been observed. Morgagni has recorded a few examples: among
them, that of George II., who died suddenly of this disease in 1760;
and, what is very curious, Morgagni himself fell a victim to the same
malady. Dr. Elliotson, in his Lumleyan Lectures on Diseases of the
Heart, in 1839, stated that he had only seen one instance; but in the
'Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine' Dr. Townsend gives a table of
twenty-five cases, collected from various authors."

In olden times the heart was esteemed the seat of the understanding.
Hence, in "Coriolanus" (i. 1), the Citizen speaks of "the counsellor
heart." With th