To discern all which symptoms the better, _Rhasis_ the _Arabian_ makes three degrees of them. The first is _falsa cogitatio_, false conceits and idle thoughts: to misconstrue and amplify, aggravating everything they conceive or fear: the second is _falso cogitatio loqui_, to talk to themselves, or to use inarticulate incondite voices, speeches, obsolete gestures, and plainly to utter their minds and conceits of their hearts, by their words and actions, as to laugh, weep, to be silent, not to sleep, eat their meat, &c.; the third is to put in practice that which they think or speak. _Savanarola, Rub. II, Tract. 8, cap. 1, de ægritudine_, confirms as much: _when he begins to express that in words, which he conceives in his heart, or talks idly, or goes from one thing to another_, which _Gordonius_ calls _nec caput habentia nec caudam_ [having neither head nor tail], he is in the middle way: _but when he begins to act it likewise, and to put his fopperies in execution, he is then in the extent of melancholy, or madness itself._ This progress of melancholy you shall easily observe in them that have been so affected, they go smiling to themselves at first, at length they laugh out; at first solitary, at last they can endure no company, or if they do, they are now dizzards, past sense and shame, quite moped, they care not what they say or do; all their actions, words, gestures, are furious or ridiculous. At first his mind is troubled, he doth not attend what is said, if you tell him a tale, he cries at last, What said you? but in the end he mutters to himself, as old women do many times, or old men when they sit alone; upon a sudden they laugh, whoop, halloo, or run away, and swear they see or hear Players, Devils, Hobgoblins, Ghosts, strike, or strut, &c., grow humorous in the end: like him in the Poet, _sæpe ducentos sæpe decem servos_ [he often keeps two hundred slaves, often only ten], he will dress himself, and undress, careless at last, grows insensible, stupid or mad. He howls like a wolf, barks like a dog, and raves like _Ajax_ and _Orestes_, hears Music and outcries which no man else hears....