To plese and paie love his riht: [Sidenote: =P. iii. 99=] Wher as he hath love undertake, Wrong is if that he be forsake. [Sidenote: De complexione Colere.] The fyr of his condicion[962] Appropreth the complexion 430 Which in a man is Colre hote, Whos propretes ben dreie and hote: It makth a man ben enginous And swift of fote and ek irous; Of contek and folhastifnesse He hath a riht gret besinesse, To thenke of love and litel may: Though he behote wel a day,[963] On nyht whan that he wole assaie, He may ful evele his dette paie. 440 [Sidenote: Nota qualiter quatuor complexiones quatuor in homine habitaciones diuisim possident.] After the kinde of thelement, Thus stant a mannes kinde went, As touchende his complexion, Upon sondri division Of dreie, of moiste, of chele, of hete,[964] And ech of hem his oghne sete Appropred hath withinne a man. And ferst to telle as I began, [Sidenote: Splen domus est[965] Malencolie.] The Splen is to Malencolie Assigned for herbergerie: 450 [Sidenote: Pulmo domus[966m] Fleumatis.] The moiste fleume with his cold[966] Hath in the lunges for his hold Ordeined him a propre stede, To duelle ther as he is bede: [Sidenote: Epar domus Sanguinis.] To the Sanguin complexion Nature of hire inspeccion[967] [Sidenote: =P. iii. 100=] A propre hous hath in the livere For his duellinge mad delivere: [Sidenote: Fel domus Colere.] The dreie Colre with his hete Be weie of kinde his propre sete 460 Hath in the galle, wher he duelleth, So as the Philosophre telleth. [Sidenote: Nota de Stomacho, qui vna cum aliis cordi[968] specialius deseruit.] Nou over this is forto wite, As it is in Phisique write Of livere, of lunge, of galle, of splen, Thei alle unto the herte ben Servantz, and ech in his office Entendeth to don him service, As he which is chief lord above.[969] The livere makth him forto love, 470 The lunge yifth him weie of speche, The galle serveth to do wreche, The Splen doth him to lawhe and pleie, Whan al unclennesse is aweie: Lo, thus hath ech of hem his dede. And to sustienen hem and fede In time of recreacion, Nature hath in creacion[970] The Stomach for a comun Coc Ordeined, so as seith the boc.[971] 480 The Stomach coc is for the halle, And builleth mete for hem alle, To make hem myghty forto serve[972] The herte, that he schal noght sterve: For as a king in his Empire Above alle othre is lord and Sire,