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In showing the meaning of the words I will first define what anger is, and then ¹set down the divers sorts thereof. Anger therefore generally considered is thus defined: it is an affection, whereby the blood about the hart being heated by the apprehension of some injury offered to a mans self or his friends, & that in truth or in his opinion only, the appetite is stirred up to take revenge.²

In shewing the meaning of the words I will first define what anger is, and then ¹set downe the diuers sorts therof. Anger therfore generallie considered is thus defined: it is an affectiō, wherby the bloud about the hart being heated by the apprehension of some iniury offered to a mans selfe or his friends, & that in truth or in his opinion onely, the appetite is stirred vp to take reuenge.²

1. 1What anger is in general.What anger is in generall.
2. 2The names of anger with the notation.

First we will speak of the thing defined. and after of the definition. Anger in the latin tongue is called (ira) with name hath his notation from the effect, for when by the apprehension of an injury the hart is inflamed with the heat of anger, it doth make a man (quasi ex se ire) as it were to go out of himself, and in this respect he who was angry was said by an usual Latin phrase (non esse apud se, not to be with himselfe, and ad se rediisse, to have returned to himself, when his anger was passed over. The Grecians did especially use two names to express this affection, which did contain in them the very nature of anger. The first [Greek or Hebrew] which signifieth the perturbation it self, or the heating of the blood by