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Like fire doth choler, hot and dry, appear;
Like water, cold and moist, is phlegmatic,
The melancholy, cold, dry earth is like.*</poem>
| źródło = {{Cyt
| inni = translated by John Harington
| strony = C3
| url = https://books.google.pl/books?id=jdkh8ZU0Tj0C&pg=PP39
}}<br>*) It may seem that the rhyme is off in the last verse, but "like" was actually pronounced as "leek" in Late Middle English.
| oryg = <poem>Quatuor humores in humano corpore constant:
Sanguis cum cholera, phlegma, melancholia.
