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IT is also call’d Febris Amatoria; I suppose, (partly) because of the Colour, according to the POET; Palleat omnis Amans, Color hic eft aptus Amanti: And (partly) because of the Age, which may be the fittest Time for Love; which made Diogenes say, at sight of a certain Patient, That she was dead in her OWN, but alive in ANOTHER Body: As it is otherwise denominated Icterus Albus; because, as in an Icterus or JAUNDICE, the whole Body is tinctur’d yellow: So in this Disorder, it is changed Pale and Wan; and from hence it is commonly call’d the GREEN-SICKNESS, because of the Colour and Aspect inclining a little that way. As it is likewise also term’d, Fœdus seu pallidus Virginum Color, or the ugly pale Colour of languishing VIRGINS.

HOWEVER yet I have known many Women, in France, and Germany, who have been so far from thinking it an ugly Colour, that they have esteem’d it most Beautiful; and have used very pernicious Things to gain and appropriate this Colour to Themselves: Esteeming Fresh-looking-Women, of a fine sanguine Complexion, mere RUSTICKS.