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Phlegm

¶ Phlegmatics are soft, cold, and serious,
thoughtful and considered in every affair.
They have great ingenuity when you challenge them
and they have to seek beyond their areas of expertise.
They fear shame and are kind and wise
and measured in their advice.
They are full-figured and fat, and their imbalance
produces the fever called "quotidian".

Melancholy

¶ The melancholic are the worst of all.
They are pale, thin, and joyless.
Those in whom this humor is abundant
are disposed to all manner of avarice,
and their hearts are always full of many worries.
They are solitary and not very friendly.
Melancholic fevers are quartan,
which are more sporadic than all other [fevers].

On the Soul

¶ If the soul wants to reign supreme
it can overcome all these passions.
But if the soul allows itself to be subjugated to the body,
it will yield to this inclination.
When it [the soul] allows the body to lead
and follows its baser instincts,
it loses its nobility and the good of the intellect;^{3LAURA I: Put a footnote about Dante here}
and that is due to its own, not to others', shortcomings.