How does the passage develop the central idea elizabethans believed that health depended on the balance of the four humors? it explains that elizabethans could control the balance of their humors. It explains that elizabethans blamed what they ingested for the imbalance of humors. It explains that elizabethans believed that age was responsible for imbalanced humors. It explains that elizabethans believed that divine intervention caused imbalanced humors.