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共 136 段- In nomine Dei Amen. August 15th One thousand six hundred thi
- My intent is no otherwise to use his name, than Mercurius
- How shall I hope to express myself to each man's humour and
- And 'tis proper to them both, and I hope not unbeseeming me,
- 'Tis an inbred malady in every one of us, there is seminariu
- Their breviaries, bulls, hallowed beans, exorcisms, pictures
- That he could cubiculorum obductas foras recludere et secret
- but according to my promise, I will descend to particulars.
- Their examples are soonest followed, vices entertained, if t
- I am ashamed to hear this objected by strangers, and know no
- He that invents anything for public good in any art or scien
- Lipsius saith of himself, that he was [786]humani generis qu
- _Man's Excellency_.] Man the most excellent and noble creatu
- Delirium, Dotage.] Dotage, fatuity, or folly, is a common na
- _Similar Parts_] Containing parts, by reason of their more s
- Next in order is the sensible faculty, which is as far beyon
- SUBSECT. I.—_Definition of Melancholy, Name, Difference_.
- It is in vain to speak of cures, or think of remedies, until
- They are (as others suppose) appointed by those higher power
- [1169]Gregorius Tholsanus makes seven kinds of ethereal spir
- Natural causes are either primary and universal, or secondar
- According to my proposed method, having opened hitherto thes
- There is not so much harm proceeding from the substance itse
- Of retention and evacuation, there be divers kinds, which ar
- A young man is like a fair new house, the carpenter leaves i
- What imagination is, I have sufficiently declared in my digr
- The Sicilian tyrants never invented the like torment. It cru
- no halcyonian times, wherein a man can hold himself secure,
- wanting his liberty, which is better than gold. Damasippus t
- Self-love, pride, and vainglory, [1903]caecus amor sui, whic
- Thus they go commonly meditating unto themselves, thus they
- They toil and moil, but what reap they? They are commonly un
- He shall have all the good words that may be given, [2082]a
- as children in the dark conceive hobgoblins, and are so afra
- he may sail as he will himself, and temper his estate at his
- howling, roaring, many bitter pangs, [2316]lamentis gemituqu
- The same inconvenience befalls women.
- After a tedious discourse of the general causes of melanchol
- _Fear_.] Arculanus in 9. Rhasis ad Almansor. cap. 16. will h
- Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperam
- his countenance is altered on a sudden, his heart heavy, irk
- Because Lodovicus Mercatus in his second book de mulier. aff
- So Pentheus (in Bacchis Euripidis) saw two suns, two Thebes,
- and a melancholy man is that true Prometheus, which is bound
- Inveterate Melancholy, howsoever it may seem to be a continu
- When these precedent cautions are accurately kept, and that
- Man alone, saith [2926]Cardan, eats and drinks without appet
- As a long-winged hawk, when he is first whistled off the fis
- soil, or not much different. Under the equator itself, among
- he cannot say, he labours to prove it by all means: and that
- the island of Lesbos, in the Aegean sea, which Vitruvius so
- [3245]To walk amongst orchards, gardens, bowers, mounts, and
- They labour most part not to pass their time in honest dispo
- Nay, what shall the Scripture itself? Which is like an apoth
- Whosoever he is that shall hope to cure this malady in himse
- If that may not be hoped or expected, yet ease him with comf
- Nothing better (to conclude with Solomon, Eccles. iii. 22),
- Particular discontents and grievances, are either of body, m
- he forgets what he was, domineers, &c., and many such other
- A secure, quiet, blissful state he hath, if he could acknowl
- as Cato told his soldiers marching in the deserts of Libya,
- Death and departure of friends are things generally grievous
- The commonwealth of [3939]Venice in their armoury have this
- Oftentimes too a base contemptible fellow is the instrument
- After a long and tedious discourse of these six non-natural
- Helena's commended bowl to exhilarate the heart, had no othe
- Melanagoga, or melancholy purging medicines, are either simp
- Phlebotomy is promiscuously used before and after physic, co
- Let's drive down care with a cup of wine: and so say I too,
- In this cure, as in the rest, is especially required the rec
- For my part, saith [4423]Maximus Tyrius, a great Platonist h
- This twofold division of love, Origen likewise follows, in h
- Beauty is the common object of all love, [4542]as jet draws
- Swear, protest, take God and all his angels to witness, quae
- and if all be certain that is credibly reported, with the sp
- What breach of vows and oaths, fury, dotage, madness, might
- Many such causes may be reckoned up, but they cannot avail,
- When Venus came first to heaven, her comeliness was such, th
- Natural beauty is a stronger loadstone of itself, as you hav
- one spent as much as two funerals at once, and with perfumed
- [5088]Peter Aretine's Lucretia telleth as much and more of h
- that it will make the spectators mad. When that epitomiser o
- [5217]In the mountains between Dauphine and Savoy, the friar
- She looks out at window still to see whether he come, [5292]
- Lovesick [5369]Chaerea, when he came from Pamphila's house,
- though it rain daggers with their points downward, light or
- Every base swain in love will dare to do as much for his dea
- What fires, torments, cares, jealousies, suspicions, fears,
- 'Tis good therefore to keep quite out of her company, which
- [5698]Quis enim modus adsit amori? But, without question, go
- The worldly cares, miseries, discontents, that accompany mar
- Where persuasions and other remedies will not take place, ma
- Let them take time then while they may, make advantage of yo
- alas, poor Hippolitus, thou knowest not what thou sayest, 't
- As the old man in the comedy cried out in a passion, and fro
- Hippocrates, the physician, had a smack of this disease; for
- Besides those strange gestures of staring, frowning, grinnin
- Yet what I have formerly said of other melancholy, I will sa
- Of such medicines as conduce to the cure of this malady, I h
- I have no pattern to follow as in some of the rest, no man t
- are his temples, he dwelleth in us, and we in him.
- to terrify them, to arouse them up, and the like: see but Li
- as he that walks by moonshine in a wood, they groped in the
- Invectives and contentions. They had rather shake hands with
- And which was most absurd, they made gods upon such ridiculo
- And whilst the ruder sort are so carried headlong with blind
- In that other extreme or defect of this love of God, knowled
- He alone, like another Hercules, did vindicate the world fro
- This meditation terrifies these poor distressed souls, espec
- Experience teacheth us, that though many die obstinate and w
- Why doth he suffer Turks to overcome Christians, the enemy t
- was relieved. Psal. lxix. 3, he complains, I am weary of cry
- Absence a cure of love-melancholy
- 174. Part 1. sect. 3.
- 477. Polit. l. 5. c. 3.
- 746. They get their wisdom by eating piecrust some.
- 1121. See Strozzius Cicogna omnifariae. Mag. lib. 2. c. 15.
- 1395. Cupedia vero, placentae, bellaria, commentaque alia cu
- 1662. Effusas cernens fugientes agmine turmas; quis mea nunc
- 1930. Od. Vit. l. 3. Jamque opus exegi. Vade liber felix Pal
- 2125. The pupil's faculties are perverted by the indiscretio
- 2460. Assiduae eaeque acidae ructationes quae cibum virulent
- 2759. Tom. 2. Libello, an graviores passiones, &c.
- 3039. Or plain, as Patricius holds, which Austin, Lactamius,
- 3339. Epist. Primiero. Plerunque in qua simul ac pedem posui
- 3581. Quod unusquisque propria mala novit, aliorum nesciat,
- 3866. Summo mane ululatum oriuntur, pectora percutientes, &c
- 4173. Expedit. in Sinas, lib. 1. c. 5. Praecepta medici dant
- 4427. Med. obser. lib. 2. cap. 7. de admirando amoris affect
- 4745. Quid toto terrarum orbe communius? quae civitas, quod
- 5054. De puellae voluntate periculum facere solis oculis non
- 5359. Cor totum combustum, jecur suffumigatum, pulmo arefact
- 5679. Hypatia Alexandrina quendam se adamantem prolatis muli
- 6024. Ter. Eun. Act. 1. sc. 1. Munus nostrum ornato verbis,
- 6336. Habitus a Deo infusus, per quem inclinatur homo ad dil
- 6621. Eat, drink, be merry; there is no more pleasure after