The Anatomy of Melancholy Part 51

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Preface or Introduction. _Subsect. 1._

Love's definition, pedigree, object, fair, amiable, gracious, and pleasant, from which comes beauty, grace, which all desire and love, parts affected.

Division or kinds, _Subs. 2._

Natural, in things without life, as love and hatred of elements; and with life, as vegetable, vine and elm, sympathy, antipathy, &c.

Sensible, as of beasts, for pleasure, preservation of kind, mutual agreement, custom, bringing up together, &c.

or Rational

Simple, which hath three objects as _M. 2._ Profitable, _Subs. 1._ Health, wealth, honour, we love our benefactors: nothing so amiable as profit, or that which hath a show of commodity.

Pleasant, _Subs. 2._ Things without life, made by art, pictures, sports, games, sensible objects, as hawks, hounds, horses; Or men themselves for similitude of manners, natural affection, as to friends, children, kinsmen, &c., for glory such as commend us.

Of women, as Before marriage, as Heroical Mel. _Sect. 2. vide_ [Symbol: Aries]

Or after marriage, as Jealousy, _Sect. 3. vide_ [Symbol: Taurus]

Honest, _Subs. 3._ Fucate in show, by some error or hypocrisy; some seem and are not; or truly for virtue, honesty, good parts, learning, eloquence, &c.

or Mixed of all three, which extends to _M. 3._ Common good, our neighbour, country, friends, which is charity; the defect of which is cause of much discontent and melancholy.

or G.o.d, _Sect. 4._ In excess, _vide_ [Symbol: Gemini]

In defect, _vide_ [Symbol: Cancer]

[Symbol: Aries] Heroical or Love-Melancholy, in which consider,

_Memb. 1._ His pedigree, power, extent to vegetables and sensible creatures, as well as men, to spirits, devils, &c.

His name, definition, object, part affected, tyranny. [_Subs. 2._]

Causes, _Memb. 2._

Stars, temperature, full diet, place, country, clime, condition, idleness, _S. 1._ Natural allurements, and causes of love, as beauty, its praise, how it allureth.

Comeliness, grace, resulting from the whole or some parts, as face, eyes, hair, hands, &c. _Subs. 2._ Artificial allurements, and provocations of l.u.s.t and love, gestures, apparel, dowry, money, &c.

_Quest_. Whether beauty owe more to Art or Nature? _Subs. 3._ Opportunity of time and place, conference, discourse, music, singing, dancing, amorous tales, lascivious objects, familiarity, gifts, promises, &c. _Subs. 4._ Bawds and Philters, _Subs. 5._

Symptoms or signs, _Memb. 3._

Of body Dryness, paleness, leanness, waking, sighing, &c.

Quest. _An delur pulsus amatorius_?

or Of mind.

Bad, as Fear, sorrow, suspicion, anxiety, &c.

A h.e.l.l, torment, fire, blindness, &c.

Dotage, slavery, neglect of business.

or Good, as Spruceness, neatness, courage, aptness to learn music, singing, dancing, poetry, &c.

Prognostics; despair, madness, frenzy, death, _Memb. 4._

Cures, _Memb. 5._ By labour, diet, physic, abstinence, _Subs. 1._ To withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, fair and foul means, change of place, contrary pa.s.sion, witty inventions, discommend the former, bring in another, _Subs. 2._ By good counsel, persuasion, from future miseries, inconveniences, &c. _S. 3._ By philters, magical, and poetical cures, _Subs. 4._ To let them have their desire disputed pro and con. Impediments removed, reasons for it. _Subs. 5._

[Symbol: Taurus] Jealousy, _Sect. 3._

His name, definition, extent, power, tyranny, _Memb. 1._

Division, Equivocations, kinds, _Subs. 1._

Improper To many beasts; as swans, c.o.c.ks, bulls.

To kings and princes, of their subjects, successors.

To friends, parents, tutors over their children, or otherwise.

or Proper Before marriage, corrivals, &c.

After, as in this place our present subject.

Causes, _Subs. 2._ In the parties themselves, Idleness, impotency in one party, melancholy, long absence.

They have been naught themselves. Hard usage, unkindness, wantonness, inequality of years, persons, fortunes, &c.

or from others.

Outward enticements and provocations of others.

Symptoms, _Memb. 2._ Fear, sorrow, suspicion, anguish of mind, strange actions, gestures, looks, speeches, locking up, outrages, severe laws, prodigious trials, &c.

Prognostics, _Memb. 3._ Despair, madness, to make away themselves, and others.

Cures, _Memb. 4._ By avoiding occasions, always busy, never to be idle.

By good counsel, advice of friends, to contemn or dissemble it.

_Subs. 1._ By prevention before marriage. Plato's communion.

To marry such as are equal in years, birth, fortunes, beauty, of like conditions, &c.

Of a good family, good education. To use them well. [_Subs. 2._]

[Symbol: Gemini] Religious Melancholy, _Sect. 4._

In excess of such as do that which is not required. _Memb. 1._

A proof that there is such a species of melancholy, name, object G.o.d, what his beauty is, how it allureth, part and parties affected, superst.i.tious, idolaters, prophets, heretics, &c. _Subs. 1._

Causes, _Subs. 2._ From others The devil's allurements, false miracles, priests for their gain. Politicians to keep men in obedience, bad instructors, blind guides.

or from themselves.

Simplicity, fear, ignorance, solitariness, melancholy, curiosity, pride, vainglory, decayed image of G.o.d.

Symptoms, _Subs. 3._ General Zeal without knowledge, obstinacy, superst.i.tion, strange devotion, stupidity, confidence, stiff defence of their tenets, mutual love and hate of other sects, belief of incredibilities, impossibilities.

or Particular.

Of heretics, pride, contumacy, contempt of others, wilfulness, vainglory, singularity, prodigious paradoxes.

In superst.i.tious blind zeal, obedience, strange works, fasting, sacrifices, oblations, prayers, vows, pseudomartyrdom, mad and ridiculous customs, ceremonies, observations.

In pseudoprophets, visions, revelations, dreams, prophecies, new doctrines, &c., of Jews, Gentiles, Mahometans, &c.

Prognostics, _Subs. 4._ New doctrines, paradoxes, blasphemies, madness, stupidity, despair, d.a.m.nation.

Cures, _Subs. 5._ By physic, if need be, conference, good counsel, persuasion, compulsion, correction, punishment. _Quaeritur an cogi debent?

Affir._

In defect, as _Memb. 2._

Secure, void of grace and fears.

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