The Anatomy of Melancholy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 2,057 pages of information about The Anatomy of Melancholy.

The Anatomy of Melancholy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 2,057 pages of information about The Anatomy of Melancholy.

Of body
Dryness, paleness, leanness, waking, sighing, &c. 
Quest. An delur pulsus amatorius?
or Of mind. 
Bad, as
Fear, sorrow, suspicion, anxiety, &c. 
A hell, 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 passion, 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, cocks, 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 God,
what his beauty is, how it allureth, part and parties affected,
superstitious, idolaters, prophets, heretics, &c. Subs. 1.

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