ANATOMY

OF

MELANCHOLY,
WHAT

KINDS

IS, WITH

IT

THE

ALL

PROGNOSTICS,

SYMPTOMES,

CAUSES,

AND

CURES

SEVERAL

PARTITIONS.

THREE

IN

WITH

SEVERAL

THEIR

MEMBERS,

SECTIONS,

CTIONS,

SUBSE

"

AND

OPENED

HISTORICALLY

MEDICINALLY,

PHILOSOPHICALLY,

IT.

OF

CUT

UP.

BY

JUNIOR.

DEMOCRITUS
WITH

SATYRICAL

PREFACE

CONDUCING

TO

THE

TO

NEW

IS

OF

LONDON

FOR

THOMAS

GLASGOW;

M'LEAN,
AND

PREFIXED

THE

VOL.

PRINTED

DISCOURSE.

FOLLOWING

EDITION.

WHICH

LIFE

THE

J.

AUTHOR.

II.

HAYMARKET;
GUMMING,

R,
DUBLIN.

GRIFFIN

"

CO.

A\

111.

SECT.

of

good counsel, comfortable

required
they are
how

sufficient

sole

present

the

to

of

care

remedy

how

and

have

all

mention

discontented

they yield,

themselves;

of

made

speeches, perswasion,
a

of

cure

Remedies

the

I have

section,

precedent

in the

mind,

I.

Digression, containinff
manner
of Discontents.

Consolatory

JjECAUSE,

SUBSECT.

I.

MEMB.

sarily
necesor

bled
trou-

times

many

thought fit, in

digress, (if at least it be to

and
to collect
glean a few remedies, and
of
best
orators,
out
philosophers,
our
this
of
to
the
and
fathers
church,
tending
divines,
purpose.
of
this
written
have
I confess,
copiously
subject, Plato,
many
Plutarch,
Epictetus, Theophrastus, XeXenophon,
Seneca,

following- section,
digress in this subject)
comfortable
speeches,
this

little to

Lucian,Boethius

Grantor,

nocrates.

"

and

of

some

late, Sado-

Erasmus,
Budaeus, Stella, Petrach,
and
"c.
well,
Bernard,
j(\ustin, Cyprian,
they so
Cardan,

letus,
Hierome
lorum
up,
and
so

like

in

said,

case

si nostrum

besides

that,

ingeninm,

areret

de

as

il-

barren
wits
were
dryed
fontibus irrigari, if our
from
those
be
well-springs;
copiously irrigated
they might

posset

I shall

of

their

treatises

vast

to

that

need

divine
to

this

so

Cardan

my

Yet, because

agere.

these

are

not

briefly insert
epitomize, and
and
precepts, reducing their voluminous
otherwise
scale
small
sible
impos; for it were

great

vessels

said

of his

into
book

so

de

little

And,

creek.

consol.)

tvill contemn

mine

and

of
many
are
fortunate, happy, and in flourishing
of such consolatory speeches; they that are
tract

tracts

1 will

common,

bring
(as

hand,

actum

and

obvious

some

but

though
al-

knoiv

before
reject; they

estate,
miser

have
able

no

and

ina
felices bis se non
Lib.
de lib. propriis.
Hos
libros scio miiltos
; nam
spprnere
felicihns. momiseriae
Et tamen
snfficere.
digere putant, infelices ad solationem
non
hinuanae
ielicitatis docent,
inconstantiam
d^^rationeoi, dmn
piajstant : inf'elices, si
omnia
VOL.

recte.sestimare
II.

veliut, felices

reddeie

possimt.
B

( 'ini^of

think
vnfiuppi/,

tliem

'2.Sec.
[Part,

yjefancholif.

to eastunsftfficicut

t/ieir(jrieved

3.

viinch,

and, comfort ihrh misrrif; yet I n illgo

do

good

some

deration, and

needs
on
; for this must
to snch
as
to brinii them
to a jnoare
liappy,
make
tliem reflect and know
themselves,by

the unconstancy of humane

others misery
seeingfelicity,
and to such as are distressed,
if theywill but attend and consider
of this, it cannot
choose
but give some
and
content
'Tis true, no
affections
of the mind are
comfort.

"*

medicine

can

and

Plotinus

not

: yet these helps

he contemned.
Arr'\-

stifle in the contrary

are

some

invitrahle
altor/ether

mnst
of art, phy sick,and philosophy,
anus

all diseases:

cure

that
opinion,

such

Boethiushimsielfcannot comfort in
preceptscandolittlegood.
; theywill rejectsuch
cases
some
speeches,like bread ofstones:
stultae mentis

Insana

adde

Words

no

conrar/e

(which

heec solatia.
''

Catiline

said

once

to

his

captainscration doth not make a coicard a x'asaid to his friends,you are

liant man:
and, as Job 'feelingly
'lis
all.
gar
hut miserable comforters
to no
purpose, in that vulobsolete
of
and
liar
famisentences,
phrase,to use a company
'Plinius
as
Secundus,
being now sorrowful an"l
sayings:
heavy for the departureof his dear friend Cornelius Rufus, a
:
souldiers)

Roman

wrote

senator,
solatia,sed nova

to

his fellow

Trio

in like

ca-se,

adhihe

sed
alicjua,

leqerim.
nunqnam:

nam

fortia,qua: avdicrini nunqnam,

tanto
quae audivi, quce leqi,omnia

that 1 never
read nor
dolore superanttir; either say somethinghold
Most
else
will
of
men
here
heard
before,or
thy peace.
a
nd
consolations,
known
ordinaryspeeches,
except.trivial
perswasions, in this behalf Mill be of small force; what can any
said? to what end are such parteman
say that haih not been

netical discourses'? you

as

alter

be

mens

some

but do

choose
the

may as
affections.

i-omo

soon

Yet

good,comfort

again,1 will say it ;

hie sermo,
Non mens

same

adventure

Caucasus,
cannot
iliey
and ease
a little
though it
and upon that hope, 1 will
"'tis
not my speechthis,but

''

mount

remove
sure

I think

of Seneca, Plutarch,Epictetus,
Austin, Bernard, Christ,and
said in like
his apostles. If I make
nothing,as *^Montaigne
case,

[ will

hope

I shall do
not

ease,
wrote

it may,

mar

blame

nothing;'tisnot my doctrine
no
body wrong' to speak what
in

impartingmy

mind.

but

my

study;

serve
think,and de-

If it be

not

it may
be for my own:
so
Tully,Cardan, and
de consol. as well to helpthemselves,
as others.

for

thy

Boefhius
Be it as

I will essay.

"
Nullum
medicaraentiim
omnes
potest ; sunt alleclus aninii qui prorsus
sanaie
ai!t philosopliiae.
dobef, aut inediciiia-,
tamen
suntiusanabiles:
artis opus speriii
non
oratio facit e tiniido forteni.
^Sallust.
Verba
virtutt-ninon
addiint,nee
iraperaloris
* Hor.
*" Job,
'Lib. 2. Essays, cap. 6.
dEpist.12. lil).1.
cap. 16.

Mem.

1. Sul)s.

Remedies

].J

againstDiscontents.

and

either g-eneral!
are
or
grievances
particular;
d
earths,
are
i
nundations,
famine,
fires,
g-enerall wars, plagues,
unseasonable
wliich afflictwhole
diseases,
weather,epidemical
cities
or
territories,
to private men,
*as
:
kingdoms,
peculiar
Discontents

cares, crosses,

death
losses,

of

friends,
poverty, want, sickness,

all discontent: ^homines

orbities,
abuses, "c. generally
injuries,
salo:

quatimurJortume
patimur
there is

in the

Even

manes.

condition free

no

midst

of

mirth

our

mos
qimque
and jollity,

complaint;as he saith,our
whole life is a (/luaqjicron,
bitter-sweet passion,
a
hony and
all miserable and discontent ; who
are
gallmixt together
; we
it be a common
it?
and
that
if all,
evitable
incan
an
deny
calamity,
all
Cardan
^
who
then,
distressed,
as
infers,
necessity,
art thou, that hopest to go free?
Why dost thou not grieve,
thou art

some
grudging-,

some

mortall

Fene,

ifit he

then
more

to

common

another?

is common,

recuset

comfort

thy sole

^/,but alas we
do ?
Besides

are

wert

one

but,whenthe

this,thou hast

more

miserable

indeed

calamity
fellows

more

doloris ;

shouldstthou

why

disquieted

more

distressed, it were

be indured:

and

he

man

miseris socios habuisse

case;

'/

patiuntur
cranes,

with
thyself

Solameu

'tisnot

lo

world

alone

less

of the

governor

all,why should

If thou

irksome,and

not

sortem

quam

Nemo
"

and

man,

"^

than others

be
:

so

impatient?

what

shall

we

privatemiseries,
ijtperpetuallfear^and
enemies: tee have Bellonas
dangerof common
whips andpittifull
out-cryes^for
epithalamlums
; for pleasantmusick, that
fearfall noise of ordnance,drums, cm d warlike trumpets, still
soundingin our eares ; instead ofnuptialltorches^we have
of towns and cities : for triumphs,lamentations ; for
Jiring
^So it is, and so it was, and ever will be.
He
joy, teares.
that refuseth
to see and hear,to silver
this,is riot Jit to live
in this world, and
to

whom,

as

live

we

knows

not

the

common

longas theylive,with

condition

of all men,

reciprocall
course, j'oyes

a Alium
alium injuria?,
hunc iiisfpaupertas, aliutn orbitas,hunc morbi,ilium tiraor,
distrahunt. Cardau.
diae,ilium uxor, filii,
''Boethius,1. 1- met. 5.
^Apuleius,4. florid. Nihil homini tam prospere datum divinitus,
quia ei admixtum sitali-

Ijetitiasubest quaedara
quid difficultatis
; in amplissimaquaque
querimonia,conjugad Si omnes
tione quadam mellis et fellis.
premantur, quis tu es, qui
solus evadere cupisab ea legequas neminem
? Cur te non immortalem
prseterit
factum,
e
et universi orbis regem
doles?
non
fieri,
Puteanus,ep. 75, Nequo
dolendura eo quod accjdituniversis.
cuiquam pragcipue
fLorchan. Gallobelgicus,lib.3. Anno 1598, de Belgis. Sed eheu ! inquis; euge ! quid agemus ? ubi pro
epitbalamioBellonae flagellum,pro musica harmonia terribilium lituorum et tubarum
audias claugorem, pro taedis nuptialibus,
villanim, pagorura, urbium videas incendia ;
ubi pro jubilolameata,pro risu flatus,
e Ita est profecto
aerem
complent.
; ct
quisquishcec videre abnuis, huic sa;culo parum aptus es; aut potiusnostrorum
omnium
conditiouem ignoras,
tristiaIsetis,
invicem
quibusreciprocoquodam nexu laetatristibus,
succedunt.

b2

Cure

and

it may

be

be avoided

not

another.

one

and

[Part.2.

why

Sec. 3.

evitable
It is in-

then shouldst

thou

troubled ?

much

so

annexed, and succeed

(ire

sorrows

of Melanchuly.

nihil est homini

Grave

quod

fert necessitas,

"Tullydeems out of an old poet: that which is necessary

in this"
be grievous. If it be so, then comfort thyself
cannot

as

^that,whether
of

vertue

wilt

thou

or

"^Si longa est, levis est

if itbe

it must

no,

and conform
necessity,

make

to undergo it.
thyself

si

he indurcd

gravisest,

brevis est:

it cannot
last ; it will away;
long,'tislight;if grievous,
it
if
minuit,and,
nought else,yet time will wear

dies dolorem

it : '^obliviouis a common
will ease
medicine for
out; custome
and detriments whatsoever; ^and,
all losses,injuries,
griefes,
this
2chen theif
it
once
are
commoditifcomes
of injelicity,
past,
unto
sweeter
us ;
lij'e
atque Iia?c olim
and want
mecuinisse juvabit: the privation
oj'a thingmany
then
it teas.
times makes it more
anddeiiyhtsome
pleasant
bej'ore
of us all,
out
here withWe
to escape
not think,the happiest
must

makes

the rest

of

'

our

misfortunes,

some

Usque adeo nulla est sincera voluptas,

Sollcitumquealiquidleetisintervenit.
?

and

Heaven
indeed

earth

are

much

unlike:

those

heavenlybodies
without any impediment

freely carried in their orhes

to continue their course
interruption,

are

or

ayes, andmake

their conversions:

butmenare

for innumerable

urged

with

many
divers h indrances,oppositions,
st illcrossing,
their endeavours
and desires;and no mor tall man
interrupting
Ities,
o n d ha
difficu

ve

We must
not therefore hope
isfree from this law of nature.
all thingsanswer
own
our
to have acontito have
expectation,
and fortunes: Fortuna
of good success
nuance
nunquam
perbona.
consul
And, as Minutius Felix the Roman
petuo est
told that insulting
Coriolanus, drunk with his good fortunes,
look

not

for that

happened
ever

to

success

any man
have
all
to
tcill,

thou hast hitherto had

since the

beginningof

to
thingsaccording

'

the

his desirej

it never

yet

tcorld,nor
or

to whom

"" Cardan,
lib.1. de consol.
Est consolationis
e vetere
poeta
necessitate
sive
ferendum
est tamen.
s
ive
feras.
a
fit,
leve,
feras,
non
quod
genas
^ Omni
dolori ttmpus est medicina ; ipsnralactam exstin^it : in":.Seneca.
" Habet
hoc qao^ae
commodara
juriasdelft; omnis mali oblivionem adfert.
omnis jnfelicitas; sua^Horem
vitam, cum
abierit,relinqnit
F Ovid.
'Virff.
h Lorchao.
infera superis,bumana
terrenis. lon^e di.sparia.Etenim
Soiit uamqiie
feruntur libere, et sine ullo iinpedimento: stellap,
beatic mentes
athereiqae orhes,
elursus et conversiones suas
conficinnt :
jam sacalis innumerabilibns constantissime
homines magnis an^stiis. Neque hac natarae
lege est qiiisqnaramortaliam
verum
solutas.
""UiooysiusHalicar. lib.8. Non enim unquam
nee
contig^t,
po"t
"

Id Tusc.
non

hninines natos invenies quemqnam,

nulla in re fortune sit ei ad\ers;ita.

cui omnia

ex

animi sententia successfrint,

ita ut

was
fortu7ie

were

Neptunesadmiral, it could
famous

not

fortune,Narsetes, that

Alcibiades

that,as

mens,

it fell out to

so

to that happiness
others,even
surer,
almoner, Plutos treaJupiters

to

so

as

Even

adverse.

and
opposite

never

be foretold ; and
of Augustus: though he

him

1.] Remedies againstDiscontents.

1. Subs.

Mem.

great Gonsalvus, and

concludes,it

Jovius

Such

him.

secure

is almost

was

most

fatall

vented
to great princes,
throughtheir own defaultor othertcise circumand
die contheir
honours,
with envy and malice, to lose
"fisso, stillhath been, and ever will be :

tumeliously.

nihil est ab omni

beatum

Parte

There's
That

and

some

is under

Whatsoever

the

long as

so

shalt not here

^Thou
quiettimes,but rather

J'ate. And,

thou

is so absolute,
perfection
doth
not pollute.
impurity

is subject
to

moon

earth,look

livest upon

fnde

tion
alteracorruption,

peaceableand

not

cheerfuU dayes^

cloudes,stormes, calumnies:

those errant

in
planets,

for other.

such is our

their distinct

orbes,

their severall motions, sometimes

direct,stationary,
rein
orientall,
occidentall,
combust,
trograde, apogeo, perigeo^
will,have their fortitudes
ferall,free,and, as our astrologers
of those good and bad irradiations,
and debilities,
by reason
have

as

no

conferred

to

houses,case,
ebbe

others site in the

each

detriments,"c.

so

Ave

heavens, in their

terms,
fall in this world,
some
dejected,lead a trouble-

rise and

flow,in and out, reared and

life,subjectto many accidents and casualties of fortunes,

and

as
infirmities,
varietyof passions,

well

from

our

selves

as

others.

Yea, but

thou thinkest thou

art

more

miserable

then

the

are
men
rest ;
happy
respect of thee ; their miseries
but flea-bitings
to thine ; thou alone art unhappy ; none
are
in
bad as thy self. Yet if,as Socrates said, all the men
so
and
should
their
the world
come
bring
grievances
together,
of

in

other

"=

body, minde, fortune,sores, ulcers,madness, epilepsies,

agues
calamities of beggery,want, servitude,
and all those common
and laythem on a heap to be equallydivided,
imprisonment,
wouldst thou share alike,and take thyportion,
be as thou
or
thou tvouldstbe as thou art.
If some
art ? Without
question,
Jupitershould say, to give us all content,
,

Jam

faciam

Mercator;

tu, qui modo

miles,
tu, consultus modo, rusticus : hinc vos,

quod vultis; eris

" Vit. Gonsalvi, lib.ult

Ut ducibus fatale sit clarissimis,
aut culpa sua
aut secus,
h Id
circumveniri malitia et invidia,
mori.
imminutaquedignitate
per contumeliam
""rris purum
ilium ^therein non
nimbos potius,
invenies,et ventos serenos;
procellas,
r Si omnes
homines sua mala suasque
Lips,cent, misc. ep. 8,
calutnpias.
inunum
cumulum
divisuri portionibus,
cnras
"c.
''Hor. ser.
conferrent,
apquis
Jib. 1.

[Part.2.

CnrrofMeUuiclwly.

r"

parlibii*.Eia

mutatis disccdilc
liiiic,

Vos

Ib'ec.3.

Quid slatis? Nolinl.

Well, be't
Shall be

so

then

you, iniisler souldicr,

; y""ii,sir lawyer,

merchant

; go you
country c:fiit.leniati

side you;

That

why

stand

this,

to

It'swell

ye?

his oxen, hut not others

knowes
Ever if man
'tis the nature
of uH men still to
; and
not to examine
their own
selves,
misfortunes^
*

mens,

to confer

not

miseries,bnt

theyhave
think

on

to

their

themselves

with

others

'lis.

as

ries
defectsand mise-

re'/lcct
upon

them'

consider

other

or

to recount

their

good gifts,fortunes,benefits,which
but not once
their adversity,
to
riinjinate
on
what
what
but
not
they
they have,
prosperity,

not

their

them that go before, but not on those

to look still on
want;
would
after; ^icherras manif a man
infinite ntnnbcrs tliat come
the
he
had
but
least
think himselfin heaven,a pott u prince,
if
thou

part of that fortune,which

at, abhorrest,
repinest

much

so

ITow many
retched estate.
I
how
thou hast
that which
thousands
Avant
myriades
many
Avork
and
of
such
as
of poor slaves,
day
nightin
captives,
toil
ith
n"aintain
to
a
tin
sore
poor iivin"r
coJe-pits, n"ines, v.
ofsuch as labour in body andminde, live in extreme

and

accovntest

must

vile and

tr

ang-uisl^

and

pain,all which
O

fortunatos

art free from

thou

si

niniium,bona

sua

norint !

ledge
happy if thou couldst be content, and acknowRem
nonfruendo,
carendo,
cognoscimus
thyhappiness.

Thou

art most

when

thou

shalt hereafter

abhorrest,and
loatliest,

art

come

to

weary

that which thou

of,and tired with,when
want

now

'tis

wilt say thou w ert most

happy ; and, after a little
thou hadst the same
misse, wish w iih all thine heart,
content
for
world
such
but
life
lead
such
a
:
a
a life
again,might'st

past, thou

"

of it is pleasant. Be silentthen ; rest satisi

in aliorum infoi'tunia,
solare mentem
bed ; desine,intuenst/ue
misfortunes ; and, as the
comfort thy self with other mens

the remembrance

"^

"

tail,and the

rest

e.aptum videtis

the fox,

for want
of a
complainingolhis companions, taccte, quando me oculis
you complaineof toies ; but I am blinde ; be

moldiwarpein zEsop told

I say to thee, be thou satisfied. It is ''recordedof

((uiet;
with a generall consent
I he hares, that
they went to drown
of their misery: but, when
out of a feeling
themselves,
they
iat,incaiissA est, iit se inferaJios
propriamain uovit,aIiorurones(
'QuodiiDiisqiiisqne
Iih. 3. de consol.
Plutarch, dp con.iol. ad Apollonium
Cardan.
iniseruui putet.
'
Qnam mnltos putas qui ac rorlo proximos pntarenl.totidem regnlos,side fortnnjptnai
Bntfh de consul lib.2. pros. 4.
'"Hesiod
r^ljqiiiis
pais lis minima continent.
Qucd Don .(*, nolis ; quod 'nofpl
Lwlorjiiod":, ; quod 8unt alii,siur qm-mlibtt psv-.
*
""
.^99pif;ib.
"38f, velit.

1,] Remedies

1. Subs.

Mem.

againstDiscontents,

fearfullthen theywere, theybegan

of frogsmore
company
and comfort again. Confer thine estate
to take courage

saw

with

others.
similes aliorum

respice
casus;

Mitius ista feres.

content, and

Be

satisfied ; for thou art well in respectof

for that thou hast,that God
hath done

rest

others ; be thankful
for thee ; he hath not made
he might, but
creature
as

thee
a

vnlt,habere
(juid

potest :

nemo

man

no

beast,a

Christian, such

man,

art full well

arightof it,thou

consider

monster,

thou

as

can

art.

base

a
^

man

Qiiid-

have vvhat he will

chuse Avhether he
illud potest nolle, quodnon habet ; he may
he hath not.
will desire that which
Thy lot is falne : make
^
ail
should
of
it.
the best
If ice
sleepat all times, (as Endymion is said to have done) ivho then ivere happierthen his

short, a very dream

life is but

Our

fellow?

and, while

we

is at hand.
Our
adest,eternity
which
wise
icith
on
men
earth,
lifeis a pilgrimaf/e
passe
great
be
in
If
thou
in
distresse,
want,
woe,
sorrow,
alacrity.
pain,

look

about,

"

'^

immortalitas

sicknesse, think of that of

Godchastiseththem
apostle;
in
sowe
tchom he loveth.
tears, shall reap in joy
They
the potters vessell,sodoth
As thefornaceproveth
Psal. 126. 6.
Eccl. 25.5. 'Tis for thy good :
trie mens
thoughts,
temptation
tiisiperiisses
not been
: hadst thou
so
visited,thou
periisses,
or

our

that

hadst

utterlyundone.

been

tried in

are
gold in the fire,so men
ditat : and^ which
Camerarius

As

adversity.Tribulatio

hath well shadowed

Si tritura
Nos

ciux

in

an

embleme

of

absit,paleis

threshing
separatesfrom

By

crosses

the worlds

which

corn,

separat a paleis.

As

from

thresher and

abdita grana

sunt

mundanis

the corn.
chafFe are we born.
straw

Chrysostome comments, horn. 2.

Corn
in 3. Mat.
men
nor
separatedbut by threshing,
but
tribulation.
'Tis
that
which
impediments by
from "uiorldly
'Tis that which
Cyprianingeminates,Ser. 4. de immort.
'Tis the very

same

is not

'^

for
into

our

sine

"

fathers inculcate

eternity.'Tis that which

documentum;

Nocumentum

""

all the

Hierom, which

ears.

Deus

Seneca.

Seneca, de ira.

so

we

are

chised
cate-

proverb insinuates,
all the world rings
lum
flium sine peccato, nul-

'tis that which

unicum

facfello:God,

the

habet

saith

Sidormirent semper
^ Plato, Axiocho.

'Austin, hath
omnes,

An

one

son

nnllus alio felicior esset.

withCard.

ignorasvitam hancperegrinatioDem,
Sic expedit. Medicus
non

""
gandio percurrnnt ?
sapientescnm
qnam
f FriimeDtuni noD
dat qaod patiensvolt,sed qiiodipse boDiitD scif.
egreditar
gNon
daYnnanhs, sed flagpliiim
pst poena
nisi tritoratam,"r.
corrjgectis.
'Confess. 6.
'Ad ha rf-difa'em EKternam sic enidimur.

"c-

Cure

2.
[I'art.

Sec. 8.

williout correction,

-"^n expert sen-man

is tried
in
valiant
rnce,a
captain ahattle,a
tem[)"!"t,
Christian in tentation and miserif.
in adrersitij,
a
(Basil.

Kin,none

out

in

of Melancholy.

man

inn

runner

We

souldiers into this world,

many
lite is a Marfare ;
to strive with it,the flesh,the dovil ; our
it not ?
and who knows
honi.

8.)

as

so

est ad astra

Non

sent

are

mollis

terris via.

therejore
per adventure this worldhereis made troublesome
should not be delighted
unto US, that, as Gregory notes, we
hif
the way, andjbryetwhither we
are
yohuj.

"^

and

''

Ite

fortes,ubi celsa magni

nunc

Ducit

exemplivia

cur

inertes

Terga nudatis ? superata tellus

Sidera donat.
Co

then

on

and

you

in

liave many

heaven.

If the way be troublesome,

the other side you
on
grievances,

to
merrily

in many
njisery,
sweet
pleasant
sports, objects,

smels,delightsome

herbs, flowers, "c.

tastes, musick, meats,
Or put case
thou art now
forsaken
senses.

contemned; yet comfort

Agar in the wildernesse, God

sees

thee:

can

to

as
thyself,

thee:

recreate

your
of the world, dejected,
it was
said to

he

takes notice

of'
thycause, that
relieve thee.
And
can
surely,"^Seneca thinks,be takes delight
in seeingthee.
The
f)odsare tvell pleasedtchen they see
with adversity,
to see
are
as we
men
contendiny
fight,
f/reatmen
"

or

there is a God

man

with

saith

these

vindicate

are

worthy of
spectacle

teuted trith hisestnie.

the

that

But

beast.

he,

above

toyes in respect
God

; a

yood

hold,
^be-

man

A tyrant is the best sacrifice to

and his best objecta contented

con~

Jupiter,

minde.
held,
For thy part then, rest satisfied ; cast all thy care
on
him, thy
burden on
him; rely on hint ; ^trnst in him; and he shall
as

ancients

nourisli thee, care for

with David, G'orf is our
be
be
as

thee,give thee

hopeatid

in troubles
strength,

4f).1.): for they that

found (Psal.
as

mount

Sion, which

the monntnins

are

cannot

about

thine hearts desire

trust

be removed

Jerusalem, so

say

ready to

in the Lord

shall

(Psal.124. I, 2) :

is the Lord

about

his

and for ever.

people,fromhenceforth

='NaiicIeru"n tempeslas,atliletam stadium, duccra pugna,

magnanimnin calaniitas,
ChriMtianiim verotentatio probatet examinat.
''Sen. Here. fur.
'
Ideo Dens asperum
fecit iter,ne, dum delectantur in via, oMiviscantur
ooruin
")ii?r
"' Boelhiu.s,
"" Bortli.
emit in patria.
I. 5. met. ult.
pro. nit Manrt
cnnrtoriim desviperpricscius
nialis.su|"plicia,
Dens, bonis pr.T;uiia.
dispen.sanR.
Kpp,rta(or
f Lib. de
provid. Vuluptateni
I)ii,
uiqnando niH8;no8 vires colluctante.srnni rarapiniit
lainitatevideiit.
R hrce
Deo dignum, vir foiiismala fortuna
isperfariduin
Pual. 55 22.
f unip'j.sii.is.ii 1 Pet. 5. 7.

againstDiscontents.

Remedies

2.]

Mem.

MEMB.

II.

basenesse of birthy
peculiar
Deformityof body,sicknesse^
Discontents.

Particular
body, minde,

and

discontents

either of
are
g^nevances
wound
the
soul of
as
they

fortune, which,

or

melancholy,and
great inconveniences,
many
and perswasionmaybe eased
thatantidoteof
goodcounsell
by

producethis

man,

and

expelled.Deformities

or

of our
imperfections

bodies,as

be they innate
lameness, crookednesse, deafnesse,blindnesse,
accidentall,torture many men:
yet this may comfort them,
or
of the body do not a whit blemish the
imperfections
of it,
but rather help and much
the
operations
soul, or hinder
to the eye ; yet
increase it. Thou art lame of body,deformed
this hinders not but that thou maist be a good,a wise, upright,
^Seldome, saith Plutarch, honestyand beauty
man.
honest
coat, lies
dwell together
; and oftentimes, under a thread-bare
excellent
understanding:
an
that those

attrita latitat sapientia

veste.

Ssepesub
^

Messus, that famous

Cornelius

firstinto the

came
reason
were

when
preacher in Italy,

in Venice,
pulpit

was

so

much

contemned

he

by

lean,poore, dejectedperson, they

outside,a little,
the
leave
church; but, when they heard his
all ready to
of his

"^^

him; and

voice,they did admire

injoyhis company,
fellow to look
he that struts

invite

or

have

to, may
it out,

and is admired

happy was

him

that senator
could
first to his house.
A silly

wit,learning,
then
honesty,

more

jactans,Sfc.grandiagradiens,
ampullis

in the worlds

opinion.

Vilis ssepe cadus nobile nectar

the best wine

comes

of

out

habet

old vessell. How

an

could

many

deformed

I reckon

up, philosophers,
Claudus,
Timoleon,
Appius
eye,
of
John
Tunis,
blinde, Muleasses
king
king of Bohemia,
and Tiresias the prophet. ^ The night hath his pleasure
;
that
of
such
losse
the
for
one
are
men
sense,
and,
commonly
recompensedin the rest: they have excellent memories, other
good parts, musick, and many recreations;much happines,
great wisdom, as Tully well discourseth in his *TuscuIan
was
blind; yet who (saith
Questions, Homer
he)made more
with
both
his eyes? Debetter
accurate,lively,or descriptions,

princes,kings, emperours,
orators?

mocritus

Hannibal

was

blinde

had

one

yet, as

Laertius writes of

him,

he

saw

""
sub eodem lare honestas et forma habitant.
JosephnsMnssus, vita
"^ Homancio
Ad stuporem ejus
umbra honiinis,"c.
hrevis,macilentiis,
^ Nox
admirati sunt.
habet suas
pruflitionem et plwj'ipntiam
voluptates.
" Lib.
5. ad finem.
Cieciis potestesse
sapienset beatus,"c.
"

Raro

ejus.

Cure

10

more

tlian all Greece

of Melancholy.

[Part.2.

Sec.

besides; as ''Plato concludes, turn

3.

sane

incipit
cernere,
corporis
quinn primum
our
bodilyeyes are at worst, generally
soul see best.
Some
and divines
of our
the eves
philosophers
and
their
out
the
haveevirated themselves,
put
eyes voluntarily,
better to contemplate.Angelus Politianus had a tetter in his
so
nose
continually
running,fulsome in company;
yet no man
in
works.
and
his
crates
^Esopewas crooked, Sopleasing
eloquent
Democritus
withered,
long-leoged,
hairy;
pur-blinde,
lean and harsh,ugly to behold; yet shew me
Seneca
so
many
divine
sucli
littleblearwits,
Horace, a
spirits:
flourishing
fellow ; yet who so sententious and wise?
eyed contemptible
Marcilius
a coupleof dwarfes;
Ficiuus, Falser Stapulensis,
ocnlus

mentis

oculus

acute

; when
deflorcscit

short, hard-favoured

man
: parvus
erat, sed
of
all
three.
incomparableparts
tius
Ignamarpius erat, ^-c.yet
of an hurt he
Loiola, the founder of the Jesuits,by reason

''Melancthon

"^

leg at the siegeof Pampelona the chief town

and lesse serviceable at
in Spaine,unfit for wars,
that accident betook himself to his beads, and by

received in his
of Navarre
" ourt, upon
those means

with the

use

oot

honour

more

than

ever

he should

have

done

limbs,and properness of person. '^Vulnus

hurts not the soul.
Galba the
: a wound

of his

pcnetratanimam

non
em-

lame; that great Alexander

perourwascrook-backed,Epictetus
of stature;
littleman
^Augustus Caesar of the same
Ao-esilaiisdespicahili
forma ; Boccharis a most deformed

pitch;
prince
records
DiodorusSiculus
of
in
had,
(as
him)
'yet
as ever
Egypt
his
far
v"'isdome and knowledge
beyond
predecessours.j],
that
sUladeslaus
Cubitalis,
Dom. 1306,
pigmy king of Poland,
victorious battels,than any of his
reignedand fought more
virtus respuitstaturam
.A '?///""{
:
predecessours.
long-shanked
and
statme
refuseth
vast
no
commonly your great
vertue
;
and
fine
features,
are
sottish,
dull,and leaden spirits.
bodies,
a

in them?

What's
""

Quid

nisi

what

in Otus

akers

long.^

ferocia
pondusiners,stoUdaeque

and

(Neptunessons
Ephialtcs

mentis

in

Homer)

Orion,
Qui, ut magnus
Nerei
m
edii
per maxima
pedesincedit,
uiidas
supereminet
Stagna viam findens,humero

nine

Cuna

what

in

and
Maximinus, Ajax, Caligula,

the rest

of those

' Riber.
vit.
*" Joachimas Camerarius, vit fjus.
In Convivio, lib.25.
'l"ib. I. Corpor*
7. ?.
* Siieton. c.
d JVlacrobius.
"ja8.
sed ingenioe( pmdentiii
"xili ft despecto,
longp ante 8C reges ca"teros prdpyeniens.
:
ciibitovix altior odo
eram.
hist.Polandiap.
f Alexander
Cor["orc
panus
Gagaintis,
'
'Ovid.
"irg.
eraui.
Sed tamen in
magnus
"

parvo

yEn. JO.

corporc

againstDiscontents.

Remedies

2.]

Mem.

11

barous
Anakiros,heavie,vyt"t,baror giganticall
gjreatZauzuuiiiiius,
lubbers?
tibi dant

si membra

grandiaPaicai,

Mentis eges.

'^Lemnius)is a burden
body (saith
not'so livehjy
nor
theyso erect and
spirits
Their

Non

A littlediamond
Alexander
made

est

than

them, and their

merry

mica

corpore

worth

salis.

which
rockymountauK
conclude,"Ae hsser,
Aphrodisiaeus
positively

is more

the

because
the ^'loiser,

body.

in magno

to

soul

(inhis

Let Bodine

5.

much

was
c.

method,

contracted

in such a
hist.)pleadthe rest:

the lesser they are, as in Asia, Greece, they have generally

And for bodilystature, which some
the finest wits.
much
so
true, to say the best of them,
admire, and goodly preseuce,'tis
and tall,
I grant
are
men
caput inter nubila

great

proper

condunt

; but

Sed

little men
belli pusilli,
si bellus homo

est

are

pretty :

homo
Cotta, pusilkis

est.

Sickness, diseases, trouble

but without a cause.

many,
It may be 'tisfor the good of their souls: pars fatifnit : the
the spirit
hurts the one, must
flesh rebels against
; tliatwhich

'

is tiie mother
Sicknesse
of modesty,
help the other.
of
minde
when
in
our
in the
we
are
mortality
; and,
puttethus
and
she
full career
jollity, pulleth
us up by the
ofworldlypomp
know
calls
ourselves.
and
itthe
maketh
us
of
Pliny
sum
ear,
that
in
could
but
our
health,tchich
perform
i/"it-e
philosophy,
sicknesse.
in
our
Quum
injirmisumus,
promise
we
optimi
needs

'*

for what

sumus;

Rufus) was
man,

man

(as ^Secundus

expostulateswith

lascivious,
covetous, or ambitious ? he envies
no
fatters no man,
man,
despisethno
and
it not
And,
tales,
^c.
were
afterlyes

admires

man,

no

ever

sick

listens not

gentleremembrances, men would have no moderation

be worse
then tigers,
of themselves;they would
wolves, and
? Princes,masters,pareHts,
lions : who should keep them in awe
judges,friends,enemies,fair or foul meanes
magistrates,
for such

cannot

contain

us

will correct

but

littlesicknes

and amend

us.

And

serves)
ob(as '^Chrysostome
with
therefore,
good

minus vividi.
et spiritns
aooles,
Lib. 2. cap. 30. Oueri est illiscorporis

h
Corcui vim natura
coarctata sit anima.
Tngeniopellet,
cjVIalfisad salufeni animfe profuit
corporisaegritudo.
oegavjt.
"" PHnius
'^ Lib. 7. Summa
est totiiis
si tales, "c.
Patriarch.
philosophiae,
ant avaritia,aut honores ? oemiiii
epist.7. lib. Quera iofirmum libido solicitat,
"^Non
neminem
mirafur. neminem
sermone
maligno non alitur.
iftvidet,
despicit,
omnia corresit.
tenret princpps,
supervpoiens
magistT.-parenf. judex; at fPfcTJtudo
a

pQre breves

pnwlentiores,
quum

discretion,Jovianus Pontanus

caused this short sentence

"

be engraven

his tombe

on

[Part.2. Sec. 5.

of Melancholy.

Cure

12

and

in

Naples: Labour^ sorrow,

to

grief]

woe,
perstitious
proud 7nasters, bear that suSfc. are the
yoke, and bury your dearest J'riendt,
life. If thy disease be continuate and painfull
saivcesofour
want
sicknesse^

thee,it will

to

to

serve

surelylast :

not

for a moment, causeth unto

eternall weightof glory(2 Cor.
hut

endure much
contain ; and those
:
couragious

in

sorrow

women

that

there is

are

much

as

and

which is
lightaffliction,
excellent and
a far more
us
bear
4. 1 7.)
itwith
:
:
patience
a

childbed,and yet theywill not

barren, wish for this pain: be
valour to be shewed in thy bedj

vincet ;
a
: aut
aut
sea-fight
vincetur,
army
In the mean
thou shalt be rid at last.
time, let it take his
is
minde
disabled.
not any way
BilibaldusPirkithy
course;
in

as

to Charles

senator

merus

at

or

an

the

ruled
fifth,

all

Germany, lying-

his bed.
The
part of his days sick of the gout upon
the
lesse
violent thy torture
it will continue : and,
is,
more
and
hideous
for
the
itbe
time,comfort thyself,
severe
as
though
most

martyrs do, with

honour

and

immortality. That famous

Epicurus,being in as miserable paineof stone
philosopher
and collick, as a man
might endure, solaced himself with a
the joy of his soul for his rare
ventions
inconceit of immortality;
the pain of his bodilytorments.
repelled
of birth is

*^

to some
disparagement
men,
and
bear
office,
to promocome
wealthy,
tion
common-wealth
if their birth
: then, (as'^he obsei*ves)

Basenesse

great

if theybe
especially
in

and to their fellowes,they

answerable to their calling,
and
ashamed
themselves.
of
abashed
Some
much
are
scorn
father and mother, deny brothers and sisters,
with
their own
be

not

the rest

of their kindred

and

friends,and will

not

suffer them

them, when

near
to come
they are in their pomp, accounting
to have such beggarlybeginnings.
ita scandal to their greatness,
Simon, in Lucian, havingnow
got a littlewealth,changed his
name

from

Simon

to

Simonides,for

on

because

Others

and

by

all means

screw

themselves

were

firewhere he

beggarsof his
armes,

kin,and set the house

nobody should pointat it.

that there

so

many

born,
of
titles,
coats
buy
was

intoancientfamilies,

and allbecause they

pedegrees,
falsifying
usurpin^^scutchions,
to be base.
The reason
would not seem
is,for that this genti-

" Nat
luctas,servure
snperbU
Chytrsens,
Europ.deliciis. Labor, dolor,segritudo,
"c. condimenta
vitas
sepelire,
dominis,jogam ferre Buperstitionis,
qnos habet caro8
^ Non
tarn inari cjnam |)rrelio
virtus,etiam lecto exhibetur :
sunt.
aut ipsate.
Seneca.
i-incetnr aut vincet ; ant tu febrein relinques,
Tullius,
*

Vesicfc morbo
labomns, et urina; mittendae difficultatetantn, ut vix
lib.7. fam. ep.
ha?c omnia animi gaudiuniob ineiDoriam invf nincrFmeDtum
caperet; rppellebat
") Boeth. lib.2.
4.
Huic census
torum.
exsuperat,sed est pudoridegeoer
pr.

sanguis.

Mem.

lityis so
honour

agahut Discontents^

Remedies

2.]

much admired
attributed unto

by

company

of

\3

and
outsides,

such

it,as amongst ''Germans,Frenchmen,,

commonalty,and will
and make
to
not
; theydepresse,
In our ordinary
talk
them as so many asses, to carry burdens.
and scurrile name
and fallings
we
opprobrious
out, the most
call
is
him
first
base
to
fasten upon a man, or
can
give,
rogue,
the
in
a
nd
like
whereas,
:
rascall,
my judgement,this
beggarly
least. Of all vato trouble men
nities
ought,of all other grievances,
is
the
of
and fopperies,
to brag
gentility
greatest ; for
such superiority,
what isittheycrack so much of,and challenge
as if they were
demi-gods? Birth ?

and

Venetians, the gentry

Tantane

It is

non

the

scorn

match with them

suffer them

ens,

tenuit
generis

vos

fiducia vestri ?

of
a
flash,a ceremony,
toy, a thingthe beginning,
present estate, progresse,

meer

nought. Consider
Oppression,
ending of gentry; and then tell me what it is.
murther
andtyranny,
fraud,cosening,
haudery,
usury, knavery,
hath been
"^One
the beginning
ancient
are
families.
of winy
the death of many
a
a
hloud-sucker,a parricide,
sillysoul in
made
an
some
seditions,
orphan and
unjustquarrels,
many
poor widou- ; andforthat he is made a lord or an earl,and his
for ever after.Another hath been a hated,
posterity
gentlemen
a slave, '^prostituted
a pander to some
great men, a parasite,
lascivious
his
some
to
daughter,
prince; and for
himself, u'ife,
''

Tiberius

that he is exalted.

time, because
drinkers ; many

preferred
many

they were

into this

come

; aut

non

that do not

rise

vertue

and

the base

ortum,

that have

(so

sturdy
one

cats

and you
families,

Sylviusobserves)
not

wicked

ginning
be-

ascendunt

non
(as that
eofastigii
his
to
set
a
oration,proved
fellows)
direct
such inor
force,
foolery,
villany,
by knavery,
that
noble
are
wealthy;
They are commonly

qui vi

plebeianin
means.

habent

and

parchment row

or cosening. Search
it)by flattery
your old
shall scarce
find,of a multitude,(asiEneas

qui sceleratum

honours in his

to

whore-masters

famous

et dolo

Machiavel,in

riches seldome

settle in

one

man

who

enrich
? spoiles
of nobility
beginning

then

one,

sees

usury

not
an-

h Alii
"
nobilitatem,alii
thes.
Gasper Ens. polit.
pro pecuniaemnnt
nobilitatem conciliat;
aliiparricidiis
illam lenocinio,alii veneficiis,
; mnltis proditio
"=Ex
"c.
Agrip- de vanit. scien.
pleriqneadulatione,detractione,calnnaniis,
dpiures ob prostihomicidio saepe orta nobilitas,
carnificina.
tutes
et strenna
";c.
nobiles facti ; mnltos venationes, rapinae,caedes,prsestisria,
filias,nxores,
f Cum
enim hos dici nobiles videmus, qui div^tiisabundant,
eSat. Menip.
nobilitatisdesrenerem "?
divitise vero
virtutissunt comites, quis non
videt ortum
raro
illeadulationibus ;
hone usurje
ditarunt,ilium spolia,
proditLones
; hie veneficiisditatus,
huic adulteria lucrum praebentnonnuUis mendacia ; quidam ex conjngequjestumfa-

Sic.
cinnt,pleriqne
ex natis,

Florent. hist.lib.3.

i'liiv

14

of

(l^irt."2.Sor.

Melmirliohj.

2.

a fifth,
a fourth^ ffaflcri/
tliird,intrhcrafl
thf
vitnr.i.i
s'u'f/i,
a
adulterij
hmntuj f'ahe
sfcaihtf/,
ii/iiKfy
bis lord
himself to make
makes
One
a fool of
(S-c.
seiH'nth,

o/A^r,

treason

dandles

another

merry;
na""-

him;

on

my
third marries

younj:: master,

who
pleaseyour good worship,your lordship,
founder of your family? The poet answers,
illud

Aut pastor fuit,aat

""

quod

little

Now, may

piece,"r.

crackt

bestowes

it

the first

was

dicere nolo.

have
? If he, then we
you the better gentleman
If you, what is itof which thou boasttraced him to his form.
It may be, his heir,his
That thou art his son.
much?
est so
he

Are

or

the

yet indeed

and

reputedson,

priestor

servingman

will not controvert

father of him ; but we
thou
art his sons
all honest;
sons
arc
women

true

maiTied

may be
that now;
gotten
be-

son

Thy great great

j///Va (futtuor maria, \r.
then
in nil likelihood
and
rich
ciii/.en,
a
was
oreat
grandfather
then a....; a
and
then a....; a courtier,
a lawyer,and
a
usurer,
and born

country

then he

gentleman,and

scrapedit oat

of

sheep,Sec.

then
so
the heir of all his vertiies, fortunes, titles;
i/twhat is your gentry, Imt, as Ilierom saith,opes anfiqiicPy
wealth? that is the definition of gendhiticf,?incie\n
veteratcE
tility.
and

you

are

The

often to the
present, what

fatlier goes

divel,to
is it 1

make

his

son

It

began (saith
gentleman. For the
with
cVr.
oppression,
Agripna)tcith strouf/impieti/, tjjranni/,
ancTsoIt is maintained : wealth began it (no matter how got);
knights
wealth continueth and increaseth it. Those Roman
much.
^In
could
so
(\k\iend,perannfim,
called,ifthey
so
were
the kinjrdome of Naplesand France, he that buyes such lands,
with it; and
they
honour, title,barony together
buyes tfie
^

that

to
office,
ex

And
our

so
dispend

can

censn

much

or
knights,
our
;
jtidirant

be

what

is the

now

amongst

fine for

nobles

it,as
are

us,

must

one

'

observes,

measured

objectof honor?

be called

by

bear

nobiliorem

their

AVhat

to

means.

maintaines

gentry, but wealth ?

*=

Nobilitas, sine re,

without means,
and base.

projectavilior al^n:

gentry is naught worth; nothing so

'

Disputarede

nohilitate

ible
contempt-

sine divitiis,
f/eneris,

f^aithNevisanus the lawyer;

de nohilitate stercoris,
disputare
of gentry, without wealth,is (saving
to dispute
your reverence)
is wealth alone
it
that
So
of a mard.
to discusse the originall
which maintaines it,givesesse Xo it,
that denominates, money
what is their ordinary
for which every man
may have it. And

est

"f-.
"" Robasta
a tyrannide
iacepU,.
iinproLitas
"Juven.
"' Hor.
"' CJrenserus,Itinerar. fol.'lii^,
Ens. thesaiiro polit.
III.
Diim
Ill)4.

' Gasper
Syl.nnp.

of Mdancholy.

Cure

1R

[Part.2.

See. ^.

J'or having of it, ho is a fool himtelf.

of thy oentility.This is if,belike,Mhich
Now
o^o and bragand all those hutimakes the ^Turkes at this day scorn
nobility,
much
elevate
their
which so
poles;except
ing bumbast titles,
man,

nobleman

have got it at first,maintain it by some

superemiworth.
for
excellent
this
or
And,
cause, the Raquality,

it be such
nent

as

commonwealth,
j^usian

Switzers, and the united Provinces,

democratical
or
monarchies, (if1
aristocrasies,

all their

in

call them)exclude

so

may

will adnnt

and

of

all these

well
no

amongst them
taken

are

noble

such

from

as

nohilitas^nt olim, ah

old; and

their office

and

by

they choose

doctors

and

was

ottice,but such

bear

as

are

and
Mise, discreet,
Areopagites,

"^The Chinenses

broughtup.

man

to

none

learned,like those Athenian

nours,
hodegreesof hereditary

be

observe the same

customes;
birth ; out of their philosophers

bles
nomagistrates; their politick

moraliter

non
officio,

to defend

vertuous
nohiles^

naturd,

and govern

as

ble;
no-

in Israel of

their country in

hawk, hunt, eat, drink, game

alone, as
peace,
do.
Their Loysii,Manderini, lilcrati,lieentiati,
too many
and such as have raised themselves
by their worth, are their
war

only,thoughtfit to

noblemen
should

to

not

state; and why then

that isotherwise of worth, be ashamed
of his birth?
much
that
he
leaves
be
not
as
a noble
respected

any,

should

govern

why
he that hath had noble
as
posterity,
for plures
more?
solem oi'ientem,
we

ancestors

adore

the

? nay,
sun

why not
risingmost

is it to say, Ef/o meis majoribusvirmuch

to boast himself of his vertues, than of his birth ?
tuteprceluxi,

part; and how

better

was
Cathesbeius, sultan of iEgyptand Syria,
by his conditiona
and
second
to no
manhood,
slave,but, for worth, valour,
king-,

and for that

Mameluches
are

the

by Charles
all such.

Aurelius,

(as sJovius writes)elected

cause

"c.

that poor

of the
emperour
SpanishPizarro,for his valour, made

fifth,
Marquess of Anatillo : the Turkic Bassas
Arabs, Maximinus, Probus,
Pertinax,Philippus
from common
souldiers,became
emperours;

Cato, Cincinnatus, "c. consuls; Pius

tus, Joban

secundus, Nicholas

Horace,
Virgil,
fetch their
the

was

many

son

of

Secundus, Sixtus quin"c. poj)es, Socrates,

quintus,

Ubertino patre naUis.

''The

kingsof

mark
Den-

some
Ulfo, that
say, from one
tenui casd scepc vir
mugnus exit ;
out of a
cottage. Hercules,

pedigree,as
bear.

worthy man

comes

"

poor

""Mat. Riccius, lib. 1. cap. 3. Ad regendam

"" Lib.
1. hist, Conditione
remp
nemini secundus:
reRum
servos,
^Olaus Ala^us, lib. IK. Saxo
ob ha;c a Mamelucljis in regein elcctiis.
'" Seneca,
Grarnmaticiis. A quo rex Sueuo etca;tera Dnnorura regum stemniatn.
de Contio. Fliilos,
epi.st.
"

Rellonins,obsen-. lib.2.

soli doctores aut lieentiatiad.sciscuntiir,

";c.
maximorinn
catpnini
arer
bello,et animi magnitiidine

Jiemedies

2.]

Mem.

againstDiscontents,

J7

Alexander (by Olym|jIas

confession),
Themistocles,
the
William
mosthenes,
Arthur,
Conqueror,Homer, DeJugnrtha,kingthe
p. Lunibard, P. Comestor, Bartholus,Adrian
almost
and
in
bastards
the
"c.
fourth pope,
;
every kingdom,
first
bin
families
have
at
ancient
bastards;their
princes
most
bravest spirits
best nits, greatestscholars,
worthiest captains,

Romulus,

in all

annals, have been

our

givesa

why theyare

reason

base.
most

Cardan, in his Subtilties,

partbetter able than others in
*

body and mind, and so, per consequens, more fortunate. Casfound in the fielde exposed
truccius Castrucanus, a poorchilde,
a most
to misery,became
princeof Luke and Senes in Italy,
; Machiavel
compleatsouldier and worthycaptain
compares
AmVtis
a wonderfuUihing
him to Scipio
or Alexander.
i^H2i\th
that
it
all
consider
the
shall
those,
or
of'
greatest
he)to}iimthat
^

the bravest
part of them, that have done
earth, and excelled the rest of the nobles

abject,obscure
memorable
A most
scureabjectparents.
been stillborn in

some

here upon
exploits
of their time^ have
place,or of base andoh-

observation,
"'Scaliger

maximorum
virorum plerosaccompts it,et non prcetereundum,
matres
impndicasfnisse.I could recite
que patres ignoratos,
a great catalogue
of them : every kingdoms, every province,

willyeeldinnumerable

examples: and why then should base? who

thinks worse
of
of birth be objectedto any man
nes
?
that
an
or
lian
Sicifor
Agathocles,
Tully beingArpinas, upstart
king,for being a pottersson ? TphicratesandMariuswere
thinks better of any person for
wise man
What
meanly born.
'^
eodem
Machiavel, omnes
his nobility?as he said in
patre
nati,Adams

by

sons,

alias one, all

nature

theirs,and

all and

conceived

alike,ifyou

theyour clothes,and
^Bale

did of P.

born
see

whafs

us

in sin,"c.
We are
naked ; let us wear

the

?
difference

To

Scbalichius,I

more
esteem
thy
speak truth,as
then
honour
thee
nobility
thy
more
honesty,
;
worth, learning,
then earl of the
that thou art a writer, a doctor of divinity,

baron

Hunnes,

Src.

hast title to such and such

vinces,
proand
'^Jovius
fortunate
great (so

of Skradine, or
Thou

art

more

sunt et animo fortiores spurii,

pleriimqueob araoris vehemeotiatn,seminis
'' Vita
Castiucrii. Nee preeterrationem
minim videri debet,si
eos.vel saltern maximam
omnes
considerarevelit,
partem, qui in hocterrarum

aCorpore
crass.

"c.

quisrem

aggressisunt, atqae inter caeteros Eevi sui heroas excelliierunt,

orbe res pra?stantiores
aut obscuro aut abjecto loco editos, et prognatos fuisse abjectisparentibus. Eorura
": Exercit. 265.
d Flor.
possem.
ego catalogum infinitum recensere
una
hist.1.3.
Quod si niuios nos conspicicontingat, omnium
eademqae erit facie.s;
e \jt nierifo
vestes induamus, nos, "c.
si ipsinostris, nos eorum
nam,
senfiam.
Pauium Schalichiiim,
scriptoremetdoctorem,pluris
dicam, quod simpliciter
Skradinum.
comitem
facio quam
Hunnonira, et baronem
Encyclo:i""iiamttia.m,et
aatefero. Balypus. epist.
omnibus provinciis
nine
orbem disciplinarum,
ipatad 5 rent,
fPiasfat. hist.lib.1. Virtute tua major,
Brit.
ultimam script.
et decora prolisfelicitate beatior
aut Hetrusci imperiifortana, aat niuaerosa
quam
evadis.
VOL.

n.

of Melancholy.

Cure

IS

nrites

Medices, then

Cosimis

to

duke

[Part.*2.Sec,

of

Florence)
^br thy

and
thy lovelytrij'e,

then for

happy children,friends,
or
f'ortnnes,
yreat dutchy of Tuscany. So I acconjpt thee ; and
indeed ?
h
who dot
not so
^AbdalonynuisT\as a oardner, and
for
his
Alexander,
kinfjof Syria. How
vertues, made
yet by
rerhies,

better is it to be liorn of

much

worth,

parentage, and

mean

morallynoble,which

to be

to excell

is

before that
preferred
and
nobility,
by divines,philosophers,
politicians,
be learned, honest, discreet,mcH
to
to
qualified, be fitfor
in country and common-wealth,
of imploimejii,
any manner
be
and
than
to
brave
as many
war
deyeneres
JS/^eoptolemi,
peace,
nobles are, only wise because rich,otherwise idiots,
illiterate,
in

naturall

i.

unfit for any

Huniandes

upbraidedJohn
he

of service ?

manner

replied,in

Ciliensis coniitatus

tc

with riot; mine

had

so

thine earldome

beginswith honour

voco

''

of his birth

but

in
turpiterextinyuitur,
and

renown.

noble

many

nostra

Udalricus, carl of Cilia,

with the baseness

Bistricensis exoritnr
qloriose

me

'^

is consumed

Thou hast
thee?
Vix ea

ancestors; what is that to

when
thou art a disard thyself,
quidprodest,

i
censer
^-c. I conclude,hast thou
longostemmate
a sound
body, and a good soul,good bringingup? art thou
are
vertuous, honest, learned, well qualified,
religious.^
thy
thou
?
art
conditions
a true
nobleman, perfectly
good
noble,
althoughborn of Thersites,duni tnodo tu sis /Eacidm similis^
noble,
nou
s^cx'^,v,
^for neither sicord,
natus, sed J'actus,

Pontice,

'^

y-nr

nor

fire,nor

water,

outward
7ior
sickness,

nor

violence,
nor

take

the

thy yood parts from

not
thy birth then ; thou art a gentleman all the world
and shalt be honoured, when as he, strip
him of his fine
over,
"^^
of his wealth, is a funge (which
clothes, dispossesshim
"Polynices,in his banishment, found true by experience,
not
esteemed) like a piece of coin in another
gentry was
di\'el

himself,

can

ashamed

Be

of

take, and shall be contemned.

though thou be a barbarian,born at Tontonteac,

countrey, that
Once

thee.

more,

no

will

man

villain,a slave,a Saldanian

rude

Virginianin
a
a
Dasamonquepeuc,
monseur,
Spanish don, a
I care
how descended, of what
senior of Italy,
not
of
family,
what order,baron, count, prince,
ifthou be well qualified,
and
he not, but a degenerate
L
tell
thee
in
a word,
Neoptolemus,

he

thou art

Let

said,no

no

and

man,
terrce

negro,

or

French

he is

flius,or

beast.

upstart,insult

worthygentlemantake offence.

at this

which

speak it not

I have
to

de-

^"Eneas Silvias,
lib.2. cap. S9.
the nobilityof their kindred.
incendio absumi, ncc
"
aqiiarum
fSend them both to some
potest.
stranjfe
vora"iDeabsorberi,vel \'\morbi de.striii,
place nftked. lid ipnotos,ax Aristippns.said,yon shall see tiie diflerence. Bacons
Es'iay*-'. r PainiliiPsplendorniliilopisattiilit."c.
a Cnrtius.
If cbildren be
Eccl. 22. 8.

"i

""

Bodine, de

rep. lib.3. cap. 8.

proud,haughty, foolish,they defile

nee
fiirto
nee
eripi,
Cajiispossesgio

"

Mem.

Remedies

2.]

born

19

and noble:
truelyvertuous
deserving,
much
; I was
respectan"l honour true gentry and nobility
in
ancient
of worshipful
family: but I
parentsmy self, an

tractfromsuch
I do

againstDiscontents.

as

are

well

me
not: or,had*ibeen some
brother,itconcenies
endowed, so minded as I am, I should not have
great heirrricbly
mane
been elevated at all,but so esteemed of it,as of all other hubrittle
are
honours, Sic theyhave their period,
happiness,

ayounn-er

am

and unconstant.

As ''he said of that great river Danubius, it

sometimes
small fountain, a littlebrook at first,

riseth from a
broad, sometimes

now

narrow,

increased
slow,tbenswift,
the confluence

at last

of 60

incredible greatness,by
navigable
loseth
and
denly
its
is sudvanishethin
conclusion,
name,
rivers,it
of our greatest
swallov/ed upof the Euxinesea; 1 maysay
rich
at first,
mean
augmentedby
marriages,
families,theywere

to

an

purchases,offices ; they continue

for

some

ages,

with

"c.
littlealteration of circumstances, fortunes,places,

prodigalson,

some

by some

default, for want of issue,they are

some
blotted out.
instant,and their memory
for

or

defaced in an
time I do attribute to gentility,
that,if
So much in the mean
noble parentage,he will
or
he be well descended of worshipful
express it in his conditions :
nee

enim

feroces,

colurabatn.
Progenerantaquila)

And

of our
althoughthe nobility

times be much

like

our

coins,

value,but less in weight and goodness,

with finer stamps, cuts, oroutsides,
thenofold; yet,ifheretain
those ancient characters of true
gentry, he will be more
of fairer carriage,
better
atfable,
courteous, gentlydisposed,
more

in number

and

magnanimous,heroicall and generous spirit,

boores and pesants,
then tliatviilgus
Jiojninum,those ordinary
inculti
plerumque sunt^ ne
ac/restes, et
qui adeo itnprobi,
dicani malitiosi,
ut nemini ullum hujnanitatis ojfficium
prastent,
^
of
observes
a rude,
si
a
s
them,
ne
one
Deo,
advenerit,
ipsi
and
cious,
malicruel
currish
brutish,uncivil,wilde, a
generation,
and such as have scarce
mon
comuncapableof discipline,
And
it may be generally
sense.
spoken of all,which
said of his travel into England, the
the physician
'Lemnius
sullen,dogged clowns, sed mitior
common
peoplewere silly,
the genhumanitatis officivm
ad umne
paratissima,
nohilitas,
tlemen
fall
often
it
civil.
If
it
and
out
so
courteous
were
(as
of their wealth,
doth)that such pesantsare preferred
by reason
temper,

or

more

in imducte sub initiis,

rerom
imago, quae, parvis
Exilis hie primo fluviusin admirandara magcrescunt, et subito evanescunt.
nitudinem excrescit,tandemque in mari Euxino evaaescit, J. Stuckius, pereg. mar.
"^ Lib. 1. de 4. ComEuxiai.
bSabinus,in 6, Ovid. Met. fab. 4.

^Fluvins liicillustris,
hnmanannn

mensum

plexionibus.
c

of Melancholy

Cure

20

[Part.2.

chance,

"c.

errour,

slie

otherwise; yet, as the

or

turned

to

shaken

off.

fair maid,

Sec. 3.

in the

cat

fable,

would

play with mire, a

will l)e a cur, a clown will be a clown ; he will likely
cur
of the stock whence
became; and that innate rusticity
savour
when

was

hardlybe

can

Licet

superbusambulet

Fortuna

/\nd

mutat

non

pecunil,

genus.

their education, such men

may be better qualified,
and more
refined,yet there be many symptomes, by
which theymay likely
be descryed,
affected fantastical caran
riage,
tailor-like spruceness,
in
all
a
their
a peculiar
garb
prochoicer than ordinaryin his diet ; and (as''Hierome
ceeditigs;
well describes such a one
to his Nepotian)
""
upstart, born iri
a

thoujrhby

that
base cottarje,

hnnffryf/uts,must
have

all

scarce

rarieti/of

of his

as

commonly
another

more

Jillhis

scornful, itnperious,
sulting,
inof his rank

man
"=

Tullyfound

nothingso
longsince out
:

experience.
Asperiusnihil est humili, cum

set a

to

and made dishes,

icill
the
best ot/sters,S,'c. A
fish,

fortunate
fool,as

bread

coarse

kickshoes

fleshand

insolent,than
intolerable

had
first

feed on

now

brat will be
begg-ars

at

beggeron horseback,and

in
surgit

altum

he will ride agallop,

"c*
a gallop,

fidessevit in ommnes,
Dum
se posse
putat; nee bellua ssevior ulla est,
in libera colla furentis :
servi
rabies
Quam

"

he

what
forgets

symptomes

he

he was,

domineers, "c. and many

hath,by which

such

him from
you may know
and obliquities
both
are
on

gentleman. Many errours

natis ; yet stillin
noble, ignoble,
yac/?."f,
well deserving,
and
some
are
degenerate,

other
a

true

sides,

all

as
some
callings,
of
worthy their
honours.
the magnificent,
And, as BusbequiussaidoifSolyman
he was
that
of
tanto
dir/nns
imperio,M'orthy
great empire ;
their honour,
of
descended,
most
are
meanly
worthy
many,
nobiles,and well deserve it. Many of our nobility
so
politice
born (which onesaid of Hepha'stion,Pfolema'us,Seleucus,
Anand
"
c.
Alexanders
the
of
rest
followers,
tigonus,
theywere all
worthy to be monarchs and generalsof arnu'es)deserve to be
princes. And I am so far forth of**.Sesellius his mind, that
as
theyoughtto be preferred
(ifcapable)before others,
being

aHor.

most

2. ep. 15. Natus soHido tngnrioloet panpere

domo,
" Nihil
fortiin-^toinsipienleintoleraventrem, "c.
"! Claud. I. 9. in
bilius.
e Lib. 1. de
Rep. Oal. Qiiouiam ei conEutrop.
modi' re iitimtiirconditioiie.et
civibonestiore loro nati.jain inde a parvulisad luorum
litateniediK'oti sunt, et assiiefKfti.

qoi vix

ep. Od. 2.

inilio
rnEientem

"" Lib.

Mem.

2l

Discontents,
agctinst

Remedies

3.]

hrovght vp, and from their infancy

nohly born^ ingenioushi
and vertiie in
trained to all manner
of civility.For learningis

noble-man

much

and
precious,

more

others, and

better than

great

as

In

their order:

many

family

ornament

to

to

endowed,

most

in

jewel set
such a man
respected,

be

to

is

him.

his noble
well

eminent; and,

more

as

honour

an

word, many

poor
eminent, and

mens

familyas

noblemen

are

an

singularly
deservingfor their
sons

well

deserves

his

to

gold is

are

excellent
vertue, valour,integrity;
learning,
And
of a commonwealth.
and pillars
therefore,to
members
base
be
I first intended, to
conclude that which
by birth,
meanly born is no such disparagement.Et sic demonsfratur,
quoder at demonstrandum.

worth, wisdome,

MEMB.

III.

AgainstPovertyajtd Want,
One

of the

with

such other Adver.sities.

greatest miseries that

can

which

worlds

befal

is poverty or
esteem,
want,
bear false witness, swear, forswear,contend, murder
which breaketh sleep,and causeth death it self.

burden
it makes men

(saith Menander)
it erects
desperate,
"^

no

amicitias

census

this in the

great

blessingin
of

cause

esteem

it self,an

discontent,or

themselves

happy

that

vile,hatedof

Christ himself was

his head
to hide

and

men

and

steal,
rebel,

poverty :

as

honores,
"c. and all

dejects:census

makes, but poverty mars,

aright,it is
; yet, if considered

mony

worlds

intolerable

so

in the

man,

makes

God,

men

estate, and

should

yieldsno

therefore

such

account

forsaken, miserable,unfortunate.

and had notahouse

poor, born in a manger,
in all his life,^lest any man
should make

And, as he
poverty a judgementof God, or an odious estate.
and disciples,
himself, so he informed his apostles
was
they
all poor,
gold have

prophets poor, apostlespoor (Act.3. Silver

I none) as sorrowing,
Paul) and yet
(saith
and
all
as
;
alway rejoycing
having nothing,
yet possessing
have been voluntarily
things,i Cor. 6",10. Your great philosophers
b
ut
others.
Crates
poor, not onlyChristians,
many
adored fer a god in Athens; a
Thebanus
nohle man
was
by
were

and

"

birlh, many

wealth, many

servants

manors,

"Nullum

he had,

an

honourable

fine apparel;

but

attendance, much
when

he

saiv

this,

bNe quis irsedivinae judiciumputaret,

paupertate gravius onus.
foret. Cualt. in cap. 2. ver. 18. Lucae.
"Inter proceres
paupertas exosa
Theoanos
domns aniplas,
nuraeratus,lectum habuit genus, frequens famulitiiim,,
8*r,
ant

Apuleius.Florid, 1, 4.

Cure

22

of the

that nil the irealth

and

world

but

was

to lit-ewell,he
availinf/

whit

no

of Melancholy.

fun

Those

his estate.

Sec. 3.

[Part.2.

brittle,uncertain,

(f his burden

into the

Fabrioii will be
renowned
for contempt of those fopperies,
wherewith
the
ever
world is so much affected. Among^stChristians,I could reckon
renounced

sea, and

Curii and

kings and fiueens, that have forsaken

lip many
and fortunes,and wilfully
abdicated themselves
much

their
from

crowns

these

so

toyes,''many tliathave refused honours, titles,

all this vain
which others so ambiami happiness,
tiously
pomp
esteemed

and

seek, and

Riches, I deny
honor

and attain.
compass
and blessinos ; and
gifts,
from God ; both rewards

study
carefully

not,

Gods

are

good

to

honorante, iionours are

of vertue, and fitto besought after,sued for,
and may well be
in having,
possessed: yet no such great happiness
or miseryin
est

wanting of
mala

have
that

them,

oistimet
wealth

vialis

tliat we

theyshould

quidem bonis,saith Austin, ne quis

autem, ne quisnimis bona : good men

Dantur

should

not

think

it evil

and

bad

men,

hold itso

good. Astherainfals
both sorts, so are riches given to good and bad, sed bonis
on
in bonum, but they are good onlyto the godly. But
conferre both estates, for natural parts theyare not unlike ; and a
beggars child,as Cardan well observes,is no whit inferioi'
relyon,

not

or

''

'^

to

princes,most

better:

part

and

for those

accidents

of

itwill easily
fortune,
traordinary
appear there is no such odds, no such exin
the
in
the
other. He
happiness
one, or misery
is rich, wealthy,
what
he
it?
fat;
by
pride,insolency,
gets

lust,
ambition, cares, feares,suspicion,
trouble,anger,emulation.
and many

He hath indeed
body and minde.
fare,sweet wine,pleasantsawce,
dainty
musick, gay clothes,lords it bravelyout, "c. and all that
in Lucian
which Micyllusadmired
but with them he hath
the gout, dropsies,
palsies,
stone, pox, rhumes,
apoplexies,
Lust
catarrhes,crudities,oppillations,
melancholy,"c.
'^
enters
in, anger, ambition.
According to Chrysostome,the
sequelof riches is pride,riot,intemperance,
arror/a?icy,furi/,
of
variety

diseases
filthy

of

dishes,better

'"

and

all irrational

courses.

saecula
turpifregeruot

Divitise molles

luxu

P. Blesensis,
metiens mota^ em"
ep. 72. et 232. Oblatos respnihooores, ex ooere
"" Sndat
"c.
i\'i,
non
pauper foras in opere, dives in cogitatione ; hie on aperitoscitatione,
illeructatione ; graviusiilefastidio,quam hie inedia,
"^ In
cruciatur.
Bf r. ser.
Hipperchen. Natura a-qiia est, puerosque
videniuK mendicoram
nulla ei parte regiiin filiisdissimiles,plerumque saniores
*
' Et
frjediatqtieolidi vertris mors
tandem
GallO;Tom. 0.
c contubernio
f Diviharom
edtjcit Seneca, ep 103.
arropantie,
sequela,biius, intemperif!:,
molua.
f .Tnren
Boperbi^jftirotinJMatn*,ojnnisqneiirationaWilis
Sat. 6.
3

bitiosos: rogatos

of Melancholy.

Cure

24

Rumpitur innumeris
Et subito nimifE

arbos

uberrima

[Part.2.
pomis;

prseripitantur
opes.

ARatree,tliatis heavyladen with fruit,breakslierown

with their

rninclhenisolves:
greatnesstl)ey

own

Sec. 3.

hoiio-hp,

whicli Joachi-

expressedin his 13 Enibleme,

elegantly
is their misery;
Their means
1. Inopem se copiafacit.
cent.
thoughtheydoapplythemselves to thetinies,toIye,dissemhle,
mands,
obey,second his will and comcollogueand flattertheirleiges,
much
too
be, yet
as
as
frequently
tliey
miscarry:
may
serves,
as^'yEneas
themselves
like
fat
so
hogs,
Sylviusobthey
many
that, when
theyare full fed,they maybe devoured by
Seneca
their princes,as
an us
by Nero was served,Sej
by Tiberius,
I
resolve
with
Ahasuerus.
and Haman
Gre'^ory,
by
potestas
cnlminis est tempestas mentis ; et quo d'ujnUas
altioi\casus
gravior; honour is a tempest; the highertheyare elevated,
the more
depressed. For ihe rest of his prerogagrievously
tives
Cainerarius hath

mus

which

wealth

afliords,as

he hath more,

are
goodsincrease^theij
the
corneth
to
owners^
good

yVhe7i

the greater.
them ; and what

thereofwith

the

eyes?

bMillia frumenti
Non

tuus

evil sickness

An

hinc

Eccles.

tua

capiet

Solomon

are

but the

eat

beholding

4. 10.

triverit area
venter

his expences

increased that

centum,

plusquam

mens.

calls it, and reserved to them

that will he rich fallinto many J

for
ears
They
into many foolishand noisome Insts,which
and temptations,
i Tim.
6. 9. gold and silver hath
in perdition,
drown
men
divitice
2.
sceculisnnt laqnei
diaholi:
destroyed
many, Ecclus. 8.
is
the
wealth
devils
and
writes
bait;
as the
Bernard; worldly
so
still
of
is
farther
fuller
from
when
she
is
the
light
moen,
the
farther
wealth
the more
they are commonly
they have,
sun,
said
this
had
of
I
rich
from God.
self,
n)en
(If
my
but hear who saith,and uho
would
have pulled
me
a pieces;
therefore S'. James bids (hem weep and
seconds it,an apostle)
shall come
miseries
that
howlefor the
upo?i them ; their gold
James 5. 1 2, 3.
shall rust and canker, andeat theirfesh asfre,
then boldlyconclude with 'Theodoret, quotiescunque
I may
divitiis affluentem,
ing
aboundSfC.as oftenas you shall see a man
evil,12. verse.

an

in wealth,
et Sarrano
Qui gemmis bibit,

and

in ostro,

you call him not happy, but

occasions offered
because he hath many
him unfortunate,

naught withal,

esteem

'

dormit

beseech

f' Hor.
devorentiir.
6. de
fnerint,
"^Cap.
postquamimpingiiati
CTraec.
horaioem
affect, cap. de providentia.Quoticscnnqne divitiisaflflnentera

Ut,

CTirat.

"wdennus,cimqne
#*D"ean)n",

Stc.

peBsixDutD,
nt,

qnapso, hnnr

bfah'sfiimuin pntemus,

sed infelieem

Remedies

3.]

Mem.

againstDiscontents.

the other side,a poor

: on
unjustly
happy, that
if he he good, but therefore
taken from him.
are
to live

multa
possidentem

Non

"

Muiieribus

ahle^

occupat

uti,
sapienter
pauperiempati,
timet.
flagitium

callet

Duramque

Pejusqueleto
is not

happy

hath

And

that is rich.
world

the

he that

But

miser

those evil occasions

beati, qui Deoriim

Nomen

He

is not

man

vocaveris

Rectius

beatum.

Recte

25

will.

at

Gods

wiselycan

gifts

Possess, and use them still;

That suffers,and with patience
hard

Adides
And

consists his

now

then other

more

men

discontents hath he
b

Non

or

not

enim

Summovet

Mentis,

Or

Their

'Tis

not

undas
'^

His

icor

officers

maiors

nor

remove

of the mind.

tumults

flyeabove
houses, v;ilh huge beams
high-roofed
can

or

vindicate

eripiet
unqnam

now

cares

volantes.

sint Croesi et Crassi

agens,

cannot

sus

men

he

and

laqueatacircum

that lie about,

his wealth

Tentory,

other

then

hath
privileges

gazse, neque consularis

tumultus
lirtor miseros

miserable

cares

what

miseries,what

rather what

et curas

treasures

The

happiness?

more

Tecta
Nor

for to

dye,
villany.

do such

Then

Wherein

poverty.

rather

chuseth

him

licet,non
miseriis:

health,

command

; let him

ship,asApuleiusdescribes

or

combind.

have

Jobs in-

hos Pacfolns, cureas

Croesus or rich Cras-

get himself a stomack.

him, in all his plentyand

is forbiddento eat, or else hath no appetite,

provision,
chronick
bed, can take no rest, sore grievedwith some
("sickin
troubled
clisease contracted
full
and
in
with
or
ease,
dyet
mind) when as, in the meantime, all his houshold are merry^
and
doth continnally
the poorest servant
that he keeps,
feast.
'Tis bracteata felicitas,
''Seneca terms
it,tin-foyTd
as
ness,
happiif
kind
elix
of
elicit
an
happiness, it be
inf f
as,
unhappy
of harness,and
at all. His gold,guard,clattering
happiness

great

"

Hor. 1. 2. Od. 9.
in omni copiapoa

citnr,
et

Bit,at^us epuletar,

bHor.
cibam

Florid. lib.4. Dives il!ecibo interdiinterea totum ejus servitium hilars

cam
accipitj

lib.2.
non

''EpistllS.

of Melancholy.

Cure

2(S

fortifications
a^ainsioutward
feares and

inward

Reveraque
Nee

[Part.2. Sec.

enemies,cannot

3.

free liim from

cares.

hominum,

metus

fremitus

metuunt

Audacterqueinter

curseque
aut

armorum,

reges, rcgiimque

sequaces,
t'erreatela ;

potcutes,

ab auro.
fulgoremrevercntur
stillattending
fears and cares,
fierce
fears
nor
clashing,
weapons

Versantur, neque
Indeed
Nor

men

armours

With

kingsconverse
theyboldly,and kingspeers,
that
no
Fearing
flasliings from gold appeare.
lie hath, and so many
he
enemies
servants
many
lie
for
entertains
ambition
are
liberty,
; his pleasures
suspects;
which
that
is
he
be
and,
cannot
no
worst,
private
pleasures;
other
do
A
his
servitude.
himself
is
state
as
men
a
or
;
enjoy

how

Look

country

man

city
province,
and
hunt,
liawk,
objects,

vince

to

to

king-dometo king"lome,
pror
his
with
delightful
glut eyes
without
those ordinarydisports,
cannot
a princeor
a
great man

and
city,
use

notice taken, all v.hich

He
keeps in for state,ne

any
do.
as

from

travel

may

China

our

evilescat,
majostatisdif/nitas
Bornay, and Tartarian Chains, those
said to do, seldome
or
abroad,
never
seen

kingsof

mancipiayare
the ''Persian
eraa
e obserrantia
ut major sit homimnn
; which
observed
of old.
A poor nuin
takes more
kings so precisely
delightin ordinarymeals meat, which he hath but seldom,
then they do with all their exotick dainties and continual
aurea

viands

commcndat
Quippe voluptatem

'tis the

that
rarityand necessity

wine

cause

or

mede.

dislike

All

sweetwill

Epicurus sometimes
accustomed

wayes

dressed

by

made

dishes,or whatsoever

wooden
other

same

bawdy hands) be

M-hich made
But

that

temperate

they being al-

''

dishes,(which are nastily

never
obscenities,
flesh,
{\Ai,
compounded,
they
therefore

else,are

loathsome

palaces;theyare
a

cooks, that,after their

slovenly

their

drinks in

be sour,

the

wash

itselfgrows

makes

fist.
voluntarily
to

usus

and
tiling
acceptable
flight
by Alexander, drank puddle
and it was
then
pleasanter,he
swore,
as
excess,
'^Epictetus
argues, will

pleasant.Darius, put to
Avater to quench histhirst ;
any

rarior

wooden

to them
; theyare
to them but as so many

dish,and

eats

weary

earthen
platters,
and precious
in gold,silver,
stones

nectar

of all their fine

A
prisones.

his meat
such

and
vessels,

cloyed:

in wooden

poor

man

spoons,

homely stufl^e:the

; but with

what

suc-

''Brisoniiis.
"Hor. Et mihi curto Ire licetmiilo,vel, si lihet,
usqne Tarendirn.
Si niodain excesseris,siiavissimR sunt inolesta.
''Et in tiipediisjjiilac.
coquos
Cardan. 1.8.
et |)neriillotismanibus
ab exoneratione ventris omnia tractanf, "c.
varictate.
rap. JG. de rerum

'

Mem.

Remedies

3.]

27

againstDiscontents.

fear of poysoii in the one, sebibitur venenum;

curity
is able to write,to speak his
A poor man
in the other.
business himself; locuples
mitt it paramind, to do his own
and
situm,saith ^Philostratus ; a rich man imployesa parasite,
the
M^
of
the
maior
corder,
Rea city
town-clark,or by
as
speaksby
inauro

cess?

''Nonius the senator

express himself.
hath a purplecoat as stiffewith jewels,as his mind is full of
vices; ringson his fingersworth 20000 sestercies; and, as
he cannot

when

"^

king,an union in his care worth lOOweight

hath whole
boars and sheep served
gold : '^Cleopatra
up
drinks
her table at once,
40000 sestercies
jewelsdissolved,
the Persian

Perox

of
to

in value ; but to what

'Num,
Pocula

Doth

fauces urit

tibi cum

aurea
sitis,

queeris

that is

man

end?

dry desire

to

drink

in

him as well, and keep him as

cloth sute become
their silks,
sattins,
damasks, taflatiesand tissues?
cloth

doth

not

arm,

as

gold?
v,

Is

not

all

spun
home-

of
a coat
preservative
againstcold,
of giantsbeards ?
Tartar lambs wooll died in grain,
a gown
or
and thou
Nero, saith^Sueton,never
put on one garnienttwice;
hast

as

scarce

one

great

to

put

as

on

hat's the difference ? one's

the other sound

tenor

that which
the

upshotof

makes

; such is the whole

and
is the consummation

greatestdifference.

of his
dunghill

the

other,as

carried

on

muckhil,

of their Jives

daies,but

all,death

One, like an hen, feeds

is served up at kst to his ?ords

sick,
;

and

itself
on

the

table;

falcon, is fed with

and pigeons,
and
partridge
is
when
he
to the
but,
fist,
dyes, fiuiig

his masters
and there lies.

The

rich

lives,like Dives,
make
the best of it;
earth,temnlentns diviiiis,
man

here on
jovially
and boasts himself'
in the multitude of his riches {Psal.
49.6. 11):
he thinks his house, called afterhis oicn name,
shall continue
for ever; but he perish
eth like a beast (ver.
20): his tray utters
dilabnntur
hisfolhf
(ver.13) maleparta male
; like sheep,
they
the
in
Puncto
descendunt
ad
inferman : they
lye
grave (14).
and go suddenly
doivn to hell [Job,
spendtheir dayesin icealfh,
21. 13). For all physicians
and medicines inforcingnature, a
families
tears, dirges,
sowningwife,
complaints,friends
masses,
for all orations,
counterfeit hired acclamations,
ncenias,funerals,
herses, heralds,black mourners,
eulogiums,epitaphs,
:

solemnities,
obelisks,and
at

"he, like
least)

^Epist.
vit.ejus.
Ad genernm
*

tyranni.

Mausolean

hog,goes

to

tombs, (ifhe have thera

hell,with

guiltyconscience

"i Plalarch.
^ Zonaras, 3
bpiin. lib.57. cap. 6.
annal.
'
Har. Ser. lib. ]. Sat. 2.
bis induit,
30.
veslem
Nnllaiu
Cap.
Cereris sine csde e( sanguinepauci DesceDdiint leges, et sicca morte
^

of Melancholy.

Cure

28

2.
[Part.

Sec. 3.

dilatavit infernusas suuni) and a poor mans

his iiieniory stinks like the snutfe of a candle when
it
scurril libels and infanioiis ol)loquies
out;

(propter has
curse:

is

accompany

put

hiiu

when

Laz;uus

poor

as

God, lives and dies

his

but

is Dei

devotion, hath

in true

innocency,the heaven

own

uiotheis

in his

buried

of
sacrariuin,the tenjpie

lap,and

his soul

for their
In

as

his wisdome.

anxiety

to

Croesus
victories,
a

word,

keep,grief

to

cQuid dignum
falsa

cum

Turn

vera

hich

they be

poor

cognoscaut

hath

man

in the

company
bosom:

so

him.
much

he

Crassus
fortheir

end, Solomon

is

of

fjreat

for

trouble^

imprecer?

gravimole paraverint,
bona.

mean

concealed

unknown,

(Icall them

the worlds

O fortunatos niraium,bona

happy they are

not

be dissolved,

anibiant:

acknowledged in

not

behind

for his

stolidis mentibus

consider all tliose other

But

to

lose it.

Opes, honores
Et,

hath

fjet icealth

^to

attendnnts,

more

desires

into iVbrahams

"angels ready to convey

a sweet
leavesan everlastingand
memory
indeed stillrecorded, but
and Syllaare
wealth

no

tomb,

si

unknown,

esteem,

or

nesses,
happibecause

so

taken):

norint !

sua

time, if theywould

lake notice of

wise is
A poor man
applieit to themselves.
better then a foolishkincj
(Eccl.2. 13). Poverty is the way
'the mother of religion,
inistress
to heaven, ''the
of philosophy,
sister of innocency,and an
uprightmind.
vertue, sobriety,

it, make

use,

or

"

How

such

n)any

encomiums

might

I adde

out

of the

fathers,

thattheyarepoor; they
Ittroublesmany
a
a great plague,
a signof Gods
curse,
hatred,
accompt
damn'd
it
shame
and reself,
a
proach
scebis,
disgrace,
villany
ipsnm
or
why'? If fortune hath envyed me
; but to whom,
have
thieves
robbed
wealth,
me,
my father have not leftme
orators!
philosophers,

of it as

"

such

revenues

us

others have, that

am

younger

brother,

baselyborn,
cui sine luce genus,

surdumquc parentum

Nomen,
of

parentage,

mean

blamed

an

dirt-daubers

son,

a
bull, a lion,is not
enyle,

I therefore to be
rejected
for his po-

am

of (he Rrave,
shall deliver his soule from the power
P.sal.19. 15.
''ConDivitiariim arqiiisitio
mairni lahoris,possessiotnagnitiraoris,
(^
amissio magni aoioris.
"^Boethius,de consul, phii.1. A.
Austin, in Ps. 76.
' Bnns"? mentis
ad civiura via.
niagistra,
soror
Omnis philosophia?
patipertas.
habitu serura, consilio ben^suada.
sohria.pia
fPadagoga pietatis,
mater, cidtiisimplex,
jr Cardan.
Opprobiom non est paupertas: quod lato eripit,ant pater
Apul.
mihi vitio daretur,si fortuna divitias in^idit? dod
cnr
aqnilx..
reliqnit,
nun, "c.
pon
"

GoH

tempi.Idiot, cap. 37.

Remedies

3i]

Mem.
verty

tohy should

and

fortunes
ciilpcE,

'Tis

man

mine.

faulf,not

29

^fortmicetelnm^

Good

words) hoicsoever

''Senecas

(touse

againstDiscontents.

Sir, I

your

am

servant,

friend;

poor

non

vant,
ser-

and if you consider better

yet your chamherfellow,
I am
thy drn(igein the worlds
of it,your fellow servant.
Gods
venture
sight,perad
thy better,my soule is
eye, yet, in
and
dearer
him.
I
unto
Etiam
servi Diis
more
precious,
sunt, as
Evangelus at largeproves in Macrobius ; the
curcB
is most
servant
meanest
preciousin his sight. Tliou art an
Christian
art
: thou
Epicure,I am a good
many
parasanges

and

before

favour,wealth,honour, Claudius his Narcissus,

Massa, Domitians
Parthenius, a favourite,
a

in means,

me

Neros

goldenslave

thou

with

with

of all this ? calcas

what

"c.

thy floors with marble, thy roofs

curious hangstatues, fine pictures,
ings,

coverest

gold,thy wals

opes, ^c. what's all this to

breath under that glorious
heaven,

happiness? lliveand

true

of stars,
august Capitolof nature, enjoy the brightness

that

sunand
lightof

that cleer

those

moon,

all that

birds, beasts, fishes,herbs,

surpassingall that
posfea

"t auro

but

word

at sea,

world

make

may

blow

equal in

us

at

give. lam

will

free,and,

liberostexit,sub
mar
hast AmalthecE

thou

land aflTords,
far

and
despicable

am

mora

cornu,

poor;

in

choler, a game at tables,

a loss
fire,the princesdislike,a littlesickness,5:c.

overshot,

sudden

culmen

servitus habitavit

the
plenty,pleasure,

and

sea

can
opnlentia

said of Rome,

^Seneca

which

and

art

infinitecreatures,
plants,

instant

an

howsoever

take

thy time,

'^
a while; cinis cequat, as
Alphonsus said;
all at last. I livesparingly,
in the mean
us
death will equalize
time, am clad homely, fare hardly;is this a reproach? am I

triumph and

the

insult

for it?

worse

sittingamongst
the

about
silent.
but

head,

his that

proachethhim

joyceth

for
contemptible
in

man

it?

^Nevisanus,was

"Tully.

so

to

taken

be reprehended

down

for

is
replyed,my yiobility
taile ; and they vvere
revile; 'tis not thy scorn,

and
mock, scoflT,

made

thee

so

that made

shall
affliction,

him
not

he

that

mocketh

(Prov.11.
be

free from

74.
''Epist.

the poor,
he that

and

5);
mipunished.

the poorer thou art, the happierthou art;

melior, saith 'Epictetus;he is richer,not

art, not

am

gentlemen; but he
yours declines to the

them

Let

at

am

learned

For

rere-

the rest,

ditior est, at non

better,then thou

lust,envy, hatred,ambition.

Servs, snmme

homo

conf nbernaJis ;
; servns
sura, immo
si co^taveris.
cEpjst.66. ef 9().
^ Lib. 4. ntim
dPanormitan.
218.
rebusgestisAlph.
Quidaiu deprehensus
quod sedeiet loco nobilium,raea nobilitas,
ait,est circa caput, vestra declinat ad canf Tanto
beatior es, quanto collection
dam,
servus

sam,at hnmilis amicus

; imnio

conservus,

Cure

30

Paterna

he seeks
envies

his estate

Nee

is

should

quo

by

with

or

him

to

one

or

tines donation

be of

matters, whether

he

Felix

well

tented
con-

or

kingdomes

at

were

comets

move,

monarchies
of Ottomons
after colonies

enquiresnot

Rome,

there be

or

stars

new

or

Constan-

sig-nifie,

world

new

in the

with fear of

touched

infinite worlds, "c.

He is not
or
moon,
invasions,factions,or emulations ;
I"

world,

pascitioancm,

election ; whether
absolute;the house

force;what

the earth stand

whether

and
privately,

curam

Peter

discoveries;whether

new

of the

preferment,flatters not,

but lives

state

succession

is all

no

avidas, nee

mixt, temperate,

Austria

and
or

be

after

the tumults

fata cadant.

troubled

not

thrive better

from

spes corde

Sfecurus

So"-. 5.

suis.

exercet

that he is 'freed

not,
ternporizeth

not,

with

He

bobus

rura

honours, oapes

no

[Part.2.

ille,
qui,proculnegotiis,

Beatus

Happy he, in

of Melancholy.

ille animi,Divisquesimillimusipsis,

Gloria fuco
Quern noil mordaci resplendeus
tastosi mala gaudia luxAs,
Solicitat,
non
Sed tacitos sinit ire dies,et paupere cultu
silentia
Exigitinnocuoe tranquilla
An

happy soule,and

Whom
Or

wicked

"^But leads
^

glorymacerates

joyesof
a

that

himself.
strife,

or

proud swellingpelfe,

still,
poor and contented

life.

ledge
quiet,blissful state he hath, if he could acknowtake
that
he will not
notice
misery,
rich
at
brave
wealth,
mens
rej)ines
hangings,dainty

secure,

it.
of

vain

not

like to God

vLtae.

it;he

fare

as

But here is the

Siinonides

pleasuresof the

objectelh to Hieron,

world

"

he

in lectistehurneis

hath

all the

donnit, vin7(m

hihit,optimisnnguentisdelihuitur ; he knows
phidl'is

not

the

of Joseph,sfrctchinr/
affliction
on
himself'
ivory beds, and
sinqinyto {he sound of the viol; and it troubles him that he
hath not the like; there is a difference,(he grumbles)
between
and phesaiUs,
i'th'straw and lye in a down
to tumble
laplolly
bed, betwixt wine and water, a cottageand a palace. He hates

" Non
satis habet,
amoribus inser\ it,non appetithonores : et, qualitercurnqne
rclictns,
hominem
nerainem miratiir,
se
esse
aerraeminit; invidt-t nemini, neminem
despirit,
mooibus
malignisnon attendit ant alitur. Plinins,
hPolitianus,in Rnstico.
inortalinra se felicOyi2;es,
Lydiie iuflatns,sciscitatuin misit Apollinem, an (iiiis
regno
cior cssft?
Aglaium, Arcadum
qni terminos agrisui
pauperrimnm, Apollo praetulit,
HaecestViU
dHor.
Val. lib. I. c. 7.
suo
contentus.
nunquarii excesserat, rnre
solntorum misera ambitione,gravique.
6,
"" Amos,

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Cure

shall

all with

consume

shall !)eoof

as

his

as

it may be for thee.

settle in their seats;
all in

shaltbe

servant:

uuicli for thine:

his

it was

with

me,

Ilium

aut

patron,

ride, and

run,

do

Frisgobaldand Cromwel,
countrey gentlemen,and
three descents,
or
theyconsume
cityagain.
"

after

two

the

to

telluris lierum
propriae
nee

honourable

most

shall
posterity

-Nevus
Nee

Sec. ?i.

Citizens devour

riot; it returnes
Nam

[Part.2.

riot,be degraded,thou exalted,and he

Thoii

thee

"hy devout

be

of Melancholy,

incola venit:
nalura

statuit,

quemquam,

ncque ilium,
Nos expulit
ille;

vafri inscitia juris.

aut
nequities,

his poor client ; after a while his clients

him and his; so thin"-s go round, ebbe and

lawyer buyes out

buy
posterity

out

flow.
Nunc

ager

Umbreni

sub

nomine, nuper

Ofelli

sed cedit in
Dictus, erat nulli proprius,
Nunc
aliis.
mihi, nunc

usum

he said

As

then, ager cujus,quot habes dominos ? so say I

mine to day,his anon,
of land,houses, moveables, and mony.
whose
and

morrow?

to

In fine

begetrest
prosperitj/

destruction
lawes

from rrhich

ice

and

^tisno

subjectto

the law

of

art:

what

qua
thou

then

parte locatus
mayst be. Do

es

nature.

what

in

re;

(Isay)as

lived in his dayes!

princes,
how
cacie,
bravelyattended, what

what

how

good

this transitory
state;

others are, but what thou

and
what thou shalt be,
Christ

himself

he lived here on earth ; imitate him as much

How
great Caesars,mighfy monarches,
many
nastes,

vertue,

(I say) scorn
not

Inwes

glorieand prosperity
*^Gucciardine
(as
adds)/or
to mine, nor
come
infelicitie
Ergo terrena calcanda,

estate, to

sitienda coelestia;therefore
look up to heaven ; think
^

againto good

come

dishonour

observes)vertue

idleness; idleness,riot ; riot,

actions

city,or
ajlourisliing
man,
to be

3Iaehiavel

'

; rest,

engendervertuons
;

(as

as

did, when

in thee lies.

tetraches,dy-

in what plentie,
what delideal
of
and
a
silver,
gold

had they! what

sumptuous palaces
and cities,
rivers,fountains,
tields,
provinces
ample territories,
treasure,

many

lawnes, woods, celles,"c.!

parkes,forrests,
of all

this; he

Yet

Christ

had

of this; he voluntarily
none
none
all this;he could not be ignorant,
he conid noterrein
rejected
his choice; he contennied
all this; he chose tiiatwhich
was

safer,better,andmore

would

have

and
certaine,

lesse

to be

a mean
repented,

"Reade
Hor. Sat. 2.
the story at large in John Fox his Acts and JMonuments.
lib.'2.
i;5 piorent hi"t. Virtus quielim parit.qiiiesotium, ofiDni [jorro hixiim
"l Guicciardia. Nulla
luxus iteritum,
generat,
aquo interum ad saluberrimas, 8cc.
/nfelicitas
"^Per8im.
nubjettnm esse leginaturse. "c.
ser.

Mem.

againstDiscontents.

Remedies

3.]

33

itself;and why dost thou then doubt to

estate, even
povertie
follow liim,to irnitale him, and his apostles,
to imitate all good
divine
his
in
men?
So doe thou tread
steps,and thou shalt not
in
too
on
doe, that runne
erre
as
worldlings
eternally,
many
and ruine: thou
their own
to their confusion
dissolute courses,
shall not doe amisse.
with

in

it; trust

him.

Whatsoever

thy fortune is,be contented

him; refer thyselfe
whollyto

him; relie on
this,in conclusion

For know
sed
miserent'ts Dei ; 'tis not
rentis
The Lord viaketh poor andmalcpfh

: non
as

volentis

est

but

men,

as

nee

cur-

God

will.

lore,and
rich,hringeth

ex-

the poor from the dust,

alteth (I Sam. 2. ver. 7, 8): helifteth
and raiseth the berjqer
to set them amongst
J'rom the dunyhill,
and make them inherit the seat oj'
glory; 'tisall as he
princes,

how, and when, and whom; he that appointsthe

pleaseth,
end
likewise
(thoughto us unknown), appointsthe meanes
subordinate

to the end.
their present estate crucifies and torments
most
such
forecHst
what
to
have
see
no
; they
may be,
shall likely
be, but what is,though not wherefore, or

Yea, but
mortal 1 men
what

their present misfortunes grindetheir

anrjit;
soules, and an envious eye which theycast upon other mens
prosperities:
from

whom:

how

uber habet
Vicinumquepecus grandius
how happy is he !
rich, how fortunate,

hoc

But

in the

mean

the otfiers miseries, his infirmities

not
his estate, but still reof body and minde, that accompany
flects
conceived
and
false
wants
woes
; whereas,
upon his own
time he doth

it'the matter
all,he hath no

consider

duelyexamined,
to complain.

were

cause

** telle

"

Pauperenim
he is not

non

"he

is in

distresse at

no

;
querelas

est, cui

rerum

usus:
suppetit

'^Nature is content with

he is not in need.
bread and icater ; and he that can
with that
rest satisjied
may
In that g-oldeu
contend with Jupiter
himself'
for happiness.
age,
poore;

'' Somnos

Portura

the

dedit umbra
quoque

wholsome

trees

gave
rivers drink.
The

shade

Abrahams

Isaacs wife, the Samaritan

the

to

Israelites drank

Sampson, David, Saul,

might 1

salubres,

lubricus amnis;

women,

sleepunder, and
water

servant

and

in the
when
how

the clear

wildernesse;
he went
for
besides
many

reckon

countries in
up, iEgypt, Palgestina,whole
Indies,that drink pure water all their lives. *The Per-

"" Hor. lib. 1. epist12.

"Omnes
divites,
qui coelo et terra frui po?sunt.
Seneca, epist.15. Panem
desiderat ; et hsec qui habet, ipsocntn
natura
et aquain
Jove de felicitatecoatendat.
arcet
Cibus simplex faniem sedat, vestis tenuis irigus
Senec. epist.
"^ Boethius.
" Mdfiaus
8.
et alii.
f_Brissonius.
"^

VOL.

II.

34

Cure

siaii

kings tbeinselves

Choaspis,that

of

of Mdanchuly.
drimk

other

no

after them, whithersoevei' they went.

of God, but bread to eat, and clothes

(Gen.28.

drink

by Siisa,which

runs

[Part.2.
then

the water
in bottles
desired no more

carried

was

Jacob
to

Sec. 3.

put

on

in his

journey

20).
Bene

Parca, quod

est, cui Deus

satis est,

manu

obtulit

bread is

And
heart.
tlip.
if yovi study
enong"h^to strerif/theti
philosophyarioijt,saith 3Iadaurensis,whatsoever is beifond
hut troublesome.
this moderation, is not usej'ull,
'^Agellius
bread
and
of
a
ccounts
water
to satisfie
enough
(out Euripides)
the rest is not a feast,
there in no surfeit:
nature, of which
^

'^

but ryot.
to eat, and

hunger

S^

Hieronie

!iim rich, that hath

esteems

that is not compelled

to be a slave:
potent man
that it have to eat ; and thirst doth
ambitiojis,
so

is not

prefera cup of rjold.It was

Epicure He that is not satisfied
enough; and very good counsell
not

no

with

"

Sonne,

bread

mediocritie

of meanes

Epicureanspeech of
a

of him

will
little,
in the

agrees best icith

men

poet, O
too

an

have

never

my

much

is

pernicious.
Divitise srandes homini

/Equo animo

sunt

vivere parce,

be content, thou hast abundance; nihil est,

thou wantest
nihil deest ; thou hast little,
nothing. 'Tis all
to be hanged in a chain of gold,or in a rope; to be filled
one
and

with

if thou

canst

dainties

or

courser

meat.

^Si ventri bene, si lateri,

pedibusquetuis,nil
Divitite poterunt
If
A

Socrates

addere
re^^ales

majus.

sides,and feet,be well at

belly,
thee no more
can
princestreasure

in

fair,
seeingso many

ease,

please.

thingsbought and sold,such

exclaimed
of people convented
to iliat purpose,
!
doe
O
tchat
not I tcant!
a sight
forthwith, ye yods
ofthings
'Tis thy want
alone that keepes thee in health of body and
a

multitude

minde; and that which thoupersecutcstandabhorrest,asafera

thee
'-'andchiefest friend,which makes
is thyphysician
plague,
healthfull,a sound, a vcrtuous, an honest, and
a good man,
an
from heaven (asthe poet
For,when Vertue came
happy man.

faines)rich

men

kicked

her up, wicked

men

abhorr'd

her,

bSi recte phiiosopheraini,

qiiidqiiid
apfam moderationem
c Lib.
l(j. Cerens inunuu
7.
est.
oneri
usui
sapergreditur, potiusquatn
saties niinqnani est; luxus autem
et aquse proculum niortales quainint habere, quorum
"i Satis est dives,qui
sunt castera,non
indiget; nimium
epula;.
pane non
^
Euripides,
poteDs,qui servire non cogitur, Ambitiosa non e.stfames, ":c,
mold's perniciosa.
mediocres divitia;honiinibus conveqiunt, niniiavero
Menalip. O fili,
^ Hor.
Devhb.
s O noctes
ca-naeque
aPsal. 84.

Mem.

S5

againstDiscontents.

Remedies

3.]

courtiers scoffed at her, citizens haled her, *and that she was
she came
at last to her sister
thrust out of doors in every p'ace,
had
found
Poverty
good entertainment.
Poverty,where she
and

togetlier.

dwell

vertue

"

vitss tuta

facultas

angustiquelares !
Pauperis,
Intellecta Detlm

nondum

munera

Godlinesse is
be content
with that tvhich he hath
can
I
estate.
(1 Tim. 6.6): and all true happinessis in a mean
a
have littlewealth, as he said,"sed quas animus
magnasfacity
kingdom in conceit:
""nil
Maia

I have

nate,

nisi

enough and
e

Di

bene

ampliusopto,
propriahfEC

raihi

ut

desire

no

quodque pusilli

to my

content.

alike, fit for

Foscarinus,sometime

duke

Vestem

let my

potiusqiiam laxamprobo:
both

faxis ;

animi:

'tis very well, and

be

munera

more.

me
fecerunt,inopis

Feceruiit

chinam

couldst be content!

if thou

happy art thou

great gain,if a man
How

And,

me.

etfortunamcon-

fortune and

which

ments
my garSebastian

of

Venice, caused to be engraven

church, Flear^ O ye Venetians,and

in S' Markes
to contemne
I icilltellyou ichiehis the best thingin the world:
it
shall
be my whole studie
it I will engrave it in my heart ;
it. Let tlienitake wealth (Stercora
stercus amet,)
to contemne
his tomb

on

"

bene qui latuit,

bene
vixit ;
live
clean
and
and
when
honest;
obscure, ''yetl
reed may stand.
oke is blown down, the silly
Let
the lofty
as
for that's their misery;let them take honour,
them take glory,
have

that I may
though 1 live

so

security
;

Dnc
have hearts ease.
O Jupiter^
et tu
me,
O
Lead
whither
thou
wilt
I
God,
am
fatum; Sj-c.
me,
ready
;
I will obey. I do not en vie at their
to follow ; command,
so

that I may

offices y
wealth, titles,
volet potens
Stet,quicunqiie
Aulce cubiiine lubrico
Me

let

me

live

dulcis

quietand

saturet

at ease.

quies:
^

Erimus

fbrtasse,
(ashe

com-

" Per
mille fraades doctosque dolos ejicitur
; apud sociam
paupertatem ejusque
caltores diverteus,in eorura
simi et tutela delicialiir.
bLucan.
""Lip.
"i Hor. Sat. 6. lib. 3.
" Hor.
miscell. ep. 40.
Sat. 4.
fApuleius. e Chytreus,
in Europas deliciis. Accipite,
cives Veneti, quod est optimum in rebns hnmanis, res
huroanas contemnere.
^Vah ! vivere etiam nunc
lubet,as Demea
said^
Adelph. Act. 4. Quam multis non egeo ! quara multa nondesidero!
ut Socrates in
'
illeinnundinis.
et seqnar
Epictetus,77. cap. Quo sum destinatus,
pompa,
alacriter.
kPuteamis, ep. 52.
"

d2

of Melancholy.

Cure

86
forfed

himself)quando illinon

dant
Stemmata

theyare

memory

goodlycastles

dead

may

Musse.
peritura

well

and

perennes

non

'tiswell for

littlewood, and

Sec. 3.

flourish

lord,patron, baron, earl,and possesse

Let liim be my
a

when

erunt:

vanished,our

gone, and all their pomp

[Part.2.

me

''that I have

so

many

house,and

poor

by it,"c.

consolor, victurum suavius, ac si

Quaestor avus, pater atque meus, patruusque fuissent.
His

I live

(Ithank God)

this my mean
treasurer, or
one

cibis

me

"

merrilyas he, and triumph as

as

estate, as if my
lord maior.
my

CltrUtiim curat, non

cpii
: what
covjiciat

sfercus

father and
He

feeds

muftum
care

uncle
of many

curat

I of what

had

much
been

'^

lord

dishes, I of

qnam depretiosis
stufte my excrements

that lives accordinr/

to nature, cannot
have
never
enour/h: totns
poor ; and he that exceeds, can
world
whole
cannot
the
orbis
give him content.
;
sufficit
be made?

in

He

he
non

rufhteoushath, is better than the riches of

19) ; and better is a poor morsell with
with strife
then abundance
(Prov. 17. 7).
quietnesse,
then ; enjoy thyself,
and, as ^ChrysostomeadBe content

small

that
thiufi

the

the unijodly
(Psal.87.

thou hast not^ but

angry for what
heartythanks for what thou hast received.

viseth, be

not

give God

Si dat oluscula
Mensa

minuscula
Pace

Ne

referta,

pete grandia,

Lautaque prandia,
Lite

But whatwantest
thou

not

thou?

better than

repleta.

the iriatter)
or what hast
(toexpostulate

rich man?

Health, competent wealthy

diet,apparell,and
securitie,
friends,libertie,
children,
sleep,
have
least
maist
9
means
at
not
(the
or
being so obvious,
easie,and "vell known) : for,as he inculcated to himself,

what

^Hac
erat in votis,modus
" RlaniUns.
agrinon i*a parvns, Hortns
Scr.
Hor. Sat. 6. lib.2. Ser.
vh\, el tecto vicinus jagisaquas fons, Et paiilinmsylvaj,
"' Seneca,
consil. ad Albinnm, c. 11. Qui continet se intra
cHieronym.
in opibiis
sentit;qui excedit, enm
non
limites. panperfateni
naturic
panperlas sequitiir.
c Hem
eratiasage ; noli indicnari pro his qnse non accepisti.
12. Pro his qiueaccepisti,
'Nat. Chytrem, deliciis Europ. Gustonii in aedibus Hultianis in coenaculo e regione
eQuid non habet melius pauper quam dives? vitam, vnletiidioem,
mensoe.
libertatpm, iiC. Card,
cibum, somnum,

Mem.

againstDiscontents.

Remedies

3.]

37

quse faciunt beatiorem,

Jucundissime
Martialis,hgec sunt;
Res, non parta labore, sed relicta,
Vitam

"c.

Lis nunquam,

T say a"rain,thoubast,or

at least maist

have

it,if thou wilt thy

ing
Passself,and that which 1 am sure he wants, a men-y heart.
^-saith S^ Austin,
by a vilkiqe in the territorie ofJIifkni,
his
bef
had
ike,
that
fullof meat^
belly
I saw
got,
bec/r/er
a poor

jestingand

mern/.

sighed,and

said to

of rnxjj'riends

some

then icith me, what a deal of trouble, madness, pain^

do tcesustain andexaggerateunto ourselves,to get that
and grief,
xchich this poor beggerhath prevented us of
secure
that

tcere

happiness
shallnever
ice peradventure

and which
he hath

the

with

attained

now

have

begging of

For

that which

small

some

pieceof

and present hearts ease, I cannot

happinesse,
silver,a temporall
and runningin and out.
with all mg careful
windings,
compass
heavy: he
''And surelgthe begger was
; but I was
verg merry
should ask me
And ifany man
timorous.
but I was
was
secure,
note,

whether

sad, I should say, merry.

had

rather

be

as

still so solicitous and

be merry,
or
If he should ash me again,re h ether I

rather

I had

I am,

or

as

thi?

beggarteas,

I should

surely

and fears; biit

tortured still icith cares
1 am,
as
and not out of truth. That which S* Austin
out ofpeevishness,
contented
1 may say to thee : fhou dissaidof himself here in this place,
wretch, thou covetous
niggard,ihou churl, thou
choose to be

toad, 'tis not want, but peevishness,

swellingsettle thine afiection : thou
of thy woes:
"which is the cause
hast enough.
ambitious

and

habeas plus,
Denique sit finis quaerendi,
quoque
laborem
minus., et finere
Pauperiem metuas
; parte, quod avebas, utere.
Incipias

this field,
this manor,
end of scraping,purchasing
Make
an
that house, for this and that child ; thou hast enough for thy
self and them ;
e

Quod

Est Ulubris, animus

'Tis
But

at

hand, at

home

hie
petis,
si te

non

Mhich
already,

est,
deficit sequus

thou

so

seekest.
earnestly

^ Confess, lib.6.
Read it out thyself
in the author.
aMartial. 1. 10. epig.4".
animadvert!
qnemdatn menviciim
Transiens per
quemdam MedioianeDsera,
panperem
cum
et locutHs sum
dicum, jam credo satarum, jocanteniatqne ridentem, et iugeniui,
ille,
^ Et
illelaetabatur,
e:io ansiiis : securus
certe
amicis qui niecnm
erant, "c.
reexoltare
metuere,
maliem,
an
si
an
Et
me
qiiispiam,
percrontaretnr
ego trepidus.
an
qualisnunc
an
spondtrem, exsultare : etsi rursus
interrogaret,
ego talis essem,
^ nor.
me
ipsam curis confectum eliserem; sed penersitate,non "eritate,
sum,

"Hor.

ep. lib.1.

of Melancholy.

Cure

-O ! si anffulusille
denormat
accedat,qui nunc

Proximus

O!
that

but that

that 1 had

of

Sec. 3.

agellum!

ground,that

field

there,

pasture!
O ! si

to builde

me

"c.

**

ar^entifors

venam

O! that I could
son,

nook

one

2.
[Part.

but finde

milii monstref.

pot of mony

"c.
purchase,
daui^hlcr,
j)lace
my
to

now,

house, fo uiarry my
hut live a irhile Unujor, to
mif/fif

new

O /

qua

if f

all

hop

three year ; I ironld pa}f my debts,

but theyare cx)iiie and pj\st,
and
all my reckonini^s
even;
O madness!
hast more
business than before.
to
think

settled,some
thirir/s
make
thou

tiro

or

to settle that in thine old aye, tchen thou

thrfyouth thou canst not now
compose,

would
''Pyrrhus

Africk,

first conquer

hast

and

more,

which

havinyhut
then

Asia,

in

little.

et

turn

and take his ease;

suaviter ayere, and then live merrily,
but,
told
do
that
when
hiin ho might
Cineas the orator
id
already,
rested satisfied,
his own
condenuiingfolly.Si
posse fieri
^
licet componere
mnyni",thou maist do the like,and
parra
hav*^ enough; he
Thou
therefore be composed in thyfortune.

jam

that is

Tiber, or
"world,or
not

in

wet

have

into the
a

solid

masse

than

more

wet, if he be ilunginto
hadst all the
if thou
it self: and
ocean
of gold as bigas the world, thou canst
bo

bath, can

no

more

and
at length,
enough: enjoy thyself

that

hast; the minde is all : be content ; thou r.rt not

the richer, as
Censorinus
well
poor, but rich,and so much
M'rit toCerellius,
quanta paucioraopias.non quo plnrapossides,
I say then, non
in wishing less,not
having more.
adjice
'"
adde
sed
minue
("tis
advice)
no
;
cupiditates
Epicurus
opes,
more
wealth,l)ut diminish thy desires;and, as ^Chrysosfome
well seconds him, si vis ditari,contemne
divitias,that's true
ricl.es: non
habere,
plenty,not to have, but not to want

which

thou

"

sed

non

ahundantia

vera
indiyere,

then

to

possesse;

et

'tis

more

nihil eyere, est

gloryto
Deorum,

temne,
con-

How

deaf, dumb, halt,lame, blinde, miserable persons could

many
I reckon up, that are poor, and withal" distressed, in imprisonment,
banishment,
condemned
lo the mines,
gally-slaves,
then all
in
thraldonie,
to gives, dungeons,perpetuall
quarries,

rb niaiindit
niilii
; std si nien"0 I si none
infiiiit,
im|if-rf"
morerer,
fpiantaet ^iiHl'm
tilioiiinidebito credioninia reciigani ad libellhiii;
sibus decern vel octo snpervixcro,
litisaiiiii,
et
decern ct orto, et cum
toque me eiplicabo. Priftercunt interim menses
adliuc restant pluraqnam
prius. Qnid igitnrspcrus, "" insBne,tinemj ijiiem rebuo tuis
in senerta
V
O denit nfiani ! qtium oh rtn^g-et
inveneras in jiiventa,
non
iin|)ositnnim
? CnrdaD.Iib.
sis infelix,quid
negotia too jadicio
pliirH
suiH-rennt
putas fiittiriim,
"|nnm
f^Plntarch.
'Lib. de nntali.tap. 1.
9,.cap. 40. de rer. var.
d^pad

8tobaum,

ser.

17.

"

Hom.

12. in 2 Cor

fi,

of Melancholy,

Cure

40

they list;hut^ ifoccasion

he

hmc far
offered,
(as lie said)''no

patience? I would to Go(l

hut he that is poor, or he
poverties
help,or ease others.
it,would relieve,
*"

Dicmihi, qui nummos

hear'st us, and art a

that wauls, to get means,

hears

man

no

get

can

tried all

have

express
that endure

yet finde

means,

it;

we

admires

petat :

good man,
if you

ran.

hell

left four thousand

men

et nlulatihns

clamoribns

hurt, which

was

shall

what

omnia

right,
as

the noise

have

do?

we

body

When

compltrvnt,theymade
lowd

of 10000

we

to

lament

Homers

as

could

men

But
all for fear of present death.
much
and
to
more
tragicall miserable,
cause

we

of

againstthe Parthians,

and

greater

souls, but

our

fought,hefled

roared down

moan,and

and

living

man

infhe night,
and
away
sick an"I wounded
in his tents, to
sore
the poor men
perceived,
; wdiich when

of the enemie

thefurie

remedy: no

no

bitterness of

consul, warred

unlucky battell

an

succour;

distressed,forsaken, in torture

are

"Crassus, the Roman

he

much

so

mend
com-

mihi ferret opcm.

quod

in another

mind,

comfort, no

anguish and

the

can

after

slionld

jam novaplaga locum,

relief,no

no

"^Et nihil inveni

"

and

man

all

the
miserablydejected,

most

are

we

us:

liabet in nobis

cVix

We

theyfrom

of the world.

skumme

We

are

hahet,unde

noii

if thou

Tell him

But

that

Sec. 5.

audis,atq\ie es divinus,Apollo,

Nunc, si nos

Now

?.
[Part.

able
lament-

Mars
not

when

drown,

is farre

oures(a(e

more

be

fleplorod;and far
devil and the world

the

good fortune hath forsaken us ; we are left

totherageofbeggery,cold,hunger,thirst,nastiness. sickness,
to derision
irksornness,to continuall torment. labour and pain,
all

persecuteus;

and

death

alone

it; and what

shall

death:

Quod

not, I

1 may
In

me

the

cannot

when

" Nemo
*Ovid.

jacetin

any

have

Yea

fortuna nocendo

of humane
the

sun

and, as

adversitie:

is gone,

am

now

a shadow
leftand losf,

of the world.
habet unde

terra^ non

paupertatem commendaret,
"

seek,yet cannot

we

it will be tolerable at last.

vires
consurapsit

body

then

worse

feres bene

fers,assuesce,

quiteforsaken
Qui

'

desire,death

far

do?

we

in the extremitie

am

leaves
and

male

we

to it, and
thyself

accustome

but

all, and

contempt, bitter enemies

nisi paop^r.

Piolarrh. vit. Crassi.

cadat:

Catalec
Petronias,

'Orid,

againstDiscontents.

Remedies

3.]

Mem-

this yet, thou

it be long,it will either overcome

thy self with

comfort

endure;

violent,it cannot

be

all the

and
himself,

devil

41

art at the worst:

fore
and, be-

it. If it
thee,
solvetur,
aut solvet. Let the

aut

or

thou

plaguesof Egypt,come

thee

upon

at once,

be of

malls, sed

tu cede

Ne

good courage

contra

audentior ito:

miseryis vertues

whetstone.

sitis,
ardor,arena?,

serpens,

virtuti,

Dulcia

Cato told his souldiers

marching in the desarts of Libya ;

(o a valiant man
thirst,heat, sands, serpents,were
pleasant
;
honourable enterprisesare
accompaniedwith dangersand damevinceth
as
theywill make the rest of thy
experience
mages,
But put case
liferellishthe better.
iheycontinue; thou art not
as

tliou wast born ; and, as some

hold, much better to
envied.
But
tliou
then
be it so
hast lost all,poor
be pittied
of
of
i
n
thou art, dejected, pain
mies
body,grief mind, thine eneas

poor

so

insult

thee, thou

over

Job

Chrysostome) was
and

ML

The

surelyJob.

kept

art

or

his

; he
good name
kepthis inuocencg:

as

Job; yet tell nie (saith

the greater conf/?iero7tr?

goods: he safe on the muck-

his

thou then

as

the devil

devil had

friends; but he
in God,
kept his confidence
Do

bad

as

Job

irhich

his children, health,

he lost his moneg
; but he

lost

icas

better

did, triumphas

ratione potero ? How

si caelum
Chrysostome answers, J'acile,
if thou shalt but meditate
with great facility,
on
cogitaveris,

molested

not

shall this be

as
every
done?

fool is.

Sed

then any treasure.

Job did, '^aud be

qud

wept sore, and, troubled in mind, could not

her husband, and
weepest thou, said Elkanah

'^Hanna

heaven.
eat:

hut, why

why

eatest

thou

7iot ?

ivhy is

thine heart

troubled

am

not

I better to thee then ten sons'} and she was

quiet. Thou
world
this
but
*in
art here vexed
;
Why art
say to thyself,
thou troubled,O my soule ? Is not God better to thee then all
ofthe world?
be then
pleasures
in extreme
peradventure
paciiied.And thongh thou beest now
it
further
is
for
be
to
thy
good,
want, '^itmay
try thy
in this life : trust in
and
exercise
thee
did
it
Jobs,
as
patience,
in the
God, and relyupon him,and thou shalt be s crowned

and momentary
temporalities,

"" An
omnia abstulitdiaboliis,
quiim super fimo sedit Job. an cnm
"^ Haec
ficiuciam
thesaiiro
orani
Deo
pretiosiorem.
habuit,
p
rivatus
pecuniis
"' 1 Sam.
1. 8.
afl'ectibusaptemiir.
nee
insipientum
viventesspontephilosophemini,
" James,
1.2. My brethren, count it an exceedingjoy, when you fallinto divers temptations,
f Afflictiodat intellectum.
castigat. Dens optimum
Quos Deus diJigit,
sordet niihi
% Quam
aut mala valetudine aut luctu aflScit, Seneca,
quemque
a

Lucan.

lib.9.

"c.

terra,qoum

coelum intueor !

Cure

42

of Melancholy.

[Part.2.

Sec. 3.

The world hath forsaken

?
What'.s this life to eternity
that
thee ; thy friends and fortnnes all are gone: yet know
this,
thine
head
of
that
hairs
God
is
are
numbered,
the very
a
of all thy miseries; he sees
and
thy wrongs, woes,

end.

spectator
wants

better what

knows

over

r/oodwill and pleasureit should he so ; and he

isJar thy floodthen thou thyself.
His providence
he
hath
all
times
is over
set
at
all,
ayuavd ofanaels
;
and keepsvs as the ajtpleof his eye(Vs.i 7 8). Some
blessc wilh worldlyriches, hcinours,offices
exalt,prefer,
'tishis

"

us,

de doth
and
to

as
preferments,

shine

the

above
and

the

as

lie (lo:h

some

'poet fains

he shot

when

son,

caons

rest:

o-Jistoiiniistars

many

of that

JMenelaus

at

he

makes

n)iracui()iisly
profect

and
incursions, sword, fire?,

thceves,

from

so

ail

violent

chances
mis-

LycianPandarus, Ly-

the Gn-cian

with

strong

as
a good
Pallr.s,
deadly arrow,
keeps ilies
turned by tlie shaft,and made
it
from her childs face asleep,
he f-olicitously
of his girdle;
hit on the buckle
so
some
defends,
others he exposethto danger,poverty, sicknobs,Mr.nt, mi; ery,
hechastiseth and corrects, as to him seems
best, in liisdeep,
and
and
all
ibr our
secret
unsearchable
judgement,
good.
Gcd
did
The tyrant took the city; (saith
not
MJhrysosJonic)

arm

and

hinder

it ; led them

them, God

bound
God

mother

captives,so

away

it :

yieldedto

permittedit: heat

the

God

the?n
flriny

hotter, it

oven

would

have

into the
was

it; he

furnace,
and

yranted :

God sherced his power,

the tyrant had done his worst,
when
them:
he thee,
and the childrens patience
so
can
; he freed
to him good.
andean
joice
Rehelp ''in an instant,when it seems
"^

not

I sit in

rise: when
ail those

O my

enemy ; J'or thouyh J Jail,I shall

member
Redarkness, the Lord sJiall liyhten
me.

againstme,

martyrs, Mhat

that humane

and

rage

most
they have eiidured, the utfury coidd invent, m itb what

they have born, with what willingnessen-braced il.

'^patience
Justus
Thouyh he kill me, saith Jol), / icill trust in him.
is
as
Chrysostome holds, a justman
^inexpuynabilis,
nable,
impregand
lameness
rectam

not

his

to

be

The

overcome.

gout may

feet,convulsions

mentem

his soule

torture
may
his free.

his

hurt his hands,

joynls,but

not

" Senec.
Diis ita visum ; Dii melius norunt quid sit in comde providenlia,
rap. 2.
t) Horn.
^ Horn.
9. Voluit urbem tvrannos
Iliad.4.
roodura meum.
voluit
non
impedivit; voluit
k.c.
Deus
captives
ducere,
non
prohibuit
evertere,
;
^ Psal. 113.
De trrra inopem, de stercore erigit
concessit,"c.
iigare,

fMicah,

pauperem.

m.^aimaroi;
n/*/,

8. 7.

Prerne,prerae

; ego,

cum

Pindaro,

sicut suber super maris

sum,
Austin.
Diis
hie seca, ut in ;c"emiim parcas.
Fabricinm
fniitor iratis ; superatet crescit malis. Mucium
ignis,
paupertas,Regolnm
doo
potuit
tormeDfa, Socratem veneDum
"Dpf rare

septum.

w?

Lipsius.

immersabilis
^i"\"jai
virif a.\jjiix'
fHic

ure,

Mem.

againstDiscontents.

Remedies

3.]
a

nempe

43

rem,

pecus,

Lectos, argentum tollas licet; in manicis

Compedibus

et

custode

teneas

ssevo

is in heaven : banish him

money ; his treasure
that
his conntry ; he is an inhabitant of
heavenlyJerusalem:
is
conscience
bands
his
cast him into
free : kill his body,it
;
shall rise ayain: he Jiyhtsicith a shad oic that contends
with

^Takeaicay his

an

uprightman

moved.

be

he will not

si fractus illabitur

Impavidum

tlioughheaven

itself should

offended.

is

as

fall

his

on

as
impenetrable,

head, he will

anvile

an

hard, as

not

be

constant

Job.
":

Be

He

orbis,

ferient ruinae

Ipse Deus,
such

thou

simul

alque volet,me

; let

one

solvet,opinor.

thy miserybe

what

it will,what

itcan,

patienceendure it; thou mayst be restored,as he was.

ad caelum propera
Terris proscriptus,
; ah hoviinibns dcsertus^
ad Deunijuye. The poor shall not alwayes be forgotten;
the
meek
the
shall
not
ever
10.
perishj'cr (Psal.
patientabidingof
will be a refugeof the oppressed,
18. ver. 9.) The Lord
and a
defencein the time of trouble.
with

mutilati corporis
Epictetus,
; Irus
erat Superis.
Pauper : at hsec inter cams

Servus

Lame

Epictetus,and

was

Yet to them

Lodovicus

God

both

Irus ;

poor

was

propiliuus.

Yertomanuus, that famous

indnred
traveller,

he was
saith Scaliger,
misery ; yet surely,
that he did escape so many
dangers;God

him,

he

convalle

Mas

dear

unto

him.

{yc.
deplorationis,

Mono
Thou

vir Deo

much
in

cams,

especially
protected

in ege^^tate,
iribulaiione,
in the vale of misery,
art noic

'^i?itemptation:
in poverty, in agony
rest^ eternity,
hapshall
be
thy reword, as Chrysoslonie
jnness, immortality
^

trust

si male

olim^sic

upon

nunc,

sudden

et

in

God, and keepthine innocency.JV'on,

pleads,if thou

erit semper
expect a little.

; a

is itwhich
Yea, but this expectation

good

tortures

houre

me

may

in the

come

mean

b Horn. 5. Auferet
at Iiabetin coelis ;
aHor. epist.18. lib. 1.
peciinias?
at in ctelestem civitatem
solutam
mittet: vincula injiciet?at habet
patriadejiciet?
umbra
c("nscientiam : corpus interficiet? at iternm resurget. Cum
pugnat, qui cnm
(^ Leonidas.
justo pngnat
,d Modo inpressura,in tentationibos; erit
^ Dabit
Deus bis qnoque
immortalitas.
pQstea bouum (niim requies^
aeteiDitas,
.

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[Part.

Sec.

3.

wliilesttliegrass
''Jutvracxspectans,pra:iteHtibusa)ir/or:

grows, the horse

"=

''Despair
not,

starves.

tibi melius
Spera,Batte
spiras,
spera

but

hope well.

lux crastina ducet

Dum

Chear
solves

hclhat
up, I say, be notdisrnayd.Spes alit aqricolas:
in teares, sluill reap in joy (Psal.ii6. /)"
Si fortune

tourmente,

me

Espcranceme

contenie

hard !)eii;-innin;^
as miserydepresseth:
hoperefreshetli.asmucli
times

have

many
last,which

13. 19.

the soul,Frov.
"^ Grata

superveniet
quae
m'

makes

louringmorning may
*Nube

hope that

The

the

ichen

is

shall

solet

candidus
pulsS.

at

oftentimes

Med

ices,that fortunate and

honour brake out,

and
out of prison,

monastery,
Multa

to

is

past:

afternoone.

ire dies.

as

hvt

of life(Prov. \'3.12) :
botli
are
fieri. 3Iariymen
tree

first,but afierwards

falls out,

it so

and

forty yeares' were

hope

is the Jaintinr/
def'er'd,
of the heart

est
^suavissimum
wretched anri miserable

youth

when

come

desire cometh, it is

icas

hora.
sperabitur,

to a faire

tnrne

voti compos

all his

non

enjoyemy joys lone;wisliVl at last,

that houre

Welcome
a

yet.

was

never

Which

and that may jjappenat

events;
A desire accomplisheddeliyhts

prosperous

s3Iachiavel

renowned

happy ;

most

relates of (^osmusi

citizen of

Europe, that
till
misery,

and
full of perplexity,
dnuf/er,
then upon
a^throuyha cloud.

past

and

Henry

be crowned

cadunt

sudden

the

Munniadcs

the third ofPortuoall

was

out

of his

sun

fetched
of

poor

kings.

inter calicem

supremaque

labra

thingsfall out ; and

expectation
many
kno'.vs what may happen? Jsi^ondum omnium
dierum soles
who
all thesunnesare
not yet set; a
occiderunt, as Philippussaid:
make
amends
for
all. Thouyh my fatherand
to
day may come
mother for sake me, yet the Lord
will gathermee
up (Tsal.'"7.
10). Waite patientlyon the Lord, and hope in him (P"al.
37. 7). Bee strong,hope and trust in the Lord; and he will
beyond

all

hope

and

"* Hor.
cTheocritos.
et locuOmni
n felicissimus,
"c. iucarceratas saepe adolesceotiam pericalo
mortis habuit,solicitudinis
pletissimas,
et discriminifl
pleoam, ^c.
" Seneca.
"Ovid.

''Nemo
fThales.

desperetmeliora lapsas.

sLih. 7. Flor. hist

Remedies

3.]

Mem.

againstDiscontents.

comfort thee, and give thee

thine

hearts

45

desire

(Psal.2"/.

14)

vers.

Sperate,et
Fret

rebus

vosmet

secundis.

servate

tliou art poor, contemned, or not so

thoii wonkiest be, not respectedas thou

thy self because

not

well for the present as

worth
onuhtestto be, by birth,place,
and

poor,

that which

or

happy, honourable

corrosive, thou hast been

distressed

of

scorn

men,

and

burden

is a double

rich,art now
lo the world,

thy self and others; thou hast lost all. Miscrum

Juissefelicem,and, as Boethius cals it,infelicissimum
nus
ge-

irksome
est

to

this made
infortnnii:

Timon

halfe mad

with

melancholy,

think of his former fortunes and present misfortunes ; this

miserable wretches
alone makes
discontent.
I confess
many
it is a jvreat misery to have been happy, the quintessenceof
honourable
been
and rich, but yet easily
to have
to
infelicity
to

afar
succeeds, and to a judicious
man
^seciuity
and money
The loss of thy g-oods
is no loss;

be endured:
better
^

estate.

thou hast lost them

they would

otherwise

have

lost thee.

If

begone, ''thou art so much the lighter

; and as
Rusticus
fhe
forsake
all
monke, to
perswades
Christ, gold and silver are too heavy metals Jor

thy money

Saint Hierome
and

follow

him

to carry

that seaks heaven.

"^

Vel

in

nos

Gummas,
Sumnii

proximum

mare

aurum
lapides,

et

materiam

et

inutile,

mali,

Mittamus, scelerurn si bene

poenitet.

lost all his ^oods by shipwrack: *he

philosopher
of it : fortune had done him a good turne : opes a
made light
7?ie, animum
auferrenon potest: she can take away my means,
the

Zeno

but not my minde.

could not rob him
to contemn

more

sent

for

in

hundred

an

am

sea

Theban

mi

he heard

honum

aurum

Crates

nummi
abite,

^La-tior

gold to
he

esse, to

was

es

ob

of Athens

good

again,with
be a good man

posco,

nee

mi

man

but

permitteme

let
still,

me

flungofhis own
ego

vos

mergam,

successit secnritas,
quae simni

cum

pretium

accord his money

into the
ne
mergar a vohis ; I had

divitiiscohabitare

pecuniarnm jacturam.
eJubet

me

Fortuna

opes

auferre,

nescit

non

animum

Camden.

cExpeditior

Seneca.

fortassisiliate perderet
manens.
bPecuniamperdidisti:

^Hor.

Phocion

Non

That

talents of

his talents back

returned

posterum virum
as

set

present, because

Phocion
be

her at defiance ever after ; forshe

that had naught to lose : for he was
able
then they could possess or desire.
ander
AlexHe

potest, Seneca.

posthacfortuna expeditiusphilosophari.

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of Melancholy.

CanStoickfiand

should drowunie.
you, then you
wealth, and shall not
thus contemn

rather drown

that

we

Epicures

tians
Chris-

are

praclura,a generous speech of

at
miseries have happened nnto me
Cotta in 'Sallust,Mann
abroad, of which, by the helpof Gody
home, and In the wars
and by mine
own
I have repelled,
I have endured, some
some
never
wantinyto my desiynes,
valovr overcome:
co?ira(/e was
or
adversitycould never
: prosperity
industryto my intent's
nor
niascula

It was

vox

et

holds,
A vvise ujnn's niinde, as Seneca
alter my
above
serene.
the moon,
ever
^
is like the state of the world
what
befall
Conie then what can
niay befail,infractum
come,
animitm opponas :
inmctumqne

disposiiion.
'

Rebus
Fortis

Hope

angnstisanimosus atque
(Hor. Od. 11.
appare.

patienceare

and

the
reposals,

surest

''

Durum

soveraigneremedies

two

softest cusiiioiis to lean

"=

As

in

adversity
;

nefas.

helped,or amended,
; he
se accommodnt,sapit
cessitaiiqni
be

to the time.

on

all,the

for

sed levius fit paticntia,

est
Quidquid corrigere

If it cannot

lib. 2.)

at a

ganje at

the best of it: hie-

make
iswise

so
tables,

do

that suits himself

by all such

ble
inevita-

accidents.
?

Ita vita est

hominum,

quasicum

ludas

tesseris,

cadit,
Si illud,quod maxiine opus est jactu,non
id
ut
arte
Illud quod cecidit forte,
coorrigas:
wouldest, play thy cast as
hath two
well as thou canst.
Every thing,saith ''Epictetus,
choice
'tisin
our
handles,the one to be held by,the other not :
his
will (allwhich Simplicius,
we
to take and leave whether
hatlj illustrated by many examples);and 'tisin
commentator,
if thou

canst

not

flingwhat

thou

ourselves.
Conmake
mar
or
power, as theysay, to
forme thy self then to thy present fortune, and cut thy coat
accordingto ihy cloth: hit quimus,{qvodaiunt)quando,quod
ing,
licet: be contented with thy lot,state, and callvolumus, non
our

own

whatsoever

it is; and

rest

as

well satisfied with

thy present

condition in this life :

doini,militioeniulta adversa fnere,quorum

a In frag.
Quirites,multa miliipericiila
auxilio repuliet \irtiite luea ". niiiiqiiam anirau; uegotio
alia Deoruui
alia toleravi,'
defuit,nee decretis labor ; nnlla; res nee prospers nee adversa; iiigenium mutabant.
nullum
'" Bona
mens
b Quails niundi status
serenua.
semper
supra lunaiii,
nil
4.
desperet
1.
Val.
lib.
Qui
c.
i
neursnm.
potest
sperare,
tristiorisfortuna; recipit
lib.2.
mentem.
rebn^ in arduis servare
"'Hor.
t^Equain memento
nihil.
f
4. ae. 7.
K Ter. Adel. act
od. 3.
EpicL c. 18.
potest; in
duas habet ansaa, alteram quas teneri, alteram qua^ non
'Ter. And. act. 4. se. 6.
volomoa accipere.

Unaquaeque

manu

nostra

res

quam

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in villa hilnri et amocnd moestos, et

occupatos : non Incus, .W animus, facit ad

divine Seneca)
(saitli
mlitudiiip

media

; 1 have
tran(]uilHtatPm

dejectedin a pleasant
miserably
and
at good ease,
ajjain,well occupied
village,and some
desart:
canseth
the
'tis
the
not
tranin a solitary
mind,
place,
and that oives true content.
Iwill yet add a word or
(|uillily,
that
rich men, I dare boldly
for a corollary.JNIany
two
say it,
down
with
delicacies
beils,
pampered every day, in
lyeon

their well furnished

anonish,

more

bitter

more

seen

men

houses, live at less hearts

with

ease,

more

bodilypain,and through th;ir intemperance

hours, then many
a
or gaily-slave,
^(3/a'])risoner

in phimd a^riue
ac
rif/ilat
Rerptlusin dolio)those poor
^Bartison their captainleft in Nova
starved Hollanders, whom
Zembla, an. 1j96, or those 'eioht miserable Enirlishmen,that
ceiias

latelyleft behind,

were

in

winter

to

stove

in Greeidand

in

oflat. \ii30,so pitifully

forsaken, and forced to shift
deg-.
in a vast dark and desart place,to strive and
for themselves
and
with
death it self.
hunger, cold, desperation,
struggle
and quietminde
'Tis a patient
(I say it again and again)gives
and content.
So, for all other things,they are
true
peace
77

told

(as old '^Chremes

us) as

we

use

them.

patriam,amices, genus, cognates, divitias

Hsec perindesunt, ac illius"animus
qui ea possidet;
uti
ei
utitur
bona;
Qui
non
scit,
recte, mala.
qui
Paventes,

"

Parents, friends,fortunes, country, birth,alliance,S:c. ebbe

and

flow with

and

construe

fortuncesucc
are
adversity
and,

which

or

and

in

in

our

hands.

own

confirms

Seneca

minde

"evprji mans
him

as
we
pleaseor displease,
accept
them
selves.
to
Faber
our
apply
quisque
I may truly
sort
some
and
say, prosperity

conceit,

our

them,

out

Nemo
of his

Imditur

nisi

seipso ;

judgement and

is stronqer then

J'ortune,and

experience,
leads

rchat side he u-ill;

each one
to himself
cause
a
is,oj'
will
nill
the worst
life.
f/oodor
we, or
we, make
of it,and suppose
in the greatest extremity,
a man
'tisa fortune
which some
indefinitely
preferbefore prosperity
; of two
to

bad

his

But

it is the best.

extremes

Luxuriant
men

in

animi

*^

rebus

forgetGod
prosperity

with their wealth,as

plerumque secundis
and

themselves; they are

birds with henbane

sotted'
be-

^miserable,if

"" Vide
Seneca.
Isaacnm Pontinnm, descript.Amsterdam,
lib.2. c. 22.
El. Pelhams book, edit 16;J0.
") Heaiitonlim. act
1. sc. 2.
"^EfiisL98.
Omni rirtiinavalentior,ipseanimus in uframqiiepartem res stias
diicit,
beataf|neac
"

cVide

misera:

vitie uibi caussa

Seaeca,de beat

est.

fFortuna, quern nimium fovet, .stultiimtacit. Pub. Miraus.

Miseri,si deserantur ab ea ; mjseriores,si obruantur.

viL cap. 14.

Mem.

againstDiscontents.

Remedies

49

miserable, if she tarry and

to be in a great place,
overwhehii tliem : for,when theycome
most
temperate,sober, and discreet in their
rich,theythat were
Vitellius,
{pptimi
Heliogabalus
fortunes, as J"Jero,Otho,
private
forsake them

fortune

; but

more

degenerateon a sudden into

imperatores,nisi imperdssent)
in
lust,such
tyrannicall
brute beasts,so prodigious
oppressors,
become
moderate
themselves,
monsters,
cannot
they
"c. they
whatnot?
odious,harpies,

triumphos,
opes,

aim

honor

es

adepti

'twas ''Catos
advoluptatemetotiumdeincepsseconvertunt:

sunt

note'
theycannot

contain.

that

For

cause

cuicunquenocere
Eutrapeliis,
beatus
dabat pref.iosa:

Vcstimenta

tunicis,sumet
pulchris

Cum

in

Dormiet

lucem;

belike,

volebat,

enimjam,
consilia

nova

ct

spes ;

postponet honestum

scorto

Officiumwhen
Eutrapelus,

he would

hurt

knave,

him brave :
gay clothes and wealth,to make
would
he
his
niiiide,
quitechange
Because, now rich,
behinde.
set
out,
honesty
whores,
fly
Keep
him

Gave

side,in adversity
many

the other

On

both

"c.

Si

and

spair,
derejiine,

bad, I confess,
ut calceus

olim,
pedemajorerit,subvertet; si minor, uret:
^

mutter

the other sets the

shoo too big or too little,
one
pincheth,
hath killed his
minimum.
If
malis
foot awry; sede
adversity
hath killed his ten thousand
therefore
:
thousand, prosperity
ilia solatio ;
is to be preferred
; ^hcecfranoindic/et,
adversity
a

as

the other instructs : the

hcEc instruit ; the one deceives,
illafallit,
fore
one
miserablyhappy,the other happilymiserable: and therehave
philosophers
many
itin their
much commend

so

and
soughtadversity,
voluntarily

precepts. Demetrius, in Seneca,

that in his life ihne he had no

infelicity,
aceidissetadversi.
versity
Adcui
misfortune; miserum,
nihilv.ncpiam
to be taken ; and we
then is not so heavily
ought not, iu

esteemed

it

great

thereisnosuchoddn
such cases, somuchtomacerateourselves:
To
^Hieroms
riches.
conclude
in
and
in poverty
words, / will
that build icith marblr, and bestow a whole
askoiirmagnificoes,
manor

on

betwixt them and

difference
he in
drink
injewels,
man:
thejj
rich and go
to heaven; theyare

thred, ivhat

ermite^thatbare old
he is poor, and goes

Paul

the

his hand
to

hell.

d Boeth. 2,
^ Hor. epist.
f Hor,
1. 1. ep. 18.
Plutarch, vit.e.jns.
domns
niarnioribus
3.
Eremit.
Libet eos
nunc
inferrogare
qui
eEpist.lib. vit.Paul.
defuit? Vos
huic seni modo quid unqnam
vestiunt,qui uno filovillarum ponunt pretia,
bibitis,ille concavis raanibus naturae satisfecit: illepauper Pai-adisum capit,
gemma
Gehenna
suscipiet.
vos
avaros
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IV.

MEMB.

ment.
BanishAgainstServitude^Loss of Liberty,frnprisonnifnf.

loss of

SERVITUDE,
miseries

they

as

the best of

ns

sub

princesthemselves

in

fert,rerumsis
to their

servants

laws,and

owne

Jovis

the

as

to
imprisonment,

kingsof China

maintain

Alexander
was
a slave
his mony,
{nihilcnim re-

pride,
Vespasian
an
to
honiinum)
Heliogabalus
slaves

are

to

gold,courtiers generallyto
affections,
as
our
Evangeluswell

discourseth in

assiduam
crobius,and''Senecathe philosopher;

tremametineluctahilem, he calls it;a continual

repine.? Satis
Thou
and

est

earnest

who

is free ?

want

thou

that

art

no

those
liberty,

Ma-

servitutem.exto be
slaving,

then

Why

sailh,qui servire
potens,}\\exon\
burdens

no

thousands

and

his gut, and

their mistresses,
rich men
lust and ambition, and all

slaves to

vices

theirstate

abroad.

come

to

Lovers

by
captivated

nobles

servus

of the rest.

60

servants,
do our
so

nobles,and

gravioreregnuin

ipsosimperiumest

their

subjectto

fear,Caesar of

and

mnsters,

o"ir
serve

Gods

than slavish
endure more
and greatness,theynever
to

reverence

regno

are

Reges
are

slaves

are

such

no

kinjjs:

to

Omne

they

we

subordinate

are

do

we

as

be

to

superiours gentlemen

their

masters

held

are

all

liberty,
imprisonment,are

so

dost thou

cogitur.
prisoner, drudge ;
which thou
pleasures
non
no

sick ; and what wouldst thou have ?

But
alleatof the forbidden fruit. Were
nitimur in vetitum,\\e must
would
ingly
we
not willwe
injoynedtogoto such and such places,
Thou

hast.

our

but, beingbarred

go

art not

of

wandringsoul,thatwe may

our

not

this alone
liberty,

torments

go. A citizen of ours, saith

had never
been foith of the

60 years of age, and

walsof
thecityMillan: the princehearingof it,commanded
him not to stir out : being now
forbidden thatwhich all his life
desired ; and, being denied,
he had neglected,he earnestly

*=

Cardan,

dolore
What
we

are

was

mortem
confectus

I have

said of

obiit,lie dyed for grief.

servitude,I say again of imprisonment,

"^
all prisoners.
What

in
all imprisoned

an

is

iland.

The

our

lifebut
world

itselfto

ditches

prison,
many
have compassed the globeofthe earth,they
our

narrow

I. 11.
3 Satur.
l"Nat. lib' 3.

seas

as

so

prison?
;

some

^Ve
men

and, when
would

they

fain go

Alius libidini !"rr\ir alius stnbitioui,

omnes
spei,omncs
"^O gruprosc,
''CodsoI. I. 5.
qnid eRt viNoi.ti farcMr

are

is

see

timori.
aniDii"'

Mem.

againstDiscontents.

Remedies

4.]

5 1

In Muscovy and many

other
is done in the moon.
half the
northern parts,all over
Scandia, theyare imprisoned
''
At
Aden
in
year in stoves; theydare not peep out for cold.
what

pennedin all day longwith that other

of heat, and keep their markets in the night. What
but a prison?and so many cities are but as so many
Arabia, theyare

but that which thou abhorrest,

many
keep in all winter,and most part of summer,
their beauties; some
forlove of study:Demosthenes

bees,ant-hills :

beard, because

he would

off all occasion

cut

of

extreme

is

ship

hives of
seek : women

(o

preserve
shaved his

goingabroad:

monks
friers,anchorites,abandon the world !
Art in prison
in arido.
in nrbe, piscis
Make
r
right
and mortifie thyself. Where mnya
of it,
use
man
contemplate
then in quietness?
better then in solitariness,
or
studymore
have been imprisonedall their lives ; and
men
Many Avorthy
and

bow

many
monachus

'^

ithath been occasion of great honour and gloryto thera,

much
meditation.
excellent
their
publickgood by
'^Pto!em8eus,k!ng
of

Egypt,cum,

valetudine laboraret,
attenuatis,
injirmd
now
^'C.
affectus,
beingtaken with a grievous

viribus

miro discendi studio

that he could

stir abroad, became

Stratos scholler,fell hard to his book, and gave himself whollyto
contemplation
; and upon that occasion (as mine author adds)

of body
infirmity

not

Src. to his
monumentum,
opulentice
pulcherrimnmreyice
at Alexandria,wherein
honourbuiltthatrenownedlibrary

40000

volumes.

Boethius

Severinus

writ

never

great
\vere

as
elegantly

so

in prison,Panl
so devoutly,
weredictate"i
formostofhisepistles
saith Austin,yoi more
in uis bands.
credit in prison,
.Joseph,
then tchen hedistributed corn, and was
lordof Pharaohs houxc
"=

It

bringsmany

rogues

lewd

riotous

that would
it settles,

tygers, ruined
Banishment

themselves
is no

fellow

otherwise
and

home,

wandrinomany
have been littleraving

others.

at
grievance

all. O

solum fortipatria,
nine
bene
that's
est
a
mans
:
patriaest, ubicunque
country
where he is well at ease.
to that eity,
Many travel for pleasure
saith Seneca, to which thou art bani^ihed: and what a
part of
the citizens are strangers born in other places? ^Jncolentibus

8fC.et

patria;'tistheir country

that

ment

to be

stranger,

or

so

born in it ; and

are

think themselves banished togo

and from which thou art so loth

to

the

to

irksome

placewhich

depart.
to

be

an

would
tliey

thouieavest,

'Tis no
exile,

disparag-e^

The rain

a Herbastein.
b Vertomannus.
in niindinis noctu
navig.1. 2. c. 4. Commeroia
hora secunda,ob nimios qui sfeviunt interdiii
= Ubi
vfriorconaestns,exercent.
""'Aiex. ab
templatioquam in solitudine ? ubi studinra solidius quatn in qtiiete
?
Alex. gen. dier. lib.1.
" In Ps. 76. Non'italaudator
fnimenta
Joseph cum
cap. 2.
f Boethius
ac
distribueret,
Iiabitaret.
carcerem
S Philostratus. in deiiriis.
quum
sunt itobres in terra,,
Peregrini
soi ap'::d
etfluviiin man
: Japiferapud.^.gypt'js:
onincs:
nosp"S aninia in coipore, luscinia in aere, hirundo ia domo. Gaiivroedes coelo, St.-.

52
is

of Melanchohf.

Cure

the

the

1o

sfranffer

all.

rnrth, livers
The

is

sou/

the

to

Sec.

[Part. 2.

Jupiter in JJf/if/tt^

sea,

alien

3.

the

?iif/htina
hofljf,
in an
house, and
(fu/e to the ai/re^ a swaffoir
GanipneHe in
in India ; and such
heaven^ an elephantin Rome, a phccni.r
tliing^s
commonly pleaselis best,which are most stranoe, and
to

sun

us

farthest

come

world

way

thou

home,

Islanders

at

esteemed

all barbarians
of

us

and

thee

childish

as

that which

the

whole

but

selves
them-

transalpines

dull

which

thy country

humour

others

seek

and

after

hone

to

prefer,
ragged iland
to

Norvegians do, their own

before
is a
There
Italyor Greece, the gardens of the Morld.
base nation in the north, saith
Pliny,called Chauci, that live
amongst rocks and sands by the seaside, feed on fisli,drink
themselves
slaves
and yet these base people account
water:
in respect, when
Ita est proj'ecto
to Rome.
(ashe
they come
concludes); multisj'ortuna
parcitin pn:nam : so it is,Fortune
favours
to live
to their further
at home,
some
punishment;
'tis want
of judgement.
All placesare
distant from
heaven
alike ; the sun
shines happily as warm
in one
ther;
cityas in anoas

base

'Tis

discontent

be

to

held

Italians account

admirest.

to

Hebrews

reproach; they scorn

much

so

old

Greeks

modern

; our

by

the

Gentiles;
of

Those

oif.

nu

'""

and
friends

are

to

wise

where

every
is not

there

man

to

esteemed
prophet
Caesar,Trajan,Adrian, were

east,

in the west,

now

Vertoniannus,

no

difference

that behaves

him

in his
so

little at

Pinzonus,

is

Polus

and

Cadamustus,

; and

Alexander,
in the

now
land-leapers,

many

home;

himselfwell

country,

own

climes:

of

Venetus, Lod.
Americus

Columbus,

Gama,
Drake,
Candish, Oliver Anort,
Vesputius, Vascus
But
Schouten, gotalltheir honour
by voluntaryexpeditioi^s.
travel is voluntary; we
are
yousay,such mens
compelled,and,
this of 'Plato to be true,
as
malefactors, must depart yet know
vltori Deo
hath an
est : God
summa
cura
j"eref/rinus
especiall
:

care

shall

of

strangers

deserve

Besides
make

tbe

hettei- and

pleasureof

amends

; and

friends and allies,he

find nt ore favour with God and men.
peregrination,varietyof objects will

tocles,Theseus,
sufficient

unto

of this

*Lib.

it.

trants

nol)les,Tully, Aristide,'Jhenn's-

so

many
Codrus, "c.

credit

he

and, when

as

Read

have

been

banished,

Pet. Alcionius

his

will

two

give

books

subject.

16. cap.

cantnr, "c.

"pu'lDeos

1.

Nullain

''Lib. 5, de
et

apud homines

frugem habent ; polus ex imbre ;

legibns. CunKjue cogDatis c areat

iniiericordiam

meretur.

e( liy ftenles, si \inet

amicis, mnjorpm

Mem.

Remedies

5.]

MEMB.

Against Sorrow

V.

of Friends

Death

for

53

Discontents.

agamst

otherwise, vain

or

Fear, ^-c.

UEATHand
mors

vous
griethingsgenerally

are

^omnium

that

departureoffrieuds

vita contingunt,
luctns at que
qucs in humana
acerhissima; the most austere and bitter accidents

sunt

happen to

can

part for ever,

to

in this

man

forsake the world

mum

terrihilium,the last and

some

and troublesome

amittit

in
life,

unto

the

greatestterrour,

^Homo

us.

valedicere,to
friends;'tisulti-

ceternum

all our

and

And

toties
for

most

irke-

moritur,quoties
eternall
life,

better

a
though we hope
miserable
and
not
daies,yetwe canpainfull
of it
selves willingly
to dye; the remembrance
our
compose
who
fortunate
is most grievous
to such
unto
are
us, especially
and rich : they start at the name
of death, as an horse at a
rotten
post. Say what you can of that other world, with
that Indian prince,
'^Metezuma
bonum
est esse
hie,they had
and grave staid
rather be here.
Nay many generous spirits,

suos.

after these
happiness,

this,that,at the loss of a dear

friend,theywill cry out, roare,and teartheirhaire,lamenting
and
those Irish women,
months
O /lone,
as
after,houling,
some
*^
undecent
Greeks, at their graves, commit
actions,and
many
band,
almost go besides themselves.
My dear father,my sweet husmen

otherwise,are

moan

tender

miserum

me

in

death !

only brothers

mine
} O

so

to

shall I make

whom

my

Quis dabit in

lacrymasfontem

? "c.

Whatshallldo?
t

Sed

hoc

totum

Abstulit; hei

My

brothers

Woe's

Mezentius
'Nunc
Sed

And

me

stud!

! misero

death

my

! alas ! my

would

not

vivo,nee

urn

luctu fraterna mihi

frater

studyhath
brother

homines

undone

he is gone

live after his

adhuc

ademptemihi

son

mors

lucemquerelinquo

linquam

Pompeys

wife

cryed out

at

the

news

of her husbands

death.

b Seneca.
^Cardan, de consol. lib.2.
eBenzo.
^Sanuno
ululatum oriantur,
"c. niiserabilespeetaculumexhibentei.
pectorapercutientes,
f Virgil.
Ortelius,in GreeciA.
eCatdius.
mane

oj'Mr/drtrfiol!/.

Cum

51

Turpe iiiori post

*"

hictu,

rhl-nta
able

not

moderate

to

slain,she

was

son

nescia

el

non

tolerandi,as

abruptlybroke
her

tore

dolore.

posse

lier pasMoiis.

colour,

and

sulo

te

^'Tacitus of

Agrippina,

she heard

when

So,

off her

S.

[Part.'J.Se"\

her

tenance
work, changed coun-

hair, and

fell

roaringdown

right
:

subitus

alus

et femineo
infelix,

Scissa

coniarn.

needs

run

the swords

upon

pointafter Eury-

departure,
si qua est
o Rululi!
Conjicite,

good

dye ! some

O let

me

How

did Achilles

cloud of

ton

ululalu,

in
pietas,

cFigiteme,

his

reliquit;

ossa

radii,revolutaque
pensa:

Evolat

would

Another

mist'ra; calor

manibus

Excussi

take

man

overshadowed

sorrows

long-season,

needs

go

could

grievousunto

itconcern

selves,but

notour

wept

read

never
"

his
be

not

into the grave unto

after, the remembrance

years
accidents, is most
that he

Austin

end of

Jacob

of such

rent

hear of it,though
saith of himself,
Scaliger

us, to see

when

(Gen. 37. 37).

friends,of such

son

or

death,in Platos Phjedon,

tears

me

A black

loines,sorrowed for his

comforted, but would
his

others.

Socrates

shed

an

departure?

us

down

Many

tela

him, saith Homer.

clothes,put sack-cloth about

and

other make

or

for Patrocl

on

omnia

me

he

read

but he

the destruction of

of
this passion

be violent,
sorrow
bitter,
Troy. But, howsoever
d
iscreet
wise,
on
valiant,
it
et
familiarly
men,
;
may
it may
be
diverted.
w4iat
is
there
in
be
For,
withstood,
surely

andseiseth

this life,that it should be so dear

much
so
deplorethe departureof

unto
a

us

or

friend?

that

we

should

sures
greatest plea-

enjoy
presence,
brooks,
woods,
hils,
hunting,
musick,
hawking,
feasting,
are

conunon

society,to

The

dancing,"c. all this

declared.
surticiently

is but

Poscimus, obrepitnon
Whilst

As

Jtvenali*.

losse of time, as I have

we

serta, unguenta,
inteilecta senectus.

drink, prank our

upon's

at

unawares

spendthat small
alchymists

"Lnean
""

age

vanityand

bibimus, diim

edum

Old

anothers

one

i"3. Anoal.

selves,with
doth

puellas,

wenches

dally,

sally.

modicum

theyhave, to get gold,

"Virg. iEn. 9.

""Conffs*. I. 1.

Chip

;'Ai

'tis

l)h\ssod
death

that

home

hirssod

of MeluncJwhj.
leads

is not

terrible in it self

so

to

^blessed

But

in the [.old.

that dye
tliey

are

us

[Part.2.

life;and

lifeis sweet;

the concomitants

as

Hoc. 3.

c^c. and

and

of it,a
times the

disease, pain,honour,
many
the
be
broken
be
wheel, to be
of
on
it,to
manner
hanged,to
the heretick, that suffered in Geneva,
''Servetus
burned alive.
when
he was
tioner
brought to the stake, and saw the execu-

loathsome

with

come

cAc/ajnnrit, vt imivprsitm
loud, that he terrified the

renduiH
roared

so

would

have

or

so

his hand,

fire in

pojmlnm porterrpjecerity
people. An old Stoick

It troubles

this.

scorned

hoino^ t:iso igne,tarn hor-

to be

some

unburied,

te

'^non

optimamater

hiimi,patrioveonerabit

Condct

membra

sepulcro:

feris,et gurgitemersum
lincpiere
vulnera
lambent:
teret,piscesqueimpasti
Thy gentleparentsshall not bury thee,
Alitibiis
I'lida

told

Socrates
I

dead

am

to

thy carcass
corps hungry fish maws

drowned

Or

when

be;
shall devoure,

feral fowle

But

As

entomb'd

thine ancestors

Amongst

Crito,itconcernsmc
;

shall
not

scoure.

what

is done

I care
sppnlcri:
facilisjactura
head

mine

let them

the

set
on
I feel it not:
the
of
the
foure
and
in
rifFa,
parts
my quarters
as

pascam

let wolves

or

licet in

criice

devour

me

beares
coelo

corvos

with

not,

me

solong

pike of Tenaworld,

habet

qui non
tegitur

iirnam

that hath no tomb.

him
So
of heaven
the canopy
covers
their
much
should
likev/ise for our
friends,why
departureso
trouble us? They are better,as we
hope ; and for what then
dost thou lament, as those do, whom
(I Thes. 4. 13) that have no hope?

taxed

in his

time,

fit there should

be

solemnity.

some

Sed

decet defimclum, pectore forti,

sepelire

Constantes, uiiumque
Jobs
let

Paul
Tis

friends said

word

to

him

fletu

indulgentes.

the firstseven

daies,but

themselves

take their course,

himself
Jupiter

When

by him.
else did the poet insinuate,but

silent

don, what

good

and discontent

sorrow

sad and

not

diem

that

wept
some

for

sitting
Sarpe-

sorrow

is

"Estenim
3"miani.
praei
lomer.
Hon

mors

piorumfelix transitns

de labore ad

bVaticanus, vita ejus.

ad
de exspectatione
refrigerium,
"^

Lnc.

"ill.9.

Mem.

againstDiscontents.

Remedies

5.]

nisi mentis

Quis

matrem,
Flere vetet ?

in
inops,

57

funere nati

mother, ifshe weep

for her children?

in
our
Beside, as ''Plutarch holds, 'tisnot
power not to lament:
ittakes
cuivis
:
indolentia non
co7itingit
away mercy and pitty,
to
for our friends,an
not to be sad ; 'tisa natural passion
weep
and
I know not how,{smth
to lament
g-rieve.
irresistiblepassion

who

blame

can

Seneca) but

for

the most

tender

'tisgood to be miserable

sometimes

part all gnef

in

itself
by

evacuates

and

misery:

teares:

:
qusedam flere voluptas
dolor :
egeriturque,
Expleturlacrymis,
c

est

yet, aftera dayes mourning or'^ two, comfortthy selffor thy

heaviness

l7).

(EccXes. 38.

decet

defunctum ignavo

advice

Germanicus

'twas

:
questu prosequi

Non

of

old, that

we

to be desperately
passions,
long upon
them
to let
tyrannize;there's indosad, immoderate grievers,
do not (saith
be
we
to
lenti(Bars, a medium
kept :
''Austin)
I forbidnot a
but to grieveovermuch.
to grieve,
forbid men
he is so ?
Not to
to be angry ; but I ask for tchat cause
man
but
is
sad?
he
to
not
be sad, but tchy
fear,
whereforeis he
'^The
afraid? I requirea moderation as well as a justreason.

should

not

Romans,

dwell too

and

most

such solemnities:

our

civil

theymust

commonwealths, have
not

mourn

after

set

certain

time to

day; or

ifin a family child be born, a daughter,or a son married,

brother be redeemed from
be conferred,
a
state or honour
some
a

his enemies, or the like,they must

And 'tis fitit should be so; to what end is
lament no more.
and tears? When
Socrates
all their funerall pomp,
complaints,
and
with
some
others,
was
dying,his friends Apollodorus Crato,
his

bands, a friendfrom

asked them what

weeping by him ; which he perceiving,
out
they meant : \t'orthat very cause, he put all the women
words
ichich
of his, theywere abashed,
oftheroome; upon
Lodovicus
their
ceased
tears.
Cortesius,a rich lawyer
and
from
commanded
of Padua
(as ''Bernardinus Scardeonius relates)
if
mulct
otherwise to his heir,that
by his last will,and a great
for
be
should
funeral
kept him, no man should lament; but,
no
and minstrels to be provided;and,
at a wedding, musick
as

were

"" Con

sol. ad

Apollon. Non

est libertate nostr^

positnm non dolere ;

Tacitus,lib.4.
^Lib, 9.
Dei.
Non quaro cum
sed cur ; non
sit tristis,
utrnm
irascatur,
sed
cap. 9. de civitate
utrum timeat,sed quid timeat
unde ; non
fPestos,verbo Minuitnr. Luctui
liberi nascantur, cum
frater abit,amicus ab hospite,captfms
dies indicebatnr, cum
?0b banc canssam
doraum redeat, puella
desponsetur.
mnlieresablegaram,
ae
a

Ovid.

misericordiam abolet,"c.

Ovid. 4 Trist

et destitimus
talia facerent. Nos, haec audientes,erubuimus^
Patavinis.
class. 8. de claris jurisconsoltis

lacrymis.

"" Lib.

1.

of MdaialioU,.

Curt

*S

ho took "Mtlcr ""///"/tudv.e

instead of black mourners,

should

clad in green
was
testament

with

him

carry

at

His will and

he buried in S' So-

until such
first,

confirmed

then he

her/anto
receptioninto

fortune and grief,and, for her

triumph over

his dauohter

that he had

time

philosophicull
precepts

some

riri/oi.'!

the chvrch.

tn

accordingly
performed,and
much
for
''Tullywas
g^rieved

church.
^hies
ulliolas death
his mind

[\\n\.^2."M

troubled for
heaven, to be much more joyed then beforehe was
heathen
could so fortifie himself from
If an
man
her loss.
what
philosophy,

shall

thou

thy selfe ?

macerate

so

in

"*

die.

must

""

Constat
Ut

all mortal

are

we

'"Involvithumile

dislaus

be

Vos

now

men

and these all-coin*

celsum

caput,

infima.

humane

friends,amongst

estate

many
sickned

later

Sylviusexclaims:

now
physicians,

ancfdied.

We

his
Calliopiusin

all,and, as
spectatorsand auditors,

valete et

^La-

ready
must

so

to

be

comedy took

recensui,
plaudite.Calliopius
world farewell,
and, having
{ExitCalliopius)

bid the

plaidour

so

36 houres

or
gone sooner
his leave of his

we

parliament,

yeeres of age, in the flower of his

potent,rich, fortunate,and happy, in the midst of

'married,in

must

chance, the

of

king of Bohemia, IS

youth,so
all his

like

et
pariter

/Equatquesummis

of

everlasting

doest

genitum nihil.

constat

condition

an

act

an

manding gods and princesdie

O weak

? Why
divinity

inevitable

legeest,
posittimque

ffiterna

be revoked

It cannot

from

'Tis

Magna Charta,

firststatute
all

Christian

"

parts,for

have the like fate

Data

ever

Tombs

be gone.

and inonumenta

sunt

ipsis
quoque

kingdomes,provinces,towns,

and

fata

sepulcris
;

have
cities,

their

periods,
are
Troy,Mycenae
the fairest cityin Greece; Gracitp cvnctce
was
imperithat ^Assyrian .Yineve,
tabat ; but it,alas! and
are
quite
overthrown.
The like fate hath that Egyptianand Boeotian
consumed.

and

In those

times
flourishing

of

conciliabulum,the common
of Greece; and 'Babylon,the greatestcitythat

Thebes, Delos,
councel-house

commune

Grcecice

" Pr"" Innnptaepnellae

amictae viridibus pannis,"c.
^lAh. de consol.
confirmatus adversus omnem
fortnnaB vim, et te consecrate in c""cepti"philosophia;
luniqnerecepta, tanta affpctus laetitiasiimac voluptate,
qiiantam animo capf-re possum,
dolore et fortiina triiimphare.
exsoitare plane niihi videor, vietorqnede omni
ac
* Boeth. lib.2, met.
3.
secari,sic homines niori,
Hensel. Breslagr.fol. 47.
''Twenty then prfsent.
' To
Obennt
nortesqiie
Magdalen, the danghter of Charles the seventh of France.
i Omuiiim,
""
dflrta.
diei"-|iie,
"c.
Assyrionitnregia fiinditiin
qnot ini")iinni
feola"ipexit,
urbinm maxima.

"* Ut
f

lipnnm uri natnm,

Boeth.

arista

Nic

ever

the

siione

sun

39

againstDiicontents,

Remedies

5.]

"Iem.

upon,

hatb

walls and

nothing but

now

rubbish left.

Quid Pandioniee

restant, nisi nomen,

Athense

And where is Troy

Thus ''Pausanias complainedin his times.
itselfnow, Persepolis,
Carthaoe,Cyzicum,Sparta,Argos,and
all those Grecian cities? Syracuseand Agrigentum,the fairest
had sometimes
which
7OOOOO inhabitants,are
Sicily,
the
of
names
Hieron, Empedocles,"c. of those
now
decayed:
of people,
onlyleft. One Anacharsis is remighty numbers
the world it self must
have an
membred
amongst the Scythians;
of
and
nrhes
it. Cceterce igitur
sunt mortales,as
end,
every part
hcFC sane, qnamdiu
Peter'^Gillius concludes of Constantinople;
in

towns

nor

; Jutura mihi videtur immortalis

homines

erunt

nor
strength,

site,nor

sea,

nor

land, can

all must
vanish
at last.
And, as
seem
plainsafar off,at last are
great mountains
but it and
at all ;

cities,
men,

solidis

to

not

so:

city;

traveller,
discerned

decay :

monuments

nee

but 'tisnot

vindicate

machina

prodestsua

terris:

volved
and are inonlyleft,those at lengthforgotten,
in perpetual
night.
when I sailed from ^gina toward
^Returningout of^^sia,
in a consolatory
Megara, I began (saithServius Sulpitius,
of his to Tully)to view the country round about, j^gina
epistle
the righthand,
behind me, Megara before,Pirceeus on
was
towns
Corinth on the left,ichat flourishing
now
heretofore,
!
think
overu-helmed
mine
I
and
to
be/ore
began
eyes
prostrate
much
with
Alas ! why are
with myself,
ice
so
men
disquieted
much
ichose
is
ichen
the departure
shorter,
so
of a friend,
life
O
us?
cities
buried
Remember,
Servius,
lye
before
many goodly
much
and
icith that I was
thou art a man
confirmed,
; and
and
then
comfort
Correct
corrected myself.
likewise,
thyself
that
all
and
in this,that we
shall
must
we
dye,
necessarily
dye,
rise again,
as
noster
or que mult 0 congressus
Tullyheld,picundi
second
our
futurus,quaminsuavis etacerbus digressus,
meeting
then
shall be much more
w
as
our
pleasant,
departure
grievous.
sole
friend :
I,but he was my most dear and lovingfriend,
my

the

names

are

'

^Quis
Tam

And

who

with

can

desiderio sit pudor aut

cari

blame

"Ovid,

quod ad

my

woe

Seneca, to confess it,in

bArcad.

Toll. lib.3.
'Hor. lib.1. Od. 24.
unam

anchorara

modus

1
capitis

ashamed, I say
^tempestas this to have

Thoumayst
such

be

ePrasfat Topogr. Constantinop.

faEpisL
eQiinnitot oppidornmcadavera ante oculos projecta
jacent
^ Erabesce. tanti
gDe reined, fortait.
terapeiitate

lib.8.

stabas.

Cure

fiO

[Fart.2.

Sei
.

3.

go seek anothor: and. for his part, thou "lost

XM/f fJmu huvp him
him greaf injuryto desire his lonoor life.
hut

anchor

of Mehinrhohf.

one

and sickly
like a tired traveller that conies
still,
weary
his
his
to
iune, begin
journey afresh,or to he freed from his
Thou hadst more
other
Anmiseries ?
need rejoice
that he is (jone.
crazed

complainsof

most

(Nondura sustulerat
such

wife

she is

as

mortal

no

dead

now

and

wife,a

sweet

flavum

man

wife,

young-

crinem)
Proserpina

had, so

ever

good

ife : but

gone,

Lethaeoquejacetcondita sarcophago.
I

reply to him,

had, ^he

to be

was

ever

in Senecas

words, if such

did either

her

make

find or

so

least

at

woman

if he

found her,he may as happilyfindanother ; if he made her, as

form
Critobelus in Xenophon did by his,he may as good cheap inanother
Et

he need

bona

bona

sequitur,
quam

tarn

primafuit;

is to be had.
so
master
despair,
long as the same
she good? Had
she been so tryedperadventure
But was
as
widow
in
that Ephesian
Petronius,by some
swaggeringsouldier,
she might not have held out.
Many a man would have been
rid of his: before thou wast bound; now
thou art free;
willingly
and 'tis but a follyto love thyfetters,
thoughtheybe of gold.
shall
have
Come
into a third place,
an
aged father sighing
you
not

for

Sonne,

pretty childe ;
"^
Impube pectus, qualevel impia
Molliret Thracum
He

Would
or

fine

some

"

or

an

lyesasleep,
impiousThracian

daughterthat dyed

Nondum

forlorn son

now

make

pectora

"

young,

experta novi gaudiaprima tori

"

for his deceased

priorintravit ; he came
pius.heu, Si'c. What?
altered,and him

weep

to

But

father.

and he
first,

why

Prior

wouldst

live alwayes?Julius Caesar,Augustus,AI-

lost their fathers young.

Galen, Aristotle,
cibiades,
on

the other side shouldst thou

thy littleson
f

Kum,
Sed

eriit,

go first. Tufrustra
thou have the laws of nature
must

heavilytake

so

the

And

why

death

of

quianee
miser

ante

fate,merita
diem

nee

morte,

peribat,

"

"Visaegruin,et morbidam, sitibundam? jjaude potiasquod his malis Hberatus 8it.

bonam
ant sic fecisti: si invenerii,
ant invenisti,
aliatn habere te posse ex hoc

*"Uxorem

bene speres ; saJrus est artrfex.

: si feceris,
iatellitramns

estcompedes, licet aoreas,

fVirg.4. iEn.

amare.

"i

Hot.

'"Stalti
"

Hot, lib.1. Od. 24.

Mem.

Remedies

5.]

he died before his time

he not
his age!yet was

againstDiscontents.

perhaps,not yet come

mortal?

Hear

61
to

the solstice of

that divine

:
''Epictetus
should
children,
live
friends,
loij'e,
thy
Ifthon
ahvayesy
a fine child indeed, dignus
thou art a fool. He was
Apotlineis
a fair,
a loving,
a witty
child,of great hope,
a sweet,
lacrgmis,

covet

Pindarus the poet,and Aristides the

anotiier Eteoneus, whom
he
lament; bnt who can tell whether
rhetorician, so much
honest
He
?
been
man
an
would have
might have proved a
a disobedient
a rogue,
aspendthrift,
thief,
son, vexed and galled
than all the world beside; he might have wrangled
thee more

disagreed,or with his brothers,as Eteocles

and broke thyheart: he is now
and Polynices,
gone to eternity,
another
Ganymede in the ^ flower of his youth,as if he
as
had risen,saith Plutarch, ""fromthe midst of a feastbefore
he had lived,the worse
he tvould have
he was
drunk; the longer
(Ambrose thinks)
been,and (pio vitalongior,
culpa7iumerosior,
with thee and

he would
have had.
If he was
to answer
sinful,more
he
be
is
if
thou
glad
good,be glad thou
mayst
naught,
gone;

more

hadst such

son.

Or

thou

art

sure

he

was

It may
howsoever
he

good ?

as
are
hypocrite,
; and,
many
he
spake thee fair,peradventure prayed,amongst the rest that
whisperingplacein Lucian,
Icaro-Menippusheard at Jupiters
for his fathers death,because he now
kept him short,he was to
after his decease.
inherit much
goods, and many fair manors
the
he
Or put case
was
best,may not thy
very good,suppose
with thee,as he did in the same
dead son expostulate
"^Lucian,

he

be

was

an

fVhy dost

thou

much
me

art

more

?
?

lament

happy

Is it because
have
What

death, or

call

my
then

thy self? what

not

am

lost ?

me

miserable

that

am

is hefaln
misfortune

bald,crooked,old,rotten,as thou
some
of your good chear, gat/

cloths,musick, singing,dancing,kissing,
merry

meetings,

Is it not much
better not
all then to eat : not to thirst then to drink to
to hunger at
thirst: not to he cold then to put on cloths to drive atvay
salisfie
need re Joycethat I amfreedfrom disease's,
You had more
CO Id?
tbalami

lubentias,"c. is that it ?

agues, cares,

malice, that
you

livor, love,covetousness,hatred,etivy,
anxieties,
I fear no
more
thieves,tyrants, enemies, as

do,

*" Deus
"iCap.19. Si id studes ut uxor, amici,liberi perpetuo vivant, stultus es.
"
Menan.
Consol.
ad
filius
tuus
Apol, Apollonins
jnvenes rapit.
quos diligit,
in lioro decessit,ante nos ad aeternitatem digressus,
taraqaatn e convivio abiens,priasin errorem
aliquem e temulentia incideret,
qualesin longa senecta aecidere solent.
quam
"* Tom.
1. Tract, de Inctu.
niulto felicior?
miserum vocas, quite sum
Quid roe mortuum
? an
ut tu, facie
aut quid acerbi mihi putas contigisse
calvus, senex,
sum
quia non
O dcmens ! quid fibi videtur in vita boni? nimirum amicitias,
rugosus, iucurvus,"c.
csurire quam
",c. Gaude potius
"c.
edere ; non
sitire,
Longe melius non
ccenas,
quod morbos tt febres effagerim,
animi, "c. E^ulatusquid prodest? quid
angorem

"c.
^acryaiBe,

of Melancholy.

Cure
Id cinerem

"

el

us
Do they concern
Condole not others
death.
own
^

'tis to

uo

Summum

credis

manes

all,think you,

when

then

; wish

diem

metuas

nee

Sec. S.

?
sepultos

curare

overmuch

[Part.2.

we

are

dead

once

not

fear

or

thine

optes ;

nee

purpose.
Excessi
Ne

vitae serumnis

death

than

worse

videam

life with all mine

I left this irksome

Lest

facilisque
lubensqur,
dehinc

pejoraipsamerle

should

heart,

happen to

my

part.

this

caused

scribed
epitaphin Rome to be inshew
his
his
to
and
to
taxe
on
tomb,
willingness dye,
loth to depart. Weep and howl no more
those that were
so
adviseth us in the
then; 'tis to small purpose: and, as ''Tully
like case, 7ion quos amisimus, sod quantum
lugerepar sit,co-

"Cardinal! Brundusinus

gitemus: think what

David
did,2 Sam. 22.
and wept;
bringhim
and

the child

have

we

beingnote dead,
again? I shall go to him;
man.

is an

Though

Can
return

intemperate,a weak,

deny
I

sorrow,

So

fasted

I fast ?

hut he cannot

Aristotle

about

conversant

lost.

ifptalive,I

teas

tchi/should

to be

one,

whom

not

but,

undiscreet

mind

While

that doth otherwise

He

me.

do,

we

I
to

silly,

temperance
any part of inof "^ Senecas

am

is rcise is temperate; and he that is temperate

is constant, free from passion; and
he that is such a
is tcithont sorrow,
all wise men
should
be.
as
The
he

"

that

"Thracians
mirth

wept stillwhen

when

any
glad for such as
the miseries

man

die

was

child

born, feasled and made

was

buried:

and

so

should

we

rather be

well, that

of this life.

theyare so happilyfreed from

^Vhen
Eteoneus, that noble
young

lamented by his friends,

Pindarus the
generally
faines
homines
Silete,
enim miser
some
god saying",
poet
; non
be
this
is
able
misernot
man
est,^-c.
quiet,good folks;
so
young

Greek,

was

so

think; he is neither gone to Styx nor Acheron, sed

el seuii expers
in the Elyheros, he lives for ever
gloriosus
sian fields;he now
that
which
happinesse
cnjoyes
your great
as

you

seek,
kingsso earnestly
contend.
our

If

and

wears

present weakness
in
])assions this behalf, we
our

that

garlandfor

is such,
must

we

which

ye
moderate

cannot

divert them

by

all

by doing something;else,thinkingof another subject.

means,
The Italians,most part, sleepaway care
and grief,
if it unseasonably
seise upon them; Danes, Dutclimen, Polanders,
'Virgil.
"

Sardus,de

t-Mart.
mor.

gen.

Cbjtrtus. dfliciis Europe.

"i

Epist.85.

of Melanchohj.

Cure

64

[Part.2.

Sec. 3.

to labour,pafienreto
svjf'cranco
fortitude
to pusilhuiitnity,
reproach,bounty
to examine
to y)ri(]e;
our
to anq-er, humility
meekness
selves,
Avhat ground,
much
on
are
we
so
cause
for what
(lisf(uiete(l,
either
and
then
it
fained?
is
to pacific
what occasion,
justor
other object,contrary
selves by reason,
to divert by some
our
scrum
or premeditation. McdUnri
oportct quojiacto
passsion,
(idversam
pcricla,damna, exsllia : percqre
arumnam
J'erat,
ant uxoris mortem,
aut fUiipeccatnm,
rcdiens semper cof/itat

KtafFe another way;

"
to oppose
to oovetonsness,

filicc
; eommnnia

morhum

aut

Iio'c;

esse

fieri
posse

troublesome

unto

adcersa),or

"^

Ut

vivat castor, sibi testes

amputat ipse:
cris.
talus
siquanocent, abjice,

quoque,

bites ofF's stones

beaver

thou the hke

Do

medilure, quo pactojeras

quiteout.

Tu
The

be lesse

judgement to avoid the effect,or

they do that are troubled with tooth-

as

cause,

ach, pullthem

may

of

of mature

out

the

disannull

(in secnndis

us

nequid

; nt

all kinde

them familiar,even
sit novum
: to make
ammo
calamities, that, when they happen, they may

to

save

with that thou

art

the rest

opprest.

they that play at wasters, exercise themselves by a few

cudgelshow to avoid an enemies blows,let us arm our selves
which may invadeourminds.
allsuch violent incursions,
against
and practice
will inure us to it;vetulavulA littleexperience
the proverbsaith,laqueohand capitur;an old fox is
pes, as
old souldier in the "vorld,
taken in a snare
not so easily
; an
but ready to receive all
thinkes, should not be disquieted,
me
fortunes,encounters, and with that resolute captain,come
Or

as

what

to make

come,

may

answer,

-"^ non

labour

No

Scnserunt;

"

"^

Happif is that
war,

fit motto

to me;

what

may

be.

pectora vulnus

mea

gravioratuli
of

commonwealth

primum

peregi.

ante

niecum

longbefore cast

hoc

non

animo

at unawares

comes

I have

For
"

facies,
:
inopinave,
surgit

percepi,
atque

Omnia

The

mi

virgo,nova

ulla laborum,

"

scription,
Venice, in their armory, have this incitie which

for every

mans

in time

privatehouse

convicium
"Epictetns,c. 14. Si labor objectusfuerit tolorantiaj,

bello

of

happy is the
"c. si ita
patienHfe,

iiTer. Phor.
Alciat. Embl.
obteinperabis.
deliciisEuropse. Felix civitas,
Nat. Cbytreus,
quse tempore
rogital.

coneueveris, vitii8non
"iVirR.."En.

paci"de

thinks

oj'peace

^^

^lem.

againstDl-iconteuts.

Remedips

6.]

65

future assault.
But many
times we
without
and
mutter
a
we
cause
repine
complain,
giveway to
;
will
a
nd
not.
Socrates was
bad by nawe
ture,
passions,
may resist,
to
he
confessed
the
Zopyrus
envious,(as
physiognomer,
and
lascivious:
him
of
crates,
Sofroward,
but,
as he was
it)
accusing
that

man

for
provides

he did correct

and amend

himself.

Thou

art

malicious,

envious, covetous, impatient, doubt, and lascivious;

yet, as
thou art a Christian,correct and moderate thyself.'Tis something,
no

I confesse, and

able

to

move

any

to

man,

himself

see

undervalued,Heft
disgraced,
contemned, obscure, neglected,
endure

it,no

a man
Lipsius,
in
otherwise,yet
passionate this,as his
words expresse
o/im,
incollegas
quos ego sine fremitunon
3Icece
nates et ^^grippas
nune
habeo,
tueor, nuper terrcB filios,
But
he
much
blame
was
to
for it :
siimmo
jam motite potitos.
this is nothing;we cannot
all be honoured
to a wise staid man,

behind:

cannot

some

discreet

too

weak

not

constant

and

"

"

"

and

rich,all Caesars;if we

good,and, in

mens

some

"

will be content, our

present state is
be
to
opinion,
preferred.Let them

honours, preferments,
and what
titles,
go on, get wealth,offices,
simony,and
theywill themselves, by chance, fraud,iniposture,
and parasiindirect means,
too many do, bybribery,
as
flattery,
tical]
let them
insinuation,
by impudence,and time-serving:
in despite
of vertue ; let them go heup to advancement
modo non
in
on
me
offendunt,
J'ore,crosse
every side ; me non
his former errour)they
oculos incurrant,(ashe said,correcting

climbe

"

longas theyrun not into mine eyes. I am

and poor, compositd
panpertate, but 1 live secure
inglorious
have
and
and quiet:they are dignified,
great means,
pompe
^
what
have
but
with
it?
envie,
state; theyare glorious
they
;
much labour to maintain their placewith
as
trouble, anxiety,
do

not

offend

credit,as

to

spectator e

me,

so

get it at first. I am
and
longinquo,

contented

with my

fortunes,

love

Neptunum procule

terra

spectare furentera

he by
he is ambitious, and not satisfied with his: but what ''gets
laid open, his reproaches
seen
it? to have all his life
; not one
of
andanithousand, but he hath done more
worthyofdispraise
a

viadversion,then commendation;

no

better

then to be private.Let them run, ride,strive

for a crum, scrape, climb,catch,snatch,cozen,

to

means
as

so

helpthis

many

fishes

collogue,
tempo-

*" Lipsitis,
est. Hor.
scabies ; mihi turpe relinqui
epist.
"" Gloria
"^ Lipsius,
7.
comitem
epist lib.1. epist.
^ QaoH
aliud amhabet invidiam : parionere
premiturretinendo ac acquirendo.
habet in vita
vivens qui non
ut probra ejuspateant?
nemo
bitiosus sibi parat, quam
si bene
melius nccurritnr,quam
lande digna; his malis non
pluravituperatione
quam

"Occupet

extiemum

lib 1. ep. 7.
quffist.

latueris.
vol.,

II.

66

Cure

rizc, aiifl fleire,take

gfet what

they

of Melurchohi.

all

Lare

well

am

Vivo

*"
"

tented

the

labor

nihil

sed

afiis

avocat,

simul

was

an

his invisns;

icpiotussum,

had

that I have

deny, but

benefactors,

sim

7ie

dnm

dcflnunt,amici

tannsjaanan^que satur

I say still;
although I may not
''bountifull
patrons, and noble

inr/ratns,and I do thankfully acknowledge

received some
Deus
illis
kindness, (quod

nieritis,
more
henejiciumrependat)si nonpro vot.is,J'ortasse
pro
I
then
not
to
deserve,
desire,
though
more
peradventure
my
I did

then

them

myself;

what

stand.

And

all his

might

that

said, without

I have
as

now,

and

main

mired
to

will

his

beating
and,
vain, rest satisfied,

Et

ornnes

Mine

haven's
others

Fama

per

if I may

urbes

found
:

right hoDiMirable lady

Disiidion
Berkley.
t

of Fr. Pnccius

et

lor

Fortuna,

he

nunc

and

I have

done

that

of

valete

first with

remedy,

no

laboured

in

^Prudentius,

adieu

Hope,

with

Sen.

Dowager

ejus in niiliteni Chri.stiauum,

the Florentine, in Rome.

sees

to

shall

alios.

Fortune

Countesse

Suftenus

alteration

still,1 have

usnrpe

ludite

prejudice
that strugglesat

lies

ganiila laudet.
Frances

^The

tike tomb

serve,

Spes

now

hile, or

of

desert; neither

my

or

horse

vobiscum

Mock

to

get out, but, when

not

portum.

Nil mihi

of others

all this

covetous,

or

Inveni

not

expect, yet

I ambitious

am

alios

interim

have

it,I

some

larye promittunt

ambio, has capto. illis iunote^co,cctasperit,anni

fatif/antur,cr/o deseror, et jam,

acquiesco. And so
injidelitatis,

seek

my friends
amicon/m
mors

lactant

spe

mundi

and

all

alios

abroad,

alii

soliciti; hi vand

illi mecum

intercedunt

(bnn

corf-

prepared

idem

trouble

be

to

am

et

hussell

to

nam

uniis

self, and

my

therewith

come,

ferar

mad

proj'ecit:

tantus

can

parva,
so

relinquens,
I am^

soever

come

once

ista

what

preferment,tyre

for

about

tellus

state

ferar magna

same.

fortunes

my

"aixl

lutoque tegat,

regno

(Philip.1. 11)
Nave

am

et

not

me

mea

sccrelo

learned, in ichat

I have

me

pleased with

tliein,
wealth, honour,

ninoiio-st

; it ofteiuls

can

"2. S""r. 3.

[ Port.

you.

Her.

Fnr.

of

Exeter.

Grseco.

Chytreus, in deliciis.

"'

The

Hor.
Lord

Engraren

on

Mem.

Dhfimfents.
(((fnhist

Reweffiex

7.]

31EMB.

67

VII.

Contempts,
AgainstRepulse,Abuses, Injuries,
Disgraces,
Sfc.
Contumelies^Slanders,Scojf's,
J-MAY

not

of their

more

or
quiet
yet conclude,orthink to appease passions,
the minde,tillsuch time as I have likewise removed
other
some

and

eminent

which

ordinarycauses,

produce

To divert all 1 cannot

so
grievoustortures and discontents.
is that which
few of the chiefest,
hope ; to pointalone at some
I ainie

at.

two
are
Repulse.^Repulseand disgrace
but, to an understanding
man,

taken.
stand

not

of discontent,

causes

so

hardlyto

been
denied; ^and when two
and
all
other qualities
b
irth,
one
fortune,
alike,

lose.
of necessitie must
Why shouldst thou take it so
hath
familiar
It
been
?
a
thingfor thee thyself to
others.
all be

If every

might have

man

deified,
emperours,

hope suggests, unsatiable

judgement thinks fit were
chaos

in

instant,a

an

be

hath

Caesar himself

equallin

main

he

what

vously
grie-

deny

would,
vain
kings,princes
; if whatsoever
affects,our preposterous
appetite
granted,we should have another
confusion.

meer

we

It is

should

satisfaction

some

that is repelled,
that dignities,
honours,offices,
not
are
for
desert
but
ship,
friendor
worth,
love,
aftinitie,
alwayesgivenby

to him

"^
affection,
great mens

to

so

he

is

countrey
and grace
runnes

que

or
letters,

''Honours

preferred.With
man

away

us

can

with all the

or

potent friends,

more

for
('^

so

their

own

is carried

byfavour
mediatourf
get a great man
preferment. Indignissimus
plerummatter

Vatinius Catoni, iUaudatus

pr(Bfertur,

Ornantikr

old courtier observes);

(asan

to

servi dominantur

An

ing
bestowed,not accord-

in France

most part the

relates)

he that

commonly they are

as

in court are
and good conditions
vertues
mens
hath means,
as
btit,
every man

bought and sold.

be his

laudatissimo

aselli

phaleris;depbalerantur
equi.

illiteratefool sits in

mans

seat; and

the

common

people

a
electns,risit,gratularise
non
numeram
Paedaretas,in 300 Lacedaemonioram
dicens civitatem habere 300 cives se meliores.
''.Kissing
goes by favour.
honores et
secundum
non
Cj^neas Syl.de miser, curial. Dantur honores in curiis,
^ gevirtntes ; sed ut qnisqueditior est atqne potentior,
eo
magis honoratur.
lib.
2. de repub. Gallonim.
Favore apud nos et gratiaplerumque res agitur;
sellius,
et qui coramodum
aliqueranacti sunt intercessorem, aditum fere habent ^ omnes

prjefecturas.
f2

Cure

rtS

of Melancholy.
and

liolilliiiiiIi oriicd,yrnvo,
well

noies)J'or

nJicH

he that

as

dat

nan

uni

tliovsand

cIchitvcs

As

which
coaches; and ortentirnes,
wants
worlliy
Avants
a
ship; and
pilot

worhl

his

it self, a

hath

worth,

this while he is

though
knows

("Cardan

he deservrs

cannot.

frond horses
31achiavel

not

draw

ten;

Salari-

rjettan.

in carts,

not

he

to

he that could

govern

king"it) conceit,wants
man

kingdome,

rule it. A lion

he
be

wealth,
common-

to exercise

means

And
poor otTice to manage.
than is Ht to reign,cfsi careat

better

want

how

not

as

seconds, ^principes

sunt
principntu
dif/ni
;
he
that
hath
skill
to
iinployment;

that is most
a

hut

Sec. -T

virtntpm
qui oh insif/nmi

sunt,

non

thousand

.salcm.

muUis

Oil*'proj esse/ h

wisr.

rrnwnps
a

[Purt.2.

yet all

regno,
one, and
his
ahvayes
keeper,

then he that hath

'^

not

serves

keeper the lion ; and, as "^Polydore

Virgil
oh inscitiam non
hath it,wulti rer/es, ut pupilli,
regunt, sed
brave
but wanted
a
a
king-,
rerjuntur. Hieron of Syracuse was
5lacedon
had
Perseus
of
of
but
the
nothing- a king
kingdom ;
for he could not govern it: so great places
and title;
bare name
often ill bestowed, worthy persons unrespected.Many
are
the

oftentimes

but

have more
means
times too the servants
which
counts
""Epictetus
theyserve;

help it? It is an ordinarythingin these

a
unworthy,unsuffiimpudent asse, illiterate,
his
because
before
he can
betters,
preferred
put
who

But

dayesto
cient, to

can

base

see

be

himself forward, because

hath

good

fair outside,can
of friends
store

he looks

bustle in the Morld,

insinuate,or hath
collogue,
temporize,
whereas
and mony
a more
discreet,
;

big,can

shall lie hid

modest, and better deserving man

"Twas so of old, an"l ever
advised

Ulyssesin the
Accipe,qua

isstillin use;

will be, and

like

ratione queas

beg-gar.as

Lipsius.Buda^us,

have

which

pulse.
re-

Tiresias

ditescere,"c.
if not,

flatterand dissemble:
lie,

or

poet,

Erg-opauper
then go

an

then the masters

whom
nient.
eye-sore and inconve-

Cardan,

thou

as

he

concludes,

eris,

art.

liv'd and

Erasmus,
died

poor.
all those

Melancthon,
Gesner

was

old man,
baculo innixus, amongst
dinals,
huffingcarsilly
in
that
his
and
flourished
rode
time,
swellingbishops,
foot-clothes.
It
is
worth,
not
wisdom,
on
honesty,learning,

mille
occnpat, et sic apnd vulgnshnbetDr. IIIp profitetur
decern mereatur
; alius e diverse mille dignns,vis decern consequi
dedic. disput.Zeubbeo
Bondetnonlio, et Cosmo Rucelaio.
''Epibt.
"^ Lib. 22. hisl.
e Ministri
"=
et
sit
is
imperitus.
regnandi
Qiiarr. qai regnat,
' Hor. lib.2. Sat
5.
sunt iis qaibus ministratnr.
locupletiorei
"

Imperitus peritimnnus

coronatis,com
potest

nee

Mem.
that

prefers
men,

the

to

Reinedie*

7.]

tliewise

strong)but, as

vavit.

now

dying exclaim,

eras

afqvi ego

te

not

the

to

the battle

swift,nor

said,^chancp,and sometimes

man

casus

O misera

virtus ! ergo nihil quam verba

exercehatn : seel tu servicbas

lanqnnm rem
it hereafter,O my

fortunce. Beleeve

69

plernmque ridiculus mulios eledoings,as they say, which made Brutus

'Tis fortunes

fortune.

is

(the race

ridicul("iis
chance:

againstDiscontents.

friends .'^'erfue

serves

Yet

be not discouraged
(O my well deserving
spirits)
this which
1 have said : it may
be otherwise ; tliough

with

seldom, I confesse, yet sometimes

it is
But, to your farther
I'e
"^tale.
tell
In
Moronia
a
content,
pia,or Moronia
you
how
felix,I know not whether, nor
long since, nor in what
cathedrall church, a fat prebendfellvoid. The carcasse
scarce
The
first had
up in an instant.
and he was
out-bid
resolved
to

cold, many sutors were

friends,a good purse;
he would

before

man

lose

it; every

second
was
carry it. The
whose giftit was);and he
third

was

nobly born

any
he
should
supposed

man

Lord

my

(in
Bishops cliaplain

thoughtit his due

; and

he

meant

to

have

to

get

it

The

his great
his worth;

and
in chyraistry,
mysteries
other rare
he would detect to the publike
inventions,which
mended
preacher; and he was comgood. The fifth was a painfull
had
the
whole
where
dwelt
he
all
their
he
by
parish
;
hands to his certificate. The sixth was
the prebendaries
son
deceased ; his father died in debt (for
it,as theysay),left
lately
wife

newly found

it.

by

parents,patrons, and allies. The f(-ir"thstood upon

he had

rich

and

many

which
promises,

strange

The fseventh stood upon fair

poor children.
to him and his noble friends had been
formerly

for the next

made

out

place in

his

pretendedgreat losses,and

Lordshipsgift. The eighth

what

he

had

church, what
painshe had taken at home
The
besides he broughtnoble mensletters.
a

kinswoman,

and

he

his Avife to

sent

suffered
and

; and

ninth had married

for him.

sue

for the

abroad

doctor,a late convert, and wanted

a
was
eleventh would exchange for anotlier ; he did not
forrain

The

means.

tenth
The

like the formers

site,could

and fellows upon

not agree with his neighbours
he
would
be
twelfth
The
and last was
(a
;
gone.
any termes
lent
excelsuitor in conceit)a righthonest, civil,sober man,
an
in the univerlived private
scholar, and such a one
as

sitie;but
besides

he

had

he hated

neither

all such

means

courses

nor
mony
he could

to compasse
not

it ;

self,
speak for him-

he any friend3 to solicite his caus;,

fore
and theremade
no
suit,could not expect, neither did he hope for,
look after it. The good bishop,amongst a jury of compeneither had

or

Solomon, Eccles. 9. 11.

Sat.

Andream, Apolog.manip..5.apol.39.

Menip.

Tale quid est aptidValeht.

Cure

70

of Melanclwljj.

3.

yet resolved whal to do, or on

whom
accord, nieer
to bestow
njotion,
it,at the hist,of his own
it freely
and bountiful nature, oave
to the university
student,
the
altoo"ether unknown
to him but by fame; arul,to be brief,
titors,thus

perplexed,and

Sec

[Pail.2.

scholar

academical
The

was

newes

had

rejoyced,and
would

some

the

prebeiidsent him for a y)resent.

dents
publishedabroad, but all g-oodstucheered
much
wijh it,though
uo

sooner

no

not

were

it ; others,as men
amazed, said it was
amongst the rest thanked God for it,and

beleeve

not

miracle; but one

said,Munc jfivattondcm.
a

studiostfin c.s.sv,ef J)po

corde
infef/ro

You
have heard my tale;but, alas ! it is but a tale,;i
servire.
like to be; and so let it
fiction; 'twas never
meer
so, never
tune
Well, be it so then, they have wealth and honour, forrest.
and

preferment;every

no
(there's
remedy)

man

scramble as he may, and shift as he can

himself with this, the star Fomnhant

; yet Cardan
would make

-"

that ''after his decease

and

his books

nmst

ed
comforthim

should

mortally
im-

be found

in ladies studies.
'^

But

why

Dignum

shouldst

on

thou

Musa

virum

take

be thou

heart?

It may
his fathers

laude

art

vetat

mori.

thy neglect,thy
fit ; but

not

shoes,hat, head

as

canvas,

so

to

''child that puts

breeches, or
piece,brestplate,

holds his spear, but is neither able to wield the one

or
wear
the other ; so m ouldst thou doe by such an office,
place,or

magistracy: thou art unfit ;

maiiy but (as ^Salvianus
?

snoict

compares

Thou
such

auditur)thou

speakestlike
"

As

art

an

to an
diffuitji
IvAds)a f/oldrinffin

JLike

and

bad

thy
unwora

swines

actor

a kings part, but

[)lay

actest

clowne,

asse.

et quae
I^haellioii,
Magna petis,

James

is

what

(so 'Plutarch
at vox
non
tragedy,(diademaj'ort,

brute.

juen) in
wouldst

and

.)ohn,the

of

sons

non

viribus istis,
"c.

Zebedy,

did ask

they knew

ncscia ; thou dost, as another Suftetneraric,

what; ne-scis,
thou
in thine own
art wise
conceit,
fenus, overween
thyself;
not

bat

in

manage
then any
for

some

as

thou

wouldst

"

other

unfit to
judgements altogether
such a businesse.
Or be it thou art more
deserving
hath reserved thee
of thyrank, God in his providence
other fortunes: .sicSitperis
risnin. Thou art humble,
llioU
art : it may
be, hadst thou been preferred,
God and thyself,insulted over
have forgotten
others,

Stella Fomahant

more

mature

immortalitatetn dabit.

Qui indoit thoracem aut galeam,

dignitasindigno,nisi circulas anreus

""

Met

":c.

in naribii

CureofMdanchol'j.

7$

branch, if easilybended, yeeldsto ihee

hard, itbreaks:

Pul

The

familyof the
cityby that

noble

the
Eelled
ending- branch

the difference you

Coliuniii in Rome,
furious Alexander

therefore

as

?.

-2. Sec.
[I'ail.

see.

when

they were

ex-

the sixth, gave the

impress*",with tjiis motto,

an

J^lecti potest,f'rdiif/'i
7ion
potest,to

thuf ho might break

signitie

them

then) sfooj); (or they fled,

of Naples,
to the kinadome

by force,

usane,

entertained

honourably

were

make

never

so

of their hard

in the midst
and

but

Frederick

by

to tiieir calling-. (Gentleness

done

much

more

et

henevolentia

and

and

Savoy;
*=

ours

and

and he

Quo

to

hurt

not

alone
the

be

never

win

him

spirits

faciles motus
A

greater

uoble

to

soonest

so

overcome:

beast

creature,
to such as

that lies prostrate, nor

but is wfestns rnfesfis,
a

stubborn, and

are

of Emanuel

mistaken

man

mens

in

make

duke
Philibert,

itj for

capit.

gcnerosa

is soonest

pacified,

the

his

Mapes an old historiographer

of
since)that king-Edward senior,
Wales, beings
at an
interview neer
Aust

king,he

would

^went

boat, would

up

needs

his

and

did his

homage.

over

him

wisdom

thereuponwas

If thou

canst

not

to

had

triumphed over

reconciled

him,
an

{^Jorhewas

reviled and put it

up,
wilt pray tbr thine

will

man

not

offer

thee

put

and

u"

souuhl

bfessethem,

humble, "c.

injury; probns

it

imitator of

whipped and

enemies,

persecute thee; be patient, meek,

him

unto

'

win

so

im

his shonl

upon

revenge)thou

and

out

*'"''
e:ood divine,
.^f'V''
^I'J'^^i^"'
i^i
Christ,
"^

for refused

him'which

in icafer

amies

have carried

and
humilif"/

pride andfolhj;

goe

the

to

ders, adduuf thaths

nest

^J'avore

soft words

Glocestershire,and the princesent

perceiving-,

bracmg

that

verse,
per-

spirit
quicklysatisfied.

of

prince

Severn

Leolm

no

so

reported by ''Gualter
(who lived 400 yeers

come

and

might have

case

mansnescit
are

symbole

not

was

mayst

according^
king-,

quisqueest major,magis est placabilis

irfe ;

Leolin

upon

animus

the fiercest

scourge
It was

Et

It is

means

rmmanis

innocuous

elephantan

resistance.
of

by

in this

adversary

thou

lion will

''a generous
terrour

that

etiam

pacificwrath,
an

and,

be

it may

let thine

the

An

ho

vult ; if he

non

'"'"'
*'""""''"^'""' '"""="'""""""
Ter^ASr'* "v!'/"'''",i
r''"i
dementia
7-?
Glouc.
Camden,
estaquam,
hi
cymbam amplectens, sapienti.ssime
n/eaTv'LTt
et

ler.

r
"^"i\ifi.

Aaeipn.

'J

in

'

et

rex.

"uperh.am
erex,

etsap.entmtnun.phavit ineptiam; collum

.ntrab.8 terram, quam

hoH.e fecit(nam

ai.

ascende

"c.
beDignitas,

hH

smip

nM.-"..".

.as

;""

cSra.^131,,
fClirv8o^?ome
cZ

q,.od
^

Remedies

7.]

Mem.

branglingknave,

M'ere

least heart, is most

the more
insolescit,
not

'tis his fashion

tongue

do

to

where

quisquestultior,eo

quo

sottish he

so

73

is,stillthe

maqis
^i)oe

insolent.

more

is

foolaccordingto his folly. If he be thy supe^bear it by all means;

grievenot at it; let him take his
kill me, theycannot
hurt
Anytus and Melitus
may
a

answer

riour,

againstDiscontents.

"

course.
me

"

Mens
wild

made
Socrates
in like case.
that generous
answer
the
be
in piecesby
torn
inanet : though
immota
body
horses,broken on the wheel, pinchedwith fierytongs,

as

distracted.

'Tis

ordinarythingfor
to
insult,oppress, injure,
tyrannise,to
great men
and
dare
who
."Mitake what liberty
they list;
speakagainst
a miserable
a
est ab eo Icedi,
serum
queri,
thing
quo non possis
is
from
whom
of
no
'tisto be injured him,
appeal "^aud not
him
that can
and punish a man
safe to write against
prescribe
which
Asinius Pollio was
ware
at his pleasure,
of,Avhen Octhe soul

be

cannot

an

vilifieand

'Tis hard, I confesse, to be so injured;

three difficult things Uo
keep counsell,

provokedhim.

tavianus

of Chilos

one

"

but be thou patient,

:
and
spendhis time iceU,putup injuries
^
is
the Lord.
unto
leave revenge
Vengeatice mine,and I xcill
"
Lord.
I knoic, the Lord
the
saith
(saith
David) will
repay,
JVo
the
and
the
man
(as ''Plato
afflicted, judge
poor.
avenge
his adversary,as God
farther addes) can
so
severelyjninish
icillsuch

oppresse

as

miserable
ille rem

'Iterum

men.

judicatamjudicat,

Majoreque nnilcta mulctat.

any God, and that God be just,it
any religion,
the other :
shall be so ; if thou beleevest the one, beleeve
Nemesis
comes
after,sero sed serio :
erit,erit,it shall be so.
shalt
Gods
and
thou
see
justjudgement overtake
stay but a little;
If there be

him.
''

Raro

antecedentem

Deseruit

Thou

brave

pede poena

claudo.

perceivethat verified of Samuel

thysword hath made many icomen

shalt

15. 33 :
thy mother
done

scelestum

to

be childlesse

them
Suevian

amongst

they have

as

prince,came

done

to

with

other
well

Conradinus,that

preparedarmy

"" Contend
Pro.
not with a greater man.
"Pro.
facile ant tutum in eum
scribere,qoi potest proscribere.
^Non
otiam recte collocare,injuriamposse ferre,difficillimnm.
inimicum suum
bNallus tarn severe
KPsa. 140. 12.
' Arcturus, in Plant.
Deus solet miserorumjoppressores.
'

.-

1 Sam.

Agag,

childlesse ; so shall
It shall be
women.

others.
a

to

cOccidere
"^

Arcana

into

possnnt.
tacere,

fRom. 12.
ulcisci potest,qnam
_

'' Hor,

3. od. 2.

Cure

74
the

ofMelancholji.
taken

of Naples,was
kitigdoni
death

and

put

nom

Conrndini

to

in the Hower

mnii'fs,

of his

[Part.2.

prisonerhy kin";'
Charles,
littleafter
a
youth:
(ultio-

Pandnlphus Collinulius,Hist. A'eap.

Charles his own

with
lib.5. calls it.)kingsonne,
and l)eiieaded in like sort.
taken prisoner,
so
was

only,but

Sec. 3.

in ail tither oU'enccs,(ino

200

nobles,

Not

in this

p.o jntv'iqulsquoppcc(it,in

the same
kinde, in the same
head,
with
in
the
with or in the
or
eye.
eye,
with persecution,
Inst with etiects of lust: let
head, persecution
with ensiones displayed,
let drums
beat on,
theui march
on

*they shall

etnr,

he

punishedin

part, like nature;

them sack cities,

take the spoil
trumpets sound tarntanfar(i,\et
of countries,murder
infants,deflower virg^ins,
burn,
destroy,
rewarded
theyshall be fully
tyrannize;
and
that
and
to their
theirs,
they
measure,

persecute,and
the

same

generura Cercris sine ceede et

Descendunt
reges et sicca morte

"'Ad

Few
But

at

last in

desert.

sanguhiepauci
tyranni.

tyrants in their beds do die,

stab'd

or

maim'd

to

hell

theyhie.

fellow is the instrunicnt of

Oftentimes too abase contemptible
mon
to punish,to torture, and vex
Gods justice
them, as an ichneushall
be
doth a crocodile.
They
recompencedaccording
their hands, as Haman
was
hang-edon
shall h((rp sorrow
providedfor Mordochy;the]/

to the worksof

the

loweshe

of heart,

gal-

from nndrr the heaven, Thre. 3. 64, 6'5,C\Q.

destroyed
qui patitvr: and in the end
Only be thou patient:"virieit,
atid he

thou

shalt be crowned.

this;

flesh and

blood

Yea
may

not

but

'tis a

abide

hard

matter

it; ^thyrave!

do
r/rave !
to

homo ; 'tis not so

(Chrysostomereplies)
r/rave,
if, if it had been so
grievous; 'hieither had (icd commanded
it
done?
But how shall
be
Easih/,as he followes
difficult.
look
behold
thou
shalt
the beaut t/ of it,and
to
heaven,
it,if
God
hath promisedto them that jmt up injuries.But,
what
the custome
if thou resist and go about vim vi repelleie,
as
of
hast
the world
is, to rightthy self,or
of
given just cause
'tis
but
a
then,
thou
no
oflfence,
injury
condignpunishment;
much
hast deserved
te
as
a
principium
;
; in terecidit crimen,
Andjrose
as
:
quiesce,
quod n te fiit ; pecedsti
expostulates
with Cain, lib. 3. de Abel et Cain.
of Syracuse,
"^Dionysius
made
stand witliout dore ; pntienter
in his exile, was
ferniin hotiore essemus
tale quidfecimus^
ilum ;fortas8e
nos
quum
;
No

non

est

aWisd.
11.6.
bJovenal,
non
sei
qni patitur,
cApnd Christianos,
facit injuriam,
miser est.
Lfo. ser.
rtNeqne praecepisset
Dens, si grave
iiisset; sed qiiH ratione potero? facilf,si coeliinisiispexeris,
et ejuspulchritudinem,
' Valer. lib.
et quod pollicelur
4. cap. .^).
Ueus, h.c.

?|ui

Mem.

Remedies

7.]

ayainstDiscontents.

75

laid the fault where itwas, on his own

in his prosperity
he had formerly
'Tis ''TuUies axiome"
/erreea mofestissime

wiselyput itup,and
pride and scorn, which
he

shewed

others.

homhips

dehent, qnce ipsorumculpaconfracta

non

do, self

the

saying is ;

sunt

self

they may
:
look
be
to
hahet
wronged again;
wronget musca
splenem,etformiccesua bilis inest; the least flyhath
and a littlebee a sting. ''An asse
overwhelmed
a spleen,
a
have,

as

for he that doth

themselves

must

venge;
pecked his gaul'dback in rethe humble
bee in the fable flung down
the
out of Jupiterslap. Brasidas (in Plutarch)
put

nest;
thisselwarps
and

eagleseggs
his hand

thank

into

the littlebird

hurt her

nest, and

mouse

bit him

young

she

ones;

(saithhe) the7'e is no
by the finger: I see now
that ivill not be revenged. 'Tis lex
creature
so
contemptible^
all thingsso to do.
a
nd
the
of
nature
If thou wilt
talionis,
live quietly
thyself,do no wrong to others ; if any be done
thee,put it up, with patienceendure it. For ""thisis thanksaith our Apostle,if a man, for conscience towards
icorthy,
and
undeserved
God, endure f/riej',
sufferwrong
; for what
when ye be buffeted
for your foults,ye take it
praiseis it,ij\
patiently? but ij\when you do ivell,
ye suffer
wrong, and take
it patienthf,
there is thanks icith God: for hereunto verily
we
culled.
are
Qui mala non fort, ipsesibi testis est per impatientiam quod bonus non
bear injuries
witest : he that cannot
nesseth againsthimself that he is no good man,
as
'Gregory
'^

''Tisthe nature
the property oj'honest

of wicked

holds.

to
patiently

men

Improbitasnullo
wolf

The

heard would
:

good

lowes

the

in

have

mans

it):

hear them.

flectitur obsequio.

sucked

the

goat (so the

but he

kept nevertheless

knave.

Injuryis, on

shep-

wolfs

the other

ture
na-

side,

folfidusAchates,and, as a lackey,
he goes.
misera
est
Besides,
fortuna,
inimico,he is in a miserable estate, that wants enemies
wheresoever

thingnot

to be

patience

to be

endured.

Paterculus

quod aliter facerenon

by

''

it is

as
injuries,

his
foot-boy,

qua; caret
'it is a
:
of whom

emblem

will be

knave

him

to do

men

avoided,and

Cato

Censorius,

givesthat honourable
was
potuit,

his fellow citizens ;

therefore with

and,

uprightCato,
elogium,benefocit,

^oi) times endited and

as

'

more

that

Ammiauus

sed
accu-

well hath

it,

*
"= Papae ! inquit nuUain
''Camerarius,emb. 75. cen. 2.
Ep. ad Q. frat
;
animal tain pusillum
quod non cupiatulcisci.
dQuod tibifierinon vis,alteri
" 1 Pei
2.
feceris.
ne
'^Siquidemmalorum proprium est inferre
h Natnram
est injuria.
% Alciat. emb.
damna, et bonorum
pedisseqiia
to
we
come
expellasfurca licet,usque recnrret.
ifiymany indignities,
furtum, convicia,,"c.et iu iis in te admissis
dignities.Tibi subjicito
quae fiunt aliis,
k Plutarch.
excandescesEpictetus.
oon
QuinquagiesCatoni dies dicta ab
' Lib, 18.
inimicis.

2. Sec.
[Part.

of Melancholy.

Cure

76

quiset^t innocens,si clam

el

? if it
sujfficint
who shall be
a man
be sufficient to accuse
openlyor in privaf,
that
of
other rtspect then
free? If there were
no
Christianity,
and
the
induce
he
iono'
and
to
to
like,
men
sufferingreligion,
of injtiry
it self is sufficientto
yet me thinks the nature
patient,
keep them quiet the tumults,uproars, miseries,discontents,
anguish,losse,dangers,tliatattend upon it,mioht restrain the
calamities of contention
for, as it is with ordinary
gamesters,
the gainsgo to the box, so falls it out to such as contend ; the
lawyersget all; and therefore,if they would consider of it,
misfortunes
in this kind,
alir.na pericula
cautos, other mens
'The more
and common
nnght detain them.
they
experience,
in
involved
of
the
more
a labyrinth woes
contend,
they are
;
is to consume
phant
and the catastrophe
one
another, like the eleand dragons conflict in Pliny'';the dragon got under
and sucked
his blood so long,tillhe fell
the elephantsbelly,
dead upon the dragon,and killed him with the fall;so
down
'Tis an
ruin'd.
both were
hydras head, contention ; the
Praxiteles did
as
more
they strive, the more theymay ; and
by bis glass,when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in
ment
pieces;but, for that one, he saw many more as bad in a mofor one
injurydone theyprovoke another cumfcenore,
r

paidm

arrusatsn

"

"

and

twenty enemies

for

Noll irritare crahrones

one.

but, ifihou hast received

multitude

oppose

;
thyself
wrong,
tliou
of
if
consider
canst
it;
and,
thy
possibly,
wisely
compose
This
and
bear
is
the
it.
safest
self with patience
to
course;
to

not

shalt find greater ease

to be quiet.
of scoffs,
the same
slanders,contumelies,
'^Isay
libels, and
defamations, detractions, pasquilling

thou

which

tend

obloquies,
the

like,

disgrace:'tis but

opinion:
way
with
or
contemn,
them,
digest
neglect,
patience
them
that
oflered them at first.
theywould reflect disgraceon
whence, had a scold to his wife :
not
"^A wise citizen, I know
if we

may
coidd

when

she

to

any

brawled, he plaidon

hermore, because
Diogenesin a crowd, when

madded
how

the

our

boys laughed him

one

to

drum, and by that

means

that he would not be moved.

called him back, and told him

scorn,

noti
rideor^
Efjo^ iiH/nit,

was
broughtupon the stage by
his
face
to
as if it
; but he laughed,
him not ; and, as ^Eliau relates of him, whatsoever
"^oncerned
good or bad accident or fortune befel him, going in or conn'ng

took

no

notice of it.

his

shesaw

and
Aristophanes,

out, Socrates

Socrates

misused

stdl keptthe

same

countenance:

Even

so

should

" Hoc
scio pro certo,quod, si cum
stercore
vincor, senipT
certo, Vinco seu
ego
^ Lib. 8.
"^ Obloqautus est, probrumf|uc(ibi intulit
maculor.
cap. *2.
si niantiuete
tibi coroDaiu
(exueris,
qaispiam? sive vera is dizerit,sive falsa,mazimam
conricium tuleris.
dChrys.in. 6. cai". ad Rom. scr. 10.

againstDiscontents.

Remedies

7.]

3Iem.

do, as Hieroin
famam (frassariad

Chrisitlan souldier
honam

et

describes

77
him, /)er iw/a"iia7"

immortalitatem

march

on

moved:
^notbe
throughgood and bad reports to immortality,
sibi
sufficient
reward; prohitas
for honestyis a
prcemium;
to do well, is, to do
sole recompence
Avill punish itself at last : ^Improbis
well: but naughtiness
the diverb is,
as
supplicium,
nequitia

and

in

times the

our

ipsa

Qui bene fecerunt,ill!sua facta sequentur

Qui male fecerunt, facta sequentur eos.
reward

They that do well,shall have

But they that ill,shall suffer
Yea, but 1

at

last;

for that's past.

dishonoured,degraded,
ashamed, disgraced,

am

to
exploded: my notorious crimes and villanies are come
lust,abominable op(deprendimiserum 'est)
light,
my filthy
pression
and avarice lies open ; my good name's lost;my forwhiptat post,arraigned
tune'sgone
; 1 have been stigmatized,
and condemned;
I am a common
obloquy;I have lost my ears;

odious,execrable,abhorred

of God

and

Be content; 'tis

men.

drives outanother,
dayeswonder; and as one sorrow
one
passionanother,one cloud another,one rumourisexpelled
unto
new
news
our
by another ; every day almost, come
ears,
i'th'
how
the
meteors
seen
aire,monsters
was
as
sun
eclipsed,
overthrown
in Persia,
how the Turks were
born, prodigies,
an
in Helvetia, Calabria, Japan,or China, an inundation
earth-quake
in Holland, a great plague in Constantinople,
fire
a
at
such
is
made
dearth
in
a
man
a
a
Germany,
lord,a
Prage,
bishop,another hanged,deposed,prest to death, for some
all which we do hear
murder, treason, rape, theft,oppression;
but

nine

at first with

but

by

and

kind of admiration, detestation,consternation ;

by they are buried in silence: thy father's dead,
a

thy brother rob'd, wife runs mad, neighbourhath kild himfearful newes
in every mans
at first,
selfe ; 'tis heavy,gastly,
mouth, table talk ; but, after a while, who speaksor thinks of
with thee and

thine offence

gotten
: it will be forit
be
instant,
theft,rape, sodomy, murder, incest,
an
the first offender,nor
thou
shalt thou be
"c.
art
not
treason,
the last ; 'tisno wonder ; every houre such malefactors are

it.? It will be

so

in

called in

question; nothingso
Quocunque

in

common,

thy self; thou art not the

himself should flingthe
guiltless
Comfort

alone should

accuse

thee that

*Tullius,episi Dolabellse.
infaraet injariam.

*oruin

sub

populo,quocunque

were

sole

axe.

If he that

man.

first stone

at

thee, and he

how
faultless,

Tu fortisis aniino;et
Boethius,consol. lib. 4.

tua

were

many

exe-

moderatio, cODstantia,

pros. 3.

of Mvlmuhohf.

Cure

78

[Pari.2.

Sec.

3.

wniildst tliou have?

If every
niniiy accusers,
written
his
siiines
in
fore-hfad.
am!
were
i'aults
secret
mans
thousanfls ^v(Hlhl parallel,
how many
if not exceed,
known,

cutioiioiK,how

It may be, the jmloe that ij^ave sentence,

thine offence ?
the
condemned
the
that
that
thee,
spectators
gazed on thee,
jury
and were
tarre
deserved much
more,
more
guiltythan thou
is
But
it
thine
to be taken, to be made
a
infelicity
thy self.

public example of justice,to

should every
be

saint in

have

man

his

be

terror

to

the

desert,thou wouldest

comparison;vexat

yet,

perad

venture

cohimhas:

rcnmra

rest:

do twenty thousand
are
punishe"l
; the great ones
much
not
as
and are
so
spoken of.

poor souls
times worse,

rete accipitri
tenditur,nequc milvio,
Qui male faciunt nobis : illis,
qui nil faciunt, tendittir,

Non

Be

net's not

Bui

for the harmless

dismaid

not

laid for kites

The

stillour

then ; humanum

dailyand

or

birds of prey ;
ginswe la\-.

est errare

we

all sinners,

are

hourelysubject temptations
; the best of us is an
offender in Gods sight,
vid,
a grievous
Noah, Lot, Dahypocrite,
to

Peter, "c. how

mortal sins do we commit

! Shall I
many
ask
and
forgiveness, make amends by the
say, be penitent,
foul offence thou hast committed?
that
for
of
life,
sequel thy

did; for he

most

nohle

some

deboshed

as
Themistocles
exploit,
vitious youth; sed ju-

and

hut
defevit,
J'actis
prfBclaris
: at last become
by brave exploits

amends

stand

was

by

maculas

ventfe

seek

credit

thy

recover

to be

He

reformed.

made

the world

man,

new

and

tliatruns

in a battle,as Demosthenes
away
and
he
that
hath
a fall
said,may fightagain;
may
did
before
he
as
:
ever
upright

as

meliora lapsus:
desperet

*Nemo

honest man
liver may be reclaimed, and prove an
;
he that is odious in present,hissed out, an
exile,may be received
and
with
all
mens
favours,
singular
applause;so
again

wicked

in

Tullywas
then
which
vexe

No

be what
is

and
better

it,to make

Rome, Alcibiades in Athens.

it

will,quod Jit,injectum

thydisgrace

potest esse,

that

be recalled ; trouble not thy selfe,

passed cannot
Sic.
grievethy self no more, be it obloquy,disgrace.
then
to neglect,
not to regard
contemn, or seem
way,
of
it
no
reckoning
:

Deesse

if thou be

Let
von

robur

arguitdieacitas
thee not

it concerns
guiltless,

Irrita vaniloquee
quid curas
Latraotem

curatne

"Ter. Phor.

aha

linguae?
spicula
Diana

bCam^rar.

erah

canem?

fil. rpnt. 3.

80

n/ MrldHc/itilif. [P:ut.^.

Curr

thy !";elf,
though
fruit)ir irath, f'i'ioy
against thee;

posieis,not

Jhi-ihus,
my
brest-plate,
my buckler,
slanders ; I
lies,
J'ences,
receive and

so

and

break
And

spleen.

sh("rt

say with

and

contemn,

to hr

asunaW

irhich I ward

Elogvim

3.

he set

mi hi pros
my

injuries,
oj-

all

that stake oj'modesty,and

upon
all that J'oolish
force of livor

whosoever

instructions,without

him,

moved, that *m?/ Paiiadinm,

with
lean

all (ho world

Sec.

he is that shall observe

rdl

question he shall much

these
ease

benefit himself.

and

fine,if princeswould "lo justice,

judges be upright,
and
live
so
as
trulydevout,
they teach,if great
clergie-men
In

would

men

be

not

so

insolent, if souldiers would

fend
quietlyde-

would

the poor
be patient,
rich men
would
citizens
honest,
humble,
meek,
magistrates

us,

and

superiours

give good example, subjects

peaceable,young men
stand in awe;
would be kind to their children,
ifparents

w^ould
would

they again obedient

and

be liberal

to

enemies
amongst themselves,

their parents, brethren

agree
be reconciled,
servants
trustyto

virginschaste,wives modest, husbands would

and
less jealous;if we
could imitate Christ and
be loving,
live after Gods
his apostles,
laws, these mischiefs would not
their masters,

so

happen amongst
frequently

reconcileable

as

we

are,

But

us.

perverse,

beingmost part so irfactious

proud, insolent,

and malicious, prone

contention, anger and revenge, of
such fiery
so captious,
so
spirits,
inqjious,
irreligious,
opposite
to

to
men

vertue, void of grace,

are

very

teastyby

nature,

should

itotherwise

be ?

apt to mistake, apt

to

Many
quarrel,

misinterpret the worst, every thingthat

apt
their selves a great
is said or done, and thereuponheap unto
and
others
of
: smatterers
deal
in other
to
trouble,
disquietness
tale
bearers,
whisperers,
mens
lyers,they cannot
matters,
to

provokeand

how

speak in

season,

or

to

hold their tongues when

theyshould,^et

aliena est oratio ; they will

suam
partem itidem tacere, cum
then comes
to their share, in all companies, and
speak more
accumulate
much
evil to their own
souls,
by those bad courses

(qni contendit^sibi convicium facit) their life is a perpetual

with their \vives,
children,
braul, theysnarl like so many tlogs,
and
all
of
tiieir
the
rest
friends;
theycan
servants, neighbours,
But to such as are judicious,
meek, subagree with no body.
and
r
emedied:
these matters
are
theywill
miss,
quiet,
easily
take no
contemn,
or
iorbear upon all such occasions, neglect,
it olF. If it be a n.inotice of them, dissemble,
or wiselyturn

"Ringantnr licet,et maledicatit; Palladium

illnd pectori|oppono. Non

conaisto ; raodestiaeveluti sadi iunitens,

excipiodfrangostuitissimum
b Mil. glor.Act. .3.
Pntftan. lib.2. epist 58.
Plautos.]

inoveri

impetum livorii.

Mem.

Reiued'ies

7.]

againstDiscoiifoih.

81

impcdimenr,as a red nof^e, squinteyes, crooked legs,or

the best
such imperfection,
infirmity,
disgrace,
reproach,
is to speak of it first thy ^self,and so thou shall surely

tural
any

way
take away

all occasions

scoffe

to

at

his

deformed

own

to

when

be

not

amiss

companion;

saucy

purchase final

by prevention,

times
bychatice.And somemoderatelydone,

take down

resistance,
to

means

vindicate

for he that suffers himself

peace:

was

of fine glasses
company
lest he should be overmuch

to

better

no

that

and
discreetly

make

to

else

or

broken

they were

that it be

again,so
shall

contemn,
Vatinius

feet,to prevent his enemies

in that kind
obloquiesand sarcasms
as
Cotys,king of Thrace, that brake a
hands,
presentedto him, by his own
moved

jestat, or

careless of it.

perceivetiiee to be

they may
wont

others

from

it

such

himself,to
to be ridden,

or
sottishness,will let every man
throughpusillanimity
bafile him, shall be a common
laughingstock for all to flout
As a cur
that goes through a village,
if he claphis taile
at.
will insult over
between
his legs,and run
cur
away,
every
him:
but if he bristle up himself,and stand to it,give but a
countersnarle,there's not adog dares meddle with him ; much
of himself.
and discreet carriage
is in a mans
courage
which
there
other
happen to mortals
are,
Many
grievances
or

friends,wives, children, servants, masters,

own
our
defaults,ignorance,
errours,
companions,neighbours,
"c. and many good reindiscretion,
infirmities,
medies
intemperance,
and oppose
divine
to mitigate
them, many
precepts to
antidotes
both
in
our
hearts,
scriptures
special
counterpoise
in this

and

life,from

autliors,which

humane
much

few.

known
himself
the

and

ease

Those

so

quietnessunto

will observe, shall

chase
purhimself.
I will pointat

admonitions
apostolical
prophetical,

all ; what

to

who

Solomon,

Siracides,our

well

are

Saviour

Christ

tendingto this purpose, -as Fear God: obey

be sober and tcatch : pray cantinualli/
: be angry,
remember
thy last : fashionnot your selves to this

hath said

prince:

but sin not

selves to the times : strive not with a

mightyman : recompence good for evil : let nothingbe done
but tvith meekness of mind,
throughcontention or vain-glory,

world, Sfc. appjlyyour

every man
another ;
our

or

that

others better

epitome

of the law

then
and

you,so

do unto
used

gold, and

himself:love one
which
prophets,
all,thy neighbouras

inculcates,love God above

and, whatsoever you would that

Saviour

thyself
;

of
esteeming

Alexander
them,xf\i\c\\
as

motto,

and

the

men

Severus

''Hierom

should

do

unto

writ in letters of

commends

to

Ce-

^iBion said his father was

his mother a whore, to prevent obloquy,and to
a rogue,
^ Lib. '1.
shew that nought belonged to him but goods of the mind.
ep. 25.

CiireofMelitmhulii.

S2
lantia

excellent

[Part.2.

Soc. 3.

inticcnienfs and
many
her
Out
of Inunane aulite.
worldly provocations, rectify
thors
an

ns

aniong-sJso

way,

to

take these few cautions

with

lot.

thy

Trust

'^

n-ill briny thee

icar

of'' Had

J'riends.Be
et poculis.
Hear

much

thy self. Be contented

nor
wealthy beauty,
parasites: they

not

to destruction.

vice.

with

"^

not idle.

Be

''

f wist."

^Ilave
^

Look

Watch

thine

'

eye.
Sustitie
it in

bablers
tale-tellers,

to

et

secrets;

jest tcithout bitterness

be

Ij'thouseest

''Take

thine

man

oion

intentions.

scurrilous

not

yive no

in order.

Set thine house

thine expences.

abstine.

be silent in thine

^Give

thy

Moderate

thyself. Keep

not

all men,
ware
leap. ^Be-

before you

''

another^ mend

in

ear

with

peace

Honour

counsel; reveal
not

thyparents : speak icellof

loculis,
oculis,
ling-ua,
temperate infoure thinys,
speak little.

ought amiss

Know

'^

"

cause

in

versation:
con-

of offence.

heed

of snretiship.
fox on theice,take heed whom you trust.
V Lice
Give chear fully. Pay thy
not
beyond thy means.
dues wilUnyly. Be not a slave to thy mony.
Omit not occasion
loose
time:
embrace
Be
humble
no
to
opportunity
;
;
thy
to thine equals,
to all, but not fasuperiors,
respective
affable
miliar.
Flatter no man.
Lie not : dissemble not.
Keep thy
and promise,be constant
in a yood resolution.
word
Speak
maintain
truth.
Be
not
:
no
factions. Lay no
opinutive
make
Find
no faults, meddle
no
:
not
comparisons.
wayers
Admire
with other mens
matters.
not thyself. Be not proud
Insult
Fortunamreverenter
babe.
not.
''Fear
or popular.
"

Fide

et diffide

as

"^

""'

not

that which
he

cannot

man,

recalled.

commend

cause.

friend.

cannot

Take

"

Undervalue

not

rashly.

man,

no

Strive

he avoided.
^

not

heed

with

of

Go

greater

reconciled

Grieve

for that which

thy self. Accuse no

not

man.

enemy.

to

not

laic tcithout great

not
offan old

Cast
""

If thou

come

as

c Ne
fidas opibns,neqne parasitis
:
hominibiis habe, belliim cum
Paeem
cum
vitiis.
e Daemon
te nunqiiam
otiosuin inveniaf. HieroD.
Otho. 2. inipeiat.
symb.
f Dill deliberandum, quod stataendam
est dicere, non
est semel.
S Insipientis
'' Ames
parentem, si teqnum ; aliterferas ; prjpstesparentibas
pntaram.

^ Conlentus
aNosce
teipsum.
thahunt in praecipitium.

abi.

"^

' Coniprinielinguatn. Quid de

viro
quoque
k
Libenfius
audias
iit vivas.
Vive
loquaris.
Epicqiiam
saipe
in alio reprehendis.iNemini dixerisqnas
nolis
tetus.
Optime feceris,si ea fiifjerisqiia
'
"' Sint sales
"c.
Fercontatorem
efferri.
fugito,
Fuge susurrones.
"
oCainerar.
emb. 55. cent 2.
Sponde, pra,'sto
noxa.
sine vilitate. Sen.
P'l'ecum
fidas. Epicharmns.
habita.
vel
neniini
qBis
Cave cui credas,
" Nimia
^ Post
famiiiaritas paritconest occasio calva.
dat, qui cito dat.
"Arcanum
"Mendacium
senile vitium.
neque tu scrutaberis
temptuni.
1.
lib.
Nee tua jaudahis studia,
Hor.
Comraissnmque
teges.
:
ulliiisunqaam
ep. 19.
"
fse te quasiverisextra.
^Stultum
aut aliena rcprendes. Hor. ep. lib.18.
y De
re amissa
doleas.
irreparabili
ne
potest.
est timere, quod vitari non
" Nnllias
cito laudes vel accuses.
'Tanti eris aliis,
qaantitibi fueria. Neminem

pietatem,amicis dilectionem.
et cui dicas

raveto,

hospitisiprataest

mora

longa.

Mem.

Unnedies

8.}

Discontents.
aijainst

loiuf. Be

83

ciful.^
unthankful. Be meek, merallBe
not
patient.
good
fond of fair
words.
in a faction.Moderate
Be not a newter
thypassions.
Think no placeicithout a witness.
jJdmonish thyfriend in
him in publike. Keep good company.
^Love
secret; commend
Amiothers,to be beloved thy self. A ma, tanquam osurus.

f/uest,
stay

too

not

not

Do

and

to

"^

"^

nistardofias.
J)o

Provide

for a tempest. Noiiirritare crabrones.

not
a fool of thtf
for gain. Make
old
not
an
Marry
merry.
crony, or a fool,

prostitute
thy soul

not

self,to

make

others

for

Be not over
mony.
be
found. Seem
may

solicitous

curious.

Seek that which

thou
Take thy
not
art.
greater then
Live
terito.
as
pleasuresoberly.Ocyiuum ne
merrilyas thou
^
Take
heed by other mens
canst.
examples. Go as thou
or

" Yield
tcouldst be met : sit as thou wouldst be found.
to the
time ; folloivthe stream.
Wilt thou live freefrom fears and
^ Live
cares?
innocently,
keep thy s^f upright; thou needest

in Isocrates, Seneca,
keeper,S^^c. Look for more
for
"c. and,
Plutarch,Epictetus,
defect,consult with cheese-

no

other

trenchers and

paintedcloths.
MEMB.

VIII.

jj gainstMelancholy it
Every

ma?i,saith 'Seneca, thinks his

sorrow,

other

are

not

burthen the heaviest;

own

all

others, complains
melancholyman,
and light,
all
of life,
fear,
abhorring company
suspicion,anguish of niind,basljfuiness,and those
dread symptomes of body and
mind, must needs aggravate
other maladies, they
conferred
to
this misery ; yet,
and

most;

self.

above

weariness

so

hainous

as

they be

this disease
For, first,

taken.

curable or incurable.
disposition,
it
and
'tis commonly pleasant,
and
in disposition,
helped. If inveterate, or an habit, yet tboy have
is either in habit

or

well, and

intervalla, sometimes

continuate,as the

magis assiduus

"^

quam

Vejenteswere
gravis,a more

and, amongst

many

il! ;

sometimes
to

the

or

Romans,

durable

enemy

inconveniences,

some

If

new

may be
lucida
if

more

'tis hostis

then dangerous;
comforts

^ Nullum
locum prites
lib.2. cap. 12.
Gellitis,
Solonis lex, apud Aristotelem.
lauda
= Secrete
ainicos
admone,
palam.
adesse
Deum
cogita.
sine teste : semper
Eros et Anteros gemelliVeneris, amatio et redamatio.
dUtameris, amabilis esto,
'^Id apprime in vita utile,
eDum
fata sinunt,vivite lasti. Seneca.
Plat.
furor in cursu, currenti
sDum
siet.
Ter.
sibi
ex
usu
aliis
observare
quod
ex
Crete.
Cretizandum cum
Temporibusservi,nee contra flamina flato.
cede forori.
mnniraento non egere.
h Nulla certior custodia
innocentia : inexpugnabilemunimentum
a

' ITnicuiqiie
snnm

onus

intolerabile videtur.

Livius.
G

Curi'ofMelanvhohf.

8i
annoxoi]

arc

it.

to

ami,
First,it is not oatcliini;";

conilortcilhimself,wiicn he

llioughit was
him, yet

whit

no

Src. 3.

Erasmus

as

sick of the stone,

grievously
troublesome, and an intolerable painto

most

it was

[Part.2.

was

otfensive

loathsome

others, not

to

to

fulsom,terrible, as
oastly,
spectators,

planues,apoplexies,
hprosios,wounds, sores, tetters,])ox, pestilent
agues
are,
which either admit of no company,
offend those that
or
terrify
selves
are
present. In this malady,that which is.is whollyto themnot so dreadful, if theybe compared
; and those symptomcs
extreams.
to the opposite
They art; most part bashful,
therefore
such ambitious, impudent
Sec.
no
solitary,
suspicious,
tiie

sharkers, no cunnicatchers,no prosome

as
intruders,
are, no
ards,
lers,no smel-feasts,
bawds, drunkparasites,
praters,panders,
whoremastcrs

honest;

as

told Demea

Micio

Non

be

if we

bad

as

kept us

so

tu

Besides

as

deerat

theyare

nos:

us

so

if we

melancholy
dame

choly
Melan-

sed facultas.

voluntas

freed in this from

them

makes

fecimus,

that is worst, 'tis our

he

to be

Non

which

in the

honest, 'twas poverty made

be not

men

compelsthem
comedy,

defect

si neque ego neque

sinit egestas facere

Hsec

and
necessity

more

humour

is

apt

to

many

other

litariness
soinfirmities;

contemplate,
suspition
wary,
times; ^nuni, pot, qui

in these

a
necessary
caret, sccpe is cantor
captus: est : he that takes most
and overtaken.
Fear and sorrow
isoften circumvented

maxinie

heed,

keep

them

temperate and sober, and

jollityand

dissolute acts, which

they are therefore no

them

free

boldness

thrust

from
men

A/car??,
roaringboyes,theeves,or

many
upon

sinates.
assas-

they are soon dejected,so they are as soon, by

reared.
Wearisomness
of
good perswasions,
life makes
them they are not so besotted on the transitory
vain
If they dote in one
of the world.
pleasures
thing,they are
in most other. If itbe inveterate,
Avise and well understanding
most
or
quitemad, insensible
they are inseiisati,
part doting,
of any wrongs,
ridiculous to others,but most
cure
happy and semuch
themselves.
is
which
to
Dotage a state
many
magis simplicity,
nifie and commend
and folly,
he
so
as
said,
As

soft words

and

'^Hic furor,0

Some

think fools and

Superi,sit milu perpetuus.

disards live the merriest

Sophocles;niliiI scire vita

life to know
ignoranceis a

iners malorum

nothing;
down-rightremedy

"Tfr. Seen. 2. Adelph.

as
lives,
Ajax in

jucundissima; 'tisthe
remedium

of evils. These

'"Plautiis.

pleasantest
irfnorantia
;
curious

Petronius, Catal.

arts

1. Subs.

Mem.
and
do

Medicinall

1.]

Physick.

85

sciences, Galens,Tullies,
Aristotles,
Justiiiians,
the world, some
think; we might live better

laborious

but trouble

that illiterate Virginian

and gross ignorance;
simplicity,
ideots
do
with cares, tornot
macerated
entire
mented
best; they are
with

as other wise men

are:
for,as
anxiety,
*he said,if folly
a pain,
were
you should hear them houl,roar,
and cry out in every house, as you go by in the street; but
tries,
counthey are most free,jocund,and merry, and, in some

with

fears and

*"

the Turks, honoured

out of the common

amongst

as

maintained

for saints,and
stock.
They

dissemblers,lyers,
hypocrities
; for fools and
truth.

commonly
theypitied;which

In

merry,
be
to
riuf/i^

et

sapere
miserable

then

word,
hold

some

then

to be sad

happy :

"

of

MEMB.

better then

extremes

two

and
things,
in

men

distressed,so
to be

no

tell
are

envied,better

it is the best.

IV.

SUBSECT.

I.

Oj'Physick,ichich
alongand

they

are

are

better to be foolish and

quiet,quam
wise and
still vexed ; better to be

SECT.

After

as

mad

dantly
abun-

1.

curetJi icith Medicines.

tedious discourse of thesesixnon-naturall

their severall rectiHcations,

all which are
hended
compreI
last
to Phai'macentice,or
at
come
now
diet, am

that kind of

physickwhich

curetli

by medicines, which apothecaries

sell
in
their
most
or
make,
shops.
mingle,
part
and hold it unnecessary,
Many cavill at this kinde of physick,
those counto this or any oiher disease, because
tries
unprofitable
which use
and are best in health,
it least, live longest,
'^Hector Boethius relates of the isles of Orcades, the people
as
stillsound of body and minde, without any use of physick;
are
theylive commonly 120 yeers; and Ortelius,in his Itinerary,
of the inhabitants of the forrest of Ardeu, ''they
are
full,
very painMartianus
sound, Sj-c.
long-lived,
Capella,speaking of
the Indians of his time, saith,
theywere (much like our Avestern
Indians now) biggerthen ordinary
men,
hredcoursly,
very long
'

domo ejulatus
="Panneno
Act. 8.
Si stultitiadolor esset,in nulla non
Caelestinae,
c Q"ishodie beatior,qaam
audires.
bBusbequlus. Sands, lib. 1. fol.89.
dLib. Hist.
cui licetstnltum esse, et eorundatn immunitatibus frui? Sat. Menip.
fLib. 6.
vivunt.
*'Parvo viventes,laboriosi,longEevi,
suo
contenti,ad centum annos
iitimmature
deNup. Philol. Ultra humanam
pejeat qui centenafragilitatem
prolixi,
rius moriatur, "c.

[Part.'2..Sor. 4.

of Melaiichohf.

Cure

86

lived,in so inuc/i,that he that died at an hundred ifears of arjc,

l)aiiiiaiiu*"
A-Goes, Saxo Grarnriiaxcent heforehis time, tVr.
way,
theliko oftliem that live in Norall
Scandia.
over
Lapland, Finniark, Bianiiia,Corelia,

ticus,Aul"anus

northern

those

and

Bolieimis,
say

long-lived in
:

very

countries, they
which

places(here

healthful!,and

most

are

is

at

use

no

all ofphy-

DithinarusBleskenius,
of Island, IGOT, makes
in his accurate
mention,
description
and
of
their
the
other
manner
inhabitaiits,
matters,
among-st
of livinji;",
which is dried jish in stead of bread, butter,cheese^
sick,the

of itis not

name

heard.

once

"^

yet without physickor

I finde the same
yeers.

; anil
thejidrink icater and xcheij
live
them
250
they
of
physician,
many
relation by Lerius, and some
other

writers,of Indians

America.

salt meats

and

most

part

in

and
of Ikittain,
of

this

island, that there

our

''Paulus

scription
Jovius, in his deobserve
much
f.emnius,
as

Levinus

us, antl but little at this

anionost

of old

was

no

of

use

day, except

it be

physick

for

few

nice idle citizens,suri'eiting

courtiers,and stall-fed gentlemen
The country peopleuse kitchen physick; and common
live
freest
from
tells
that
all
manner
us,
they
experience

lubbers.

of
least u^e
of infirmities,that make
by preposterous
3Iany are overthrown

get their biuie,that

thiuk

might

kill as
physicians
^

otherwise

many

Quot Themison

as

eegros

apothecaries
physick.
of it, and tliereby
use
have
escaped ''some
:

theysave
autumno

and

occiderit

who
uno

tell,

can

how

murders
they make in a yeer, (piibus
impune,licet
many
hominem
kill folks,and have a reward
occidere,that m;".yfreely
for it ? and,
havea
must

Dutch proverb,
to the
a new
accordingphysician
new
church-yard;and who dailyobserves it not?
thatdid
ill
under
hands,have happily
3Iany,
physicians
escaped,
left
when
God
have
been
and Nature,
them,
to
over
they
by
given
and themselves.
'Twas Plinies dilemma of old
Every
disease is either curable or incurable,a man
is
or
recovers
oj'it,
killed by it : both wayes physickis to be rejected:
be
ly,
deadit
if
it repuires
it cannot
be helped,
be cured; if it may
no physician
it of it selfe. Plato made
will expell
: nature
itagreat
sign of an intemperateand corrupt conuuonwealth, where
distasted
did abound
lawyersand physicians
; and the Romans
them so nuich, that theywere
often banished out of their city.
"^

"

'

Victus

eonnn

complex.

ft larip ronsi":tit:potiis
; piscps loco panis haaqiin t't serum
''Lib de 4.
absque tiiediro pt medicina "ivunt
saepe "2.'"0.
Per niortes agiint experiDienta,
neeotiantur; et quo"l
et anicuas nustras
caseo

bent; ita multos

"^

annos,

aJiiscxiHale hominumocridere, iisimpMiiitassnniHia.

Fliniiis'
roorbos lethalis aiit curabilis: JD \i"am d"sip)" ant in mortem.

wcf^nnn.
ndtina

)nij()Ii);
si
letbaib,ruiaxi

exfif

Uet.

iicn

"'Juven.

Oninis

I'troquei^tur roodo
medicum
requirit
;
potest: si curabilw, noD

Cure

88

qinvn

morbo

danoer

periculi
; more

malice

[Part.2.

fVoiii t]"edisease.

then
siciar),
and

of Melancholy

Besides, tliere

tliem.

amonost

thore is from

.^//

Sec. 4.

the

pliy-

is iniicliimposture

(saith''Cardan)

arts

the rrst, doth

priate
approtells a story of one
Curtius,a pliysihe was
cian in Venice, because
a
straniior, and
])rartise"l
did stillcrosse
him in
them, the rest of the physicians
amourshe
his
If
h
ot
all
prescribed medicines,theywould
precepts.
admif

ofconzeuitif/
; physick amotufst
and
herseff;

it to

prescribecold; misceutes pro calidis fric/icia,

pro friqidis
binders for puroatives,
h"niida,pro pwrjautibiis
astrinr/entia,
If the parties
omnia pprtiirbabant.
miscarried, Cartiinn damvabaiit ; Cnrtius killed him, tliat disagreed
from them
if he
cured him themselves.
JMuch emulation,
recovered, then ''they
imposture,rardice,there is amongst them: if they be honest,
and mean
that administers
the
well, yet a knave apothecary,
the
and
makes
do
infinite
medicine,
harm, by his
physick,
may
old obsolete doses,adulterine druggs,bad mixtures, quid
pro
:

quo,

Fuchsius, lib.

Sfc. See
and

Brassivolas

ignorance that

doth

1. cap. 8. Cordus
pensatory,
DisBut
it
is
their
simpl.dic.

I. sect.

Examen

harm

more

then

rashness

their

is

art

and
wholly conjecturall
(ifit bean art),uncertain, imperfect,
kind
of
of
butchers, leeches,
they are a
got by killing men:
and
men
that
apothecaries
slayers;chirurgeons
especially,
indeed the physicians
and common
are
hang-men, carnijiccs,
executioners;
though, to say truth, physiciansthemselves
behinde
far
not
come
; for,accordingto that facete epigTamof
what's the difference?
MaximilianusUrentius,

Chirurgusmedico

quo (lifFert? scilicetisto,

ille manu.
hie succis ; eiiecat

Enecat

Carnifice hoc
Tardius

But
at

1 return

hi

ambo

tantum

differe videnlur:

faciunt,quod facit illecite.

their skill.

Many diseases they cannot

all,as apoplexie,
stone, strangury, gout,
epilepsie,
to

nodosam
(Tollere

quartan agues;

they cannot
it.

If

common

much

ague

as

ease,

podagrani)

sometimes

they know

stumbles
not

how

them
to

all;

judge of

that doctiine
pulses,

some
hold, is whollysuperstitions
with
Andrew
Dudeth, that vaboldlysay
riety
describrd. by Galett,is neither observed nor
piihr/s,

by

; and

of

so

nescit medicina

cure

vnderfitood

I dare

of any.

"^

And

ior

urine,that

is merctrix

niedicornm,

^ Lib. 3. de
(Tnines artes fraudem
admittunt ; sola medicina sponte earn
sap.
acbOrauis sgrotus propriaculpaperil;sed nemo
cersit.
nisi medici beneficio
^ Lib. 3. Crat.
restituitiir. Agrjppa.
Ausim
ep. VVinreslao Raphamo.
dicere,

diflfrentias,qua
(r.tpiilsDUni
r\ari jmsje.
3

describuntiira Oalpno, n*T

quoquam

ohnee
intelligi,

other
thing'of a3!, as Forestus and some
provedat large:1 say nothingof critickdayes,

deceitful

the most

have
physicians

The most
rational! of them, and
indications,"c.
that
''Tholosanus infers,I
often deceived,
as
so

and

errours

are
skilful!,

beleeve and
doctor
meer

rather

had
then

to

commit
I

and

selfeto

my

emperick^
commend
svjfflcienily
have no professedphysicians,

cannot

which

other

of many

Bohemus,

Aubanus

that

meer

of the Babylonians; that

to the market
to he cured;
hring all their patients
relates of the il^gyplians;
Strabo, Sardus,
Herodotus

that custome
but
and

80

Phijsick.

Medicinall

I.]

1. Subs.

Mem.

prescribedphysickamongst them,

take

them

upon

serve

the

lower

diseases,as

did not

our

second the

And

those

arrogantly
do, but
professours

their skill and

as

cured the eyes ;

one

another

all

another,

some

one,

some

to cure

nations.
so

experience did

teeth,a third the head^

parts, 6^-c.not for gain, but

in

to
charity,

trade of it,
nor
good ; they made neither art, profession,
and
therefore
accustomed:
which in other placesuas
Cambyhis
to
told
that,
Cyrus,
thinking,
ses
physicians
(in Xenophon)
and coblers ; the one
mended
sick
like taylers
onr
were
do

"

the other did

bodies,as

and
velling-

contumelious

physicianshould
sick: for my
the
distinguish

am

our

mistake

part,1

am

cloaths.

But

arguments

I will urge

no

these

farther,lest

ca-

some

and

me,

well

deny me physick when I

perswaded of physick: I can

from the use, in this and many

other
abuse
^
Aliud
:
vinum, aliud ehrietas ; wine and
arts and sciences
distinct things. I acknowledge it a
two
drunkennesse
are
that Apollo,
and divine science, in so much
tEscuof it,merito pro Diis habiti,
and the first founders
lapius,
counted gods by succeedingages, for the excellency
were
worthily
noble

most

Apolloat Delos,Venus
at Ephesus,and those other gods,were
fined
conat Cyprus,Diana
and adored alone in some
peculiarplaces,yEsculapius
altars
had his temple and
everywhere,in Corinth,Lacedaefor
records)
Athens, Thebes, Epidaure,"c. (Pausanias
mon,
worth, and necessity.With all
the latitude of his art, deity,
of their invention.

vertuous
as

hath
not

wise

am

enjoyned

men,

therefore,I honour

The

the

the

name

the

for
physician
physicianlifteth
up

to honour

knowledye of
in the siyhtof great men
created medicines of the

sake.
and

and

whereas

And

he shall be admired.

and calling,
necessities
his head
The

Lord

earth ; and he that is icise will

abhorre them, Eccles. 58. 1. But of this noble subjecthow

Mallem
Lib. '28. cap. 7. syntax, art. mirab.
ego expertiscredere solum, quaru
institutum
satis laudare possum
Babylonicum, "c.
ratiocinantibus : neque
*" Herod.
sunt singulimedici,
Euterpe, de .^gyptiis.Apud eos singulorum morbornm
c
alius curat oculos, alius dentes, alius caput, partes occultas alius.
Cyrop.lib.1.
^
Chrys. hom.
Velut vestium fractarum lesarcinatores,"c.
a

mere

[Part.2.

of Melancholy,

Cure,

00

For

"ri(ton?
are
wortliily
j)-mo"iyricks

many

Sec.

Sal-

part, as

my

4.

Carthage, pncftat s'llcre,"/uam paiicn d'tcere ; I

said
have
thing 1 will addc, that this kind of phyyet one
sick is very
moderately and advisedly to be used, upon good
the forujcr of diet will not
take place. And
occasion, when
s:ii"l of

Inst

'tis

which

other

no

in h is 8

ph oris
to expella

"

endeavour

and

medicine

must

meddle

not

and

dest

Arnoldus
I say, then thatwhich
prescribes
'"'A discrpet and ffoodlif
p/n/siciandoth first

n-ise

disease

ninth,

his

in

he

(as

that

phys^ick. So
physician icill never

nryent
upon
in his 13.
he addes

be

may

in

icith

to

Whoso

pure

by diety
''A

mO'

medicines,

use

sparingly

"^

Aphoris.)

aired

Aphoris,

11.

hasten

that

necessity,and

but

dyet,then hy

hi/ medicinall

too

because

takes

ever

much

beicail it in his old

youth, shall soo7i
aye;
which
doth
much
debilitate
ture.
napurgativephysick especially,
refrain
from
which
the
For
some
physicians
causes,
Henricus
else
of
sparingly use them.
purgatives,or
Ayuse
Mould
consultation
of
have
in
a
melancholy person,
a
rerus,

physick

in

his

'-'

take

him

few

as

medicines, which
the

rob

parts of

body,

onr
"^

which

cacochymia,
gestion, and

steal

Celsus

there

could, because

he

as

purges
do not

away
iceaken
and

of

some

others

such

no

strength,and

our

and

nature

be

that

cause

observe,

or

ill de-

juyce through all the ])artsofit. Galen

himself
confesseth, ^that purgative physick is contrary to
and consumes
the
takes away
some
of our best spirits,
nature,
this without
bodies : but
substance
question, is
of onr
very
of such

understood

be

to

bad

taken
w

ell

as

most

they

other

moderatel
as
are
unseasonably or impurges
in this as
their excellent
have
use
alteratives

Of

infirmities.

and

cordials

I will,
they simples or compounds.
I finde
in
amongst that infinite variety of medicines, which
Pharmacopoeia, every physician, herbalist, "c. single
every
no

man

doubts,

out

some

of the

"

Prndens

et

be

chiefest.

pius medicus

ante expellere satagitcibis medicinalibus, qaara

Cuicunque potest per alitnenta restitui sanitas, fugiendus

morbum
""

purjsmedirinis.

tnedicamentonim.
peiiitususus
properabit ad pharniaciam, nisi cogeule

""

est

in jiiventute, defkbit in senectute.

roedicina purgans,
est ferme

Nulla

'Lib.

deprfedatar.
Omne

purgans

medicamentnni,

abdncit^ substantiam

qiivc

Alodestiis

non

sapiens medicus

nunquam

Quicunqne pharmacatur
c Hildesh.
spic. 2. de inel. fol. 276.
aliquam de viribus et partibus corporis

1. et Bart. lib. 1. cap.

corpori purgato

corporis aufert.

et

'^

necessitate.

12.

contrariuin. Sec.

t.2 de
succos

vict
et

acut.

spiritus

Mem.

Mediduall

].Subs.2.]

II.

SUBSECT.

Simplesproper

to

91

Phtjsick.

Melancholy againstExotick

Simples.

ItIeDICINES
properlyappliedto melancholy,are either
teratives
or
simple compound. Simplesare alterative purgative.Alsuch as correct, strengthen
are
nature, alter,anyway
hinder or resist the disease: and they be herbs, stones, minerals,
"c.all proper

For

for this humour.

as

there be diverse

distinct infirmities continually

us,
vexing-

Shjto/o""
(ptfovaxt

AfTo/xaTot (poiTuai,X.XKCC

steal both

Diseases

Jupiterhath

For
so

there be severall

day

taken

and

nighton
^

remedies,as

medicine; J'orevery humour; and,

every country, and
his proper remedies

more

then

men,

them:

voice from

saith,/or each disease a

some
hold, every clime,

he
as

that,every private
place,bath

growing in

almost
it,peculiar

to

the do-

frequentmaladies of it. As ''one disin Italy because most

courseth, Wormicood
growes sparingly
hot
he
with
diseases ; but henbane,
misaffected
part there they
and
n"ineering

most

great

such cold herbs

and

poppy,

in every
oj'it

store

BaptistaPorta
instances

and

For that

cause,

^ichen

he

did groic
silver
a
occasion
northern

Germany and Poland,

and
Baracellus (Horto geniali)

tvith

icast.

us

in

lib. 6. cap. 23) gave many

(Physiognoniic(e,
and
of
bringmany other proofes.
examples it,

belike, that learned

Fuchsius

of

Noremberge,

considered ahvayes lehat herbs

village,
it ; and those he distilledin
about
most
frequently
of others amongst
them, as
limbeck, making use
of opinion,
that many
served.
I know
are
our
well
not so
concocted,
simplesare weak, unperfect,
came

into

of such

force, as

be used

in

off" sena,

those

physick,and

cassia out

of

in the

southerne

will therefore

parts,not

so

fit to

fetch their

^Egypt,rubarbe

from

drugs a far
Barbary,aloes

fa Heurnius, prsef.
sunt idecc,
tot
pra. med. Quot morborum
med.
c Penottas, denar.
variis potentiis
decorata.
absynthium
Qnaecanqueregio prodacitsimplicia,
pro morbis regionis. Crescit raro
et herb"
in Italia,
frigidae
quod ibi plerumque morbi calidi,sed cicnta,
; apud
papaver,
"* Qunm
in villam
Grermanos et Polonos ubique provenitabsynthium.
no8
et iis plevenit,consideravit qnae ibi rreacebant mediramenta
simpliciafrequentiora,
usns
et aliter,
alimbiectiin idfo argcutcum circumiereDS.
runque
distiliatis,
" Hesiod.
op.
remediorum
genera

of Melancholy.

Cure

92
from

Zocotora;

from

the

far

Sec. 4.

miraboJanes, herinodaotils
turbith,ag-arick,
Indies, tabacco

East

China, hellebor

as

[Part.2.

the West, and some

as
the Anticync, or that of Austria

from

from

iMathiobjs so much
Avhich bears the purpleHower, which
proves,
apand so of the rest.
In the kingdome of Valence in
commends

Spain, Maginus
Renagolosa,famous
'^

mountain
to

the

near

lake

wiii( h all the

and
mountains, Mariola
Albertus, Baldus,

two

simples;''Leander

for

of

Benacus

of Verona,
territory
country
continually

in the

herbalists in the

in Apulia,Munster
Mons
flock; Ortelius one
Major in llisin France.
tria;others Montpelier
ProsperAlpinuspreferres
Horto
ab
Indian before the rest,
Garcias
simples,
Egyptian

those of

another

Crete, "c.
Italy,

Many

times

they are

over-

Fuchsius taxeth (Instit.

I. 1. sec. 1.
curious in this kind, whom
'^ that f /link the
rake
all
except theij
jf doe nothinf/,
cap.l),

India, Arabia,

over

for remedies, andj'etchtheir

^Ethiopia,
yond
of the rcorld,and from be-

physickfrom the three quarters

the Garamantes,
Many an
icith

old

icifeor country

kmnrn

woman

and

common
few
yarden
with
their
all
physicians,
prodigious,
medicines.
out
Withconjectnrall
f
ar-fetched,
rare,
stimptnoiis,
if
have
these
exotick
all question we
not
rare
we
simples,

doth

yood

often more

herbs, then

hold that

which

as

well

is in vertue
epuivalentunto them :
if theybe taken in proportiontheirs,
able

as

fitted and
quantity,

and

more

part,

as

is

neer

that

tvhich

scarce

no

and

to

Gallus, ^ive

follow that

%cill travell and

we

or

proper
Plinywrites

qualified
aright,if not

constitutions.

to our

us,

bombast

at home

illserve

ours

our

sail

is under

offend; with

us

which

eyes.
small

so

much

better,

'tisfor the

careless

of that

to
afarreoff,

beyond the seas,

our

in

is

are

But

know

most

which
ichich

wholly neylecthuf

Opium, in Turky, doth

: cicuta,
quantityit stupifies

is a strong poyson
in Greece; but with us it hath
hemlock
such violent effects. I conclude with J. Voschius,
who, as

inveighsagainstthose exotick medicines, so heproof all diseases

miseth, by our European,a full cure, and absolute,
ad
nostra;
herba;
a
calcem,
nostris
capite
regionis
;
conducunt
our
own
magis
;
simplesa^rce best with
corporihns
laboured in his French
It was
a thingwhichFerneliusmuch
lis.
he much

to reduce
practice,

all his

cure

to our

proper

and

domestick

in Apuliaferacissimse.
"^Herbfe raedicis utiles omnium
'"Geog.ad quos
Itiner.
confluit.
"" Baldus
herbariorum
numerus
Sincerus,
undique
magnns
"'
maxinie notns.
Qui se nihileffecisse
mons
prope Benaciun herbilepis
Arabiani, et ultra Garamantas, a tribiw mnndi
arbitrantur,nisi Indiam, yEthiopiani,
Tutius ssepe medetur
rustica anus
partibus exquisitaremedia conradunt.
una, "c.
8.
Proximorum
l
onginqua
lib.
sectamur, et ad ea cognoscenda iterioincuriosi,
cEp.
transmittere solemus ; at qua' sub oculis jiosita
negligimus.
grediet mare

.Mom. 1. Subs.

tiki

physick:So

"'"

vuloed in

Martin

appearethby

as

us,

93

Rnlandus,in

treatise of bis di-

of
tongue, 1615, to prove the sufficiency

our

of diseases.

of all manner

to the cure

medicines

Physick.

Cornarius, and

Janus

T. B. with

Germany.

be

Med'winaH

-?.]

of such force,or
notaltogether

If our

it may
apposite,

so

Eng-lish
simples

be, iflike

used, those far fetched druggs would prosper as

have them,
we
well with us, as in those countries,w hence now
well as cherries,artichokes,tobacco, and many such. There
as

industrywere

which
worthy physicians,

divers

been

have

kinde,

in this

conclusions

and

have

lent
tryed excel-

diligent,
painfull

many

apothecaries,Gesner, Besler,Gerard, "c. but amongst

the

as

publikegardensof

Padua

in

NoreraItaly,
in
Holland, Montpelier France,
berge in Germany,
in
Oxford
at the cost and
now
in
fieri,
chargesof
(and oui-s
Earl of Danby) are
the Lord Danvers
the rio-ht honourable
all
wherein
exotick
plantsalmost are
much to be commended,
yearlymade for their better
to be seen, andliberall allowance

rest, those famous

Leiden

students

maintenance, that young

knowledge

in the

of

in

may

them; which,

as

of

must

his axe,

know

to

square,

saw,

informed

sooner

''Fuchsius

holds,is most

of curing,and

manner
necessari) for that exquisite
to observe
not
for a physician
shame

not

the

be

them, as

or

for

as
a

great

workman

other tool which

any

he

use.
necessity

SUBSECT.

IlL

Alteratives,Herhes, other Vegetals,

^c.

Amongst
up

those

simples,which

SOO

Galeottus

reckons

herbalists
cap. 3),and many exquisite
alone
these
I
finde
few
have written of,
following
priated
approwhich
be
of
alteratives:
humour
this
some
which,
to
;

3.
(lib.

de

promise,doctor,

"^

expell
quality,
force,saith Renodeus, ayid speciall
those
which
and
such
cure
are,
many
future diseases,perfectly
well
observed
This
in
other
is
as
inciirable effects.
plants,
by

secret

stones,
as

minerals,and
in

skull ! what
wolves

this.

How

severall

creatures,
many
vertue

liver,"c. of diverse

againstseverall

diseases !

as

in

dies
herbs, in other malarelated

thingsare
of

in

horse

of

mans
'^

legge, of a
of beasts, all good
^excrements
What
vertues
are
extraordinary
corns

voluit. Melch. Adamus, vit.

contentos
esse
nos
curandi
1.
ad
rationem, quorunm
Instit.1.1.
8.
.sec
exquisitam
ejus.
cogcap.
morbos
vi ac specifica
"-'Quas caeca
futuros
qualitate
nitio imprimisnecessaria est.
^ Galen, lib. Hepar lupihepaticos
curat.
arcent. lib.1. cap. 10. lustit. Phar.
*" Stercus
"c.
pecorisad epilepsiam,
aExotica

domesticis solum
rejecit,
'^

2. Sec.
of Mrlunclioii/. [V:\vt.

Cnrp

94
ascribed
nite.r et

plantsI
ntfrnphaasemen
unto

Iiist;some
seed

as
iii^ain,

causetb

poppy
that which
:

and

plantsshould

is

have

Satf/rhimt^t enicu
: 'some
extifirfiinnt

er'/i/nnt
;
provoke

quiteextinguish
waterlilly,

castus,

airnus

pcncm
herbs

4.

resisteth drunkeness,"c.
sleep: cabbi"i-e

more

to

bo

adiniretl,that such

such

such

particular
parts,
to
anniseeds, foalfoot,l)etony,
as
calaruint,eyebright,lavander, bayes,roses, rue, sage, marjoram, piony,
"c.
for tlic lungs calamint, li((uorice,
enxda campana,
hySic.
the heart,borage,
for
germander.
sop, horehound, water
saftron,bawm, basil,rosemary, violet,roses, "c.
buglosse,
a

vertue
particuhir

and

to

the l:rnd

'

"

"

"

for the

stomack, wormwood, mints, betony,bawm, centaury,

or
sorel,purslan; for the liver,darfhspine
chamiepitys,
mander,
gerbarliverwort,
endive,
agrimony,fennell,
succory,
dodder
of
baryes; for the spleen,maiden-hair, finger-ferne,
the
rinde
of
for
the
thyme, hoppe,
ash, betony ;
kidnies,
mallowe
for
the
saxifrage,
womb,
grumell,parsly,
plantane,
;
"

"

"

"

"c.; for the joints,

pennyroyall,fetherfew,savine,
camomile, S. Johnswort, organ, rue, cowslips,
centaury the
diseases.
To
this
of
and
"
c.
to peculiar
so
lesse, ;
melancholy
and
shall
that
find
of
herbs
\n every
a
catalogue
you
proper,
mugwort,

"

"

part.

See

more

in Wecker,

Renodeus,

Heurnius, lib.

2.

I will briefly
tives,
speak of them, as first of alteracap. \i). tSc.
which
Galen in his third book of diseased parts,prefers
before diminutives,and Trallianus brags that he hath done
more

cures

on

then by
*^by moistning-,

melancholy men

purging-of them.
lenge
In this catalogue,
Borfff/r.']
borage and buglossemay chalthe chiefcst place,whether
in substance, juice,roots,
seeds,flowers,lca\es,
decoctions,distilled waters,
"c. for such
and

extracLs, oils,
Buglosseis hot

varied.
diversly
reckoned
therefore worthily
up amongst those
expellmelancholy,and exhilarate the heart,

kind of herbs be

moist, and

herbs which

'^

med.
(Galen, lib. 6. cap. 80. de .fimpl.

Dioscorides, lib. 4.

123.) Pliny much magnifiesthis plant. It may be

used; as in broth,iu 'wine, in conserves,
diversly
syrops, "c.
quently
frethis malady most
It is an excellent cordiall,
and against
herb inde^'dof such sovereignty,
that,
an
prescribed;
2.
lib.
21.
et
25.
Diodorus
Plinius {lib.
7. 6*7;/.)
as
cap.
{lib.
cap.

cap.
cap.

5.
lib. 1. cap. I) Dioscorides (lib.
22.)Plutarch (.'"7fmpos.
famous
nec.
3) suppose, it was that
40) Ca?lius (lib.'lQ.

penthesofsHomer,which

"

rocket.
Priestpintle,

''

wife,(thenking
Polydamua,Thonis

.Sabina fetutn educit.

"^

Weckcr.

Vide Oswaldom

de hcrbis particularibns
parte cuique conlib. de inlernis rerum
Crolliara,
signatnris.
Dicor Barago : gandiasemper
"i Idem
venkntibua.
ago.
Lanrentius,r. 9.
' Vino JDfuaiimhilaritatem facit.
k Odyss. A
"^

Cure

96

of Melanclio/i/.

Lnpulus,hop, is

Hop.]
(cap.58.

Plant,

extols it ;

'

it

wonders

it rarifies and

because
our

cleanseth

ordinary beer, which

4.

all choler,,
piirf/eth

the blood.
Matthiol. {cap. 140.
purifips
the physicians
of his time made
no

and

Sec.

soverni^n roniedy;i'uchsius

miich
hist.)

[Part.2,

before

we

use

more

Dioscor.)
of it,
in

use

it to this
purpose

thick and

was

in 4.

fulsome.

likewise

are
^Vor!nwood, centaury, pennyroyall,
magnified,
shall
after
1
in hyposhew) especially
(as
prescribed

and much

chondriake

melancholy,
dailyto be used, sod in whey: as Kuttus
winde, helping^
coction,
conEphesius, Aretseus, relate,by breaking'
have
been
cured
with
the
men
quent
fremelancholy
many
**

of them

use

And,

alone.

the

because

I may
melancholy,

tory, "c. which

spleenand

not

omit

blood

are

often misaffected

endive, succory,

in

fumedandelyon,

cleanse the

blood; scolopendria,
cuscnta, ceteashe, tamerisk,genist,
rache, mugworth,liverwort,
maidenhair,
"c. which much
To these 1 may

helpand
adae

the

ease

roses,

spleen.

violets,
capers, fetherfew,scordi-

stoechas,
rossolis,salfron,
rosemary,
apples,
ocyme, sweet
Peruvian
"c.
that
wine, tobacco,sanders,
chamico, monstrosd
facultate,cVc Linshcosteus Datura ; and to such as are cold,
decoction of guiacum, china,salsaperilla,
the
sassafras,the
which
of carduus
flowers
I
find
much
used
benedictus,
in his consultations, Julius Alexandrinus, Lseby Montanus
um,

and
lius,Eg-ubinus,
herha

solis,

will admit

parable to

speaks of
the

of

almost
an

herb

no

It excells

it.

sickness, and

Bernardus

Penottus

his
prefers

all the rest in this ease,

disthe
earth
he
to
com-'
upon

Dutch-sindaw, before

or

and

'^

others.

Homers

moly, cures

all other infirmities.

excellent

out

of

this,fallingsame

tus
Penot-

Aponensis,M'hich,

drops in a cup of wine, icill

sudden
drive
a
alteration^
cause
aicaif dumps,aitd chcar up the
Ant. Guianerius, in his Antidotary,
hath many
heart.
such.
*^Jacobus
de Dondis, the yir/r/rec/w/or,
nutmegs,
repeats ambergreese,
and allspice
But
the
that
be
rest.
cannot
amongst
ral
geneI ; andjer and spice will make
a hot brain
mad, good for
Garcias ab Horto hath many
Indian plants,
cold and moist.
he nuich magnifies
this
whose vertues
disease.
Lemnius
in
{in
taken

to

stit.cap.

vertue,

to

quantityof

balm

The

5^) admires

rue,

three

and

commends

"^

it to have

vain imat/inationSy
divels,and
"e.vpell

excellent
to ease

af-

'' I^ib.
^'Bilem atramque rfetraliit,
7. cap. 5. Laet occid.
sangiiincni
jjiirgaL
^
10.
1.2.
Indise descrip.lib.
consil. IS-x Scoltzii consil. 77.
Heiirnius,
cap. 'J.
"! Praef. denar. med.
tollit; scias nullara herbam
dolores et phantasraata
Omnes
capitis
^
in teriis hin'ccomparandam viribn.set bonitate nasci,
Optimnm medicamenfum
' Rondoletiiis.
in celeri cordis confortatione,
Jvc.
et ad omne.s
qui tristantar,
Elenuin quod vim habet inirain ad liilaritateni,
et miillipro secreto lial)eiit.
Srkenkius,
observ. med. cen. 5. observ. 86,
animi imaginationes
s Alflictas uientes reltvat,

et

daemoDes expellit

1. Subs.

Mem.

Other

souls.
Jiicted
old

Medicinall

4.]

cock,

much

thingsare
head,

Physick.

97

magnkied by 'writers,

wolfes

heart born

or
eaten,
the
of
water
which Mercurialis approves ; Prosper Alpinus,
and
seasonable
at
times
all
be
Comesius
water,
to
sea
Nilus;
sick; goats milk, whey, "c.
sea
an

as

rams

SUBSECT.

Stones^Metals,Minerals,Alteratives.

Pretious

censured : many
diversely
explode
in
minerals
of them or any
physick,of whom Thomas
is the chief,in his Tract against
Paracelsus,and in an

RETIOUS

the

use

Erastus

IV.

Epistleof

stones

his

to

Peter

sre

Monavius

beleeve that list:

^that stones can

work amf
shall
man
no
perswademe:

wonders, let them

there is no vertue in
for my part, I have found by experience,
is as
But Matthiolus,in iiiscomment
them.
upon "=Dioscorides,

commendation; so is Cardan,
thiolus
Renodeus, Alardus,Rueus, Encelius,Marbodeus, Sec. '^Mat-

profuseon

the other side in their

Crollius {Basil,
in corall andOswaldus
chym.)
specifies
3.
Encelius
corall.
salt
of
the
(lib, cap.
"^Christoph.
prefers
:

131)

will have

them

to

be

sorrow,
melancholy,
against

as

so

many

severall medicines

nodeus
fear,dulnesse,and the like. ^Re-

admires them, besides

enrich our houshold
the fingers,

theyadorn kingscrowns, grace

defendus from enchant'
stiiffe,

diseases,theydrive away

grief
be
these.
particulars
cares,
because it is like the
stone
so
called,
Granatus, a pretious
kernels of a pomegranate, an unperfectkinde
ofruby: itcomes
it
from Calecut:
"//'hung about the neck, or taken in dritik,
ments, preserve
and

health,

exhilarate

cure

the minde.

The

The
the heart.
and recreates
same
resisteth sorrow,
the
ascribed
to
1
find
:
iacinthandtopaze
''they
allay
properties
much
and
exhilarate
diminish
delight
madness,
anger, grief,
^
the UHude.
(fitbe either carried about,or taken in a potion,
much

bCratonis ep. vol. 1. Credat quivult gemmas

a Sckenkius, Mezalzus,
Rliasis.
didici aliterrem
habere, nuilus
mirabilia efficeie ; mihi, qui et ratione et esperientia
"^L. de gemmis.
dMargaritae
falsum esse verum.
facile persaadebit,
e Margaritas
et gemmae
spiritus
et corallum ad melancholiam
prajcipuevalent.
f Praefat ad lap.
2. de
confortant et cor, melancholiam fugant.
prec. lib.2. sec.
ditant,a fascine
supellectilem
mat. med.
ornant, digitosillustrant,
Regum coronas
exhilarant,tristitiampellunt.
tuentur,morbis medentur, sanitatera conserrant, mentem
multum resistit,et cor recreat.
e Encelius,
1.3. c. 4.
Suspensus vel cbibitus tristitia;
h Idem
Iram sedat, et animi tristitiam
cap. 5. et cap. G. de Hyacintho et Topazio.
i
pellit.
Lapis hie gestatusaut ebibitus prudentiamauget, nocturnos timores
erupititernm stnltitia.
abjenerint,
pellit
; insanos hoc sanavi ; et quura lapidera
VOL.

11.

of Melancholif.

Cure

")8

[Part.2.

Sec. 4.

?7 ww7/ increase wisdome, saith

that ho hath cured vunnf mad

Cardan, exppUfcar. lie brag"

willt it,v/iir/t^
v/h'H they
ineyi
laid hifthe stone, icere
at first.
as
were
madar/aiu.as ever t/iej/
veiii
2. caj). l-i.
Petrus Bayerus,{tib.
meruui) Fran, linens,
\9.de
much
of
the
"'a friend
f/euimis),
chrysolite,
{cap.
say as
Solinns (^cap.
uisdonie,an enetny to folly.Pliny(//'/;.
;57),
3. cap. (Mi),
Cardan, Encelius
52), Albertns (de lapid.)
(lib.
of

highlymao-nities the vertue of the beryl1 ^it much availes a

vain conceits,evil thour/hts^
f/oodunderstandiiif/,
represseth
causeth mirth, cSc. In the bellyof a swallow, there is a stone
found, called chelidonins, '^ivhich,if it he lapped in a J'air
ivill cure
to the rir/ht
cloth,andtijed
lunaticks,mad men^
arm,
:

viake them
the

and merry.
which
of onyx, called a chalcidonye,
hath
^ availesmuch
illusions
qualifies,
arfainst
pliantastick
amiable

isakinrle

There
same

proceedfrommelanchoh)preserves the vigourand good

estate of the whole
body.
The eban stone
which goldsmiths
to sleeken their gold
use
with, born about or given to drink/hath the same
properties,

which

not

or

much

unlike.
Lemnius

Lseviuus

jewels,makes

vit. cap. 58),amongst

(Institut^ad
of

mention

notable, carbuncle
diveh, overcome
childishj'ears,
two

almost
properties

which

and

more

corall,which drive away

and, huny about the neck,
row,
'

other

Cardan

repress troublesum
givesto that green

serametris,if it be carried about, or

worn

in

sor-

dreams

coloured
ring; Rueus to

the diamond.

Nicholas

Cabeus,

Jesuit of Fenara,

in the firstbook

of
of
the
of
vertues
magneticalPhilosophy,
cap. 3, speaking
several opinions;some
loadstone, recites many
say, that,if.
a

his
a

tem

voret,juventuparcels\n\ym(\,si rjuis
per J'rusta
it
like
restore
to his youth;
wine,
one
will,
restituet,
vipers

and

yet, if carried about

it be taken

in

them, others will have

it to

cause

melancholy: let experiencedetermine.

Mercurialis admires

the emerald

for his vertures

in pacifying
all affections of the mind ; others the saphyre,which
is the
stones, ofskye colour,andayreatenemy
of all precious
^fairest

"" Confert
n Indncit sapientiam,
fugatstultitiam. Idem Cardnnus, Innalicos jmat.
f Albertns,
Alacres reddit
ad bonutniDtellectum,coraprimitmalascogitaHonps,itc.
dexfro brachio
Jacobus de Dondis:
Eoceliiis,cap. 44 lil)..3.Plin. lib.37. cap. 10.
"' Valet
faclt
sanat
contra
hinaticos,
insanos,
amabiIes,.iiiciindo.s.
phanalligatiis
"" Ainentes
tasticas illiisionesex melancholiti.
sanat, tristitiani
iram,"c.
pellit.
abigif,et nortiirnos piieroValet ad fugandostimores et da-mones, turbidenta somnia
hrta facit,argenteo
annulo geatatiis.
hAtrse
P Somnia
timores compescit.
rorutii
cceli colorem relert, animum
ab erbiliadversatnr, omnium
ptilclicrrima,
gemmamm.
in melins mntat.
mores
lilierat,
rore

1. Subs.

Mem.

Medkinall

4. J

Physirk.

99

the mmd, mends manners,

Jacobus
Sj-c.
choler,Jre3s
hath amber
Dondis, in his CataJogueof Simples,
greece, os

to black

corde

certi, *the bone

stone'*(ofhich

Bezoars
of

in

stags hearf,a

de
in

horn,

monocerots

elsewhere)
belly
Indies, brought into Europe by-

it is found

in the

littlebeast in the East

Hollanders

and

country-men merchants.

our

Renodeus

{cap.

22. lib. 3. de ment- med.) saith he saw

of these
two
alive in the castle of the lord of Vitryat Coiibert.
and

Lapislazidi
mentioned

because

armenus,

in their

Renodeus, cap. 23.

J5. 8^'c.
'^that almost

lib. 3.
all

I will add

of

out

Cardan,

Rondo'etius,lib.1. de Testat.

j excels and preciousstones

the
verities to pacifie
rich men
much
so

smaller

shall be

theypurge,

place.

Of the rest in brief thus much

cause

beasts

affections of the
have

to

covet

mind

c.

lent
have excel; for

them:

which
those

"^and

unions which

she/I.;amonr/st the Persians

arej})undi"!
of
the
all
consent
Indians,by
writers, are very cordial,
the
exhilaration
avail
most
of the heart.
to
part

and
and

other
gold,and some
Erastus
still
minerals,as
pretious
maintains the opposite
part. Disput.in Paracelsum, cap. 4.
196. he confesseth of gold, that it makes the heart merry
J'ol.

Minerals.]Most

men

as

say

much

of

these have done of

stones.

but in

other

no

but

sense

-at niihi

simulac
as

he said in the
receit

it is in

as

misers chest

plaudo,
in arcS,
contemplor

nummos

poet; it so

revives

the

and
spirits,

is

an

cellent
ex-

againstmelancholy,
^

goldin physickis a cordial,

he loved gold in special,

For

Therefore

Aurumpotabileshediscommends,
reason

concludes their
be
out

it,by
inveighsagainst

philosophical
stones,

and

potablegold,"c. to
dig-'d

better thanpoyson,a meer

a
non
ens
imposture,
;
of that broody hill,
belike,this goodlygolden stone

710

ridicuhis

nascetur
as

cure

and

which are used in it : which arof the corrosive waters

gument
D"^.Guin urgethagainst
D. Antonius.
"^Erastus
our

so

many

all manner

mns.

Paracelsus

and

his

is,ubi

lowers,
folchymistical

will fetch firefrom heaven, will

of diseases with minerals,accounting
them

Promethei,

1. Snbs. 5.
"c.
''Sec. 5. Mem.
"Longis moeroribus felicitermedetur deliquiis,
maximnm
fert auxiliam et juvamen ; uiide,quidites
lapidum et gemmarum
d
ferre student
seciim
sunt,gemmas
Margaritaeet uniones, qua3 a conchis et
"^ Aurum
Icetitiam
piscibusapud Persas et Indos,valde cordiales sunt. Sec.

Gestamen

in

corde, sed in

virorum.
area
rodentes.
in iiniversum,
qnovismodo parata,nee into

generat, non
rnm.

Noxium

ob aquas

?AunimnonauMetallica omnia
intra corpus siimi.

Chaucer.

"'Ep.ad Monavium.
nee

commode

CurcofMelancho/i/.

100

[Part.2.

S"c

4.

tlie only physickon the otlier side, ''Paracelsus calls Galen,

and all their adherents,infants, idiots,sophislli|)|"")cratcs,
I'tilcinitfisistds mcfamarplioses
isfos (ju'i
.'Ipfif/ps'is

ters. Sec.

niscit'id!
soholrs, snpi/ia'
s!(ffi//(tnf,
pcrfinarucolnmnos, cS-rr.not

Morthy the name

and brags that by
to the worlds

wummias,

of

for
physicians,

them

end.

lie can

make

A^'ith their

viifjnentum armarium,

want
a

of

these

live 160

man

remedies;
yeers,

or

alfwi/jhannacums,
panaceas,
and

such

mnonetical

cures,

vita; et mortis, baltwnm

Diatue, hahamiim, electrum,

lampas
amuletaMartialia, "c. M'hatAvill not he and
viaf/ico-p/ii/sic7(m,
Lis followers

medicorum,

effect ?
and

did

He

besides:

in

Europe
fartherthan

brags

'^

that he

moreover

famous

more

drop of

cures

then all the

primus
physicians

w.x'^

/lis preparationsshould

(/o

"f theirs,those loathsome and

heteroclitical
fulsome filthy
potions,
pills(sohe cals them)
horse medicines,ad quorum
Cjjc/opsPolifphemus
aspectum
a

dram,

or

ounce

exhorresceref.

magneticalcures

And, though some

condemn

their skill and

to magicalsuperstition,
tendingwitchery,
vindicate
and
admire,
charms,
nevertheless,
stiffly
they
But these are both in extreams:
the
infinitely
preferthem.
of
middle sortapprove
minerals,though notinso highadegree.
().
3.
de occult, nat. mir.)commends
Lemnius
{lifj. cap.
gold
and
excellent
in
used,asin
good
outwardly
dicines;
meinwardly
rings,
and such mixtures as are made
for melancholymen,
as

kc. yet

saith
vied.

Renodeus
scribes,
sub{antid.
spec lib. 1), to whom
Ficinus
2.
'
2.
Fernel.
{/ib. cap. 2),
(lib. cap. l.Q),
(meth.
Daniel Sennertus
lib. 5. cap. 21. de Cardiacis),
(lib.I.
Wecker

part. 2. cap. 9), xAudernacus, Libavius, Qnercetanus, Oswaland

dus Crollius,Euvouymus, Rubeus,
Matthiolus, in the
Andreas
ad .Mata Blawen
Epistles,
(epist.
and formerlyused
thiolum),as conmiendod
by Avicenna,
others.
and
'^3Iatthiolus
the
in
Arnoldus,
same
place
many
with many
of potablegold,mercury,
such
chymical
approves
confections,and goes so far in approbationof them, that he
be an
excellent jihijsieian
that hath not
can
holds, ^no man
in
and
that
skill
chronick dis'
distillations,
some
chymisiical

fourth book

eases

for

of his

hardli/be
antimony among
can

cured

irithont mineral

medicines.

Look

purgers.

mei i)lus
vrstri doctores ; et
a In
Stultissimus pilus
scit qiiam oinnes
occipitis
parag.
calceorum meoruni
anniilidoctiores suntquam vester (Jalnniist-fAvicenna ; barha mea
'' Viil"'Ermstdm
Rradfiniit;.
Hurgratiuni,
plus expertaest qii;im vestra; omnes
""
Plus
1611. Crollius and itherH.
edit. FrauakerH"
proiicict
putta mea
fiuam
*' Nonnnlli huir
tot eornm
in(lu!;;rnt
: usnm,
drachmae et uncia-.
supra niodum
"" Ansini
dicere nPininem
etsi non
censeo.
tatntn
adeo niagtinrn, non
abjiciendtiin
Morbichroin hac di.stillatione
mediciim exjcellcnteinqui non
chymica sit versatus.
aut ubi sangui.s
nici dcvinci citra metallica vix po.ssint,
corrumpitur.

Meai. 1. Subs.

5.]

Compound

SUBSECT.

Compound

LINY

Alteratives ;

24.
(lib.

Alteratives.

101

V.

of Compounds,andmixt
Physick.
censure

all compound medicines.

l)bitterlytaxeth
invented those
'^Mens knavery imposture,
andcaptiousivits,have
lifeis set to sale: and by and b)j
shops,in lohich every mans
and
in those compositions inexplicable
mixtures,far fetcht
came
and
India
botch
be hadas
a
Arabia;
must
out of
a
medicinp.for
farre as the Red Sea, ^-c. And 'tis not without cause which
to ''blame in their
he saith ; for out of questionthey are much
whilst
make
infinite
they
varietyof mixtures,as
compositions,
"^Fuchsius notes.
They think theyyet themselves great credit,
be
learned then the rest, because they
more
excel others, and
X

c.

them fools;atid,whilst
ma?iy variations: but he accounts
they bray of their skill,and think to yet themselves a name,
A.
theybecome ridiculous,bewray their ignoranceand error.
make

simples,well preparedand understood, are better then

confused
such an heap of nonsense
compounds,which are in
shopsordinarily
sold; in which 7nany vain superfluous,
apothecaries
exolete
thingsout of date are to be had
corrupt,
a
given tosyr(saithCornarius), company of barbarous names
few

julips,an unnecessary company of mixt medicines ; rudis

moles.
Many times (as Agrippa taxeth)there is
indigestaque
more
dangerfrom the medicine then from the
by this means
rops,

"^

they put together

theyknow not what, orleave
be
to
death and
it to an illiterate apothecary
made, theycause
Those
old physicians
had no
horror for health.
such mixtures
of
hellebor
t
ime
the
in
a
was
simplepotion
Hippocrates
;
ordinarypurge ; and at this day,saith Mat, Riccius, in that
wealth of China, Their physicians
commonflourishing
give
in
t
o
not
their
opposite ours,
unhappy
precepts (juite
physick;
in
and
their
hearbs,
use
roots,
altogether
simples
medicines;
they
disease; when

Fraiides hominum.

cuique venalis
Arabia

et

et

ingeniorum captnrae,officiuas invenere

vita:
promittitur

statim

India,iilceripaivo medicina

istas,in qtiibus
sua
compositioneset niixturaj inexplicabiles
ex
i*
Rubro Mari importatur.
Arnoldus,

dolose ant
Aphor. 15. Fallax medicus, qui,potens inederisimplicibus,compo.sita

quierit.

Lib. 1.

1. cap. 8.

Dum

friistra

infinitamedicamenta
miscent, laudem
student ; et in hoc studio alter alterum
sibi comparare
conatnr, dum quisque
superare
dum
ut suam
quo pluramiscuerit, eo se doctiorem
pntat ; inde fit,
prodant inscitiain,
et se ridicules exhibeant,"c.
ostentant peritiam,
I'Multo pluspericuli
a
medicamento
amorbo, "c.
in Sinas, lib. 1. c. 5. Prascepta
"'Expedit.
quam
medici dant nostris diversa, in medendo
infelices ; phamiacisutuntur simplicibus,
non
herbis,radicibus,"c. tota eorum
medicina
nostrse
herbariaj pra;ceptis
continetur;
ntillusIndus hujnsarfis ; quisqneprivatus
a quolibet
magistroeruditur.
"=

sec.

of Melanchohj

Cure

102
all their

and

in
phifsick

[Part.2.

Iscomprehended
in

manner

tschoolc,
no

Sec. 4.
herbal:

an

deffrees: but, like a trade,

art,
no
science,
in privateis instrncted of his master.
Cardan
man
everif
lie
all diseases wilii wafer
cracks that
can
cure
alone,as Hippocrates
no

no

of old did
the best of
sufficient

for those intiicate inixf ores,

reason

they

itlione

treacle,m

or

be reduced

not

medicine.

to

half

hy

such

Avhy justso many

and such

quantity
;
Jitper
pandora ; JiOO

fjuarter?Frnstra

or

fpfodfieripotest per
'""^)
plnra, (as the sayinu:
in
(o vhat
p littlepill,
simples a julip,]^olioi).or
1 know

what

not

Let

and g-ive
a
physicians"lcni("iisfrarc

rational

our

simplesin mithridate
may

infirmities

most

^Aikindus

end

or

pose?
pur-

Capivaccius,Montanna,

Eifover, the best of them all,and most rational,

kind; but neither he. they,nor any of them,
that satisfaction which be
giveshis reader, to my judj^cinent,
? IJog.Bacon
hath taxed
ought ; why sucli,so many sinjplcs
and

Simon

liavc said in this

in his tract

errors

many

de

cleared.

(/radnationihus,
explainedsome

(inhis book de composit.

medicin.)
givesinstance in liamech. and Philonium Romanum,
which Hamech
Arabian, and Philoniusalloman,longsince
an

things,but

not

as
composed, but crasse
Lim it seems
they were,

Fernelius

doth
"=

taxeth

Cardan

theriacum

all the

rest.

what

the rest.
and those

If

they be

mixtures

so

so

by
perfect,
why
exact,

as

alter the one, and why is the other obsolete ?

Galen
for presuming out of his ambition
to

correct

Mercurialis

Andromachi

Galens

and

medicines

Nicholas

we

are

as

justlymay
exploded

now

carp
and

at

jected
re-

Meripsa,Mesne, Celsus, Scribanius,

Actuarius, "c. writ of old,are

part contemned,

most

Melli-

chius,Cordus, Wecker, Quercetan, IJenodeus,the Venetian,

Florentine

they of

their several

states, have

Noremberge

to the

medicines
peculiar
poe'ia

and magistrals:
receipts,

theirs,and

have

Anr/nstana T^harmaco-

meridian of their

city; London
hath his
hers; every city,town, almost every privateman
mixtures, compositions,
own
receipts,
magistrals,
precepts, as
and all others in respect of himself.
if he scorned antif.uity,
But

each

man

must

fellow
opinionative

correct
must

and

alter,to shew

maintain

his

his skill: every

paradox,be it what

own

.Ichivi : theydote ; and in

it will ; Delirant rer/cs, pleetuntnr
time
the poor
the mean
patients
pay for their new
ments
experithe
it.
rue
commonalty
;
conceive out of theweakness
ol)ject
; thus I may
to
apprehension
; but,
say truth,there is no such fault,
such ambition, no novelty,or ostentation,as some
sup-

Thus

others

of my
no

Lib. de Aqni.

*"

Optisc.de Dos.

'

Subtil, cap. de scientii*.

lot

Cure

of Melancholy.

[Part.2,

Sec. 4.

are
plyed. Inwardlytaken, be citlierliquidor solid ; liquid,
tluid or consisting'.
and
wines
The
ines
Fluid, as
w
syrrups.
this
used
to
risk,
tamadisease,
^^orInowood-wine,
are
ordinarily
and bnglossatuni,
wine made
of boraj^eandbu^loss;the
which
of
is
in
Villanovanus,
specified Arnohhis
composition
of borage, bawme,
ill).(/(.'
"c. and
vin'is,
c
innamon,
bugloss,
for its vertues
it drives an-nij leprosy
higldyconmiended
;
the
exhilarates the
scabs,cleers the blood, recreates
spirits,
mind, purr/eththe brain of those an.rions black melancholy
fames, and cleanseth the ichole body of that black humour by
^

urine.

To

briny mad
to

the

adde, saith V illanovanns,that it icill

and such rayinybedlams as are tied in chains,
I

which
men,

their

of

nse

witness,that I do
this

means

that she

she

not

was

almost

teas

did she knew

not

ayain. My conscience bears me

lye: J saw a yraved matron
helpedby
and
cholerick,
so
so furioussometimes,
mad, and beside herself:she said and

reason

what, scolded,beat her maids, and

ready to be bound, till she drank of this

this excellent remedy, was
cured, which

was

now

borayewine, and, by
a
poor for rainer,a

alms
to crave
an
beyyar,tanyhther by chance,that came
silly
The
of
it
juyce
borage,if be clarified,
from door to door.

and drunk

in

steeped,"c.

wine, will do as much, the roots sliced and

saith Ant. Mizaldns, art. med. who
cites this

; and so doth Magninus a

story verbatim out of Villanovanus
his
in
regimen of health. Such another
physicianofMillan,

compound water I find in Rubeus, de distill,sect. 3.

out of Savanarola,^y
or. si/c/tas
are
highlymagnifies,
without
sad
be
troid)led
a
dull, heavy or
or
cause,
solitary,
Other excellent compound waters
with tremblinyof heart.
their melancholy
for melancholy,he cites in the same
place,""if
their
be not inflamed,
or
temperature over hot. Euonyhath
to
a
mus
pretious
aquavitw this purpose, for such as are

excellent
which he

cold.

But

he and

most

commend

auriimpotabile
;

and every

clarified whey, with borage,bugloss,

endive,
prescribes
of
milk
"c.
at all
some
especially,
goats
indefinitely
succory,
in the spring,
times, some
ingthirtydayestogether
every morna good draught.
Syrrups are very good, and
fasting,

writer

scabiera abolet,lepramcurat, spiritua

recreat,et
aSanguinem corruptunieniaculat,
et cerebrum
animiim cxliilarat. Alelancholicos liiimores per iirinam ediicit,
a crasais,
?crumnosis melancholia' fiiinispiirgat;quibusaddo, dementes et fnriosos vinculis retiducit.
Testis est mihi conscientia,quod
nendos plurimumjuvat, et ad rationis iisum
videritn matronam
quamdani hinc libcratam,qua; frequeufiusexiracundia demens, et
adeo furens "it ligaricogeretur. Fuit ei
impos aniuii,dicenda tacenda loqiiebafur,
remedio
viol istius usus, indicalus a perecrino homine mendico, eleepraestantissimo
hjig qui trisfantur sine
iraplorante.
mosynam
prap foribus dictap matronae
' Modo
infiam"ociet"fem, rt tremnnt rordf.
non
rausna, et vifant amironim
on^tur melanrholia, autcalidore tcmperamento sinf.

1. Subs.

Mem.

often

used
of

syrrup

Medicines.

Compound

5.]

this humour
in
tligest
borage, (there is a famous
to

commended

by

Laurentius

the

105

heart, spleen, liver,"c.

syrriip of borage highly

this purpose
in his tract of choly)
melan-

to

obsolete, of thyme and epipomis of king Sabor now

thyme, hops, scolopendria,fumitory, maidenhair, bizantine,"c'.
ussed for preparatives to other
These
most
are
physick, mixt
of like nature,
in julips otherwise.
distilled waters
with
or
confections; conserves
or
of borage,
Consisting are conserves
maidenhair, violets, roses,
fumitory, succory,
bugloss, bawme,
confections,
"c.
treacle, mithridate, eclegms, or
wormwood,
de

lincturcs,

"c.

"

solid,

aromatical

as

confections; hot, diambra,

dianihus, diamoschum

diamair/arititm calidum,

dulce, elecUia-

gemmis, IcetifcansGaleni et Rhasis, diagaUnga, diacimgnum, dironsum, diatrion piperion, diazinziber, diacapers^
diacinnamonnm
: cold, as
diamarganinmfrigidum,
diacorolli,

rium

de

abbatis, diacodion, ^c.

diarrhodon
shew

ihem;

with

you,
with

cold, as

of

their

condites,
used

Outwardly

tables
and

nymphsea, mandrake,
sleep.
Oyntments composed of
alabasiritum, popnleum,
as
sleep, and correct
procure
Liniments

are

of

herbs,

as

serves,

out

of

the

amulets, oyls hot and

violets, roses,
after

used

to be

said

other
same

almonds, poppy,

bathing, or

species,oyls and

hot,

some

of the

made

made

are

will

like.

caraomdejStaBchados,
"c.

Pharmacopceia

every

losinges that

or

the

occasion

as

as

cold,

some

to

to

cure
pro-

wax,

"c.

moysten,

accidents.
matter

"c.

flowers,

to

the

with

like

:
purpose
and
other
oyls,

roots,
emplasters
boiled
and
mixt
together.
liquors,
made
of green
or
salves,
herbs, poundpultises,
Cataplasms,
ed,
which
till
be
sod
in
water
soft,
are
they
or
applied to the
the body is
hypocondries, and other parts, when
empty.
several
and
Cerotes
to
are
frontals,
to take
applyed
parts,
pain, grief,heat, procure sleep fomentations
away
orspunges,
in some
decoctions, "c. epithemata, or those moist medicines,
wet
:

laid

on

linnen,

to

bath

and

cool several

parts misaftected.

Sacculi, or little bags of herbs, flowers, seeds, roots, and the

"c.
like, applied to the head, heart, stomack,
odoraments,
have their several
balls,perfumes, posies to smell to; all which
when
1 treate
in melancholy, as shall be shewed,
of the
uses
cure

of the

distinct

species by

themselves.

of Melancholy.

Cure

106

MEMB.

II.

[Part.2.

SUBSECT.

Sec. 4.

I.

PurffhufSimplesvjncurds.

31-ELANAGOGA,
simpleor
upwards or

either

"Asarum.

asrabrcca, which,

or

degree,and

second

whey^ or,

7rine

medicines, are
melancholy purg-injj
and
that
compound,
genllyor violently,
ging
purdownward.
These following
purge upwanl.
or

with

as

Mesne

as

"lryin tlic third:

(he

ns,

juycc

it is
of two

saith,is hot in the

falcoi in
cnriimajih/
or

three Iravrs

or

Mith aliflle
sometimes, pounded in posset drink qualified
avoid
the
to
fulsomeness
of the taste,
anniseeds,
or
liquorice,

more

Brassivola

Fernelii.

diasernm

{inCathart.)reckons it
and
amongst those simplesthat only purge melancholy,
up
of
his
out
Ruelliusconiirmsasmuch
that it purge! h
experience,
''black choler, like hellebore it self. Galen, (lih.
6. simplic.)
as

or

and

"^

ascribe

Matthiolus

other humours

purge

as

other vertues
well as this.

to

it,and

Mill

have

it

Laurel, by Heurnius, (inelhad.ad prax. lib. 2. cap. 24')is

itis hot and dry
put amongst the strong purgers of melancholy;
in the fourth
degree. Dioscorides (lib.11. cap. 114) adds

Pliny sets down 15 berries in drink for a

sufficient potion it is commonly corrected with his opposites,
and is taken in a
cold and moist,asjuyceof endive, purslane,
grainsand a half. But this,and asrabecca,
potionto seaven
in the country knows
how to give: they
every gentlewoman
"*

other effects

to

it.

two

are

vomits.

common

Scilla, or

sea

onyon,

is hot and

out
Brassivola,(in Catltart.)

Mill have
experience,
It is

an

this

of

dry

in the third

degree.

IMesue, others, and his

own

simple purge 'melancholyalone.

mixt withrubel in a
ordinaryvomit, vinum scilliticum,

littlewhite
White

to

ine.

hellebor,M'hich

call

sneezingpowder, a strong
reject, beingtooviolent: jMesue
purgerupM'ard,Mhichmany
M-illnot admit
of it, by reason
and Averrocs
of danyerof
yreat pain and trouble it puts the poor patient
suffocation,
Yet Galen {lib.
6. simpl.
corides
wed.) and Diosto, saith Dodonaeus.
indeed
^'terrible in
(cap. 14.5)alloM' of it. It Mas
insomuch
that
former times,as Plinynotes, but noM- familiar,
some

as

b Veratri modo
lactis,aut vino.
Datar in sero
expiirgatcerebrum,
"= Crassos
biliosos
humores per vomitum
et
Fuchsias.
educiL
roborat memoriam.
* Materias
' Ab
atras eilucit
ciet ". valet ad hydrop. ":c.
d Vomitum
et menses
et
i^Cap.16. Magna vi educit,
arte ideorejiciendum,
obpericulumsuH'ocationis.
*"
Quondam terribile.
noolestia cum
smnma.
"

Henrnins

2. Subs.

Mem.

Purging Simples.

1.]

107

it in those dayes, "that were

students,to quicken
Persius
which
tlie poet
to Accins
(Sat.
1.)objects
wits;
""
It helps
the fulling
lUas Acci ebria veratro.
melancholy,

many
their
"

took

sickness,madness, gout,

l\c.

but

to he faketi

not

nice
iceaklings,

of

old men,

troubled
effeminate,
saith Dioswith
headach, high coloured,or fear strangling,
old
hath
corides.
written very
Oribasius, an
physician,
in
such
and
of
which
it,
ajfections,
can
copiously, approves
Heurnius
otherwise hardly be cured.
(lib.2. prax. med. de

youths,such

are

as

or

will
vomitoriis)

have

not

it used

and
of its strength,

reason

caused

which

He:

"^

then when

inophilus

to

but

with

antimonywill

compare

(asCodronchus

observes, cap. 7- comment.

all his sonldiers go before him, and

see

like the

braggingsouldier,last himself.

to

may
hath

it to

do

stout

good,
captain

no

deHelleb.)(hat
come
^

post
IVhen

will

principia,
helps

other

a desperate
case, this vomit
be
all
if
for
it
well
this,
yet
prepared,it
taken at first. sMatthiohis
be '^securely
brags,that he
made
of it; and Heurnius,
use
often,to the good of many,

fail in inveterate
is

great caution,by

be taken.

melancholy,in

And

happilyused it,preparedafterhis oicnpre-.

and Avith good success.
3.
a Vega (lib.
Christophoras
script,
that it may be lawfully
opinion,
given ;
cap. 41) is of the same
tiude
it
and our
their
common
by
country gentlewomen
tice,
practhat there is no such great danger in it. D^
Turner,
speakingof this plant,in his herball, telleth us, that in his
time it was
an
ordinaryreceiptamong good wives, to give
hellebor in powder to ii'*weight; and he is not much
against
it. Bnt theydo commonly exceed, (forwho so bold as blinde
itbypennyworths,and such irrationall
Bayard?)andprescribe
"^^thathe hath

wayes,

as

I have

heard

shop :
apothecaries
smart

folks ask for it in

my self market
but, with what success, God knows :

an

they

often for their rash

boldness

and

break
folly,

vein,

their eyes readyto start out of their heads,or killthemselves.

So that the fault is not in the physick,
but in the rude
and undiscreet handling
of it. He that will know therefore,when

make

to use, how

to prepare

and in what
it aright,

Heurnius, lib.2. prax. med.

"

tur

dose,let

de Cathart.
Bra"sivola,

him

read
Code-

Malti studiorum gratia,

ad providendaacrias quas commentabantnr.
bjyiedecomitialibns,
melancholicis,
podagricis; vetatur senibns, pneris,moUibiis, et elfe--

*; Collect, lib. 8.
minatis.
helcap. 3. In affectionibus iis qiife difficulterctirantur,
d Non
lebonim damus.
sine snmma
cautione hoc remedio utemur; est enim validissimum; et, quiira vires antimonii contemnit
morbus, in aiixiliiimevocatiir,modo
valide vires elllorescant.
* Aetiiis,
tetrab. cap. 1. ser. 2. lis solum dari vult
heUeborum
album, qui secus
non
iis qui syncopen
habent, non
timent, "c.
spem
h Nos
salute multonim.
f Cap. 12. de morbis
1 Cum
facilliraeirtimar
cap.
nostro prasparato helleboro albo.

Cure

108

of Melancholy.

2.
[Part.

Sec. 4.

fridus Stegiusthe emperoiir liodolphusphysician,

cap. 16.
Matthiolus in Dioscor. and that excellent conunentary ofBaptista Codronchus
(which is mstar
omninm) de Helleh. alb.
he shall finde great diversity
of examples and
which onrcliymists
much
so
Antimony or stibiun),

where

in substance

is either taken

in this disease.

or

receipts.
niagnifie,
tVequently
scribed
pre-

infusion,"c. and

saith "Matthiolus,
helps all infirmities,
black
sickness^
choler,fallinf/
proceedfrom

which

It

hifpochondriacall
; and, for farther proofof his
passions
he
severall
instances
of such as have been freed
assertion, gives
with it: ''one of Andrew
after
of Trent, that,
Gallus, a physician
and

other

many

his health, next

of

George Handshius,
^icas
failed,
by this
restored to hisformer health,andwhich, of his knoicledcje,others
have likewise tried,
and, by the helpof this admirable medicine^
been recovered; a third of a parishpriest
mia,
at Prague in Bohe^ that
was
so
far yone with melancholy,that he doted,
and spakehe knetc not ichat ; but, afterhe had taken \'2 yrains
for I ivas called
of stibium,(as I myselfsaiv, and can witness,
tosee this miraculous accident ) he was
puryedofa deal of black
and all his excrements
icere
choler, like littleyobbets
as
of flesh,
to

God,

essaj'es, imputesthe recovery

this remedy alone; another of

to

sort, when

that,in like

black

blood

did him
This

so

very

other medicines

(a medicine

fitter for

yood,that

much

the next

var.

morb.

of it. Hercules
great approbation
medicine, if it be taken after
profitable

of such

as

and

are

apt

late

vomit.

man)

yet it

meat

Rodericus

of Padua
professor

in

6. observ.

cent.

de Saxonia

with

to

then

cured.
day he teas perfectly
relates
Sckenkius
priest,

story of the Bohemian

ad
verbatim,{Exoter.experiment,

horse

to

or

Fonspca

extols
Italy,

6.)

calls it a.
8

grains,
niard,
Spa-

the

it to this

85); so doth Lod. Mercatus {deinter,

morb. cur.
l.cap. 17),with many others. JacobusGervithe other side, {lib.
2. de venenis
on
physician,
nus, a French
confut.)explodesall this,and saith he took three grainsonly
other commendation; but it almost
upon Matthiolus and some
killed him; whereupon he concludes,*an^f"mo7^J/
isratherapoydisease

{Tom.

2. consul.

lib.

son

then

medicine.

Th. Erastus

concurres

with him

in his

" In lib. 5.
Dioscor. cap. :i. Omnibus
morbis, quos atra bilis excitavit,
opitulatur
^ Anobtiuet passiones.
dreas
comitialibns,iisqaeprfesertim
qui hypochondriacas
Deuin
debet.
huic
saluteni
niedicamento
Tridentinus
mcdicus,
Gallus,
post
restitutus ; id quod aliis accidisse scio, qui hoc mirabiii
" Integrae sanitati brevi

usi sunt.
''Quinielancholicus factus plane desipiebat,
1'2 gr. stibium, quod pauUo post atram
huic
exhibitum
stulte
loquebatnr,
niuitaque
bilem
alvo eduxit (ut ejjo vidi,qui voratus
tan"juani ad niiraculuni adCui,
ex
testari possum,) et ramenta
t;inquam carnis clissecta'in partes: totum excremtntum
^ Antimouium
non
repraesentabat.
tanqnam sangninem nigerrimum
venenuin,

niedicamento

medicamentiim.

2. Subs.

Mem.

opinion,and
But
cite

what

Puryhuj Simples.

2.]
so

doth

do 1 talk?

iElian

'tisthe

Montaltus, cap.

subject of whole

pro and

centuary of authors

109
30. de melan.

books

I mii^ht

I will conclude

con.

with

Zuino-er, antimony is like

sword, which is either

Scanderbeg-s
weak, as the party is that prescribes
or

Sfoodor bad, strong-or

useth it ; a wortJufmedicine,ifit he rif/htli/
appliedto
othencise

man,

For

poyson.

nymi thesaurus,Quercetan,
Basil.

strong

the

preparingof it,look in EuoOswaldus

Crollius,Basil. Chim.

Valentius,"c.

tobacco,which goes far

siiperexcellent
beyond all their panaceas, potablegold,and philosophers
A good vomit,
stones, a soveraignremedy to all diseases.
it
be
well
if
I confesse,a vertuous
herb,
qualified,
opportunely
is
it
used
as
but,
and
taken,
medicinally
commonly abused
;
by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale,'tisa plague,
of goods, lands, health, hellish,
a mischief, a violent purger
Tobacco, divine,rare,

divelish

body

and

and

tobacco, the mine

damned

and

overthrow

of

soul.

II.

SUBSECT.

Simplespurging Melancholydowmcard.
epithyme are, without all exceptions,
Dioscorides will have them void
gentlepurgers of melancholy,
averreth that they
but Brassivola,out of his experience,
ilegra;
in
used
decoction,infusion,"c.
; theyare
purge this humour
"c.
simple,mixt,
against
3Iirabolanes,all five kinds, are happily'^ prescribed
Brassivola
speaks out^o/'a
melancholy and quartan agues,
them
in
he
decoction,"c.
thousand experiences
pills,
;
gave
look for peculiar
receiptsin him.
of capers,
roots
dodder, herb ^Mercury,
Stoechas,fumitory,
and half boiled cabbage,I
genistaor broom, pennyroyall,
finde in this catalogueof purgers of black choler, origan,
salt,salt-peter.But these are
fetherfew, ammoniack
very
gentle,
alypus,dragonroot, centaury, ditany,colutea,which
i

OLYPODIE

and

"!

guish.
others take for sene, but most distinSene is in the middle of violent and gentlepurgers
dry in the first. Brassivola
downward, hot in the second degree,

Fuchsius

aCratonis

{cap.168)

ep.

medicamentum,

and

sect, vel ad

Monaviam

si recte utentur,

secus

venenum.

ep.

In

utramque

partem dignissimum
''Mosrores fagant;

"= Millies horuin vires

utilissime dantiis melancholicis et quaternariis.
'i Sal nitnini,
dracontiiradix, dictamnatn.
sal ammoniacnm,
sura.

expertus

Cure

110

of Melancholy.

[VmX.

2. Sec. 4.

the
wnnderfullherb (ifjai/mt
melancholij
; it gcoicres
he
sha/ces
t
sorroir
most
a
hlood, ll/itfhtriis
spirits,
off'
;
profitable
vwdicine, as ^Do(lon?eiis teriiis it, invented l)ythe Aral)ian.s,
in powder,
and not heard of before. It is taken diverse waves,
in
but
the
wiih
most
infusion,
infnsion,
coinnioidy
q-inoeror
calls it *rt

soniecordiall flowres added

tocorrectit. iVctuniiiis commends

with
old
it sod in broth,
cook, or in whey, wliich is the coman
mon
all
such
of
bhiok
fhint"s
choler
as
puroo
; or
conveyer
which
in
lleurnius
accounts
without
wine,
snllicicnt,
steeped
any farther correction.
Alol's by most is said to purge
6. de morb. chron.) Arculanus
c.

1H5),
(consil.

Alexandrinus

but Aurc!ianus(//7".2.
clioler;

{cap.6.

in 9

Scoltz. Crato

Julius
lihasis),
(ronsiL 189),prescribe

forthestomack
and to open the
itto this disease,asoood
Avicenna.
3Ienarhtemrods, out of Mesne, Rhasis, Serapio,
dus {pp.lib. 1. epist.
1) opposethit : aloes "do/h Nat open the
the
hsemrods; which Leonartus Fiichsius (/"""
veins,or move
rado.v. lib. I. likewise affirmes ; but Brassivola and Dodonaeus
defend ^lesue
controversie.

of their

out

experience
; let

'^

Valesius end

the

and lazuli are much

ander
magniiiedby 'AlexLapis Armenus
1. cap. 16), Avicenna, Actius, and
Actuarius,if
(fib.
the
be
that
water
no
more
coloured,fiftie
they be well washed,
Alexander
That
times some
r/ood
(saith
Guianerius)
say.
put
^

all weconfidencein this one medicine^that he thoiKjht

cured
it
b
e
and
by ;
/, for my party
lancholjf
passionsniiffht
used
and
deceived in the
was
it^
never
have oftentimes
happily

such

like may be said of lapis

lazuli,though
other.
the
Garcias
than
ab Ilorto {hist,
weaker
itbe somewhat
f'
the
the
that
of
Moores familiarly
lib. I. rap. ()5)relates,
physicians
all
a
nd
it
to
Matthiomelancholypassions;
prescribe

of it.
operation

lus

The

{ep.lib. 3) ''bragsof

that

had
in the administration
amongst the best remedies

happy

of it.

successe

Nicholas

which

he still

Meripsa puts

it

1. cap. V2.inAnlidotis);
(sect.
and if thisicill not serve, (saith
Rhasis) then there remaines
and
hellebor it self. Valescus
nothinybut Lapis Armemis,

"

and

Pratensis

Jason

much

commend

pulvishali,which

is

omnia vitiaatrx Ijili:"

a Calet'ordinesecnndo,siccat primo adversos
^ iilet
;
; sang^iinem
disrutit herba inirifica.
mcerorein
illiistrat,
"jCap.4. lib.2.
miindat, spiritus
aloe aperiat
'An
lib.9.
ora
venanim.
c Recentiortd
respcare.
ne^ant ora venarum
""Tract, l.'i.
Bonus
c. 6.
a vitiilibiis
partibiis.
Vaporesah.ster^^t
nielaiicholicaspassiones
lapideArnieno confidcntiam habnit,nt onines
et in ejus exhibitione
nsus
ab eo curari posse crederet ; et ego inde sa^pissinie
sum,
medici
hoc
Mauronini
K
fraudatus
lapidepleriimque
fui.
purgant
nun'iuani
'' Quo
et inaRno
auxilio.
cum
mplanciioliam, ":c.
efjo sa-pefelicilerusiis sum,
Consil. Ib4. Scoitzii.
Aruieniis.
'Si non
hoc, nihil restat nisi helleboru?,et lapi.s
cont. 3.

A Inlander tantain

Cure

112

of Melancholy.

[Part.2.

Sec. 4.

: I find it so
improve their inventions)
rcg^istered
by
Carneades
15.
tlie
lib.
17.
when
he
acadeinick,
Aiiflliiis,
cap.
the stoick,piuiied
hirnsclfe with helto write againstZeno
"was
which
^Petronius
lebor first;
puts upon Chrysippus. In such

sack

(o

it continued

for many

ag-es, till at Icnnih 3Iesue and

and reprehendit ; upon
other Arabians
beg-anto reject
some
for
based
-wliose authority, many
lusters,it was much defollowingesteem

and

of request, held to be poyson, and no

is stilloppugned to this day by '' Crato and

quiteout

; and

dicine
mesome

Aristotle (/.I.
are, because
juniorphysicians.Their reasons
and
henbane
hellebor
c. 3) said,
were
dc plant,
poyson ; and
in the preface
of his ProljJems,
Alexander Aphrodisiaeus,
gave
of
that
that
which
on
hellebor)
was
Quailesfcd
(speaking
out,
Galen
5.
Text,
confirms
as
(1.6.Epid.com.
l^b)
poyson to wen.
"

in his
the emperour,
then to kill mice
other vertue
to it,
no
and
Mizaldus.
Nicander
so
mouldwarps ;

''Constantino

much:

hath

speak of
a

and

rats, fliesand

of

old,Gervinus,

other neotericks

Sckenkius,andsome
sons,

attributes
Geopotiichs,

hellebor

in

that have written of poychief place. Nicholas Leonicus

*"

story of Solon, that,besiegingI know

steepedhellebor

in

nol

what

city,

veyed
springof water, which by pipeswas coninto the middle of the town, and so either poysoned,or
that theywere
else made them so feeble and weak by purging,
all these cavils and
not able to bear arms.
Notwithstandinga

of our late writers do much

most
objections,
aj)prove of it
{corn,de helleb.)
Gariopontus,{lib.1. cap. 13),Codronchus
de
med.
lih.
C9.
et consil. 15.
simpl.cap.
purg.
Falopius,
"

'

consil. 14, Hercules

Trincavelii,Montanus, 239. Friseraelica,
de Saxonia, so that it be opportunely
given. Jacobus de Don-

dis,Af/y.Amatus, Lusit.
Hollerius, and

all

our

cent.

QQ.

Godef.

herbalists subscribe.

Stegius,
cap. 13.
Fernelius(me?/*.

it to
IC) confesseth

he a ^terrible purge, and

well
hard to take, yet
givento strong men, and suck as have
forbid itto betaken
able bodies. P. Forestus and Capivaccius
in substance, but allow it in decoction or infusion,both which
med.

wayes

lib. 5. cap.

P.

Monavius

above
all
approves
(in9 Rhasis)commends

other, Epist. 231.

of his
receij)t
prepared,
own
preparing;Penottus another of his chyniically
Ilildesheim
'2. de mel.) hath
{spicil.
Euonymus another.
of receipts.
manyexamples how itshould beused,withdiversity
in7iocent
7. jnax. med. cap. 14.) calls it an
Heumius
{lib.

Scoltzii.

Jacchinus

^'

Etsi multi magui viri probent,in bonam

"^ Vescuntur
veratro
coturnices, quod
f
"i Lib. 2.3.
^^ Dc
hi.st
var.
c. 7. 12. 14.
homiuibus toxicum est.
Corpus
Difiicilis
iisisunt.
sine caussa
f Veteres non
incolume reddit,et juvenileefllcit.
'" Innocens
sed robustis datiir tamen, "c.
hellebore purgatio,
et terrorisplena,
ex
medicamentura, modo rite paretur.
^
a In Satyr.
Crato, consil. 16. 1.2.
medici, non probem.
partem accipiant

"

"

Subs.

2.

Mem.

in

oueJy

his

be

to

perfectly healed
of

admit

not

the

first that

it

especiallythe

again

to

but

the

If this

will

of

Mesne,

authority
it,

5?mt-p

be

curely
se-

may
Baracellus

this

his

(in
extract.

terrest

Spagir.

plant

and

balscimum.

re

omnium,

all

the gout,

malady,

sus,
Paracel-

of this

instar

in

all,

epilepsie,

in the

and
hare

dare

receipts, dose,
this
simple, in him,
the

thanks

great

me

other

it six

used
it

communicated

scribe
prehundred

divers

to

cautions

worthy
Look

it.

for

for

concerning
Codronchus,

Baracellus,

Brassivola,

to

rest.

primus

jactaDtia,eso

evacuatione

adventure

not

happili/

preparation, and

furor

apud Scoltzium,

cessavit,
ep.

"231.

et

P.

Monavius

omnia
non

niqrrum

se

cUItiraum
claudit

quiecunque

huic, nuili cedunt.

exhibuisse,

""

prajbere cCEpi,"c.
quietus inde vixit.

quatuor vicibus.
; si

that

not

(fence, and
physicians who'have given

Absit

of the

bawm,

he)
(saitli

'^yetI

without

times

calls

world
help, no physick
Matthiolus
it is the upshot of all.
minerall
laughs
:
abhor
it out
that except
against it ; and, though some

leprosie,^c

of

and

Quercetan

admirer

cure

is all in all,

weaklings.

greatest
caWs
it theriacnm,
he

refuffeto

,,ho

subscribe,)

most

easie,

inke,

physician,

which
rest,

ceipt
re-

prccstanticc medicamentitm,

note.

terrestriall

last

the^soleand

those

and

the

Dutch

or,

an

like

were

mad

of Ferraras

substance

the

and

children,
it viaximcc

extract:

treacle,

at

before

others,
many
all therest, is the

above

another

infusion,

tell wonders

and

Phar.)

in

duke

whom

(to

medicine,

great worth

of

medicine

bortim

some

the

Melatasta

one

hellebor

prefers

he

given to women,
(Jiortogeneali) terms

csetera

restored

in the

possessed,

decoction,

sweet

cured

substance

it in

which

extract,

medicamentum,

by

it is

Brassivolaanionjrst

his excrements
;
Vidus
Vidius,
:

once

the

in

before

as

and

and

yeers,

many

he

of black

seen

at

how

be

to

purge

one

is there

can,

the

was

sfory

thought

was

with

court,

in

he

that

tels

he

and

that

man,

but,

kept

of

root

use,

M'ill

be

The

prepared.

by Falopiusand

as

brags

well

it he

may

substance,

who

rest,

which

use,

in

o-iven

if

howsoever

medicine,

W^

Purffers.

Compovnd

2.]

incommodo,

caeteris
d

stolidum

In

laxativis
possunx

Cathavt.

exeinplum

me

non

possunt

sexcentis

sola

una

Sckenkiura

ad

et

tribas

epoto

medicamentnni,

extremum

pelli

Ex

apud

jactat hoc

curasse

refngium,

Testari

"c.

Tale

buac

hominibus

aut

quod
nent
pertihelle-

Cure

1 14

of Melniulioly.

SUBSECT.

2. Sec.
[Part.

4.

III.

Compound Purgers.
v/OMPOUND
eithertaken in
or

nostrils.

swallowed,

medicines, ^vhich

pur^e

inferior
thcsuperioror

parts

At

the moiitli,
swallowed,
solid
o
r
:
liquid,
liquid,as

hellebor,scilla

or

sea

onyon,

which

sena,

or

melancholy,are
at mouth
su[)erior
not

swallowed

compound

vhium

wine

if
of

sciUiticnm,hoUeho-

much

''Quercetan so
ratnm,
applauds/or mplmichnly
and madness, either imcardhi taken, or onticard/tf
appliedto
the head, icith littlepiecesof linen dippedtcarm
in it.
Oxymel scilliticum,
synipus hellehoratus major and minor in Querand
for hypochondriacall
cetnn,
syrtip^is yenistar
melancholy
in the

author,

same

of succory, of ftunilory,
his purgingcockbroth.
Some
cept
ex-

compound

syrrup

Ilournius
"c.
polypodie,
these
as
ag-ainst
by ^Udalrinus Leosyrrups,
appears
his epistle
and that
to Matthiolus, as most
norus
pernicious,
et medicari, non
cocta
out of Hippocrates,
cnida, no
movere,
used
in
in physick;but this
the following
raw
thingsto be
and
is
confuted
soundly
by Matthiolus;
epistle exploded
of
are
receipts,
julips,
potions,
composed these,as you
many
shall finde in Hildesheim, spicil.
2, Heurnius, lib. 2. cap.'
l^,
Ital. med. prax. i^-c.
confections, electuaries,pills
are
themby selves,
purgers
compound with others,as delapidelazulo,Jlrmeno,

George Sckenkius,
Solid
or

of Hamech, which
pit.Inda:, of'fumitory, dye. confection
Solenander
5.
consil. 22) bitterly
most
{sec
though
approve,
inveighsagainst; so doth Randoletius (Pharmacop.officina),
Ferneb'us and others; diasena,diapolypodium,diacassia,
diaW
eckers
electuarie
de
hierocatholicon,
epithymo,
Ptolomyes
diverse
which
of
made.
a
re
daily
receipts
logadium,
commends
hieram rnffi.
Al'tius (22,23)
Trincavellius {consil
of //?"r"; non,
invenio
12. /"7".1) approves
meliiis
inqiiit,
better medicine, he saith.
nius
Heuradds pil.ayyreyat. pills
de epithymo.pil.Ind.
Mesne
describes in the Florentine
pillulwsine quihu^
vVntitlotary,
cochicc
hellebor
cum
esse
nolo,pillulcc
o, pil.
Arabica-.faotida,

medicamentuju

I finde

no

miraholanorum,
yeneribiis
f/uinque
in the mean
not excluding,
melancholy,
de

tVc

31ore

proper

to

time,turbith,
manna,

nielnncholicos affectns,
tnm intra
"Pharmacop. Optimam est ad maniaro et omnes
linteolis in eo madefactis tepide admotam.
turn extra, secus
capiticum
assumtum,
Math. lib.3. Tales syrupinocentissimi,et omnibus modis extirpandi.
""Epist.

2. Subs.

Mem.

which

rubarb, ag-arick,
elescophe, "c.
this hiuuoiir.

For,

holds

Montaltus

as

so

{cap.30),
sit
:

to
proper
and Mon-

pabulum, choler

and

some

Asclepiades maintained
disputes,^that no physick doth

Galen

what

or

is

ne:rt.

of

are

and

Erasistratus

alone, hut all alike

humour

one

not

are

taiius, cholera etiam purganda, quod atrcc

it feeds the other
is to be purged because

opinion, as
againstwhom

115

Compound Purgcrs.

3.]

Most

of

an

old,

purge
fore,
there-

which
coined
are
here,
receiptsand mag-istrals
of sererall simples and compounds, to purge
mixture
make
a
rather use
Some
all humors
in general!as well as this.
tions
pothis humour, because
then pills
to purge
that,as Heurin their

nius

and

Crato

observe, hie

succns

sicco remedio

cegre

tra-

easilydrawn

by dry remedies; and

25. cons.)all ^drying medicines
to
are
(as Montanusadviseth,
all pillswhatsoever, because
be repelled,
aloe, hiera, and
as
the disease is dry of it self.
insert
I might here
receiptsof prescribedpotions,
many
in
boles, "c. the doses of these; but that they are common
and that I am
loth to incurre
the censure
every good physician,
de
3.
6.
those
that
of PWestus
minis) '^against
(lib. cap.
divulge and publishmedicines in their mother tong^ie,andlestl
should give occasion
thereby to some
ignorantreader to practise
of
without
the
consent
a
himself,
on
good physician.
but
Such
swallowed,
not
as
are
only kept in the mouth, are
the body is
gargarisrasused commonly after a purge, when
and loose.
Or apophlegmatisms, masticatories,
soluble
to be
held and chewed
in the mouth, which
are
gentle,as hysope,
mustard
pellitory,
origan, pennyroyall, thyme,
; strong, as
"c.
ginger,
pepper,
into the nostrils,errhina, are
Such
taken
are
as
liquid or
of
"c.
white
drie,juyce,
castor, pepper,
pimpernell,onyons,
add odoraments, perfumes,
To these you may
hellebor, "c.
and
"c.
suffumigations,
into
the
inferior
Taken
parts are clystersstrong or weak,
of
CastUian
suppositories
soap, hony boiled to a consistence;
hitur, this juyce is

or

not

so

hellebor, "c.
stronger of scamony,
all used, and prescribedto this
These
are

verall

occasions, as

shall be

^Purgantia censebant medicamenta

in saam
convertere.
attigerint,
naturam

shewed

non

unum

cinae,ut aloe, hiera, pilulae

quaecunque.
cula remedia

et raedicamenta

praescribunt,et

in his

hiimorera

malady
place.

upon

se-

attrahere,sed quemcunque
exsiccantes
mediRelegantar omnes
^ Contra
eos
qui lingua vulgariet vernafacitint.
quibusvis communia
^

f'l'i'f'
of

1 IG

Melanchohj.

MEMB.

5.

?. Sec.
[I*art.

in.

Remedies.
Chirurgicall

In letting
of

blood three main

he

one

be of

as

are

may

competent age, not too young, nor

weak, fat,or lean, sore laboured, but to such

sidered,
con-

blood, noxious

humors, and

too
as

may

old,
have
be

over-

need,
eased

it.

by

The
is

full of bad

are

to be

much, wh^'ii: that is, that it be done to

endure
it may
it,or to whom
belong,that

'who, how
such

circumstances

quantity
dependsupon

strong or weak, full

In the

or

the

empty, may

is the fittesttime

morning

habit
parties
:

of

body, as

he

less.
or
spare more
whether
doubt
itbe
some

motion or aspect of
fasting, full,whether the moons
affirm,some
planetsbe to be observed, some
deny,some
grant

best

or

before oraf(er
in chronick diseases,whether
'Tis Heurnius
a phlehotomida7isptr(i7idam
aphorism,

in acute, but not

physick.

letting,
beginwith bloodand not physick; some
malady.
except this peculiar
But what do I ? Horatius Augenius, a physicianof Padua,
hath lately
writ 17 books of this subject,
Jobertus, "c.
in use
''are three: first
Particular kindes of blood-letting
is that opening a vein in the arm
with a sharp knife,or in the
head, knees, or any other parts, as shall be thoughtfit.
Cupping-glasseswith or without scarification ; ocyssime
and are apcompescunt, saith Fernelius, they work presently,
plied

curationem, nan

esse

to severall

apharmacid

you

must

parts,to divert humours, aches,winde, "c.

much
used in melancholy,
are
appliedespecially
the
Horatius
hremrods.
to
Augenius {lib.10. cap. 10),
Platerus {dementis alienat. cap. 3),Altomarus,Piso,and
Horse-leeches

many

others,preferthem
Cauteries

before

any

evacuations

in this kinde.

searingwith hot irons,combustions, boring's,

which
because theyare terrible,
launcings
dropax ^w^sfina;
raise
and eating
invented,
to
a
re
blisters,
by plaisters
pismiis
and the like.
medicines of pitch,
miistard-sced,
Issues stillto be kept
open, made as the former,and applyed
""

in and

or

to severall
as

parts,have their

use

here

on

diverse

sions,
occa-

shall be shewed.

^ Fernelius,
"
^ Renodeus,
lib.2. cap. 19.
Quia,quantum, quando.
lib.5. cep 21. de his Slercurialis,
raed- cap. 24. Heamins, lib.1.
lib.3. de composit.
Wecker, "c.
prai. med.

Meiii. 1. Subs.

Particnlur

I.]

SECT.

MEMB.

Particular

I.

V.

SUBSECT.

the three

of

cure

IIT

Cure.

I.

severall

kindes ;

of

head

Melancholy.
J.HE

and discussed,it
thus briefly
examined
cures
g-enerall
these
medicines
the
three particular
remains
to
now
to apply
speciesor kindes, that,accordingto the severall partsaffected,
himself.
I
each man
sort how to helpor ease
may tellin some
will treat of head
melancholy first,in which as in all other
begin with diet,as a matter of most
good cures, we must
this effect. I have
able oftentimes of itself to work
moment,
eases
read, saitli Laurentius, cap. 8. de 3Ielanch. that,in old disthe
hand of an habit, the
which
have
gotten
upper
manner

drawn

of

livingis to

out

of the most

be
can
purpose, then whatsoever
pretiousboxes of the apothecaries.

more

I have said,is not

only in choice of meat and
other
non-naturall
all
those
of
drink, but
things. Let air be
clear and moist most part : diet moistning,of
goodjuyce,easie
This

diet,as

and
digestion,

of

too

not
as

too

too

strong-nor

^Rhasis

not

not

drink

small.

Make

saith ; and

remisse, nortoo
''Excrements

(which

windie:

Fernelius

well

clear,and

the
finished

violent.

Sleep

Exercise

cure.

then ordinary.

littlemore

by art

or

not

be alone

or

idle

of the mind.
perturbations
but
(inany kind of melancholy),

with such friends and familiars he most

dressed, washed
in clean sweet

; and

nature

his patient,
consil. 44),
above
enjoins

and
avoid all passions

to

fat,

melancholyman

thou hast

dailyto be avoided

brewed,

the rest,
Let him
stillaccompanied

affects,
neatly

at least,
combed, according
ability
linen,spruce, handsome, decent, and good ap-

and

to

his

than want, squalor,

dejectsa man
old
cloaths
of
fashion.
and nastiness,
out
foul,or
Concerning
the medicinal part,he that wHlsatisfie himself at large(inthis
and manand see all at once
the whole cure
of diet),
ner
precedent

parell;for nothingsooner

of it in every

distinct

let
species,

him

consult with

Gor-

donius, Valescus, with ProsperCalenus, lib. de atrci bile ad

^lian MontCard. CcBsium, Laurentius, cap. 8. et 9- de mela.

altus,de mel. cap. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.

cap. 7.

artis med.

Ffstines ad
bBenfficium
ventris.

Cont. lib.1. c. 9.

Eoalaia.

Hercules

de

Donat.

Saxonia,in

ab

Altomari,

Panth.

cap. 7.

impinfuationem
; et cumimpinguantur, reinovetar

of Melancholy.

Cure

1 18

[Part.2.

Sec. 5.

melan. per BoJzetam

edit. VeJietiis
1()20. cap. 17. 18. 19. Savauaiola, Rvh. 8*2. Tract. 8. cap. I.
Heiirnius, cap. 12. de
Sckenkius, in prar. curat. Ital med.
Tract,

e/

de
ejuspeculiar,

Victoriiis

viorh.

Ilil-

Faventinns,pract. Mar/net Empir.

Fel. Plater, Stokerus,

2. de man.
et met.
deslieini,Spicil.
I{ondoBriiel. P. Bayerus,Forestiis,
Furlisius,
Caj)iva(ciiis,
Jason Pratciisis,
Sallust Salvimi. de re med. lib. 2. cap.
letius,
1. Jaccliinus,in 9. R/iasis,Lod. Mercatus, de inter, morh. cur.
lib. 1. cap. 17. Aicxan. Messaria, pract. med. lib. ] cap. 21.
"c. that have culled out of those old
demel. Piso. Ilolleriiis,

Greeks, Arabians, Latines, whatsoever

be used.

Or let him

read

Hugo Senensis, consil.

I. et consil.3.

sec.

44.

46.

45.

those counsels

13. et 1 4.

3.

and

Renerus

44. 69.77.

Caesar

Jul.

sarius, Sennertus,

fitto

Solinander,cons.

Crato, consil. 16. lib. 1.

G.

IVJontanus,

Fonte

of

Eugu-

125. 129. 142.

Fernelius,con.nl.
Claudinus, Mercurialis, Frarnbe-

wherein

"c.

or

consultations

counsels,Lcclius
hisjblloicinr/

20. 22. 229. and

binus, consult.

sec.

is observable

he shall finde

ceipts,
reparticular

the whole

method, preparatives,
purgers, correctors,
of
averters, cordials,in great varietyand abundance
: out
read
cannot
attent
to
man
or
which, because
every
peruse
the
for
the
benefit
of
I
will
few
them,
collect,
reader,some
notable

more

medicines.

SUBSECT.

II.

Blood-lettiny.
Jt HLEBOTOMY

is

promiscuouslyused

commonly before,andupon
physick,
if there

need

be any
make
a doubt

occasion

at least of it.

For

before
isoften
Galen

and

after

reiterated,
and

many

bleedingat all in this kind of heati

melancholy. If the malady (saithPiso, cup. 23. et Altomarus, e"/?. 7. Fuchsias, cap. o'3) shall proceedprimarily
J)om
the mis-affected
brain, the patientin such case shall not need
others

at

all to

at

bleed,except the blood otherwise

J'ull,
inflamedblood,and

abound, the

veins be

the party

In imreadyto run mad.

materiall melancholy,
which especially
from a cold discomes
of
de
Hercules
spirits,
Saxoniu(ca/j.
temperaturc
17.)will not
admit of phlebotomy; Laurentius
(cap.9) approves it out of
the authority
of the Arabians ; but, as Mesue, Rhasis,Alexander
in
the
^especially
appoint,
heady to open the veins of

digent,
primariocerebri afTeitu melancholici evaseriiit,sanctainisdetr.ictione non innisioh alias caussas
sanguismiltatnr,si mnltus in vasis,"c. friistraenim fatiiis phlebotomiafrontis.
gahir corpus, "c.
''Conipetit
a

Si

ex

Cure

120

Ins, which

of Melancholy.

[Part.2.

he

Sec. 5.

])erore blood-letting
the coniinon
prescribes
Mercurialis, Montaltus, cap. SO. SfC. proceedfrom
sorf.
lenitives to ])reparative.s,
and
Lenitives arc
to pinker*;.
so
Avell kiiOAvn,electnarium
f/iacatko/i/efiifirum,
(UaplHcnirnm,
of
are
cVr.
ron,
Preparatives usuallysyrriips
bu"^borag-e,
and
wit!)
double
losse,apples,
as
fmnitory,
thyme
epithyme,
:

as

much

of the

decoction

same

distilled water,

or

or

of the waters

of

bawm, hops,endive, scolopendry,

biiglosse.
fumitory,"c.

or

these sod

many
used

in

whey,

which

be reiterated

must

and. used

for

last,vh'ich must not be

dayes to"i'ether.Purges come
the
he
othericise
at all, ij'
malady may
helped^ because

they weaken

and

dry so much ; and in giving of them,

irith the yentlestfirst. Some
forbid all hot
must
n-e
hefjhi
and
medicines, as Alexander,
Salvianus,"c. ne inmniores
nature,

-'

increase the disease ^by dryinytoo

hide fiant,hot medicines
rather then upward; use
much.
Purge downward
potions
and when you begis:
rather then pills;
and
physick,

persevere

in

continue
educere

for, as

course;

in omnibus

malum

est ;

'^

one

observes,

et

movere

stir up the humour

to prosecute, doth more

to

non

(as one

harm
commonly doth)and not
continue
in a course
of physick,
good. Tlieymust
yet
and
tire
that
not
so
they
oppress nature, dandaqniesnatnra;;
and
then
have some
must
remit, and let nature
now
they
The most
rest.
gentlepurges to beginwith,are '^sena,cassia^
epithyme,myrabofanes, catholieon: if these prevailnot, we
proceedto stronger, as the confection of Hnmech, pil.
may
de Jjssaieret,
of lapisArmemis
and lazuli^
Jndce^J'umitoria\
if
be
both heldiusena.
Or,
pills too dry; "^some prescribe
the
lebors in the last place,
rest Aretseus, ^because
amongst

purge
then

this disease

Hercules

^party

be

will

resist

yentlemedicine.

de Saxoniu

would

strony, and

it

to whom
hieroloyodium^

vast

chaosof

and

antimonytried last,iJ'the
irarilyyiven ''Tincavellius prefers
Francis Alexander
(inhis .^pol.rad.
""ood
medicine
it but
they account

5) subscribes : a very
Crato, in a counsell of his for the Duke
lour, whollyrejectsit.
I findea

Laurentius

have

of Bavarias

medicines,aconfusion

to
magistrals,
appropriated
amongst writers,

of the chiefest I will rehearse.

'To be

of

chancel-

and
receipts

this disease:

some

is very
first,
sea-sick,

='A leiiioriliiis
niedicamentis purl*i.so,
auspicaruliiin.(Valesciis,
Urwel) rariiistine
utendum, ni sit opus.
''Quia corpus exsiccant, niorbtiiii
giiiitibus
aiigent,
"! Piso.
Tract. 15. c. 6.
"''Jiiianeriii.t,
Uhasis,Sivpe valent ex lielleboro.
f Lib. 7
t, ISIodo caute delur,et
Exi^i.sniedicamentis morbus non obsesjuitur.
'' Consil. 10
' Plin. I.^Jl.n.
ob vomitioneni
1.1.
6.
robustis.
Navip^ationes
n)orbis capitis,
bibitur. Idem Dioscoet oninibus ob quivlieileborum
prosunt pliirimir*
lib."S.r;?]),];J. A\iceDiia, tt:iliniinpriinis.
ridi's^
'-

Mem.
oood

1. Sabs.

Hellehorismus

seasonal! times.

at

and

he vaunts
f/are

and Purgers.
Preparatives

3]

he did

boasts

so

many

it,(saith
he) but, afteronce

121

with
Matthioli,
severall

cures

which
I

never

ticice,
by the helpof God

or

of making it he sets
happilycured. The manner
to George Hankshius
in his third book ofEpist.
down
at large
Bruel
and
Heurnius
make mention of it
a physician.Gualter
doth
in his memorable
Skenkius,
with great approbation
; so

theifwere

medicines,
experimentall

and

cures,

helleborisme

famouse

in his consultations
consil. 148. pro

et

Montanus, which

of

and

b. obser. 37.

cen.

he

so

That

often repeats

counsels

(as2S,pro melan. sacerdote,

and cracks ^ to be a most
hypocondriacoj,

remedyJ or all melancholypersons, tvhich he hath

soveraiffn
and found by longexperience
and
oftengivenwithout offence,
observation

he siich.

to

prefersa

Quercetan
and

Pharmac.

syrrup

hellebors

extract

of hellebor

in his Spagirica
his
of
invention likewise,
(cap.5),

and not
whatsoever.

(a most safemedicine,

'^

before all remedies

Paracelsus,in his book

of black

unft to

be

givenchildren)

hellebor,admits

this medicine,

'^Itis most certain (saith

it is preparedby him.
he)
that the vertue
of this herb is great and admirable in effect,
end littlediffering
from balm it self; and he that knows well
hoic to make use of it,hath more
art then all their books contain,
but

as

shew.
all the doctors in Germany can
his
work
in
de morb. capitis,
.^lianus Montaltus,
exquisite
of
mel.
hellebor
de
sets a speciall
of his own,
31.
receipt
cap.
used: because it is but
which, in his practice,he fortunately
dozen.
it
short 1 ivill set
or

*"

Syrupide pomis J ij,aquae borag.5 iiij,

infusi in
nigriper noctem
facta colatura exhibe.

Ellebori
Mane

6
ligatura

Other

the same
tothis purpose
receiplsof
Valescus
admires pulvisHali, and Jason
the confection

revived.
lately

Nimquam

of which
*

Put

dedimus, qiiinex

our

case

new

London

vel 8 gr.

you shallfindein him.

Pratensis after him:

hath
Pharmacopoeia

(saithhe) all other

medicines

fail.

aut altera assiiraptione.

Deo juvante, fuerint ad
Inter composita piirgantia
" Longo
melancholiam.
experimeuto a se obsf rvatura esse, raelancholicos sine oftensa egregiecurandos valere.
Idem, responsionead Aubertum, veratrum
nigrum, alias timidum et periculosum,vini
sic usui redditur,
etiam et oleo commodum
ut etiani pueris tuto adniinistrari
spiritu
"" Certiim
est, hujusherbas virtutem maximam
possit.
et mirabilem
esse, parumEt qui norit eo recte iiti,
qne distare a balsamo.
plus habet artis quam toto scribentium cohors aut omnes
doctores in Germania.
'Hoc
eQuo feliciterusus sum.
[wsitoquod ali;E niedicinap-non \aleant, ista tunc, Dei misericordia,
valebif ; et est me'iiclnaeoronata, qua: secretissime tencafur.
a

saluteoi restituti.

bLib. 2.

una

of Me/ancholy.

Cure

122

[Part.2.

bifthe helpof God

medicine^ which

this alone shall do it; and

be keptin secret.
must

Sec. 5.

'tis a crowned

ana
aerarici,
lazuli,
lapidis
Epilhymisemunc.
5 ij,
20.
Scammonii, 3 j,caryophillorum
numero
Pulverizentur
omnia; et ipsiuspulveris
scrup. 4. singulis
sep-

timanis

assumat.

these I may adde Arnoldi vinum bufflossatum,

or
borage
wine, before mentioned,which ''Mizaldus calls vinum mirabile,
a wonderful
wine, and Stockerus vouchsafes to repeat verbatim
Ilubeus his ''compoundwater, out of
amongst other receipts;
To

his

Savanarola; Pinetus
which, in his book

melancholypersons

cured many
kius

balm; Cardans pulvishi/acinthi,

with
admirandis, he boasts that he had

de curis

in

his observable

puts amongst
with which

syrrup,
hath in his kinde

''

"

Scken-

his
medicines; Altomanis
so
solemnlyto witness, he

he calls God

done

eightdayes,which

excellent

many

cures,

and

which

{cent.J. observ. SO) mentioneth,Daniel Sennertus

mirable
adcommends; Rulandus
l.part. 2. cap. 12) so much
(lib.
for
which
water
melancholy,
{cent.2. cap. 96) lie

Sckenkius

names

to be

vitcs aureum
? and his absolute
w hat not
spirittun
panaceam,
medicine
of fifty
egges, {curat,empir.cent. 1. cur. 5.).
the
taken three in
morning,with a powder of his. *Fa-

ventinus
will

(prac. Emper.)

have

101

(which Sallust

to

be

doubles

taken

by

this number

three

Salvian

of egges, and
and three in like sort,
med. lib. 2. c. I) with

de re
approves,
tillall
be spent, a most
same
powder,
for al! melancholyand mad-men.

of the

some

remedy
R

Epithymi,thymi,ana,
; croci grana

unam

drachmas

tria ; cinnamomi

duas
drachmam

; sacchari

excellent

albi unciam
Misce

unam.

fiat

pulvis.
All these
aqua

yet arc

nothingto

those

of
C/te/jrfo/i/",
quintessence

"^chymical
preparativesof

salts,extracts,
hellebor,

lations,
distil-

dfc. T)\ Anthony, in his book

oyles,aurum
potabile,
de auro
potab.edit. 1600, is all in all for it. ^Andthomfh all
with a wickcdand
the school of Galenists^
unthankful
prideand

Lib. de artif.med.

bgect. 3. Optimum remediiim aqua composita

Savanarolae.
'' Douatus
ab Altomari, cap. 7
Testor Deum, me
facta priuspurgatione.
" Cenmaltos melancLolicos hnjussolius sj rupiusu curasse,
sumant
tria ova
tam ova
et unnm
sorbilia,ciini sequentipulveresupra
mane
: qiiolibet
et unum
assuniserint centum
ovum
; nianiacis et measpersa, et cootineant quousque
lancliolicisutilissimum remcdiiim.
fQuercetan, cap. 4. Phar. Oswaldus Crolscliolaniineralia non
lius.
1. Licet tola Galenistarum
sine impio et ingrato
fc'Cap.
fastu a sua practicadetestentur ; tamen
in gravioribus
morbis, onini vegetabiliumderelicto snbsidio,
licet ea temere, ignaviter,
ad mineralia confugiunt,
etinutiliterusurpent.
Ad finem libri.
"

Sckeukius, observ. 31.

"

1 Sui)s.

Mem.

Averters.

4,]

123

detest it in their practice^

yet, in more
will do no good, theyare
their vegetals

grievousdiseases^
compelledto seek
the help of minerals, though they use them rashl//,
unprojitDutch
and
Rhenanus, a
chymist,
abhj,slackhj, to no purpose.
tdkes upon him to apoloin his book de Sole eputeo emerg'ente
gize
him.
for Anthony ; and sets light
by all that speakagainst

scorn,

when

which is the
do I meddle with this great controversie,
subjectof many volumes ? let Paracelsus,Quercetan, CroUius,
But

what

and

the brethren

defend themselves
of the rosg crosse
as
they
and
the
Paracelsus:
Galenists,oppugn
Crato, Erastus,

may.
he bragson

s.de,he did

the other

then all the Galenists

means,

in

famous

more

Europe, and

cures

by this

calls himself

As Thes-

"c.
illiterate,
infants,
Hippocrates,
those
ancient
writers,
Asclepiadean
against
all antiquity
^he condemns
others, insults,triumphs,overcomes
a
con(saithGalen, as ij' he spake to him) declares himself'
^ One
his
their
and
oicn
crowns
drop of
doings.
chyqueroiir,
shall do more
mical preparatives
good then all their Julsome
potions. Erastus, and the rest of the Galenists,vilifiethem on
the other side,as hereticks in physick:
'^Paracelsus did that in
A drunken rogue he was, a
phy sick,which Luther' in divinity,
the divelfor
his master, divels
a magician;he had
basefelloxv,
he
his J'amiliar
and
what
done by the
did, was
companions;
helpof the divel. Thus they contend and raile,and, every

monarch

; Galen,

salus of old railed

nicut, write book

Let them agree as

and

pro

they will

et

con;
:

"

adhuc

sub

judice lis est.

proceed.

SUBSECT.

IV.

Averters.

xVVERTERS

and purgers must

as
tendingall
go together,
the
to
same
purpose, to divert thisrebellous humour, and turn
it another way.
In this range, clysters
and suppositories
lenge
chalchief place,
from the brain and
this humour
a
to draw

heart,to
used

the

few

more

ignobleparts.

dayes between,

and

boyledseeds of anise,fennel,and

Some
those
bastard

would
to

be

have
made

them

still

with the

saffron,hops,thyme,

epithyme,mallows,fumitory,
polypody,
bugloss,
sene, diasene,
hamech, cassia,diacatholicon,hierologodium,
oylof violets,
sweet
almonds, "c.
a clyster,
For, without question,
opporVeteres

maledictis incessif vincit,

et contra omnem
coronatur,ipseque
antiqiiitatetn
b Codronchus, de sale absynthii,
Gal. lib.1. meth. c. 2.
* Idem
Paracelsus in medicina, quod Lutherus in theologia. Disput. in eundem,
parte 1. Magus ebrius,iUiteratuSj
daemonem praeceptorem habnit,daemones femi"c.
liares,
"

se

victor declaratur.

choose, in tliisas

tunclyused,cannot
do very much

to

of Melancholy.

Cure

V2A

good

by

Sec. 5.

but
inahidies,

Hw/r/wrt^ /'sometimes
clyslcres

h^arnedlecture

hich he handled
physicians.Such

other

most

as
maybe prepared,
nourish,as tlicy

since

[Part.2.

of

was

naturall

our

clysters
h)ngphilosophy reader,
informed

not

of discourse, out of some

other noted
thingsas provokein-ine most conunend, but
Trincavelius
choly,
sweat.
{consU.16. cap. ]) in head melanforbids it. P.Byarusand others approve frictions of the

not

by way

instead of
"vater.
parts,and to bath them with Avarm
C
ardan
with
nettles
till
prescribes
ordinaryfrictions.
rubbing
outward

they blister the skin, which

much
so
magnifies.

likewise

Bassardus

Visontinus

received.
Sneezing,masticatories,and nasals,are generally
and
136
Monta'tus, c. 3i. Hildesheim, s/)?e?7.
138, g-ive
i./b/.
of all three.
receipts
that
Venice
in
emperick

severall

'^

an

and

the mouth
and

would

which
nostrils,

self for

Hercules
had

de Saxonia

strony icuter

relates of

by
melancholy,
to purge

he stillused in head

yold.

no

mouthsand

""
hemroids is very good physick,
To open
ifthey
Avould have them
have been formerlystopped. Faventinus
openedAvith horse leeches: so would Ilercul. de Sax. Julius

thinks aloes fitter: emost

185. Scoltzii)
Alexandritujs (consil.
in this case, to be appliedto the forehead,
approve horse-leeches
-

nostrils and

other

places.

Montaltus {cap.29, outof Alexander and others)

prescribes
andissues
in
the
lasses,
Aretseus,
leftthigh.
7cuppiny-ff
(lib.

cap.

Sylvius,will have
5), ''Paulus Regolinus,

them

without

to the shoulders and back, thighs

and feet.
scarification,
apfjlied
hinder
'Montaltus {cap.34) bids open an issue in the arm,
or

part of the head.

and

"^

Piso

frictions,
injoynsligatures,
sitories,
suppo-

stillwithout
cuppingglasses,

and
scarification,

the rest.

Cauteries and
crown,

while.

and

hot irons

the seared

'Tis not

amiss

or

to

are

to be used

ulcerated

in the suture

to
placesuffered

bore the skull ivith

an

run

of the
a good

instrument,to

Sallust Salvianus,de re medic,

let out thefuliginous
vapours.
because this humour
lib. 2. cap. 1)
hardlyyeeldsto other
"'

''Ant. Philos. cap. de melan.

Frictio vertice,"c.
jMaster D. Lapworth.
^
vult
vendere.
fortissinia
non
aiiro
Mercurialis,
os,
uares,
purgans
qiiain
A(iua
Hemorrhoidum
modo
etinensium
ex
eorum
juvat,
provocatio
consil.6. et30
Huppres^ Y*.
"^Laiirentius,
Bruel, S^c.
Bayeriis,I. 2. cap. 13.
sione ortum habuerit.
'" Hildesbeim,
sinistro.
fontaneliii;crure
fc'Cucurbitula; sicciP.et
naribus,"c.
sunt
cerebro
tralieiidi
cuciirbittdis
siccis huAictionibiisuniveisi,
a
2.
spicil. Vapores
' Fontanellam
et crura.
circa ])edes
aperi.juxta
occipilium,
meris ac dorso affixis^
' Caiiterium fiat suture
^ Balani, ligaturir,
"c.
frictiones,
aut brachium.
loca ulcerosa. Trcpano etiam cranii deojita.^imroiDui
roronali ; diu fluere permittantur
"" Quoniam
diflinilfercedif aiiis
pxitns pateat.
ftiligincsis
potftit,ut vaporibiis
binislro infragtnu.
ideo fiatin xrrtice cauteriura,
aut crure
medicanienli',
a

1. Subs.

Mem.

would

physick,

availes

much

he)

melancholy

the

and

of the

admiration

hiqh,

on

part.

other

to

let out

fumes,

melancholy

broken

pan

de

21.

cap.
stifte

by boring- alone,
of

which,

crown;

but

o-old.

In

was

after

approve
would

dextrd,

^'O.) but

the

have

Tom.

2.

consult.

the

head,

in

man

month

19.

et

525 ;

et

his

saw

brain

med.

pract.
all

'tis too

so

rated.
evapo-

in

Savoy,
together ; by
he

madness,

of the

suture

be

to

cautery

cauteries

6.

most

noble

icell ; but,
But
again.

be

to

made

with

is, consil.

Montanus,

86.)

86

Ro-

84.

if

for

prescribed

are

thighs, (Mercurial

the

in

open

consil.

Fonseca,

dericus

hole

parts, these

as

holds,

melancholy and
yeers
in the
of this remedy

two

other

men,
melancholy
legs {Idem,
arms,

the

leaving

""

he

as

when
hored

good.

sword,

he
open
returned

15) cured

Tract.

Arculanus
many

thick,

too

8.

All

delivered.

was

do much

ivith

dotage

and

and

(c.

Guianerius

means

shaved

he

will

teas

his

fall from

dotage.
tryed last,

{lib. 1,
professor in Padua,
cauteries
at
no
melanchol.) will allow

humor,

an

wound

healed,

loas

Gordonius

to

head

in the
the

as

head

doubt

without

his

with

the

to

cauteries

; '^the

wounded

Messari,

Alexander

these

serve

long

so

of

head,

the

Another,

head

be

could

in

it

(saith

saw

remedies

no

wounded

luas

recovered
have

ichich

man

his wound

ichen

will

physick

no

by

hreakinyhis

beholders/

2) would

''/

excellently cured.

teas

instantly

was

\^-

leap.

he

broken,

skul

left leg helow

places, for that

vapours.

that
he

chance

by

the

or

three

or

of the

Rome,

at

man

when

but

healed:

two

exhalation

the

to

in

hored

head

the

cauterized,

head

the

have

"and

knee,

the

125

Avei-ters.

4.]

hypochond.
pro
other
physick will

coxa

do

no

good.

duo

Fiant

licum,
fractum

cadens,

qui, adhibitis
esset, optime
non

cauterium

matrem

sine

cauteria,
multis
sanatus

astantium

in capite ;

choiicum
curatua

aiit tria

ossis

com

remediis,
est.

proculdubio

ista

vulneratum,

Et

faciunt
et

melancho-

Romae

ad

cranium

JRadatur

est.

exhalationem

fumorum
fractum

gladio
est mania.
vulnus
sanatum,
reversa
optime ; at, cum
aperta stetit.
trepanari feci, et per mensem
fortnna

Vidi

cranium
iion
poterat ; sed, cum
vidi melanchoiicum,
aiterum
qui,

liberatus

admiratione,

perforationc.

sanari

caput,
;

vulnus

qnamdiu
"

Usque

vidi

gladio
ex

alto
et fiat

melan-

apertum,
ad

duram

'J. Soc.
[Part.

of Melanchohj.

Cure

VX

V.

SUBSECT.

the
Alteratives and Cord'iafs,
resolving
corrohnrntimj^

mending the

and

this humor

.OECAUSE
be

is so

areto
removed, fhereliqucs

and such
nith such
brain, -"which

The

means.

every
like

day,

other

reliques,

Temperament.

and so hard to
of itself,
malif^nc
dials,
corbecleanserl,by alteratives,

ed,
temper is to be altered and amend-

thing'sas fortifieand strenotheti the heart and

in this maludi/,
and
are
commonhj both affected
another

one
nwfua//}/misaff'ect

do

5.

or

few

some

occasion

physick,

as

which

are

still to

inserted after
(hjyes

serves,

and

are

of such

beg-iven
or

purg-e,

force, that

they help alone, and, as '^ Arnoldus holds in his

rnany
before all other medicines, in
Aphorismes,are to be prej'erred
times

kind

what

soever.

find

present remedy,

more

of cordials

this number

Amongst

drink, if itbe

soberlyand

then

and

alteratives I do

cup
used.
opportunely

of wine

not

strong

or

It makes

man

the ?6-?V,
if moderately
taken,
bold, hardy,couriig'\oiis,''whetieth
it
makes
those
and, as '^Plutarch saith, (Synip./" qn"BSt.12)
which

are
or

otherwise

dull, to exhale and evaporate like frankincense^

quickens(Xenophon adds)*"as oyl doth

fire.

^A

J'amonscordial Mat thiolus in Dioscoridem calls it,an excellent

the hodij:it makes a good colour, a fionnut r intent,to refresh
the stomack, takes away
rishing
age, helpsconcoction,fortifies
obstructions, provokesurine, drives out excrements, procures
clears the blood, expelswind and cold po}/sons,attennates,
sleep,
all thick vapours, and fuliginous
humours:
concocts, di.^sipates
and, that which
feare and

is all in all to

gladsthe

seminarium.

it takes

purpose,

away

sorrow.
s

It

my

heart

Curas

of

Helenas

edaces

man,

Evius.
dissipat

Psal.

104.

boule, the sole

15;
nectar

hilaritatis dulce
of the

Gods,

true
nepenthesin ''Homer, which puts away care
others
grief(as Oribasius, 5. Collect, cap. 7. and some

that

or

and

will)

habenda. quod cerebro compatitiir,

et sese
Cordis ratio semper
invicem officiiint.
'
38. INledicina tlieriacalispra- cipteris eligenda,
CJalen. de temp. lib.3.
Moderate vinnmsumptum, aciiit iiiRenium.
"Tardos aliter et tristesthuris
c. 3.
fViribus
in inodum exhalare facit.
'Hilaritatem, ut oleum flaminMci,excitat
niitriendo corpori aliinentiim optimum, aetatem floriretinendis cardiacura eximium,
fbvet. roncoctionrm
dam
facit,calorem innatnm
jiivat,.stoiDachum roborat, excrementis viam parat, nrinam movet, soninum
conciliat: vi-nana,
flatus di sipat,
frigidos
a

""

'

Aphor.

crassoR

Kt.
humoresaffpnuat, roqnit,
di"ruti(,

(^Hor. lib. 'i.Ud.

11.

''

Odyss.

A.

128
enforood

not

h'lhprc per

of *.4ssiierus

they drank
Mould

such

hifordpr

it.

man

other

This

with
No

he

8)

and

now

least,and

at

31)

in

minde,

then

to be

and

; as

keepsit clean.
in his book

Avicenna

man

them

reasons

phyM.agninus{Reg.

so

once

mind

dc

tranquil,lib. \.

month
the

of superfluities,

manner

the

same

i^ood

it, because it scoures

Of

drink

to

'^

all

of

be

to

for

sireat,

excellent

diseases.

other

will have

melancholy, not

or

drunk

will have

gives his

body by i-omit^urine,

country

proceeds farther yet. and

sicicit is for this and many

3.

the mind

^'

2. cap.
(31.
him that is troubled

part.

parable

on
a
are
enlii^htened
sj)irits
a
(saith Rhasis)for
melancholy
phi/sick,
that can
needs no
keep cojnpany, and carouse,

medicines; 'tis enouo^h. His

only, but

thev

sudden

better

and

what

easie and

thouohts, that molest

fire,the

doct.

san.

is a most

contpu/sion

cheap,still ready a""^ainstfear,sorrow,

common,

of drink

See. 5.

in lliat roval feast

but, as
rioletifiam,

troublesome

brimstone

[Part.2.

lasted 180 dayes, withovf

in ffolden
and
vpsarfs,when

which

themselves.

remedy,
and

by

of Mclanchohf.

I'ure

is Seneca
c.

15:

the

sopher,
philo-

nonnunquam^

ebrietatem

morbis, ad

veniendum
:
curas
usque
is
it
triatiticc
medetur
sometimes
be
drunk
to
good
;
;
deprimit
it helpssorrow,
and so concludes
his tract
depresseth
cares;
in aliis

vt

with

of wine

cup

anima:
quillitatem

habes,

charissime,

serene

pertinet.But

these

qua'

ad

tran-

epicurealtenents,

are

tendingto looseness of life,luxury,and atheism, maintained

tians,
heathens, dissolute Arabians, prophane Chrisby some
Moses
and are exploded by Rabbi
(Tract.4), Guliel.
Valescus
de Taranta, and most
1. cap.S),
Placentius (lib.
curately
aclate
writer
ventilated by Jo. Sylvaticus,
and
a
sician
phy-

alone

of Millan, med.
tenent

cont.

cap. 14, where

you

shall findethis

confuted.
copiously
you say, if this be true, that wine and strongand to exhave such vertue
to expellfear and sorrow,
hilarate
hereafter lets drink and be merry.
the minde, ever

Howsoever
drink

reconditum.

dProme

Lyde strenua,

Csccubum

"

CapacioresafFer hue,
EtChia

vina aut

puer,
Lesbia.

"

"

'

scyphos,

Come, lustyLyda, fill'sa cup of sack ;

And, sirrah drawer, bigjior
pots wo lack.
And

""

TJpster. 18.

Scio wiius

''Tract.

that have

I. cont. 1. 1.

so

Nonest

orood

ros

smack.

laiulabilioreo,

vpI

ciira

molior:

qui melancholiciis,iitattir soci""tate hdininiinift biberia ; et iniipotest sustinere iisum

necessaria liiijiis
vini,non indiijetaliilmpdicina, qiiod eo sunt oinoiti ad nsiim
pas""Turn qnod sequatiirimlc sudor, vomitio,nrina,a qtiibus
a
sionis.
superiluitates
"'"Hor.
immdum.
et
remanet
rcmoventiir,
corpni
r.oqwre

Cure

1. J^iibs.5.]

Mem.

o/Head-Melanc/io/i/.

129

in ''A. Geliiiis,let us ma'mtam

the vigorof
I say with him
^
laetitiie
souls with a moderate cup qfiobie,Natis in usum
our
minde
be any
: if there
scyphis,and drink to refreshour
cold

sorrow

ith it, or torpidbashftlness,

lets wash
saith Horace ;
/\'^uncviuo pellite
: so
curas
'^

away^

Aaacreoji,

"

TloXv

,/

y)

KpeKTaov,

so

saitli

-.

^xvovrcc.

cup of wine: and so say I too

myself);for all this may be done, so
(though1 drink none
that it be modestly,
soberly,
opportunelyused; so that they
is excess;
with
drunk
which
he not
wine, wherein
our
Let's drive down

with

it all

care

on
Apostleforewarns ; for, as Chrysostome well comments
ad ebrietatem;
that place,ad Icstitih-m datmn est vinum, non

**

far madness

will you know

: and
is
that
Vis discere
be
understood?
how
and
to
where, wiien,
Audi quid dicat Scriptura;hear the
sit vinnm ?
uhi bonum
wine, to them that are in soitoiv, or, as Paul
Scriptures
; fjive
bid Timothy drink wine for his stomack
sake,for concoction,
'lis for mirth

health,or
telleth

such

some

if

us,

but

wine,

not

Iionest occasion.

singularmoderation

Otherwise, as
be

vinegar,blandus

meer
; "'tis
pernicious

"

Pliny

had, nothingso
dcemoUjpoyson it self.
not

fearful 1 doom, Habac. 2. 15. and 16.

Wo be
!
drunk
his
to
neighbour
shamefull
spewing
fore,
shall be upon his glory. Let not good fellows triumphtherehave
that
I
much
commended
wine ;
so
Matthiohis)
(saith
hear

But

more

that makes

Mm

if it be

both

body

founds
of making glad,it conmakes
a
a
head,
giddy

and

mirth

causeth
for

soul ; it
'twas well said of the poet of old,^Wine
so
grief; ^ nothinggood for some, so

and

And

sorrowfulheart.
bad

in stead

immoderatelytaken,

as
others, especially,

one

observes, qui a

calidd male
habent, that are hot or
theyalone,as I have shewed,
spices,
themselves

they

or

in their diet.

de

melan.),wine

must

But

not

cause

wine

use

determine

to

inflamed.

as

an

with

And

caussd
so

of

head-melancholy
ordinarydrink,
'

Laurentius

(c. 8.

and such as are trouis bad for mad men,

bled
their
inner parts or brains; but to melancholy,
with heat in
wine
which is cold (asmost
is),
soberlyused, may be

very

good.

S'Lib. 15. 2. noct. Att.

Vigorem

simul, refotoqaeauinio, si quid in

aairai
eo

vel

moderato

vini

usu

tiieamnr

et calefacfo

vel torpentis
verecundias
tristitis,
frigidfe

diluamus.
fuerit,

c Qd.
7. lib. 1. 31.
^Hor. 1. 1. Od. 27.
Nam
prasstat
"^
ebrium me, quam
tnortmira,jacere.
Ephes. 5. 18. ser. 19. in cap. 5.
* Lib. 14. 5.
Nihil per!iiciosius
viribus,si modus absit ; venenum.
'Theocritus,
^
Idyl.13. Vino dari latitiam et dolotem.
jRenodeus.
^lercurialis,
consil.35.
' Fernelius
Vinum fiisjidis
optimum, et pessimiimferina melancholia.

44.
(consil.

et

VOL.

II.

4.5)vinum

prohibetasFiiduum,et

aromata.
K

[Parf.2.

CureofMelancholi).

130

Soc. 5.

I inny say tliosnnieof the decoction of china roots, sassafrass,

Cliina,saith JManardiis,makes a good
sar.saj)nrilla,iinaiacuin.
and all infirmities
melanclioly,
cold ; even
so
sarsaparilla
provokessweat
dries.
Claudinus
{roHsnft.89- ft 46)
mightily;guaiacuni
make frequent
188. "S'co//;r//),
Montanus, Capivaccius
(consult.
flic
and
and good use
of guaiacum
liver be not
china,-'so th(it
incensed, good for such as are cold,as most melancholymen
in hot.
to be mentioned
means
are, l)iitby no
The Turks have a drink called coff'a
(fortheyuse no wine)
black
of
and
named
a berryas
as
so
as
bitter,(likethat
soot,
colour

face, takes away

in the

from
proceeding'

and
as

which

drink

black

in

was

amongst

use

the

Lacedcemonians,

perhapsthe same) which

thoysipstillof, and sup as warm

suftcr;theyspend much time in those coiia-houses,

theycan

"which

arc

what

some

like

our

ale-houses

or

; and

taverns

there

and drinkingthe time, and to

to drive away
they sit chattingbecause
finde
that kinde
be merry together,
they
by experience
of drink so used helpeth digestion,and procurethalacrity.
of them take opium to this purpose.
Some
Borage, bawme, saffron, gold, I have spoken of; Mont-

altus (c. 23) commends

ab

{plant, hist.

Horto

roots

scorzonera

condite.

Garcias

lib. ^2. cap.

25) makes mention of an

it
be eaten, for 24 hours
if
makes them incline to
of rjrief,
another called baug-e,like in eflfect

liearb called datura, ^ which,

takes atcay all sense
folloiviufj,
and
laufjhter

mirth

and

to opium,tchich puts them for a time ifitoa kinde of e.rtasis,

and makesthem
gentlyto laugh.One of theRoman
emperours
he did ordinarily
had a seed, which
eat to exhilarate himself.

bezoars slone,and the

"^Christop'iorus
Ayrerusprefers
of

alkermes, before

other

and
cordials,

amber

in

confection

some

cases.

comfortsthe inner parts; and bczoar stone hath an

all melancholyaffections;itrefresheth
vertue
against
especiall

^Alkermes

'^

the heart, and corroborates the whole bodij. ' Amber

provokes
After a purge, 3 or
urine, helpsthe body,breaks winde, Sec.
4 gr. of bezoar
stone, and 3 gr. of amber
greece, drunk, or
in
taken
borage or buglosswater, in which gold hot hath
will do much
been rpienched,
nish
good ; and the purge shall dimiless
of the

(theheart

so

of
refreshed)

the

and
strength

substance

body.
R.

confect. Alkermes

Succini

albi subliliss.

Syrup,de

cort.

citri.

ss

lap.Bezoar, 3 j.

3 jj.cum
pulvcrisat.
Fiat

elcctuaiium.

i" Per 24 lioras

" Alodo
jecnr non inrt ndatur.
doloris omnem
senssiin
et
tollit,
"'
'' Alkf-rmcs
2.
ridcre facit
Hildtslicim,
omnia vifalia viscere mire
spicil.
confortat.
"^Coiitraomnes
nipiiinchnlicosntTectiisconfert; ac cerhnii est ipitiins
cordis et corporisvires minim in modiim
' Siirciimiii
omnes
nsu
r. lici
albis\( lu
flatiimdisciitit,
simnra confortat ventriciilum,
iirinarii
mo\et, Sec.

Mem.

1. Subs.
bezoars

To

Cure

5.]
stone

subscribe,Manardus, and*

most

others; it takes aicay

useth it : I have
seen

131

Head-Melancholy.

of

sadness, and
that

some,

many
that
merry
diseased
much

makes

have

Mm

been

that, takingthe
melancholy,
oj'three grainsof'this stone in the water of oxtongne,
iceight
have been cured.
Garcias ab Horto brags how many desperate
he halb done upon melancholymen
cures
by this alone,when
But alkerraes many except
had forsaken them.
ai! physicians
in
it
cases
some
Hcainst;
may help if it be good, and of the
Jodocns
in France, which
best, suc]i :is that of Montpelier
and would have
Sincerus (/t'fw^rrtr?o
Galli(e)^oi\\i\c\\
magnifies,
But
it
made.
is
traveller
omit
it
a
not
so
to see
no
generall
and
sivoiming,
faintness,

with

''

medicine

the other.

Fernelius

{consil.
49) suspects
of its heat ;
he) sooner
nothing(saith
by reason
this disease,then the vse ojliot
workingmeats and
and would hare than for that cause
warily taken.
as

mes,

therefore of this and

of the
it ;

alker-

"^

nam

catholike

medicine

to

to

be

clude
con-

all other medicines, as Thucydides

for
no
remedy could be prescribed

plagueat Athens
quod uni profiit,hoc
:

perates
exas-

cines,
medi-

had

aliis erat
:

exitio

that which

there

helpsone

is

no

is pernicious

anotJier.

elecDiamargaritumfrigidnm^diambra, diaboraginatum,
Galeni
de
et Rhasis,
Icefificans
gemmis,dianthos,dia-

tuarium

electuarium

dtilce et amarum,

moschum

conciliator is, syrup,

la
enu
violets,
fumitory,

conserves
cidoniorumdepomis,

of roses,

satyrion,limmons,
campana,
their good use.

""c.
orange-pills
condite,

"^

dulcis et amari, ana, 5

sacchari
Diabuglossati,
diaboraginati,
R.

Dianioschi

ana,

Misce

Jj.

is full
Every physician
for the

and

syrupo

de

ij.
violacei,

pomis.

oidy I will add

which [ finde recorded by many
of it,
learned
choly,
approvedmedicine againstdotage,head-melan-

rareness

authors,as

cum

have

an

such

of such

diseases of the

: one
receipts

brain.

Take

^rams

head,

a Garcias
ab Horto, aromatum,
lib. 1. cap. 15. Adversus
morbos melanomnes
cholicos conducit, et venenum.
Ego (inquit)utor in morbis mclancholicis,"c. et
in Baubinus book de
sanitateiu restitui. See more
hujusiisu ad pristinani
deploratos
h Edit. 1617.
lap.bezoar. c. 45.
Monspelii electuarium fit
''" Nihil morbum
hunc aque eiasperat, ac alialLerm, "c.
pretiosissiinum
mentorum
calidionim usus.| Alkermes
idee suspectus: et quod
'.yelniedicamentorum
d
serael moneam,
adhibenda calida raedicamenta.
caute
Sckenkius, I. 1.
Observat. de Mania
ad
mentis
vitiocerebri
obortam,
alienationem, et desipientiam
;
*= Caput arietis
in manuscriptocodice Germanico, tale medicanientum
reperi.

nondum

expert!

venerem,

lana et
aroniata,"c.
cum

uno

pelle bene

ictu

atnpntatum, coraibus

tantum

elixabis ; tnin aperto cerebrum

iv2

grum
deraotis,inte-

eximes, et addens

of Melanchulij.

Cure

1t32
meddled

with

[l^ut.2. Sec.

5.

off"at a blow, and the

and wooll together:
skin
horns
away ; boylitwell,
after it is well sod, take out the brains,and put these spices
to
that

never

an

cut

owe,

oidytaken

it,cinnamone,

ginger,nutmeg,

the powder oltluse

of coals
chaling-dish

upon

they do

it,and

heat them

mingle

ss;

in

platter

stirringthcni well, that

together,

burn; take heed itbe

not

cloves,(ma

mace,

spiceswith

overmuch

not

dried,or dryer

then a calves brains ready to be eaten.

Keep itso prepared;
that he fast
and for three daies give it the patientfasting,
so
liours after it. It may be eaten with bread, in an Q2^^^or
two
For 14 daies let him use
broatJj,or any way, so it be taken.
this diet, drink

wine,

no

Caricterius

;;"//.9 IT),
'^9. lalro
pap. I

Gesner

"c.

13. in Nich.

(pract. cap.

Witenberg.edit.

(hist.anhnaJ.

this medicine, though with

try it, and many such.

de

metri

Tuhimf.pag.62) mention

variation

some

lib. 1.

he

that list may

="

Odoraments

to

smell

to, of

rosecakes, vineger,"c.

rose
water, violet flowers,
do much
the brains
recreate

bawme,
to Solomon,
and spirits:
(Pror. 27. d),thei/
accordingrejotfce
nourish
'tisa que';tion
:
the heart, and, as some
monly
comsay,
controverted in our scliools,a"
odoresnntriant
Filet
:
2.
{lib.

cinus
to

prove it;as

alone,

he brings
cap. IS) decide it: ^niany arguments
that
lived
of Democritus,
by the sinel of bread

applyedto

his

for
nostrils,

few

some

daies,when

for

Ferrerins [lib.
2. meth.)speaks
old age he could eat no meat.
of wine, saffron,"c.
of an excellent confection of his making-,
t
o
weak,
which he prescribed dull,
feeble,and dying men
to
smell to, and by it to have done very much
:
good ccquefere
if he

o-facfuet polu., as
prc^'uifine
Our

learned lord
therefore
conmiends

noble and

morfe,
serve

had

given them

Veriilam,in his book

all such

cold

smells

the spirits.
iMontanns
refrigerate

to
a

never

"^

to

form, which
have

he would
of

out

have his

his hands.

prepared,look
spagirically

in Oswaldus

drink.

de vita et
as

any

way

{ccnisii
31) prescribes

melancholypatient

If you

will have

them

basil. ChyCrollius,

mica.

head

of the
Irrigations

the flowersof water

shaven, "^of

/ies,lettuce^violets,camomile, wild

lil-

mallows, tcethers heady

be used many
morningstogether. Montan. {conhead
wasiied once
the
liave
Laelius
so
a Meek.
sil. 31)
for an Italian Count troubled
a fonte Eugubinus, consult. 44,
with head melancholy,
rei)eafsmany medicines which he tried,
6cc. must

would

rhinoet vjdo potti?,nielancholiani cunit ; et rasijra

cornn
" Ciuis testndinisustiis,
" Inslat in niatrice,
(|uodsiirsiiin et deorsuui ad odoris
cerotis,";c. Sckenkias.
sensutn

praecipitatnr.

'

Viscount

S. AlSans.

"i

Ex decortofloruni nyinphicae,

( ii;ii. Ike.
chamomila;, altliwip. r.ai)iti":ivervt
lactarae,violariiin,

1. Subs.

Mem.

133

of Head-Melanchoh).

Cure

5.]

of wheij made oj'

of
goats milk, with the extract of hellebor,and irric/aiions
camomile, S^-c.
the head with waterlillies,
lettuce,violets,
upon
commends
"'Piso
a rams
the suture
lungs applied
of the croicn.
""hut

which

alone

two

did

the

use

cure;

the fore part of the head, or a young Iamb divided

All acknowledgethe chief cure
in the back, exenterated,"c.
to consist in moisteningthroughout. Some, saith Laurentius,
hot

to

pov,dersand caps
aromafical
are
tilings

use

to

the

brain

and

hot

but, forasmuch

dry,they must

be

such

as

sparingly

administered.
the

Unto

heart

may do well to apply bags,epitbemes,

amples.
Laurentius
(c. 9. ds melan.)gives ex-

we

oyntsnents, of which

of bugan
epithemefor the iieart,
prescribes
violet waters, sweet
wine, bawme
loss,borage, water-lilly,

Bruel

leaves,nutmegs, cloves,"c.
seeds

Baths

oyle,"^in which

the

carrets, dill,have been boj/led.

wonderful!
of
great force in this malady, much
'^
Galen, ^ Aetius, Rhasis, "c. of sweet water, in

are

by
is

boyledthe

mallows, roses, violets,Avaterof bugloss,camomile, melilot,"c.

leaves of

flowers
iillies,wethershead,
Guianer. {cap.8. tract. 15) would
and

of

fomentation

of ciminin,rue,

admired
which

belly,make

the

For

when

anointed

them

have

used

twice
bones

forth of the baths, their back

they
nymphasa,fresh
oyleof almonds, violets,
came

with

grease, "c.
Amulets

day,
to be

capon

to be born about, I finde prescribed,

thing's
taxed by some,
approvedby Renodeus, Platerus, {amuleta,
and others;look for them in Mizaldus,
non
ner/ligenda)
iriquit,
mends
comPorta,Albertus, "c. Bassardus Visontinus ("w?.;;/"7os.)
S*. Johns wort gatheredon a 'Friday,in
or
hypericon,
fo his effectual
ichen it comes
the hour of Jupiter,
operation
and
in
born,
Jnlii): so gathered
(that is about the full moon
and
this
it
the
affection,
about
neck,
mightihjhelps
or
hung
drives aivay allphantasticall
spirits. Philes,a Greek author
writes that
that flourished in the time of Michael Palseologus,
worried,
a wolf
a
sheep or kids skin,whom

and

"

'"

""

cum

Hosdus

inhumani

ore

lupi,

adferre,
adhibita, duo visa sunt remedium
"c.
lacte
violarum,
nymphasas,
et
ex
hellebori, irrigatio

Inter auxilia mtiUa

extracto

raptiisab

usus

seri

sutura;

capiiai
coroiiali

"' Confert et pulmo arieadeptus est

pristinara
adhibita ; his remediis sanitatem
cSemina
adniolus
sincipiti.
dorsum
exenteratns,
divisus,
tis,calidus agnns per
tTetrab. "i.
d Lib. 3. de locis affect.
anethi
cocta.
dauci,
cumini, rutaj,
ad ecergiam
1. cap. 10.
'Cap. de mel. collecto die Vener. hora Jovis, cum
sen
hunc affectum apprime
Julii ; inde gesta et coUo appensa
venit. c. 1. ad plenilunium
animal. Ovis a hipo cors L. de proprietat.
expellit.
juvat, et fanaticos spiritus
cordis
enim
palpitationem
induraento
usurpaudam
corporis
;
pelleranon esse
-

reptas
excitat,"c.

pro

Mart.

Cure

134

at all to be

not
ouijlit

of (he

/fition

of Melauchohj.
about

worn

for any
rino-,made

anuilcts have.

iccrtWici/ finiscth palpi

man,

fear,but

hcdit,not

Sec. 5.

[Part.?.

socrrt

of the hoofo

which

vertue

of"an

ri"ht

asses

tore-foot,carried about, "c. I say with "IJcnodeus,theyare

altogether

to be

rejected.

Piony doth

not

pretious
epilepsie;

cure

dunu", born with one, helpsthe

colick ; "^a spideran ague, "c.
Beinu' in the country in the
vacation time not many
years since,at Lindlyin Lecestershire,
diseases

most

isfones

''a wolfs

my fathers house, I firstobserved

nut-shell lapped in silke,"c. so
mother:

whom

this amulet

appliedfor

althoughI knew

have

to

eyes, aches, "c. and such

all the country where she dwelt

sore
chirurgery,
as

done
were

could

famous

good cures
help
most
this, methought,was

many
otherwise

see

destitute of

Matthiolus,

repeatedby
begin

credit

more

cines,
mediexperimental!

witness, to have

can

upon divers poor folks,that

all other experiyet, among
ments,
absurd

and

ridiculous; I

to

in Dioscorides, approved by
Aldrovandus, cap. (If Arancd, lib. de

have

better

amulets, when

to

skill in

medicine

insectis.

excellent

Qnidaranececumfchre'/ For what

length,rand)ling
amongst authors (as often I

this very

I found

"

an

spiderin a
f'^-uo by ''my
a

for it.

warrant

no

? tillat
antipathy

do),

and

of

opinionof it,and
it in

saw

to

answer
parties

some

give
to

experience. Such medicines are to be exploded,that consistof

and charms, which
do no g;ood
can
words, characters,
spells,
at

all,but

the divels

out

of

who
policy,

is the firstfounder

SUBSECT.

Correctors

of Occidents

to

IIEN

you

have

used

and

teacher

: or

of them.

VI.

procure

Dr earns,

"

I^omponatusproves

as
strong"conceipt,

Sleep. A(jainstfearfnll

Redness,^c.

all

good

means

and

helpsof

altera-

tives,averters, diminutives, yet there will be sJill certain accidents

and amended, as waking,fcarfull dreams,
to be corrected
in
the
face
to some
to some,
ruddiness,"c.
flushingtheir
of
continuall
fears,sorrows,
Waking by reason
cares,

dry brains,is
men,
means

and

must

symptome

thai

nmch

cruciiies

melancholy

therefore be

procuredj

which

speedilyhelped,and sleepby all

is a sufficient remedy of if
sometimes
*"

"Pliar. lib. 1. cap. 12.

i",.\f:(i"g^
mp. .31. Tet. .3.ser. 4.
dc araiwa,
JiMistress DorothyBiirtou
Solo soinno
fol.1.51.
curata est citra intdici avixiliiim,

riysses Aldrovandus
"

"

nioscoride.i,

slie died,1629.

of Melancholy.

Cure

136

[Part.'i.Sec.

5.

much virgin
wax
as a nut; annointyourtempleswith some
of if,ad ho ram
si mini
of worniwoodi'* mandrake, ^henhano, roses, made
Sacks
like pillowsand laid under the patients
head, are mentioned

as

'Cardan

hy

and

i\Ii/aldus:

,'o

anno'uit tha soles

fat of a dormmise, the teeth

hare ears
rchiirms^^c.
(/all^

the

Frontlets

well known

are

with
viiieger,

fo

tcith

of the feetloith
a dog,swines
of'

eare-icux

and
good wife,rose-water
gratedupon
temples.
every

milk, and nutmegs

littlev/omans

appliedto both
take of castorium a dram
and a half,of
an
emplaster,
mixt hot!) together
with
littlewntcrof
opium half a scruple,
life make
small plasters
two
thereof,and apply them to the
temples.
Rulandus
1. cur. 17. cent. 3. cur. 9-1)
(cent.
prescribes
epirose-cake,

For

themes
of

and

lotions of the

head, with the decoction of flowers

leaves, mandrake
roots, henbane, M'liite
de Saxonia, stil/icidia,
"c.
tions
Loor
dropj)ings,

nympha^a,violet

poppy.

Here,

of the feet do

avail of the said herbs:

much

saith Laurentius, I think you may

means,
in the Avorld.
the most
melancholy man
behinde

the ears,

and

procure
Some

applyopium

use

by these
sleepto
leeches
horse-

the

place.
ag-ainst
fearfull dreams, and such
and
Avalk
talk
in
their
as
sleep.
2.
I.
nnt.
to
c.
Porta,
(i) jrrocure pleasant
Baptista
(Mar/,
dreams and quietrest, would have you take hippoglossa,
or
the hearb horsetongue,
them
their
to
distilled
bawme,
use
or
'^

Bayerus (lib.2.

waters

after supper,

13)

c.

sets

Such

"c.

down

remedies

some

must

men

to

not

eat

beans, pease,

black Avines ;
onions, cabbid^-e,venison, hare, use
garlick,
hard
of
or
digestionat supper, or lye on their
any meat
"c.
backs,
Rusticus jmdor bashfulness,flushing
in the face, high colour,
y

ruddiness, are
many

grievances,m

common

melancholy men

M'hen

they meet

hicii much
;i

man,

or

torture
come

in

'comfiany of their betters,strangers, after a meal, or if jthey

drink a cup of wine or strong-drink, theyare as red and fleet,
and

sweat,

as

if they had

been

at

maiors

si
i'vust,
protserthn

accesserit,it exceeds; 'they think every man

observes,
takes notice of it : and fear alone \\\\{effect it,
out
suspicionwith-

metus

any other
a

cause.

Sckenkius

(ohserv. vied. lib. 1) speaksof

of Savoyescourt, that was

waitinggentlewoman in the duke

"" Ihoscyanins sub rervf""Read

Lemnins, lib.her. bib. cap. 2. of mandrake.
diciint efficacissinium,
" Plantain
cali viridis.
p
liris
pinpnedine
pedisinunpere
ranis soninuin
et quod vix credi potest, dentes inunctos ex sorditie anrium
profundum
'^ Veni
f Ant
lib.
si
Cardan, de reruin
varietat.
inerum
conciliare,"c.
f Nam,
simul est pador
quid incantius exciderit,
ant, 8..C.
qua parte pmor,
"ddihis illi. .^atius.

1. Sub".

Mem.

of Head-Melancholy.

Cure

offended with it,that she kneeled

much

so

().]

offered Biarus,

all that she

physician,

down

had,

137

to

him, and

to be

cured

of

that ^Antony Lodovicus

'tismost
true
sailh in his
it. And
either
hurts
book de Pudore, Bashfiihiess
or
helps;such men
If
it
from
it
hurts.
I am
sure
proceed
suspicionor fear,
other remedy but to rejectand
no
''Felix Plater prescribes
it : id populnscurat scilicet ! as a ^worthyphysician
contemn
in

said

town

our

to

friend of mine

in like case,

complaining-

look red, Avhat matter

one
is it ?
suppose
it?
who
observes
of
it
make
;
light
If it trouble at or after meals, (as'^ Jobertus
observes,med,
little
after
exercise
1.
a
or
c. 7)
(formany
stirring,
pract. I.
in
if
red
the
and
do
hot
then
face,
or
are
they
nothingat all,
without

cause,

he would

have them

let blood in both arms,

or
first one, then another,two
between, if blood
the
of
frictions
feet
other
and
abound, to use
parts,
especially,

women)
especially

three dales

of that consent
because
which
is betwixt
'^and
withall
the face,by
to refrigerate
the head and the feet;
with
it
often
violet,nenuphar,lettuce,lovage
rose,
washing

washing of them,

and

Maters,

the

like

but

the best

of all is that

lac

virrji-

strained liquoroflitargy.It is diversely

or
iiale,
prepared;
candidis'
by Jobertusthus; R lithar. argent, unc : j. cerussce
Bissolvantur
solani,lacjjj.caphnrcB3jj.
aqnarum
vnc.
ana
jjj aceti vini albi. unc. jj A litucce,et nenv.pharis,
simce 5

resideat

deinde

transmittatur

per philt. Aqua

ed
bis
in
ac
vase
irroretur.
servetur
vitreo,
quotidie
tervej'acies
the water
'Quercetan {spagir.
of
phar. cap. 6) commends

qttot haras

"Crato (consil.
283
frogs spawn for ruddiness in the face.
them
have
all
would
fain
the
condite
use,
Scoltzii)
summer,
flowers of succory, strawberry
roses
water,
(cupping-glasses
consil.
and
the
285.
for
et
to defecate imtime,
pure
are
'i^Q)
good
blood
""Hollerius

boyled,and

M'ith the infusion of sene, savory,

cured alone with the
knew
one
for five

drunk

bawme
use

of

water.

succory

months, every morning in the

summer.

'It is
and

in

water,

the face with hares blood,

to annoint
good overnight
the morning to wash it Avith strawberryand cowslip
the juyce of distil'd lemons, juyce of cowcumbers,

aut juvat aut Ifedit.

bDe mentis alienat.
Facies nonnullis maxime
calet rubetqiie
si se paulu
lum exercuerint ; nonnullis quiescentibusidem acciditj femiuis praesertim; caiissa
'^Interim faciei proquidquidfervidum aut halituosum sanguinem facit.
3

M.

Olysipponensismedicus
Doctor

Ashworth.

pudor
d

frequenspotioex aqua rosarum,

spiciendum,ut ipsa refrigeretur
; utrumque prasstabit
f Ad
faciei ruborem
violarum,nenupharis,"c.
spermatis ranarum.
aqua
vel saccharo
KRecte utantiu- in aestate floribus cichorii saccbaro conditis,
rosaceo, "c.
''Solousu decocti cichorii.
"Utile imprimis noctu faciem illiniresanguine
et
leporino,

mane

abluere.

aqua

fragorum,vel

aqua

floribus verbasci

cum

succo

limonum distillate

to

or

it in

the

or

and

to crumble

curds

cheese

fresh

roots

them

If it trouble
with

sweating- or

and

actions,

little,
of their

meal

Crato

(juantityof

author,

some

advise,
be

is

the

other

5.

bake

to
'or

to

oft it

and

put

drink
the

salt,and

doth,

passions

about

very
midst

especially

lib. 31.

observ.

2)

other

of the

melancholy

it

the

shoulders

pertains not
to

ss

mane.

Avhich

you

unc.

Cratos

is

good.
very
in the face

is settled
to

my

subject,I

Counsels,

will

Arnoldus

Peter

Forestus
l),Kulande,
(rZe/^/co,
RandoPloterus, Mercurialis, Ulmus,

39.

and

rubenti

others,

that

sonchi,

symptomes

of

have

written

headach, palpitation

heart, vertir/o,deU(jimnn, S^-c.which

because

men,

faciei

do

ante

si ante

-Idem,

prandiiim
cibum

they are copiously

voluntarilyomit.

iniponere.

recentem

caseiim

sit contentus.

fnictus

and

grievances

physician,I

appositac.

of it.

Those

villi haiistn

by the
baked
apple
prepared
to
not
study

meat,

fumes

ana,

utatur

Menadous,

letius, Heurnius,

largely

to

to ihe
suj)per,
that of quinces.

comminseed

melonum,

Misce

I refer

cap.

man
noble-

meals.

of ruddiness

it.

or

of

eat

to

rose,

of

To

because

"c.

(lib. 1. breviar.

cum

roots

1. jj.

kinde

with

meddle

canina;

water,

as
sugar,
ofsowthistle
before

persic.seminis

fragorum

pimples,

"Utile

bran

all violent

indurate

apply cupping glasses to

''To

every

all times

It is made

after

intentive

aquse

not

must

approved.
a
preserved quince,
of salt, to keep down

of

or

Nuclerum

R.

with

beaten

as
flushing-,

avoid

much

instead

meat

For

at

of the

same

to

that

times

like, they

chesnut.

decoction

with

strawbury

windy meat.
fruit of wild
prescribes the condite
be
before
dinner
taken
patient,to

his

or

avoid

peaches

wlicat

laughino-,"c. strong' drink,

draught, saith Crato, and that

Sec.

face.

meal

at

the

it in

with

[Part. 2.

atul

spice

The

niixt

of

as

''one

"

to

red

kernels

or

and

of aron,

oven,

an

of melons,

tlic seeds

use

small,

of Melancholi/.

Cure

138

consil.

etccenam

sumatur,

valet

ad

pliirimuni.

handled

l^Consil.

28.'}. Scoltzii.

niagnitudiuem

trouble

Laiidatiir

castaneu-.
"'

many

apart in

21. lib. Unico

conditus

Decoetiiin

Cucurbit,

ad

rosas

radi-

scapulas

Mem.

Cure

2.J

of Melancholy.

IT.

ME3IB.

all the

over
of Melanclioly

Cure

139

Body.

melancholyblood possesscththe whole body

with the brain, ''itis best to beginwith blood-letting-.
The
the ""median or middle vein to be opened, and
Greeks prescribe
7

the

HERE

blood to be taken avv'ay, as the patient

well spare;
may
be v.'i;ie
and the cut that is made must
The
Arabians
enougri.
liold it fittestto be taken from that arm, on which side there
soniuch

is

pain and

more

in the head;

heaviness

; if it be clear and

forth,bleed

if black

blood

issue

good,let it be

on
instantly
pressed,
supis much
'^iecf^fsethe malice of melancholy
corrected
by the goodnessof the blood. If the parties
strengthwill not
this
kinde
evacuation
in
much
admit
it must
at once,
be assayed

againand again: if it may

from

the

arm,

to
especially

I
have
to

in

evacuate

blood

wound

an

in the

flows
are

See

"c.

hath

and

hsemroils

fore-head,and

be

to

opened with

example
in his thigh:much

that

one

instrument

an

cured

was

widows

and

cares

intermixt

or

as

occasion

by

an

minde.
leeches,
horse"'Sckenkius
accidental!
or

from melancholy.
bleedingfreedhim

medicines

serves;

fat;

melancholy

man

to procure

kinde, hot and

cold

forbid ;

where

cold,
hot

crucifies the

so

Montaltus, cf/;j.29.

in

more

of

heart, and

amiss

to

so

Diet, diminutives, alteratives,cordials,correctors,

a

ancles,
mouths

or

in the
virgins

to

are

hsemrods

The

t!ie knees

whose

women

part in the

much

are

or

from

melancholyfor love-matters ;
grievedand troubled with sorrow

ancles,which
that

taken

taken
conveniently

stopped. ''Ifthe malady continue,it is not

been

for bad

be

it must
such men

be

not

'"// their

and then the

urine, are

hot, where
the

heat

cure

studymust
isended.

as

before,

be to make

Diuretica,

by some
prescribed

in this
the heat of the liver doth not
of the liver is very great.

parselyroots, lovage,fennel, "c. cold,

raelonseeds,"c. with whey of goats milk,which is the common
conveigher.
and
To purge
purifythe blood, use sowthistle,succory,
benedictus, dandelion, hop maidenendive, carduus
sena,

Amongst

are

^Succi melancholici nialitiaa sanguinis

bMediana
aPiso.
prse cseteris.
bonitate corrigitur. dPerseverante
malo, ex quacunque
parte sanguisdetrnhi debet.
f Stadium
omissum.
eObservaL
fol.154. Curatus ex \iilnere incrure ob cruoreni
sit omne
ut nielancholicns impinguetur: ex quo enim
plngues et carnosi, illicosani
2. Inter calida radix petroselini,
g Hildesheim,spicil.
sunt.
apii,foeniculi;
inter frigida
emulsio seminis melonum
vehicusero
cnm
caprino,quod est commune
lum.

of Melancholi/.

Cure

140

kc. with
hair, fiimatory,
buoloss, l)ora"re,

distilled
waters.
Osnaitlus

Crollius

in this case;

and

Mood
be

iJicirjnyco,decoctions

(hnstil.
C/nfm.)much
is

adiiiiressalt of corals

ser.
{trtnthih.

2. rnp. 114) InCrain

medicine
to purify the

excellent

an

for all vwlunchohiaffect

ions,
none
sickness,
J a//h:rf

to

it.

compared to

III.

MEMB.
Cure

J_N

Sec. 5.

syrruj)s, "c.

Aetiiis

Archigenis,Mliich

[Part.2.

SUBSECT.

I.

of JTypochondriacall
Melanchoh).

this cure, as in the rest,is especially

tion
requiredthe rectificaof those six noii-naturall thingsabove
c"ood
all,as
diet,
3Iontaiuis

(consil.
27) enjoynsa French nobleman, "to
care
of if,n-ithout frhirh all other remedies
especial/

which
have

an

in vain.

are

is not
Blood-letting-

to

be

used, except

the

body be very full of blood,and that it be derived from

patients
and his vessels,then,''to
the liver and spleento the stomack
it

draw

back, to

salvatella ; and
in the forehead.

the inner vein of either arm, some

say the
if the malady be continuate,
'^to open
a vein
cut

and
Preparatives
that there

alteratives may be used

be respect had as well to the

must

to the heart

as
hypochondries,

jStomack, and

the

and

before,saving
mack,
liver,
spleen,sto-

as

To

brain.

inner parts against

winde

and

comfort

obstructions,

later
by Aretaus, Galen, Aetius, Aurelianus, "c.
many
t
he
still
decoctions
of
are
wormwood,
taury,
cenprescribed
writers,
betony sod in whey, and dailydrunk:
pennyroyall,
cured
hare been
by this medicine alone.
many
others,as niuch magnifiethe
ProsperAlpinus,and some
this malady,an especiall
of Nilus against
water
good remedy
for windie melancholy. For which reason, belike,Ptolomaeus
he married
when
his daughterBerenice to the
Philadelphus,
King of Assyria,(as Celsus,lib. 2. records)ma"jnisimpensis
the water
to his great chargecaused
J^ili aqnam
afferrijussit,
be
carried
with
of Nilus to
her,and gave command,
that,duringand

her

.she should
life,

commend

use

of

use

in splenetick
and
apples,
call

(land)SMoolsome
must

be
certainly

Codronchus
"

Hoc

other drink.

no

corrected

(inhis book

unnm
prsemoneo,
fnistra adhibentur.

1 finde those that

apj"roved,

it)which, howsoever
of cold

rawness

of melancholy,

this kinde
and

winde.

magnifiesthe oyland
rfesa/eaftsm.)

clomine, lit sis diligenscirca victiitn; sine

ca?tera

quo

re-

interveniiin
Laurentius,cap. ].^. Evulsionis gratia,
"" Si
altt-riiishrachii secamns.
fronto secnbis. Brnrll.
venain
pcrtinaxinorhiis,
nam,
'J
Octa.
stomachodelegabo.
Horatianus,lib.2. c. 5.
Ego jnaiimam cumra

media

Mem.

3. Subs.

1.]

Cure

141
of Hypochondriacall
Melancholy.

above

salt of wormwood

all other

remedies,^ivhich works

speedierthen any simplewhatsoever,and much to

be preferred
beforenil those fulsomedecoctions and infusions,
which must offendby reason
of their quantity. This alone,in
small measure
taken, erpelswinde, and that most forcibly,
a
better and

cleanseth
iirine,

moves

the stomach

c^c.
appetite,
helps,
Avhiclihe would

Diminutives
in this

abbot)

Arnoldus

hath

dities,
gross humours, crua wormwood
wine

have iised,whichevery pharmacopoeia

speaksof.
and purgersmay
^be taken as before,of hiera,

cassia, which

manna,

of all

kind

Montanus

prefersbefore

230.
(consil.
all other

for

an

Italian

simples:

and
still
those
ivhich
these must
oftenused,
from
abstaining
are
the
do
lest
and
stomach,
the
violent,
^-c.
they exasperate
more
be increased; though in some
mischiefby that means
sicians,
phy^

be

I finde very

strong-purgers, hellebor

it self,prescribed

long-continue, vomits may be taken

otherwise gentlyprocured with warm
after meat,
or
water,
lebor;
oxymel,"c. now and then. Fuchsius (cap.33)prescribeshelbut stilltake heed in this malady, which I have often
warned,ofhot medicines,'^iecaw^e (asSalvianus adds) drought
heat, ivhich increaseth the disease : and yet Baptista
folloics
{controv.32) forbids cold medicines,''because they
Sylvaticus
in this atfection.

If it

But this varies

and other bad symptomes.
obstructions,
which to use.
the parties
do; and 'tisnot easieto determine
as
is cold,the liver hot ;
^The stomach
most
part in this infirmity

increase

consil. 229, for

insinuates,
(which Montanus
therefore
and not hurt the
the earl of xMonfort)can
you helpthe one,
be used ; take no physickatall,
discretion must
other: much
he concludes, withoutgreatneed. Laelius Eugubinus, consil.
German
77 for an hypochondriacall
cines:
prince,used many medihim
in
that
but it ivas
to
the
coction
deletters,
aftersignified
and salt of sassafras,
of china and sassafras,
wrought
his
In
108. consult, he used as
incredible good.
him an
remedies.
This,to a third,
might have been
happilythe same
his liver and blood.
poison,liyoverlieating-

scarce

For

the other

parts,look for remedies

in

Savanarola,Gor-

solent decocfa ac diluta in qnantitate

vires exercet, quam
aCitius et efficaciiis
siias
assumentium
et magna
molestia, desunipta. Flatns hie sal efficaciterdiscnm
stomachum
crassos
abstergit,
egregieconf'ortat,
criidisipat,uricam movet, hnmores
^Piso Altomarus.
tatem, nanseam,
appetentiam miruni in modum renovat, "c.
"^ His
utendura saepius
interatis; a veliementioribiis semper
Lanrentins, c. 15.
"iLib. 2. cap. 1. Quoniam caliditate
abstinendnni, ne ventrem exasperent.

multa,

auxiliishoc
conjnncta est siccitas,
eQuisquisfiigidis
auget.
qiias malum
^ Ventriculus
morbo
fuerit,is obstructionem aliaquesymptomata augebit.
usus
vel refrigeplf^rnmnnefrigidus,hepar,calidium;quomodo ergo ventriculutn calefaciet,
rahit

s Significatiim
hepar, sine alterius maxirao detrimento?
per
incredibilem utilitatem ex decocto chinse,et sassafras percepisse.

literas,

CureofMelanchobj.

142

[Pnrf.2.

Sec. 5.

Oiio for the

Mercatus, Jolnison, Sic.
others, ] will not omit,cited by llildearnonust
s|)l(M"ii,
many
"2. prescribed
sliciin,
by i\Jat. Fiaccns, and out of the
apic'd.
of Benevenius.
chondriaca
autiiority
Antony Benevonins, in an hypo-

(lonius, Massaria,

'^curod
passion,

oj't/ie
exccpdhuff/rrnfftwrllhif/
and
hpfiltbiqthat hifinnitif,
frcfptentiise of the irafer oj"a smiths fhrric; b}]this phijsick
he helpeda sick man,n-hom a// other phijsirUtns
Juidjorsahen,
had
been
And
of such force
that for seven
spleneiicU.
yeers
with
sjdeen,

copprs afonr, a

ati

meat

^that such creatures

drinh of it, hare comis this Mater,
as
Sec
excellent medicines
for
more
spleen.
monhj little orno
Lod. Mercatus, Mho is a great nifier
the spleenin him, and
magThis chahfbs pra^paratvs or fitoeU
of this medicine.
'

likcMise

drink, is much

(/.1.

Sennertus

part.

to this disease

12), and

a"lniired

by

by

Daniel

J. Casar

(Respons.29) he cals steel the proper ''rt/c.v//;/"a/

of this malady, and much
maoiiiHes it : look for receipts

Claudinus
macum

Avertersmust

in them.

and

commended
2. cop.

to

the

scoure

mesaraick

provoke urine.

or

open
the haemrods, which
fow, there may be

You

be used

veins;
can

the liver and

to

and

opcr.

no

spleen,

either

they are
placebetter

to

then

if by horse-leeches they may be made to

ayainsuch ait excellent remedy, as Plater
holds.
Salust. Salvian M'ill admit
other phlebotomybut
no
Mhich
he kept,
this: and, by his experiencein an hospitall
mad
and melancholymen
for other bloodletting-.
be found all
worse
Laurentius
cals
this
horse-leeches
of
a sure
15)
(cf//".
the
and
mesaraick
membrane
to
spleen
remedy
empty
Only
24 1) is againstit; to other men
Montanus
(consil.
(saithlie)
this opcninyof the hcemrods seems
to be a profitable
remedij;
*"

do
my part, 1
thinnest blood,and

for

approve of it,because itdraws

leaves the thickest behind.

not

away

recommend
At'tius,VidusA'idius,Mercurlalis,Fuchsius,

the

diu-

nel,
asannisceds, dil,fenthingsas provokeurine,
in
sod
drunk
in
or
germander,ground pine,
water,
pOAvder; and yet P. Bayerus is againstthem; and so is Hollerius: all melancholymen
he) must avoid such thinysas
(saith
them
the subtile or thinnest is evacubecause
urine,
ated,
by
provoke

reticks,orsuch

the thicker matter

aTumoretn

remains.

cibo "ali segritudini

splenis incurabileni sola cappari ciiravit,
aptissimo,
in

(aljer ferrarius sa-pe ran'Ieus ferriiinexsliuxerat, ",c.

fabro-sedurantiir,
liabt-ntlienes
exigiios
"^.Lib.I,
"'Continuus ejus iisus seiiipf-r fL*Iiceni
in a'gris
fint-m est asse" Si birniorrhoides
nti!Iiiinpra-stantiiis
Uiixerint,
esset remediuin,
qiintiis.
admotis
sanpiisups
provocari poteriinf. Observat. lib. 1. pro h\poc. leguleio.
qua;
'Aliis apertioha;c in hoc niorbo videtur iililissiina; iiiibi
adniodum
non
probatur,quia
t' Lib. '2.cap. 13. Onines
sunguinem tentieni attrahit,et crassum
relinqiiit.
melancliolicidebent oinittere iirinam provocanlia, quoniaiu\n'r fa educitiirsubtile,
et re-

soloqiieusu
Animalia
cap. 17.

nianet

aqua-,

quae

crassum.

qua

apud ho3

above or
rnnping-li'lasses

(whicli Felix

Platerus

about

tlie belly,
withoutscarification,

much

so

Sec. 5.

and
frictions,
Lii"atiires,

in either of the thiohs.

rcqimon,or

[Part.2.

of MelancJwhj.

Cure

144

used

approves) maybe

as

before.

SUBSECT.

Correctors

In

this kind

to

of

II.

icinde,
againstcostwenefm, ^-c.
e.rpell
of the

one
melancholy,

is winde, which, as in the

o-reat need to be corrected and
to expellit are
The medicines

tdmes

other

offensive sympin this,

hath
so
species,
most

expelled.
either iirvardiy
taken,or outor compounds ;
wardlv.
Inwardlyto expel!winde aresiniples
simplesare herbs, roots, "c. as galangn,oentian, angelica,
aromaticus, valerean, zoo.ioti,iris,condit-

enula, calamus

china, diiiatsiicr,
pennyeroyall,
ginger,aristolochy,cicliminus,
and bay-leavps,
betany,rosemary,
calamint, bay-berries,
hysope, sabine, centaury, mint, camomile, staechas,agnus
rue,

"c.
broom-flowres, origan, orang pills,
Spices,as
mace,
nutmegs,
saffron, cinnamone, bezoar-stone, myvrhe,
seeds of annis, fennel,amni, cary,
cloves,
ginger,
pepper,
:
paradisi
compounds,
nettle,rue,"c. Juniperbrerries,grana
electuarivm
diacalaminth^
diacimiuum,
dianisum, diagalanga,
laxativa, pnlvisad flatus,antkl.
de haccis lauri, benedicta
rosatnm,
treacle,
Florent.
pulviscarminatwus, aromaticum

castus,

"

Bruell is to be
This one
caution of bGaulter
mithrklatp^ cVc
of these hot medicines
and dry,
observed in the administring
that, whilst theycovet to expellwinde, they do not inflame the
(as he saith)jneblood, and increase the disease. Sometimes
dicines must

more

the circumstances
cold.
to heat or

decline
may

rue,

baies,

cummin,

Sec.

to

bags

as

expellwinde,
fomentations

"c.

the decoctions

heat, sometimes

and
require,

Outwardly taken,
with

to

of

the

are

of

to

more

parties

are

oils, as

cold,as
inclined

of

mile,
camo-

the

hypochondries
dill,penny-royall,
bay-leaves,
rue,
flowres,anniseed,cummin,

of camomile

b CaFlatns egregifdiscutitmt.niateriaincme
evocant,
mentis alienat. c.3.
cali'facientilms
iiiemultum
sivealinienta
atcnuM-xsiccanlilius..
a
vendiim hie diligentur
ut vrntositatcs et rui(itus
: nonnulli eniiii,
compescant, hnrint ha!C, sive medicamenta
jusniodiutentes inedicainentis,pliirimumpeccant, morbnm sic aiigcntes: debent enim
circnnistantiasucandiini exigentiam
declinare ad calidum vel frigiduni,
medicamenta
a

De

rnm,

vel at

inclinat ad
patiens

cal. et frigid.
"

3. Subs.

Mem.

2.]Cure ofHyjtochondnacall
Melaneholy.145
ointments

wormwood,

bayes,rue,
wormwood,

^Aretsens

"c.

rue,

of tise oil of

spikenard
;
of
momile
caprescribescataplasms

aniseeds,cummin,
flowres,fennell,

Morm-

rosemary,

wood-leaves, "c.
without
appliedto the hypochondries,
"'Cupping-glasses
winde.
resolve
Fernelius (condo wonderfully
scarification,
of tliem at the lower end of the belly:
approves
calls them a powerfull
Mercatus
remedy, and testifies
how
he hath seen
of
his own
out
knowledge,
many

sil. 43) much

'^

Lod.

moreover

Julius Cffisar Claudinus

them.

suddenlyeased by

(respons.

which
resp. 33) admires these cupping-glasses,

med.

Galen) '^a kinde

of medicines,

myriade

such

of enchantment, they cause

(out of
present help.

Empirickshave

he calls

bullet of lead, "c.) which

5i),

(asto

omit.
voluntarily

for

swallow

Lusi-

Amatus

hypochondriacal!
person
a strang-e
extreamlytormented withwinde, prescribes
Put a pairof bellows end into a clyster
remedy.
pipe; and,
draw
the
the
in
into
so
fundament,
bowels,
open
applying
(cent.4.

tanus

that

curat.

an

was

winde

the

forth

that he

was

nntura

admiftit

non

the first invented

this

remedy, and, by

melancholyman.
in Menus
read more
flatuous melancholy,
et passimalias.
vapours,
Againsthead ach, vertigo,

it,speedilyeased

the stomack
and

to

Of

molest

the

head,

He

vacuum.

read

de
which

the

vants

means

of

of this

cure

fatibus,cap. 26,
ascend

Hercules

de

forth of

Saxonia,

others.

offend in this, or any other of the three

If costiveness
or
clysters,
species,it is to be corrected with suppositories,
condite
of
"c.
lenitives,
powder sene,
prunes,
R.

Take

much

as

supper,

or

two

at

sheim,

Elect, lenit. e

as

nutmeg

2.
spicil-

at

See
P.

more

ana

3J.

in Montan.
and

Cnemander

J j.tnisce.

time, half

pil. mastichin.

or

ti"ne.

rosar.

succo

an

hour before dinner

in six

a pill
or
pills,

consil.

'229; Hilde-

Montanus

coinmenel

which
they tcould have familiarly
Cifprianturpoitine,
taken, to the quantityof a small nut, two or three hours
beforedinner and shipper, twice or thrice a week, ifneed be ;

"

"^ Piso. Briiel. Mire

flatusresolvit.
f Lib.
1. c. 17.
"* Velut
ventris
Nonnullos prateusione
deploratosillicorestitutesliisvidemus.
dolorein orhim levant.
"Tereincantamentum
liuoddamex flatuoso spiritu
nncis parva?, iribus
binthum
Cypriarn liabeant familiarem ; ad quantitatemdeglutiant
a

Cap. 5.

horis ante

lib 7.

prandiumvel

ccenam^

praeterquam quod alviim mollem

ter singulis
septimanis,
prout expedirevidcbitur ; nam,
ventriculum purgat,urinam
efRcit,obstructiones
aperit,

provocat,hepar mundificat.
VOL.

II.

for,

it

of

cure

peenliaria

are

melancholy,

much

do

selecta,

receipts
but

all

or

most,

Et,

quse

the

which,
non

saith

occasion

non

prosunt

[Part.

sobihlo,
liver,

ordinary

needs

must

as

the

Si

good.

bene

heUy

cleanseth

brief,

in

the

keejis

obstructions,

These,

may

that

besides

opens

the

of Melancholy.

Cure

146

clears

provokes

aright,

satteni

Bessardius

if

uliicli

be|u.sed

levundo,

not

good
quite

serves.

singula,

the

5.

stomachy

urine.

medicines

iftliey

ease,

it

Sec.

2.

multajuvant.

belongno

leniendo
choice
cure,

to

doubt
valent

of
not

ticular
parone,

ANALYSIS

PARTITION-

THIRD

Introduction.
/iPreface
or

Subsect. 1.
"

Loves definition,
pedegree,object,fair,amiable, gracions and pleasant,from
which conies
beauty,grace, which all desire and love, parts aflected.
/Natural, in things without life,as love and hatred of elements;
and
with life,as vegetal,vine and elm, sympathy, antipathy,
"c.

of kind, mntual
Sensible, as of beasts, for pleasure,preservation
aereemenl, custome, bringingup together,"c.
love our
C Health, wealth, honour,we

Profitable,j

benefactors

Subs. 1.

or that which
profit,

V.

commodity.

Division

nothingso amiable
hath

as

shew of

made by
^Thingswithout life,

art,pic
tures,sports,games, sensible objects,
Or men
hauks, hounds, horses.
as

kinds,
"^Subs. 2.
or

Simple,
which
hath 3

Pleasant,

for similitude of manthemselves

ners,
natural affection,
as to friends,

Subs.

children, kinsmen,

2.

objects,
as

M.

"

sach

1.

Of
men,

woas

as

"c. for glory

commend
us.
Before marriage, as Heror
) ical,Mel. Sect. 2. vide^

j Or after marriage,as Jea(. lousie,Sect. 3. vide y

Honest,

Fucate in she w,by

crisie ; some
seem

some

error

and

Subs. 3.

are

or

hypo

not

or

trnlyfor vertue,honesty,
good parts,
f
learning,eloquence.Sec.
t.
Mi
good,our neighbours,countrey, friends,
".xt of ICommon
aifthree
) which is charity; the defect of which is cause of
much discontent and melancholy.
which
wnica
\
\
In excess, vide n.
extends 1
God. Sect. 4. \In defect,vide 03.
to M. 3. IG

l2

148

A"fALT.SlS

OF

THE

THlllU

PARTITION-

Memb.
1.
His pedeRfee,power,

extent to vegetalsand
^nsible creatures as welF
spirits,
"c.
devils,
His name, definition,
object,part affected,tyranny.
/' Stars, temperature,full dyet, place, country, clime,condition,
S. 1.
idleness,
Natural allurements,
and causes
of love,as beaoty,
itspraise,
as

to

men,

how
as

Causes,

itallureth.

Comeliness, grace, resultingfrom the Mhole

face, eyes, hair, hands, "c. Suhs 2.

Artificial allurements,and

HIemb."\gestures, apparel,dowry,
Whether

Qutest.

or

provocationsof

lust and

love,

kc.

money,

beauty

parts,

some

owe

to Art

more

Nature

or

Subs. 3.
of time and place, conference, discourse,muOpportirnity
sick, singins:,
dancinsr,amorous
tales, lascivious objects,faI miliaritv,
gift."!,
promises,8^c. Subs. 4.
Bawds

and J'hiUers,
Subs. 5.

Dryness, palene.ss,leanness,waking, sighing,

Heroical ,
Love
or
Melanin
which

Of Body

"c.

choly,Symptomes

Fear,

or

consider^

detur pulsus amatorius?

An

Qnaist.
Bad, as

hell torment, fire,blindness,

An

suspicion,anxiety,

sorrow,

\"c.

Dotage, slavery,neglect of busi-

or

V.

ness.

neatness,

{Spruceness,

Of mind.

aptness

learn

to

courage,

musick, singing,

dancing, poetry, "c.

madness, phrensie,death, Ulemb.

Prognosticks
; Despair,

i.

By labour,diet,physick,abstinence. Subs. 1.
To withstand the beginnings,avoid occasions, fair and foul
change of place, contrary passion,witty inventions,
means,
discommend
the former, bring in anotheT, iS"is. 2.
miseries, inconfrom future
Cure.s, /
By good counsel, perswasion,
\ veniences,"c. 5. 3.
.Mem.
5.
^
1 By philters,
magical,and poeticalcures, S. 4.
To let them have their desire disputedpro and con.
Tmpefor it. Subs. 5.
^diments removed, reasons
His name,

definition,
extent, power,
To

'

Division, i

I To

tyranny, Memb.

beasts

many

1.

cocks, bulls.

swans,

: as

successors.
kings and princes,of their subjects,
their children,or otherover

J^quivO-Zl^P'OP"'
I To friends,parents,tutors
cations.

kinds,
Subs.

or
"

( P'-^P^"^

1.

wise.
L
5 Before marriage,corrivals,"c.
(

After,as

in this

(In
parties

They
selves,
kindness,
them-

From

been

one

present subject.
sence.
party, melancholy, long ab-

naught themselves.

usage,

years,

and

nn-

persons,

sorrow,

of
provocations

anguishof mind, strange actions,ge"suspicion,

lockingup, outrages, severe

tures, looks, speeches,

"

Memb.

2.

Memb.

3.

"c.
digioHStryals,
Prognosticks,^ Despair,madness, to make

away

laws, pro-

themselves,

and others.

By avoidingoccasions, alwayes husie, never

By good counsel,advice of friends,to contemn
Subs.

Cures,

Hard

inequality of

wantonness,

inticements
J Outward
"
others.

others.
f Fear,

Synaptomes,

have

in

fortunes,"c.

or

place our

Idleness,
impotency

the

to be idle.
or

dissemble it.

1.

By preventionbefore marriage. Platog communion.

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

good family,good education.

To

use

them

well.

Suhs.2.

what

is such

there

proof that

his beauty

idolaters,

species

it

is, how

,^

devils

Subs.

Or
'

them-

From

ral
cess,
ex-

of
such

mutual

do

hate

and

love

Svinptomes,

'Subs.

which

Or

sects, be-

of other

lief of incredibilities,

that

to

instructors,

guides.
Simplicity, fear, ignorance, solitariness,
'i
melancholy,curiosity, pride,vain-glory,
decayed image of God.
without
Zeal
obstinacy, suknowledge,
^
\
perstition, strange devotion, stupidity,
'C
of their tenents,
confidence.stiffdefence

/Gene-

as

men

gain.
obedience,bad

Politicians

.selres.

rin

their

in

miracles,

false

blind

-"!

2.

1.

Subs.

allurements,
for

priests
keep

Causes,

part and

here ticks, "c.

The
others

From

object God.
melancholy, name,
parties affected, superstitious,

of

allureth,

prophets,

149

PARTITION.

THIRD

THE

OF

ANALYSIS

impossibilities.

pride, contumacy,
contempt
gularity,
wilfulness, vain-glory, sinprodigious paradoxes.
zeal, obedience,
superstitious blind

Ofliereticks,

3.

of others,

is not

requi-

red,

In
Parti-

cular.

Memb.l.

lations,
fasting, sacrifices, obdom,
pseudo-martyrvows,

works,

strange

prayers,

mad

and

ridiculous

customs,

remonies,
ce-

observations.

visions, revelatioms,
pseudo-prophets,
doctrines, "c.
prophecies, new

In

dreams,

of Jews,

"c.
Gentiles, Mahometans,
doctrines, paradoxes, blasphemies,

New
4.

Subs.

Prognosticks,

stupidity,despair,damnation.
By physick if need be, conference, good
madness,

!"

counsel,

Cures,

Subs.

B.

perswasion,
punishment.

cogidebent?

Epicures,
Secure,

void

of grace

and

sense,

de-

Or

an

Affir.

atheists.

magician.s, hypocrites, such

as
in a
consciences, or else are
bate
repropenitent
worldly-secure, some
philosophers, im1.

Subs.

sinners.

fears.
In

rection,
cor-

Qumritur

cauterised

have

His

compulsion,

parties, and

definition, jSlquivocations,

fect,
fecfed. Subs.'i.
Distrustful,
de\'il
The
^ Memb.2.
morous,
that

parts af-

as

or

too

ti-

Causes

In

Subs.

despair

How
3,

weakness

consider,
.

rigid preachers,

their

wound

consciences, melancholy,
contemplation, solitariness.^
and
melancholy
trust,
despair differ. Dis-

as

desperate.

his allurements,

"

of

faith.

Guilty

science
con-

for offence

derstanding
misuncommitted,
Scripture.
K F^'i''"sorrow, anguish of mind, extream
Svmntomes
" horror of conscience,feartortures
4
Subs
i
C
ful dreams,
conceits, visions, "c.
violent
Prognosticks ; Blasphemy,
death. Subs. 5,

Physick

as

not

counsel,
and

occasion
to be

good

contents.

idle

serves,
or

company,

"c.

alone.

ence,
conferGood

all comforts

[Part.3.

-Melancholy.

Love

152

Sec. I

let these cavillers and counterfeit Catos know, that,as the

lord John answered
the queen (in that Italian
Guazzo), an
old, a grave, discreet niau is fittest to discourse of love matters,
hath a
he hath likely
because
observed more,
more
experience,

But

=*

vise,
better discerii,
resolve,disrusse,adform
solid precepts, better iniiivebetter cautions,and uiore
his auditors in such a subject,and by reason
of his riper
staid

more

years,

judoeinent.
can

sooner

divert.

Besides,nihil

in hue amoris

voce

snhti-

love is a
here to be excepted at
nothingand a necessary part of thisisiy
tieatise,
speciesof melancholy,

mendum,

there is

M'hich I may not omit ; operisiiaceptoini^erviendum fuit; so

Jacobus
pleadethfor himself in his translation of
JMicyllus
and will performmy
Lncians
dinlog-ues
; and so do 1 : 1 must
task.

And

that short

Arista?netus,

shall be

write, let not them be

of

excuse
^

mine;
so

tdleas

Mercerus,

If I

have

of

time ill to

spent my
But

read.

to

for his edition

aniperswaded

it is not so illspent; I ought not to excuse

or
repent my self of
have written
this subject,
Avhich many grave and worthymen
on
whole
volumes, Plato, Plutarch, Plotinus, Maximus
Tyrius,
in three largedialogues,
if
Xenophon, ."//;//y^jo.s\
Theophrastus, \\ e may believe Athe///;.\'6. cap. 9.
Picus JMirandula, Marius
/Equicola,
naus,
Petrus
de lined ,/]maris,lib.3.
both in Italian,Kornmannus,

Avicenna, Leon,
Alcinoiis,

Godefridushnlii

handled

Ilebreus

in three

books, P. Haedus, and which

as Arnoldus, Villanovanus,Valleriola
every pliysician,
vied. lib. 2. observ. 7-) ^lian Montaltus, and Lau(observat.
Jason Pratensis, de
rentius in their Treatises of JNJelancholy,
de
morb.
Valescus
de Taranla, Gordonius, Hercules
cap.
Saxonia, Savanarola, Langius, kc. have treated of apart, and

almost

Godemy self therefore with Peter

Cadmus
fridus,Valleriola,Ficinus, and in Langiuswords
of love; and nhy should I he
Milesius writ fourteen books

in their works.

excuse

*=

"

ashamed

to

u-rite

an

in favour of yonny
epistle

ff

men

of stern readers dislike the second

subject? a company
such amorous
for inserting
iEneads, and Virgils
gravity,

this

of the
sions
pas-

Servius, his commentator,

justlyvindicates the poets Avorth,wisdome, and discretion in
in

doing as
the

an

heroical

he did,

subject:but

Castalio

because,
'^Canticles,

would

to his

'^

not

have

men

read

lightand
tion
translaold ]:^nglish
readingof Genesis,

it
thinking,

tract,a ballade of ballades,as our

hath it. lie might as well forbid the

amorous

young
was

too

^ Si male locata est

Lib. 4. of civilconversation.
opera scribendo, ne ipsL
" Med.
locent in legendo.
epist1. 1. ep. 14. Cadmus Milesins, teste Siiida,
adolesce ntiini,banc
in gratiani
de hoc erotico amore
nie
14 libros scripsit
pigebit,
; nee
"' Comment,
meram
cMeros
in 2. iEneid.
amores,
scribere epistolam.
videtur,nisi,":c.
sonare
impudicitiam

T*

Mem.

1. Subs.

1.]

of the loves of Jacob

because

Dinah, Judah

and

153

Preface.

Rachel, the stories of Sichem

rejectthe book of Numbers,

and

and Thaniar

peopleof Israel with the Moabites ;

Sampson and Daiilahs embracings; that

for the fornications of the

that of

Judges, for
Kings,for David

of the

and

Bathshebas

the incest
adulteries,

concubines, "c. the stories

Thamar, Solomons
and
Dicaearchus,and
Esther,Judith,Susanna,
many such.
some
other, carp at Platos majesty,that he would vouchsafe
to indite such love toyes ; amongst the rest, for that dalliance

of Amnou

and

of

with

Agatho,
Suavia

jEgra etenim
For

part,saith

my

me

710JI

both
Jove

hi

but stand

should

writ of auch

amazed

read

to

that roared

ground
down
such

lowder

then

and

ran

his fall ; Vulcan

heaven, and in Lemnos

ridiculous passages

when

was

as

he

nube

cum
con-

before all the

fopperies

persecuted
by Achilles,
whining away, as Mars
covered

Stentor, and

with

from

Jiinonem

inducit, ab hnmortaU

wounded

not

crates
antl So-

city,because

subjects.Quod

wanton

concumbentes

''godswere

that Plato

their

from

and Venus
tectos, Vulcans
net, Mars
gods,because Apollofled,when he was
the

self,
him-

habet,seel etiam stupor, i do

expelHomer

lightand

Ida

Tyrius,a great Platonist

Maximus

admiratio

tantum

only admire,

abitura fuit.

tanquam

properans

labra tenebam

ipsein

Agathoni,animam

clans

summers

ile brake

his

both Socrates

nine

akers

of

day fallingleg,"c. with

and Plato,by

themselves
:
quidenim tarn distat
testimony,writ lighter
a
temper ante, formarnm ad(as he follows it) qnam amans
his

mirator

demente

to
philosophers

treat

what

can

of such

be

more

then for grave

admire Antilochus,

absurd

fooleries,to

Alcibiade, for their beauties as theydid, to run after,to gaze,

fair Phpedrus, delicate Agatho, young
to dote on
Lysis,fine

phllosophumdecent ? Doth this become

Thusperadventure Callias,Thrasymachus,
grave philosophers'?
of his adversaries and aemulaor
some
Polus, Aristophanes,
tors mightobject; but neither they nor
^Anytus and Melitus
him for teachingCritias
his bitter enemies, that condemned
his impietyfor swearingby dogsand planetrees,
to tyrannize,
much
"c. never
as
for his jugliugsophistry,
so
upbraided
that
of
him with
or
speaking
subject
;
impure love, m riting
both Socrates
he concludes,
and therefore M'ithout question,
as
But suppose they
and Plato in this arejustly
to be excused.
Charmides

*Ser. 8.

? hceccine

"^
commemoret.
Quam multa ei
araores
bQuo,! j-jsuiuet eorum
tyrannidem docuisset,quod Platonem juraretloquacem soaccusationem amoris nullam fecerunt. Ideoque honestus amor, "c.

ohjecissent, quod Critiam

?cc.
phistam,

Love-Melancholy.

151
Lad

beeu

Sec.

I.

littleoverseen,

rather

no,

[Part.3.

he

as

said

rIioiiM divine Plato J)e defamed

of Cafos
drnnkenncss, i( Cato were

drunk, it should be no vice at all to bo drmik.

Plato then, but -without cause
(as "Ficinus
love Is honest (ind

r/ood;

and

theijare

They reprove
pleads); for all
f"e loved that

irarthyto

to speak of this admirable

allection
speaktvell of love. IJeinof
t"
there lyes
of love, (saithValleriola)
sophical
open a vci.^t and philofeld to my discourse,by tchich many lovers become

let

mad:

leave my

serious meditations, icander in

these philosophical
and look into those ])leasant
fields,
yroves
me

more

the Muses, where, with

make
yarlandsto our
may

of

?rith their

pleasantsmell

unspeakablevarietyof flowers,we
selves,Jiot to adorn us only,but

and

juyce to nourish our souls,and

Jillour minds desirous of knowledye,Sec. After an harsh
discourse of melancholy,
and unpleasingwhich
hath hitherto
and
molested your
tired
the
author, g-ivehim
patience,
the lawyer,and J/.iirrntius {cap.5),
leave, Mith ^Godefridus
himself

recreate

to

since

so

in this kind

yrave

many

after his laborious

divines and

have,
tcorthymen
others,voluntarily

helpthejnselves and

offence
a
of it. Heliodorus,
bishop,penned
to manners,

to

written

Theagenes

and

Chariclea

him
reprehcncled

for

studies,
without

and, "vhen

it,chose

love

Catos

some

story of
of his time

rather, saith ''Nicephorus,

to

then his book.

leave his bishoprick
and
40
divine,
past
years of age,

Jineas

(as'he

an
Sylvius,

ancient

confesseth

himself,
of Euwanton
Secundus)
Pope
history'
Andhowmany superinfcndentsoflearnryalusandLucretia.
1
reckon
could
phantastical
ingup, that have written of light
Beroaldus,Erasmus,Alpberatius,
subjects'?
twenty foure times
then
leave
in
Give
"c.
me
(to refresh my
printed Spanish,
and my weary readers),
in this delightsome
Muse
to expatiate
a little,
Pius

after

to

enditedthat

field,hoc deliciarum campo,

'^season a surlydiscourse,with a more
Edulcare

love matters.
curas

vitam

nuyis,S,-c.'tisgood
toyes

to

rellishit,and

to
as

as

Fonseca

terms

of
pleasing
aspersion

convenit,as the poet invites

sweeten

our

it,

life with

Pliny tells us,

magna

some

pars

us,

sing
pleastu-

"
Carpunt aliiPlatoniram majestatem, quod amori nimiiim inrlulserit; Picaearcens et
Omnis
alii; Sed male.
honcstus et bonus ; et amore
amor
digni,qui bene dicunt de
"" Med.
2.
amoris
obser.
7.
admirando
alFectu dictunis : injjens
lib.
De
aniore.
cap.
et philosopbiciis,
; libeat mode
quo
patetcampus
srcpe homines ducuntnr ad insaniam
orni-iit modo, sed fraprantiaet succulentia jucunda plenins
":c.
Qua; non
vafrari,
"= Lib.
1. pra-fat.
de amoribns
anirairaus.sa laborioajjens.relaxandi
alant,"c.
liisjuvari rt juvare illirsi.s
n)oribu.svolunt
Rissimis stndiisfatigati
se
; quando ef llieologi
"" Prapfat.
"i Hist. lib. 12.
?
convenit
amore
34.
cum
Quid
qnadracenario
caj).
amatoriara scriptnm niihi non
couNenire ; qui jam meridiem
prajterEgo vero
agnosco
f Ut severiora studia iisamaenitaferor. /Eneas Silviu.s.
jrressus in vesperera
tibug lectorcondire possit Accius.

1. Subs.

Mem.

Preface.

1.]

155

of
most
diosorum ama^nitates qucerinms,
such pleasant subjects;
tiioughMacrobius

students

our

teach

us

love
wise,
other-

^tJiat those old sages banished all such lufhttracts from

the ear ; yet,
cradles,to please onlif
their studies, to nurses

Apuleius,I will oppose

Adrian, "c.
Plato, '^Xenophon,
of

out

On

treatises.

disliked,they

did,

one

as

''

as

that

the other

side

not

unfit.

are

so

me

siiavia dicam

tarn

honourable

patrons, Solon,

highlyapprove of these
thinks they are not to be
I will not peremptorily
say,
facinora,ul male sit ei qui
as

1 Avilltell you such prettystories,

that
that is not pleasedwith them; neque dicam ea

delectetur.

talihus non

foul befall him

et voluptaii
sit audivisse,
mcminisse,with tliat
qua- vohis usvi
doth
his
enarrations
on
confidence, as Beroaldus
Propertius.

hope for that approbation,which Lipsius

givesto his Epictetus; plurisfacio quum relego,semper ut
the more
I read, the
repetivi,
repetendiim,
et, quum
novum,
T will not

expect

or

I will not presse you with

my
but
if
like
attention
or
them,
;
you
pamphlets, beg
you may.
and
most
it
s
everitatem
holds
fit,
expedient,
jucunditate
Pliny
shall I covet

more

to

read.

works with some

our
season
etiaminscriptiscondire,to
pleasant
it
licet
in
ludicris
ludere
discourse; Synesiusapproves
;
; the
it:

"poet admires

tulit punctum,

Omne

qui miscuit

utile dulci

that are more

And there be those,without question,
to
willing
then
'I
Let me
to write.
am
not
read such toyes,
live,saith
s then
I
had
rather
hear
not
Antonia,
Aretines
if
thy discourse,
doubt but there be more
of her minde,ever have
a play ! no
see
witnesse.
been, ever will be, as ''Hierome bears me
Afar
read
rather
had
then
Plato
: TullyliimAjmleius
greater part

Platos Timseus,and
self confesseth he could not understand
but every school boyhaththatfamous
therefore cared lesse for it,
Corocotta
of
Grunnius
Porcellus at his fingers
ends.
testament
The

comicall poet,
Id sibi

Populout
made

this his

tickle the
much

onelycare

ear,

and

profitas

to

negoticredidit solum dari,

placerent,
quas fecisset fabulas

to
to

and

sole

studyto pleasethe people,

delight;but
please;

philosophumaudire

non

"

mine
tain

earnest
ut

intent is

as

populo placerem,

malunt.
bin Soni. Scip.E sacrario suotum
" Basolas auriiim delicias profitentes.
sapienteseliminiiiant,
byloniuset Ephesius,qui de amore
scripsenint,nterque amores
Myrrhas,Cyrenes, et
"^ Pet. Aretine,dial. Ital.
Saidas.
e fjor.
Adonidis.
fLegendi cupidiores,
saith Lucian.
s Plus capio vohiptatis
inde, quam spectandisin
ego scribendi,
quam
theatro ludis.
hprocemio
in Isaiam.
Miilto major pars Milesias fabulas revd*Discum

ad

cunas

qiiam

nntricum

ventium quam

Plalonis libros.

Love-Melancholy.

156

and

these
qnam ut populum juvarem;
Avhiehare
shall take like ijuihledpills,
and
appetite,

the

tempt

deceive

[Part.3.

I liope,
M'ritiiii"-s,

my

composed

so

Sec. 1.

tliepalat,
as

"vell to

as

helpand

to

cinally
medi-

tlie whole

work

body; iny lines sliall not oidy

upoji
1 think I have said enouoh;
rectifie
the
but
minde.
recreate,
that of
if not, let him that is otherwise minded, remember
he

^Madanrensis,
for
apologiseth
most

him;) in his

in his

severe,

in his fife a

was

epifpams a lover, in
Ccvreflia

epistle

to

Euenus, Menander,
Sulpitius,
did

(as Ausonius
pfiifosopher

and

his precepts

Annianus,

wanton.

many

old

poets besides,

civious
scriptis
prurire,write Fescennies, Attellanes,and lasIcetam
in
had
morilnis
materiavi; yet they
songs;
et sever
itatem,they Mere
chast,severe, and upright

?w

censuram

livers.
"

Castum

decet

esse

Ipsum, versiculos
Qui
I

am

est,

necesse

deniquehabent

turn

salem

et

leporera.

of Catullus

and make
the same
opinion,
apologiein mine
hoc etiam, quodscribo,
pendet pternmqneex alio-

behalf:

own

piutnpoetara

nihil

sententid et auctoritate ; nee ipseJ'orsaninsanio,sed insemel insanisanientes serpior. Atqui detur hoc insanire me;
insanis aliqnando,
vimus omnes,
et tute ipseopinor
et is,et ille,
rum

et e(/o scilicet.

Homo

howsoever

me

nihil alienum

But!

he

Lasciva

Vita

presume

tiis

mine

I need

no

of the like

I
fault,

life is honest,

jocosa,mihi.

est, Musa

such

I need not, as Socrates

apologies;
he spake of love,or blush and

Pallas did in her hood, when she was

sulted
conJupiterabout Mercuries marriage,quod sn per mipas

eyes,

discourse

thingthat

any
authors

puto

pagina;vita proba est

his face when

by
vir()oconsnfitur

wanton

nobis

verecunda

Plato,cover

hide

est

lines erre, my

my
c

in

human!

urgethfor himself,accused
justlyplead,

and, which
as

sum

it is

I have

is here

in their modern

not

no

such

lascivious,obscene

or

chaster

"vitli

offended

written,as

your
French
many

ears

and

Italian

languageof late have

done, nay some

Mriters,Zanches,Asorius,Abulensis,
Latinepontificiall
'Rivet accuseth to be more
lascivious
Burchardus, "c. whom

of

our

*
In vita
Mart.

in epigram,amator,
philosophuSj
'"Ov'id.

ad
^ilsago.

sac.

iiiepistolis
iu prseceptis
severns.
jietulans,
scrip,cap. 13.

1. Subs.

Mem.

Preface.

1.]

157

Petroniiisin Catalectis,
Aristophanes
Virgilin Priapeiis,
other
or
iMartialis,
in Lysistrata,
prophane writer,
any
pagan
hoc genere peccdriint^
atrociter
7it mnltarn
(-^onenotes)
qui
cfratidcastce mentes
ta
scriptaohsccemtatnm
inc/eniosissime

then

'Tis

ahhorrcant.

part serious, and

it.

found

editions

this, but

chast, honest,most
^
Incetised (as he
have
sought it, and

itself.
religion

of Jindinrj
love, we

angtnentedand added something

which
in the former
not
was
(iflight),

yet, I have

More

lighttreatise

this

to

of

even

the love

said) tcith

scurrile

not

:"l am

ashamed

not

cpiodextendi

to confess

it, with

good

thor,
"^au-

hoc suhjectnmplerique
locupletari
pos-

et

importunitaterictus, animuni, utcunque

in manuni
renitentem,
adegi,ut jam sextd vice calamum
et a sludiis et prof'essione
med
lonc/e
scription'ique
sumerem,
horas
seriis
7neis
aViquasa
accinr/erem,
a lienoe me
occupatiotnlabant,

et

eornm

eo

suffuratiis,
easqne

nihus interim

veluti ludo cuidam

ac

recrea-

tioni destinans;

Cogor

dare,atque

Vela
Olim

etsi

thus much

And

lest any

cursus

detractores novishisce interfortasse

minime
defuturos.
I have thoughtgoodto say by way of preface,

of love
full and
and

(which

man

in

should blame

iterare

relictos.

ignorarem novos

non

meis
polationibus

tax

retrorsuni

me

Godefridus

loves, and

lust it self.

from it : not to
of this heroicall
fopperies

to applg remedies
of the rest.
as

unto

it.

I wdl

treat

in

his

rashness, in

entisements, symptomes,

deter others

vanities and

feared

wantonness,
lightness,

causes,

mdawfull

*=

book)

ing"
speak-

remedies, law-

speak it,onhj to
teach,hut to shew the

or

Herculean

love, and

of this with like

liberty

: vos
porro dicite multis
charta loquaturanus.
hsec
facite
Millibus ; et

''Sed dicam

me
not, good reader, then,or censure
hardly,if
to thythinking,
as
yet be too light;
part of this Treatise,

Condemn
some

vobis

me

"' Ficinns,Comment,
c. 17.
aBarthius, notis in Ccelestinam,ludiim Hisp.
"^ Auctor
et invenimus.
incensi inveniendi amoris, araorem
qujesivimns
d Hor.
ne
lib. 1. Ode 34.
praedisi,
Coelestinas Barth. interprete,
'^}^^9
fornicationibas,aduld
e
temere
lenociniis,depraxi,
nos
qnis
putaret scripsisse amorum
lasciviamet
insaniam, sed
Taxando
et ab his deterrendo huraanam
teriis,":c.

Amore

et

remedia

docendo

non

igiturcandidus

lector

nobis succenseat, "c.

Commonitio

reddit
juvenibus hsec, hisce at abstineant magis, et omissa lascivia quae homines
amoris si quisnescit,hinc
insanos, virtutis incumbant stadiis (.'EneasSilv.): et curani
f INlartianus Capella,
lib, 1. de nupt. philol. Virginalisuffasa
poteritscire.

erit

rubore,oculos peplo obnnbens. Sec.

Catullus.^

Loce

158

but

of

better

consider

Melancholy.

it.

Omnia

[Part.

iniinda

mundis

3. Sec.

1.

naked

"

to

man,

Livia

Augusta
'tis

modest

woman,

truly

'tis taken.

as

is

said

If in

Lipsius did

otlierwise

no

aii"l i, mala

thy

for

picture, as

mains

mens,
it be

censure

his reader

then

animus

I
lig-ht,

too

advise

places of Plautus, istos

Sirenum
scopulos prcetervehrre: if they like thee not,
is good to that which
that which
is
or
et them
pass;
oppose
therefore
ail.
and
that
of
bad,
For, to invert
reject not
verse
with
Hierom
^\'oif^lIs,
to apply it to
Martial, and,
present
my
thee,

as

some

finasi
purpose,

mala,

Sunt

some

is good,

him

yet, I have

here

non

interpret

omnia

what

poetarum
'Tis

capias.

pardon

of what

wink

well

in

as

request

Julius

vrhaniuscnle

Csesar

hi sum

benir/ne lector,

comicall

subject;
and

desire

faults, or

of

it,and

to be

wish

hunc, Arethusa,

resolved,

am

and,

best;

homely, lig-ht,
or

would

jnanifia,

small

Extremum

more

every

Scaliger
nobis, per

oro,

is amiss,

at

likest,speak

te

beseech

misconstrue

which

"c.

theafris,e

Hieroni/me Cardajie, ne me male capias)

thee, good reader, not to mistake
or
me,
Per
written
Musas
is here
et
Charites^
et
;

immortales
1

the

I say fartherwith
et ridicnla
ascri-

quecdam

things

(si quid

Cardan,

besought
Deos

Gratiis,
to

to

phira ;

circinnf'oranea quecdam

popinis) some

litans

comicall,

("Icvicnla

f/ravatus,
e

bona

sunt

is indifferent.

some

inserted

sum

plateis,etiam
man

bad,

some

mediociia,

quecdam

sunt

howsoever,

the

in sober
thee

to

silent

good

mihi

concede

ne

sadness

me

male
crave

suspend thy judgement,

at

me

te,

oro

least:

but,

if thou

success.

velis, nolis,

laborem.

audacter

stadium

^liensian
wrestlers
Olympicks,
in
shew
self in this conmion
Philostratus, boldly to
my
stage,
this
and
in
trage-coraedy of love, to act severall parts, sonie
in a mixttone,as
some
comically,some
satyrically,
thesubject
1 have
hand
in
shall require,
gives occasion,and present scene

intrare,

with

those

offer it self.

or

="

Viros

pense.

nudos

castsp
""

femina;

Praef. Suid.

nihil

statuis distare.

Hony

soyt qui mal

Love-Melanc/totii.

160

and
passions,

all otlicr

defines it

3. Sec.
[I'aft.

appetite,hj/ichich

1.

an

we

r/^'.v//v'
some
ffoodto he piesenf. Ficinus, in Illscomment,
addcs the word fairto this defiiiition love is a desire of enjoying
"

is pfood and

tliat which

definition,and

fair.

will have

which
heart, ^J'orsomef/nnr/

seek

jcin, or

joy to have,
injo)/. Seal igerf/i'.rr'rc.
inf/hi/ desire,restinrf
301)

covet

these former

defined

we

to

desire

by

or

and will
definitions,
appetite
; J'or^when

desire, there remains

love

is

no

perpetuate

or

union

our

have

not

he defines it,
to the thinr/

united

are

ice

which

love to be

the things
oijoj/

tve

:
as
appetite

more

hi/ which
affection

an

love,

we

he

to

'^

taxeth

we

dilates this common

deleclation of the

Austin

love

agrees

in

part

with

Hebreus.

Leon.

objectvaries,which is alwayes
good, amiable, fair, gracious and pleasant. '^ AH
thinr/s
Now

this love varies

as

its

desire that which is good,as Me

are
to them
seems
to
at least that which

mali, (as

well

Austin

actionibus

thou

the

taughtin

ethicks,or

be good ; quid enim vis

viihi
? puto nihil in omnid
ie
bus
infeiTes)
wilt wish no
iiarni I suppose, no illin

all thine actions, thoughtsor desires ; nihil mali vis ; 'thou

wilt not have bad corn, bad soil,a naughtytree, but all good ;
a
good servant, a good horse, a good son, a good friend,a
good neighbour,a good wife. From this goodnesscomes

beauty;
so

many

to covet
we

from

comeliness,which result
their good parts,make
us
to love,and

beauty,grace,
from

layes
it : for,Mere

should

cap. 5) but

heautff. As

he

pleasingand graciousin

it not

seek.

not

that

this fair

*.A^o
was

and

man

loves

doth

mor.

comeliness

our

so

eyes,

(saithAristotle,9

with
firstdeVujhted

objectvaries, so

our

as

and

love; for,as

omne
pulchrum amabile, every fau* thingis
M'hat
and
love is fair and gratiousinour eyes; or
we
amiable;
do so apprehend an:l still esteem
of it. ^Amiat least M'e

Proclus

holds,

ahleness is the objectof love ; the scope and end

for whose sake we love,and which our mind
And

it seems

unity,cannot

to

be

us

fair and
especially

is to obtain
covets

to

it,

enjoy.

and
good
good,fair,
separated. Beauty shines,Plato saith,and
:

for

"" Gorlefridns,I. 1.
fruenrlirlesideriiira.
Amor
est
aBoni ptilchrique
cap. 2.
ad ali(|iiid,
d.-siderium in appetendo,et j(aa(ielectatiocordis alicujiis
propteraliqiiod
^Non
diuin perfruendo,
reqiiiesct-ns
per gaudium.
per desideriuin ciirrens,
ut ah oiiinibiis liactenus
tradittim ; nam,
ant
desiderium
cum
f-st amor
appetiiiis,
manet
aut uniamatii re, non
amata
re
appetitas; est igitnraflectiis,
"|iio cuin
I)otimar
"" Omnia
e Teraut unionem
appetunt bonnm.
perpetiiamus.
miir,
vis malam, niaiam
arboreiii, eqiiam
bonum, ["c.
non
segetem, sed bonam
ram
nisi qui furrit ante forma speciequedelectatus.
bile
? Ama'Nemo
amore
capittir,

et scopus, cujus adeptioest linis,cnjns gratiaaiiiamus.

Animus
boni babet, tt prajcipuevidetur et placet
froatur ; et formam
Picolominens, grad.7. cap. 2. et grad. 8. cap. .3r".

fnim

objecturaanions
aspiratut eo

Mem.

1. Subs.

2.]

151'

Objectsof Looe.

and shining,
canseth admiration;
of itssplendor
and
it is sought. For,
the fairer the objectis,the more
Plato defines it, beauty is a lively
the same
as
shhiingor

by

reason

eagerly

'^

from effused
resulting
good, by ideas^
glitterimj
brightness,
that by this
our
minds,
seeds,reasons, shadowes, stirring
up
and
made
united
Others will have
one.
good they may be
whole
the
of
be
the
^caused
to
composition,
perfection
beauty
out of the congruous
symmetry, measure, order and manner
of
ichich proceeds
comeliness
from this beauty
parts: and that
is called grace ; and from thence all fair things
are
gracious:
for grace and beauty are so wonderfully
annexed, "so siceetly
and gentlyunn
souls,and strongly
allure, that theyconour
found
be
and
cannot
our
distinguished.
judgement^
Beauty
and shinings
that come
like those beams
and grace
are
from
and divine sun, which are diverse,as Hiey proceed
the glorious
and affect our several senses;
to please
from the diverse objects,
'^
taken
at our
the species
as
of beautyare
eyes, ears, or conceived
at largein his Dialoguede
in our inner soul, as Plato disputes
and, after many sophisticall
Pulchro, Plmdro, Hippias,
errours
is
in
all
that
concludes
lighting
confuted,
beauty a grace
things,dethe eyes, ears, and soul it self; so that,as Valesius
infers hence, whatsoever
our
soul,
pleaseth
ears, eyes, and
and
needs
be
And
t
o
fair,
beautifull,
must
delightsome us.
^

pleaseour ears then niusick,or pacifeour

minds.
Fair houses, pictures,
orchards, gardens,fields,
a
ever
whatsounto
fair hawk, a fair horse, is most acceptable
us
;
call
beautifull
and
and fair.
we
o
ur
ears,
pleaseth eyes
the
but
the
rest of
and
to
Pleasure belongeth
senses,
grace
As
the
and
alone.
these
are
two
to
diverse,
objects
vary
beauty
affect our eyes, ears, and soul it self: which
so
they diversely
givesoccasion to some, to make so many severall kindes of
love as there be objects: one
beauty ariseth from God, of
with many
fathers and
which and divine love,^S'. Dionysius,
De
written
amore
Dei,
as
Neotericks,have
justvolumes,
they
another
from
his
discourses;
tures;
createrm
it,many parsenetical
there is a beauty of the body, a beauty of the soul,
a
beauty from vertue, formam martyrum Austin calls it,
nothingcan

more

" Forma
est vitalisfulgor
ex
ipsobono manans,
per ideas,semina, rationes,umbras
b Pulchritiido est
in iinuni
nt per bonum
redigantur.
effusns,animos excitans,
ex
perfectio
compositi,
congruente ordiiie,mensiira, et ratione partiumconsurgens ; et
c Gratia
et
et res omnes
gratiosa?.
pulciirce
venustas iade prodiensgratiadicitur,
alliciunt,et admirabiliter
ita suaviter anioius demulcent, ita veheuienter
pulchritudo
non
confundautur, et distingui
possunt ; et sunt tanquaiu
connectuntur, ut in unam

"^
radii et splendoresdivini solis in rebus variis vario mode fulgentes.
Species
" Nihil
meute.
interna
hauriuntur oculis,auribus,aut concipiuntiir
pulchritudinis
'Inrehiuc magis animos conciliat quaui uiusica,pulchra?
afdes,"c.
picturae,
""'Lib. 4. de divinii,
in his pulchritudo
sensibus voluptas,
et gratia.
^Coulifjuis
vivio Piatonis.

VOL.

II.

Love-Melancholy.

162

[Part.3.

Sec. 1.

videnuis ochUs

with the eyes of

see
animi^ which we
which
if we
could discern
onr
ininde,
beauty (as Tullysaith)
aid amores
excitaret,
w ith these
corporeal!
eyes, ndmirnhiles

quam

would

and
admirable affections,

cause

ravish

our

souls.

This

beautywhich ariseth from those extreme

parts,and graces
severall motions,and
proceedfrom gestures, speeches,
and women,
from woof creatures, men
men,
(especially
proportions
Other
which

whicii
Venus

those old poets put the three Graces stillin

on
her,and holdingup her train)
attending

made
as

company,

with their objects,

as
infinitealmost, and vary their names
love of mony, covetousness,
love of beauty,lust,immoderate
desire ofanypleasure,
will,
concupiscence,friendship,love,good
are

and

is either vertue
or
vice,honest, dishonest,in excesse,
shall
shewed
heroicall love,religious
be
in his ))lace
defect,as
;
"c.

"

love,"c. which may be reduced

accordingto the principall
parts which
and

liver; amnr

et

Valesius,and
froin that
and

Melancthon, warrant

twofold

301),
Scaliger(e.vercitnt.
out

of

Plato, ^ixny

Pausanias,belike,that makes
One
Vetius is ancient,without

"'

division^

affected,the braine

are

speechof

Loves.

two

amicitia, which

to

two
a

"

ipa"

Veneres

mother, and

descended

J'rom heaven, whom ire call crelestiall; the younffer^

begottenof'Jupiterand Dione, wham commonly ire call J^enus.
this place,cap. 8. following
Ficinus, in his comment
upon
Plato,calls these

accordingto

two

Loves,

us, which

divels,^or good and bad

two

are

still hoveringabout

our

gels
an-

souls.

to hell; the
heaven; the other depresseth
ns
one
ns
of that divine
up to the contemplation
and all yodly offices,
for whose sake we perjorm justice,
beauty,
'^

The

to

rears

one

good, which

stirs

the other base, and, thonqh had, yet to be

S^-c,
studyphilosophy,
natures
: pro;for indeed both are good in their own
respected
creation
children
is
that
truths
as
o
ut
as
of
finding oj'
necessary
but

thereforecalled bad, because it is abused; and withdraices

our

soul

other,to
J'rom the speculation
oj'that

far Ficinus.
hath
and

delivered
may

as

much

be loved

well

Jerusalem
the world

and

one

(lib.15. de civ. Dei

in effect.
or

ill: and

Babylon, the

love

the other

examination
the

S'. Austin

'^

Every

'^two

of God

cities we
; of these two
oj'ourselves we may soon

love is the

root

of all

objects: so
.tup. Psal. 64)

viler
et

creature

cities make

is
two

good,
loves^

the one, the love

all are citizens,
as

ojf
by

finde, and of which:

mischief,the

other of all good.

" Duae
et sine inntre, coclo iiata,qiiam
Veneres, duo Amores
: qiiarnra una
siiitifiuior
Jove
altera
coplestem Venerem
:
et Dione
vero
a
junior,
rniinipanms
probata,qnam
''Alter ad siiperna erii,if.
alter Heprimitad inferna.
valgareni^'enerem Tocamiis.
"" Alter excitat houiineiu ad
divinani piiIchritiiHinem
rausp;"!philosnItistrandam, riijifs
" Omnis
"r.
"reatnra
hona sit,et bene amari poriirn
phiaestudia et jiistitiae,
test
' Piias
rivilates duo faciiiritamores:
et male.
Jerusalem inert srmor
saECuli; iiniis(nii!;i(iie
aiiift. intenoRet; et inTenret ondc
Dei, BabyloneDi amor
se. ^iiid
flitcivis.

Mem.

1. Subs.

Objectsof Love,

2.]

So, illhis 15 cap. lib. de

four cardinall vertues
; in his 15 book

Ecclesice,he will have

amor.

naughtelse

to be

1G3

but love

those

composed
rightly

de civ, Dei, cap.

22, he calls veitue the

order of Love ; whom
Thomas
5b.
following
(1 part. 2. quoest.
56.3. qucest.62. art. 2),confirmes as much,
art. 1. andqucest.
and

words.

in
amplifies

many
division of his

hath

is

various and

^Lucian
love

one

own;

to the

same

purpose
in the sea, which
brests as the sea it self,
born

was

ragingin young mens

and causeth burninglust: the other is that goldenchain which
let dorcn from heaven, and with a divine Jury ravisheth
teas
made to the imageof God, and stirs us up to compreour
souls,
hend
the innate and incorruptible
ichich
to
we
once
were
beauty
hath expressedall this in an epigram
created.
Beroaldus
as

of his

divini memorant

Dogmata

si

Platonis,

vera

gemineeVeneres, et geminatusAmor.

Sunt

Ccelestis Venus

Quae

nullo generata parente,

nectit amore
vires.
sanctos

casto

est

Altera sed Venus

Quee divAm

vulgataper orbem,
alligat,
atque hominum;

est

totum

mentes

"c.
Improba,seductrix,petulans,

If divine Platos
Two
The

from

Which
The

heaven

knits

our

other famous

Bindingthe
Rules

his Comment
the

many

the

he holds
other

unbegottenstiil,

souls in unitie ;
overall the world,
and

and

men

she
seducing,

she will,both where

division of
on

as
divell,

which

whom

there be

hearts of God

Dishonest,wanton,
This twofold

Loves

Veneres, two

one

they be true,

tenents

and

when.

love, Origen likewise followes

God, the other from

from

one
Canticles,

it in the
(understanding

repeat and

in

Both

imitate.

worser

which

sense);
(toomit

all

in excesse
or
defect, as they are abused, or
subdivisions)
kinde, as shall
degenerate,cause
melancholy in a particular
in his place. Austin, in another tract, makes
be shewed
a

threefold division of this love, which

*"

God,

our

neighbour,and

the

we

world

well or ill:
may use
above
us, our
; God
In the course
of our

neighbournext us, the world beneath us.

the world
desires,God hath three things,
two.
to

Our

God,

and

desire to

God, is either from

so
ordinarily

runs.

From

one,

God,

neighbour

our

with

God, when

God,

or

it receives

referens. "c. alter

Alter mari ortus,ferox,varius,fluctuans,
inanis,
juvenum, mare
'"Tria sunt,
fnrorem tnentibns immittens, Krc.
catena coelo demissa,bonum
qaap amari a nobis bene Tel male possimt; Deus, prosimns, ninndns: Dens supra nos.;
niuadus
unain
Tria Deus, duo proxinius,
joxfa nos
proximns infra nos mundus.
"

aurea

habet,"c.

Love-Meiancholy.

164

J'rom him, whence,

God,

for

it contradicts

when

it seeks

and

to

and

repose

which it should
in

his will
it

rest

[Part.3.

love him:

nothing:

in
self'

him.

him, and

Sec. I.

to

Our

with

God,

when

love to

our

with

run
him, 7iot to
from
neiffhhour
mat/ proceed
his
him : from him, as when we rejoijce
of
good safety,and
desire to have him a fellow
well doing: irith him, ichen we
the
in
and companionof our jonrneg
7cag of the Lord ; not in
in man.
From
him, because there is no aid,hope,or confidence

love comes, when we beginto admire the Creator

With the world
in his works, and glorifyGod in his creatures.
all
to the mutability
it should rnn,ifaccording
of
temporalties,
the icorld

our

in adversity,
elevated in prospeor
over
dejected
rity
it
would
settle
it
selfin its vain delights
; to the world, if
of love I could repeat, and
andstudies.
Many such partitions
subdivisions;but least (whichSeal igerobjectsto Cardan, ^a;ercitat. 501) */ confound
filthyburning Inst,with pure and
it should

be

love, I will follow that

divine

division of Leon. HePhilo, where he speaksof

accurate

breus, dial 2. betwixt Sophia and

and handleth
naturall,sensible and rationall\ovc,
Naturall love
is to be

or

is that

hatred

and

in animate

seen

stones
elements,mettals,

sympathy

inanimate

or

each a|)art.

which
antipathy,

creatures,

in the four

deorsum, as
gravialendunt

stone

to

The sun, moon,

his centre, fire upward, and rivers to the sea.
^
amantes
naturcc
debita euercere,
and
stars
go stillround,
This love is manifest,
I say, in inanimate
for love of perfection.
How

load-stone

draw

iron

to it,jet
but
for
love?
No
showers,
ground
creatur(%
S'. Hieroni concludes, is 1o be found, quod non
amat,
aliipiid
hath
of
that
Jove.
not some
'Tis
stock, no stone,
no
feeling-

creatures.

chaff,the

more

to

to covet

in

eminent

as
vegetals;

comes

hearbs,
plants,

betwixt

the vine and

the vine and

the

and

is

elm

observed in
especially
a great sympathy
twixt
; be-

cabbage, betwixt

the

the vine and

(^VirgofugitBromium),hct\vi\t

tipathy
; the vine loves

the

not

vine

and

baies,agreatan-

his smell,and
the Untie cannot

bay,''"or

the bur and

olive

him, ifhe grow near him;

another; the olive *^and the mirtle embrace
one
Read
neer.
roots and branches, if theygrow

each
more

icillkill

endure

other,in
of this in

(grad.7. cap. I),Crescentius (//6.5. de agric.)

(demag. lib. 1. cap. de plant,odio ef Element,
sym.)Fracastorius (desym.et antip.)Of the love and hatred of
consult with every astrologer I.cor).lb breus gives
planets,
Picolomineus

Porta
Baptista

many

fabulous reasons,

and

moral izeth them

withall.

sceleratum cum
bpa.tis,
piiro, divino,et
Aniorpx
forsan lib. II. de CiviL Dei.
Aiigiistini
vero,
^
'' Altiat
Porta. Vitis lauriim non amat,
inconcnssus
stat mundus, fv.-c.
Amore
'^
enect.
I"!!*!
advfrsatur.
si
odorem
rrpscat,
Symrathia
n*c
pjos
Lappa
;
prop""
alei et myrti ramorum
et radicum ue couiplectentium.
Mizaldus, secret, cent. 1. A7.
*Ne

confundam
"c.

\e"anas

et foedos

bPoDseca, cap. I.

amores

16S

Objectsof Love.

2.]

1. Subs.

Mem.

Leon.
love is that of brute beasts,of which the same
for the pleasure
these causes
Hebreus.
; first,
2) assigns
(rfiflf/.
male and female love one
they take in the act of generation,
and
of the species,
another :
secondly,for the preservation
for the mutuall agreement, as
brood: thirdly,
desire of young
bos bovi,et asinus
cams
cam,
beingof the same kinde; Sus siii,
Sensible

"

ing
videtur,asEpicharmus held: and, accordpulcherrimus

asino

to

that

adagy of Diogenianus,

Adsidet

in
delight

they much
^

apud graculura,
graculus

usque

Formicse

anothers

one

est

grata

company

formica, cicada cicadee.

for cusgathertogether: fourthly,

tome, use, and familiarity
; as, ifa dog be trained up with a lion
and a bear, contrary to their natures, theywill love each other.
and keepers. Many
Hawks, dogs,horses,love their masters

and birds of

feather will

and

Gillius,de

hist,

of
of Lipsius,
epistles

dogs

but

relate in this kinde:

stories I could
anim.

"

14, those

lib. 3. cap.

"c.
horses, Agellius,

feitchbring up

two

see

if
bringingup,
duckling,an hedge sparrow

for
fifthly,

"

as

kid, a

hen

is amor

Leon
as
cognitionis,

cuckow, "c.
The

third kinde

love,intellectivus

amor,

and

is proper to men,

rationall
callsit,
on

which

I must

God is love it self,

insist. This appears in God, angels,men.
of love, as Plato stiles him;
"~rhe fountain of love, the disciple
of peace, the God of love and peace j have peace
the servant

with all

and

men,

God

is with you.

veneratur
Olyrapum,
-''Quisquis
mundum
sibi
subjicit,
atque Deum.
Ipse

Gerson)ice purchaseheaven, and buy the

"By this love (saith
for
it self,
kingdom of God. This ''love is either in the Trinity
the Holy Ghost isthe love of the FatherandtheSon,"c. Joh.3.
15. and

5. 20.

us

peace

14. 31.

or

his creatures, as in
fecit; love built cities;

towards

us

mundum
Amor
the world.
invented
arts, sciences,and
;

making
mundi

and

anima

to vertue

and

combines
humanity,

earth,quietness
by

on

all fear,anger,
expells

sea, mirth

cites
inthings,
all^good

and

quicken?;keepes

in the windes

and

ments,
ele-

rusticity
; circulus a bono in
good to good ; for love is the

and

round circle stillfrom

beginner and end of all our actions,the efficientand instru-

bonum,

c Caritas munifica,
a Theocritus,
bMantuan.
qua mercamnr
Idyll.9.
'^
Polanus, partii Zanchias, de natura Dei, c. 3. copiose
de Deo return
Dei.
^ISich. Bellas discurs. 28. de amatoribus. Virtutem proDei agit.
de hoc amore
8ic.
in aere, Tentis lastitiam,
in terra, tranquillitatem
rocat, conseryat pacem

Loce-AFelancholif.

16(j

mental

cause,

blemes

of

quteris fuerit quis

rerum

Desine;

nam

If first and
Cease

Love,

saith

of

ing

it.

shelved

of any
t!ie sole

love's

''Leo, made

it, God

sonj'or

last

the

JoIdi^

16.

3.

ns,

should

oltus,
amor.

of it.

cause

he (fare

what

we

be called

in reileem-

afterwards
his

onlij bef/otten
hath

Fattier

the

love

of God. 1 John,
Or by his sweet
3. 1.
providence, in protecting of it ; either
all in general), or
his saints
in particular,
elect
church
and
whom
he keeps as
the apple of his
M'hom
he loves
freely
eye,
Carior
14.
est
5. speaks), and
(as Hosea,
dearly respects.
merit
for any
sibi : not
that we
fair, nor
are
ipsis homo, quam
on

thftt

Behold

em-

us,

solus

and

that

world,

"

wit,

thing you
an"l only

tlie world:

loved

so

finis ct
uiiica

est

caussa

unto

1.

Sec.

3.

symbols, impresses,

shadow

"c.

rings, squares,

Si

in their

poets

our

as

[Part,

the

sons

"

of

grace

or

his

incomparable

And

this is that
heaven

from

for

ours;

love

earth,

his
He
Creator.
depends on
and
it was
good ; and he loves it,as
The
love of angels and
living souls

God;

as

the

militant

us

in

made

they by their well

alacres,
promovendd

thrones,
minum

joy

in

us,

are

for

heaven

solicitous
Ubi

proper
and

aCamerarius,
"Camsinoi

to

the

Einb.

wishes

fi^gnat caritas,

mortall

100.

cen.

amor

of

but

of

out

all such

and

earth

on

us,

desiderium,

Deo

conjunctus.
third

member

following

3.

love

as

in salute

administri

repenleth
casti genii,

Dial.

Moses

celestiall

those

from

suave

i-

Plotino.

"*

saith

amongstthem-

that

my

2.

ismutuall

reflect

is the

men

subject

fTheodoret.

good.

constantes

et

good,

Lcctitiaque et
Love

the

sinner

every
for our

all,

church,

the

irradiate

beams

sun

base

nature.
goodness, out of his divine
down
reacheth
golden chain, which
is annexed,
creature
by which
every

and

selves, towards

and

and

Homers

to

vile

most

are

we

they

of

there
pray

hois
for

this subdivision,

discourse.

cjuven,

""

Gen.

I.

Love-Melanrlwly

1G3

[Part.3.

tlico;bountiriill lie is, llinnkfull and

to

open

giveIiiinwcaltliand

tlico;but

honour,

Sec.

I.

bchaKliiii"to

give bini

gold,or

what

and thou shalt comshall be for his ad\ aiitag;eand preferment,

mand
him
his aft'ections,
efernallyto thee, heart,hand,
oblige
service
his dear and loving^
thou
is
a
nd
at
art
all,
;
thy
life,

friend,goociand graciouslor"l and master, his Maecenas ; he

and bound
is thy slave, ihy \ assail,most
devote, atfectioned,

allduty- Tell him gootltydiiig-sin

this kinde, there spoke

in

blessed

angel,a

an

thou

and
thine for

ever.

then

sooner

bringsin gain; he
hugg-esand admires

that
he

his creator;

loadstone

No

fair

so

none

hour

so

attractive

object as this of gold :

an

=*

is

ture,
thy crea-

thee; he is

that of

as

profit
;

nothing wins

command
good turn; bountyand liberality

man

body

and soul.

(credemihi) placanthominesqueDeosque :
doiiis Jupiteripsedatis.

Munera

Placatur
Good

do

turns

both
pacitie

himself is
Jupiter

And

Gold, of all other,is

a

it hath

goodly lustre

Austin, and

Baith

won

and

by

them.

men.

delitious

most

anrvm
f/ratius

had

we

God

rather

see

object;

solem

guam
it then

the

light,

sweet

intiiemury
8weet

sun.

all our labours :

keeping,it seasons
for it, base imployment,endure
long journeys,heavy burdens ; all
by tliishope of gain.

in getting,
in
and pleasant
take
intolerable pains we
bitter flouts and taunts,
made lightand easie
are

mihi

"at

"

Ipse domi, siniul

ac

plaudo
in
contemplor

nuimnos

area.

and ravisheth our

sightof gold refresheth our spirits,
hearts,as that Babylonian garment and ''golden
wedge did
in the camp
and hearing
Achan
sets on fire bis
; the very sight

The

soul with
or

desire of it.

tany

at

home
and

himself,swear

body,

kill

and

turn

man

bear false witness ; he will venture

his
his father,and damn
his soul to
he well observed, the
anri mastsa, as

J^ormosior

"^

gold is fairer then all your Grecian

could
Apelles,Phidias,or any dotingpainter,
with

enamoured

are

fete vota, et cunctis notissima

Divitiae ut crescant.

our

are

to

ever

make:

we

templis,

labours, studies,endeavours,vows, prayers and wishes,

get it,how

Benefactores

Arbiter.

that
pictures,

it,

"^ Prima

All

podes,
Anti-

lye,flatter,
parasite,
tute
prosti-

of

mass

to the

run

king, murther

at it.

come

It Mill make

'

to

compass

prsecipue
amamus.

Jiivinalis.

it.

Vives, 3. de aiiinia.

''Jos.7.

"^

Petronius

2. Subs.

Mem.

est

Diva

potens rerum,

objectof

made

for

it,we

arc

and

as

adore

If

Our

mad.

; and

as

longas bounty,good
enough ; theywere

it lasts

tied

thee

do

crows

as

to

carcass

sought to

each

be kin

to

deformed,
a

would

so

sudden

are

wealth;

our

:
friendship
hoped,

to be

were

thee

by the teeth,and would

but, when thy goods are

the sole

of Greece,
spectacle
Every body loved,honoured,

when

but

farewell Timon

an

object

they gave

penny

his

service,and

his
;

Timon

as

him

him

gold was spent,

so
none
ugly,none

; no
to

man

buy

so

his
so

ridiculous

rope;

no

man

him.

know

'Tis the

flows M-ith

enriched,so

farewell

rewards,

offered

man

him

gone,
possessions
odious

or

and

longerthen

no

lamp
gone and
be contemned, scorned,
was
he lived in prosperity,
when
but
Timon?
who
onelyadmired;

applauded him

ebbs

esse

of their love is out;

and thou shalt
hated, injured. ''Lucians Timon,

spent, the

on

orship: this is the

it,as we think,we are

removed,
object

friends

fair

fati.

endowed

are

we

and esteemed

bene

cheer,and

follow

and

have

we

and

estate

that is gone, and the

when

orbis,

If we
lose
happy, princes,lords, "c.
discontent,miserable,despedull, heavy, dejected,
rate,

beloved

we

maximus

thrice

ever

commodity

our

desire.

our

169

domitrixquePecunia

we
great g-oddess

This is the
sole

ilia ciiifamulatur

Heec

"

'

Objectsof Love.

1. ]

humour
generall

of the
love

world; commodity steers

those that

our

fortunate and

affections throughout
;
ness,
that
or
thrive,
by whom we may receive mutuall kindrich,
hope for like curtesies,get any good, gain or profit;
hate those,and abhor, on the other side,which
are
poor and
loss
sustain
whom
inconvenience.
we
or
or
miserable,
by
may
we

And

even

those that

we

dear

unto

us, our

with
long friends, neighbours,kinsmen, allies,

lovingand
whom

familiar and

now

were

are

have

conversed

and

lived

as

so

Geryons for
another all good

many

still to give one

past, striving
and entertainment,with mutual invitations,
content
feastings,
would
whom
for
we
ride, run, spend our
offices,
disports,

some

years

and honourably
freely
spoken,
and magnifihave given all those turgent titles,
we
to whom
cent
elogiums,most excellent and most noble,worthy,wise,
and magnified
beyond measure
grave, learned,valiant,"c.
arise betwixt
some
if any controversie
us,
injury,
trespass,
be
of
of
land
a
our
detained,
some
goods
piece
abuse,
part
in
if
touch
our
the
us
to be litigious,they cross
suit,or
come
and
them
detest
of
depress
upon a
string our commodity, we

selves, and of whom

we

have

so

"

'Joh. Secund.

lib. sylvarum.

hLucianns, Timon.

Love.'jyielancholy. [Part.3.

170

sUiIJen

contain

can

us,

but

"

riiptojecoreexierit

by the ears,
altogether
amongst bears:
flung-

apple

sets

comb

or
consanguinity,
affinity,

neither

were

sister,kinsmen

at

are

odds

acquaintance
caprificus.A golden
bone

marrow

son,

look, what

hony

or

brother

malice,

and

deadly

invent,that shall be done,

hatred,can

atrox,
dirum, peslilens,
Terribiie,

tolerate it ; our
touch
; but

ferum

and how

desire of revenge,
mutuall injuries,
If our
and his,are all our studies.
can

1.

old

fatiier and

and

if a

as

Sec.

to hurt

them, him

be interruj)t,
pleasures
we

bodies

hurt,we can put it up and be reconciled

commodities, we are most
impatient:

our

foul,the Graces

turned

Harpyes,friendly
to plotting
salutations to
feastiugs
words
and
to satyres
villanies,
counterminings
; good
minings
and invectifes; we revile e contra ; nought but his imperfections
in our
a monster,
are
eyes ; he is a base knave, a divel,
"c.
an
a viper,
hog-rubber,
a caterpiller,
fair becomes

are

to

mutuall
bitter imprecations,

Desinit

This

to

piscemmulier

is altered

scene

mirth

in

melancholy:

so

sudden

on

formosa

superne

; love

furiously

we

are

is turned
most

hate,
part bent,our
to

this objectof commodity, and

affections fixed upon
upon
is covetousness.
Ambition
of which in excess
desire
the
money,
oursouls,as''Ihave shewed, and in defect
over
tyraunizeth
illhusbandry,
by negligence,
and consume
his goods and
waste
prodigality,
improvidence,
he
and
melancholy; becomes an
fortunes, beggery follows,
in not providing
Jbr
abject,odious,and u'orsefAew an injidel,
hisfamily.

crucifies as much

; as, if a

man

"^

II.

SUBSECT.

Objectsof Love.

Pleasant

LEASANT

as

have

objectsare

life,or

be

without

infinite,whether
life.

Inanimate

videmus, etiam

cum

non

are

such

countries,

he said, '^ Pulcherrimam

as
towers, towns, cities,
provinces,

insulam

they be

videmus;

we

see

fair

The 'sun
when
it not.
we
see
never
by description,
Tempe, orchards, gardens,pleasant
a fairer city,Thessala
heaven
it
The
self
"c.
is
walks, groves, fountains,

island
saw

"

Pers.

Camdeno.
epist.

3. sub. 12.
bpart. 1. sect. 2, memb.
* liclandof St
Edmondsbury.

,' 1 Tira. 5. 8.

""Lip".

2. Subs.

Mem.

said

''fairor

to be

Love,

Objectsof

2.]

171

''fairpictures,
all artifoul; fair buildings,

able
elaborate, and curious works, clothes,
iiciall,
give an admirlustre : we
admire, and gaze upon them, utpueriJmionis
do

children

peacock,a fair dog, a fair horse

and
amat
hawk, "c.
(^Thessalus
pullinum, bucueqnum
lum ^yypthis, Lacedcemonius
catulum, cVc.)such thingswe
in
our
love,are most gracious
sight,
acceptableunto us, and
else may cause
this passion,
if it be superfluous
whatsoever
These things
or
immoderatelyloved,asGuiauerius observes.
in themselves
are
pleasingand good,singular
ornaments,
cessary,
nebe
and
tit
when
but
fix an immoto
derate
we
had;
comely,
them
and
dote
this
on
over
much,
pleasuremay
eye,
muc!i
and
discontent
turn to pain,
unto
sorrow
bring
us, work
and
final overthrow,
our
cause
melancholyin the end. Many
those
with
carried
ing,
are
bewitching'
sportsof gaming, hawkaway
I have said ; some
as
hunting,and such vain pleasures,'^
desire of fame, to be crowned
with immoderate
in the Olymin
the
and
these
"c.
ruinate
field,
means
by
picks,knighted
as

avem,

The

themselves.

on

lascivious

dotes

his fair

on

mistress,the

varied to please
the
gluttonon his dishes,which are infinitely
the epicure
his severall pleasures,
the superstitious
on
palate,
and
fats
his
himself
with
future
on
idol,
joys, as Turks feed
themselves with an imaginaryperswasionofasensuall paradise:
severall pleasant
affect divers men.
But
so
objectsdiversely
from
the fairest objectsand entisings
men
proceed
themselves,
a
nd
which most frequently
make
them dote
allure,
captivate,
one
another, and that for many
beyond all measure
upon
as
some
by that secret force of stars,
suppose,
respects: first,
dote on
theydo singularly
[quodme tibi temperat astruml:)
hate such again,and can
such a man,
for it.
giveno reason
"JVow

ie, Sabidi, ^c.

amo

Adrian

Nero
Antinoiis,

to their

temperament

opposite

to

or

tures, love and

Alexander

admired

refer this
Sporus,"c.
physicians
trine
and
sextile
to
astrologers
aspects,

their severall
hatred

of

ascendents,lords

of their

but most to outward

spirits;
graces.
and acceptable
is welcome
to all men

and great
sGomesius, princes

men

merry

aCoeluin serenum,

dem, vivos ducent

sec.

2. memb.

link,as, iftheybe
inseparable

in an

coelum
e

which

3.

I.3. c. 15.
genial),
morum
paritamicitiam.

addicted

visn foedoni. Polyd. lib.1. de Anglia.

" Max.
vuitus.
Tyrius,ser. 9.
"Mart.
fOmnif. mag. lib. 12. cap. 3.
i"Theod. Prodroraus amor.
lib.3,

marraore

panion
com-

paribus

'

men

and

; and therefore,
entertain ^'esters
and

But Sparescum
playerscommonly in their courts.
'tisthat
similitude
of manners
Jacillime
congregantur ;
ties most

geui-

to concord
planets;"^^Cicogna,

discord of
saith

Hephaestion,

The

to the

''Credo equi"iPart. 1.
gDe sale
' Simiiitndo

Love-

172

Melancholy.

3.
[Part.

Sec. 1.

theydelight in one anothers compatlisports,

nies;
birds of a featherwill father together;
if they be of
or
dirers inclinations,
oppositein manners,
they can seldome
and familiarity,
custome,
Secondly,^affability,
agree.
may
nature
convert
times, thoug^h
they be different in manners,
many
as, if they be country-men, tellow-students,colleag-ues,
''brethren in affliction,
have been fellow-souldiers,
or
(^acerha
socielas diversi etiam inyenii
homines conjunqit)
calamitatnm
such accidentall occasion
or
some
not
though theycanaffinity,
will
stick
like
themselves,
they
together
amongst
agree
third
after
and
hold
a
: so
some
burrs,
against
discontinuance,
cciseth
in
forrain
or
a
death, enmity
or
place.
;
studies

sainn

or

in vivis liver,post fata quiescit

:
obruit iras.
Et cecidere odia,et tristes mors

Pascitur

third

of love and

cause

"*

hate may

commend

him,

be mutuall

offices,
accep-

him

henefcium
kindly,take his
him
relieve
in
his
misery; thou winncst him
partina quarrell,
and be sure
do the opposite,
of a perpetuall
for ever;
enemy.
of each other do as much, though unPraise and dispraise
known,
and Casaubonus
muliis
as
Schoppiusby Scaliger
with him?
what encomions,
mulurn scahit ; who but Scaliger
elogiums! Antistes sapientico,
epithetes,
perpetuus dictator
liternrum
ornamentum,
Europce miraculum, noble Scalig'er,
incredibilis ingenii
^'c. Diis potiusquam homiprcestantia,
nihusper omnia comparandus: scriptaejus aurea, ancilia de
coelo delapsa,
veneramur
poplitibus
fexis,^-c. But when they,
absurd
vile and base,
so
as
so
Scaliger,
began to vary, none
his books de Burdomim
tives
invecas
familidand other satyricall
tnm

use

'^

not

Ovid, in Ibin,Archilochus himself,was

may witness.
Another
of love,is consanso bitter.
guinity
great tye or cause
dear
their
to
.ire
children
to their
children,
; parents

parents,brothers
chickens, all of

Many

memorable

simile,if theydo

and
knot

sisters,
cosens
:

every

crow

examplesare
not

'

mother

of all sorts, as

thinks her

in this kinde
cannot

own

; and
forgether

an

hen and

bird fairest.

'tisportenti
mon
child; Salo-

love of parents may not be

found out the true owner:
'tis
concealed:
descends; and theythat are inhumane
naturall,
so

a'Vives. 3. de Anima.
aut una
''Quisinuil fecure naiifragium,
vincula,vel conailii coojurationisvesocietate junguntur, invicem atnant:

pertulere
Brutum

et

invicem infensos Caisarianas dominatus conciliavit

Cassium
vEmiliiis Lepidus et
Julius Flaccus, quum essent ininiicissimi,
renimciati, simultates illicndepoceusores
"' Isocrates
Scultet. cap. 4. de caussa
suere.
amor.
''Papinius.
i
lium
Demonico
a
niicitiam
laus
initium
alicujus
vellet,
praecipit,
laudet,quod
ut,quam
'
"^
amoris sit,
siuiultatum.
vituperatio
Suspect,lect.lib.1, cap, 2.
Isay,49.

2. Subs.

Mem.

173

Objectsof Love.

Honest

3.J

in this kinde, are unworthy of that air theybreath,and of the

unnatiirall examples we have in this
four elements : yet many
rank, of bard-hearted parents, disobedient children,of ^disThe

brothers; nothings"common.
ap-reeinw-

love of kinsmen

(as the

cold : mmty
is grown
sayingis.) friends.
able
and
thou
be
to
be
If thine estate
good,
par pari referre,
requitetheir kindness,there will be mutuall correspondence;
odious to them above all
otherwise thou art a burden, most
kinsmen

The

others.

Jjeic

and

objectthat tyes man

last

of person, and beauty alone,as

is termed
"ar* i^oxfiv
eye; which

love

men

is comeliness

man,

with

women

or
/ieroica//,

wanton

Love-Melancholy.

called with some

(saith''Picolomineus)
contraction,as fhe love of wine, gold,"c. but this of women
is predominantin an higherstrain,whose
part affected is the
and shall
liver ; and this love deserves a longerexplication,

Other

Loves

be dilated

apart in the

section.

next

SUBSECT.

straw,

so

is the
doth

and

fair

lustre

give
not
right,
judgement.
incorrupt

honesty are great

tives,
mo-

Those

two

twins,Eros

Venus

fast.

For

times

many

sembling
Gnathoes, disby their flattering
that
make
a shew
camelions,outsides, hypocrites,
zeal,
pretendhonesty,vertue,
modesty,
great love,learning,

other wise
of

with

meer

men

are

affected looks and

counterfeit gestures : fained protestations

and dethe hearts and favours of men,
ceive

often steal away

virtutis et umbra, when
deed,
them, specie
as, reverd and inthere is no worth or honestyat all in them, no truth,but
As true
knavery, and the like.
hypocrisie,
subtilty,

friends

they are,

he that Coelius Secundus

as

and hard
way side ;
such companions or
these for the most

by the high
in this temporising
it is,
age, to distinguish
to finde

them

into their

Such

out.

like

Rara est Concordia fratrum.

paleam succinum^ sic formam

by this

to dive

taken

for

men

demi-gods,and
learning,

Grad. 1 cap. 22.

trahit.

''

amor

Gnathoes

and

philters,

favours,that they are

worth, wisdome,

"

met

part belongto great men,

and such
affability,
ing flattery,

Ut

jet draws

as

firm and

then most
deceived

are

and

vertne

the rest, especially

if theybe
from true form,
fucate,but proceedinw-

sincere and

and an
and Anteros,

all love ; 'as

objectof

common

beauty lore:
as

IlL

Objectsof Love.

Honest

JjEAUTY

so

are

"=

as

gloz-

and
of

sinuate
incellent
ex-

to screw

Vives,3. de AnimL

Love-

174
into

themselves
cause

harsh

honours,
dignities,

confusion often,and

counsellors in

love and

hatred

as

[Part.3. Sec.

offices: but

many

may

and

authors

men

Rehoboams
themselves and

doubt, whether
or
characters;
compelledby philters

some

be

make

these

stirs as

common-wealth, overthrow

Tandlerus

others.

Melancholy.

stones
Cardan, and Marbodius, by pretious

and

amulets

trologers,
as-

election of times, "c. as ''Ishall elsewhere discuss.

is
of
honest
love
this
true object
vertue, wisdome,
and
this love cannot
''reall
interna
worth,
honesty,
forma ;

by

The

compelled: ut ameris, amabilh esto ; love it

and wisdome, f/ratia
vertue
most
potent philtrum,
the sole and only i"race, not counterfeit,but
ffratumjaciens,
heaven, as our
open, honest,simple,naked, descendinf/J'rovi
from
which
infused
habit
lioth given
hath
(iod,
it,an
apostle
severall gifts,
wit, learning,
as
tongues, for which they shall
and gratious
be amiable
{Eph. 4. II),as (o Saul stature and
Sam.
9. 2) : Josephfound favour in Pharaohs
a goodly presence
(1
for
''his
and
Daniel
the
with
court
(Gen. 39)
person;
with
princesof the eunuchs {Dan. I. 9.) Christ was gratious
There
isstill
and men
God
some
{L^ik.2. 52).
peculiar
grace,
of
as
good discourse,eloquence,wit, honesty,winch is the
and a most
forcible loadstone to
primum mobile, first mover,
draw the favours and good wills of mens
eyes, ears, and jiffecWhen
Jesus spake,they were
all astonied
tions unto them.
at his yrations
at his answers,
(Luk. 2. 47) and wondred
An
steals away
words which proceeded
orator
from his month.
another
the hearts of men,
and, as
Orpheus, cpio vult, wide
voice
a sweet
vult, he puis them to him by speech alone
causeth
admiration; and he that can utter himself in good
in
our
a divine
words,
ordinaryphrase,is called a properman,
old
which
For
senatns
our
belike,
cause,
\wcX^,
spirit.
j)apnmade
the
to the
gentleman-usher
Mercury
lusquepoetarum,
and
those
Charities
of elo({uence,
to be JupiGraces, captain
ters andEurynomes daughters,descendedfromabove.
Though
to
otherwise
those
be
crooked,
behold,
deformed,
ugly
they
them
fair. Plato commends
good parts of the minde denominate
the beauty of Socrates ; yet m ho was
more
grim of
? So are and have
to look upon
countenance, stern and ghastly
been many greatphilosophers,
as
observes,
"^GregoryNazianzen
which
is
be
with
the eyes,
to
seen
deformed,most part, in that
in that which is not to be seen.
but most eleyant
deceive

or

be

self is the

"

Scepesub

attrit^ latitatsapienlia
veste.

Politianus, Melancthon,Gesner,
^sop, Democritus, Aristotle,
a.Sect. seq.
i""t pnlchrn
veniens

h
*

^ Grafior
""
James, ;i. 17.
\'^. Ptrformn
plernmque pliilosophi
onilos fiigiL
parte elegantes
qnw

"Ji}jj|
^jviniiishoroine
corpore

virtus.

ad id qaod in aspertiiinradit, ra

proho.

"

Orat.

Love-Melancliobj.

176

[Parf.3.

Sec. I.

iV, fhpfc h

amiabfc
and Juir as rertuf.
so
I ^ do
nntli'ntfi
love Calvisinus,(so Plinywrites to Sossiiis)
most
"
mitflitllji
ir/iirh is all in nil with
industrious, vloqurut,upriff/it
man
:
-^

The

me.

Austin

affection

parts, And, as S'.

tlieS4 Psalm,
there is a peculiarhenutif,
inward
beauty,which we see tcith the eyes of

comments

"

on

and
oyjustice,

hearts, loce. and

our

his oood

from

came

with,

enamoured

are

thouffhtheir bodies he torn in pieceswith

beautyshines,and we love their vertues.

opinionthat a wise man

de F'inibus)
contends
minde

is

the

only fair;

and

same,

Cato

the

that

as

in tnartifrs:

wild heasts,yrl this

''
The Stoicks are of

(in Tully,
.3,

lineaments

of

the

those of the

far fairer than

body, incomparably
to
beyond them : wisdom and valour, accordingXeno[)hon,
and
deserve
of
denominate
the
name
one
especially
beauty,
Austin
tas
Veriest
et
fair; incomparabiliter
pnlchrior {i\H
holds)
arc

*^

Christianornm

Grcccornm.
Wine is strony ;
(luam Helena
is
the kiny
are
strony ; hut truth overcomefh
sfrony ; women
all thinys(1 Esd. 3. 10, II, 12). 'Blessed is the man
that

findethwisdom,

dise
yettethnnderstandiny; for the merchanthereof is better then silver,and the yain thereof better
then pearls; and all the thinys
yold; it is more pretious

then
thou

14,

canst

15).

is
again,

and

desire

are

to he

not

compared

and
A wise, true, just,upright,
of
fair.
'It
is
onely

to her

good

(Prov. 2. 13,
I say

man,

reported Magdalen Queen

it
of

France, and wife to Lewis lltn, a Scottish woman

by birth,
forth in an
that,walkingeveningwith her ladies,she spied
of the kings chaplains,
M. Alanus, one
asilh, old,"hardfavoured
when
it was

fast

asleepin a bower,
ladies laughedat her

man,

singularlustre

he is, the
much
followed

Psalmist

vertue

hath

tuous

more

Ardentes

amores

sweetly;

aniamus,

adored, aduiired

S. in

was

Christ

as

Mat.)

the

sons

(Ser.1.

ver-

No

himself; and,

fairer then
Bernard

more

man
as

the

oj'men.
de omnibus

it of
{ini)Mat.) interpret

excitaret. si simulacrom ejusad oculos penetraret. Plak),PhasValidissime diligo

vinim rectum, disertiim,(|iiod
apiidme
"' Est
dis,
justitiir,
qiiafdani
piilrliriludo
(|iiiiinvideiiius ucidiiicor-

lib.4.
''Epist.

est
potentissimnm

etai alias

been

Cassiodore,Hier.

Austin
A-artc//*),

done.

earth

(45.2), he

saith

hath

proceededfrom it; and the

the more
admired.
gratious,

upon

Chrysostome(Hom.

"

kissed him

the young
for it,she replied,
that
did
and
that she
his person
embrace
not
reverence,
with a Plator)ick love, the divine beauty of '^ his soul.

but,
Thus, in all ages,

so

and

membra
bfstiae lacerarenl,
et hxardescimiis.utin niartyribus,quiini
foruiii
''
ad Phys. Stoic, lib.3. ditf 17. Solud
manudiic.
defurmes, ^;c
Lipsiiis

Fortitndo et prndentiapulrhritiidinis
landem prfecipnenierentur.
IWO
aiittiii fade del'ormis, et ea toriiiH,
* Erat
an.
terreri possent. i|uarii invitariad oacuium puelhc.
''Dcfurmis i"tt;
qua citiiispiieri
iuum animum
liabeL
etai xideatur senex, -iiv

sapienspulcher-

'

Franc.

"^

Ht- Iforist.in hist

2. Subs.

Meiu.
the

=*beautyof

"c.

of the

Honest

3.]

Objectsof Love.

177

his person ; there was

divine majestic
in his
a
and drew all men
looks ; it shined like lightning,
it
to
: but
6. super. 55. Esay), Theodoret,Arnobius,
Basil, Cyril{lib.

Peter

"c.
beauty of his divinity,
justice,
grace, eloquence,
of
both
and
Psal.
doth
44)
so
(in
;
Baradius, and
de pulchritud.
lesu et Maries),adding as
Morales (lib.

much

of

Thomas

Joseph and

the

VirginMary,

haec alios forra^

that

of Sibylla
Cuma3a.
Be theypreprediction
sent
afar
this
and
or
off,
near
shines,
absent,
us,
beauty

accordingto
or

will attract

many
Pythagorasleft their

miles to

men

Magi, Brachmanni,

the

Sheba

behold that

cherrimam,

urbis

aut

; and

remote

saith
many,
thousand
placesa

Romam,non

orbis dominum

ut

Hierom,
miles, to

urbem

Octavianum, sed

leaves such

beauty

the souls of
*

closer then

men

Non, per Decs,

aut

pul-

ut hunc

Gadibus projectisunt.
a
audirentque,
strikes so deep, '^ or
an
impression,

inviserent

unum

et

Egyptian

^Ethiopia,
Persia,to consult
Gymnosophists. The queen of

Spain
eloquentLivy;"Multi

of

out

went

and

to

Plato and

into

visit Solomon

to

came

and visite it.

those wise
see

come

countrey,

Apolloniustravelled
priests:
with

prsecesserit
oinnes,

No

links

vertue.

pictorposset,

statuarius ullus,fingere

Aut

qualem
pulchritudinem,

Talem

virtus babet

no
can
lustre,
graver, no carver,
express vertues
painter,
that
from
those
admirable
those
come
it,
enchanting
or
rayes
those
that
enamour
tinue
everlasting
posterity,
rayes that conrayes
to the worlds end.
Many, saith Phavorinus, that loved

no

and

Alcibiades
but

Alcibiades

admired
the

never

combine

fades,is

and

ages,
such

as

are

the hearts of

present.
to

men

O sioeet bands, (Seneca

that those which are bound

same

green, semper

^vertues lustre
viva

to all succeeding

loadstone, to draw and

For that reason, belike.Homer

attractive

most

three Graces

not, cared not for

:
qucerebantAlcibiadem

is still the

fresh and

ever

youth,knew

intuentes

nunc

of Socrates

beauty

feignsthe
because

man

in his

be linked

and

tied hand

in

hand,

united with such graces.

are so firmly
exclaims)ivhichso happilycombine,

by them

love their

binders,desiring
^

^ Praefat.
et divina majestashomines ad se trahens.
fulgor,
d A
Tit. Livii statuae Patavii.
Pars inscrip.
true loves knot
f SoHnnsPulchri nulla est fades,
" Stobaens, e Graeco.
e O dulcissimi
! qui a Oratiis vincti
laqnei,qui tarn feliciterdevinciunt. ut etiam a vinctis diligantnr
et ia unum
redigi.
sunt, capinntarctius deligari,

Fnlgebat vultu
bib. valgar.
a

VOL.

II.

suo
"

Love-Melancholif.

1/8
withall, much

harder

more

Geryons, to be united

Mens

oevo

the Poet

where
true

hound, and,

as

so

1.

Sec.

many

of true friendship

one.

Velle et nolle ambobus

"*

he

For the nature

of one
coniljine,to be like affected,

is to

as

into

to

[Part.5.

minde,

toto
idem, satiataque

"

saith,still to

continue

one

and

the

And

same.

this love takes

a
place,there is peace and (|uietness,
and
amity,a diapasonof vowes
perfect
correspondence,

wishes, the
Damon

and

opinions,as betwixt ''David and Jonathan,

Pythias,PyladesandOrestes,^Nisusand
Euryalus,
same

will live and die together,

and
'^they
vinci
in
amore
good turns, (^nam
prosecute one
their
when
friends
not
b
ut,
onlyliving,
putant)
ttirpissimnm
are
dead, with tombs and monuments,
naenias, epitaphs,
pyramids,obelisks,
elegies,
inscriptions,
statues, images,pictures,

Theseus

and

Pirithous
another

with

histories,poems, annals, feasts,anniversaries,many

ages after (as Platos schollers did) they will parentare still,
omit

office that

tend to the preservation

of
may
^
their names,
Ilium coloribus,
honours, and eternal memory.
ilium cerd, ilium cpre, SfC. He
did express his friends in
in
in
in
brass,
colours, wax,
ivory marble, gold and silver,
no

good

citizen in

Rome) and in a great auditory,

not
longsince,recited a just volume of his life. In another
place, speakingof an epigram which Martial had composed
in praiseof him. He
him as much
he might,and
as
gave
tcould have done more
if he could : thoughwhat can a man
then honour,glory,
and eternity
But that which
?
givemore
he tcrote, peradventure,
tvill not continue ; yet he wrote
it
(asPlinyreportsof

to

continue.

make
him

his well
in his

'Tis all the

recompence

poor

scholler

deservingpatron, Maecenas,friend,to

works, to

dedicate

book

to his name,

can

mention

to write

his

";c. as all our

have ever
life,
poets, orators, historiographers,
take of their adversaries,
done; and the greatestrevenge such men
them
with satyrs,invectives,
to persecute
"c. ''and 'tis
both wayes
'Plato
of great moment,
as
givesus to understand.

aStatJus.
the love of women.
Confossus.

''He loved biiii,

he loved his own
as
soul,1 Sara. 15. 1. Bejond
^ Virg.9. /Eii.
Qui super exaninjem sese conjecitainicum
'' Amicus
dimidium.
Austin, confess. 4. cap. 6. Quod de
auims
t^^Plioias.
animm
dimidium mese.
'Ilium
Horatios, Et serves
Virgilio
et
et
adhibito auditorio,
ilium
marmore
ingenti
eftingit;
auro,
ebore,
argento
nuper,
K Lib. 4. ep. 61.
ingentem de vita ejus libruni recitavit. Epist lib.4. epist.G8.
daturas amplius, 6i potuisset
Dedit mihi quantum potuit maximum,
Prisco sue.
Tametsi quid homini dari potestmajus qnam gloria,laus,et setemitas ? At non
eruot
'' For
forta!"sequ" scripsit.Ille tamen scripsit,
tamqnam essent futura.
genus
tinim vim habent, Lc.
vatum.
irritabile
'Lib. 13. de Lc^iidis. IWiinUUiM

2. Subs,

Mem.

179

Objectsof Love.

Honest

o.]

deeds of
in these

Jovius, in the /ourth book of the life and

Pope Leo Decimus, his noble patron, concludes
Paulus

words

Because

him

honour

cannot

as

other rich

doy

men

I have undertaken
and piety
with like endeavour^ affectioji
^
will not giveme leave to
to write his life
; since my fortunes
make a more
sumptuous monument^ I will perform those rites
to

ashes,which

his sacred

wit

there

afford.But

can

be

can

or for
counterfeit,

liberal

this true love is wanting,

from teeth outward,
friendship
Where

rove.

firm peace,

no

small, perhaps,but

by respects,so long dissembled,till

some

satisfied their own

ends, which, upon every small
burnings,
into
out
enmity, open war, defiance,heartand all manner
calumnies,contentions,
whispering,

they have

occasion,breaks

which
And those men
melancholy discontents.
other objectof their love, then greatness, wealth,

of bitter

have

no

"c.
authority,
nee

(/uemquam,
for

are

ab ullo

amantur

then

feared

rather

beloved

amant

nee

with

born

and, howsoever

griping,
time, yet, for their tyranny and oppression,

covetousness,currishhardness,folly,intemperance,i
and such like
and

both God

Non

of

odious,abhorred
vices,
theyaregenerally

all,

men.
uxor

salvum

Vicini oderunt

te

vult,non

filius:

omnes

all the world forsakes

wife and children,friends,neighbours,
them, would fain be rid of them, and are compelledmany
times to lay violent hands on them : or else Gods judgements
Furies. So, when
them : instead of Graces
overtake
come
fair "" Abigail,a woman
was
to David, Nabal

therefore

of

wisdome, was
singular

"'Mardochywas

acceptable

and

evil-conditioned
was
received, when Haman

churlish

and
cuted,
exe-

that had his seat above the other

the favorite,
Haman
princes,to whotn all the Kings servants, that stood in the
their knees and reverenced.
Though they
gates, bowed
such
flourish many
foxes,
times,such hypocrites, temporizing

bribery,dissembling
eyes by flattery,
their natures, or other mens
soon
so
weakness, that cannot
be
will
end
the
their
in
discerned,
tricks,yet
they
apprehend
saith David,thou hast
in a moment
and precipitated
: Surely,
and

blear

set them

in

the worlds

places,(Psa.73. 18):
slippery

down to theGemonian
come
'I
in Aramianus, that was
in such

theywill

as

scales ;

so

many

and,as

Sejani,
Eusebius

ad Jubendum
authority,

"Pan tamen studio et pietate

conscribendae vitae ejas munus
suscepi;et postqnam
monaaumptuosa condere pro fortuna non
licuit,
exigno sed eo forte liberalisingenii
b 1 Sam. 25. 3.
c Estlier,
3 2.
mento ju3ta sanctissuno cineri aolventtir.
''Amm.

1, 14.
Marcelliniis,

n2

Love-Melancholy.

180
be
imperatorcrn,
case

and

they escape,

after their

down

cast

rest

death, their memory

and

stinks

1.

to

Or put
sudden.
their lives end, yet,

as

on
Ijeadlon^

unmasked

Sec.

[Fart.3.
a

snuffe of

candle

those

afrainst
that durst not so mucli as mutter
;
put
them in theirlives,will
with satyrs,libels,
prosecute their name
and bitter imprecations
ing
audire in allsucceed: theyshall male
out

ages, and

be odious

to

the worlds

MEMB.

Charitycomposedof all

end.

III.

kindsjPleasant, Profitable,

three

Honest,

DESIDES

profit,pleasure,
in equity)that
honesty,(forone good turn
and
Avhich proceedsfrom the law of nature, or from discipline
there is yet another love compounded of all these
philosophy,
volence,
and includes piety,
which
is charity,
three,
dilection,benehabits ; for love
all those vertuous
even
friendship,
love

this

that

from

comes

asks

another

is the circle equant of all other affections (ofwhich

dilates at large in his Ethicks),
and is commanded

which
and
and

no

man

true

well

can

regenerate

he

perform,but
This

man.

that is

is ^To

Aristotle

by God,
Christian,

love God

above

all

self;for this love is lychnusaccendens

as our
neighbour
a communicating
light,
apt to illuminate itself as
well as others.
AH other objects
are
fair,and very beautiful,
I confess; kindred, alliance,
the love that we owe
friendship,
to our
honour, and such
country, nature, wealth, pleasure,
moral
respects, "c. of which read
copiousAristotle in his
our

et accensus^

Morals:

all these
from
and

is beloved

man
are
a

far

more

sanctified

reference

their young
ones
lion
a
upon
; an

an

hinde

in that he is

man,

and

that
spirit,

God.

to

of

eminent

hath

will

to

preserve

fightwith

bear, a silly
sheep with a fox.
love
his parents, (*Dii
to
man

true

binds

Nature

hen,

; but

man

they shall ceed

protouch of religion,

great,when

So the
me,

to love

all creatures

brood, will run

with
bull, a sow

her
a

same

nature

pater, omnes

urgetha

oderint,ni

te

solved,
this love cannot
be dismeos
mayis quam
''
as
: but much
Tully holds, ivithovt detestable offence
oculos

more

Gods

amem

commandment,

I) and

which

injoyns a

filial

love,

^Utmundus
ita lex Dei, ainore
duobua polissnstentutiir,
Dei et proximi; daobna
his fandamentis vincitiir; machioa
mundi
tiirbatur; lex perit
comiit, si una de polis

divina,si una

his.
*"S. et 9. libro.
ex
Caritas parenttmi diliiinisi detrstabili srclere

iTer.
non

Adelph.4. 5

p"t?st.

De

atiiicit.

Mem.

Division

and

S.]
obedience

an

and like
down

love

: no

in this kind.

^The

forcible and

so

181

love

of stones^ where ifone

arch

an

of Love.

he

of brethren isgreat,
all comes
displaced,

combinastrong,honest,to the tion

happilyconcur;
yet this

of which, nature, fortune,vertue,

love comes
short of it.
Duloe
^

what
expressed,

he

it cannot

et decorum

pro

patriaraori :

deal

of charitythat

one

name

of country contains.

Decii did

The

est.
patriae
pro stipendio

laudis et

Amor

devovtre,Horatii, Curii, Scaevola,

Regulus,

se

Codrus, sacrifice themselves

dies Fabtos

Una

Ad

helium

day the
day the

One
One

for their countries peace

ad btllum

missos
Fabii
Fabii

miserat

una
perdidti

omnes

and

good.

dies.

stoutlywarred,
were

destroyed.

Battle
neer
Fiftythousand Englishmenlost their lives willingly
Abby, in defence of their country. '^P.^niilius (1.6.)speaksof
of Calice,that came
with halters in their hands
six senators
This love makes
the king of England,to die for the rest.
take such

writers

many

"c. or at least as
their countries benefit.

to
so

cians,
physipains,so
many historiographers,
and
safety,
theypretend,for common
^'Sanctnm nomen

amicitice,sociorum

and a sacred comis an holyname,

munion
friendship
^
is
so
As the sim is in thejirmament,
ship
friendAsnuptial
m#/tewor/c?,amostdivineandheavenlyband.
love makes, this perfects
(if
mankind, and isto be preferred
you
nity,
affibefore
will stand to the judgement of Cornelius Nepos),
or consanguinity;
plusin amicitid valet similitiidomorum,
the cords of love bind faster then any other
S^-c.
affinita^,
quam
wreath whatsoever. Take this away, and take all pleasure,
joy,
'tisthe
world
the
and
of
comfort,happiness, true content, out
;

communio

sacra

of friends.

"

greatesttye, the
modern
''

Maro

Hard

indenture,
strongest band, and, as
before the
ismuch
decides it,
to be preferred
surest

our

rest.

is the doubt, and difficult to deem,

all three kinds of love together
meet

When
And

do

the
dispart

heart with power

extream.

nisi se invicem sustentaret.

^Fraternita8 lapidum fornicibiis simillima,casura,
"" Dii immortales
illnd
! dici non
Seneca.
potest quantum caritatis nomen
^ Qvid. Fast.
"i Anno
1347. Jacob. Mayer. Annal. Fland.
habet
f Lucianus,Toxari.
Amicitia ut sol in mundo, "c.
lib. 12.
fTully.
h Spencer,
1.2.
g Vit. Pompon. Attici.
Fairy Queen, lib. 5. cant. 9. staft".

Love-Metanchohj.

182
Whether

shall

weigh the

dear affection unto

The

fire of
raging:

Or

love

kindred
to

down

balance

For natural affection

vertues

meet

mind,

vcrtnous

doth

soon

wit,

kind,

by

thinks, the gentleheart should

Me

; to

Sec. I.

sweet,

women

zeal of friends,conibin'd
But of them all,the band of
Or

S.
[Part.

most

assured

bind.

ceas(\

quenched is with Cupids greater flame;

But faithful fricndsliip
dotli tlirm both suppress,
with masteringdiscipline
them
doth tame,
And
fame.
eternal
t
o
Through thoughtsaspiring
doth
the
soul
rule
For, as the
earthlymass,
all the service of the body frame,
And
So love of soul doth love of body pass,
brass.
the meanest
less then perfect
gold surmounts
And

No
^

of misery,
faitlifullfriend is belter then ^g-old,
a medicine
:
an
only possession
yet this love of friends,nuptial,
"^^

heroical,profitabie,
honest, all three loves put
pleasant,

gether,
to-

tian
Chris-

littleworth, if theyproceednot from a true

soul, if it be not done in ordhie ad Deiimy

are

illuminated
for Gods

spake
of prophesie,
(jift
the
angels,thoughI feed
poor with

sake.

I
Thoitf/h

with

had

the

and
tovffves of men
all my goods,give my body to he burned, and have not this
love,it
me
nothing(1 Cor. 13. 1, 3) : 'tis splendidum
all apprehendingpeccatum, withotit charity. This is an

projiteih

Jove,a deifyinglove,a refined, pure,

of all

love, the

true

stone
philosophers

veraciter amicus
enim, (as ''Austin infers)

esse

potest
hominis, 7iisi
:

no

friend that
Gods
And
therefore this is true love indeed,
truth.
that reconciles all creaof all good to mortal men,
tures,

verilatis
J'neritipsiusprimitiis

loves not
the cause

love, the quintessence

divine

and

glews them

he

is

no

true

amity, and
togetherin perpetual

firm

bitterness,hate, malice, then

league,and

can

fair and foul

and plenty,
weather, light and darkness,sterility

no

more

abide

be

together. As the sun in the firmament, (Isay),so is

may
love in the world; and for this cause
dition,
'tislove without an adThe
love of God, and love of men.
love,
"|o;){;"!v,
love of God begetsthe love of man
love
of our
; and by this
nourished
increased.
the
love
God
is
and
neighbour,
By this
of
^
happy union of love, all well governedfamiliesand cities
are
combined, the heavens annexed, and divine souls complicated,
*

xar

the world

itself
composed,and

all that

is in it

con-

"
'Siracides.
"'Plutarch. Pretiosum nnmisma.
Xenophon. Venia
"^
""
5*2.
amicus prtPstantissinia
Dei,
Creg. Per aniorem
possessio.
Ejjist.
proximi gignitiir
fPicoloinineos,
proximi,Dei nutritiir.
; et per hunc araoreni
"c.
gTdd. 7. cap. -27. Hoc feliciamoris nodo ligantur
iamilisc,
civitatei.,

[Part.S. Sec. 1.

Love-Melancholy.

184

(Phil.2. 2),qfone judgement;be humble, meek, longsitfferingy

13. 23) : ami what
lCo]os.
andj'or
give,(lii.
3),Jorbear,forget,
done
heartily

(loth shall be

he

and
pittij'ul

God, and

to

not

to

; be

men

it. He
^),f"eek
peace andj'olloic
in Avord and tongue, but in deed

( I Pet.

courteous

his brother, not

and truth (1 Job. 3. 18): atid he that loves God, Christ wi/l
love him that is begottenof him (1 Joh. 5. 1. "c.) Thus should
of this
we
do, if we had a true touch of this charity,
willingly
will love

divine love, ifwe

would
and
and
forgive,
forget

performthis which

we

ourselves

compose

to

are

enjoyned,

those christian

laws of love.
*

felix hominum

Si veslros

Quo coelum

Angelicalsouls,how
loving,how
this

But

triumph over

happy should
the

we

be,

divel, and have

so

other
an-

earth !

upon
cannot

we

Amor,

regitur,
regat !

blessed,how

might we

heaven

genus.

animos

do ;

and, which

is the

cause

of all

our

miseries,discontent,
melancholy,''want of this charity.

woes,

do

We

inviceni

insult, vex,
ungariare, contemn,
torture,
anothers noses
to the grindstone
molest, and hold one
hard,
rail,scoffe,calumniate,challenge,
hate,abuse (hard-

{)rovoke,
inexorable
learted,implacable,
malicious,peevish,
to

satisfie our

to

be

lust

or

for
private
spleen,

as

are)

we

and
trifles,
'^toyes,

pertinent
im-

occasions,spend ourselves,goods,friends,
fortunes,
our

to ruin him and his. 'Tisall

revenged on our adversary,
study,practiceand business, how to plotmischief, mine,

countermine, defend

oft"end,Mardourselves, injureothers,
hurt all;as
born to do mischief,and that with such
were
with such rancor,
malice, rage, and
eagerness and bitterness,
fury,we prosecute our intended designs,that neither affinity
and

if we

love or fear of God

contain us:
or
consanguinity,
can
men,
will
be
no
satisfaction,
no
composition,
accepted,no offices
will serve,
no
submission; though he shall,upon his knees, as
his error,
Sarpedon did to Glaucus in Homer, acknowledging
himself
with
his
in
tears
will not
yield
we
eys, beg his pardon,
till
have
or
relent,forgive,
confounded
him
and
his,
forget, we
m^ade dice of his bones, as they say, see
in prison,
him
rot

or

banish
him

his friends

out, and

dogs, wolves,

followers,et

all his

omne

invisum

genus,

posterity.Monsters of men, as
fiends, incarnate divels, we
''tygers,

^
Bnethius, lib. " met. 8.
de in"ti(.mon.
cedit. Basil. I ser
ubera tigres.
admorunt

^
'

rooted
we

do

are,
not

r aritas ; pdiiim ejus loco suePeliquinnipatitnr

Nodura in scirpoqiiaerente."!. "^ Hirranaeque

Charity.

3.]

Mem.

oppress, and

only contend,

we
fire-brands,

185

selves,but,

our
tyrannize

and

set on,

animate

others:

as

so

whole

our

many
combate, a conflict,a set battle,a snarling
life is a perpetual
in our tents : Omnicide lite,
settled
fit : Eris Deais
opposingfortunes to
to strength,
wit to wit, wealth to wealth, strength
^

fortunes, friends
broad

sides,or

ourselves, or

rem

two

not

care

many
ruin and

downfall

children, widdows,

we

fight,we

sea

continual

Miserable

thousands

how

whose

at

with

backs, and

anothers

break

selves,we

our

friends,as
milstones

in the end.

consumed
rich

to

are

wretches!
it :

we
get
whom
undo,
we
we
arise,whom

our

fire
attrition,
we

both

how

turn

ruined
to fat and

and
in-

Quocnnque niodo
we
oppress, by

fatherless
injure,
to satisfie our
own
societies,
vate
pri-

common

of wealth
Though we have myriads,abundance
table
merciless, remorseless, and unchariand treasure,
(pittiless,
in the highest
degree)and our poor brother in need,
in
readyto be starved for
sickness,
great extremity,and now
lust.

rather,as the fox told the ape, his tail

his buttocks ; rather
then cover
should sweep the ground still,
it
with
sary
dogs,hawks, hounds, unnecesspend it idly,consume
of food,

want

had

we

let it be lost,
or
in riotous apparel,
ingurgitate,
buildings,
he should

then

have

of

part

it ;

rather take

from

him

that

he hath, then relieve him.

littlewhich
neither use it our selves,
let
Like the dog in the manger,
we
others make
of, or enjoy it; part with nothingwhile Ave
use
of disposingour
houshold, and setting
world
all
the
by the ears after our
together
things order,set
Poor Lazarus lies howlingat his gates for a few crums;
deatb.
he onlyseeks chippings,
offals;let him roar and howl, famish,

live,and,

for want

in

and

eat

kinsman
runs

bonds

his

own

flesh ; he

of his sets upon

respectshim
him

by

A poor decayed
in all his jollity,
and

not.

the way

begging bareheaded by him, conjuringby those former

of friendship,
alliance,consanguinity,
"c.unkle, cosen,

brother,father,
Per ego has lacrymas,dextramquetuam, te,
Si quidquam de te merui, fuit aut tibi quidquam
Dulce

meum,

miserere

mei.

old
a sick man,
an
sake; pitty
"c. he cares
pretendsickness,inevitable
not, ride on:
man,
or
common
fires,
loss of limbs, goods,pleadsuretiship,
shipwrack,
and
shew
wants
imperfections,
calamities,
thy
Shew

some

for
pitty,

h Si in
HeracHtus.
denodat ? Austin.

pauperera

Christs

gehennam abit pauperem

qui non

alat,quid de

eo

fietqui

18C

LoteMelanehohj.
Etsi per sanctum

Credite,noa

[Part.3. Sec.

1.

dicat Osirim,
juratus

Iiido : crudeles,tolliloclauduin

Swear, protest,take God

and all his

to witness, qucrre
anj^els
thou
counlcrf(;it
art
a
crank, a cheater ; he is not
;
perecjrhunn
touched with it: pmipcr uhiquejacct ; ride on, he takes no
Put
notice of \t.
in the name
of a
a supph'cation
to him
"

up

thousand

a spittle,
a prison
orphans,an liospital,
; as lie goes
by, they cry out to him for ayd ; ride on; snrdo nttrraft ; he

not; let them

niinc,rot in their own
cares

haven,

devour

stones,

eat

dung-; he

bridge,
a

themselves
Shew

not.

cares

MJth
him

Hkc.
school, a fortification,

vcra

cayed
de-

some

or

worship,your honour, for

; ride on ; g-oodyour
sake
Gods
ride
But shew
him a
sake, your countries
on.
;
shall be registered
role wherein his name
and
in golden letters,
publicwork

commended
to be

then

seen,

his
posterity,

up, with his devises

he will stay and contribute
: or
peradventure

to all

set

arms

if thou canst thunder upon

and
meritorious
works,

or

shall

hell, and free it from

his soul out

save

he be of any
and stay; or
he

of

him,

do, with satisfactory

Papists
he
pcrswade him by this means
as

then
religion),

in fill likebhood

tliat he have

children,

no

no

purgatory (if
he will listen

heir,

kinsman,

neer

for at least,
Avell tell otlserwise how
cannot
or
or
where to bestow his possessions
(forcarry them Avith him he
then
he
it
be
will
build
school or hospitall
some
cannot) may
cares

in his

his death.

merit, and
how
main

be induced

life,or

For

I dare

this enforced

cause

what

leave, or

to

of most

derogatefrom

any

of

alter
to pioususes
giveliberally
boldlysay, vain glory,that opinionof
wise
otherAvhen theyknow
not
necessity,
to

our

better

to

good works.

do

with

I will

charitable devotion,or

mans

kinde, to censure
any good work ; no
sanctified,heroical,and worthy nu'nded

doubt
tupu,

them,

is the

urge this to
bounty in this

not

there be many
that in true zeal,

and

for vertues
sake (divine
that out of commiseration
spirifs)
extend their liberality,
and pitty,
and, as much as in them lies,
do good to all men,
cloath the naked, feed the hungry,con)fort
the sick and needy,relieve all,forget
and forgive
as
injuries,

f/itirf,
charity
requires
; yet most
part there is sinndahm
this
i
n
much
default
and
defect,
a
kinde,
hypocrisie
Cosmus
Medicos, that rich citixen of Florence, ingenuously
confessed to a neer
friend of his, that would
know
of him why
he built so many |)ubl
ike and magnificent
and
palaces, bestowed
that
he
loved
then
on
not
scholars,
so
liberally
learningmore
true

deal of

others, Imt

to

'.lovin8,vita ejus.

^UUrmzp
*"

his

rnrn

vame,

to

he

hnmortall

l"y

bpripfrrio literRrnm imiiirrtiiii,

linmorlalitHtpni,
Rlorinsa

conciipivif.
inauia ruilnra,
qiiajlnmciipiflitate
QiioH rivtsquibusbenefcrisstt j)crituii.
libri.
etsi rrgiosuniptu.rdificata,
non

Mem.

Charity.

3.]

187

of scholars : for, when his friendswere dead,ualh

benefit
decayed,and all inscriptions
ffone, books would remain to the
built by Xenocles,
worlds end.
The lanthorn in ^Athens was
famous
the
theater
the
port Pyr?eeiis
by Pericles,
by Musicles,
Pallas Palladium by Phidias,the Pantheon
by Calhcratidas;
but these brave monuments
are
decayed all,and ruined long
the

since,their builders
And,

alone flourish

names

bhe said of that Marian

as

iiullius

culia

ayricola:

manu

seminari

"poetce versu

potest,

oke,

by mediation

now

stirps

tarn

plantcan

no

sata, set and manured

ingenio
wits. '^Ailon Backuth,thatweepingoke, under
which

is

Rebecchaes

died,and

nurse

of such

memory

buried, may

was

monuments.
everlasting

the

of writers.

down

and dead,
diutiirna. quam
quce
so
a
s
long- that
grow
by those ever-living
cut

which
not

Deborah,

survive

and
Vainglory

the

lation
emu-

and to be a
efficient,
sole intent, to do j'ood,
that all the world might take notice of it. Such, for the most
Maecepart, is the charityof our times,such our benefactors,
and patrons. SheAV me, amongst so many
nates
myriads,a

men) was
fame,

(as to most
trumpeter of his

own

cause

Cosmus

meek, hundjlca patient,

trulydevout,a righthonest,upright,
a loving,
!
a charitable man
innocuous,
innocent,a mercifull,
'"Probus

quis
vivit?

Nobiscum

Shew

me

Caleb

or

Die

shew

vertuous

Joshua!

mihi,Masa,

constant

woman,

virum

obedient

wife,a good neighbour,

a

child,a

true friend,"c. Crows

in
that shall examine
this iron age
wherein
we
live,where love is cold,et Jam terras Astraa reJustice fled with her assistants,
Vertue expelled,
liquit,

trustyservant,

Africk

not

are

an

He

scant.

so

Justitise sorer,

IncorruptaFides, nudaque Veritas,

all
see

goodnessgone, where vice abounds, theDivel

and insult over
his brother,as
one
man
vilify

innocent

or

block, oppress,

is loose,and
ifhe

were

an

tyrannise,prey upon, torture

crucifyhim, starve him, where

and
gaule,torment
? He
that shall see
is charity
and forswear,lye
men
swear
and bear false witness, to advantagethemselves,prejudice
others,hazard goods,lives,
fortunes,credit,
all,to be revenged
their
enemies, men
so
on
unspeakablein their lusts,unnaturail in malice,such bloodydesignments,
I|^gjian_b[as"heming

him,

vex,

"

Plutarch. Pericle.
'"Durum

''Hor.
mea?
ego

vero

genus

Tullius,lib. 1. de legibus,
'TuU.

sumus.

cupide et libenter mentiar

paullalumtu compendiifacias,paratom

tua caussa;

f("rescito.

^ Gen.
35, 8.
Rose.
vis caussa
Mentiri
pro
et si quando me
vis pejerare,
ut

Love-

188

"c.
renouncing,
Spani.sli
that shall observe

so

Melancholy.
may

3.
[Part.

M'ell aske where

Sec. 1.

is charity
? He

such endless contentions,

lawsuits,

many

so
untlernnning,
plotting",

much
spent with such
mony
for
his
himself,
fury, every man
own
ends, the
eagerness
divel for all ; so many
distressed souls,such laiuet"lablecomplaints,
such

and

so

factions,conspiracies,
seditions,
oppressions,

many

such
abuses, injuries,

emulation,envy,
may

well

discontent,
so
grudging,repining,

so

many
is become
what
require

read of such

much

brawles, (piarrels,
mononiachies,"c.

cruell wars,

of

? m
charity

hen

we

see

and

tumults, uproars, blou"lybattels,so

cities ruinated, ""c. (forwhat else

subjectof all our stories almost,but bills,bowes, and
and massacres,
murders
"c.
where
is
many
gunns ?) so
?
devout
Or
to
men
God, churchmen, prosee
wholly
charity
fessed
many
is the

slain,so many

''men

divines, holy men,

the trumpet

of war

^'

to make

company

the trumpet of the Gospel

of hell-born Jesuits,and fiery

to all seditions ; as so
brands
h'xexs^J'acem
prcrj'erre
spirited
many fireset all the world
by the ears (I say nothingof their
conteniions and raylingbooks, whole
ages spent in writing
that
and
with
such
and bitterness,
one
againstanother,
virulency
sermonilms
Bionms
et sale nufro)^ and
by their bloody
that in thirtyyears, Bale saith,consumed
39
inquisitions,
then
148
235
worse
earls,
barons, 14755 commons;
princes,
doubt
where
is
? Obthose ten persecutions,
charity
may justly

voi",

secro

qualeshi

demum

Christiani ?

Are

these Christians?

Hethat shall observe and see these things,

you tellme.
dictintur^
quoi de inj'eris
may say to them as Cato to C8esar,c/ef/o,
think
thou
of
I
t
here
isneither
art
sure
e.vistimas;
opinion
falsa
I beseech

nor

hell.

Let them

zeal,make what
pretendreligion,
shewes they will,givealmes, peace-makers,
frequent
sermons;
if we may guess at the tree by the fruit,
theyare no better then
atheists;with the ^fool^in their hearts
epicures,
hypocrites,
'Tis no marvel then, if beingso uncharitable,
theysay there is no God.
and so
hard-hearted as we are, we have so frequent
so
discontents,such melancholyfits,
many bitter pangs,
many
allin a combustion, often coiuplaints,
mutual! discords,
so
mon
comheaven

gv'\e\?i\\ceii^(yene\'d\\n\\Hc\\\eieii,sitant(ei
et misere
lahrfactatur
(juibns

laceratnr humannm

wars,
pestilences,

losses,
deluges,fires,inundations,

uproares,
and all the

genus,

so

many

not
plaguesof Egypt, come
vengeance
upon
towards
currish
since
we
are
so
one
so
another,
respeclless
us,
and by our
of God and oiu" neighbours,
cryingsinnes pull
heads.
to be
these miseries upon our own
Nay more, 'tisjustly

Gods

" Gallienus,in Treb.

Rabie jecuriiiceuPollio,lacera,occide,iiiea niente irasccre.
Tautuin fudit sanguinis,
Vopiscus,of Anrelian.
dcntp feruntur Praecipiles.
quanfnm
**Evani(l"lii
tiibam belli tubara t'aciuDt;
in pnlpitis
vini potavit.
qiiis
pactinj in
^ Psal. 14. 1.
bellum siiadent.
colloquiis

Mem.

Charity.

a.]

feared,which
the Romans

said of his

Josephus once

countrymen Jewes,
theydid, to sack their city^

when

had

not come
If
sicalloived
had
it
been
surely
up
Sodome
as
heaven,
or
firedfrovi

and

malice^ icickedness

189

ivith

earthquake,deluge,
their despe:
rate

some

and

Gomorrah

teas
peevishness

'Tis to be

such.

waies, we may look

suspected,if we continue these wretched
If we had any
for the like heavy visitations to come
us.
upon
of
these
should
not go on
sense
or
things,surelywe
feeling
as
such
in
all
of
do,
we
irregular
courses,
practise manner
eties;
impiwould
whole
be
from
God.
not
If
so
our
averse
carriage
a

would

man

consider, when

but

he is in the midst

and

full

pleasing
prodigiousand uncharitable actions,how disthey are in Gods sight,how noxious to himself,as
told Joab (1 King. 2) ; the Lord
shall bring this

of such

career

Salomon

their heads (Prov. 1. 27) : sudden

desolation and
upon
like a ivhirhcinde,upon them : afflic'
destruction shall come,
tion, anguish,the reward
of his hand shall be given him
hloud

(Isa,3. 11, "c.) : theyshall Jail into the pit they have digged
for others: and when they are scraping,tyrannizing,
getting,

wallowing in their wealth, this night,O fool, I icill take

account
they must make ; and
thy soul what a severe
away
how
the
other
side
charitable
is in Gods
on
a
man
''gratious
the mereys; haurit sibi gratiam : (Matth. 5. 70 blessed are
he that lendeth
to the
cifull
; for they shall obtain
mercy:
poor, givesto God; and how itshall be restored to them again;
horv, by their patienceand long suffering,
they shall heap
coals on their enemies heads (Rom. 12); and he thatfolloweth
and mercy,
shall finderighteousness
and
after righteousness
their
would
check
curb
in
their
desires,
glory; surelythey
inordinate
aifections,
unnaturall,
agree amongst themselves,
abstain from doing evill,amend
their lives,
and learn to do well.
Behold, how comelyand good a thingit isfor brethren to live
"

"

"

togetherin
odious

union

it is like the

contend

to

culis

with the

one

hisce volumus

illud tribunal, nbi

et

Sapiamus

death is over
of all our

Why
our

do

De

animae

heads; and

uncharitable

words

maximae

cum

we

and

and
must

nostra
vex

one

another.?

shortlygive

actions: think

an

upon

behold,
account

it; and

bello Judaico, lib.6.

suae

facta

et supremum
examinanda
sunt.

caput est,

supra

contend

venire tardassent,
contra nos
c. 16.
Puto, si Romani
fuisse civitate.Ti,
diluvio perituram, aut fulraina, nt
aut
incendio passuram,
^Benefacit
"c.
ob desperatumpopuli,
c Concordia
virmisericors.
crescunt
res
; discordia
magnae

ant hiatu terras devorandam

Sodoma,

mors

dicta et

we

be wise !

ecce

pretiousointment, ^c. How

other! ^ 3Iiseri quid luctatiun-

dilabuutur.

Lipsius.

Love-

190

Melancholy.

SECT.

MEMB.
Herolcall

I.

and

SUBSECT.

I.
His

made,

the

tVom

and

that causeth heroicall

women,

Pedegree,Power,

Extent.

was
section, mention
prcedeiit
this
comeliness
of
pleasantobjects,

XN

2.

II.

causingMelanchohi.

love

[Part.3. Sec.

other

amongst

beauty which

ceeds
pro-

love-melancholy,
properlycalled love.
or

above the rest, and

eminent
is the liver,and therefore called heaftected
in
The part
roicall,
men
because commonly gallants,
noblemen, and the most
are
possessedwith it. His power and extent
spirits
generous
and

is

more

is very large; 'and in that twofold division of love, (ptM,y and

which
Plato and some
Veneres
others make
tfay, ""those two
mention
eminent, and x-xr' t^o^ny
called Venus, as
of, it is most

j' ^

ij-^
\"
'\)JL

or

Love

men,

and

said,

I have
nated

from

it self.

Which

eminent

althoughit be

in

denomi-

them, yet it extends

and
and
sensible
those
vegetall
creatures,
incorpoand hath a largedominion
(as shall be specified),

sliews itself in
reall substances

most

them.
His pedegree
is
over
soveraignty
very ancient,
derived from the beginningof the world,as "^Phaedrus contends,
and his '^parentage
of such antiquity,
that no poet could ever
of

finde it out.

Hesiod

makes

parents,before the Gods

Ante

Decs

were

Terra
born

Chaos

to be

Loves

Amorera.
primum generavit

omnes

think it is the selfsame

Some

and

fire Prometheus

fetched from
Plutarch (aniator.
will have love to be the
libello,)
of Iris and Favonius
in that pleasant
logue
dia; but Socrates,

heaven.
son

of
which

Plato, when

it came

subjectAgatho

that chanter

Agatho, had

strain,telleth this tale

invited

"

his

speak of love,(of
rhetorician,
viagniloquus
^gatho,
newly given occasion)in apoeticall
to

turn

to

the

When

Venus

was

born, all the Gods

the
banquet,and amongst the rest, '^Porus,
wealth.
Penia,or
bounty
a begginoPovertycame
to the door; Porus, well whitled
with nectar, (forthere was
wine in those daies)
no
walkingin Jupitersgarden,in a bowre
with
met
Penia, and in his drink got her with child,
of whom
born Love; and, because he was
was
Venus
birth
begottenon
were

God

"

of

Memb.

to

and

1. Subs. 2.

Amoris, Platonis convivio.

morall in Plut, of that fiction.

c
Amor
et amicitia.
orat in laudem
Phsedrus,
"" Vide Boccaa. de Geneal. Deoriim.
f See
the
f AffliientiaeDens.

Love-

192
to

be

better then

no

Love
ledg-e
^

be

to

Cui

in

fool

sichorus

both

were

that doth
idiot,

an

sit quern

manu

sick and

make

can

or

[Part.3. Sec.
not

2.

acknow-

great god.

Quern sapere, quera

that

Melancholy.

dementem

esse

in morbum

velit,

"c.
i"jici,

whom

he list. Homer
and Steblind,if you will believe ''Leon He-

cure

made

phanes
brteus,for speakingagainsthis godhead: and though Aristohe
and
that
him,
was
degrade
rejected
"^scornefully
say
the counccll

from

that he

of the

might come
banished
disgrace,
earth, yet he

He

is

no

his

amongst

more

heaven

is of that

dominion, that
"

no

gods,had
for ever,

wings clippedbesides,
them, and, to his farther

and

confined

to dwell

on

'^

majesty,omnipotency,and
power,
withstand
him.
creature
can

ImperatCupidoetiatn Diis pro arbitrio,

Et ipsum arcere
ne
armipotens
potest Jupiter.
then

more

quarter

master

with

the

gods,

tenet

Thetide

and

sequor, umbras

hath not so much

into
turned
was

jEaco, coelum

Jove

self
as dominion.
Jupiterhimpossession,
a
satyre, shepheard,a bull, a swan, a

golden showre, and what not, for love; that,as *^Lucians

tu es, thcu art
Juno rightwell objectedto him, Indus Amoris
Cupidswherlegigg:how did he insult over all the other gods,
Mars, Neptune,Pan, Mercury,Bacchus, and the rest! "Lucian brings"in
Jupitercomplainingof Cupid,that he could not
be quietfor him ; and the Moon
lamentingthat she was so
fessing
impotentlybesotted on Endymion ; even Venus herself conand
what
her
how
in
pid
Cusort
own
son
as
much,
rudely
her to
had used her, being his ''mother, ?iow
draichif/
to Libanus
now
viount Ida,Jorthe love of that TrojanAnchises,
sake.
she
And, although threatnedto
for that Assyrianyouths
and arrowes,
to cliphis icings,and
break his bow
whipped
besides on the bare buttocks with her pantophle,
him
yet all
too
would not serve
headstrongand unruly. That
; he ivas
monster
conqueringHercules was tamed by him :
'

Quern
Nee

Stheneleius
mille ferse,
non
quem
Juno vincere,vicit Amor.
potuit

non

hostis,

"= A
concilio
bDial. 3.
3. cap. de Diis Syris.
aSelden. proleg.
^ Fulmine
conci"cad
iRoominiam,
Deorum
mp.iorem
ejus
et,
rejectiis,
'"
f Tom.
eDial. Deornm, torn. 3.
t
4.
Quippe
tatior.
Sophocles.
"c.
in Idniu adigensAnchisae
caussa
nunc
tnatrem
ipsiusquibus raodis me afficit,
in nates incu.ssiiinudalio.
' Jampridero
et plagasipsi

1. Subs.

Mem.

neither beasts

Whom
Nor

Love's

1.]

nor

mtd

enemies

could

Love

might subdue.

Junes

Power

IDS

Extent.

tame,

the
quell'd

same.

enervated
are
Your bravest souldiers and most generous spirits
with \t,^ubimuliehrihus blanditiispermittunt
se, et mquhiantur
him
took
all diseases,
to
that
cure
upon
amplexibus.Apollo,
Socrates calls
"could not help himself of this; and therefore
'^

in a chariot,whom
tyrant,and bringshim triumphingimitates in his triumphof Love, and Fracastorius
Petrarche
Love

Mars
at large,
Cupid riding.
elegantpoem expresseth
"c.
his
chariot.Psyche weeping,
and Apollofollowing
Love hath,by many
what soveraignty
In vegetall
creatures
cially
pregnant proofsand familiar examplesmay be proved,espeboth
he
and
and
which
are
of palm trees,
she,
express
and by many
observations
not a sympathy,but a love-passion,
in

an

beeii confirmed.

hath

**

frondes,omnisque vicissim

in Venerem

Vivunt

palniae
Foedera, populeosuspirat
populusictu,
Et platano
ainoqueassibilat alnus.
platanus,
FeHx

arbor amat, nutantet

mutua

Agric.lib. 10. cap. 4- givesan instance out

of a palm tree that loved most
of Florentius his Georgicks,
be comforteduntill such time her
not
^and would
fervently,
love applied
unto
her; you mightsee the two trees bend,
himself
accords stretch out their boughs to embrace
and of their own
and kiss each other ; theg icill give manifest
signsofmutuall
Marcellinus lib. 24. reportsthat theymarry
love. Anmiianus
another, and fall in love iftheygrow in sight
; and when
one
affected.
the winde bringsthe smell to them, theyare marvelously
observes as much, and
Philostratus in Imaginibus,
5.
locis
theywill be sick for
Galen, lib. 6. de
ajfeciis,
cap.
which the husband-men
love,ready to dye and pine away;
stroke
saith ^Constantine,
many palms that grow
perceiving,
and so stroking
againthe palm that is enamoured^
together,
they carry kissesfrom the one to the other : or tyingthe leaves
Constantino

and

branches

them

of the

and

the stem

to

one

flourish and

enamoured, they can

are

both

de

prosper

perceive
by the bendingof boughs,

inclination of their bodies.

bNullis

fol.79.
Altopilus.

in Amatorio.

Dictator

descrip.vener.

aulae.

quo

If any

man

think this which

est medicabilis herbis.

amor

Plutarch,

d Claudian.
magistratus.
reliqui
Neque priusin iis desiderium cessat dum dejectuscon-

create
*

of the other, will make

great deal better: ^ivhich

cessatit

soletur; videre euim est ipsam arborem

incurvatani,ultro ramis ab utrisquevicissim

f Multas
palmas
exporrectis.Manifesta dant mutui desiderii signa.
attinmanu
eamque
regrediens,
contingensquae simul crescunt, rnrsusque ad amaatem
concubitus
facit.
gratiara
ministrare
et
videtur,
espediti
osculum
niutuo
gens, quasi
illam respicit
et ad
significat,
;
KQuam veto
ipsa desideret,affectu ramoruni

osculum

amantur, "c.
VOL.

II.

Love-Melancholy.

1 94

[Part.3.

Sec.

2.

talo, let him read tliat story of two palm trees in

the female at Otranto
at Brundusium,
the male growino^
Italy,
in au excellent poem,
times
someby Joviauus Pontanus
(related

I say,

be

to

tary
Alphonsus junior,king of Naples,his secrew/"jc/i icere
of state, and a great philosopher),
barren, and
another
to
cont'mued a tonytime, tillthey came
see
one
so
Pierius
growing up higher,though many stadiums asunder.
and
Memh.
3Ielchior
in his Hieroglyphicks,
oGuilandinus,

to

tutor

for a truth. See

de papi/ro, cites this story of Pontanus
in Salmutli,Co/"me/i^. in Pancirol. de Nova repert. Tit. \

tract.
more

de

orhe, Mizaldus, Arcanorum

novo

lib. 2.

lib. 2.foL 103, i'c.

what
If such furybe in vegetalls,

much

creatures, how
them

Sands

Voyages,

think of sensible
violent and apparent shall it be in

more

shall

we

?
a

Omne

adeo

genus

in terris

hominumque ferarumque,

volucres
pecudes,picteeque
genus eequoreum,
omnibus
idem.
In furias igneraqueruunt;
amor

Et

of creatures

All kinde
And
And

This
^

Hie

love bears

Deus

brute

beasts

our

furor est

Cupid,in Luciaxi,bids

he

sense

aha

domat.

will inform us how

lently
viowith this passion,
horses

the rest,

above

"^

alike

et maria

carried away

are

earth,

equalsway.

et terras

experienceand

Common

in the

fishes of the sea,

paintedbirds do rage

icas

now

Venus

familiar with

insignis
equarum.
his mother

lions,and

be

cheer,Jor
oj'f/ood

oftentimesdid get

on

their backs, hold them b)/the mane,

and ride them about like
and
horses,
theyrcouldjmcnupon him with their tails. Bulls,
and

bears

boars

are

so

furious in this

kinde, they kill one

other:
an-

but

cocks, 'lions,and harts, which are so

especially
hear thom
fierce, that you may
fighthalf a mile off,saith
and
times
kill
each other,or compellthem
'Turbevile,
many
in their places;
toabandontherut, that they may remainmasters
when

and

hat h driven his corrivaU aicay, he raiseth his

one
in
the
looks aloft,as thouyhheyave thanks to
nose
ayr, and
uj)
which
aflords
him
such great delight. How
birds
nature^

Virg.3. Georg.
ipsisfarailiarisjam

'i

"

*qiiornm
amorp

prae

tactiis

Propertius.
sum,

et

''Dial. Deoruni.

saepe cunscendi

eonini

Confide, mater, leoniho*

terga et apprehendijnbds;

insidens eos agito,et illimihi candis adhiandiiinliir.

fiirunL Plin. 1. 8. c. 16. Arigt. I. 6. hist.animaJ.

more

book ef liiintinii:.

Leones

'Cap. 17. of his

3iein. 1. Subs.

I.]

Lure's

and

Power

Extent.

195

affected in this kind,appears out of Aristotle ; he will have

them to singobfiituramvenerem^
for joy,or in hope,of their

are

which

venery

is to

come.

Aerije primum volucres te. Diva, tuumque

corda
initutu,
Significant
perculsas

Irishes pineaway
may

lore and

for

taken, and

be

are

wax

tua

vi.

if
lean.,

too,

rampant

Gomesius's

Peter Gellius,lib.10. de hi^tf.animal, tells wonders

in

Epirus

there

was

well

not

fetched

country wenches

far from

thority
au-

of them

some

of

tritou

the

shore,where the
they,'^tritons,
stupricaussd

water,
and
set upon
them,
carry them to sea, and there drown
them, if theywould not yeeld; so lore tyrannizeth
in dumb
Yet this is naturallyfor one
creatures.
beast to dote upon
another of the same
kinder but what strange furyisthat,when
a beast shall dote
? Saxo
man
a
Grammaticus, lib. 10.
upon
would

Dav.

hist, hath a story of a bear that loved

in his den a long-time, and begota son
of

loynesproceededmany
belike,of that

Pliny,Peter
Lucadia

'"^A dolphinloved

fishcame

are

she

kepther

woman,

her, out

of v,hose

this is the
and

full of such relations.

maid, and when

kings

tale of Valentine

common

Gellius

loved

northern

died, the

Orson

originall,

Julian,
peacockin
peacock pined.
:

boy called Hernias,and when he died,the

land, and so perished. The like addes Gellius
a

upon
lib. 10. cap. 22. out of Appion,^^yypt.lib. 15. a dolphinat
often to him, let him get on
Puteoli loved a child,would
come
his back, and carry him ^howi,^ and when by sickness the child

taken away, the dolphindied.

'Every book is full (saith
v/ith the grand senior,not
the emperors
orator
Busbequius,
and
such instances,
lieve
to belong since,ep. 3. leyat.Turc.)
yields
alwaies afraid,least I should be thoughtto
ivhich I was
was

untill " saw

a lynx which
givecredit to fables,
towards
one
so
of my men, that
affected

I had

syria,
from As-

it cannot
be denied,
in love with him.
When
but that he was
was
my man
the
would
beast
notable
and
use
enlisements,
present,
many
and
when
he
was
pleasantmotions,
going,hold him back, and
look
most

afterhim when he was gone, very sad in

jocund when he returned: and ic hen my

*
Lacretius.
cunt, ".C.

".c.
Iiensae,

his absence, but

went

man

J^rom

^ De
Pisces ob amorem
sale lib.1. c. 21.
marcescnnt,
palles'^Hauriendae aquae caassa
venieutes,ex insidiis a tritone rompre''Plin.1.10. c. S.Quamque oborta tempestate periisset
Hernias,

in sicco piscis
esspiravit.
cPostquam puermorbo abiit,et ipsedelphiuus
f Pleni sunt libri
periit.
quibusI'ereein homines inflammatae fneruut,in quibns
veritus ne fabulosa crederem ; donee vidi lyncem
assensam
sostinui,
ego quidem semper
habui ab Assyria,sic affectum ergaunum
de meis hominibus. "c.
quem

o2

Luvc-Melaiicholy.

19G

me,

the beast

after he had

[Part.3.

expressedhis lore with continual

few daies,died.
pinedaway some

See.

il.

sickness,and
Such

another

JMajorca, that loved a Spaniard,

and in his absence seek
tliatwould
liiin,
any way
hear her, and
noise tliat he niig^ht
abont for him, make
a
and when he took his last J'arewell,
knock at his dore,
falove playwith birds,
viished herself. Such pretty prankescan
tishes,beasts :
story he

hath, oi' a

of

crane

walk

with

"'

(^Coelestis oethciis,ponti,terr.ie claves liabet Venus,

imperium obtinet.)
Solaque istorum omnium
with the spirits
if all be certain,that is credibly
reported,
inof the air,and divells of hell themselves, who are as much
amored and dote (ifI may use that word) as any other creatures

and

For

whatsoever.
and

of incubus

satyrs, and

if those stories be true, that

ofnymphes,
gods which weredivels;

those heathen

o( whom
telchines,

are

lascivious

succubus,

ten
writ-

faunes,

those lascivious

the Platonists

tell so many
fables ;
and
of
our
witches
daies,
or
company
for
it.
I
know
that
and divels,there is some
Biarprobability
TV'ierus lib- 3. cap. 19. et ^2-i.and some
others,
maunus,
stoutly
those familiar

meetingsin

the divel hath any carnal copulation

"vith women;
in such facts; they be meer
that the divel takes no pleasure
relations of incubi, succubi, lyes and
all such
phantasies,

deny it,that

tales;but Austin,
Erastus

lib. \5. decivit. Dei.

de Lamiis, Jacobus

doth

Sprengerand

his

acknowledgeit;
"c.
colleagues,

lib. 4. de oper Dei.

Dandinus
Text. 29. co7n. 30.
Bodin, lib.2.

"^^Zanchius,cap. 16.
de

Animd, lib. 2.

Paracelsus

(a great champion

of this tenet

in Arist.

cap. 7. and
amongst the rest),

instances, by many
testimonies,
give sundry peculiar
evince
it.
Hector
confessions
and
Boethius
in his
proofs
hath three or four such examples,
Scottish history,
which Cardan

which

confirms

of

out

fjimiliar company
of

and

men

him, lib.

many

women.

hath
Apollonii,

IG. cap. A3, of such

years wilh

as

have

had

them, and that in the habit

Philostratus,in his fourth book devitd

instance in this kindc, which
1

memorable

25 years
may not omit, of one Menippus Lycius,a young- man
and Corinth, met
of age, that going betwixt Cenchreas
such
a phantasm in the habit of a fair gentlewoman,which
taking
Iiiniby the hand, carried him houje to her house, in the suburbs

Corinth, and told him she was a rha?nician by birth,

"^
and if he would
and
tarry with her, he should hear her sinrj
of

aDesiderium

snum

testatns

post inediani aliquotdieniin interiit.

Qui

ha'c in atra; liilisaut

l*Or-

referre
imaginationis
\ im
'' Cantantem
conati sunt, nihil faciunt.
audies et vinntn bibes, c^uale
antea
pnlchrocontente vivara,ft
ntinquain bibisti ; te rjvalisturbabit nulliis; pulchiaautem

l"hpii8
hyinno Yen.

moriar.

""

1. Subs.

Mem.

and

197

Extent.

they drank, and no

beingfair and lovely,would
fair and lovelyto behold.

wine

such

drink

play, and

Power

Loves

1.]

man

never

as

live
molest him ; hut she
The
and die with him, that was
able
otherwise
staid
and
to
discreet,
a
philosopher,
yong- man,
his passions,
moderate
though not this of love,tarriedwith her
to his
content, and at last married her, to whose
a while
should

great

weddino-, amongst other

found
probableconjectures,

some

that all her furniture

lamia ; and

her

out

be

to

serpent, a

like Tantalus

was

scribed
gold,de-

illusions.

When

substance, but meer

herself descried,she wept, and desired

by Homer,
she

Apollonius;who, by

guests, came

saw

no

besilent,but he would
all that

house, and

to
Apollonius
thereuponshe, plate,

moved, and
in it,vanished in
be

not
was

an

instant

''many

thousands
of this fact,for it teas done in the midst
tamorphosis,
the 10th of Ovids Meon
Sabine, in his comment
of Greece.
telleth
of
a gentleman
us
at the talc of Orpheus,
bewailed
the loss
months
for
of Bavaria, that,
together,
many
notice

take

and
dear wife ; at lengththe dive! in her habit came
so importunate
comforted him ; and told him, because he was
and
with
him
live
would
for her, that she
come
again,on that
of his

condition he would be new married,neverswear and blaspheme

he used formerlyto do; for if he did, she should begone:
as

her; she broughthim

stillpale and sad,
children,and governedhis house, but was

it,married, and

he vowed

and

swearing:

and
thereuj)on,

she vanished
heard, saith

''This I have

ad
Florilegus,

talked of,all

One

I will relate

more

honest

historian of

over

of

out

nation ;
thing,in those daies
our

as
a
confidently,
Europe: A yong gentleman of Rome,

he telleth it

because

afterseen.

never

persons of good credit,

tainty,
of Bavaria did tell itfor a cer-

1058, an

anmim

ivas

him, he fell a

Sdh'me,from

told me, that the duke

to the duke
of Saxony.

which

with

dayfallingout

continued, till one

so

lived ivith

so

the
^

nsarried,after dinner with the bri"le and

and towards evenhis friends,went
ing,
a walking into the fields;
to recreate
himself; whilst he played,
to the tennis-court

day that

same

he

he

was

put his ringupon

thereby,made
made

now

Venus

had

an

the

fingerof

Venus

in brass ; after he had

end of his sport, he came

bowed

her

Whereupon loath to
left it,intendingto
convenient

the

time,

night,when

went

fingerin,

and

his company
fetch it the next

make

thence

he should

come

statua, which

was

played,and
sufficiently
to fetch his

he could

not

but
ring*,

get it off.

tarryat present,there

day, or

to suppei", and so
to performthose

at some
to bed.

more

In

rites,
nuptial

Rem
cnrans
factum hoc cognovere,
quod in media Grsecia gestum sit.
J"
ut ante, pepiritaliquot
liberos,semper tamen tristiset pallida. c Haec
audivi a multis fide dignis,
qui asseverabant ducem Bavarise eadem retulisse dMci Saxonise pro veris.

aMulti

domesticam,

Love-

198

steps between

Venus

her

unto

troubled

him

that she

told him

and

by

him for

help
magicianin
at such

end,

liiswife, (unseen or felt of

his

was

that he had betrothed

ife,

he put upon
followingnights. He

some

those

his

to

moan

daies,who

old Saturn

would

called

Venus

and

ring,which
freed. Many

authors,to confirm

forthwith
such

this which

of

bold

spirit,

had

she did:
said

that

; as

and 3Iachates

in
be

though many

part,will subscribe

and

so

the

stories T finde in several!

I have

the rest, of Philinium

among
Tract de rehua 7uirabilib"/ft
; and

yet I, for my

bid him

read it,he
it;
rode
"vho
before
and
commanded
him,
him,

to

gentlemanwas

learned

letter,and

the yong- man

tlie old fiend

when

her to deliver his

"

her)
self
him-

way, at the towns

in
with
his associates,
pass by,
with his
did, deliver that script,

as
procession,
commonly he
own
hands, to Saturn himself:

accordinglydid

2.

herfinger:she
not knowing how

Palumbus,

one

gave him a
of the night,
in such a cross

time

where

and

[Part.[3, Sec.

that rino-,which

himself, made

to

Melancholy.

more

table
no-

''Phlegons
it,
against

lib. 14. cap. 1.5.

Lactantius,
God sent anr/chto the tuition of men
lived
: but whilest theif
of the earth,and
amongst us, that tnischievous all-commander
hot in lust,enticed them by little and little,
to this vice,and
to

"=

and Anaxagoras
of women:
de resurrect.
bodies,overcome
spiritual
by the
love of maids, and
those were
lust,failed,of whom
born,we
call (jyants. Justin Martj'r,
Clemens
Alexandrinus.Sulpitius

dejiledthem

ivith the compamj

''
Manjjof those

Sevcrus, Eusebius, "c. to this sense,

angels,one from the beginningof the
before

the

that these

deluge,as
genii
At

women.

believe

may

Moses

can

beget,and

Japan,in

church, where

she

have

the East

the relation of

one
Teuchedy, to whom
is monthly brought,and
or

teacheth

make
world
us,

twofold

fall of

another

little

^openl}'
professing,
copulationwith

carnal

Indies,at

this present (ifwe

idol called
an

there is
'^travellers)

of the fairest
left in

sits alone

in the country
virgins
in thcfoioqni,
private
room,

to

be

defloured.

At

certain

times, -the
to

Tcucliedy(which is thoughtto be the divel)appears

her, and knov.'eth her carnally.Every mot)th a fair
taken

virginis
tell.

In

there

\" as

of

it,in

in ; but

what

that

be-^^jniesof the old.

of JupiterBelus

no

man

can

in

goodly temple
Babylon,
sa'tn
an
Herodotus,
chappel,
eye-witness
v.hich was
lectus
s
tratus
et
appositamensa
splendide
a

fair

''

^
aFabtila Damarati et Aristcnis in Herodoto, lib.6. Erato.
Mercnr.
Interpret.
huinani : sed illoscniii boiiiinibus
Deus
jjfneri.s
angelos inisitad tiitelam ctilttimque
et mnlienim
dominator illaeferrap salacissimus paulatimad vitia pellexit,
commorantes,
"'"
\irRiniim,et libidine
inquinavit.
Quidam e.x illocaptisuntamore
coni^es"ibus
" Pererius
victi defecerunt,
nati fuiit.
io Gen.
es
qiiibus
gigaotes qai vorautiir,
f Piirrhas Hackl.
bb. 8. c. 6. ver.
1. Zanc. ":"".
posth.par. 1. lib.4. ct"\".\. S. 7.
f" Dciis ipsehoc cubili reqiiicst
ila Clio.
ens.

*"

Love'

200

Melancholy.

[Part.3.

Sec. 2,

iiiankin"l,
propaoates the church ; but if it rage, it is no more
madness, hell.
love, but l)urnina: lust; a disease, phrensie,
''Est orct/s
i/fp,vis est hnmrdicabil}s,est rabies hminn ; 'tis no
of the mind,
habit this,but a vehement
vertuous
perturbation
"
Athenaeussets
of nature, wit, and art, as Alexis in
a monster
rirUifer
it out,
iimidvin,furore jnareps^
anda.v, mufiehnler
labore

mel

injractum,

"Sc.
hlanda percussio,
f'elleuin,

kin^-doms,overthrows

families:

cities,
towns,

It subverts

mars,

rupts,
cor-

and lighminji-,
thunder
of men;
mischief
to mankind,
fires,plagues,have not done that
wars,
and
Sodome
brutish
Let
this
this
as
passion.
burning lust,
Gomorrah, Troy,(whichDares Phrygius,and Dictis Cretensis
and

makes

massacre

good) and I know not how many cities bear record,

all succeedingages will subscribe:
ante Helenam,
etfitit
lone of Naples in Italy,
Fredegundeand Brunhalt in France,
Besides those daily
all histories are full of these basilisks.

will make

monomachies, murders, effusion of blood, rapes, riot and

moderate
im-

satisfie their lusts; beggery, shame,

to
expense;
diseases that
joss, torture, punishment,disgrace,loathsome
feaproceed from thence, M'orse then calentures and pestilent
vers;

tica,
sciaarthritis,palsies,
cramps,
the
torment
convulsions, aches, combustions, Stc which
those

often

gouts, pox,

body ; that feral melancholy which crucifies the soul in this

life,"
in the world to come.
and everlastingly
torments
Notwithstanding
they know these,and many such miseries,
will surelycome
threats, tortiues
hortations,
upon them ; rewards,exe

weakness, a
yet either out of their own
loves tyranny, which so furiously
rageth,

contra;

depravednature,

or

they suffer themselves

to be

led like

an

oxc

to

the

slaughter;

Averni) they go down headlong to their own

p'erdition
follywith beasts,men
leavingthe
; ihey will commit
in lust one
natural use /}fu-omen,as '^Paul saiih, burned
wards
todescensus
(facilis

another, and
Semiramis

man

with

man

wrouffhtJilthiness.
Aristo

Ephesiusasince se
commiscuit ; Fulvius
erpin^ alii canibus, capris,";c. unde
et ad
ternascuntur
monstra
aliquaudo,centauri,sylvani,
sed
hominuni
cumbrutis,
rorem
ipsis
prodiyiosa
spectra: nee
dicitur ;
homi7iibus rem
liabent, quodpeccatum Sodomiiv vnlfjo
(tfreqnensolim vitium apud Orientales illos J'nit,Grrecos
'^Hercules Utflam habuity
mmirvm,
Italos, Afros, Asianos:
equo,

Pasiphae tauro,

Polffc/etum,Dioncm, Perithounta, Abdcrum,

et

Eurijiium

sPlutarrh.
vil.ifjiis.

ab Hcrcule

amatum

lib.

^Ub.Vi.

amalor.

tradunt.

-^

Horn.

et

Phri/f/a;

Socrates

1. 27.

alii

pulchrorum

HLili.is Giraldus,

Mem.

1. Subs.

Love's Power

2.]

and

Extent.

201

frequensgymnasium adihat, ftagitiosoque

pascebatoculos,quod et Philebus et Phcedon rivales,
spectaculo
Platonis Dialogic
satis superque testatum
Charmides, et reliqui
adolescentum

causa

deeodem
Jaciunt: quodveroAlcibiades
sed et abhorreo
conticesco,

lubens
loquatur,
prcebetlibi-

incitamentum

; tantum

Theodoretus
perstrinxit

hunc

Ad

dini.

Socrate

lib. de

GrcEC.

curat.

et ipsePlato

demiratur AgaQuin
suum
Anacreon
A
lexin,
BaCliniam,
ilionem,
Virgilius
Xenophon
Claudio,cceteroriimque
thyllum; Quod autem de JSTerone,
portentosd libidine memorise proditum,mallem, a Petronio, Suefidem excedat,quam a
quandoomnem
tonio,cater isquepetatis,
sed
vetera
querimur. ^ApudAsianos, Turcas,
vie
expectetis
;
ultimo.

affect,
cap.

hodierno
frequentiushoc quam
horum
Sodomia
; qfflcince

Italos, nunquam
Romanorum

Diana

die vitium
alicubi

apud

Turcos,

qui saxis
arenas

arantes

et

semina

mandant

etiam
frequentes
querelce,
concubitum

viiorum

de re, quae

inter

con,'
ijjsos

illicitum calceo

juges hac
indicant ; nullum apud
in oppositampartem verso
magistratui
Italos familiaremagis peccatum, qui et post "Lucianum
et
Johannes
voluminibus
de la
defendunt.
Tatium, scriptis
divinum
Beventinus
scelus,
Casa,
Episcopus,
opus vocat, suave
^

adeoque jactat
ad

mortem,
violentas
amorem,

insaniam.
sibi

apud

dictu, quantum
hoc scsvierit!

Quum

nos

Nihil

injecit.Et

manus

pat rum
enim

usitatius

furor hie
pueri

Angelus Politianus, oh

Anno

cucullatorum

Octavus

Henricus

venere.

usum

etiam
cardinales,sacrijiculos,

apud monachos,
ad

alia

non

se

horrendum

sane

memorid, scelus detestandum

Rex
1538, prudentissimus
cosnobia, et sacrificorum

venerabiles legumDoctoresThoraam
votarioruni,per
collegia,
Richardura
Laytonum visitari fecerat,"c. tanto nuLeum,
apud eos scortatores, cinaedi,
mero
repertisiint
ganeones,
paeSodomitse, (^Balei verbis utor)
dicones, puerarii,
pffiderastse,
"c.

Ganimedes,

ut

Sed

Gomorrham.

in unoquoque
eorum
si
eorundem
vide,
lubet,

novam

credideris

catalogumapud

in lectis dormire non

Baleum; Puell{e(inquit)
poterant
H(bc si apud votarios,monachos,
ob fratres necromanticos.

eundem

quid inj'oro,
quidin aula factum
? quid apud nobiles,quid inter J'ornices,
non
suspiceris
quam

sanctos

scilicet homunciones,

Joeditatem,
quam

''

Piieros

avnare

Busbeqiiius.

non

?
spurcitiem

Sileo interim

turpes illas,

solis philosophis
relinquenduin vult Lticianus 'dial. Amoriim.
'" Achilles Tatius lib.2.
Liicianus Charidenio.
eNon
^ Jovius Muse.
deniens. Mart.
? PrEefat. lectorilib.

pst haec mentula

de vitis poutif.

""

Love-Melancholy.

202
et

ne

hutores.
ad Veyierem

^mbuheias,
se

qnidemmonachorum

nominandas

Rodericus

Castro

Sec. 2,

maslurmastrupatioiu's,
et eos
qui se invicem

turn

vocat,

excitandam
et

ccedunt, Spintrlas,
SuccuhaSy
Jlar/ris
lasciviente Inmho Tribades illus muUerculas^quce

et prater
f'ricant,

invicem

[Part.3.

Eunuchos

etiam

ad

Venerem

ex-

ilia veretra
hahent.
Immo
quod magis
plendam,artijiciosa
Const
non
mirere,J'oeminaJ'"emina7nantinopoli itapridemdeper-

iit,ansa
de

rem

plane incredibilem,mutato

mentita

virum

inif,et brevA nvptaest: sedauthorem

sermonem
nvptiis
ipsum
Omitto
Salinariosillos
Busbequium.
jEgyptiacos^
qui

consule
cum

cultu

'^

formosarum

cadaveribus

concumbunt

; et

eorum

vesanam

qui etiam idola et imaginesdepereunt. Nota est

et Paulini
apud
fabula PigmaUonis apud'^OrAdium; Mundi
belli
Jud.
lib.
2.
4.
C.
Ccesaris
Pontius,
jEgessippum
cap.
lib.
3.
35.
eum
esse
referentePlinio,
cap.
quern suspicor
legatus,
adeo
et Helence
crucijixit,
picturisAtalantw
qui Christum
tollere
vellet
si
eas
natura
libidine inceHsus,ut
tectoriipermisissety
Fortuna: deperiit^
alius statnambona
(^lianus,lib. 9. cap. 37)
alius Bonce Dea, et ne qua pars probro vacet.
Raptus ad
ait ille)
et ne *^os qiiidema libidine exceptum,
stupra (q7tod
libidinem recepit.
omnia
Lam"
cava
corporis
HeliogabaluSy
per
^Hostius
ita
vita
et
fecit,
ejus.
quidam specula
disposuity
prid.
admissarii
omnes
virum
aversus
motus
ut quum
ipsepateretur,
mcmbri
in speculo
videret,ac deinde falsa magnitudineipsius
simul
virum
etfceminampassus, quod
gauderet,
tanquam vera
Ut
abominandtim.
et
veru?n
plane sit,quod apud
dictufoeduvi
Ad
huuc usque diim
Plutarchum
objecit.
Gryllus Ulyssi
foemina fceminam
amavit,
apud nos neque mas marem,
neque
memorabiles
viri
fecerunt:
niulta apud vos
et praiclari
({ualia
libidinem^

"

*"

ut

faciani,Hercules

viles missos

"c.
deseruit,

amicos

Vestra

imberbem

libidines intra

sectans
suos

sociuni,

natural

fines

possunt, quin instar fluvii exundantes atrocem

in
foeditatem, tutnnltum, confusionemquenaturae g-ignant
coerceri

Venerea:

non

et

narn

inierunt viri et

capras,porcos,equos

re

foeminse,

unde

Minotauri, Centauri,
"c. Sedneconfutando
doceam, aut eaforas
Spliing-es,
Sylvani,

insano

bestiarum

efferam,
quce

non

amore

omnes

exarserunt;

scire convenit

(ha'c enim

doctis solum-

" Mercurialis call,

tie Priapismo.Coplins 1. 11. antiq.lert. cap. 14. (ialenus6.de
^ De niorb. mulier. lib. 1. c. 15.
"^
Herodotus, 1. 2. Enterpae.
locis afl".
vita
tradnnt
functas
statim
condendas,
v
irorum
ac
ne
eas
non
quiaem
Uxores insifjnium
foeminas qua; formosae sunt, sed quatriduoante defunctas, ne.,ciiin iis Salinarii con"" Seneca
f Nullus est
^ Metam.
de ira,1. 11. c. 18.
13.
cumbant, "c.
ad qaem
non
pateat aditus impudicitia;. Clem. Alex, paedag.lib. 3. c, 3.
meatus
hToin. P. Oryllo.
1. uat. qujcst.
E Seneca

inodo, quod

absimili

non

causa

and

Power

Loves

2.]

1. Subs.

Mem.

Extent.

203

Rodericns,scripta
velim) ne

"

vientihus Joedissimi
sceleris
levissimis ingenns et depravatis
notitiam, ^-c.nolo quern diutins hisce sordihus inquinare.
1 come
at last to that heroical love,which is proper to men
of melancholy,
and deserves
and women,
is a frequentcause
be called

burning lust, than fjysuch

nourable
hoan
love
I
is an
title. There
confess, which is
da
occultos
c
or
hominum, ut a niucaptivans
natural,laqueus
rather

much

to

honest

lieribus

; a secret
possintseparari
Fonseca
men, as ''Christopher

hearts of
of

most

and

sensit amoris,

but

not

in

lapisest,

gourd

'^

stone,

aut

Niimen,

ment,
strong-allureproperty,and

it.

bellna.

aut

the
captivate

He

"

Et

quivim

is not

man

JVebuchadnezzar

aut

for his heart, that hath

creature
to be found,one

head, a pepon

of it ; and

rare

age,
visse

Qui nunquam
for semel

insaiiivimus

'he said,and

Cupid

so

avoid

livingcan

man

for his

felt the power

an

no

aut

block, a very

he hath

proves,

attractive,occult,adamantine

powerfulvertue,
non

to

snare

non

in

none
'

amore
flagravit

dote

omnes,

either yong* or old, as

and the Muses:
his mother
Venus, that

we

but Minerva
expected,

are

Lucian

complainsto

amongst all the rest, his arrows

I love, is a common
this nuptial
love in the way of
You
sic mulier virum.

to

:
puellae

could

piercethem.

not

honest, for

passion,an
materia

marriage; at
kiiow

But
men

appetit
formam,

honourable,a blesed
Paradise; it breeds true

marriageis

appointed
"ByGod himself in
calling-,
and happiness,qua nulla est aut
content
peace, tranquillity,
as
Daphnaeus in Plutarch
Juit imquam sanctior conjunction
could well prove, et qua; generihumanoimmortalitatem parat^
when
as
they live without jarring,scolding,lovingly
they
s

should

do.
'"Felices ter

Quos
Divulsus

et amplius
tenet copula,
nee
irrupta
querimoniis

Suprema
Thrice

happy they,and

Whom
That

citius solvit

bonds

without

of love

brawls

'Tis undissolv'd

amor

die.

more

then

so

that,
firmlyties,

tilldeath

and

ullis

never

them

part,

dies.

b
* De
morbis mulierum I. I.e. 15.
Amphitheat.amor. cap. 5. interpret,
= iEneas
Curtio.
Sylvius,Jnvenal.
"^Tertul. prover. lib.4. adversus Mane,
f
^Chancer.
Tom. 1. dial. Deorum Lucianus.
Amore
ardent
non
rap. 40.
Musse.
hHor.
? In amator.
dialog.
^

Sec. I?.

[Part.3.

lAive- Melancholy.

2o4

and Sara, Orpheus

Sciicca lived with his Paulina, Abraham
Euridice, Arria and Foetus, Artemisia and Mauand
Celer, that would needs hare it ingravenon
solus, Rubenius
his dear wife, forty
his tomb, he had led his life w-ith Ennca
As

fell out.
three yeares eightmoneths, and never
to it; 'tissummrnn
Jn this world comparable
pleasure

There

is

no

mortali-

Venus
Dlnhnf/un
omnibus
alhjnidninjnspntentiusque
''
there's
in
one
as
holds,
somethingoliis humauh'vo/iipfntihns,

voluptas,Alma

hominum
tatis bonuni
nvil'we
in
en'nn
latet
""

delight; a magnetiquevertue, a
The husband
powerfulmotive.
commands
his heart, he
head, but she again
no
his onelyjoy and content
happinesis

beyond all humane

occult
an
charming quality,

woman

rules her

as

is her servant, she

like unto it,no love

when

Omnis

great'this of
as

so

at

Charaque

wife

sweet

sed aperto in

magnus,

amor

theylove
"^

"plocensuxor,

comfort, as

and

last,as fresh

and

man
:

conjugemajor,

they did

as

cliaro consenescit

wife,no such

first,

at

conjugi,

brings Paris kissingHelena, after they had been

withall, that he loved her as
married ten years, protesting
Homer

as

he did the firsthour he

when
they make much

dear, as

old ao-e,
did to his wife in the

Servantes

hitherto

we

let'sbe young

But

in aevo,

commuteraur

dye together.
good will :

in love, and

have

day change or

no

in thalamo;

mihi.
tuque puella
juvenis,

wife,let'slive

As
Let

another,sayingas he

one

sumpsimus

nomen

Quin tibi sim

Dear

in their

poet,

ferat ulla dies ut

Ncc

of

quod viximus,ct moriamur,

vivamus

Uxor

And

betrothed.

was

in all

alter

our

to one

affections,

another

still.

and as theyarc
love be, stillthe same,
conjugall
so should
theybe of one mind, as in an aristocratical
flesh,
one
consent, ^Geryon like, coalescere in unum,
o-overnment, one

Such

should

have

one

in

heart

to
frood wife, according

Torepresenther

"

Plutarch,should

husbands

face and

nill the
be

as

Lncrptius.

f Ausoniiis.

""

same.

looking-^lass_
pleasant,

passion If he be
:

laugh,she should
and
of his sorrow,
should participate

she should be merry;

sad,she

bodies, will and

two

if he

''
^Hor.
Fonspca.
Propcrt.
Gcryon amicitia/synibohim.

smile; if he look
bear

part with

fSimonides.Grafc.

1. Subs.

Mein.

him, and

theyshouM

so

and

Power

Loves

2.]

continue

Extent.

in mutual

205

love

towards

one

another.
^

Et

ab

me

amove

deducet

tuo

nulla senectus,
Nestor ero.

Sive ego Tythonus,sive ego

age shall part my love from thee, sweet

Though I live Nestor or Tithonus life.

No

And

she

againto him,

as

the

wife,

bride saluted the

bridegroome

of old in Rome, Ubi tu Caius,ego semper Caia, be thou still

Cains,I'llbe Caia.
'Tis an happy state this indeed,when the fountain is blessed
with the wife
(saithSolomon, Prov. 5. 18) and he rejoyceth
his

of

youth,and she is to
in
roe, and he delights

him

the

lovinghinde,and pleasant
But
this
love
of
continually.
is immoderate, inordinate,and not to be comprehended

ours

in any bounds.
of marriage,or

as

her

It will not

contain

it self within

but is
object,

the union

travagant,
apply
wandering,exstructive
dea
an
boundless,
a
domineering,
irrefragable,
this
burning lust ragethafter
passion; sometimes
called
it
is
and
then
jealonsie
marriage,
properly
; sometimes
before,and then it is called //erojca// melancholy;it extends
sometimes
"c. begets rapes, incests,murders
to corrivalls,
;
Marcus
Fustinam
Antonius
Caracalla,
compressit
sororem,
Juliam
Nero
matrem, Caligulasoi-ores
Cyneras,
novercam,
Mirrham
Jiliam,^-c. But it is confined within no terms of
bloud, years, sex, or whatsoever else. Some
furiously
rage
before theycome
in Petronius
to discretion or age.
^^Quartilla

to

one

remembred

never

she

was

maid

and the wife of Bath

in

Chaucer,cracks,
Since I

was

Husbands
"^

Aretines

Lucretia

twelve

years old,believe,

at kirk door

had

1 five.

sold her maiden-head

thousand

times before

she

was
twenty-fouryears old, plus millies vendideram
Sfc.neque te celabo, non deerant qui ut integram
virginitatem,

amhirent.
at ten
as

Rahab, that harlot,began to be

years of age, and

was

Hugh Broughton proves,

gucESt.6. in cap.

pubescere,as
lib. 2.

professed
quean
spies,
Serrarius the Jesuite,
Generallywomen
begin

but fifteen when

to whom

Josue, subscribes.
they call it,or catullire,as
2.

cap. S. onomast.

Propert.1.2.

out

of

she hid the

Julius Pollux

cites,

*^^at
fourteen years
Aristophanes,

habeam iratam,
fjunonem
c. 30. Rora. hist.
virginemfuisse. Infans enhn paribusinquinatasum^ et subinde, majoribus me
applicui,donee ad a-tatem perveni; ut Milo vituhim,"c.
^Forno didasc. dial. Lat. interp.
e Angelico scriptur.
conCasp. Barthio ex Ital.
f
centu.
"c. at14. movere
incipiunt,
Epictetus,c. 42, Mulieres statim ab anno
a

si unquam

meminerim

Plutarch,

me

trectarise sinunt et expoDunt.

Levinus

Lemnius.

Loi-e-Melaacholij. [Paif.

206

theydo

old, then

ofter

and
themselves,

saith,that in Africk

AlVr

plainly
raj"e.

some

shall

man

". Src. "2.

scarce

finde

^Leo

maid

at

years of age, theyare so forward; and many

amongst
into the teens, do not live without husbands,
us, after they come
this
in
but linger. What
the
kinde
middle
pranks
age
have played,is not to be recorded.
fourteen

Si mihi sint centum

tongue

no

and

sint
linguop,

declare
sufficiently

can

unsatiable

M'omens

oraque

centum,

story is full of

; every

men

lust, Neros, Heliogabali,

Bonosi, "c.

AmphUenum, sed Quint ins Amphe/inam drpereunt,

wives (as Jeremy cap. 5.
^"c. They neigh after other mens
fed
like
or
horses,
8. complaineth)
buls,ra/jrange like town
of
do.
as
e
t
viduarum,
our
tores
virginiim
great ones
many
in this fire of lust;Sampwisdom was
Solomons
extinguished
sons
in
Lots
enervated; piety
strength
daughters
quiteforgot;
Helies
in
reverend
of
old
sons;
gravity priesthood
age in the
violate Susanna;
filiailduty in Absolon
elders that would
to
love
in
Amnion
towards
his
his stepmother;brotherly
sister.

^Ccel'ms

fear of God and

Humane, divine laws, precepts, exhortations,
honor
fair,foul means, fame, fortunes,shame, disgrace,
men,
withstand
the
cannot
furyof it,omnia
oppose, stave off, or
so
vincit amor, ^c. No cord,nor cable can
draw, or
forcibly
ing
The scorchhold so fast,as love can do with a twin'd thread.
of the aequinoctiall,
beams
or
extremityof cold within

the circle
torrid

where
artique,

zone

mortall

the very

the

on

fugias,
usque

Tanaim

not

man

same

; father and

up?

of

amor,

and

son,

daughtersometimes

master

and servant, on

sed ineffrenata libido.

iu terris

castum

breach

I reckon

and

vows

Yet

this is

stillin their hot

intentatumque reliquit?
madness, might
oaths,fury,
dotage,

more

tolerable in

youth,and

such

as

old fool to dote,to see

an
absurd?
odious,what can be more

blood; but for

old leachcr,what more

and yet what so common?
an

fuga,tu

woman.

Quid

are

licet usque
sequetur Amor.
est

Mother
complain.''

Sed

What

or

unnatural,**unsatiable lust,what country, what

womens

doth
village
one

frozen,cold

men.

Ad

dote

are

avoid,or expel this heat,furyand rage of

cannot

ah demens, nulla
"^Quo fugis,

Of

seas

Who

so

furious ?

i" Catullus.
'
" L. 3. foL 126.
Euripides. J Dc mulierum
libidine Inxuque insatiahiliomnrs
asque rrgioncaconqueriposse existimo.

inexhausta

Steph.

Love-Melancholif.

208

mplaneholj)vexaiwiiy
continnalhimeditates
tronhles

and
vilstris,

minde

anguishof

or

[Part.3.

.;

Sec. 2.

; in rrhirh

the

mati

of
heanty,rjeature^
of his
hi mscfj'
about it ; desirincf
(asSavanarola
manners

adds) with all intentions and

enjoyher^

eajrerness of minde, to compass or

as
commonly hunters trouble themselves about their
about their gold and yoods; so is he tor'
covetous

sports, the

his 7nistris.

stillabout

mented

])Ook of heroicall

he desires

it ; which

definition

is
cogitation
that which
all

without

makes
love be

of

body

nus

have
kinde
treat

For

at.

symptome
;
abhor, as well

thintiswe covet and desire,

a Lorme, in his
tions,
ques-

sit wori?/.?,
whether

Julius Pollux
are

minde.

lib. G. cap. 44. determines

sick ; lascivus,

onomast.

in love

are

likewise

'^

vere
J'urit,

venerem

Tully

this heroicall

called,and

est

in his Tusculanes

Phfto madness

of the

ccgrotus.

malady rather

defines it

it self; Fici-

'^

4. 26. but
Esdr.
Rhases a melancholy
for women,
and
make
it
most
a
physicians
species,or
passion;
of melancholy(aswill appear by the symptomes) and

run

mad

of it apart : whom

mean

to

imitate,and

to

discuss it in

examine

his severall causes;

all his kinds; to
to shew
that
it may
effect;
so
prognosticks,
symptomes, indications,
cured.
with more
facility
The

tinual
con-

of love

hate and

we

it improperly
so

disease

cavils
but

minde;
of madness, ybr
Commentator, cap. 12. a species
many

furious
his

then

coyitation
of
conjidence hopeoj'
compassing

of that which

lasciviens,et (juiin
sala.r,
of the

in his

Carolus
attaining-.

it;theythat
have

Villanovanus

us

continual

or

his commentator
the genus,

doubt, anamor

disease

Arnolduswill

it,

love; and many

we

hope

with

not

think
continually

we
as

defines

love

that which

Arnold

part affected in the

the

mean

time, as

'^

Arnoldus

his
be

supposeth,

moisture

head, for want of

of
; which
med.
lib.
1.
epist.
rejects.Langius
cap. 24.
dence
passionsited in the liver,and to keep resithe
heart
in
first
fromthe eyes, so carried by
; to proceed
and
kindled
tcith
in the liver and
imagination,
our
spirits,
heart ; cogitamare
jecur,as the sayingis, Medium feritper
such cause, belike,
For some
hepar,as Cupid in Anacreon.
Titius
liver
fains
enamored
Homer
on
(who was
Latona)to
be stillgnawed by two vultures,day and nightin hell,^for
is the former part

his Commentator
this
will have

'

a Animi
forte accidens quo quisrem
habere nimii aviditate roncupiscit,
ut ludos ve'iAssidua
dcsideratam cum
et opes avari.
cogitatio
natores, aurum
super rem
''"Morbus
ut spe apprehensuin
delectabile,"c.
confidentia obtinendi,
corporis
"" Amor
""" Qb
est passiomelancliolica.
calefactionera
potiusquam aninii.
' Aft'ectus
Inimiditatis.
laborat ob coi)suni|"tionem
spirituumpars antericr capitis
in
animi concupiscibilis
e desiderio rei amatas
concepto^spiritus
per ocido.s,in mente
b Quod
4. Ovid.
cotde et jecoreincendens.
e Odyss. et Melamor.
faciat inexplebilis.
visceribuM amor
talem camificinam in adoIesceDtum

Mem.

2.

Causes

Subs.l.]

that yong
tormented

bowels

mens

subjector

immediate

Fracastorius
mitus

enafnoured,

Gordonius, cap.

by love.

testicles an

thus

of Love-Melancholy.

2.

are

so

209

continually

part. 2, tvillhave the

-^

the

cause,

liver

an

dent.
antece-

in this with

Gordoiiius,
i"rfe;)nerectioy
^-c.titillatissiniam
partem
semine gestiens
voluptasnon cessat,

agrees

venerea,
imaginatio

vocati ifa ut nisi extruso

addit Guastavinius Comment.
assidua veneris recordation
nee
^
But
4. Sect. prob."7. Arist.
properlyitis a passionof the
other
all
of corrupt imaginabrain,as
melancholy,by reason
tion
doth
Pratensis
Jason
and
de
morb.
19.
so
c.
cerebri,
;

of this Erotical love)placeand reckon

copiously
of the brain.
the
affections
Melancthon deanimd
amongst
the liver a part affected,
confutes those that make
and Guia15. cap. 13. et \J. though many
nerius Tract.
put all the
affections in the heart, refers it to the brain.
Ficinus cap. 7.
Conviviuni Platonis,will have the blood to be the part af^/^
fected.

(who

writes

it

"

Jo.

Frietaglus,
cap.

14.

noct.

med.

supposethall four

affected;heart,liver,brain, blood; but the major part concur

the brain,"^ 'tisimaginatiokvsa; and both imagination
upon
and
and

are

reason

because
misaffected;

continuall

trulybe

said

meditation

melancholy.

to be

I have determined
as
inveterate,
and

both imaoination

of his corrupt judgement,

he desires,
he may

of that which

reason

If it be violent,or his disease

in the precedentpartitions,
first one,
misaffected,

are

then

the other.

MEMB.
Causes

II.

SUBSECT.

I.

fullDiet,Idlenes,
of Heroioall Love, Temperature,
Place, Climate, ^c.

Of

all

saith

they are

the

causes

more

remotest

prone

are

to

stars.

this

Ficinus cap. 19.

burning lust,that

M-hen the Moon

in Leo in their Horoscope,
Venus
such as be of Venus
or
be mutually aspected,
^

Plutarch

in whose

and

have

Venus

complexion.
thattaleof
Mars
and Venus,
astrologically
interprets
in
and
$
conjunction,
^ are
theyare comgenitures

aTesticuli quoad causam

conjunctam, hepar antecedentein,
possunt esse subjectam.
"=
Cap. de
Propriapassiocerebri est ob corrnptam imaginationem.
'' Est
ob
et aestimativae facultatis,
conuptioimaginativBB
aflectibus.
ideoque recte
fortiteraffixam,corruptumque judicium,ut semper de eo cogitet,
formam
ex
melancholicus appellatur.
Concupiscenia vehemens
corrupto judicioasstimativaj
" Comment,
in convivium Platonis. Irretiuntur cito quibus
virtutis.
et qui
vehementer
aspexerit,
nascentibus Venus fueritin Leone, vel Luna Venerem
eadem complexiouesunt prtediti.
fPlerumque amatores sunt; et si fceminis
b

meretrices,1. de audiend.
VOL.

II.

monly lascivious, and

if wonicti,

in Chaucer
confesseth

Bath

fSi?utrtuc
But of all those
that of Cardan

some

as

mine

oC mg

is most

others

of
good u^ije

inclinatfon,

memorable

by

the

2.

conjJtcUatitin.

astrolof^ical
aphorismswhich

censured
bitterly

frier,and

queans

Sec.

3t"oUob3et]b
are

be

[Part.3.

Love-Melancholy.

210

I have

read,

ever

5 for .vhich howsoever

^'xMarinus

malapert
suspected)yet me

Marcennus,

(which ''he himself

he

right,plain,and ingenuous. In his

or
example, he hath these words of himself.
(jeu'dnre
'^e'xght
thinks

it is free, down

et

5 in 5

assiduam
dif/nitatibus

mihi

Venereorum

ita

nt

quiescam.

cor/itaEt

paulo
prcestabunt,
nunquam
Venereorum
me
torqnet perpet?to, et quani
post, Cogitaiio
a
nt
non
licuit, J'ecisse
jwtentenipuduit,cogitaJ'actoimplere
tione assidud mentitus sum
voluptatem. Et alibi,ob "l et ^
mlxtionem, profundum J'uitingenium,
dominium et radiorum
sed lascivum, egoqne
turpiUbidini deditus et obsccenus. So
of himself, quod de saj'atetur
ideo '^nt ntilitatem
far Cardan
for tiiishe is tia; and
adferatstndiosis hujuscedisciplince
in
when
he
saith
then
effect,
as
duced by Marcennus,
no
more
of old, to Chilo his scholar, offerewhat Greoory Nazianzen
hant se mihi visendce muUeres, quarum
prwcellentielegantid
tentabatiir
Et
mecs
et decore spectabili
pudiciticc.
integritas
at munditicc virginalis
quidem jiagitiumritavi Jornicationis,
cordis cogitationej'wdavi.
Sed adrem.
Antiores
floremarcana
Venus
ad masculiuam
veneremsunt
est in sig-no
({uorumgenesi
Saturni
in
finibus
"c.
Ptoloaut
et
masculino,
oppositione,
in quadripart.
plurade hisetspecialiahabetaphorismata,
maeus
multa perusuconfirmata,etab experientia
longo proculdubio
Cardanus.
Tho.
commentator
fecta,inquit
ejus
Campanella
4.
lib.
articulis
5
8.
4
insaniam
et
amatocap.
Astrologia
riam reinonstrantia. multa pra? c^ieteris
accumulataphorismata,
consulat.
Chiromantici
ex
cinguloVeneris
quse qui volet,
faciunt,et monte
Veneris,de quorum
plerumque conjecturam
decretis, Taisnerum, Johan. de Indagine,Goclenium, cetedivine whollyfrom the
Physicians
rosque si lubet,inspicias.
and
complexion;phlegmaticpersons, naturally
temperature
selto
Fioinus, Comm.
(according
melancholy,
cap. 9.) are
taken then they,but once
taken they are never
freed:
domer
of
f
latuous
choly
melanor hypochondriacal
opinion,
thoughmany are
Valescus
of all others,
most subject
to this infirmity.
are
tationem

*"
infamia
in Genes, cap. 3.
Et si in hoc parum
a praeclara
^ Edit. Basil. 1558.
Cum
veritatis.
vincit
amor
tamen
abero,
staltitiaqae
^ Fol. 445. Basil. Edit.
in Ptolomaei quadripartitum.
Commentar.
a

Comment

211

of Love-Melancholtj.

Causes

1.]

2. Subs.

Mem.

for a cause; Bodine abundance

their strongimagination
assigns
of seed, and spirits,
atomi in the seed,
or
of wind; Gordouius
furious
their violent and
which cause
passions.Sanguinethence
folks
most
soon
apt to love,and by their
are
caught,young
good wills,saith Lucian, would have a bout toith eoery one
to all complexions. Theotheysee : the coifs evil is common
acknowledgeth(inthe said
mestus, a young and lustygallant,
^

^you may

verified in

be

author)all this to

the

number

sooner

him;

am

so

sands, and

sea

amoroush)given,
falling
from

snow

the skies,then my severall loves.

Cupid had shot all his ardeluded with various desires ; one love succeeds
at me
: I am
rowes
that
is
that
I
and
ended,
so
one
before
soon,
another,

beginicith

second

she that is last is stillfairest

; and

me
that is present pleaseth
increase ; no lolaiis can
help me.
and sanctuary of love,that

most:

and

never

are

natural

hydrashead,

Mine

are

so

doubt

what

my

Venus

be.

hereditary
passion?

an
imperfection,

fuge
re-

them,

to

fury of

she

loves

moist

eyes
theydraw all beauties

in

am

an

her so to vex
Alas, how have I offended
Telchin
is
What
II
am
my genius? or
Hippolitus

this should
what

satisfied. I

as

Another

me

is it
in

had

in
twenty sweet-hearts
at Thebes, at Lesbos,
Athens at once, fifteen at Corinth,as many
in Caria, twenty
in
thrice
Ionia,
and at Rhodes, twice as many
'

confesseth, that he

Anacreon

thousand

in all:

in

or

word,

"

omnium

Folia arborum
Nosti
Aut
In

are

like

amorum

meorum

logistam?

count

the leaves in

sands i'th'ocean

Then

His eys

si

referre cuncta,

fecero

Can'st
Or

Travra, "c.

computare arenas
aeq\iGreuniversas,

Solum
Te

(pvWx

count

my

sea

May,

loves I pray.

way, and to
thercock,
locks; his heart a wea-

ballance,
apt to probend each

every wenches
which every
his affections tinder,or naphtheitself,
fair object,
sweet
smile,or mistris favour sets on fire. Guiane-

be

weighed down

with

15. cap. 14. refers all this ^ to the hot temperature

of the testicles. Ferandus, a Frenchman, in his ErotiqueMeK
rius tract.

bCitius maris fluctus et nives coelo delabentes numeraris,

alii amores
aliis succedunt, ac
priusquam desinant priores
formam ad se
inhabitat Asylus omnem
incipiunt
sequenies. Adeo humidis oculis mens
^ Num.
32.
rapiens, ut nulla satietate expleatur. Quaemaai haec ira Veneris, "c.
^
Qui calidam testiculorum crisin habent,"c.
*

qiiam

Dial,

amonira.

amores

meos

Love-Melanchohf.

2\'2

(wLWi

came

certain atomi
full of seed. I tinde the
seccrnalnr

lion

same

in Aristot.

ccssnre

semen,

non
ienlif/ines

men,

Hercules

de

vSaxonia

as Guastavinius
hirquitullirc,

needs

Mens
Ut

The
As

proh. IJ.

possunt,

as

the

words

same

in

are
aptest to love that are
fed, free from cares, like

recites

out

of Censorinus.

loctissima rcrura,
quum
luxuriabit humo.
seges in pin"^ui
erit apta

capiturn

is apt to lust,and hot or

luxuriates iu a better mould.

minde
corn

hath

pasture; idle and solitary

persons, they must

rank

4.

translates it,for whicli cause

that be strong set, of able bodies,are so subject

But most
elfcct.
part,I say, such
live at ease, staul
yong and lusty,
cattle in

sect.

his commentator

Guastavinius
these yongit.
to

Sec. 2.

first to my iiaucisafter the third edition)

and
in the seed, surh an me
very .fpermntick

''l)ook

to

si

[Part.3.

cold,

placeit self makes much wherein we live;the clime,air,

In our
if they concur.
and discipline
Misnia,saith Galen,
finde an
to Pergamns, thou shalt scarce
adulterer,but
neer
the
of
that
seat. It was
at Rome, byreasonof thedelights
many
'^Corinth
made
infamous
which
all
of
so
of
old,
things
plenty
of the placeto entertain those forraign
and the opportunity
comin
each
at
from
all
came
mers
gate,
day
strangers
; every
of
thousand
whores did
quarters. In that one temple Venus, a
besides
Strabo
Lais
and the rest
writes;
as
themselves,
prostitute

The

of better note : All nations resorted thither,

to a school of
as
Venus.
Your hot and southern countries are prone to lust,and
far more
incontinent,then those that live in the North; as Bodine discourseth
so

and

at

Turks, Greeks,

are

hist.cap. 5. Molles Asiatici

;
all that latieven
tude:
Italians,
Spaniards,

Method,
large.

and in those tracts, such as are more

fruitful,
plentiful,
in
in
Valence
d
omicilium
as
delitious,
Italy;
Spain,Capua

hixus, Tully

terms

Canopus
Lampsacus.

witness

it; and which

Ilannibals

souldiers

can

^gypt, Sybaris,Phoeacia,Baia, Cyprus,

the fruits of the soyland pleaIn ''Naples
sant
''

in

alter constitutions: insomuch,

airenervatetheirbodies,and
that Plorus calls it Certamen
Bacchi
et Veneris,but '^Folliot

admires it.

In

and Spain,they have

Italy

their stews

in every

^ Printed
liOvid. de art.
after my firstedition.
at Paris 1("^, st-ven
years
allliientiaet loci mira
Oerbeiius
Gratia;.
Keruiri omnium
descrijit.
opportnadvertebant.
iu jwrta.s
Temple Veneris mille iiieretrices
nitaM,nuUo non die liospites
'' Tola
se
Cypri insula deliciisincurabit,et ob id tantuiii
prostitiiebant
luxuriap dedita ut sit oliin\"neri sacrata.
ob
Ortelius,Lampsacus dim Priapo sacer
"^^
et loci delicias
viuum Renerosum,
Idem.
Agri Neapolitan,delectatio,
cousistere
liumanum
videtur; unde, "c.
elegiiutia,
amocnitas, vix intra inodum
'
Leand. Alber. in Campania,
de morbis
Lib. de Laud. nrb. Neap. Di.sputat.
""

animi, Reinotdo Interpret.

2. Subs.

Mem.

1.]

Causes

of

Love-

city,as iu Rome, Venice, Florence, wherein

o-reat

of
Swellninetythousand inhabitants,

213

Melancholy.

which

ten

say,

some

thousand

are

curtizans; and yet for all this,every gentleman almost hath

mon
commistris ; fornications,adulteries are nowhere
so
peculiar
tirhs est

jam

so

among-

nest
live holupanar; how should a man
if vigor of youth,
? now
provocations

tota

many

of sin, which
grandiestake unto themselves in this kinde, shall meet, what a
of vice; with what fury
it needs open to all manner
gap must
will it rage 1- For, as Maximus
Tyriusthe Platonist observes,
materiam
libido consequuta quumfiierit
improbam,etpra;niptam
lust
will not
what
audaciam,
S,-c.
licentiam, et effrenatam
I mean),
greatness (liberty

and

that

impunity

persons? For commonly princesand great

effect in such

but, with

scrupleat all of such matters;

libet licet ; theythink they may
in Spartian,
5"?c5'?"'c?
and rather brag with
they list,professit publikely,
''what famous
(thatwrit to a friend of his in Rome
make

no

he had

done

paucas
cissimas non

not

had

et panconcupierity
pulchriores
quas non
violdrit:
He
saw
conciipierit
very few
quas non
not

*^

meaner

concubines

thousand

he did

desire ; and desired fewer whom

familiar amongst them; 'tismost

Sardanapalus,Messalina, and

comparableto
a

exploits

vidit

notenjoy:nothingso
:

Proculus

cholas
then any way be abashed at it. ^Nikinil)
relates of Henry the 8th, (Iknow not how truly)

maids that he did

business

do what

in that

Sanders

Quod

men

that whore

and

men

of

of their

Naples,are
of old

Solomon

women;

Assuerus

Jone
his

eunuches, and

panders,and bawds; the Turks

keepers; Nero his Tigullinus,
''
Muscovits, Mogors,Xeriffs of Barbary,and Persian sophies,
fitomnium
(saithJovius)
puellarum toto regno forma proostantiorum
nobiles
habent ; They
ille
linquit,
pro imperatore; et quas
are

no

whit inferior to them, in

times.

our

Delectus

do souldiers ; and have

as
mo
up wenches
press and muster
their choice of the rarest beauties their countries can afford;
my,
sodoand yet all this cannot
incest,
keep them from adultery,
may conclude,
that if theybe yong, fortunate,
rich,high fed,and idle withall,
it is almost
impossiblethey should live honest; not rage,
themselvesinto those inconveniences of burning
and precipitate
lusts.
buggery, and such prodigious

We

lust.
^

Otium

et reges

priuset

beatas

Perdidit urbes.

'

i*\
Lampridius. Quod decern noctibus centiiiu virgiuesfecisaet nmlicics.
virtutis
ainore
not
c If they coutain themselves,
it
is
times,
pjua.
many
a

deest voluntas sed tacultas.

Lcsbiiun.
non

In Muscov.

''

ita
;

Catullus ad

Love-Melancholif.

214

overtbrows

Idleness

in
tyrannizcth

all,Vacuo

idle person.

an

[Part.3.

pectore reqnat

Amore

abundas

Sec. 2.

amor,

love

Antipho.

If

liiouhast nothingto do,

"I

Invidiu vel

Tlioushaltbe
other.

haled

in

passionor
envy, lust,some
male
di.sciiut
af/endo
; 'Tis Ariaf/err

match

stotles simile, ^ as
idle person love.

torquebere

pieceswith

mhil

Hombies

miser

amorc

or

takes

touchwood

V.oth an

JirCyso

Queeritur iEgistus
quarc sit factus adulter,"c.

why

need

You

stole Baccho, a Moman

Cephalus:No marvel, saith

did

Aurora

whoremaster

ask

not

a reason

forced

Ismenedora

of it.
as

yEojstus

was

man,

Luxu''Plutarch,

nate
She Mas
mulier ar/it
hominum
:
rich,fortuopibusmore
do in that case, as Jupiter
and jolly
; and doth but as men
The poets therefore
did by Europa,Neptune byAmymome.
"lid well to feig-n
themselves
all shepheardslovers, to g-ive
and dalliances,
because
to song^s
they lived such idle lives.
defines
For love, as "'Theophrastus
it,is otiosi animi affectus,

rians

idle minde; or
luxu
mitritur,
fjufnitur,

atfection of

an

vcntd
IcBta

bona
foriuncc

nourisheth
cap.

an

it,"c,

describes

'Seneca

as

it,Ju-

feriisalitur, otioqneinter
youth begetsit,riot maintains it,idleness

which

makes

^20. part. 2. call this

the

Gordonius

disease,the

physician,
bility.
passionof noproper
a strongapprehension

Now, if a weak judg-ementand

how, saith Hercules de Saxonia,shall they resist?

do concur,
Savanarola

appropriatesit almost to ^ monks, friers,and

and
fare daintily,
reFujious
persons, because theylive solitary,
for
should
and
he
how
otherwise
do nothhty
well
:
they
may;
choose

Diet
man

alone

or

woman,
not

soever,

MJth

is able

wanton

to

young- women;

cunque

rare

'

to
thing-

see

fares well, of what

Alcibiades

was

dition
con-

eft'ecate
deli-

banquets. Ubidomilust and security

excessive

dominatur

yong

stilldallying-

in his expences,
in love,but why? he was
over
immoderate

ever
apparel,
and
too
diet;
frequent

ibi libido
sccurilus,

and
idly,

(o be in love.

miiiate in his
in his

it:

cause

that lives

in

ad illosqiii
28.
Ut naphthead ignem, sic amor
forpesPolit. 8. nnm.
ab Aurora
formae .juvenis
Paosanias Attic, lib. 1. Cpphaliisegregiae
"^ In amatorio.
efi Stobaeo ser. 62.
raptus,quod ejus amore
capta esset.
f Amor
ob licentiam et af""'Principesplenimqiip
otiosa- ciira est sollicitudinis.
h Ardenter
fluentiam divitiarum istam passionem sclent incarrere.
qui
appetit
otiosam
vitam agit,et communiter
iiicnrrit
base passio solitariosdcliciose viventen,in' Plutarch. vi(. ejus.
rontiiientcs,
"cc.
religiosos,
="

Hor.

ciint otio.

216

Love-Melanchohj,
"""

tot in Veneta

Unde
In

Et liincfoeta mater
sa/(i.ra sale

Salacca Occani

Mala
cffluxit.

vt coronce
piyrralurrtoit,

Ciibebis in

''

cxcitandam,

et

ex

'^

surax

sunt

cur

orta

Sec. 2

.'

mari.

conjux,verhimqueforUuise

Bacchica

maceratis

inno

millia

scortorum

est, est Venus

proniptu causa

3.
[Part.

otim in amorihus

tantum

illis statme
Bacchi
ponermtur.
Indi orientalcs ad Venerem
utnntnr

radice

Chinee

Africani.

radix

eosdem

herbcp mennnit,mag. nat. lib. 2. cap. 16.

effectushabet,
talisque
BaptistaPorta ex India allata\ cujus mentiotiem J'acitet
Im similia aptid
Rhasin,MatthioTheophrastus.Sed injinita
*'

lam, Mizaldujn, cccterosqnemedicos

occnrrnnt,

quorum,

ideo

in has scopnlosimpinyat,
mentioncm
feci,T*e qnisiniperitior
virilitanquam syrtes et caiTtes consulto effugxat.

sed pro

SUBSECT.

Other

II.

of Love- Melancholy. Siyht,Beauty from

facByeys, other parts ; and hoio it pierceth.

Causes

JtI-ANY such

may

causes

be reckoned

up,

but

the

ihey cannot

be offered of time,place,
and those
avail,except opportunity
artificialenticement;as kissing,
or
other beautiful objects,
ference,
con-

discourse,gestures

provocations.Koriunannus
five degreesof lust,out of
in five chapters,

concur,

Mith

in his book

^Lucian

such

like lascivious

de lined amoris

belike,which

makes

he handles

Visus, Colloquium,Convictus,Oscula, Tactus.

all other is the first step of this
sometimes it be prevented
by relation or

Sightof

unrulylove

though

rather inhearin"-,
or
censed.

For (iierebe those soapt, credulous and facile to love,

or
that if theyhear of a proper man,
"voman,
theyare in love
Achilles
them, and that merelyby relation,
before they see
as
Tatius observes. ' Such
maimed
much
as
are
listhenes a rich youny

is their

intemperanceand lust,that they

Caby report, as if they saw them.

ycntlemanof Byzance in Thrace,hearing

""Garcias ab horlo aromatum, lib.1. cap. 28.

a KornmBnniis
lib. de virginitate.
cSurax radix ad roitum suinme
facit;si qniscomedat, aut infasiouem bibat,menibrum
'i Qua- non
solum edentibus sed et
subito erigitur.I.1P0 Afer, lib. 9. cap. ult.
coire
desiderent
nt
fere velint,possnmme
t
anUim
viilet,
tatiRentibns
; (juoties
genitale
alios ad 60 vices perveiiis.se
"^ Lucian.
refert
sint ; alios duodccies profeci.sse,
libido est ut etiam
'Ea eniui hoiuinum inteuiperantium
I'oni.4. Dial. amurniD.
afliciuuturac ndentea.
famck ad amandum
et audicntes aque
impellanturj

2. Subs.

Mem.

2.]

Causes

of Love- Melancholy.
far

was
o/"*Leucippe,Sostratus fair daughter,
and
common
her ; and out offame
rumour,

needs

that he would

himself,/

hut lam

as

never

much

her to he his tvife. And

affected, as he in ^ Lucian

incensed,
sometimes

confesseth

place ofPantheain Xenophon,

as
ifI were present with her. ^Such
affected,
that

read

commonly

persons

so

in love with

much

have

by readingthey are
of

so

217

fain

kind of

beauty to

themselves

and

fall in
gentlewomen,in Balthasar Castilio,
but
whom
love with a young
onlyheard
theynever knew,
man,
for there is a grace
of a letter;
him commended
: or by reading
informeth
commeth
from hearing, as a moral philosopher
us,
received
love
into
the
and
are
o
f
species
as well as from sight
;
alone: ^ut cupereahaspectu,sicvelle
relation
thephantasie
by

did those three

so

"

auditu, both

ah

senses

affect.

Interdum

et

absentes

amamus,

love those that are absent, saith Philostratus,

we
and givesinstance in his friend Athenodorus, that lov'd a maid
oculi sed mens
whom
he never
videt.We
saw
at Corinth
; non

sometimes

the eyes of our

understanding.
of love,is that which
familiar and usual cause
the most
which conveys those admirable rayes of beauty
sight,

with

see

But

by
pleasinggraces to
sight,
i^i quasiofa"r"t.

comes

and

the heart.

Si nescis. oculi sunt

Plotinus

in

amore

derives

love from

duces,

harbingersof love, and the firststep of love is

13,
as LiliusGiraldus
sight,*'
proves at large,hist. Deor.syntag.

the eys

are

the

they,as twosluces, let in the influences ofthat divine,powerful,

and captivating
w
beauty ; which, as ^one saith,
soul-ravishing,
into
wounds
the
heart
needle,
dart
or
deeper
;
sharperthen any
and opens a gap through our eys to that lovelytcound,which
dled
18). Through it love is kin(Eccles.
pierceththe soul itself
able
amilike afre. This amazjng,confounding,
admirable,
whichinall
treasure
^then
7iatures
(snithlsocvates)
beauty,
'and sacred, nothingso divine,
there is nothingso majestical
gold and glory; honumsi
crown,
lovely,
pretious; 'tis natures
de summis tamen
non
triumphant.
infrequenter
non
summum,

cupit,et solA illius aaditione ardet.

Sostrati filiaraaudiens, uxorem
ita animo affectus ac
si coram
inlocum
Panthed
perlego,
Xenophontis
bQuotiesde
d De
c Pulchritudinem
sibi ipsisconfingunt,
aulico,
imagines.
tiierer.
e Gratia
venit
lib.2. fol. 116. 'tis a pleasantstory,and related at largeby him.
relatione. Picoab auditu aeque ao visa,et speciesamoris inphantasiam recipiuntsolfl
29, Beauties Encomions.
lomineus grad.8. c 38.
'Lip. cent. 22. epist.
"" Amoris
visus
ut aspiciat
amatam.
rem
habet,
primum gradum
sPropert.
' Achilles
Tatius,lib. 1. Forma telo quovisacutior ad inferendum vuIdus, perque ocu'' In tota
rerum
los amatorio vulneri aditum patefaciensin animum
penetrat.
hinc
vires
facile
innatuva
nihilpretiosius,
nihil form'i diviaius,
nihil augustius,
ciyus
aForraosam

Sec.
telliguntiir,

Love-Melancholy.

218

[Part.3.

Sec. 2.

and abl)or
contemn
power hence may be discerned; we
foul and uglyto behold, accompt
as
are
oencrallysuch things,

whose
thoni

but love and covet

that which is fair. *Tis beauty
filthy,
which
and
allureth us;
a fair hawk,
a
things,
pleaseth
fair
That
sian
Per"c.
a
house,
garment, a goodly building,
he destroyedall those templesof the gods
Xerxes when

in all

fine

Greece, caused

in

that of Diana, hi inter/

rum
servari, to be
for that excellent beauty and magnificence
of it.

alone
spared,
Inanimate

beauty can so command.

artificers,
orators, all aym at ; as

in Plato contends, ^it

icas

'Tis tliatwhich
Eriximachus

the

painters,
physician

that ministered
beautr/first,

sion
occa-

the

findout
knoivledr/e
of carving,painting,
and
models,
richjurnitnres,
perspectives,
building
; tofindont
to art,

so

munrj

to

inventions.

rare

in the

Whiteness

red
lilly,

in the

the
without life,
rose, purplein the violet,a lustie in all things
of the sun, splendor
cleer lightof the moon,
the brightbeams
of gold,purple,
sparklingdiamond, the excellent feature of
the horse, the majestyof the lion,the colour of birds,peacocks
tails,the silver scales offish,we behold with singular
delight
and

admiration.

""

And

which

in
plants,delightful
in men, doth
glorious

is rich in

flowers^wonderful in beasts, but

7nost

hear any
desire it ; as when
we
earnestly
excellent
sweet
quality,
harmony, an eloquenttongue, see any
of man,
curious work
elaborate art, or ought that is exquisite,
We love
there ariseth instantly
in us a longingfor the same.
make

us

such

men,

affect and

but most

part for comeliness

gods

and

of person;
happy,"c.

call

we

And

of
divine,serene,
goddesses,
all mortal men
they alone ("*
Calcagninusholds)are free from
divkiis,magistratuet gloria
calumny; (jui
for ent, injurialacessimus ; we back-bite,Mrong, hate, renowned, rich and happy
we
men
they are luideservingrepineat their felicity,
; we
them.
We
fortune
is
a
to
a
to
think;
step-mother us, parent
(saith
wise.Just,honest men ; except with mu'
Isocrates)
envg
iual offices
and kindnesses,
some
good turn or other,thegextort
dethis love from us; onlyfair persons we
love at first
sight,
sire their acfjuaintance,
and adore them as so many
gods ; we

them

*"

had

rnther

selves the

serve

them

then command

others ; and account

our
service
the more
theyen-

beholdingto them,
joyn us : thoughthey be otherwise vitious,unhonest, we
them, favour them, and are ready to do them any good
more

love
office

b S. L.
" Christ
FoDseca.
cBruys prob.11. de forma e Luciano.
Lib. de calnmnia.
Fonnosi
calumnia vacant ; dolrnius alios meliore loco positos,
nisibeneficijs
fortunam nobis novercam,
elnvidemus
"c.
sapientibiis,
justis,
iliis,
assidneamorem
et primoveIiitaspecttibene%oIer.tia
extorquent: .solos formosos anianius
ramus,
et eos
conjnngiiniir,
tauquam Deos colimus,libentius iitservimusqnaninliisitnjH
"*

"c.
luajoremque,.

2. Subs.

Mem.

for their

Die

beside.

out

in

other

no

oformoseadolescens
igitur.,

breaks

219

of Love-Melancholy.

Causes

sake, though they have

beauties

Phavorinus
nectar

2.]

good quality
eloquent

(asthat

''Stobeus)die,^ntiloque,suavius

loqueris
; die, 6 Telemache,

vehemeutius

Ulyssedicis ;

ebrius^libentius tibi licet ebrio

die,Alcibiades,iitcunqne

aus-

thywords
cultabimus.
youth,speak,Antiloquus,
thou
art more
then nectar; speak,O Telemachus,
sweeter
are
Alcibiades,
though drunk, we
powerfulthen Ulysses;speak,
in such are no
Faults
thou
art
thee
hear
as
will willingly
stoln
Anytushisgold
faults : For when the said Alcibiades had
foul a fact
from
so
far
he was
so
prosecuting
and silver plate,
(thoughevery man else condemned his impudence,and insoand much
better (be
that be wished it had been more,
lency)'
worth
No
is
sake.
eminent
for his sweet
him dearly)
loved
enim
non
all
hid;
facile
in such lovelypersons,
imperfections
suspicamur,for
turpitudinem
de his quos plurimum diliginms,
are
touch, "c. our mind and all our senses
tivated,
caphearing,sight,
have
been
delectat.
men
Many
omnes
sensnsforviosus
the
as amongst
for their person alone; chosen kings,
preferred
the properest man
of old
of
Indians, Persians, ^Ethiopians
their
elected
-could afford, was
soveraign
person the country
and
have
veniens
virtus,
so
e
lord ; gratior
est pulchro
corpore
Curtius observes ;
other nations thoughtand done, as
many
veneratio
est, for there is a
maj estate
inqens enini in corporis
and so far was
beautyadored
majestical
presence in such men
was
thoughtfit to reign,that was
amongst them, that no man
not in all parts com
pleatand supereminent.Agis king of
had like to have been deposed,because he married
Lacedsemon
their
issue
have
would
not
littlewife
royal
nerate.
degea
; they
have
would
Who
thought that Adrian the
ever
bastard (as Papirius
Massovius
fourth, an English monks
a
writes in his life)
inopsa suis relictus,squalidusetmisei;
poor
Rome?
But why
forsaken child,shouldevercometobepopeof
corpore,
it ?
Erat acri ingenio,
eleganti
facundiaexpeditd,
was
it
of
he
follows
Nubriout
faciequeIcetd ac hilari,as
he was
wise,learned,
gensis; (forhe ploughswith his heifer,)
a goodly
a promisingcountenance,
eloquent,of a pleasant,
of
look
his own,
; he had, in a word, a winning
proper man
So
advanced.
and that carryedit; for that he was
especially
Speak, fair

*=

Saul

teas

goodlyperson

perour, "c.

and

Branchus, the

fair. Maxirainus
son

of Apollo,whom

elected
he

era-

begot

alii majores quam

quos eximia fonna
aForniEe majestateniBarbari verentur, nee
bSerm. 63. Plutarch,
Herod, lib.5. Curtius 6. Arist. Polit.
alios capaces
^Lib. 5. Magnoruraque operuiii non
vit. ejus. Brisonins Strabo.
"^ Lib. de vitisPontilicum fioin.
donavit.
natura
cxiinia
specie
putant quam quos
natiira donata est

''Lib. 2. cap. 6.

Love-Melancholy.

220

[Part.$.

Sec. 2.

when he kept
daughter(saJthLactanthis)
hcards
in
Adincfus
now
a man,
an
kinsTwas
Thes.saly,
grown
his fatlier;
suitor to his mother
tlie nympli
to know
earnest
denyed him, l)ecause Apollohad conjuredher to the contrary ;

of Janco, Surcrons

yet overcome
father; when

his

he

came

importunityat hist,she
into Apollospresence,

osculat7is ; lie carried himself

enter

by

so

sent

him

to

7Wrt/".v
Dei

well, and

was

liis

reveso

fair

that Apollowas
taken with the beauty
infinitely
yong man,
he
could
look
off
him
his
of
scarce
; and said,he was
person,
of gold,the spirit
worthy of such parents, gave him a crown
in conclusion, made
him
of divination, and
a
demi-god.
a

a
goddess beauty is,v.'hom the verysuperbaforvice^
gods adore, nam pulchrosDii amant ; she is amoris domimi,
loves loadstone,
loves harbinger,
awitch,acharm, "c. Beauty
of itself,
a sufficient
is a dowre
dation,
an
ample commenpatrimony,
accurate
as
an
^Lucian, Apuleius,
Tiraquellus,
epistle,
^others conclude.
and some
Imperio digna Jorma, beauty
2. cap. 110.
deserves a kingdome, saith Abulensis, /"r/r"(/o.c.
honour
and
have got this
and eternity
more
for
immortality;

O vis

'

beauty,then J'orall

their

worthy
Ganymedes was
dear
lIepha?stion
**

fair,

are

vertucs

besides:

and

such

as

be honoured

to

are

other

therefore

Idalian

That
of fjodand men.
fetchedby Jupiter
into heaven;

Alexander; Antinous

to

to

Adrian.

of nature, natnrce
beauty for that cause, a privilege
comment
f/avdentisopus, natures
master-piece,a dumb
calls

Plato

'

Carneades, that
a silent fraud ; still rhetorick
Theophrastus,
without
\vithout
cause
a guard, bespeech,a kingdome
perswades
beautiful persons command
crates,
as
so
captains
; Somany
a

tyranny, which

tyrannizethover

tyrants themselves

which. made
Diogenes,belike, call proper women
homines (pim prwciperetit,
because
men
quodj'acerent
obedient

to their

and

bow
noble

commands.
to

They

will

wench

common

queans,
were

so

adore, cringe,complement

(ifshe

be

fair)as

if

or a goddess.
countess, a queen
of
erected
at Delphos,
Greece,
intemperate
yong
with
infinite
the
eternal
to
cost,
golden image
memory

she

were

of

men

Phryne

most

the

beautiful

Appellesand
yong

woman,

Those

men

iElian

curtizan, as
in

woman,

so

Praxiteles drew

will adore

and

"Dial. amoram,
c. 2. demagift.
abunde est dotata.

relates ; for she Mas

a
"
saith
that
much,
Atheneseus,
Venus' picturefrom her.
Thus

honour

beauty ;

nay

kings them-

etsi opLib. 2. ronnub.

Virgo forraosa,
cap.27.
"PJiires"ib forniam immortalitatiin
blgocrates.
J Lucian.
virfutes.
Cliaridiemon.
aimt qiiatiiob relitpiaH
tom. 4.
omiies
adt'pti
' Mu(u
1)(os
rito ni)ii(l
it iipudhomines honore alF*rti.
nit
coninientatio,
Qui piilchri,
ad comiiundandum
'Lib. It. Var. hist. Tuuta former
tflicacior.
"(ii;i%is
. pi.sti"l;i
"e.
tlcgantiuut ab rfl uudi'i,

jiido
pauper,

Mem.

2. Subs.

Cause.

Beauty a

2.]

221

submit their soveraignty

selves I say will do it ; and voluntarily
is stronc/; kincfs
Wine
to a lovely
woman.
are
strong ; hut
a

strongest, 1 Esd. 4.10.

women

king

to

command

and

sea

make

women

princesand

Darius, his

as

kingspay

got gold

they have
woman;
beautiful

give

her, and all

proved at large
Kingssit stilland
tribute to the king; hut

all pay
trihute,and have

land^^c.

When

Zerobabel

noblemen.

dominion

themselves
desire her

wholly

to

them.

over

silver, they suhmit

and

all to

her, gape

then

and

silver,
gold
leave
will
and
mother,
thing
they
father
;
pretious
any
their livesJor her ; labour and travel to get, and
and venture
their
steal,
fightand spoilj'or
bring all their gainsto women;
And no king so strong, but a fair woman
mistress sakes.
is
All
he
then
he
is.
things(as
proceeds)fear to
stronger
him and Apame his concubine,the
touch the king ; yet I saw
the righthand of
on
daughterof the famous Bartacus, sitting
the king,and she took the crown
offhis head, and put it on her
with
her
him
and
stroke
lefthand ; yet the king gaped
own,
and gazed on her, and when she laughedhe laughed,
and when
So beauty
she was
to be reconciled to her.
angry, he faltered
themselves
whole
commands
armies
and
even
kings
; nay
with
their
Forma
together
kings:
kingdomes are captivated,
vincit armatos^ ferrum pulchritudo
vincentur specie,
captivat;
qui non vincentur pralio.And 'tisa great matter, saith Xenophon, and of which all fair persons may worthilybrag,
labour for his living
that a strong man
must
if he will have
for it,
ought; a valiant man must fightand endangerhimself
and
sheic
but
wise
toil;
a
a fair and
man
speak,
himself
with
he
doth
all
ease
compassethhis desire
;
beautiful
peison
and men,
heaven and earth
without any painstaking:God
honour
him above other,
him; every one
pitties
conspireto
if he be in need, '^and all the world is willing
to do him good.
gaze

on

men

more

or

or

"

*=

fell into the hands

^Chariclea

put

were

for her

to the

edge of
^

of

pyrats,but when

sword, she alone

the

When

was

Constantinoplewas
far from beingmade a
was
so
the grand Senior himself.
even
captivated
insult over
king Henry the second:

person.

did Rosamond

'6'

Whom

preserved
by the

sacked

Turks, Irene escaped,and

that she

all the rest

was

so

fair

fortune made

an

my

object,
king,my

love made

captive,
So

subject;

^
In \\nia
tyrannos tyrannidem
Origen horn. 23. in Numb.
i]l"(jcprte raagnnm
ob quod gloriaripossunt formosi, quod robustis ne^
cessariura sit laborare,fortem pericuiis
Majorem
se
objicere,sapientem,"c.
vim habet ad comraendandura
Arist.
eHeforma, quam
accurate ecriptaepistola.
f Knowles, hist.Turcica.
of Rosamond.
liodor.lib. I.
g Daniel in complaint
^

Esdras, 4.

exercet.

29.
^

Lovf-Melanchohf.

222

it had power

That

It

of beauty,
by proofthe priviledge

found

He

countermand

to

all

ob banc

those

And

viali

stand

in

of

awe

it,as ^\ have

already

vcrentnr,et ad aspectum pnlchrum

lib. 5)
The
rians
Barba(Ileliodor.

mansuescit.

animus

with

taken

Barhari

proved,Formosam
immanis

bos, equus, imber, olor.

formam

genii are

numina.

ipseDcoruiii

Deus

"

"

duty.

Morosiora

"lie very gods themselves,

captivates

Factus

Sec. 2.

[Part.3.

and

fair woman,

at

beautiful

aspect,

is pacified. For when

as
a fierce spirit
Troy was taken, and
Alexandriniis
ended (as Clemens
ripides)
the wars
quotes out of Eu'

Menelaus

angry
his sword

with

hands,

as

drawn,

being

to

the sole

with

rage

have

killed

and

fury armed,

Helena

of all those

cause

with

came

his

own

and miseries

wars

amazed
fair face, as one
at the divine
and embraced
her besides; he
fall,
beauty,he let his weapon
he

when

but

her

saw

Ercjolu'.hetantnr
the edge of a sharpsword
eiises
(as the saying
pulchriiudlne,
come.
is)is dulled with a beautiful aspect,and severityit self is overhad

to

power

no

strike

for her

at Athens

creature.

orator, Avhen

the
Iliperides
sused

sweet

so

Phryne

lewdness, used

no

his client

was

other defence

ac-

in her

but tearingher upper

garment, disclosed her naked
of her body and
comeliness
breast to the judges; with which
moved
that they
aud
amiable gesture, theywere
so
astonished,
cause,

O noble pieceof
let her go.
exclaims,and who is he that would not

her forthwith, and

acrjuit

did

author

! mine
justice

rather lose his

againstthe
fair persons,
ban

so

was

pseus

wars,

then givesentence
robes,forfeit liisoffice,
have
Such
of
?
prerogatives
majesty beauty

seat

and

theyalone are free from danger. Parthenolovelyand fair,that when he foughtin the The-

and

if his face

had

been

would

offer to strike at or
beauty. Beasts themselves

chance

by

hurt him
are

moved

bare,

no

immunities

such

with it.

enemy
hath

Sinalda

was

that when

*"

excellent feature, and a queen,

trodden
be
on
to
was
by wild horses for punishment,the
wild beasts stood in admiration
of her person^ (Saxo GrammaWherefore
ticus lib. 8. Dan. Hist.)and tcoiild not Imrt her.
did that royal virginin Apuleius,when
she fled from the
of such

woman

she

"

theeves
asse

"

on

den,
whom

in

she rode ?

Stioza filiusEjjig.

such

desart, make

(forwhat

'-Sect. 2. Men-.b

knew

1. Sub. 1.

an

apostropheto
she

"^

to

the

Stromatiim

her

contrary
1. Postcap-

Trojam cum
impetiiferrefur ail occidendani llelenain,stupore adeo pulihritudinis
'' Tantaforitirefuit,ut cum
" incta loris,
"c,
corrpptus, ut ferrum excideretj

tam

fuit; la;dere
feris expositaforet,
juinentisadmirationi
calcibusobterenda,
ipsis
equoram
" Lib, 8. miles.
noluerunt.

Love-

224
as

with
playing

sJjc w.-Ms

Melancholy.

3.
[Part.

other wenches

-and hecjat
Ilissiis,

at

That
Zetes and Galais his two sons, of her.
with (his our
is all out
enamoured
are
l)oauty,
of the air and

winds;

for when

with

Neptune

Leander

his trident

and

seas

waters

as
likely

as

swininied

did

Sec. 2.

(hat

in the Hellespont,
the waves,

heat down

but
stillmoiinted

They

fellin

And

to have kiss'd him.

up, intending
like
because
drops,
tears,
theymist him.

The

''river Alphcuswas

tale

herself;

in love with

siccata

manu
viridesque
Fluminis Alpheiveteres
.

"

Pars

When

Oscula

she

tel.sthe

capillos,

recitavitamorcs

"c.
Nyrapharura,

ego

and Isis meet,

Tame

our

Arethusa,as

mille sonant,

brachia

connexu

coUa

connectunt
Mutuaque explicitis

Pineus, and how

palicnt,
lacertis.

rivers can I reckon

lovingwhom
beauty hath enthral'd I I say nothingall (his while
up,
in this kind;
Idolatry
of idols themselves,that have committed
that have been rapt in love (ifyou will believe
of looking--glasses,

Inachus and

'

many

their ladies and

when
poets)

mistresses

looked

on

to

dress them.
Et si

habeo

non

Exhibet,

sensum,

tua

gratiasensum

et calidi sentio amoris

onus.

lumina, flamma
quotiesspectantia
mihi.
Succendunt inopisaucia membra

Dirigishue
Though

no

sense

at all of

have.
feeling

looks do animate and save

Yet your sweet
;
do
this
when
And
way turn.
your speakingeys
live and burn.
members
thinks my wounded
Me

that was
fired
I could tell you such another story of a spindle,
not
some
say, I know
by a fair ladies i looks, or fingers,
by report ; and of a cold bath
well whether ; but fired it was
Coelia
that suddenlysmoaked, and was
very hot when naked
came

into it.
Miraniur

quissit tantus

et unde

vapor, "c.

memorable

of all the tales in this kind, that is the most

Death himself,Avhen he should have stroken

But
^

hLeland.
Ovid. Met lib. 5.
aspiciensLkc urit luiuine Divos Atque homines
"^ Idem
An'gfr.
anus.
^

prope,

urere

yong

J Si long*
Una neqmt? Angeri-

cAngtrianus.
cur

sweet

of

Mt;m. 2. Subs.

virginwith

Cause,

Beauty a

2.j

225

his;dart, he fell in love with the

such could

relate,which

be

object. Many

believed

with a poetical
dead
faith. So duin and
dote : but men
creatures
are
the
at
first
of
times
mad, stupefied
sight beauty,amazed,
many
that fisherman in Aristaenetus,that spieda maid
^as
bathingmore

herself" by the

sunt

membra

omnia

sensusqiie omnis periit

invasit mihi.
iinniensus stupor animum

capitead calcem,

De

And

to

side,

sea

''SoUitamihi

are

as

pectore,tarn
=

in his

Lucian

confesseth
imag-es,

of

at his mistriss presence, void of all sense,

was
was
he had seen
no
a Gorgonshead : which
it, lib. 3. cap.
(as '^Coelius interprets

wretches
looks to

mad,

run

^They wait
And

sHeliodorus
when

he

saw

whom

cruel

""

Miseri

or

make

the

at

away

the sentence
she favours

ster,
mon-

9.) hut

the verij
without doubt

some

compelled

are

such

fair creature, as
in the firstfiction of it,at which

of beauty;
(juintessence
the poet understood
amazed.
were

himself,that he
immoveable, as if

the spectators

quibusintent ata nitex,poor

very sightof her ravishingthemselves.

of her scornful eys ;

other dyes.

the
lives,

lib. 1. bringsin Thyamis almost besides himself

Chariclea first;and not daringto look upon her

for any man

time,ybrhe thowjhtit impossible
livinr/
will
fame
of
to see her and contain himself. The
beauty
very
miles
attractive
it
fetch them to
this
off,(suchan
many
power
but
will
and
will
loadstone
short;
seem
dertake
unthey
they
hath)
Penia
Atatoil
or
or
trouble,
longjourneys.
any
lanta shall not overgo them, throughseas, desarts,mountains,
and dangerousplaces,
as
they did to gaze on Psyche ; many
mortal men
came
far and neer to see that glorious
objectof
Corebus
Helena
for
to Troja;
her age; Paris
;
a

second

iUis
Venerat

Trojam quiforte

insano

Cassandrse

diebus
incensus

amore.

in England,came
to visit
prisoner
the seas; but the truth is,his
his old friends again,crossing
the non-pareil
comming was to see the countess of Salisbury,

King John

of

France, once

*
"c. ep. 7.
Obstupuitmirabundas membrornm
elegantiam,
b Stobaens e Graeco.
cParura abfuit quo minus saxum
horaine factus sum,
ipsisstatuis immobiliorein me
ex
'^ Veteres
fecit.
Gorgonis fabulam confinxf rimt,eximiiim format decas
reddens.
'Marlows
Hero.
efior. Ode5.
eAspectum
stupidos
asjiicere
existinians ut simul earn
qiiis
virginis
sponte fugitinsanus fere,et impossihile
''Apuleius 1, 4.
Multi inortales
et intra teraperantiae
metas se continere.
possit,
8tc.
longisitineribus,

VOL.

II.

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[Fart.3.

Sec. 2.

Tliat infernal god Plutus

of tliose times,and his dear mistriss.
Achilles leftall his
from hell it self,to steal Proserpina;
came
friends for i^olixenus

sake, his

daughter; and all the

for that fair
''Grsecian gods forsook their heavenlymansions
the
Philo
Dioneus
of
Greece
in
daughterssake,
lady,
paragon
certatim omnes
Dii
those days; ed enim vcnustatej'uit,
ut earn
conjugemexpeterent,
^

Formosa

Divis

enemies

imperatpuella.

to see, but, as a faulkoncr makes

They will not only come
hungry hawke hover about ; follow, give attendance and
spend goods,lives,and all their fortunes to attain ;

beauty under twenty locks keptfast,

love breaks through,and picksthem all at

Were
Yet

When

fair''Hero

her

spectatorswere
^

stdl attendant

supereminet
omnes,
numinis
venientem
aspiciunt

far above

And
'^

the fame

of

renerat,

nemo

Aretines
her

in

hovered

about

Phryne
5

Ad

th' inchanted

Lucretia

ad

videndam

(astheysay) thick
her gates, as
of Thebes.

earn,

and

mind.

first to

came

instar.

shin'd,
gazers

beauty,ad iirhanarum

non

theycame
and

the rest fair Hero

stole away

Peter

When

her.

on

inter vultus

Perque urbem
^So

last.

abroad, the eys, hearts,and aftections of

came

Et medios

an
vice,
ser-

"rc. was

and

Rome,

deliciarum

sectatores

spread abroad,

threefoldto

see

theydid of old to Lais of

cujusjacuitGraecia

tota

that

her, and
Corinth,

fores.

icith (/allant
and
Every man
sovghtto fjet her love ; some
irifh an affected
icith m?isome
eostlji
apparel; some
pace;

^^

sUpie; others with

Jbllowers; others
that

rich

f/ij'ts,
pleasantdiscourse,multitude oj'
icith letters,vous
and promises,
to
mend
comthemselves,and to be g rat ions in her eifs. Happy was
he
could see her ; thrice happy,that enjoyedher company.

Charmides

'

in

Plato, was

of person, and all

proper

young'

man,

in comeliriess

others; wheiigood qualities^

Jar exceeding

l"Jo. Secnndiis basioriim lib.

aNic. Oerhel. I. 5. Achaia.
""Musaeus.
Ilia
bene morata, per a-dem qnocnnqoe
habebat,et
vagabatiir,
seqnentem mentrm
" Marlow.
"'Homer.
fPoniodidascalo
oculofl,et corda viroram.
dial. Ital.Latin, donat. a Oasp. Barthio CJermano.
ePropertiiis. ''Vestinm
"c. ifratianj
donia, rant'lenis,
splendore et elegantia,ambitione incessiis,
adipisci,
i Prse cseteriscorporis
et egregia indole niirandiis apparebaf, Cipteri aiitem
procerifate

antetn

captiej".sainore

idebantur,"c.

Mem.

2. Subs.

soever

fair Charmides

Beauty

2.]

abroad,

came

227

Cause.

theyseemed all to be in
atid were
their carriage)

(as Critias describes

of him ; many
very sir/ht

love with him

the
cameneer
him, many
he
those
him
wheresoever
as
went,
^formarum specfollowed
abroad : the
did Acontius, if at any time he walked
tatores
and
the Mitilean
Athenian
lasses stared on Alcibiades; Sappho
troubled

women

at

do
lovelysights

Such

the fair.

Phaon

on

not

onely

Cleonimus, a delicate
entise,but ravish and amaze.
please,
Androcles
his uncle
which
feast
and tender youth,present at a
made

illPiraeo

he sacrificed to

Athens, when

at

Mercury,

so

Agasthenes,and the
Dineas,Aristippus,

the guests,
stupified
rest,

they sate

their meat;

eat

in ''Lucian relates

(as Charidemus

looks, and
him, stealing

not

gazing,glancingat
demn
admiringhisbeauty. Many will conall supper

time

enamoured, for fools ; but some

for it; many
rejectParis judgement,

that

these men,
again commend

it)that theycould

are

them

so

of it,admiringParis for his choice ;

he would have done as much
himself, and by good desert, in
tcealth or wisdom.
his minde, beautyis to be preferred
before
holds it not such
7.
lib.
13. cap.
^Athenseus
Deipnosophist
for the Trojansand Greeks to contend ten years, to
indignity
lives for Helens
spend so much labour, loose so many mens

and

yet Lucian

approves

''

sake ;

'

for

so

Ob

fair

talem

ladies sake

cui

uxorem

Nil mortale

forma
pra?stantissima

refert.

kingdom; a hundred thousand

be
itself. Well might Sterpsichores
other women;
a world
and
blind for carpingat so fair a creature
a just
;
punishmentit
the
old
of
of Troy,
Homer
The
men
same
was.
gives
testimony
that were
spectatorsof that singlecombate betwixt Paris and

That

worth

was

woman

one

'

Meuelaus

at

the Seian

they said all, the

"

gate
was

war

for her sake.

The

stood in presence,
taken
worthilyprolongedand under-

; when

very

Helena

gods themselves

(asHomer

and

for Helena,
^Isocrates record)fought more
they did
Venuslosther
the gyants. When
son
Cupid,she made
against
of
proclamation
by Mercury, that he that could bring tidings
and
noble
have
kisses
reward, some
seven
him, should
; a
say,
then

'

much

better then

so

many

goldentalents

seven

such

kisses

et ad formain ejus
4. dial, meretr. Respicientes
b Tom.
et
raerito
pra;fertur
In
Charidemo.
pulchritudo
obstupescentes.
Sapientia;
nihil estTroas fortes et Achivos tempore tara longo
"^IndignuDi
opibus.
e
labores.
esse
Digna quidem facies pro qua vel obiret Achilles,vel
perpessos
f Cajcus
belli causa
frriamus,
qui Helente formam
probanda Aiit. Proper,lib.2.
when they
Mahomet,
at
murmured
Those
that
mutinous
Turks
S
carpserat.
^ In laudeni Helense
orat.
Irene, excused his absence.
saw
Knowlys.
a

Aristaenetus,ep. 10.

'

Apul. miles, lib.4.

q2

Love-Melancholy.

22S

to many

such

provinces.One

kiss

cities,
or

seven

alone,would

recover

Sec. 2.

many
if he

so

man

dying".

were

then
prctious

more

were

men,

[Part.3.

Suaviolum

Alexander

te de

Stygiusic

valle

reducet,"c.

married

Roxane, a poor mans

child,onolyfor
'"'Twas well done of Alexander, and heroically
her person.
mad
Orlando
done ; I admire him for it.
for Angelica,
was
died for Piand
who
doth not condole his mishap? Thisbe
Great

for ^'Eneas; who doth not weep,

as
(beforehis
of her estate! she
conversion) Austin did in commiseration
he
could
die for her !
died for him, methinks (as
said)/
But this is not
the matter
in hand, what prerogativethis
; Dido

ramus

"^

beauty hath, of
farre such

and soveraignty
it is, and how
power
and
dote
that so much
admire,
uponit,are

what

persons

be

doubts of these matters

man
; no
justified
; the questionis
how
and by what meanes
beautyproduceththis effect ? By
sight:the eye betrayesthe soul, and is both active and passive

to

inthis
and

cause
"^

business;itwoundsand
instrument,

both

is wounded;

in the

subjectand

is

an

especiall
object.

in the

As

to the breast ; it
teares, it beginsin the eys, descends
these beauteous
conveys
rayes, as I have said,unto the heart.
Ut vidi lit perii. " Mars
videt hnnc, visamque cnpit. She-

chem

saw

34. 3.

afar

.for she

and fair :
beautiful

was

off,2Sam. 1 1 ^.the elders

Susanna,

fair Aristoclea

daughter

Strato

bathing her
Theophanes,

badea; and

defiled her. Gen.

and

daughterof Lea,

Bathsheba
sj)ied

that Orthomeuian

as

of

the

.Jacob Rachel. 29. Yi

David
'

Dinah

saw

self

the

that

Hercyne well in Leinstant.

Videru7it oculi^

at

in an
caj)tivated
fell sick for Thamars
rapuernnt pectora Jiamma ; Amnon
sake, iZ. Sam. 1-i. 2. The beautyof I'^stherwas such, that she
found favour not onelyin the sightof Assuerus, hut of all those
that looh'd
her.
others
Gerson, Origen,and some
upon
were

contended, that Christ

of

men;

hominum,
such

was

and
and

himself

.Josephnext
theywill have

that he

found

the

M'as

fairest of the

sons

him:

speciosus
prao Jiliis
taken
it literally
; his very person
unto

and

grace

favor

of all those

that

looked

Joseph M'as so fair,that as the ordinary

Uj)on him.
decurrerent per murnm,
et ad fenestras,
gloss hath it,filice
the
windows
the
and
the
of
to
to gaze
walls,
tlieyran to
top
on

him, as

by

and

Me
so

do

commonly

Matthew

"oinjr throujrh Cullen.

Paris

to

see

greatpersonages

some

describes

^P. Morales

''Curtias
I. 1.
*.Secun. bas. 13.
" Ovid.
oculis oritur.
Fast.
'Plutarch.

3fatilda the

the Jesuit saith

"^Confe"i.
sLib. de

go

empress
as

"^ Seneca.

pulchrit Jcsu

much

Amor

in

ct Maria-.

2. Subs.

Mem.

Came,

Beauty a

".]

229

saw
but,
Cleopatra,
VirginMary. Anthony no sooner
enamoured
Theseus
he
her.
1.
Uh.
at
was
on
Appian
that he esteemed himself
of Helen was
the first sig-ht
so besotted,
world
the
he
in
if
the happiest
man
might enjoyher,and
kneeled down, and made his pathetical
to that purpose
prayers
the gods. ^Charicles,by chance, espyingthat curious
unto
pictureof smilingVenus naked in her temple,stood a great
amazed
into that
while gazing,as one
; at length he brake
mad passionate
speech,OjortunategodMars, that icast hound
ridiculous for her sake !
He could not
in chains^ and made

of the

saith

himself,but kissed her picture,1 know

contain
and
M

desired
heartily

to

be

disgracedas

so

hat did he that his betters had

"^

de Diis
atque aliquis

non

Mars

done

before

tristibus

optat

not

how

not

And

was.

him

oft ;

Sic fieriturpis

When

Venus

heaven,

first to

came

her comeliness

was

such,

flockingabout

saith) all the gods came

and desired he
each
and saluted her ;
of them went to Jupiter,
^
in
fair Antilochus came
viighthaveher to be his infe. When
in the dark his beautyshined,all mens
a candle
as
that

"^

author

(asmine

presence,

(asXenophon
flxedon him, and

describes

eys

conceal

not

movedat

expressed.Those

much

penetrate and

sight.

Achilles

the

of

manner

senses,

affect,but

none

Briseis mediis

Forma
moved

was

other

so

fair woman
^

The
As

theycould

looks it ivas

discerned

in armis

Achillem,

movet

in the midst of a battle by fair Briseis ;

Hothat great captain
Judith captivated

overcomes

Naught

instajitlg

that

hearing,touching,
may
forcible
so
much, none

Ajax by Tecmessa;
lofernes; Dalilah,Samson; Rosamund,
"c.
Roxolana, Solyman the magnificent,

it)were

sight;insomuch

themselves,hut in gesture or

and

as

the

under

fire and
heaven

so

Henry

the second;

sword.

stronglydoth

allure

and all his minde possess,

of man,
loveliest bait ; that doth procure
warrieis erst their rigorto suppress,

sense

beauties

Great

mortales felicissimum si hac frui possit.

Charidemon.
Supra omnes
aLucian.
exclamans, O fortunatissime Deoruui
Insanum quiddam ac.fiiribundum
Liician. amor.
'^ Omnes
Dii
"= Ov.
Met. 1.3.
Mars, quipropterbanc vinctus fnisti.
^ Lt cum
Venere.
Comes
de
Nat.
sibi
in
uxorem
et
petienmL
complex! sunt,
' Delevit omnes
oculos incurrit : sic Antiloquus,"c.
omnium
lux noctis afliilget,
est
si
vincit
et
vel
ferrumque
Nam
s
ignem
qua pulchra
animo mulieres.
ex
^ Spencer in his Fairy Qu.
Anacreon, 2.
b

LoveMdunchuhi.

t^30

[Part.3.

forgettheir manhness,
Driven
with the power of an heart-burning
eye
And laptin flowers of a golden tress.
That can with meltingpleasure,
mollifie

J:"ec.2.

mighty hands

And

Their

heardned

hearts inur'd to

cruelty.

that lie no
in
sooner
came
confesscth,
Clitipliou
inj^onously
Leucippes presence, but that lie did cnrdc trcmere, et oculis
lasciviiis intueri ; ^\\e was
wounded
at the first sight;his
liis eyes from
heart panted, and he could not possibly
turn
her.
So doth Calysirus
verend
a re(inIleliodorus /j". "2. Isis priest,
ho
chance
old man) complain; w
at Memphis seeing
by
hold
that Thracian
his
not
off
her,
Rodoplie,might
eyes

"

"I tcill not

it,she

conceal

overcome

vie

with

her presence, and

kept unto mine old

which I had
continency,
lonytime,my bodilyeys with the eys of my
last I was
understandiny
compiered,and as a tempest
; at
railed at w omen
carriedheadlony.'^Xenophilesa
philosopher,
down rightfor many
years together;scorned,hated,scoffed
last
into Dapliiiis
at them:
at
a fair maids
coming
company,
lie
friend
condoles
his
his
to
(as
Demaritis)
mishap
thougiifree

quiteassaulted

my
aye ; I resisted,a

before,
Intcictus nullis ante

far in

was

love,and quiteovercome
Victus

I confess

cupidinibus,

fateor

sum

sudden.

upon

Daphnide,"c.

taken;

am

Sola haec inflexit sensus,

labentein

animumque

Impulit
"

hold

J could
had

out

Stratoclcs

jtlenus(so
hater

no

the

mishap,butworse,
longer. Suchanother
that
old man,
muco
blear-eyed
physician,

I'rodromus

'

all his

describes

him) he

life;y":r/rtcon/umeliosa
et

profatus, bitter persecutor of the wole

pideset vipcrasappellahat
; he foreswore
',\

them

mocked
mat

et

rem

would'st
words

wheresoever

he came,
that if thou
odisses,

sororcs

have

sake.

loathed
Vet

thine

omu

severe

sexe

woman-

J'wminas

humanas

them

hadst

was

in

semper

all

in such

mother

this old dotiiiir

fool

was

as-

and
still,

vile terms, nt
him, thou

heard

aixl

sisters,for his

taken

at

last,with

'' Statim ac
occidi : ociilnR
eain
sum,
conteiiiplatns
'^ Piidet
scd
illi
dircre,non
rcpiignabant.
sum,
adsenecnlabo taniin.
ct continentiainexpujiDavit.qnam
\t nit lis iiic\icit,
Mptiipliim
'^ Nunc
lianc
fiittni usque
oculis coqwris "c.
c'rca
priinuiservarain,
anxiusanimi hajreo. Arislienctus,cp. 17.
*AmacViig. yEn. 4.
rnnto dial.
"

Achilles Tatiiis lib. I.

irgineavertere

conatus

Love-Melancholy.

2;52

3.
[Part.

Sec. 2.

Catalcoks, Ileliodonrs Charicica, Tatius

aixl CIoo, Tlicodorns
DapliDi's
Sojiliistas
JjOiigiis
L('iici|i|"e,
ArislaDotiis
and
IMiilostrafus
l*io(li()nnis his lMjo"laiilli("s,
10.
IJalthasarCastilio./iif.4 deaif/ico,
Laiirciiliusrr//j.
cpisilcs,
ami overy poet almost,
(Ic inc/fni. yEneas Silviusliis Lucrctia,
P;u"Jlita,Fclronius

Mhieli

have

described
accurately

most

solute
aban
perfect
beaiify,

feature,and that throu;;hevery member, both

and

Each

women.

part

must

in

men

to tlie perfection
of it ;
Nnn
est Jorinosa inulier

concur

lib. 4.

saith,Ep.
et hrach'mm^ srd ilia cnjus s'ttnuliniwersu
rjijus
fair
dod'U ; she is no
siuf/ulis
jmrtit/us
Jacics admlrationem
for

as

33.

Seneca

laudatur

cms

thigh,"c. are commended,

except the
the face
face and all the other parts be correspondent. And
especially
givesa lustre to the rest: the face is itthat conunonly
the face is beauties
denominates
fair or fowl ; arxjormcvj'acies,
and though the other parts be deformed, yet a good
towre
face carries it(y"eic,s
noyi
uxor
ainatnr)
; that alone is most
part
deliciis
and
of
itself
valued,
suisj'erox,
principally
respected,
able to captivate.
whose

woman,

arm,

^Urit

Glyceracniter,
protervitas,

mc

Ilrit grata

fair

Glyccrastoo
be

When

beheld.

looks, he
dcleo

beams

auhno
muUeres, tccciet
love any but her;
fair face! I'll never
dinary
hereafter but her; I am
weary of these orex

"

recollected

arc

Dido,

'

to

Os hmnerosqneDeo

vultus Baccho

sacros

O
Which

Although for

sacred
never

the

J.
19. lilt.

looks

mortal

..-

times
are

sees

of

rays

he had
shnilis,

vel

her,the
sun

love

arc

ravished

countenance

angelical

an

digiios,
Apollinc

fcuniina nulla videt!

majesty,
befitting
see
could
safely
wight

greaterpart,this beauty be

the face, yet many

pleasinggrace, and

llor. Od.

tuto

the

TEneas

Avas

he

more

the
burningglass,

center,

It

her cys.

Quos vir,quos

'

The

them.

with

ridendo, as in
is, 7(rifqne

from
projected
queen
face.

was

pulchraniy
quotidiayiarum

any other
beauties ; away
he

worse

dehhic

formarum
on

taken, that he cried out, Ofaciem

so

onines

hanim

look

was

too fine to
it that set him on fire,
wenches
the singinosweet
Chaerea saw

face

;
aspici

lubricus

nimium

Et vultus

those

other memlx

alone sufficient to

I'Ter. Eiinuth. Art. 2.

most

yield

rs

An

enamour.

'X

sccu.

eminent

""

Tctrouitis.

in

most

high

2.]

Mem.

2. Subs.

l)row

like unto

233

Came.

Bcautija

{':(' hriglit
herxvens,creli jmlrhcrrimu
plarja,

and smooth
nhi v'lrithoiiar,
J'ronsuhi li'ditamor,\\]\]io
alabaster;apaiiofchecksofvcvmilian
like the polished
robjur,
^.^mor
lod"iech
mo/llbus
which
love
ill
rpd
pnclloiperfjciih
;
Frons

suaviorum
iip,

corall

noctas:

mille patent, basia mille latent.

Basia

Gratiarum

sedes

wliieli bees

may

gratissima;a sweet
smellingflowre, from
3Ie
I
ce vo lucres quidudhuc
lilef/
gatherhony;
^

ihyma,rosasque, Sj-c.

cava

ad dominse

Omnes
Ilia

delnhram, in vvhicli

white

teeth,which

pap,

neck, that via lactea; dimplein the chin

*^

Pario

de

mammis

marmore

pleasantvalley,lacteum sinum, between two

et ad pruritumfrigidos
hills,sororiantes papillulas,

chaulkie

solo

amatores
e

sweet

grace,

tumidis

Quale decus

make

''and

some

excellent

givesan

breath ; wliite and

call the sale-piece
j a fine soft round

arciis
eye-brows,Cupidinis

biack
even

"fec.
spiral,

rosas

round

and

labra venite meee,

aspectu excitantes.

Forma

Unde

fuit apta

papillarum
quam

is,

premi !

Again,
Urebant

oculos

durse stantesque mamillse.

in great account;
for
ever
hair; golden hair was
sustuleiat Jlavum
Dido, JVondum
Virgilcommends

flaxen

which

Proserpinacrinem ; Et,
nius (Argonaut, lib. 4.
will have

Jasons
him.

dotageon

Medeas

in all ages, molles

''
infers, Physiog.lib. 2. lovelyto
have

such

been

Helena;

makes

Pulchricoma

hair'd;
hair'd,in

pictureof
asleep:

aurnm

Patroclus

most
ac

amorous

behold.
and

yong

men,

Porta
Baptista

as

suaves,

Homer

Achilles

both

hinjself

so

mends
com-

yellow
yellow

Cupid
like that neat
capillo,
crispante
Callistratus ; for so
Psychespiedhim

coruscante

in

coma

and

Venus;

Narcissus

Apollo-

aurum.

dea;)
incendit cor MeJiava
golden haire to be the main cause of
both yellow
Castor and Pollux were
Jasonis

Paris, Meuelaus, and

hair'd.

in

crines nodantur

Polixena,"c.
Bryseis,

was

et

flavicomce

omnes

^^ Ar^n^ Jo_ Secnndus

a
cLoechfeus.
bas, 19.
SophoclesAntigoue.
"-" Otid.
Tol. 77.
niveis.
dus. Vallis amcenissima e duobus montibus couiposita
k When
habenteui,
Dapsileshilares amatores, 8cc.
Cupid slept. Cvtsarieni auream
nbi Psyche vidit,molleniqiieex ambrosia cervicera inspesif
purpureas
j crines crispos,

genas

caudidasque,"c.

Apuleius.

l^ve-Melancholy.

234r

"

Whom

commends

Leland
hair:

yong

so

and

Sec.

the fair,
Apollocourted for her hair.
Hero

Guithcra

Arthurs wife,for
king-

ililmiliussets out

Paulus

[Part.3.

Ch)deveus

that

fair flaxen

lovelyking-

terer
of France.
iiolds,
''Syncsius
every eftbniinate fellow or adulher self,
is fair hair'd : and Apuleius adds that Venus
she come
delifjht,
Love, cannot
^'tJiouf/h
accompaiiiedu'ith the Graces, and all Cupids train to attend upon Aer,
arid smell oj'cynamon
and hawme,
girtwith her own ffirdle,
Goddess

of

yet if she he bald or had haired she cannot pleaseher Vulcan.

terfeit
Which, belike,makes our Venetian ladies,at this day,to counto calamistrate and
yellowhair .'o much ; great women
vihrantes
ad
it
curie
ffratiamcrines,et tot orhibus in captiup,
their heads with spangles,
and
to adorn
vitatemfle.ros,
pearls,
made
flowers ; and all courtiers to affect a pleasing
grace in

In

this kindc.
all

comers

under

whose

word,

'^

The

hairs

are

Cupids

nets

to catch

hrushie wood, in which Cupid builds his nest,and

shadow, all Loves, a thousand sever ahcays sport

themselves.
A littlesoft

hand, pretty little mouth, small, fine,long

fingers,
Gratia

'tis that which

qusc

Apollo did
laudat

digitis

admire

in

Daphne

digitosque
manusque

;
:

and well proportioned

and slender body ; a small foot,
straight
'^
leg,hath an excellent lustre; cui totum incumbit corpus uti
fundamenlo o'dis. Clearchus vowed to his friend Amyander in
a

Aristffinetus,that

"

make
a

him

soft an"l white

hand

the

est mollior

attractive part in his mistris,to

her pretty leg and foot :

'AW"?//"
peculiar
graces;
ac
hijus cutis est, adipolpapillanibellulam.
these partsare not so much respected
; a grim

Though

in

Sarazan

sometimes,

men

most

like her first,

was
skin,"c. have their

love and

nudiis membra
a

martiall hirsute face

Pyracmon,

pleascthbest; a

black

man

is a

pearjin

""
nus
Vefitit
virgo,
baltheo sue
omni
niacere uon
potest N'ulcano
fragrans,et balsama, si calva processerit,
cincta,ciunama
c Arandus.
Capilliretia Cupidinis,sylva cajdiia,in qua uidificatCiipido,
Huo.
""Tlieod. Prodroiuus Amor,
Bubcujua umbra Aniores mille modis se exercent.
'
lib. 1.
Epist.72. Ubi pulchramtibiam,bene compactum tcuucuique pcdcm
f I'laut.Cas.
vidi.
"

coma.
calvi. Spleiulida
coma
quisqneadulter est ; allicitanrea
coniis nudata, capitespoliata
: si qualis
ipsaVenus, cum
placeret
choro stipata,et toto Cupidinum populoooncinnata,
Gratiarum

IIIlaudem

ipsanon

Mem.

2. Subs.

2.]

Cause,

Beauty a

235

alamo Vulcan was

as
eye, and is as acceptable
to Venus;
for be being-a sweaty fuuginousblacksmitb, was
dearlybeloved of her,when fair Apollo,nimble Mercury were
fair womans

the

of

rejected,and

the

Many

women

(as Petronius

many

men

maid,

then

all these

dote upon

dames) will sooner

sweet-fac'd

g'ods forsaken.

sordihus
calent
''observes)
with kitchen
wenches, and

moved

more

are

market

poor

rest

illustrious

slave,a servant,

and

court

(as
a

city

dirt-dawber,

his naked
brontes,a cooke, a player,if they see
legsor
that
like
huntsman
Src
hrachia'^,
arms,
Meleager
torosaque
a

in

Philostratus,
though he being all
like

dirty,besmeared

player,and
on

and

sweeper,
chimney-

ready run
her
by chance.
helped
to

was

mad

for

him, had

Faustina

Pylades a
not

the empress

Galen

doted

fencer.

Not

of

one

part

thousand

other which

or

the rest.
at

gypsie,or

fell in love with

wife, a citizen of Rome,

Justines

himself

obscene

then upon a noble gallant,

AlciNireus,Hephsestion,
courtiers full of silk and gold.
those embroidered
or

biades,
^

ruddleman,

in raggs,

"

company

variance,which

pleasedbest ?

falls in

there is

some
liar
pecuand
inflames
him
above
pleaseth
most,
of yong philosophers
a
time, fell
on

part of

woman

said the

some

love,but

was

desirable and

most

forehead,some

the

teeth,some

the eys, cheeks, lips,neck, chin, "c. the controversie was

refened
to Lais of Corinth to decide ; but she smiling,
said,
of
for
had
her
where
fools;
they
theywere a company
suppose
standing
they ^ firstseek ? Yet this notwithI do easily
gvant,nequeq?iis
vestrumnegaverit
opinor;
all parts are attractive,
butespeciallstheeys'':

they wished,

what

would

(videtigne micantes,
similes oculos)

Sideribus

which

are

homes,

loves

the hooks

fowlers; Utuciipiumamorh, the

of

love

(asArandus

will)the

shooing'
stone,
guides,touch-

mad
and make
cure
men,
judges; that in a moment
tchat
the
the
do they
tvatchmen
sound folks mad ;
body ;
of
vex
not ? How
theynot? All this is true, and (which Atheuseus
lib. 13. dip.cap. 5. and Tatius hold)they are the chief seats of

aClaudus

optime rem

agif.

bpol. 5.

Si

servutn

aut sordidum
\iderint,

altiiia

'^Me
fradiictum,"c.
cinctunijaut pnlvereperfusum, aut histrionein in scenam
luculenta
nostra eai Petronius Catal. de Priapo.
forma, venira
pulchra fateor carere
"i Galen.
" Calcafrninus
Apolocris.Quae parsmaxime desiderabilis? alius frontem,
h Sunt
enira oculi,
preehami, duces, judiceset indices qui raoexcubitores,
insanos
quid
mento
sanant, ganos insanire cogunt, occulatissimi coriwris
nou
aguut ? quid non cogunt?^

alius genas,

"c.

Inter foemineum.

sedes. lib. 6.
ciputepulchritudinis

sHeinsius.

"

Amoris

Love-Melancholy.

030

It)vc;ami
(

'hath

Lcrmitius

James

as

[Part.3.

Sec. 2.

facctcly
expressedin an

Icganto"lo-ofhis,
ocellis flammcolis

Ainorom

herue

Vidi insidentem, credite posteri,

Fralresquecircuin ludibundos
volitare
pharetrCi

Cum

cL

".c.

arcu,

my mistris eys
believe
it,all posterity
;
Sparkling
And his attendants playinground about

love

saw

in
sitting
;

and

bow

With

ready for

arrows

fly.

to

; the tomjue, thelightScaligcrcalls the eys, b Cupids arrows

Balthasar
the
the causes,
:
Castilio,
papSythetents
\,-^U'-^^^'nin(f
of love;
the lamps of love ;
jj^jchariots,
-.n.c-;-'

--

"Ccmula

quoe possent soUicitare Decs.

Luraina

Eys emulatingstars
Enticinggods at the
Loves

in

light,

first sight.

cPetronius,

orators,

facetos,
nota
loquaces;
propria

blandos oculos, et

O
Et

quMam

Illic est

Atque

Venus,

et

and

O sweet

leves

ipsain medio

Where

Loves

stellis,

lumina

Amores,

sedet

Voluptas.

pretty speakingeys,

lies!
Venus, love and pleasure

torches,touch-box, naphthe and matches; '^TibuIIus.

Illius ex

oculis quum

Accendit
Tart

geminas lampades

love,when

at the

Simul
Et

he will set the

eys,

as

*^

oculorum

Amor.

gods on fire,

torches,to desire.

first sightof Heros

in

Dives,

exurere
acer

Lightensthe
Lcandcr
Musa;us.

vult

eys

radiis crescebat

fax

fervebat invccti ic:nis

impetu;
Pulchritudo
enim Celebris immaculatoe
Oculus
Vulnus

Ocelli

amorum

cor

Acutior

"

incensed,sailh

was

hominibus

est

vcloci

fcEminnc

sagitta,

via est, ab oculi ictibus

viri nianat.
dilabitur,et in prcecordia

voro

17. cnjns et

eleniillis
ante ciipidinibns.
"" In ratalect.
rPnlPropert.1. I.
chriliidoipsa
per occultos radios iu pectus auiuulis diuianaas aiuatas rei forniain bBculpsit,Tatms, I.5.

K^ntiani.

carm.

epist.qufpst
Lipsiiis

"'Cynthiaprima siiismisermn

lib. .3. cap.

lue

11. nicniinit ob

Conlactum
cepitocellia,
J I)e
lib.4.
Siilpitio,

torches

Loves

Beauty a

i2.]

2. Subs.

Mem.

firstin her eys,

dies :
fire,which never

on

the fair beauty of

For

237

'ganto burn,

set his heart

And

Cause.

viro;inpure.

doth inure
sharperthen a dart;
to the heart
A deeperwound, which pierceth
causedi
such
and
cruel
smart.
a
By the eys,
and

Is

**

in Amnon
poet bring'S

A modern

fascino

et me

illerisus

Occidit

Thamar.

complainingof

et

lepos,

formoD

decor,

lUe nitor,ilia gratia,

et verus
Illsesemulantes purpuram,

et

i"

rosas

node

aureo
Oculiquevinctseque

genae,

comse.

thy beauty,'twas thy pleasingsmile,

Thy gi-ace and comeliness did me beguil;
Thy rose-like cheeks, and unto purplefair
It

was

Thy lovely
eys
'^

and

cries out

denies faces,those two

ar

hair.

his mistris basilisk eys,

burning-glasses,
theyhad so inflamed

Lemnius

Philostratus

goldenknotted
on

quench it. What a tyramnj^

a penetration
of'bodies is this ! thou drairest
with violence^
swallowest
and
me
up, as Ckaryhdisdoth saylers
with thy rocky eys ; he that falls into this gulf oj'love, can
Let this be the corollary
never
then, the strongest
get out.
the
still
from
darted
beams
of beautyare
eys.
his soul, that no
(saithhe) ichat

could

water

quislumina

"1 Nam

Posset

luminibus

statira

Non

tanta, tanta,
suis tueri,

trepidansque
palpitansque

Prse desiderii aestuantis

For

who

And

not

And as men
with those
another.
e

Of all eys

aura

? "c.

such eys with his can

see
enamour'd
forthwith
be?

catch
mutual

leg or an arm,
they first iuveagleone

dotrels,by puttingout
the eys

glancesof

Cynthiaprimasuis

(by the way)

black

raiserum
are

me

most

cepitocellis.
and
amiable, entising

fair,which the poet observes in commending of his mistriss.

f
Spectandumnigrisoculis,nigroquecapillo.
which

admires

Hesiod

Jacob

Cornelius Amnon

in his

Alcmena,

et iH deliciis. Abi
amore

et

ipsa flamma

haec ! "c.
lib.2. eleg.
4.

oculi.s

Tragoed.Act. 1. so. 1.

nascuntur, et hilaritas vultiiselegantiae

corona.

^ Rosae formosaium
Philostratus deliciis.

*^

Epist.

ab
extinguit
non
; nam
oppugnationem rclinque,quam flamma
peuetratio,quaj tyrannis
Quse corporuni

sentit incendium.
Loechaeus Panthea.

"

Propertius.

Ovid,

amorum,

Love-Melancholy.

238
"

Cujus a

her black

From

ab

came

in Isis Milaene,
formosa

because

round

black

black

farthest from

the

mihi.

Juno,
oxo-eycd,in describini^

of
usetli tliat cpitbite

Homer

her

goldenface,
lovely
grace.

nigraoculos
'^

Venere.

aureji

from

eys, and

Venus,

if from

Triton

and

ociilis,
nigricantibus

ac

quiddam spiralac

Tale

As

vertice

[Part.-3.Sec. S?.

eye is the best, the son of beauty,and

''
m orse
PolydoroVirgiltaxeth
; which

have gray
we
Antjlivt phaimnm ccesiisonnli"t,
Porta, Physiognom. lib. 3.
Baptista
part.
eys for the most
puts gray colour upon children, theybe childish eys; dull and
and
heavy. Many coinmcn"l on the other side Spanishladies,
blackness
of their
dames
at this day, for the
Greek
those
dotli his Neapolitan
wives.
Sueton
scribes
deyoung
eys, as Porta
Julius Csesar to have been 7Uf/ris
ocnlis miver/cf}sq?fe
and
of
black
:
cantibus, a
fjuick
sparkling
althoughAvereye
will have such persons timerous,yet within his Colliget
roes
out question
they are most amorous.
last of all,I will shew
Now
beautydoth
you by what means
in

our

nation;

*"

fascinate, bewitch,
man

doth

by

Ludit

hold, and

some

and
amor

Libertatem

I am of
certainly
strangely
change us.
oculos

sensus,

animi, raira

daemon
aliquis

Credo

work

For

tlie eye.

bewitch

as

nos

And

mocks
doth

fascinat arte.

subiens

Heliodorus

bewitch

us

flammani
prsecordia

lib. 3. proves at

came.

our

mentem.

liberties,

with his art and

some

it f/ets in at otir eys, pores^

and
in us,
affections
com.

curbs

senses,

et aufert
perstringit,

divel gets into our

kindles coals,and heaves

I think
And

our

the soul of

the poets mind, Love

Concitat,et raptam toUit de cardine

Love

upon

rings:

entrals.
our

soul from

th'

hinges.

large,-that love is witch-craft,

the same
nostrils,
inyenders
lities,
qua-

in the party whence it

Ficinus
10. cap.
manner
as
fascination,
in Plat, declaies it,is thus : Mortal
then
men
are
cially
espeThe

as

tceie

of this

irhen
betcitchecl,

by o^tengaziny one on the other,

they direct siyhtto siyht,
joyn eye to eye, and so drink and
suck in love between them; Jbr the beyinningof this disease
as

"i Hist. lib. 1.

a Sent. Hercul.
'Iliad.].
dial.
i. CalcafrninuM
'
Sands' relation,
fol.67.
S Amor
Mantuan.
oculos,
nares,
per
poros, in"c.
Mortales tnm soniniopere fa.scinanturquando frequentissimo
iutuitu acieiu
fluens,
Ideo si qiiisnitore polieatoculorum, "c.
"c.
dirigente.s,
"

3.
Love-Mi-.lancholij.[Part.

2i0

Sec.

I.

and with those spark'

halls oj'his
e"/cs upon Lifcuts,
The huamcs oj'Phfcdrus cifs
Hnrf mifes sends out his sjtirits.
with the brains of Lifcias,and spirits
arc
easilytninr/led
are

fastensthe

jot/nedto
spirits.This vapour he(/otin Phwdrus heart,enters
into Lycias bowels : and that trhich is afjrcaterwonder^ Phccdrus blood is in Lifciasheart,and thence come
those ordinary
swcet-h'art
and
inine
Plioidrns,
oivn
love-speeches^
my
self
dear
bowels.
Phadrus
And
O
to
liffht,
ayain Lycias;
my
my
Pha"dr
because
his
soul,
us
joy,
lij'e.
follows
Lycias
mij
my
my
heart would

have his spirits

; and

he loves the seat

oj'his

cause
LyciasfollowsPhcedrus, bebut
spirits
; bothfolloiv
;
Lycias

the earnester
two
: the river hath
oj'the
then
thejountainoJ'the river ; as
tain,
which
so

is touched

with

that the blind

man

loves,that

hoir

But
never

saic

oj'thej'oun-

need

iron is draivn

loadstone,but draws

Phcedrus.

Lycias draws

more

not

it

to

that

ayaln:

it to pass then,
V/e re.id,in the lives

comes

of tlie fathers, a story of a child that was

broughtup itithe
wilderness, from his infancy,by an old Jierniite: now
to
come
estate, he

mans

by chance,two

saw

he asked

the woods:

the o!d

comely women

in
Avandring

M'hat creatures
theywere:
while inWiwr obiter,the hermite

told them

man

he

after a
manded
defayries:
the ploasantest
of him, whicii was
that
he
ever
sight
he
the
his
life
^
he
in
?
tv"o
saw
replyed,
readily
fayries spied
So that without doubt,there is some
in the wilderness.
secret
beautiful
in
woman
loadstone
a
tural
; a magnetiquepower
; a na-

which
inbred affection,
as

he

'Tis true

heroicall

as

concupiscence
; and

''he

we

mistress yet to come,

stillI seek, I love,I know
not whom.

thinks I have

And

they

our

sings.
Me

treat

moves

indeed

of natural

and

chaste

rather brutish

an

innocent

wait

as

so

love, but

not

of this

burninglust of which

or
passion,
of
speak wandring,wanton,

saith,lie stillin

spy

adulterous

many

spectator fixed

we

which

eys;
souldiers ; and when
on
them, shoot him

when
bewitch
him; especially
they
through,and presently
lovers do upon one another,
shall yaze and ylote,as wanton
each others souls.
and with a pleasant
participate
eye-conflict
how
and
how
Hence
quicklywe may
easily,
you may perceive
of an eye, Phaedrus
be taken in love ; since at the twinkling
blood.
Neither
is
infect Lycias
spirits
may so perniciously
diseases
hoiv
other
consider
but
it any wonder,if we
many
""

de aiilico,
l"Ca8tilio
"Daemonia
inquitquae in hoc eremo
nnper occiirrebant.
recubant, et suhito ad visum sagittas
I.3. fol."2-2S. Oculi ut milites in insidiiMsemper
""Nee mirum si reliqnos
morbos qui ex contagionenascuntur con"c.
einittunt,
scabien),"c.
siderenius,
pcstein,prurituui,

and
closely^

as

scabs, flux, "c.

we

as

murderer; but read

unde

mens

on.

est

saucia

of this in Lemnius

more

\ alleriola lib.2. observnat. miT.

cap.
irov.
Ficinus, Cardan, Libavius de crnentis

amore

lib. 2. de occult,
J. Valesius con-

cap. 7.

III.

MEMB.

SUBSECT.

allurements of Love
Artifcial
Lust

jS

2U

manifestly
perceivea strange eduction of spirits,
be dead, at the presence of the
bleed at nose afterthey

may

by such

him

them, but egg

Idque petit
corpus

of Love-Melaiirhohj.

are
itch,
svddainly
caughtbij
infection;
plague,
The spirits
taken in,will not let hira rest

that hath received

and

Caui^es

3.]

3. .Subs.

Mem.

cadaveribvs,
^c.

III.
and

causes

provocationsto

Gestures, Cloaths,Doicre, "Sc.

as
beautyis a strongerloadstone of it self,
you
and pierceth
have heard,a great temptation,
to the very heart;
when
more
; but much
^formaverecundw nocuit mihi visa puella;

ATURAL

tiiose artificial enticemenis

and
provocationsof gestures,
cloaths,jewels,pigments,exornations,shall be annexed unto
it; those other circumstances, opportunityof time and
which

shall concur,
in
each one

of themselves

alone

all

were

place

sufficient,

to producethis effect.
It is a question
particular
wise
much controverted by some
/brm" debeat plusarti
men,
Whether
natural
?
artificial
or
naturoi
an
objectsbe more
that
powerful? but not decided: for my part,I amof opinion,
be
thoughbeauty it self a great motive, and givean excellent
in beggery,
lustre iwsor"//6i^s,
will shine
(asa jewelon a dunghill
it cannot
be suppressed,
which Heliodorus
and cast its rayes),
she
in
fains of Chariclea, though
were
beggersweeds
yet as
is of more
and
it is used, artificial
much
be
to
force,
preferred.
:

Sic dentatasibi

videtur

-/Egle,
Indicoquecornu
cadente
est
nigrior
moro,
sibi placet
Lycoris.

Emptis ossibus
Sic, quse
Cerussata
So

toothless

^gle

seems

pretty one,

Set out with new

bought teeth of Indybone
So foul Lycorisblacker then berry,
Her

"

self admires

Lucretius.

decent motion is more

VOL.

II.

'' In

now

finer then cherrv.

beauty, that of favor is

then that of favor. Bacons

before
preferred

Essaies.

that of celonrs,
and
Martialis.

Lovc-Melancliohj.

242

[Part.3.

Sec. ?.

in Drasi/.
Leiius tlie Burgundian cnp. 8. Mst. naviffutis altogether
he) at oiir corning"
(saith
on
my side. For whereas

John

found

Brasil,Ave

to

horn, without
could not be

both

and

men

naked

women

of their

much

as
so
covering,
Frenchmen
our
perswaded,by
them, to wear
Maiij/will think
any,

with

any

that lived
that

'

with naked

commerce

he concludes

to lust ; but

nuich

less entice

them

needs be

must

icomen,

our

year

so

long

f/reatprovocation

tiieirnakedness

otherwise,that
to

thoy were
and
privities,
as

then
lasciviousness,

our

did

womeiis

holdhjaffirm,(saithhe) that those r/litcolours, headgears, curled hairs,

terinq attires^counterfeit
plaited coats, cloaks, gowns, costbjstomachers,guarded and
cloaths.

And

I dare

loose

our
garments, and all those other coutrements,wheren'ith

count

rg-icomen

a
counterj'eit
beautyand

inconveyiience

so

in this

themselves,cause
homeliness,althoughthegbe
more

curioushjset

out

kinde,then

that

whit

unto
inferior
other
them in beanty. I could evince the truth of this by many
I
but
to
at
appeal (sahh he) my companions that
arguments ;

Barbarian

present, which

Montagne

in his

the

mind.

same

of the

Essayes,is

others ; out
conclude ; that

same

His country-man
opinion;and so are

assertions thus much

in brief

we

then

beholding
beauty
from outward
naments,
orproceed
stronger provocations
bath provided. It is true that
then such as nature
hite
fair sparkling
neck, coral lips,
turgent paps,
eys, m

may
nature;
those

is

to

more

art

and

rose-coloured
when

gesture,
far

of

of whose

many

but

all

were

no

an

cheeks,

of themselves

are

potent enticers

well-composedlook, pleasing
comely, artificial,
shall be added, it must
affected carriage
needs be

forcible

more

"c.

then

"vhen

it was,

those

curious

works,
needle-

varietyof colours,purest dyes,jewels,spangles,

pendants,
fair and fine linnen, embroideries,
lawn, lace,tiffanies,
calamistrations,
oyntments, "c. shall be added, theywill make
the veriest

by

art.

but

an

wanton,
Isaiah

dowdy
For

it is

adulterous
a

goddess,when

nature

shall be furthered

the eye of it self that entiseth to lust,

Peter terms
it, i^.epist.2. 14. a
eye, as

not

lascivious
rolling,

taxeth, 3. 16.

wandring eye, which

himself, and the VirginMary

eye:

Christ

beautiful

eys, as amiable eys as any persons, saith

that
ever
^Barradius,
lived; but withall so modest, so
freed from that
lookd on them, was
chaste, that whosoever
had

most

passionof burning lust; if

we

may

believe

''Gerson

and

Barbaris niulis,as
illiidadeo frecjuenscum
Miilti tacite opinandircominfrciam
at minus iiiulto noxia illortnnnuditas
fcbminis,ad libidinem piovocare,
foeminanim cultus.
Ausiin assoveraie
splendiduuiilium cultum, fucos,
nostrarum
quam
"^Serm. de concep. virj^.I'hysiog"c.
^ Harmo. evangel,lib.fi. cap. 6.
adcastitatem.
noraia virgin's
movet
omnfs
""

prajsertimcum

3. Subs.

Mem.
*

Alhirements.
Artijicial

3.]

Bonaventure,

there

such

no

was

VirginMaries face. 'Tis not

they use it,that causeth such
Venus,

in that

described
elegantly
Juno

wiih

it,as
ag-ainst

the

the eye, but carriage of it,as

effects.
When
Pallas,Juno,

Paris favour

to win

were

antidote

243

for the

golden apple,as

pleasantinterlude

of

it is

''Apuleius,

the stage; Minerva

majestyupon

gravity;but
et f/ratissimcE
Venus, dulce suhridens,confithit amoene,
gratice
in smiling with her gratious
Deam
A'C. came
propitiantps,
musick, as if she had danced, et nonnuugraces and exquisite
came

saltare soils ocufis, and which

all, she danced with her rolling
eys
and

of her sute.
harbingers

poet
c

her

of

the brokers

they were

So she makes

matter

bragsin a

dern
mo-

could

Soon

And

The

the main

was

qiiam

eye is

I make

brow

my

force the world

do

to

homage

tyrannize,
to

mine

eys.

orator, the firsthawde, Jlmoris porta ; and

secret

looks, winking',
glancesand smiles,as so many
private
stand
they luake up the match many times,and underdialogues,
anothers meanings, before they come
to speak a
one
word.
'^Eurialus and Lucretia were
so
mutuallyenamored
fore
by the eye, and preparedto giveeach other entertainment, beever
they had conference : he asked her good will with
and gave consent
his eye;
she did siiffrac/ari,
with a pleasant
excellent at this dumb
look.
That '^Thracian liodophe
was
so
with

rhetorick, that

[/'she had
she iconld
Caiisiris)
(saith

not

possibhjescape

it.

are

the windoics

our

all dishonest
our

of

but

have

For

as

looked

almost
upon any one
bewitched
him; and he could
^Salvianus observes,the eys

souls, by which

concupiscence
gets into

and
thoughts,

of the countenance
=

our

as

so

many

hearts.

they say,Jrons animi index;

as

channels,

They

reveal

but the eye

intuere ocellis?
Quid procacibus

"c.

of parts,plausible
smiling,
gate, nakedness
of
To
the
"c.
is
a
man
laugh
gestures,
;
proper passion
an
composed,
ordinarythingto smile; but those counterfeit,
those counter-smiles,are the
affected,artificialand reciprocal,
of greater matters, which they
dumb
shews and prognoslicks
most
part use, to inveagleand deceive ; though many fond
I may

say the

same

of

^
sed a netnine conciipita. '' Met. 10.
3. sent d. 3. q. 3. Mirum. virgoforinosissima,
'* /Eneas
t Heliodor.
1.2.
Rosamonds
Silv.
Daniel.
c
complaint,by Sam.
tarn exacte oculis intuens attraiit,
Rodophe Thracia tarn inevitabilifascine instracta,^
'Lib. 3. de providentia.
ut si in illam quis incidisset,
fierinon possetqtiin
caperetnr.
canales introit.
ocellos
Animi fenestra ocnli,et oninis improba ciipiditas
tanquaiu
per
VBachanaii.

r2

/.orcMelanrliuli/.

244
lovers

again are

mistaken, and
frequently

so

if they see

paradise.For

3.
[Part.

but

f;iirmaid

led into

she is

them,

Stultus

When

They make
a

sees

art of

an

can

And

seek

for to

'lisbut

to

laugh maids

pleasant
grace

sure

smile,

it,as the poet telleth

believe ? to

makes

fair maid

great an entisement
Cor

She

beguile.
us

Quis credat ? discunt etiam ridere puellse,

Quseritur atque illishac quoque parte decor

Who

'tisas

And

fool

favour;

ridet,
quod pulchrapuellula
velit.
se
quod amare

credit

thinks she loves him

He

gestures,

or

willing,
coming,"c.

videt

quando

Trt'.nfatuus

fools

laui"h, or shew

use
some
gratiouswords
pleasantcountenance,
it
all
done in their
to themselves,as
tlieyapply

she loves

Sec. 2.

that

to

as

subrisit molle

make

art,

an

part.

same

of the

any

rest

puella,

tibi rite salit.

leapM-ith

thine heart

"

pleasing
gentlesmile

of

bers.
d

I love

Lalage

ilia visit

tata

Dulce

ridentem

Dulce

loquentem,

as

Ismenius, as he
smiled

could

not

so

chuse

Me

All other
said

admire

but

her:

sweet

of his mistress,

It

smile.

won

subrisit amatorium, Istime 1 saw

her, that I

and (Dallas sweet

smile

quite

theshepheard;
blande

stibrisitocellis.

the body will enforce

gesturesof
tattered

poor

Mench,

her maids

to attend

as

when

et lacrra ; but now,

; hath

delecdiscoursing,

for

he said in Petronius

Corl)ile,/""""o.sa

indeed
her

as

motis
aspiciens

pLucian,wasa

in

smiling,as

she gave so
pleased,
""confesseth ; Ismene
lovinglythe second

*^Faustus

overcame

for

blandnm,

tam

being well
mene

much

Lalagenarnabo,

much.
I knew

she is a

her, brave

Daphnis
her

first,

piece
stately

attires,njony in

this came
how
to pass?
purse, ":c. and will you know
her
the
her
o
ut
after
hestj'ashion;
by
setting
selj'
pleasant

hy
sweet
affability
carriage^
^

smiling
upon all,eye. Many

women

"^
Vel centum
Charites ridere
i"Per8. .3.Sat.
t'KustathiiiH1.5.
"iHor. Od. 22. lib. 1.
fMantaan.
kToid. 4. merit dial. Eiornando
seip.sameleganter,facilera et bilarem
hiandum quid,"c.
ac
fie gerendo erga cunctos, ridendo suave
*

Ovid,

de arte amandi.

putaret.Musaeiis of Hero.

Allurements.
3.] Artificial

3. Subs.

Mem,

245
.

dote upon

for his

man

complementonly,and good behaviour;

instant j too credulous to believe that

wanton
suiter,who sees or makes love to them,
light,
every
dotes on, admires them,
is instantly
enamored; he certainly

they

will

in

won

are

an

surelymarry,
in
carriage

other

as

all such

outward

such

by

when

he

less;'tishis ordinary
nothiiig
companies. So both delude each
means

shews;

and

amongst

the rest, an

right,
up-

comely grace, curtesies,gentlesalutations,

cringes,

decent and an affected pace, are most

erful
powand
which the prophetEsay, a courtier himentisers ;
self,
and a great observer,objectedto the daughtersof Sion,
3. 16. they minced as then*^e"?, and made
with
a
tinkling
their feet. To say the truth,what can theynot effect by such
a

mincing gate,a

decks

"Whilst nature
Of
*

When

them

in their best attires

youthand beauty,which

Urit

art shall be

annexed

fortospeakas

shall

concur

meer

jugling,afascination.

admires,

gressu, pectore, fronte,oculis.

manu,

voce,

the world

to

beauty,when

wiles and

guiles

itis,loveisakind

of legerdemain;

When

their fair hand,

they shew

sui desideriiim nobis relinline foot and leg withal, magnum

''Balthazar
Castilio
saith
lib.
1. they set us a longing;
quunt.,
and so ivhen theypullnp their petty-coats, and outward
ments^
garand
usuallythey do to shew their fine stockings,
silken
those of purest
laces,embroyderings,
dye,goldfringes,
when
but
shall
hard
to
to any other
or
church,
theygo
(it
go
place,all shall be seen) 'tisbut a springeto catch woodcocks;
telleth them down
and as "^Chrysostome
right,though they
with
their
jnouths,
theyspeakin their gate ; they
say nothing
their bodies*
speakiL'iththeir eys; theyspeakin the carriage oj'
what shall we
And
say otherwise of that baringof their necks,
as

shoulders, naked

they but

only

breasts, arms

to

tempt

Nam

Free

There

needs

men

to

and

wrists,to

end

are

lust?

quid lacteolus sinus,et ipsas

*
te fers sine linteo papillas

Hoc

est

dicere,posce, posce, trade;

Hoc

est

ad Venerem

no

what

more,

vocare

araantes.

as'^Fredericus Matenesi

us

well

observes,

b Vel si forte vestiraentum

a Angerianus.
de indnstria elevetur,ut pedum ac
e Sertibiarum pars aliquaconspiciatur,
dam templum aut locum aliquem adierit.
foeminae
\iris
sed
cohabitent.
Noa
loqauta
non
quod
es
es
loqnuta
liugua,
mone,
d Joviaous
loquutaes voce, sed oculis loquutaesclarius quam voce.
gressu ; non
e De
Pontanus Baiar. lib.1. ad Hermionem.
luxu vestium discurs. 6. Nihil aliud

deest nisi ut praeco

vos

"c.
prsecedat,

Love-Melancholy.

246
but

cryer

trumpet

before them

to go

dressed,to bid

so

for defect

sound, or

to

and

Look

out, look

objectthis may

out

see

mine eye
perstringe
A gaUantlady goes,
In rich and gaudy clothes,

to what

tical

and

end

purpose?

to leave

But

intended

raptures,I'll prosecute mine

I have

as

whither away God

knows,
look out, "c. tf qu(C acquuntur,

But

or

odious

said, is an

Nec

mihi cincta Diana

Ilia

nil
voluptatis

thingof

nuda

nee
placet,

habet, hsec

all these

phantas-

theam.

nmoris ; yet it may be so used, in part,and

it is ;
be no such entisement
there can
as
b

look out ;

us

be

doth

That

Sec. 2.

sowgelderto blow,

What

[Part.3.

ness,
Naked-

remedium
itself,
at

set

times, that

Cyihera,

nimium.

espiedRersheba; the elders Susanna : Apelleswas

he was
enamored
to painther naked.
with Campaspe, when
Tiberius in Suet. cap.A^2.
supped with Sestius Gallus, an old
leacher,lihidinoso sene, eel leffeiit midce pnelUe adminhtraDavid

so

rent

some

"^

as

say

much
the

Pugnax., Amongst

Nero, and Pontus

of

Huter
the

it was
Babylonians,

of Carolus
of

custome

lascivious queans to dance, friskin in that fashion,sailh

Curtius lib. 5. and Sardus de mor.
(fent.lib. 1. wriles of others

some

to that effect. '^The

Tuscans,at

jome

set

banquets,had

naked

them; which Leonicus de varid hist,

upon
Nero
lib. 3. cap. 96. confirms of such other bawdy nations.
still
in
his
would have filthy
which
chamber,
pictures hanging
is too commonly used in our
etiam
times; and Heliogabalus,
to

ATomen

atlend

agentes,

coram

abused.

ad

vt

A servant

incitarent

venerem

maid

in Aristaenetus
hole

mistress

throughthe

sightshe

fell in love with her

key

his mother-in-law

so

things may

spyed her master

and

merrilydisposed;upon

master.

'Antoninus

be
the

Caracalla

her breasts amorouslylaid

he said, ah si liceret, O
that
was
moved,
so
open ;
that I might; M'hich she by cliance over-hearing,
replyedas

observed

he

with

much

impudently, quicquidlibet licet,thou maist do what thou

that temptation
wilt: and upon
he married her; this object
not in cause,
not the thingitself;but that unseemly,
was
un^

deceut carriaoe

"

If you

can

of it.

tell how,

you

may

cpiin. lib.33.
cpig.2^.
est.
ejus illaqueatus
"

Amatoria

misceates

pectns Virginia.

sinpthis to the tune, a sowgelder blows.

Auson.

amore
Campaspen nuilam picttiriis
Apelles,
cap. 10.
'' In
conviviis nuda^.luulieres mini.strabant
Tyrrlienis

vidit,et in ipsiscomplexibus
audit, "c. eraersitinde cupidoin
f
7. lib.2.
Epist.
iSpartiau.

Lorc-MehiHclio/if.

24S

so
pea, Assiierus conciihines,so costly,
Caesar "vas marshallino- his army,
or
an

[Part.y.

Sec. 2

long-a dressing,as
hawk

in

pruning r

J)inn molinnlur, ihtmcomnntvr, (imntscsf

tfihes
: .1 ^'fjardinrr
hi
his
and
much dcli^/it jkuus
not so
horseinun to
ait
(/ardei/,

="

his arnioi/r,
dress his horse, scour
his ship,a
a luarriiicr about
his shopand shop-book,
merchant
their faces,
as theydo about
and all those other parts: such settingup with corks,streight-

whale-bones; why

uing with

larks, to make
of such

of

stoop

men

yong

it
; "J'or

intisements

his mistress

mentSf that

as

and
span^fU's

the

ivas

them

unto

his friend

advised
Arista^netus,

in

is it but

catcheth
d;iy-net
lant
gal-

? I'ilocharus, a

Folia!nus,totake heed
sound

sweet

the smell
bracelets^

and

motion

oj'her oynt-

captivated
himjirst
;
Ilia fuit mentis

primaruina

mese.

Quid sihi vull pixidum turba, saith ''Lucian,to what use are
pins,pots, f/iasses,
oyntments. irons, combes, bodkins,settinf/and husbands
^Vhy bestoic theyall their patrimonies^
?
bina patrimoniasingulis
yearlyrevenues, on suchjboleries
auribus ; rvhyuse theydrayous,icaspes, snakes, for chains^

sticks ?

'

inamellcd

Jerro

they had

iron

their

to

istas

mauus

csscnt

with

jewelson

their

necks,

reliyuri,
atque
need

more

chains;

utinam

monilia

potiusJ'oret
dracones

vere

of them

be tied in bedlam
fan, and hair-cloths next

some

Avhipfor a
instead of wrought smocks,

have

skins; and

? dinnnm.

ears

have their

with a hot iron ; i say, some

cheeks stigmatised
of our
Jesawell
if
instead
of
served.
But
were
bels,
painting, they
why
is all this labour, all this cost, preparation,
riding,running,
dear bought stutl'e?
far fetched, and
Because,
and
ichere
he
and
would
is
nature
fair
they
Jine;
it
art.
supply by
'^

and

Sanguinequae

to that purpose

ver6

non

forsooth,
defective^

rubet,arte rubet,(Ovid.)

theyannointand

their faces,
iom^ke
\):Ami

Jlelen of Ilccuba

parvamque

cxortamqur

puellam

Europen;

"Ter.

Hortulanus non
i"a exerrettir visendis hortis,eques
''P. Aretinc.
"' EpisL 4.
tSonus annillarum
bene sonantiuin,
aroiis,nauta navibus, ".c.
Vascula
"'Tom. 4. dial. Amor.
odor unguentoruni, ike.
plena nnilfa- infelicitatis
p(|U)8,

in ha'C iinpendunt,
dracones pro nionilibus habent,qui
opiilentiani
' Castillo de
^Seneca.
dracones essent. Liician.
omnibus
hoc imprimis in votis est, ut formosac sint,aut si
nulic. lib. 1. Miilieribii.s
artis stippetias
adreipsnuon sint,videantur tainen esse ; et si (|ua parte natura defuit,
":c.
jungniit: luidc illrefaciei unctioucsjdolox tt cruciatus in arctandis corporibuSj
Ovid. " pist.
iNIed.Jasoui.
"
oniiieni

niaritorum

ntinani

vere

3. Subs.

Mem.
To

Allurements.
Artijiciall

3.]

they crush

this intent

in their

themselves, sometimes

crucifie

24r9

feet and bodies ; hurt and

in laxe clothes,an hundred

sleeve ; and sometimes

in a gown,
a
again so
^Now
tails
nudos
artus.
and
close,nt
long
trains,
exprimat
and then short, up, down, high,low, thick, thin, "c. now

yards I

think

littleor

no

bands; then

big

as

wheels;

cart

as

loose

now

and close girt,

"c.
Why is al!
; then great fardingals
this,but with the whore in the Proverbs, to intoxicate some

bodies

therefore calls it et indi^one

decipufain,
and sure
the trap of lust,
lihidinis,
token,as an ivy-bush

other?

or
cem

is to

ocnlorum

tavern.

de pixide
vultus,
Quod pulchros,
Glycere,sumas
tibi
sine
Quod
compositsenee
legecorriEe ;
in aure,
adamas, beryllus
Quod niteat digitis
Non
O

divimis,sed

sum

Glycere,in

quidcupias.

scio

that you

paintso much.

bedeck't,in order such,

Your

hair is

"With

bracelets
ringson fingers,

so

Althoughno
to be

To be admired,

in your

tell I can,
prophet,

gazed on,

circumvent

to

ear.

I fear.

novice,,

some

they do

; that instead of a lady he loves a cap

many
instead
that should
of a maid
have
and a feather ;
vertim
colorem, corpus solidum et sued plenum (asChaerea describes

times

as

his mistress in the

and

fine

Poet); a paintedface, a ruffe-band,fair

a coronet, a flowre,
liainen,

*=

(Naturasque
putat quod fuit artificis,)
he dotes on,

wroughtvraistcoate

die instead of

proper

furred conies, their

antl

like

the

then

the

whole

more

then
pretious

cases

bark

piedpetticote
; a pure
with
rich
as
generally,
better then their bodies,

or

For

woman.

are

far

of

bulk,

tree, which

cinnamon
a
their outward

their inward

is dearer

accoutrements

indowments.

'Tis

are

too

far
monly
com-

so.

"

Auferimur
Omnia

With
And

gemmis, auroque teguntur

sui.
est ipsapuella

; pars minima

gold and jewelsall is covered.

with

(While she's
And

cultu et

strange tire we

the least

with such

^ iVIodo caudatas
"c.
tunicas,
Ttr. Eunuc. Act. '2.Seen. 3.

part of

baubles

are

won,

herself)

quiteundone.

Bossus.
J Stroza fil.

Scribanias philos.
Christ,cap. 6,
"=

Ovid.

Love-Melancholy.

250
do

"Why

they keep
will

soinefimes, and
no

business

but

2.

lonir'too;-ether,
wliolc winter
a

and
by torch or candle-lig-ht,
preparation
may be,wheai theyhave
seen

shew

is't to be

what

themselves

if not

seen

tlioughadmir'd,unless

And

do

only to

Sec.

Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsse.

For what is beauty if it be not seen,
Or

why

be

not

with all the

abroad

come

iii so

[Part.5.

tlieyq^o

such

with

admir'd.
in love desir'd ?

jyate, which

counterfeit

'Philo

such
for, and use (I say it airair)
tricks,
ridiculous,
undecentattireSj^j/iarjV/er//
gestures,apish,
venis,cerussamj'routi,
ocr/lis,
fiicos genis,
ler/es
pjirjmrissam

Judteus

^"c.

use

reprehendsthem
those

to bear

publike; flock
or

see

rather

as

fashions

*=

perfumes,powders and oyntments

is itfor devotion
so
sermons
frequent;

sweet

in
.'

Basil tels them, to meet

their sweet-hearts,and
for as he saith,commonly theycome
so
provided

with such curious complements,with such g-esto that place,

and
school,a
tires,a" if they should go to a dancingtures
then
fitter
a church,
or a bawdy-house,
stage-play,
such

When

Twenty

her

comes
she-priest

to one

they all

forgetto

mass

to

say.

pray.

consecrated to f/odly
martyrs,
They make those holytemples,
the shopsof impudence,dens oj'vhores
and
uses,
rclUfious
littlebetter then brothel houses.
these thingsdayly done, their husbands

VVhen

theeves,and

and

shall

see

we

bankrupts,

honest
lighthuswives, daughters,discornutos, their wives
such
dissolute
of
how
acts, as daylywe do,
; and hear
should we think otherwise ? w hat is their end, but to deceive
if not

and

inveigle
yongmen

as

tow

produce their eflect; how

can

Anchises
in her costly
robes, he
stood before

Cum

ante

takes fire,
such
it be altered?

(as'"Homer
was

fains in

taken
instantly

ipsum staret

one

enticingobjects
When

Venus

of his

hymns)

Jovis filia,
videns

earn

formam, et stupendasvestes ;
Anchises, admirabatur
Erat enim induta pepio,
;
igneisradiis splendidiore
Habebat

Tenerum

quoque
collum

torques
ambiebant

flexiles haelices,
fulgidos,
raonilia

pulchra,

Aurea, variegata.
"" Lib. de victimis.
a S. Daniel.
Fracto incessn, obtnitu lasrivo,calaspilota,purpurissata,
pretiosoqueariiicfa palliolo,
receiis
mistraU, rincinnata,fiicata,
f Orat. in ebrios.
rans
nnguenta, ut juvenum aninin"i circuniveniat.
jactantes, trahunt
Irapudenterse mascnlonim aspertibusexponunt, insolenter comas
insanientts,
riHiieflTiiso,
ad tripudiiim
funica.s pedibasrollidentes,ociiloque
petulanti,
nieinoria!
in leniplis
in se provocantes, idqn("
adolescentiim
omnein
int^'inperanliain
^
martymin consecratis ; pomoeriunicivitatisofficinanifecerunt iinpudentia:. Hyuino

Veneri dicato.

3. Subs.

Mem.

He

amaz'd

was

she had

For

to see

of

neck-laces

And

Cunctas

vero

Tantum

ab

lire,

from

And

Which

as

ivytwisted spires;
costlybruches.

were

gold,inamell'd

ouches.

ignisinstar sequebatursplendor,
oculis dulce desiderium.

A lustre followed

came

red

aureis firabriisrespiendebat
jubar,

Accenditquein

and

tires ;

came

and

nymphs

first.

in her

as

251

in presence of Jason first,

attended by
described
she
is
as
ladies,
by ''ApoUonius,

Medea

So when

her

hood

on

her tender neck

About

Such

before Anchises

chains, and
glittering

And

her

stood

Venus

When

Allurements.
Artificial

S.]

their

offered

provok'da

have

we

like

flamingfire.
such beams,
golden borders came

in his eys

relation

them

in

themselves

sweet

desire.

Plutarch
to

the

when

queens
divers presents^
allurements, with

Anthony,^with

entisingornaments, Asiatick
such ivo7iderful
they did so inveaglethe
joy and festivity^
could contain himself^;
all was
turned
Romans, that no man
themselves
and pleasure. The ivoineti
to delight
transformed
to Bacchus
shapes; the men-children to Satyrsand Pans ; hut
quite besotted ivith Cleopatrassweet
Anthony himselfwas
pleasingtires : for when she sailed
beauty,
philters,
speeches,
and

in a
Cydnus, tvith such incredible pomp,
maids
dressed
like
her
like
the
Venus,
gildedship,herself
river

the

along

(Graces,her pages like so many Cupids; Anthony was

amazed,
and rapt beyondhimself Heliodorus, lib. 1. bringsin Damewhom
she ^ saw
in his scarfs,
to Cnemon,
neta, step-mother
It
coronet, quitemad for the love of him.
that ravished the eys of Olofernes.
And
pantofles
and

robes
rings,
was

Judiths

seeinghis wife the

love her.
instantly
not of such force,why doth
Boaz? and sJmJitli
to please

is not ashamed
to confess, that
first time, all in white,he did admire and

Cardan

If these outward
'Naomi

ornaments

give Ruth

were

counsel

how

Olofernes,washed
seekingto captivate
with sweet
The

past;

no

oyntments, dressed

her

riot in this kinde

hath

almost

man

came

*"Vit.

and

anointed

hair,and put
been

on

excessive

abroad,but curled

and

her self
attires.
costly

in

times

anointed

"= Regio dono

omatnqne certantes,
Cum ornata et incredibili pompa
per
Cydnum fluvium navigarentauratapuppi,ipsa ad similitudiuem Veneris ornatn, pnellae
Antonins
Gratiis similes,pneriCupidinibus,
ad visum stupefactus.
d Amic"

sese

tnm
e

Argonaut. 1.4.
ac

formara

snani

Antonio

chlamyde etcoronis,
qunm

Lib. de lib.prop.

Anton.

offerentes,"c.

Cnemonem, ex potestatementis excidit.

primum aspexit
S Cap. 10. 3, 4.
Rnth, 3. 3.

Love-Melanchohj.

252
"

Et matutino

sudans

spent as much

2.

Crispinus
amomo,

vix redolent

Quantum

[Parf.3. Sec.

duo

funera,

funerals at once, and with perfumed

odorali
nardo.
linirs, et rosd canos
capil/osAssi/rid(j7te
dolh
'^Sueton relate in this matter
of CaWhat
strange thing
And
lib.
Read
12.
13.
in
Dioscoet
lioulasriot?
more
Pliny,
one

two

as

rioes, Ulmus, Arnoldus, Randoletiiis de fuco

of old, (so'' Seneca
an
for itis now
art, as it was
Women
coqitentitim.

odores

sunt

7ice

difference

no

all betwixt

their and

tricking
up themselves,men
do

colours,and

harlots

extinct with
but

Uno

cost

filovillarum

inseritur ; 'tisan
hundred
oxen
an
nor

his back.

on

so

worse
"

Good

icantonness
;

they wear

walk,
jet
dance, hie
butterflies,
baboons,apes,
players,

not

and

like
mulier, hsec vir,more
So
then
ridiculous,moreover,
men.
anticks,

attires,and for

men

times.

our

beyondloomen

go

records)
ojffici-

bad and

are

complains)are

(as Seneca

manners,

in

at

decoratione

et

excessive,that

insunt

we

Hierome

as

in

are

said of

lino decies

our

old,

sestertium

prctia,
ordinarythingto put a thousand okes, and
into a suit of apparel; to wearaAvhcJe
manWhat
with shooe-ties, hangers,points,
nno

"c.
feathers, scarfs, bands, cufl^s,

in

short space
is taxed
are
Heliogabalus
patrimonies
by Lampridius,and admired in his age, for wearingjewelsin
his shooes; a common
thingin our times; not for emperours
almost
for servingmen
and taylors
but
all the
:
and princes,
and
do
s
tones
gold
descend
conflowres, stars, constellations,
pretious
caps

and

consumed.

their whole

their shooes.

the

there

and

To repress
''Lex Valeria

luxuryofthose
was
matrons,
Roman
Oppia, and a
but
laws
contradict
will
to
no
serve
Cato to
;
repress the pride
of our days ; the prodigious
riot in this kinde.
and insolency
Lucullus wardrope is put down by our ordinarycitizens;and
toset

out

coblers wife in Venice,

inferiour to a "jucen, if our
a

courtesan

in

Florence,is

no

whit

geographerssay true : and why is

all this ?
or
Why do theygloryin their jewels (as "^he saith)
in
the
clothes
?
is
all this
exult and triumph
tvhy
beautyof
the
lust.
incite
men
to
?
sooner
to
burning
cost
They pretend
but
let
them
and
take
lest
while they
heed,
ornament;
decency
set out

theirbodies,theydo

not

damn

"

their souls;tis ''Bernards

.1 Epist.90.
bHor. lib. 2. Od. 11.
Jav. Sat. 6.
cCap. 27.
et politnra
corporismnliebres munditias
Qnicqnidest boni moris levitate extingiiitur,
colores meretricios viri sumitnus, tenero et molli gradii
antece,ssinins,
snspendimus graf Liv. V\h.4.
Nat, qiia;st.
lib.7. cap. 31.
dum, non anibulamns.
in gemmis
sQuid exultas in ptilchritudine
dec. 4.
paiini?quid pjlorians
Bossus
Mat.
mulier.
de immoder.
ut facilias invites ad iibidinosum incendium?
''
cnlta.
moribus sordent^purpuratavestis,
Epist.1V.i. Fulgentnionilibus,
conscientjapannosa, cap. 3. J7.
"

3. Subs,

Mem.

counsel

in

shine

Allurements.
Artificial

3.]

jewels,stink

pie robes, and a torn

Esays prophesie,that

in

conscience.

253

conditions ; have pur^

Let them
take heed
of

their

slippersand tires be not taken

from them, sweet
balls,bracelets,earings,vailes,wimples,
glasses,fine linnen, hoods, lawns, and sweet
crisping-pins,
savours,
theybecome not bald, burnt,and stinke upon a sudden.
And
let maids beware, as ^Cyprian adviseth, lest while they
wander
their virginities
too looselyabroad, they loose not
;
fair without, but
and
like ^Egyptian temples,seem
prove
rotten
to

within.

carcasses

follow

that

good

How

counsel

much

better

; the word
of God
eyes paintedtvith chastity
their ears
yoke tied to their hair ; to
; Christs

selves

to

their husbands.

If'theywould

comelyenough,cloathe themselves

do so,

To

have

inserted

their
into

subjectthem-

theyshould

be

with the siIk

of devotion, purpleof pietyand

shall have

it for them

were

of Tertnllian?

mask
daof sanctity,
and
so
chastity,
painted,

be a suiter : Let ivhores and

^let
them painttheir faces ivith
;
queans prank
but fuelsof lust,and sir/ns
minion and cerusse
; theyare
of a
soul:
be
and
honest,
vertuous,
if
trons,
magood,
corrupt
religious
ye
and
let sobriety,
be your honour,and
modesty
chastity
God himself
and
desire.
Mulier
love
ubi nihil
recte olet,
your

they

God

himself to

up themselves

olet

all ;

then

woman

smells best, when

she hath

no

perfume at

ment
jewel(Guivarraadds)issuch an ornavertuous
to a virgin,
or
woman,
virgini
pudor,as
qnam
credit
in
wise
and
is
a
more
mans
chastity
judgement,
eye
fairerthen theythatare set
seem
theygetby their plainness,and
is with pricks; puffed
meat
out with baubles, as a butchers
up
and adorned, like so many jays,with variety
of colours. It is
Roman
reportedof Cornelia,that vertuous
lady,great Scipios
daughter, Titus Sempronius wife, and the mother of the
with a companion,
Gracchi, that beingby chance in company
a
that
huswife,
was
belike)
strange gentlewoman (some light
dressed like a May lady,and as most
of our
gentlewomen are,
^
solicitous of her head
was
more
tire,then of her health ;
that spent her time betwixt a comb and a glass; and had rather
no

crown,

chain, or

aDe

habita.
virginall
virgines. Clemens

Dum
ornari cultius,dum
evagari virginesvolunt,desinnnt
Alexantlrinus lib, de palchr.animse, ibid.
bLib. 2.
de cnltu mulierutn. Oculos depletes verecundia, inserentes in aiires
sennonem
Dei,
annectentes
crinibtisjugum Christi,
sic facile et satis eritis
caput maritis subjioientes,
ornatae : vestite vos
serico probitatis,
pndicitiae
; taliterpigbyssinosanctitatis,
purpura
habebitis amatorern.
mentatae
Denm
lascivias ; purc Suas
habeant RomanBe
ora
parissa,ac cerussa
perungant, fomenta libidinum,et corruplaementis indicia ; vesd Sollitram omamentum
Deus sit,
Bossus Plautus.
virtutisstudium.
pudicitia,
diem
citioresde capitis
sai decore quam de salute,
et
perdunt
inter pectinem
speculum
;
concinniores esse malant quam
turbari curant quam
et rempub. minus
honestiores,
Seneca.
comam.
esse

Love-Melancholif.

2jlf
he fair then honest

[Part.3.

Soc. 2.

(asCato said)and

hove the common-wealth

tn'nu'd
turvie,then her firrs marred; and she did nouj^ht
topsie
but

lier Kne
l)ragof
to

matron

and

deluded

so

much

How
to go
utitnr

and provoked theUoiiian

andj(!\,els,
ren
kept her in talk tillher child-

Cornelia

school ; and, these, said she, are

my jewels ;
and put off a proud,vain, phantasticall
huswife.

from

came

robes

hers:

shew

better

it for

were

and
civilly

matrons

our

decently, Honest
^

do

to

muUerh

a;

as

she

did,

instar

(puc
est, to

qnod

est, ad ea tanlnm
pro
and
for that use
it
it is gold,

(/nihus
opus
and when
gold as
serves,
then
itin
need
to
their
consume
it,
riot,begger
husbands,
they
and
themselves,
danm
venture
others,
inveagle
perad
prostitute
eo

auro

use

their

souls?

own

How

much

would

more

credit? Thus

Hierome

it be for their honour

said of

^J^nrius
Blesilla,
doing,as
the Gaules, Papyriusof the Samdid not so triumph over
nites, Scijno of ^Yutnantia,as she did by her temperance ;
pallid
semper veste, Sfc.they should insult and domineer over
all such inordinate,furious and unruly
lust,folly,
vain-glory,
passions.
But I am
tedious,I confess,and whilst I stand gaping
over
and

fine clothes, there is another

great allurement, (in the
which had like to have stoln out of sight,
worlds eye at least)
is
the
and that
mony ; veniunt a dote sarjitfa^,
uiony makes

after

match
came

"^Mo"ov

: 'Tis like
sauce
x^yv^ov ^hiirovaiv

condiynentum,a good dowry with

they do

but hear of

then

if they had

parts

art and

great

ornaments,
"^

bringingup, birth,
beauty,person,

Malam

vero

Ducere

non

curat

horses

stillfrom

But

for

If she be

not

more

mad

those
for

good
honesty,

but for mony.

vir bonus,
aiFerat.
dotem

seek,and
carefully
or

and

if

(6 Cyrne)quserimus
;
progeiiie
filiam
maliquepatris
uxorem,

We
Fair

3Iany

cum

men

bona

ei magnam

dogs and

Our

they

care

meat,

et equos

Nobiles, el

Modo

wife.

a rich heir,are
portion,

all the beauteous

afford ;
can
nature

*Canes

to their

our

wives, so

foul,we

care

the best breed

well may

theyspeed:
they prove wealthy,
not what
they be.

then
rich,then she is fair,fine,absolute an"l perfect;

tbryburn like fire,

they love
are
ready to hang themselves

like pigand pye,

deiirly,
if they may not have her.

her

and
No-

^ Non
" Liician.
sic Furiiis dp f Jallis,
non
Papyrius de Samnitibns,Scipiode
"
Numantia
iliase vincendo iu hac parte.
Anacreon, 4, SoIobi
ac
triiitnpbavit,
"" AlFer tecum
intueruur aurura.
si vis rivpre mecum.
iTIieognis.

Lore-

251)

Melancholy.

[Part.3.

Sec. ?.

first,
viceroyin his absence, as Nuburgensisrelates it,to
fortitiehimself,and maintain his greatness, propinqrtnrum
S7iathe

sibi fwfentes et nohiles devincire

comnihiis,plurimos

rum

his poor

vit, married

i)ydroves)

to

kinswomen

done

have

author
the

matches,

for mony

fair

adds.

Vortiger,king
Hengistthe Saxon
she had

Kent

Lithuania,138(i,was
that he turned

insomuch

himself
her sake

and
one.

empress,

by

but

and
of

but wherefore?
dukeof

much

as

daughterof

into

such

or

land,and

thev

selves,
foul, for them-

their sons, nephews,"c.

J'Jf([uhtnm prac/aram affisub spe mar/nfc promotinnis
would
non
opfrtret? Mho

nitatem
not

forth of Normandy

the chiefest nobles of the

gladto accept of

were

(which come

rura-

Mas

Britain,married

as

mine

Rowena

prince,his moriall enemy;

for her dowry. Jagellothe great

on
mightilyenamoured
Hedenga,
from a Pagan,and was
tized
bap-

Christian

the nameof

why

?
preferment

for
Uladislaus,and all his subjects,

it? she

his desire was

to have
Charls the great was

but, saith ^Zonaras, ob

daughterand

was

both
an

heir of Poland,

kingdoms incorporated

earnest

recfnum

suiter

; to annex

to

Irene the

the

empire

Yet what is the event

of the east to that of the west.
of all
that are so made
for mony, goods,b}'deceit,or
such matches
libido conjtmait,
hut follows? they
for burning lust,qiiosfoeda
w
are

almost

flash;as chaff and straw

vehementlyfor awhile, yet out in a moment:

mad

at

fired,burn

soon

but 'tisa
first,

matches

meer

made

by those allurements of burninglust ; wljere there is no respect of honesty,

parentage, vertue,
and
the
in an instant,
like,
education,
theyare extinguished
religion,
and instead of love comes
hate; for joy,repentance and
in his firstbook de re
Bnrbarus
it self. Franciscus
desperation
that fell in
uxorid, c. 5. hath a story of one Philipof Padua
whore ; and was
now
love with a common
ready to run mad
let him enjoy her;
his father having no
sons
for her
more
^ but
the
began to loath, could
aftera Jew days,
yoiiy man
endure the sightof her, andj'romone madness
as
not so much
fellinto another. Such event commoidy have all these lovers ;
so

are

all such

and he that

so

better success,
no
Venus; Theseus

marries,or for such respects,let them

then Menelaus
with

Claudius with Messalina

had

look for

with Helen

Phaedra; Minos
; shame, sorrow,

; A^ulcan with
M'ith Pasiphae; and

misery,melancholy,

discontent.

acci"Lib. 3. cap. 14. Quis nobiliiim eo tempore, sibi ant filioaut nepoti nxorem
sibi aliqiiatn
?
o
bviis
manibus
non
oblatam
ejus
acriperit
cnpiens,
propinquarutn
pere
in Angliam ejus rei gratia.
acciverat e Nonnannia
''Alexander
qaarntn ttirbam
^ Libido statioide^ Toui.
Annal.
'.i.
Gaguinus Sarmat Europ. descripL
adamavit
e
t
ferbuit,fastidiiimcoepit, quod in ea tantoper^,
aspematar, ct ab xgritadine
iiberatuH
in angoreni incidit.

3. Snh^.

Mem.

4-]

,!llnr^inei}f.i.
Aitificud

SUB8ECT.

-257

IV.

and opportunity
dis'
of iimeyplace,conference^
Importunity
dancing, musick, amorous
tales,objects,
singing,
course,
tokens,
bribes,
promises,prcfamiliarity, ptresents,
kissing,

testations,
tears, Sfc.

All

these

hitherto

allurements

I will

to

nearer

come

are

those

afar

off,and

other

at

tance;
dis-

degreesof love ;

dalliance,discourse,sing-ing-,
are, conference, kissing',
tales, objects,
presents, "c. which as so
dancing,amorous
which

many
Tatius

Syrens steal away

the hearts of

he much
neck and

averse,

then

It

is

and

men

women.

For

as

trial of a maids
sufficient
but
inicst say something
that
you
by her eyes alone,
affection
shall be more
available, and use such other forcible
engins;
her
the
hand,
her
take
and
icring
hard,
by
fingers
therefore
in
this
and
she
seem
not to
good part,
accept
sigh icilhall ; if

observes, 1. 2.

call her

no

mistris. take

her

about

the

be done

kiss her, tVc. But this cannot

except they
of
o
r
first get opportunity living, coming together
; ingress,
and
commendations
letters
and
may do much,
regress:
egress,
when
but
actions:
outward gestures and
theycome to live near

in an house,
or together
village,
love is kindled on a sudden.
Many a serving-manby reason of
his master's daughand
this opportunity importunity,
inveagles
ter;
a
runs
gentleman
manyagallantlovesadowdy;
many
upon

another, in the

one

same

street,

ladies dote upon their men, as the queen

matches
made in
so
are
in Ariosto did upon the dwarf; many
to
so
by ^necessity
haste, an(' they compelledas it were
his wifes

maids; many

in company
of others,
they been free,come
which many
or compared them
placesafford,
variety

love, which
that

seen

had

another.
have looked upon one
Or had
and
been
discourse
of
not that opportunity
familiarity offered,
contemned
and
for want
loathed
have
those,whom
would
they
to a

third,Mould

never

driven on;
of better choice and other objects,
theyare fatally
full diet,"c. are
of their hot bloud, idle life,
and by reason
And
times
next.
forced to dote upon them that come
many
aff'ect
each
cannot
those which at the firstsight
other,
fancyor
but

De

are

harsh and

offended
readyto disagree,

facere
voiuntate pericnlum
puellsB

solis oculis

non

est

with each others

satis,sed efficaciusali-

taiige,
quid agere oportet, ibique etiam inachinam alteram adhibere : itaque inanua
suspira; si haec agenteni sequo se animo
digitos
constriDge,atque inter stringenduiu
domioam
turn vero
ejusquecollum
appella,
feret,neque facta hujusmodiaspernabitur,
t"
fiuaviare.
doga will eat dirtypuddings.
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[Part.3.

Sec.

2.

like Benedict and Beatrice in the *comcedy; and in

carriage,
whom
togetherin a
they finde many faults, by this livint^
and such like allurements,
house, conference, kissing-,
colling-,
dote
one
insensibly
begin at last to
upon another.
wife had to dote
the greatest motive that Fotiphars
It was
ter,
Leucippehis unkles daughupon Joseph;and ''Clitiphonupon
it
the
because
plaguebeingat Bi/ance, was his fortune for
time

telleth

sojourn with her,

to

sit next

to

in Tatius

the tale himself

her

lib. 2.

at

the

table, as he

(whichthough it be

is grounded on good observation,and doth

fiction,
the
to
passionsof lovers;)he had opportunity
express

but

her

by

hand, and

the

after

while

him almost

made
paps, "c. which
the like confession
makes
"^

first to Sosthenes'

sat

lib. 1. when
table

at

with

he

with her

bare.
half'

breasts opeyi, amis

laccrtos,
pedeni,discincta sinum, spoliata

Nuda

after the

came

Cratistes his

waitingon them
friend,Ismene, Sosthenes' daughter,
"J

take

kiss,and handle her

Ismenius, the orator,

to

mad.

to Eustathius

house, and

well

fashion

Greek

in those

parte lacertos,(as Daphne

times, ''vndo^media plus

"

when

Mas

she

fled from

Phoebus)

him much; was

ever
readyto give attendance on
oft'him ; rof/abiindi
never
him, to fillhim drink ; her eys were
oculiythose speaking eys, courtingeyes, enchanting eys ;
still smilingon him, and when
but she was
they were risen,
moved

which

^ she
gotten a littleopportunity,

that she had

came

and

drank

to

him, and withall trod upon

and

when

wring

his

hand,

first she

means

his toes, and would come

and go,
the
she would
not
speak for
company,
and blush when
she met him : and by this
him
hauriebam
overcame
(bibens umorem

she could

kiss the cup and drink to him, and smile,

and drink where he drank on that side of the cup ; by which
mutual
kissing,
wringingof hands, treadingof
compressions,
sorbillare
feet,"c. ipsam ynihi videbar
virginem,I sipt,and
she would

simul);

I
and siptso long,tillat length,
sipt,
a

Philocharinus

sudden.

chance, a
looked

stranger

meer

back
'" lile

at him

"

Shakespeare.

drunk

met
a
Arista?netus,

to him

again,and

dies lethi

Causa

sin

was

; he

looked

smiled

back

in love

upon

fair main

by

at her ; she

withall.

primus,primusquemalorum

fuit

''Tatius lib.1.

f In mainmarum
attracfu,non
"'0\id. 1. ]\Iet.
"'IMautuan.
fortuis intuita,tenueni
de pectore spiritum

et attrectatus, "c.
aspernanda ine"t jucunditas,

ad cubittiin nuda, coram

Manus
astans,
et bibens
ducena, digitum meura
pressit,
pedem pressit
cor; niiituae conipressionea
Et bibit eodsm
labionim commixtiones, pedam connexiones, "c.
loco,"c.
porum,

"

8:c.
Epist.4. Kespexi,respexitet ilU subridens,

Vir. .^n. 4.

Mem.

3. Subs.

It

the sole

was

that undid

are

S59'

and love
of his fartlier acquaintance,

cause

him.
credere

nuUis tutum

This

Allurements.
Artificial

4.]

blandiiiis.

and place,
with their circumstances,
forcible motives, that it is unpossible
almost for two

of time
opportunity

so

and not be in
folks,equallin years, to live together,
in
love; especial! great houses, princescourts, where they
idle in summo
are
gradu, fare well, live at ease, and cannot

young

tell otherwise

how

''

Achilles

spend their

lllicHippolitum
pone,

by his

sent

was

to

time.

Priapuserit.

Thetis, to the island of

mother

Scyros

in his nonin the ^gean sea, (where Lycomedes then raigned)

age,
of the Oracle
to be broughtup ; to avoid that hard destiny
(heshould beslain at the siegeof Troy):and for that cause was
nurtured

in

habit; but

Geneseo, amongst
the event!

see

the

kingschddren

coinprestDeidamia

He

in

womans

the

kings

fair daughter,
and had a fine son called Pyrrhus,
by her. Peter
he
tells
tale
the
the
himself,being
as
Albelhardus,
philosopher,
set

by Fulbertus

niece,
unkle,to teach Helonissa his lovely
sojournedin his house, and had committed

her

and to that purpose

tenellamj'anielico
hipo,(Iuse
oscula
her
erant
will,
plura
good
got
agnam

read

own

words),he

soon

and he
sententi(s,
qnam
of love then any other lecture ; such prettyfeats can

more

opportunity
plea; primvm
But

his

when

as

I say 7iox,

domo

vinum,

et

inde animis, ^-c.

conjuncti,
adolescentia,
youth,wine,

and

conscia,'tisa
night,shall concur, nox amoris et quietis
head
and
all
in love ; for
be
not
ears
they
plungedover
et prona
bustible
materies,a very comyouth is benignain amorem,
the
fuell
loves
a
nd
of
most
fire,
matter, Naphthe itself,

wonder

aptto kindle it. If there be

you shall have

three

servants

seven

couplein

in an

house,
ordinary

at least;and
good liking
be
how
otherwise?
should
it
Livingat
amongst idle persons
''Rome, saith Aretines Lucretia,in thejloicre
of my Jhrtmiest
rich,
f air yong, and so well broughtup, my conversation,age^
beauty,fortune,made all the world admire and love me.
Nightalone,that one occasion,is enoughto set all on fire ; and
they are so cunningin great houses,that theymake their best
advantageof it: many a gentlewoman,that is guiltyto her
self of her imperfections,
will not willingly
paintings,
impostures,
be seen
by day, but as Castilio noteth, in the night,
some

'^

"" Ovid. amor.

"= Romae
lib.2. eleg.2.
Propertius.
setas forma, gratiacomersationis,maxiroe
meae,
opnientire
-l De Aulic. 1.1. fol.b.'?.
lem,"e.
a

et

me

vivens flore fortune,

fecerunt expetibi-

%2

I.ove-Miliinvholii.

'2()()
dh'm

the
and

Sec. 2.

(jltsodit,tcedarum

luc.em super omnia mavulty slie liates

loves torches
dor-mouse, and above all things,

ut

day like a
and
candle-light;
'

covets,

as

sight.

And

and

[Part.3.

in

mercers

good
an

many

ifshe must

reason

amorous

abroad

come

in the

obfuscate

shop,a

very
she hath for it : Node

gull is fetched

day,she

and

obscure

latent

by

over

that

mendcSy
means.

lib. 3. de sale gen. c. 22. givesinstance in a Florentine

deceived
that
with
wife
so
was
a
: she was
gentleman,

Gomesius

and jewels,
set out with rings,
lawns, scarfs,laces,
radiently
gold,spangles,and gaudy devices, that the yong man took
her but by torchlight)
her to be a godtless
but
saw
(forhe never
when
he viewed
her the next
after the wedding solemnities,
as
formed,
morning-without her tires,and in a clear day,she was so decreature
in his
riveld,"c. such a beastly
lean,yellow,
so

eys, that ho could not endure to look upon her.

where they have
in Italy,
made
are
frequently
to
see

them

tillsuch

Such
no

theygo to church; or,

i'ew or no words,
distance,theymust interchange
to be married
then, as Sardus
they come
; and
but when

wooe

at a

time

matches

other tunity
oppor''in Turkic,
as

lib. 1. cap. 3. de morib. gent, and

the bride is
old Lacedemonians,
with he)- hair girtabout her : the

Bohemus

relate of those
brought into the chamber,
*^

in, and
bridegroomcomes
her at all by day-light,
not see
till
unties the knot, and must
such time as he is made a father by her. In those hotter countries
this
these are
day ; but in our
ordinarypracticesat
northern

parts amongst

Germans, Danes, French, and Bri-

taines,the continent of Scandia

and the rest, we

assume

more

allow them, as Bohemus

in such cases
; we
saith,to
liberty
in cauponam
kiss coming and going, et modo absit lascivia,
ducere, to talk merrily,
sport, play,sing,and dance, so that
and
it be modestly done; go to the alehouse
tavern
gether.
toAnd
'tis not amiss, ''though
Chrysostome,Cyprian,
the
other
fathers
of
and
some
llierome,
speak bitterly
it
that
which
is
abuse
is
but
the
commonly seen at
against
drunken
matches, dissolute meetings,or great unruly
some
trim-bearded
feasts.
^ young
pittivanted,
J'ellow,saith
with a company
Hierome, icill come
oj'complements,and
hold you up by the arm
as
you go, and wringingyour Jingers,
:

will

so

be

entise ;
or
entised,

one

drinks

to

you^

another

em-

"" Busbeq. epist.

"
" Ut adulteriui mercatonim
Paranympha in cubiparDi.
ad cutiiu referebat ; sponsus inde ad earn
ingressuscinpuluni
cnluin adducta capilloH
"i Serin,
aspexitinterdiiiqaam ei iliafactua esset pater.
solvebat, nee priussponsam
" Lib. 2.
et virginem et roatrein viduam epist.10.
concub.
cout
epist.ad filiuin,
et pressisdigitis
ant tentaDabit tibi bnrbatiilns qaispiamnjaDura, sustentabit lassarn,

bitur aiit tentabit,"c.

3. Subs.

Mem.

braceth, a

Allurements,
Artijicial

4.]

third kisseth,and all this while the Jidler

plays
lascivious song ; a fourth singles
you out to dance^

singsa
and
speaks by becks and signs,
; amongst so
by passions
say, signifies
or

261

that which

one

he dares not

many and so great provocations

lust
the
hard and crabbed
most
of pleasure,
conquers
live honest amongst feasting
can
a man
minds ; and scarce
s and
*"
such
lie
she
great meetings. For as
sports,or at
goes on
with
the
and
her
walks along,
makes men
look
clothes,
ruffling
of
in
at her ; her shooes creek,her paps tied up, her waste
pulled to
she
is
her hair hangsloose
make her look small,
straight
girded,
her
sometimes
her
about
times
ears,
falls,and someupper garment

tarries,to shew her naked

shoulders ; and
that in all haste,which

be seen, she covers

And not at
shewed.
not

*=but

feasts,
playes,
pageants, and such
Chrysostome objects,these tricks are

as

time

practiceat service
itself.If such dumb
of love
full

blies,
assem-

put in

in

churches,aiid at the communion

obscure signifishews, signs,and more
cations
what
shall
that
so
do
have
move,
they

can

libertyto sing,dance, kiss,coll,to

and

ifshe would
she
voluntarily

as

dalliance !

What

all

use

manner

of discourse

shall he do that is beleagred

of

all sides?
^

Quern tot, tarn rosse petunt puellese.

Quern cultee cupiunt
nurus, amorque
Omnis

Omnis

undique et undecunqueet usque,

Amor, Venusque,Hymenque:

ambit

After whom
Whom

so

many
daintydames

rosie maids

enquire.
lovingwightsdesire,

and

In every place,still,
and at all times sue,
Whom
and
gods
gentlegoddessesdo wooe

shall he contain?

How

The

it self

affected

an

^P. .Jovius commends

and

some

of their

voices,

tone

; but when

concur,

have

of

tone

they use, is able of

to captivate
a
man
a
good wit shall
yong
course,
art and
eloquence,fascinating
speech,pleasantdissweet
cannot
so
chant.
engestures, the Syrensthemselves

speech;
pretty pleasing

very

an

excellent

his Italian country-women,

to
all other nations;

in this kinde, above

faculty

amongst them, the Florentine ladies:

some

preferRoman

metuit dicere.signiScabit
affectibas. Inter has
Loquetur alius nntibus,et quicqiiid
Difficileinter epiilas
libido domat.
voluptatnmillecebras etiam ferreas mentes

tantas

servatnr

pudicitia.

Clamore

vestiura ad

se

juvenes

vocat

fasciolis
capilli

decingnlopectus arctatur, capilli

vel in frontem, vel in anres
eomprimuntnr crispati,
flaunt: pallioluminterdnm cadit iit nudet humeros, et quasi videri noluerit,festinans
In sancto
et reverendo
Serm. cont concnb.
oelat,quod volens detexerit.
sacramfTitorani
tempore mnltas orcasiones,ut illisplaceantqui eas vident,prjebent.
""

Pont. Baia. 1.1.

"

Descr. Brit.

Love-Melanchoh/.

262

ami
such

[Pari.3.

Soc. 2.

have such pleasing

Vcnetiaiicurtf'sans,tliey
tongues, ami
of speech,that they are able to overcome
a
^eleg-ancy

saint.
Pro

facie multis

gratiavocufamam

Tantd

vox

lena fiiit.

sua

concUkihat, saith Petronius

''inliis

I mean
his Satyricon;
dulcis
tam
fragmentof pure impurities,
cant are Sijrenum
sonus
aera, utputures inter aurns
permulcebat
concordiam
she
that
she
charmed
the ayr,aml
;
sang so sweetly
thou woultlst have thoughtthou hadst heard a concert
of Syrens.
how sweet it is!
O ffoodGod, 2rhen Lais speaks,
Philocolus
To hear a fair yong gentlewoman
exclaims
in Aristaenetus,
lute, vial,and singto it,which as
play upon the virginals,
the
observes, lib. 1. cap. 11. are lascivientiam delicicc,
of
needs
be a great entisement.
delighte lovers, must

Gellius
chief

Parthenis

taken.

so

was

Ml

ista avid"

vox

haurit ab

animam

aure

Harpedona (shelaments)I am undone, how sweethj

he sings! I'll speak a hold word, he is the properest man
he sifigs
! I dyefor
that ever I saio in my life
: O hoic sweetly
his sake: O that he w'ould love me
again! If thou didst but
hear her sing,saith ^ Lucian, thou wouldst forgetfather and
her. Helena is highly
mother forsakeallthyfriends,andfolloiv
commended
by Theocritus the poet for her sweet voice and
could play so well as she, and Daphnisin the
musick
none
same
Idyllion,

O sister

''

Quam

tibi os

Jucundius
How

sweet

Hony
A sweet

est

dulce

est, et

amabilis,6 Daphni !

vox

audire te canentem,

quam

face hath

it self is not

so

voice and musick

are

powerfulentisers.

diadematibus insulfdrunt,insulted
"^
Plutarch contends.

Argus

had

est
"Res
amandi.
cpdol

luminibus

hundred

an

blanda

canon

cinctum

eys, all

and

over

voice !

Those

Saraian

Agathocleia,
rf'fjrm

kings themselves, as

caput Argus habebat,

so

charmed

by

one

silly
pipe,

disctint cantare

Epist.I.1.
"^

bngere.

Daphne,how lovelya
in my choice.
pleasant

singingwenches, Aristonica,Onanthc

Centum

mel

Cum

piipllxpro facip,8cc. OviH. 3. do arf.

loquiturLais, quanta, O Dii boni, vocis ejus dul-

5
Aristipnetus lib. 2. epist.

Quam

suave

canit ! verbuni audax

'' Imadixi,omnium
ni?
quisvidi formosissimus, ntinam amare
dipnetur!
pinps.sicaotantera audieris,ifa dpmnlceberp, ut parrntum etpatn?^ statirooblivisrarii.
f Amatoiio
" Idyl.13.
Dialogo.
Neque sane ulla sic citharam pulsareno\it.

[Fart.5. Sec.

Love-Melanchohj.

264

Lucretia

"Peter Aretines

tellotlias

ij'I had
I countorj'eitedhonest}!
,
as

much
been

and

of her

more

2.

self;

more
virgovirginissima,

and
so demure
the7ia vestal virf/in
; I looked like a wife,I teas
such
and mor/estures,tunes, speeches,
sif/ns
chaste^ I did add
that
and
all
auditors
were
tiotisupon
occasions,
mj/ spectators
all to their places^like so
fastned
enchanted,
stupified,
many

gentlewomen are fetched over

Many silly
of gulsand swaggeringcompanions,
in like sort, by a company
that frequently
belynoblemens favours;rimingCoribantiasmi,
Rhadomantes
or
Thrasonean
thing
Bombomachides, that have noends
and
but
few
vain
them
in
a
players
complements;
that
discourse at table
can
intruders,
impudent
braggadocians,
lords combats, like ^'Lucians Leontiscus,
of
of knights and
stocks and

stones.

travels,brave adventures,and such commontrivial

their clothes
ride,dance, singold ballet tunes, and wear
news;
in fashion,with a good grace ; a fine sweet
gentleman,a proper
other

mens

could

who

man,

her friends say no,

incensed

will have

him

him.

Some

though she beg with

toyes,Amadis

by reading

amorous

de

though all
again

are

Gaul, Palmerin

the Sun, "c. or hearingsuch tales of

of their persons, lascivious discourses,such
lovers,descriptions

Oliva,the Knight of

de
*^

She

love him!

not

Astyanassa,Helenas

as

Suidas,

writ of

old, devariis

the

by

waitingwoman,

report of

modis ; and after her,

lighttracts of ''Aristides

concuhitus
those

and

Elephantine; or
(mentionedby Plutarch)and found by the Persians,
Aretines Dialogues,
Crassus
army, amongst the spoilers;

Philenis

Milesius
in

love songs, "c.

ditties,
such like pictures,as those

with

what

kind

soever:

must

of

needs

set

Aretine,

or

stronrferenginethen

no

love toyes,fablesand
mad.
are
means
fptite

discourses
At

Abdera

them

to

hear

saith)and
("^one
in Thrace

with
fire,

on

anton

objectsin
or

many

read

of

by

this

(Andromeda

one

so
Euripidestragediesbeing played)the spectators were
love speeches
and those pathetical
moved with the object,
much

of

of Perseus, amongst
^'C. that every man,

O Cupid.Prince of'Godsandmeji,
therest,
almost, a good while after spake pure

speech,O Cnpid,Prince
when
As car-men,
boyes and prentises,
of Gods and men.
that
still
with
is
tune
new
a new
us, go singing
published
song
seus,
acted that tragical
in the streets; theycontinually
part of PerO Cupid; in every street,
mouth
and in every mans
wa/"

and
iarabicks,

raved

stillon

Ital.LaL
Fingebam bonestaiitlerii.
Jasper.Barthio Oerm.
"c.
'"Tom.
gestiis,
; intiiebaroculis nxoris,addebam
incitatioest,
"" Amatorius
vehemens
vehementis cnpiditatis
serino
"" Pe
" .-Eneas Silvias.
Nnlla
Inxuria et deliciiscompositi.
lectio lascivap historiw; saepe etiam hujnsinodifabulis ad furo-

*Pornodiclascalo"lial.

Vestalis
templusquam Virginia
4. dial, merit

Tatins I.1.
oaachina validior qiiam
reuj

incenduntor.

Perseus

Allurements.
4.] Artificial

3. Subs.

Mem.

265

almost,O Cupid,Prince

house

of Gods and
theywere
men;
and
that
with
of
all
that
thought
rapture,
so
pathepossessed
tical love speech,
they could not a long time after forget,or
drive it out of their minds, but O Cupid,Prince of Gods and
This (belike)
in their mouths.
made
was
ever
Aristotle,
men,
Cupid; in

every

stilllike
pronouncing

O Cupid:
stage-players,

Polit. lib. 7. cap. 18. forbid yong

hear

let not

Romans,
the suburbs, extra

as

marriage,and
And

to say
to be

come

To

actor

an

kiss and

be

to

is as
provocations,

many

lascivious

? And

lascivious
almost

temple in

insuescanty
an

garden,being
Thetis
pictures,
beside himself.

objectwho
much

this

will not such

in Sosthenes

what, was

not

dally,kiss,dance

others

see

"

so

saw

venereis

objects.For what

he walked

as

I know
truth,with

And

matters.

adolescentes

ne

and

he

love,when

such

Vitruvius relates,
put Venus

miirum,

to avoid all occasions

objectdo? Ismenius
now

at all with

folks meddle

yong

in

facilesque
puellae

juvenesnequam
igitur
Inspiciant
Hsec

the

made

to

tales.

amorous
*

comosdies,or

to see

men

is not

moved,

when

more

to

he shall

himself.

kissed, which
burden

in

other lascivious

amongst

song, and

most

tery,
forcible bat-

infectious,
'^Xenophon thinks,as the poyson of a spider;
fire it self;proocmium aut
a
allurement;
ana
great
lust
of
the
(as Apuieiusadds)
burning
ticcenium,
prologue
lust it self;
as

"=

Venus

quintaparte sui

that conquers
strong assault,

nectaris imbuit.

captains,and

those

all

manding
com-

forces,
f

Domasque

ferro sed domaris

osculo.

a
Lucretia, when she would in kindness overcome
suiter of hers, and have her desire of him, took him about the
s

Aretines

neck, and kissed him again and again; and

could

not

otherwise

And

condescend.
''hoc

she
effect,

non

made

him

'tis a continual

so

to that which

speedilyand

she
ingly
will-

assault,

deficitincipitque
semper,

"= Eustathins
" Martial. 1.4.
^Lib. 1. c. 7.
1. 1. Pictiiraeparant animiitn
cubiculo
traditar; nam
Horatins ad res venereas
ad Venerem, "c.
intemperantior
sic specula dicitnr habaisse disposita,
ut quocnnqne
respexissetimaginem coitus
8U0
" Hor.
d Oscnlum
referrent. Suetonius vit. ejus.
nt phylangiuminficiL
hpc.
^Heinsins.
illiproximius
s Applicome
et spissedeosculata
sagtim pete

tronins catalect.

Love-Melancholy.

-G6

always fresh, and ready

'-Tenta niodo
Jam

''beginas

to

finetenninaiur,sed semper
with it.

hath

calore fluent.

as
theyshall belasciviously
given,
Especiallywhen

said/e"

pressulum

me

catenatis
deosculataj'otis,

he

feolinjrly

oblacertis,'^

labello.
valfjiter

torto

Valgissuaviis,

Dum

semiulco

puellamsuavior,

Anima

tunc

all is moved

soul and

quoque
anhelantes

complexus

Haesimus

segra et saucia
ad labia mihi.
^

pitabant,atiiniarum
animas

Errantes

breath

Jam

phiribns osculis labra

mixturam

ere-

inter mutuos
J'acientes,

calentes,

Et transfudimus

They

suavio

Meam

Concurrit

The

nulla

fierytoucli

tangcre corpus,

mellifluo membra

tua

first;basium

at

est, and

recens

Sec. 2.

o.
[Vixvt.

bine et hinc labellis

animas, valete

curse.

with their
their souls and spirits
tog^ether
Balthazar Castilio ; change hearts and spirits^

out

kisses, saith

as
nexion
theydo kisses ; and it is rather a conmingleaffections
And
then
minde
the
the
these
although
body.
of
of
ambrosian kisses,
and pleasant,
kisses be delightsome

and

"

such
then
Love

Gauymedes

The

As
Yet

dulci dulcius

ambrosia,

Jupiter,JVectare suavius,sweeter
nectar, balsome, hony,'^^Oscnlamerumamorenistillantiaf
droppingkisses ; for

as
'

Suaviolum

theyleave
"

gave

is not so sweet,
the rose
gilliflower,
sugredkisses be, when lovers meet.
an

Ut mt

irksome
ex

like
impression,

ambrosia

Suaviolum

mu

latum

jam

thatof aloes

or

gaul;

foret illud

tristitristius hellebore.

'' Petronius.
deinde centum, ".c.
mihi basia niille,
'Petronius
"" petronius.
eApnleius.
"^
etiam
'' Animus
etspiritus
p Petronius.
ronjnngitur,
Proseleos ad.Circen.
infundentes
commiscent;
in
a
ltematim
osculum
utriusque
se
cfflait;
noster per
corjius
^ l^ucian. Tom.
4.
'Catullus.
anima? potiusfjuam corporisronnexio,
dat
thymumque
nardum,
' Non
suavcolentes,
dat
anirox
rores
dat basia, dat Nera nectar,
"Catullus.
"' Eustathius
lib.4.
Secundus
has. 4.
et mel, "c.

Da
Catullus ad Lesbiam.
10. et Catalect.
Apuleinsl.
*

cinnawumque

jNIeiii.
3. Subs.

They

firstambrose

At

last black hellebor

deceitful kisses

are

not

was

sweeter.
bitter.
so

Why

dost within

And

with false kisses

thine

Et quse

me

the bane

are

lap,
?
intrap

arms
me

destructive,and the

are

kisses,1

not

2G7

lacertis ?
Quid me mollibus implicas
Quid fallacibus osculis inescas ? "c.

''

They

itselfwas

At

They

Allurements.
Artificial

4.]

me

the

more

oscula
perdunt,

worse

mille dabat

of these miserable

lovers.

There be honest

deny not; oscuhimcharitatis, friemWykisses,modest

kisses,officious and ceremonial

kisses, vestall-virg'in
Osculi
are

of
gifts

proper

"Ct
kisses,

and
amplexus, kissing-

brachiorum

sensns,

nature

to

man

but these

embracinotoo

are

vious
lasci-

kisses,
"=

too

continuate, and

vincunt
bill as

circum

suos
Implicuitque

mea

colla

"c.
lacertos,

violent,"^ Brachia

too

hedercc,
non

non

like ivy:close as
oscula corichcB ; theycling
of lips,
doves ; meretricious
kisses,biting
cum

an

oyster;
addita-

ore
ut vix labia detrahant,
(saith^Lucian)
mento; tain impresso
inter deosculanduni
turn
et
os aperientes
mordicantes,
quoque et
mammas
attrectantes, ^-c.such kisses as she gave to Gyton,

oscula dedit

innumera

innumerable
kisses

non

kisses,"c.
those that *he

: as

cervicem invadens,
repuc/nantipuerOy
More
then kisses, or
too
homely
ab
Venere
7
of,
Accepturus
spake
ipsa

suavia,^-c.with such

other obscenities,that vain lovers use,

which

and

cas.

be

abominable

are

kiss

holds,every
peccatum,

cons,

mortale

Adulter est quisqnis

in
that of Thomas
Secund.
iactns

et osculum

If,asPeterde Ledesmo
pernicious.
a man
giveshis "vife after marriage,
mortal

uxorem

sin

suam

Secund.

sit mortale

; or

that

of

"

Hierome,

ardentior

est amator,
or
4.
154.
artic.
conqucest.

peccatum;

or

that of Durand.

Rational,
toto

lib. 1. cap. 10. abstinere debent conjurfesa

complexu,
what
solennitas
tempore quo
nuptiarnminterdicitur, shall

become
of all such ^ immodest
kisses and obscene
fore-runners of brutish lust,if not lust itself?

the
actions,
What

shall

3 Buchanan.
'iCiitncapita
'^Ovid.
hOvid. art. am.
Eleg. 18
liment solitis morsinncnlis, et cum
maniniillarura pressiunculis.
Lip. od. ant. lee.
f
blandientis
lib.3.
eTum. 4. dial, nieretr.
Apaleins Miles. 6. Et unum
suaadmul.suni
Arctiiis
complexiiscwpi
meilitum
earn
longe
:
etposflib.il.
lipgufe
illisunectareo,
viarijamque pariterpatentis
oris iohalitiiciuuameo
etoccnrsantislingiice
h Oscula
si nouet ca;tera
"c.
sLib. 1. advers. Jovin. cap. 30.
qui sunipsit,

sumpsit,"c.

Love-Melancholy.

2f)8
become
have

of them, that often abuse

I to do with this ?
wliicli I aim

theirown

wives

Sec. 2.

But what

sliew

of this
you the progress
all
this
which
therto
1 have hil)urninglust :
out of that eleg-ant
said,with a familiarexample
Musaeus;
those amorous
but with me
observe
proceedingsof Leander

That

at, is

3.
[Part.

to

therefore
epitomize

to

and Hero : they

lascivious look ;

began first to

look

one

inde nutibus,
in errorem

Oblique intuens

niutis inducens

Nutibus

nutibus mutuis,

Et ilia e contra

the other

on

juvenis

verbum
audi

Preces

ait amoris

ictus

amoris

miserere

et

Sic fatus recusantis

An

in the dark

his

nods

"c.

puellae,

he firstbegan,

mind,
and

nods

smiles

he took her

it hard, and

wrung

And

kiss'd her too, and

With, pittyme,

sweet

with such

words

again

by

the hand,

sighedgrievously,
woo'd

heart, or
and

her

as

he

else I die

gestures

as

might.
:

there

past.

his mistress favour at the last.

won

described by Apollonius
is elegantly
in
proceedings

betwixt
Argonauticks,

in the ten

mei,

persuasit

And

And

stimulo,

he did find.

answer

And

same

and

becks

osculatus,

mentem

try the wenche's

To
With

The

and

becks

With

suspirabat

olens collum

bene

autem
Virginis

Tale

I/ide

Inde

Vehementer

He

imo

ex
digitos,
puellse

puellae

mentera

Leandri quod amorem

non
renuit,"c.
Adibat in tenebris tacite quidem stringens
Roseos

with

booksof

his

Tatius, betwixt

Jason

thelovesof

and

Medea;

by Eustathius,

Ismeniusandlsmene

; Achilles

Clitiphonand Leucippe; Chaucers

neat

of Troilus and Cresseide; and in that notable tale in

Petronius, of a souldier and a gentlewoman of Ephesus,that

poeme
was

so

Asia for her

all over

famous

for her husband

lovers used
as

and
chastity,

the souklier wooed

that mourned

her with such

rhetorick

amori ? 6cr.
do, plackoneethim pitgnabis
her
he
good will,
at ]nfit.fr(n"f/i
pertinaciampassa rsf,
got
uf^-"v*^
husbands
not only to satisfie his lust, ''but to hang her dead
stead
of
which
he
in
thethiefsthat
the
watched,
cross
body on
r^jVAf

to

"

Mhilest he woo'd
her in her cabin.
away,
but
will
have
most
tales,
they
say :
you

newly stoln

was

These

are

morals, and

significan

do

well

express

those

of
ordinaryproceedings

doting lovers.
"Corpui pkcoilmariti sni tolliex

area,

atqiieilliqtiw vacabat criici adfigi.."^

Allurements.
Arl'ijicial

4.]

xMeiii.3. Subs.

269

winks, smiles,
Many such allurements there are, nods,jests,
tokens,
favours,
"c.
symbols, letters,
valentines,
wrastlings,
which

For
have

women

used

when

belike,Godfridus

cause,

learn

to

they

et
Etfugitadsalices,

mistress

My

And

Yet
And

'

many

but if he chance

me.

covert

goes
would be

Leander
full often

seen

poor

as

knows.

displeased
;

one

lookt

behind.

did she finde

excuses

lingerby the

To

applewooes

but
self,

she went,

as

videri.

cupitante

se

an

from

trippedaway

so

all her heart before,God

With

Hero

with

to
hastily

hide her

To

not

petitlasciva puella,

Galatea

me

would

amor,

such

in presence,

come

Malo

lib. 2. de

Many
provocationsare
will
and will not.
they

write.

way,

her, she is most

to overtake

averse, nice and

coy,

Denegat et pugnat, sed

She

not

seems

In such

but

won,

women

wars

vult super
won

she

omnia

is at

but half their

use

vinci.

length,

strength.

theylye open, and are most tractable and coming*,

and willingto embrace,
to take a green
apt, yielding
gown,
with that shepardess
in Theocritus, Idyl.2^. to let their coats,
and to some,
"c. to play and dally,at such seasons,
as
they
their advantage; and then coy, close again,so nice, so
spy
so
demure, you had much better tame a colt,catch or
surly,
Sometimes

ride

horse,then get her favour,or win her love ; not a

Aretines Lusmile,not a kiss for a kingdome.

wild

look,not
cretia

"^

was

an

excellent artisan in this

kinde,as she tellsherown

and fair^
and art most beautijul
amiable then I was:
yet by these tricks J seem'd to be far more
which
and
that
seek
cannot
attain,draws
men
for
earnestly
I had a suitor
their ajfection
with a most furiousdesire.
on

tale; Though I

lov'd

and
dearly(saidshe)

me

eagerlyhe

Nov!

act. 4.

sc.

by nature

was

wooed

me,

the

more

the ''more
I seem'd

ingeniummulierum, iioluntubi velis,ubi

7.

Marlow.
Gasp. Barthio Genuauo.
Quanquam

donat.

tamen

astu tanto

speciosior
videbar,quod

enim

hegaveme, the more

to scorn
to neglect,

Ter. Eunuc.
nolis cupiunt ultro.
cJial.Ital.Latin,
"= Pornodidascalo

formosissima, isto
natura et arte erani
oculis cupitum aegras prsbetur,multo

"" Quo majoribuame

magis affectus humanos incendit.
"c.
pejoribusilium modis tractabam,ne basium impetravit,

donis

eo
propitiabat,

Love-Melancholy.

2/0

[Part.3. Sec.

I wouhl
him; and (whichI commonly gave others)
converse

me,

see

with

the more,

my

he

(forhim

to

servant; which

kiss.

company,

let him

not

To

onely I aimed

bringin

in my
he did

was

not

no

over

servant,

own

whilst

count,

me,

and fetch him

have

2.

gull him
m) I personated

present from
if he had
as

Spanish

been

the

well perform; Comes

excellently
hath
mnater
de montc
sent your
Turco, my
a
lordship
his
and
1
1
a pieceofvenisoUy a
Sinn
Imyiting,
part of
present,
ichick
Si-c.
she bought with
(all
a
pheasant, few partridges,
counts

lord and

her

his love and

commends

mony)

own

you
come

which

coronets
scarfs,

others had

sent

to

service

to accept of it in good part, and he

Withall
she shewed
and see you.

means

desirinq

you,

shortlyto
rings,gloves,

very

him

her,when

there
''Bythese

was

no

him.
matter, but onelyto circumvent
means
made
the
/
she
that
concludes)
so
he
gentleman
mad,
(as
poor
and
his
venture
dearest blond for
was
ready to spend himself,

such

Philinna

sake.

my

in

"

all this longbefore,

Lucian, practised

it shall appear unto you by her discourse;for when

to see her (ashis dailycustome
lus her sweet-heart came
would
him her
not vouchsafe
she frow ned upon
him,

Diphi-

as

was)

company,

but

kissed

his face:

Lamprias his corrivall,at

it ?
To make
but why w^as

that

mother

chid

her

for

it) more

the

same

him

(asshe telleth her

jealous;

time

to

'

before

whetten

his

with a greater appetite

love ; to come
to know
that her
; and
had.
easie to be
not
favour was
so
Many other tricks she
she
there
this
beside
used
for she would
fall
confesseth)
(as
him
of
and
set
out with,
anger
purpose, pick quarrelsupon no
would
be reconciled
she
because
to him
occasion,
a^aiu.
the old sayingis ^ the
as
redintegratio,
out of lovers is the renewing of love; and according
to
fiilling
that of Arktxnetus, jucundiores amorum
delicice,
post injurias
the
beams
love is increased by injuries,
sun
as
are
more
graAnd
this
tious after a cloud.
is
surely
aphorism most true ;
Crisis in the said Lucian, If a lover
for as Ampelis informs
he not jealous,
angry, waspish,apt to fall out, sighand swear,
To kiiss and coll,hang about her neck,
he is no
lover.
true
and wish, are
but ordinarysymptomes, incipiprotest,swear
e}itisadhuc
et crescentis amoris
signa: but if he be jealous.
irce amoris

Amantium

'^

Comes

de monte
orarc,

hominein

ita

meret.

Turco

ut hoc

has
Hispaniis

de venatione sua partes misit^jussitque

pernoniine accipias.
''His artibiis
sue
omnia
""Tom. 4. dial,
paratus, "cc.
"* Relicto
interim faciens,et omnino
illo,a;gre i{)si
difficilis.

qualecunqiiedonuni
excantabaui,ut pro me illead

anianter

Si qiiis
enim nee
zelotypusirascitur,nee pugnat aliquamlo amator.
uec
perjiirat,
non
habendus
Totus hie ignis zelotypiaconstat, "c.
.Maximi amores
amator, "c.
Sed si persuasutn illifuerit te solum habere,elau^uebcit
inde nascuutur.
illicoaiuor
*

est

auus.

Love-Melancholi/.

272

and havo
you oft',
he saith,
as

they will put

ness,

For

entisements.
Non

est forma

Debet

[Part,3.

thousand

quae vult bella

satis,nee

Sec. 2.

sjucliseveral

videri,

vu!garimore

placeresuis.
Dicta, sales,lusus,sermones,
risus,
gratia,
Vincunt

candidioris

naturae

opus.

'Tis not

enough though she be fair of shew,

For her to use
this vulgarcomplement :
Bur. pretty toves, and jests,
and sawes,
and smiles.
As far beyond what beauty can
attempt.

*"

Forthis cause, belike,Philostratus in hisiniag-es,

makes

loves,

some

yong,

winged,

of

some

of

some
one

sex,

one

some

xcith

divers

of another, some
a(je,
with torches,
of another, some
tcith darts, gins,snares,
and
some

other

golden apples,some
hatii prettily
enginesin their hands, as Propertius
painted

them

out, lib. 2.et 29. and

some

which

divers
interpret,

some

divers affections of lovers

or

and

batter

overcome
joyntlymay
It is reportedof Decius,

which

if not

ments,
entise-

alone, yet

the strongest constitutions.

^^alerianus, those two notorious

persecutors of the church, that when

christian

yong

to their

another
and

set

course
a

yong
neck

about

the

might

batter

they could enforce a

to sacrifice
by no means
(as Hierome
.'jcords)
or
idtds,by no torments
promises,they took
to tempt him; they put him into a fair garden,
courtesan
to dally with him ; '^she took him
"=

kissed him, and

that ichich is not to be
named, manihusque attrectare, 6:c. and all those entisements
which might be used ; that whom
could not, love
torments

she could
no

and

not

and

beleaguer.

overcome

place,theyleft him

there
cester-shire,

Mapes, an
since)oj'which
rus

old

was

But

such

his constancy,

Mas

this last engin would

take
; and when
At
in
Gloto his own
Barclye
ways.
in times past a nunnery
(saithGualte^

of ours,
historiographer

there

was

noble

that lived 400 years

win,
andafair ladgabbess : God-

that subtile earl

that way, (seking

not
oj'Kent, travelling
her but hers)leaves a nephewof his,a proper yong gallant
(as
back again ; and
if he had been sick) with her, till he came

givesthe

yong

man

till hehaddechargeso longto counterfeit,

"Petronius CatalecL
Varios amores
blmagines Deornm, fol.327.
facit,
affectns et illecebras^
alios puellos,puellasalios,
qnosaliquiioterpretantar
maltiplices
alios ponia aurea, alios sagittas,
alios laqueos,"c.
"^Epistlib.3. vita Patili
colia complexibus,et
Ereniita;.
"iMeretrix speciosacepitdeiicatitis strin;:ere
" Camden
in libidinera concitafo,^c.
in Glocestershire.
Huic praefoit
corpore
nobilis et forniosa abbatissa: Godwinas
ole subtilis,
.i.ti
non
ipsam, sed sua
come-.,
forma elegantUsimum,
cupiens,reliquit
nepotem suum
tanquam iufinnum^donee rever"ce.
teretur,instruit,

Mein, 3. Subs.

AUurements.
Arlificial

4.]

Jlowred the abbess, and

Q73

besides

of the nuns as he
and such
could ; and leaves him witkall,rings,
jewels,girdles,
ichen
them,
visit
to
him.
still,
The
they came
toyes to give
such
a
t
o
his
business,
man
undergo
plaid
willing
part so
yong
well,that

many

space he got up most

done, told his lord how

in short

had

he

when

as

of their
he

bellies ; and

had

sped: his
king hoiv such a
^

the court, tells the

become
a
was
bawdy house, procures a visitation^
nunnery
turned
and begsthe lands to his oivn use.
be
them
to
out,
gets
of what
This story 1 do therefore repeat, that you may
see
to
iyistantly

lord makes

be opportunely
force these entisements are, if tliey
used; and
and sanctified souk, to
for the most averse
how hard it is even
John Major in the life of John the
resist such allurements.
to have

hermite
most

dayes of Theodosius, commends

of singular
and
a man
continency,
the
devil came
one
by chance,
night,

that lived in the

Monk,

been

life;but

austere

the
of

to

wench
that had lost
his cell in the habit of a yong market
her "vay, and desired for Gods sake some
lodgingwith him.
'' The
let her in ; and after some
old man
common
ence
confertalk

him xcith
of her mishap,she began to inveagle
and jests,
to play icith his beard,to kiss him, and

till at last she

him.

overcame

As

he

busitiess,she vanished

on

the ayr

laughedhim

Whether

or
a tale,1 will not
I have said.
which

to

scorn.

much

sudden, and

contend; it

do ivorse,

to address

went

to that

lascivious

this be

true

story,

illustratethis

to

serves

himself

the devils in

it so, that these of which I have hitherto spoken,

baits be not sufficient,
there be many
and such like intising
others,which will of themselves intend this passionof burninoYet

lust:

were

amongst which, dancing is

of such

none

of the

I may
omit
not
an
engin
Ubidinis, Petrarch calls it, the spur of
the divel himselfis the center.
which
use
^

it,have

Another

come

terms

; and

itjwhat

force

least;and

it.

it is

Incitamentum

lust; a

"circle

of

that
Many tvomen
dishonest home; most indifferent
better.
none
;
it,the companionof allfilthy
and entisements
delights
'tisnot easily
told what inconveniences comebij

scurrile talk,obscene actions

; and

many

times such

*
abbatissam et suas prasgnantes
Illeimpigerregem adit,
edocet,
missis
exploratoribus
b Post sermones
manerium
suo
a domino
accepit.
probat,et iis ejectis,
conciliat animum
hominis. manutnque
suavitate sermonis
de casu
inter col!o"iuia
suo
et risus ad barbam
et osculari. Quid multa?
protenditet palparecoepitcervicem suam
capti\Timducit militem Christi. Complexura evanescit,daemones in acre monachum
'^ Chorasa
circulus,cujas centrum diabolus.
d Multae
e
inde impudicae
domum
rediere,pluresambiguae,melior nulla.
Turpium
saltatio; neque
deliciarum comes
est externa
certe facile dictu quae mala hinc yisus
"c.
hauriat,et quee pariatcoUoquia,monstrosos, inconditos gestxis,

riserunt.

VOL.

II.

'Melancholy,

Love

274

gestures, such lascivious motions, such

meretricious kisses,homely einbracings,

monstrous
tunes,

*(ut Gaditana

Sec. '2.

[Part.3.

wanton

canoro

chore, plausuqueprobatse
Incipiat
prurire
ireimila descendant
clune puellae,
terram

Ad

Veneris

h-ritamentum

languentis)

When
the spectators mad.
that
that it will make
and set out
had to the full described,
of "'Trogus
and
instrument
chief
of his
lomies riot,as a
engin
he adds

Mug

not

was

hut
spectatoronely,

thing nevertheless

bringing,to

womans

ten
to

commandments.
get them husbands

dancing*;the
actor
principall
himself.

frequentlyused, and part of a gentiedance, and playon the lute, or

sing',

instrument,!"efore she

such

some

overthrow,

tripudium,fidiingand

et

tympamim

epitomizer
king-Pto-

can

'Tis the next

;

they are

or
say her Pater .^^oster,
their
way
parents think,

compelledto learn, and by

de tenero
niedkantvr
incestos amorcs
that means,
often
it is
as
'tis a great allurement
used, and many
Thais
in
it.
Lucian, inveagledLampriasin
by
"^

Herodias

far

so

pleasedHerod, that she made

what

she would

''Robert

duke

of
she

maid, as
w

ith the

him

done
un-

dance.

swear

to

head in a platter.
Baptists
Normandy, ridingby Falais,spiedArlette a

give her
fair

wujne
are

danced

ask, John
on

object,that

green

he

*must

; and

needs

was

so

much

lyewith

moured
ena-

her that

Catharines affection in a
Tudor
won
queen
night. Owen
dance; falling
by chance, with his head in her Jap.Whocannot
thesestories out of his experience.''
Speusippusanoble
parallel
in 'that Greek Aristienetus,seeingPanareta a fairyong
gallant
far in love with
so
gentlewoman dancing by accident, was
that for a long time after he could think of nothingbut
iier,
Panareta
would
hut

he

not

her dance

see

home
full of Panareta
Who
:
irould
I'dio
love
that
not
should,
her,
her,
I did ? O admirable, O divine Panareta!
as

raving

came

admire

Rome, many fair cities,

many proper
! theyare
like
dies
to Panareta
hut never
dross,dowwomen,
any
! O how
she danced, how she tript,
how
all to Panareta
that shall oishe turnd, with ivhat a (pace ! happy is that man
J have

old and

seen

onely,Panareta!
incomparable^
Symposio,or banquet,had discoursed

joyeher. O

phon

in

new

most

When
of

Xeno-

love,and

'"Justin. 1. 10. Addiintur instrnmenta luzunae, tympana ^t

"c.
"^Hor. I. 3. od. G.
maijister,
spectatorrex, sed uequitiie
"0f wlioin lie begat Wiiiiani the Conqueror; by the same
A Havarde
vita ejus.
f
"c.
Epist.26. Quis non miratas est
token she tore her smock down, sayiii?,
vidi Romaiii, sed tibisiniileiu
et
arnavitV
et
vidit
veterein
novani
salfanteni ? Qnis non
"c.
Panareta
fruitur,
Mix
qui
vidi,Panareta,
non
a

Jnv. Sat. 11.

tripudia;

nee

tain

3. Subs.

Mem.

used all the

amongst

Alluremeuts.
Artijicial

4.]

enginsthat might be

devised

to

2^5
Socrates

move

pleasant
Ariadne
and

dressed

like

bride

came

in and

hy Dionysiusenired, dancingto
did all admire the yony mans
with the
much affected
so
tvas

sit.

he shuts up all v/itU a

the rest, to stir hiiu the more,
of
dance
interlude or
First,
Dionysiusand Ariadne.
took her place; hij
the musick.
The spectators

: and
carriage

Ariadne

self
her-

sight,that she coidd scarce

Aftera ivhile DionysiusbeholdingAriadne,and incensed

with love,bowing to her knees, embraced

her

and kissed
first,
him again,and kissed him
her with a grace ; she embraced
the
dance
with like affection,
required
^-c.as
; hut they that
them
this, did much applaudand commend
stood by and saw
ichen Dionysius rose
both for it. And
up, he raised her up
with

him, and

many

embraces, kisses,and lone

prettygestures,

complementspassedbetween them; which tvhen theysaw fair

and beautiful
Bacchus
Ariadne, so sweetlyand so unfahiedly
each other, so reallyembracing,
theyswore
theyloved
kissing
that theybegan
icith the object,
so
indeed, and were
enfiamed
At the last,
as iftheywould
to rouse
havefloivn.
up themselves,
them
so
when
still,
embracing,and now
willingly
they saiv
ready to go to the bride chamber, they u-ere so ravished tvith
theyicould forthwith
it,that theythat were unmarried, sivore
married, called instantly
for their
marry ; and those that were
What
horses and
greater
galloppedhome to their wires.
lust?
What
violent
so
there be then this burning
motive can
without
Not
cause
therefore,
so
?
good
an
many
oppugner
fathers
abhor
condemn
councels
so
it;
so
it;
many
many
general
it use not the company
a ivoman,
men
of
speakagainst
grave
dancer ; neither
or
a
saith Siracides,9- 4. that is a singer,
In circo noii
hear, least thou be taken in her craftiness.
''Hasdus
libido.
discitnr
cernitur quam
holds, lust in
tarn
but learned.
theaters is not seen
Gregory Nazianzen,that
eloquentdivine {"as he relates the story himself)when a noble
to his
friend of his solemnlyinvited him, with other i)ishops,
; ^Jbr it is
daughter Olympias wedding, refused to come
old gouty bishopsit amongst dancers ; he
absurd
to see
an
:

nysius
velut sponsa
prodit,ac 'sola recedit; 'prodiensillico Diosaltantem juvetibia saltabat ; adrairati sunt omnes
cum
Dionysius
conqaiescere; postea vero
ipsaque Ariadne, ut vix potuerit
nena,
earn
aspexit,"c. Ut autem surrexit Dionysius,erexit simul Ariadnem, licebatque

*Principio Ariadne
ad

numeros

cantante

spectare gestus osculantium,et inter

se

complectentium; qui

autem

"c.
spectabant,

et jamjam ad thalauium
Ad extremum
videntes eos
mutuis amplexibusiniplicatos
ductoros ; qui autem duxerant,'
ituros ; qui non
duxerant uxores,
se
jurabant uxores
""Lib. 4.
festinarunt.
conscensis equiset incitatis,
ut iisdem fruerentur,doumm
=
"^la
57.
Ad Anysium epist.
de contemnend. amoribus.
tempestivum enim est, et a nuptiis
abhorrens,inter saltantes podagricumvidere senem,

et

episcopuoi.
T

27""

Love-Melanekohj.

lu'ld it unfit

to

be

spectator; nmch

fat

aohrhis,Tallywrites; lie is

for

some

such

senatois

from

to

; and

for that

accuse
nocently
calls it)that heloiKjs
to

fact, removed

of them
many
lascivious and

inconvenience,

condemn, speak against,or hipleasantest

thinf/(so Lucian
^

mortall

You

I
misinterpret;
it not ; I hold it notwithstandinohonest disport,
an
it
if
be
recreation,
opportune, moderatelyand soberly

condemn
lawful

\ised

to

sal-

that dancetli ;
forbad the Roman
man

will say, are

that causeth such

the hest and

to

Sec. 2.

AVmo

actor.

an

sober

But these,you

the senate.

dances,'tisthe abuse
paoan
and I do not well therefore

not

(belike)Domitian

reason

dance

less

[Pnvt.3.

men.

of Plutarchs

mind, ^tJtat tvhich respectspleasure

alone, honest recreation, or hodibf exercise,ouffhtnot to he
:

am

and
rejected
which
thinrj,

contemned

I subscribe

to'^^Lucian
elerjant
; Uisan
the
exerciseth
the
mind,
hody,delif/hts
np
teachefh many
comely yestures, equally
:

cheareth

the spectators, which

the ears, eys, and
affecting

singingand

dancino-

in

soul it self. Salust

Sempronia,not

conmiends

that she

did

sing-or

that she did it in excess;

'tisthe abuse of it : and
folks.
it,but in some
Gregoriesrefusal doth not simplycondemn
will
allow
and women
to dance
not
because
men
]Many
together,
but

dance,

it is

cut
curgus and Mahomet,
of wine, for that it makes

"i

lust

provocationto

down

all

some

Nihil

prodestquod
Tg-ncquid utilius?

they may

as

well,with Ly-

vines,forbid

men

tlie drinking

drunk.

laedere posset idem

non

this,as of all other honest recreations ; they are like

but that
fire,good and bad, and 1 see no such inconvenience,

I say of

they may
sons

and

modern

ilance,if it be

so

conclude

divines

rirorum

honorum

with
Si
et

decorcc,graves,

iny

and

Rem

as

their

in

he

age,

said of

4.

There

Let them

old, yong

J'airand

by
most

fit ])erof

our

honestarum, tempestive

dehent.

men

lovelyto

omniiini in mortaliuin vita optimam iunocenter

honestam

times, and

verecundo',plena ^ce

matronarum

fianf,proharipossunt,
fi lime
to dance, Eccles. 3.
then,

at due

Wolfongus "^Hider,and

et

'

done

is

time to mourn,
take their pleasures
and

maids

behold^ well

attired

'"0n"

accnsare.

contemni
aiit corporisexsrcilinin,
voluptatemrespicit,

flourish-

non

debet

*'

Ele-

gantissima res est, quae et inentem

acuit,corpus exerceat, et spectantes ol)Iectet,mnltos
'^ Ovid.
geslMs (lecoros dorens, oriilos.aiires^ aniinunj ex a-qiio deniulcens.
*

System,

inoralis

Philosoplii.T'.

'

10.
Apiileiiis.

Pnelli,paellaeqne

ibrma conspicui,veste nitidi,incessu gratiosi,

Grfecanicam
florentes ii-tatuli'i.
saltanfes Pyrrliiiani,
dispositisordinationibus,decoros ambitus inerrabant, nunc
in orbem flexi,
in "|uadrumcuneati,nunc
inde
in obii(|uani
seriem coDnexi" nunc
nunc
virenti

"ej"ariiti.

3. .Subs.

Mem.

Alluremeyits.
Artificial

4.]

dancinga
of comely carriage,

and

Greek

277

and as their
galliard,
turning,now
tracing,

kept their time, noic

required,
then a caper, Sfc.
a courtesie,
now
now
altogether,
apart, now
those
to
mingsee
and itwas
a pleasant
sight
pretty knots,and swim(some say)dance about the
figures. The sun and moon
about the sun
their center,
earth ; the three upper planets
as
in apogao,
direct,now
now
now
now
retrograde,
stationary,
then in per igceo, now
swift,then slow, occidentall,oriental!,
dance

round, jumpe and

the sun
trace, $ and ^ about
Maculae
burbonian
or
with those thirty-three
planet;circa SoFour
Medilem saltantes Cgtharedum,saith Fromundus.
about Saturn,"c.
two Austrian
starsdance about Jupiter;
cean

they

turn

to the musick
all,(belike)

and

of the

sphears.

staid senators, at sometimes,

2 Sam.
6- 14. Miriam, Exod.

counsellors,and

ark,

before

the

15. 13.

(thoughthedivel

Our

greatest

dance;

David

as

15. 20.

Judith,

hence

bawdy Bacchanals) and

well

perhapshath broughtin those

The greatest
may they do it.

souldiers,as ''Quintilianus,''iEmilius Probus, "=Ccelius Rhostilluse

have provedat large,
itin Greece, Rome, and
diginus,
saltare.
the most worthy senators, cantare,
Lucian,JVlacrobius,
Julius
have written just
Plutarch,
Pollux,Athenaeus,
Libanus,
of it. In this our
age it is in much
in
all
those
civil
countries,as
commonwealths, as
request in
ab Alexandra, lib. 4. cap. 10. et lib. 2. cap, 25.
Alexander

tracts

in commendation

'^

proved at large; amongst

; all the world
nothingso pretious

hath

Divitias contemno

tuas,

the Barbarians
allows

Croese,tuamque

rex

Asiam, unguentis,
flora,
mere,

Vendo

themselves,

it.

choreis.

in his

be

to
Common-wealth, will have dancing-schools
that
he
maintained,
acquainted,
yong folks might meet,

see

one

Plato

dance

another, and be
naked

bius prcepar.
GrcBC.
curat.

seen;

and scoffs

nay

at them

more,

that

he would

laughat

Evangel,lib. 1. cap. 11. and

affect,
worthilylash him for

it.

them

have
But

Euse-

Theodoret, lib. 9.

itj and

well

they
naked
sightof
parts
very
causeth enormous,
and stirs up both
exceeding
concupiscences,
to
in all
and u'omen
men
burning lust. There is a mean
in brief; dancing is a pleasant
things this is my censure
of
and
recreation
mind, ifsober and modest (suchas our
body
might :

for

as

one

saith,

The

aLib.

Martyr

1. cap. 11.
Decad.
Ocean

I)Vit.
Epaminondas.
Benzo, Lerius, Hacluit,"c.

c
e

Lib. 5.

JRead

P.

AngeriamisErotopsdiani.
disciplinamcon-'
oportuit

ivey.ac, "c. hnjus cansa

Leg. T*!? yap Tot^tfTJ); atrov^n';
ac
stitui,ut tarn pueri quara pnellsechorea celebrent,'spectentarque
spectent,"c.

flO.

sAspectus enim midorum

lascivia;appetitus.

corpornni

tam

mares

quam

fceminas irritaresolet ad

enormes

Melancholy.

Love-

Q.'iS

[Part.3.

Sec. 2.

are) if tempestively
used; a furious motive
a
s
if,
heretofore,
lust,
by
Pagans
abused.
Imrning
unchastely

Christian dances
tn

Hilt I

proceed.

do not take place,

If these allurements
(for^Simierus,that
of dalliance,shall not behave
himself better)
"Treat master
tl.e
to move
others, and satisfie their lust,they
effectually
and
illswear
lye,promise,protest,forg-e,
counterfeit,
brag,

more
w

bribe, flatter and disseuible of all sides. 'Twas Lucretias

connsel in Aretine, Si vis amicdfrui,promitte,Jiikjp,
jura,

simula,mentire,and they put

/wrjurajacta,
Apolioto Daphne,
as

itwell in

practice,

mihi

Dc4phicatellus,
Clares, et Tenedos, Patareaqueregiaseivit,
Jupiterest genitor
''

Et

and

Delphos,Claros
And
"^

The

is known
Jupiter

"i

Mt

her

as

Mille pecus nivci sunt

thousand

serve

sire

my

will do

poorest swains

I have

Tenedos

to

much

et milii vallibus

sheep,good store

of

agni.'

and theyare
cattle,

all

command,
Tibi nos, tibi nostra
Ruraque servierint
^

land, goods,are
liouse,
a
iiiachus,

to

me.

be.

him

at

her

'

supellex,

ervice,as he is himself.

Dino-

in ^Lucian, in love with a wench

rior
infein birth and fortunes,the sooner
his
to accomplish

senators

son

he loved her with all his

her, and swore
desire, wept unto
his father died
ever
as
as soon
heart,and her alone; and lliat,
he would make
and almost decrepit)
her his
(a very rich man

by chance made her mother acquaintedwith

the business, who being an old fox, well experiencedin such
malters, told her daughter,now
ready to yeeldto his desire,
ihat he meant
nothingless ; for dost thou think he will ever
for
"are
thee, being a poor wench, ^'that may have his choice
of all the beauties
noble by birth,with so
in the city,one
and fairer then thy
talents, as yong, better qualified,
many
him
the
maid
self? daughterbeleeve
not:
v.as
abasht,and so
the maltcT
broke off. When
Jupiterwooed Juno tirst(Lilius
the
Giraldus relates it out of an old Comment
on
Theocritus)
wife.

"

The

Camden

mns.

tibiis iigni.

maid

Annal. Anno
*" jM^t

1
.

'' Virg.

Amatoriis facetiis et iilecebris exquisitissiErasmus egl. Mille niei Siculis errant in monf Tom. 4. merit, dial. Aniare se
Lofchaus.
ducere veile,quiim patiroculos clausisset.
me

1578, fol.276.

Ovid.

"=

"

jurat et lacrjmatiir,
niorem
dicilqiit? Quum
dotem alibi luulto inajortmasintietj
Sec.

Love-Melancholtf.

280

[Part.3.

Sec. 2,

lady,countess, dutcliess,or queen; theyshall have

jewels,coaches,and carocbes,choice diet,
gowns, tires,

her like any

The

heads

The

brains of

Their

bath

of
Spirit

The

old

as

of

parrats,toncruesofni";htingals,
peacocks,and of estriches,

shall be the
and

roses

milk of

of violets,

unicorns,"c.

Volponecourted
such

juiceof gilliflowres.

Calia

in the

worth

**

when
comoe"ly,

as,

they

sharkorn,to
groat, but meer
love to spend
to get their desire,or else pretend
niakeafortuno,
are

no

their idle

not

men,

hours,to

The

be

conclusion

bNil
Sed

for b("ttor entertainment.

nothingless ;

is,they mean

nihil promittere
curant
jurare,
libido
mentis
satiata
ac
cupidoe
nihil metu^re, nihil perjuria
curant.

metuunt

siniul

Dicta

Oathes,
But

welcome, and

more

when

vows,

promises,are

their mind

Oathes, vows,

and

much

lust is

est,

;
protested

satisfied,

are
quiteneglected.
promises,

by the geniusof Caesar,by Venus

though he solemnlyswear
shrine,Hymens deity,
by Jupiterand all the other gods,give
credit to his words, for when
lovers swear,
Venus
no
laughs,
Vefuts Jt"TC perjuriaridet ; Jupiterhimself smiles,
and pardons
it withall,as grave
Plato givesout; of all perjury,
that
is forgiven
the
alone for love matters
If
gods.
by
promises,
Avillnot avail,theyfall to bribes,
lies,oathes,and protestations
and such like feates.
Pluriinx.s aj/ro concHuitur
tokens, gifts,
Daniie
with a golden shower,
as
amor:
Jupitercorrupted
and
Liber Ariadne
witli a lovelycrown,
wards
(which was aftertranslated into the heavens, and there for ever
shines;)
will
rain
chickins,florens,crowns,
of
they
angels,all maner
coincs and stamps in her lap. And
he certainly
must
so
do that will speed ; make
feasts,banquets,invitations,
many
'^

''

send

her

arcntur

must

her

fo

other

studio
every foot. Summo
crehrcc
rpulcc(saith
'Hsedus)et
Jiantlarfjitiones
;
some

present

or

1)0 very bountiful and liberal,seek and sue, not

onely,but to all her followers, friends,familiars,

and houshold servants; he must

sinuate
infidlers,
panders,parasites,
himself,and surelywill,to all,of all sorts, messengers,
be unrewarded, orunrespected.
must
no
man
porters,carriers;

'' Cafiilliis.
'"
3.
et
sr.
Perjuria ridet ainantuiii Jiiinter.
'i In I'bilebo.
irritaferre jubct. Tibul. lib.3. e\ 6.
Pejerautibusbis Dii
aoli iguuscunt.
^Catui.
'Lib. 1. de conlemueudis
amuribus.
"

I'ox. act. 3.

\entos

Mem.

3. Subs.

I had

to

my
chaff.
I

so

suiter

house,

Allurements.
4.] Artijicial

(saith^Aretines

flunggold

and

Lucretia)that
silver about,

Another
suiter I had, was
handled him, that for all his

any
cup

of neat

wine

me,

though

never

poor

fellow

suiter

had

came

if it had

bin

city,it

was

bit in the
or

market,

malmesey,or

presentedpresently
to

dear, hard to come

by, yet 1 had it : the
fond at last,that I think, if 1 would, I
of his eys out
of Rome
; and

one

merchant

was

so

was

might have

so

as

he

fellow;but
verycholeriek
1
fuming, brought him upon

in all the

when

If there had been an excellent

fish,fruit or fowl, muskadel,
novelty,

his knees

281

of his head.
A
third
his manner
of wooino-

musick, costlybanquets,poems,
"c.
''exquisite
he
till
at
off,
length
protested,
promised, and
I
should
me
have all
donaturum,
swore
regno
pro virginitate
and
lands,pro concuhitu solo ; Neither
he had, house, goods,
I think,to charm his spirits,
there
that
ever
was
any conjurer,
used such attention, or mighty words, as he did exquisite
phrases;or generalof any army, so many stratagems to win
he did tricks and devices to get the love of me.
as
Thus
a city,
and
and
active
women
far
not
behind
them
;
are
men
passive
omnia
ad
iii this kinde : audax
fcemina^quae vel amat, veL
was,

with

I held him

"

odit.
d

e 5o ftolttli?
i^txttan nun
ifov jbalf
iPiDcavanU \^t Ki ioomcn can.

as well as the best,

eThey will crack,counterfeit and collogue,
with handkerchiefs, and wrought nightcaps,
purses, posies,
and such toyes: as he justly
complained,

mittis violas ? nempe

ut violentius urar
violas
vicdis
violenta tuis? "c.
Quid
me

Cur

Why
To

dost thou
make

me

send

burn

me

more

violets,my

dear?

violent I fear ;

With

violets too violent thou art,

To violate and wound
heart.
my gentle

Wlien

else will serve, the last refugeis their tears.

notliing
Hcec scripsi(testoramorem) mixta lachrymiset suspiriis^
'twixt tears and sighs,
I write this (I take love to witness)
saith
E Chelidonia
Lumina
modo
Philonius.
to
fulmina,jam
quee

* Dial. Ital.
Argcnfum ut
flexis genibus,"c.
Nullus

Biliosum
paleasprojiciebat.

habui amatorem
qui supples
allatus lerrse fructus,nullum cupediarara
tam
genus
carum
erat,nullum vinum Creticum pretiosum,quin ad me ferret illico; credo alteruni
b Post musicam
oculum pignori
daturus,"c.
opiperasepulas,et tantisjnramentis,
u
donis,"c.
cNunquam aliquismbrarnm
conjuratortanta attentione,tamque poten" Ah
"" Chaucer.
tibus verbis usus
illeexquisitis
niihi dictis,"c.
est,quam
f Jovianus Pou.
cnideie genus nee
tutum
fcemina Bomen
! Tibul. 1.3. eleg.4.
? Aristifinetus
lib.% epist.
13.
recens

Luoe-Jllelanchoiy. [Pait.3.

2h2

flnmina lachrymarum, those burning torches

floods of

to

to

came

Aretines

tears.

Lucretia, when

''wept in his hosome, that he

town

his

are

her

Sec. 2.
turn'd

now

heart

sweet

might he persicaded

Quartillain Pefor joye of

fell a weeping ; and as
more,
tronius,when nought would
them out, To these crocodiles tears,
Balthazar Castilio paints
and sorroufilcountenance;
they K- ill add sobs,Jierysir/hs,
pale colour, leanness; and ifyou do but stir abroad^ these
fiendsare ready to meet you at every turn, with such a sluttish
look,as iftheywere now readyto dye
habit,dejected
netjlected
thus beset,
and
sake
hotc,saith he, shall a yong novice
;
for your
escape? But beleeve them not.
those

tears

shed

^cere

return.

animam

Namque

ne

Thou

venture,
thinkest,perad

and

slie is
protestations,
bawde
''Spanish

the

fide.

tears,smiles,

of her vows,

because

solelythine ; thou hast her heart,

indeed there is no such matter;
as

hand, and affection,when

as

puellis,

tutior imda

foeminea

est

crede

said,gaudet ilia habere unumin

lecto,

she will have

suspiret,

alterum

qui domi

sweet

in the gate,a third sighing

at home,
she sees
and likes,hath as much
man

in porta, tertium
heart in bed,another

Every yong

fourth,"c.

shall

interest,and

side,which
and

I have

soon

said,men

enjoye
are

her
as

as

thyself. On

false,letthem

the other

swear, protest

lye;
*

Quod

They love,some
once;

as

one

and make

vobis

dicunt,dixeruut

of
them

mille

puellis.

them, those eleven thousand virginsat

he is besotted
believe,each particular,

her ; or love one tillthey see another,and then her alone :

Si quem conspexerit
like Milos wife in Apuleius,lib. 2.
speciosw formcB juvenem, venustate
ejussumitur, et in eum anion

complementin that case ;

intorquet.'Tis their common
they care not what they swear, say, or do. One while they
and scoffe at
slightthem, care not for them, rail down right,
will
then
them ; and
mad, hang themselves,
run
againthey
stab
and kill,if they may
not
injoyethem. Henceforth
mum

therefore,
nulla viro juranti
foemina

let not maids beleeve

them.

These

credat,

tricks and counterfeit pas-

reditus mihi emaSuaviter flebam,ut persuasuir. liabeat lachrymaspra' gaudio illiiis

vox,
color pallidiis,
preniebiinda
t-Lib. 3. His accedunt, vultus subtristis,
Fsta: se pfatiinunibriP olTeriinttanto
ignitasuspiria,
lachryniac
prope imiiiiuerahiles.
inpribiindaiiputes.
tanta marie, ut illasjanijani
sqaalore, el in onini fere diverticulo,
"

nare.

i Cock
Frtronius.
stiua act. 7. Barthio
= Ovid.
amari se solam dicit.

1.
interpre

(Jinmbus

arndet,ct

singulis

3. Subs.

Mem,
sions

familiar with women,

more

are

AUaremenls.
Aitijicial

4.]

283

^finemhie

dolori facieiaid

Joessa
r/^f-ec?ie5,"""serereawiawifis,
quoth Phsedra to Hippolitus.
told Pythias a yong
to move
him the more,
in t- Lucian
man,
that ifhe would
is

There

self.
trouble

tears, which

either

thy sake.

Nothing
protestations
; and

and

oathes,vows,

resolv'd to makeavvayher
chuse but (jrieve and

was

it cannot

Nemesis, and

thee, to hear that I have

selffor

my

her, she

have

not

so

have

they

command

at

to this sexe,

I have

as

for

drowned

strangledor

common

as

alreadysaid,

they

can

so

weep,

hearts

dissolved within
would think, their very
were
their
in
would
like rocks,
and
out
come
them,
tears,
eys are
which
still drop water, diarice lachrymcEet sudoris in moduni
that

one

like sweat

tears
or

Care

They
And

as

and

weep

Neve
Ut

with

; weep
''

children

as

'^Aristsenetus,they

saith

turyeripromptce,

one

puellarumlachrymismoveare
flerent oculos
for

not

sues.

much

as

be taken

pittyis to

Si flentem

ne
aspicias,

Sin arridebit,magis

of

woman

heed

of

Cupids tears,

for
If that he offer't,

And

to

him

si fors

every poyson

if cautelous,

kisses I thee

they be

in his

tell,
noxious.

lipsdoth

dwell.

years, as Castillo conceives, will scarce

and
those allurements
and guiles,
that men

up

deceive

one

="Seneca.
Hippol.
afticierisubi audieris me

another

serve

to

icomen

with.

"'Tom.
a

take

noxia, in ipsis

thousand

reckon
use

oscula

weeping,as of a
her son
Cupid,

that met

one

effuge; et oscula

of his smiles and

And

lost

see.

labris,"c.

Suntque venena
Take

as

fallare,caveto

mox

volet, fiigito
: sunt

Ferre

thee,

to weep

When
Venus
goose going bare-foot.
bid
she sent
about, to
a cryer
every
heed.
^

memento,

tears, I counsel

womens

their eys

teach

much

erudiere

their
away
the other ;

laugh with
both together.

eye,

they can

cry,

wipe

Tii vero
aliquandomcnrore
autin puteiim praecipitaflent duobus oculis,moniales qiiatuor,

4. dial, me

ret.

meips"laqueofui caiisA suffocatam

"* Matronaj
fol. 332. e
"^Ovid.
nullo.
'Imagines Deorum
Mille vix anni
s Lib. 3.
Moschi
Politianus Latiniim fecit,
amore
fugitivo,
quem
illas machinationes, dolosqiie
suSicerent ad oriines
commcmoraudos, quos viri et muliutse invicem cirruiuveuianf,
eres
excogitaresoleat.

tam.

virginesuno,

Epist.20. 1.2.

meretrices

'

284

Love-

Melancholy.

SUBSECT.

[Part.3.

Sec. %

V.

Bawdes, Philters^causes.
W

all other

HEN

that they can 'proceed

fail,
no
en^^ins

ther
farof themselves, their last refugeis to flyto bawdes,
ders,
panand receipts
to the
magicalphilters,
; rather then
fail,

divel himself.
Flectere si nequeunt

Superos,Acheronta

movebunt.

those indirect means,

is overcome,
and
many a man
into
this
if
he
take
not good heed.
For
malady,
precipitated
first : they are every where
these bawdes
and
so
so
common,
said of old Croton, omnes
he
that
hie
as
ant
many,
captantur,
be inveagled,
or
aut captant,eather iiiveagle
we
may say of
there be so many
of our cities,
most
professed,
cunningbawdes

And

by

"

Besides,

in them.

Lucian

as

tics, so

many

bawdry

calls

is become

it; and

nurses,

old

an

art, or

there be such
women,

liberal science,

tricks and

subtle-

panders,letter-carriers,

friers,confessors,employed about
beggers, physicians,
that niillus tradere

it,

one
sufficiat,
saith,
stylus

btrecentis versibus
Suas

nemo
impuritias
traloqui

potest.

Such occultnotes,stenography,
Nuntinsanimatus,
polygraphy,
of their minds, which *^Cabeus the Jesuit,
ormagneticaltelling
fabulous
and false;cunning conveyances
the
counts
by
way,
that neither Junos jealousie,
norDanJies
in this kinde,
custody,
nor
Argos vigilancycan keep them safe. 'Tis the last and
common
refugeto use an assistant,such as that Catanean
Philippawas to Jone queen of Naples; a''baAvdes help,an old
in the business, as ^Myrrha did when
she doted on
woman
Cyniras,and could not compass her desire,the old jade her
was
nurse
ready at a pinch; die inquit,
mesineferre
opemqve
till
sedulitas
erit
et in hac mea
{ponetimorem)
apta tibi,
fear it not, if it be be possible
to be done, I will effect it ; nan
^
mulieri
mulier hisuperahilis,
Cselestina said ; let him
est
as
her

or

but
you

one

be

never

so

of these old

find,as ^Austin

honest, watched, and

reserved,'tis hard

will get access

observes,in a nunnery,

women

and
a

scarce

maid

shall

alone;ij'

"^^De
b Plautus Tritemius.
Magnet. Philos. lib.4.
Catul. eleg.5. lib.1. Venit in exitium callida lena nieum.
e Ovid.
fParobosc. Barthii.
vit. Erem. c. 3. ad .sororem.
e De
Vix aliquam reclnsarurn hnjusteniporis
solam inveniens,ante cujus fenestram non anus
garrnla,vel nugigerulamulier sedet^quas earn fabulis occupet,runioribus pascat,hujus
vel illiusluonachi,"c.
"

Petronius.

cap. 10.
10. met.

"i

3. Subs.

Mem.

Allurements.
Artijicial

5.]

285

beforeher windoui you shall have an

tell her some
tales of this
old it'oman, or soine pratinc/
gossip,
or
clerk, and that monk, describing
commending some gong
her.
As
T
in the street
other
unto
was
walkinggentlemanor
the town
to see
served one
(saitha good fellow in Petronius)
in a corner, selling
of cabbages
evening,*/ spiedanold icoman
do
hucksters
and roots (as our
plums,apples,and such like
mother
can
fruits;
(quothhe)
you tell where I dwell ? she
replied,
beingwell pleasedwith my foolishurbanity,
andtchy,
she cannot

have

sir,should

egress,

tell ?

not

with

that she

rose

up

and

ice7it

before

me
; and by and by she led me
; I took her for a tcise icoman
there I should dwell; I reply
and told me
into a by-lane,
ed
again,I knew not the house ; but I perceivedon a sudden by

the naked

that I

queans,

teas

noic

come

into

baicdy-house;

the treachery
too late, 1 began to curse
of this old
and amonost
jade. Such tricks you shall have in many places,
the rest, it is ordinaryin Venice, and in the island of Zante,
and

for

then

man

land, or

to his

be bawde

to
come

shore, but

on

hunc

Morem

wife.

own

as

No

the comical

meretrices

shall you

sooner

poet hath it,

habent.

portum mittunt servulos,ancillulas,

navis in portum aderit,
Si qua peregrina

Ad

sit,quod ei nomen
siet,
Rogant cujatis
Post iileeextemplosese
applicant.
These

white

divels have

to seek
every place,
and way-laynovices

them

once

comment

within

about, and
and

their

Flaccus

Valerius

opportunities,
theylaynets zchich Lucretia
icould swallow
baits that HippoUtus himself

their
and

describes

them, icith promises

icith
gifts,tokens,and taking
pleasantdiscourse,

upon
and

panders,bawdes and factors in

customers
m
: to tempt,
bringtravellers.
And
when
silly
they have
clutches, as ^EgidiusMaserius in his
their

"=

cannot

such strong assaults andbatteries,that the Goddess

withstand
them: givegifts,
and bribes to
cannot
and

with

threats

xcith those
Proserpinas

Susanna.
terrifie
doth Pluto take
catchpoles
able

to

avoid

they make

of Virginity
move

How

lope,
Penemany

?- These

are

a
Agreste olus anus vendebat, et rogo, inquam, mater, nunquid scis ubi ego habitem?
et ccepit
delectata ilia urbanitate tam stulta,et, quid nesciam?inquit : consnrrexitque
me
pr"cedere ; divinam ego patabam, ":c. nudas video meretrices et in lupanarme adcProraissis everb Plaiitus Menech.
ductum, sero execratus anicnla; insidias.
berant, molliunt dulciloqiiiis,
et opportunnm tempus aucupantes laqaeos ingeruntquos
vix Lucretia \itaret;escam
parant quam vel satnr Hippolitussumeret, ".-C. Hse sane
sunt virgse
descendunt ; hoc gluten quo
soporiferaquibus contactas animfe ad Orcum
8cc.
compacts mentium alae evolare nequeunt, daemonis ancillae,
quse sollicitant,

Luve-Melanckohi.

2S6

[Part.3.

Sec. 2.

tlipsleep}/
ro(h,with which their souls fondo'd,descend to
the irinc/x
this the (flewor lime with which
nj'the mindc
; the divels ministers

Many
veagledby
cVc.

trivial and

The

well known.

runnino;-bawdes,

are

slye,dangerous,and
physicians,
empyricks,
friers.
Though it be

knavish

your

and

will

dram,

danger ;

their paps, hinder conception,

make
able
with
them
and
Satyrions, now
procure lust,
No monastery so close,house
then step in theiuselves.

admitted

to

well

and

censure

ask

kept,but

these honest

questions;to

feel their

Non

StygiusPluto

audet

dares

StygianPluto
old hag or
an

That
What

tempt

will

to satisfie his

for himself

not

monk

God

they have

penance,

knows, how

use
practise
physick,

"^

lust ; for another,if he be

having such excellent means.
and

free egress

They

many.

do,

or

own

under

and

be
pulse,

anus.

undergo

thereto ; or both at once,

colour of visitation,
auricular

hired

are

audet

quod

tentare

EflTrenis monaclius,plenaquefraudis

Either

men

side, and all under pretence of giving physick.

monks, confessors,and friers,
as he said,

at their bed
Now as for

For

give

it without

be, keep down

if need

abort

an

or
prisonso
private,

so

allnre^entise,

to

most

and
monks, ''Jesuits,
mass-priests,
of them
againstHippocratesoath, some
promiseto restore maidenheads, and do
make

once

Jlije
away
and maids, without all question,
inare
yong' men
and their associates.
these Eumonides
But these

take)!,cannot

are

hell;

can

use

confession,comfort
regress, and

corrupt,

trades

of

some

them,

exorcisms, "c.

Cljrtthjljcrf"5inatftoont to foalS an tiit,

toaXfe^ tjjeIimiter SCmScUf
$n tbtrpbusljanlt nwHtv tbern tree,
^txt nrctts no otlj^rincuiius t"ut jb?

"|)crenoto

"

'^

In the mountains

swaded

the

good

wives

that their husbands

familiar in those
wenches

friers:and
witness, that
breeches

*See

Dauphine and Savoy,the

betwixt

might givethem

dayes

with

could not

free

of

some

sleepin

the

or

hat.

access

their beds

You

the practires
of the Jesuits,
Anglice edit 1630.
Piieliaiio lectin dormire

J
non

H.

possessed,

them, that,as

for

Bocace, may
good abbess,
and put
mistook
risingbetimes,

instead of her vail

friersper-

; and

in

iu tliewilV of Bath's tile.

'Bale.

themselves

to counterfeit

have

were

one

so
"

serves,
ob-

necromantick
in
on

some

sort

the friers

heard the story,

"" ^n.

"^ Chancer
Silv.
lib.1.
Herod,
StephanasApol.
cap. 21.

poterant

Love-Melanrhohj.

^88
Krastii";in his book

de

[Part.;}.Sec. 2.

Lamiis, for witches

making- of these

to take

tlieni

upon

philters, force men and women

to love
theijwill ; to cause tempests,diseases,
^-c.by
characters,knots.
charms, spels,
the

"

to

"ind hate whom

hie Thessala vendit

''

S*.

proves that

Hierome

epist.lib. 3.) he
made
pliilter
after cured

by

hath

maid

philtra,
do

they can
a

mad

Ililarian.

it,(as in Ililariuslife,

that with
story of a yong- man,
for the Jove of him ; m hich maid was
Such instances I finde in John

Nider,

lib. 5. cap. 5. Plutarch

records of Lucullus that he
Formicar.
used philters
died of a philter
to inveao-Ie
; and that Cleopatra
Eusebius
Anthony, amonjrst other allurements.
as

reports

much

the

of Lucretius

poet. Panormitan.

lib. 4. de r/est.
.41-

that
phonsi,hath a story of one Stephana Neapolitanknight,
forced
mad
for
But
to
love.
of
run
all
was
l)ya philter
others,
tbe

great,
of

"woman

epist.
Jamil, lib. 1. ep.

"Petrarch

that which

memorable

is most

and

favour

mean

He

company,
othis friends and followers.

embrace

doted
foolishly

upon

condition,many

in her
wholly delighting-

did

5. relates of Charls

to

years together;
the great griefand indignation
When
she was
dead,he

for his
corps, as Apollo did the bay-tree,
embalmed
caused her coffin (richly
and decked
her

Daphne, and
with jewels)to

about

be canied

with

him, over which he still

lamented.
bishopthat folloAved his court,
his lord and masters
to God
(commiseratinopray'dearnestly
of this mad passion,
and whence
case) to know the true cause
At last a venerable

it

revealed

proceeded;it was

of the emperors
The
bishop went
ring-thence
corse,

and

mad

; upon

instead
would

love

hastilyto
the
''

of

to

him, in fine,that the

lai/under
the

the dead

carkas, and

removal, the emperour

it,fell as
suffer him

womans

took

cause

tongue.
a

small

abhorr'd
furiouslyin love with
be

the
the

of his presence :
he flungthe ringinto the
the bishop perceived,
which when
From that
midst of a great lake, where the king then "vas.
houre the emperour
neglectingall his other houses, dwelt at
house
in the midst of the marsh, to his
built
fair
e Ache,
a

bishop;

he

not

to

out

and a ^temple by it,where

after he was
infinite expence,
since use to be
ever
buried,and in which cityall his posterity

sibi arrogant notitiam, et facultatem in araorera

allicifndi qnos velint;
"Saga; omnes
";c.
b Juveodia inter conjugesserendi, tempestates excitandi,morbos infligendi,
"^ Idpra
de mir. mort
refert Hen. Kornmanniis
lib. 1. cap. 14.
nalis Sat.
Perdite amavit mnlierculam quandam, illiu.sampleiibns acquiescens,snmraa
incum
^ Et inde totns in
et dolore.
siiornin
difjnatione
episcopnm furere iilum colere.
f Imnienso
*
Aqui.ssranum, vulgo Aixe.
suraptu templum et sedes,8cc.

3. Subs.

Mem.

Marcus

crowned.

AUuremeuts.
Aitificial

5.]

the heretick

is accused

289

by Irenseus

to

have

writers speak
inveagleda yong maid by this means; and some
that
Eleanor
Cobham,
by the saino*art,
hardly of the lady
band.
she circumvented Humphrey duke of Giocester to be her hussummoned
iEmilianus
fore
beApuieiusto come
Sycinius
of
that
he
Cneius Maximus,
proconsul Africk,
beinga
bewitched
had
ancient
Pudentilla,
an
by
philters,
poor fellow,
and
worth
thousand
so
to love him;
rich matron
being
many
lib.
his
wife.
1.
be
48.
occult.
to
A^-rippa,
phisesterces,
ca/?.
in this kinde to philters,
amulets,images :
los. attributes much
"^

Salmutz.

and

com.

Tit. 10. de Uorol.

in Pancirol.

Leo

Afer.

at Fez in Africk,
lib. 3. saith,'tis an ordinary
|"/ve.9/fpractice
et concubitns : as skilful
giatoresibi plures,quicogunt amores
of
whom
that
all out as
Cleodemus,
Hyperboreanmagitian,
fine feats,performedin this kind.
in ''Lucian, tells so many

But

deed,
others,are againstit;theygrant, indone, but (as Wierus discourseth,

Erastus, Wierus,and

lib. 3.

be

thingsmay

such

Lamiis

de

by charms, incantations,

37.) not

cap.

but the divel himself; lib. 5. cap. 2. he contends as

philters,
med. cap. 74. Andreas Cisalpinoc.
much ; so doth Freitagius
much SigismuudusSchereczius
nus
cap. i).de
cap. 5. and so
Unchast
at
women
large.
hirco nocturno, proves
by the
help of these witches, the divels kitchen maids, have their
and carried back againby a
loves broughtto them in the night,
^

in the likeness of a goat.

phantasm,flyingin the air.,
that theyhave been so
heard (saith
he) divers confess,

I have
carried

their siceet hearts,many miles in a night.

on
a goats back to
Others are of opinionthat these feats,which most suppose to
effected by natural
are
raeerly
be done by charms and philters,
which much
prepared,
chimically
saith Ernestus
Burgranius,in Lucernd vitce et mortis
avails,
conciliandum
et odium, (so huntsmen
Indice, ad amorem
'tisan
their dogs love them, and farmers their pullen)
make
as he holds ; sedvulgo
excellent philter,
proderegrande tipfas,
; as,

causes

but not

by

blood

mans

fit to be made

roots, mandrake

common

candles,mala
cloaths,
a

manes,

certain hair in
swallows

so

be mala

drake
insana,man-

stones, dead mens

apples,
pretious
bacchica, panis porcinus,Hippo'
a

"

Dioscorides,Porta, Wecker,
treate

and

'^

"c. of which Rhasis,

tail,
Rubeus, Mizaldus, Albertus,

wolfs

heart,dust of

doves

heart,multum

va-

aetatiafoerainam cana
Apolog. Quod Padentillam viduam ditem et provectloris
c Imb Philopsendo,
Tom. 3.
sui peljexissit.
taminibus in amorem
ad
noctu
se
siios
amatores
diaboli
veneficarum,
coqnarum,
pudicsemuiieres opera
ducunt et reducunt, ministerio hirci in acre volantis ; multos novi qui hoc fassi sunt, "c.
Phn. lib.S.
" Of which read
d Mandrake
apples,Lemnius lib.herb. bib. c. 2.
lib.
725.
lib.13.
et
22.
et
Quintiliam
c.
cap.
V
n.
VOL.
"'

[Part.3.

Love-Melancholy,

290

Sec. 2.

ashiorum, tela equina,

palliola
viperarum,cerebella
f}nf/u(r
ohvolnti
funis
sfranf/nlnti
fiominis,
iinnrmitur,
anihtis inf'nnfes
in Sckenkius, observat.
See more
S^-c.
nido
(l("
aqnilcc,
lapis
lent

medicinal,

lib- 4. S^c. which are

that fountain Sahuacis

forcible,and

as

of

much

as

in '^Vitruvius,
Ovid,Strabo,
vertuc, as
drank
of
that
that hot
for
love
mad
or
it;
all
such
made
that
his
Cupid once dipt arrows,
Ijath at ^Aix in Germany, wherein
lovers all that
to make
v
ertue
hath
since
a peculiar
which
ever
of it :
description
wash in it. But hear the poets own

oiim

Tela
Et
Ex

aquisterra erumpentibusuda
hie ludens ingneatinxit Amor
;

hie fervor

Unde

gaudens stridore novo, Fen'ete perennes,

sint monumenta
meae.
et hsec pharetrae
Inquit,
hie mergitur
illo fenet, ramsque
hospes,
Cui

that bath

of

Amor,

titilletpectora blandus

non

remedies

These above-named
"

Aix,

Venus

or

as
happily,
inchanted girdle
;

have,

much
in

power as
which, saith

and dalliance,pleasantness,
ness,
sweetlove-toyes
and all witchcraft
(jentle speeches
subtilties,
persicasion,

Natales Comes,

to

love,was
enforce

de

Philos.

occult.

part. I. quojst.7.

Pomponatius,cap.
Plat.

Read

contained.
lib. 1. cap.

50.

Delrio

2.

torn.

8. de incantat.

of these in

more

et 45.

Malleus

Agrippa
malefic,

qucest.3. lib. 3.
Ficinius

Wierus,

lib. 13.

Theol.

SfC.
Calcarpiinus,

MEMB.

IV.

or
of
Sijinplomes
sif/ns

SyMPTOMES

are

SUBSECT.

I.

Love-

Melancholy;
yood,bad, ^-c.

either of

body
''

paleness,leanness,driness,"c.

in

Body,

minde:

or

Pallidus

Minde

of

omnis

body;
amans,

color hie est aptns amanti, as the poet describes lovers : fecit
de Ilishi
amor
maciem, love causeth leanness. ^ Avicenna
this
makes
holloio
33.
disease,
c.
symptomes of
cys, driness,
to ffo smilinq to
some

delectable

themselves, or

actingas iftheysaw

lib.
object. Valleriola,

2.

or

heard

observcet. cap.

7.

bibnnt. Idem Ov. Met. 4. Strabo.

Venere implicat
eos, qui ex eo
"'Lod. Guicciardinis descript.
Ger. in Aquisgrano.
"=BalbenevolentisE.etblanditiae,
suasiones,
thens Veneris, in quo sua vitas,etdiilcia colloquia,
d Ovid.
Facit hnnc amor
fraiides et veneficia iDcliidph;iiitiir.
ipsecolo'S-.'-iaejus sunt profundifas
oniloruin,privatio
Met. 4.
lachrymanira,
rem.
'-". "i quid dtlf ctubile viderent, aiit audirent.
suspiria,
sKpe rident sm,
=iLib. 11.

c.

8.

Oeog. 1. 14.

'

Mem.

4.

291

Symptomes of Love.

Subs.l.]

Montaltus
Lande Her, amore.
cap. 10. ^lianus
med. deliver as much ; corpus ex24. lib. I. epist.
giusepist.
oculi cavi, lean, pale;
corpus gracile,
sang ue pallet,

Laurentius

ut nudis

ey'd,their

hollow

eys

calcibus
quipressit

hidden

are

in their heads ;

cecidit
Tenerquenitidi corporis

and look illwith

They pineaway,

anguem.

decor ;

waking,cares, sighs,

qui tenebant signaPhoebese facis

Oculi,nihil gentile
necpatriummicant.

Et

With

dulness,
sadness,
griefs,

groans,

Cura

aut

Nulla

jam

Cereris subit

salutis,

A reason
of all this, Jason Pratensis
"c.
appetite,
the
distraction
the liver doth
of the spirits,
gives;because of
not
perform his part, nor turns the aliment into bloud as it
ought; and for that cause, the members are weak for want of
lean and pine, as the hearbs of my garsustenance
; theyare
den
rain.
ness,
sickThe
do this month of May, for want
of
green
cachexia
a
therefore,often happenethto yong women;
besides
their
habit
evil
to
plaints
an
or
ordinarysighs,commen;
which are too frequent. As drops
and lamentations,
want

of

from

*=

still,

doth

ut occluso

"

"

stillatab

Cupidsfire provoketears
"1 The

mightyMars

from

igneliquor,
true

did oft for Vemis

lovers eys,

shreek,

moistninghis horrid cheek

Privily
With

womanish
e

Testis

ignisdistillatin undas.
erit largus
qui rigatora liquor,

suchlike

with many

tears,

passions.When

Chariclea

Theagines,as '^Heliodorus sets her

and spakeshe knew not what

on

much

awake,

besotted

on

and

her

was

lean upon

was

out, she
;

sudden

enamored

tracted,
half dislay
sighedto herself,
; and

was

when

marcentes
son-in-law, pallordeformis,
^

she

was

oculi,

"" Seneca
" De
morbis cerebri de erot.
Seneca Hip.
Hip.
vertit alinee
Ob spirituum
distractiohem hepar officio suo non
fungitur,
in sanguinem, ut debeat.
mentum
Ergo membra debilia,et penuriaalibilissucci marut herbse in horto raeo
hoc mense
Maio Zerisca?, ob imbrium
cescunt, sqiialentque
Emblem.
d
3.
" Amator.
defectum.
Faery Queen 1.3. cant. 11.
f Lib. 4. Animo
sustinet,et
errat, et quidvis obvium loquitur,
absque canssa
vigilias
S Apuleius.
SHccum
corporissubito aniisit.
*"

amore.

Love-Mfilancholif. [Fart.3.

2.92

hollow
had u""ly
palonr.j*^^,
^"c.slio

wind,

Eiirialus,in

"c.

el

cibi

otiier

thou
abshi/Js/i,

ifsnm

sleepfrom
^

epistle

sent

nu

complainsamongst

thoiiivlits,
short

Lucrclia his mistress,

tu
g-ritHanccs,

hast taken

my

mild

et

stomack

sovud

and

my

(^ him bndt,
W^ Slcrp,
Iji^meat, Ijf^Urinlt,
anlJ trri) ai a. slijaft,
Ci)at Iran Ijctuavetlj,
ijoUolu ana

t0

ii?isi
fjciupaU

$iiiUjto ficijolU,

a^Jjen to uufoltr,

anti

^nlf5olttar" Ijciua5

2. makes
^'t////.

Theocritus

Ut vidi
Miserae
Ullam

milii forma

Novi, sed
Decubui

seen

had,

afFectus est,

ampliuspompam
redieiam
consumebat.

my
skeleton I was

are
passions

deeem,

noctes

reliqua

no

not

mad

I was,
did care

more

where

I was,

evil 1 did fare ;

dayesand nights,

and
bed

layupon

but

I knew

any pomp;
But sick I was,

All these

mlhi male

"

and
My beautyfail'd,

love with

quando domum
quidam morbus

et cutis.""
sooner

Delphosin

capilli,
ipsaquesola
capita

For

much

in lecto dies decern, et

Defluebant

of

tabescebat,neque

aut

ardens

me

as

animus

ut
insanii,

ut

curabam,

No

alone,

fair maid

Minda, confess

of

man

Ossa

fber

all tljcni$ijt,
lualu'ns
nmhinc;mont.

SnU

yong

to

So he describes it aright
;

me.

W^

oys, restless

Sec. 2.

ten

in all

well

sights.

mens

expressed,
by

that heroical

poet,

in the person of Dido ;

At

non

infclix animi

Phoenissa,nee

unquam

Solvitur in somnos,

ac
oculisquc
pectore amores
Accipit; ingeminantcurte, rursusque resurgens

Solvit amor,

"c.

Unhappy Dido
But

could

not

lies awake, and

sleepat all,

takes

no

rest:

whilst care and

up she gets again,
And raginglove torments
her breast.

And

grief,

ner,
manEfjloga2. de Galatea, in the same
herself for want of sleep:
fains his Lycoris^tormenting
sighing,sobbing, and lamenting; and Eustathius in bis

Accius

Sanazarius

''
" Dum
" Chaucer
Virg. Mn. 4.
iu the Knights tale.
vaga passim
aitlera fulgent,nuiiierat longas tetricus horas, et ^ollicitonisus cubito "uspiraudo
vincera riiinpit.

4. Subi?.

Mem.

Symptomes of Love.

1.]

293

troubled, and ^pantingat heart

Ismenius, much

the

at

sight

of his mistress ; he could not sleep; his bed was thorns. ''All
of appetite,want
make
of sleep ordinary
leanness, want
that
and
means
theyare broughtoften so low,
by
syraptomes ;
so

altered,and changed, that

much

comoedy,

know

scarce

ean

one

them

he

as

Curaque,et

Many

such

lovers

by ;
"^

Can

they can

bene

not

hide iU it must

to

out,
raillenotis"

'Twas

"

described,

be

tectus magis sestuat Ignis.

Quoque magis tegitur,

"

and

Solomon, Piov. 6. 27. carry fire in his boburn ? it will hardlybe hid,though they do all
plusquam

it may

celet amorem

discern

body, to

saith

man,

and

some

quisenim

men^

dolor.

of the

are

jested in the

noctes,

amor
qui fit amore

syraptomes there

'

"

"

immense

he

to he the same

juvenum vigilatse
corpora

Attenuant

*=

Antiphanes the

drunkenness

comoedians
be

cannot

observation

of

concealed, celare alia

old, love
hcec
possis,

prater duo, vini potum, Sfc,words, looks, gestures, all will

betraythem : but two of the most notable signsare observed
the son
When
Antiochus
of
by the pulseand countenance.
Seleucus,
not

confess
the

stratus

sick for Stratonice

was

his

mother-in-law%and would

his

grief,or the cause

physicianfound him, by

to be in love with

her,

of his
his

disease,Erasi-

pulse and

because, that

nance
counte-

when

she

came

in presence, or icas
named, his pulse varied, and he blushed
besides.
In this very sort, was
the love of Callicles the son
of Polycles,discovered by Panacaeus the physician,
as you
may

read

the

signs,Galen

Aristaenetus.
By the same
brags,that he found out Justa, Boethius the

story

at

largein

consuls wife, to dote on Pyladesthe player: because

she both altered pulseand countenance, as
still,
name,
archus
1. 3.

did

controv.

amatorius

confirms

at

the

of

name

13. med.

contr.

; or, that love

this of

may

Galen, out

Franciscus

Argenis.
denies
be

so

of his

there is any

discerned

^Poly-

Valesius,

such

; but

at his

pulsus

Avicenna

experience,lib. 3.

Fen.

1.

''
Saliebat crebro trepidum cor ad aspectum Tsmenes.
Gordoniiis,c. 20.
'Ter. Eiinnch.
Amittunt saepe cibum, potum, et maceratur
inde totum coq)US.
eundem
Dii boni, quid hoc est, adeone homines
ut non
mufari ex amore,
cognosras
d Ovid.
f Ad
e Ovid. Met.
esse!
rubebat, ft ad
4.
ejusnomen
hBarck. lib. I. Oculi
b' Epist.13.
aspectum pulsus variebatur. Plutar.
medico tremore errabant.
'

294

Love-Melanchohj.

and

Gordonius, cap. 20.

and

if
swij't,

she go

Their

"

by, whom

[Part.3.

Sec.

2.

is inordinate
pulse^he saith^
fie loves. I^angius
24.
epist.

66. syl. nvplib. 1. wed.

epist.Nevisaniis lib. 4. immer.
de
tialis; Valescus
Taranta,Guianerius, traxit. 15. Valle*'
this
tor a symptome,
down
sets
riola
Differenceof pulse,,
when
of business,icant ofsleep^oftensighs,
blushings,
neglect
there is any speech
of their mistross,are manifestsigns. But
amongst the rest, JosephusStruthius that Polonian, in the fift
of pulses,
book cap. 17. of his doctrine
holds, that this,and
be discovered by the
all other passionesof the minde, may
icill
the men
know, saith he, whether
pulse. And ifyou
such
touch
their
be
or
such,
arteries,
^c. And in
suspected
he speaksof this particular
love
his fourth book, 14 chapter,
"^ Love
makes
stance
an
unequallpulse, Sj-c.he gives inpulse;
of a gentlewoman, a patientof his, whom
by this
'^

he

means,

much

to be

found

but
persons,
many
^
he suspected, her

named
Avhom

swifter,and
the matter
down

at

the

last when

his

name

; he
came

pulse began to vary, and to beat

by oftenfeelingher pulse,he perceivedichat

so

ting
setApolloniusArgonaut,lib. 4. poetically

was.

the

enamored, and with whom

meeting of

anothers
to blush at one
able to speak,
J,

totus,

Jason

and

sight,and

them

both

at the first they were

not

Medea, makes

Parmeno,

Tremo, horreoque,postquam
Phaedria trembled

at the

sightof

aspexibanc

Thais

others sweat,

blow

short,
Crura

troubled with

are

tremunt

ac

poplites,"
"

of heart
palpitation

upon the like occasion,.

their heart is at their
AristasnetiLs,

proximum ori, saith

love is fire,
these burn and freeze,^for
mouth, leaps,
ice,hot,
what
look
feaver,
itch,
frenzy,plurisy,
cold,
not)they
pale,
red,andcommonly blush at their firstcongress; and sometimes
of spirits,
bleed at nose, or when she is
violent agitation
through
talked of: which very sign Lustathius
makes
an
argument of
she met
afl'ection; that when
her sweet-heart
Ismenes
by
*"

cor

'

'Tis
chance, she changedher countenance, to a maiden-blush.
a
common
thingamongst lovers,as ^Arnulphus that merryvelox et inordinatns,si mulier quam
amat forte transeat.
Pulsus eoruin
bSigna
cpssatio ab omni
crebra, rubor cum
insueto, privatiosomnJ, su8j)iria
opere
c j^inoscere
vis an homines
de ra amatA, et coinmotio pulsus.
sit sernio
'1 Amor
inorditales sint,tang^itio
arterias.
fiicitinapqoales
eorum
suspecti
*= In nobilis
fuisse
subolfaf erem
adulterii aniore
cujusdam uxore
natos.
quum
'
maritas,{fcc.
Co?pitiliicopulsusvariari et ferricelecorreptam et quam
f- Eunuch,
7. lib. 2.
act. 2. .sc. 2.
rius,et sic inveni.
''Epist.
''Lexo' Lib. 1.
Tener
sudor et creber auhelitus,
cordis,"cc.
palpitio
a

sunt

viensis

episcopus.

Melancholy.

Love-

oc)(]

I"y her Ailoiiis:

so
as
dallyingand colling-,

Columbatimque

avide
Affligunt

Sec.

they are

2.

still

doves;

many

labiis ;

labra conserentes

and
alacrity

that Avith

and

Endymion

with

Moon

the

[Part.3.

conra^-e ;
salK'as
junguntqiic

corpus,

Oris,et inspirant
prcnsantes dentibus

era.

impressoore ut vix inde labra dctrahant,cervice recUkissed Thais ; Philippnsher

iiala, as Lamprias in Ludan
tamfnriose adhasit^ nt vix
amove
in /Jristfcnctus,
lifmphafo

*"

Tnm

"

lahra

solvere

tutunupie
suiter of hers

essef,

Liicretia,by

mihi

os

was

so

contrivil

saluted

'^

; and

Aretines
'tis their

ordinaryfashion.
illudunt sfcpe

denies

"

Atque premunt

labellis,

oscula"
adfigentes

arete

Tlicy cannot, I say, contain themselves; they will be stilliio4

but
embracing, treadingon
oidy Joynino-hands, kissing-,
bosomes, and that Hbenter,et
to his mistress;

''Philostratns confesseth

as
delectatione,

cnni

their

into
diving-

their loes, "c.

Mammillas

sinnm
premens,
per
their paps, and that scarce
rlam
honestly
dextrdjS^c. feeling
"
the
the old man
in
sometimes
comoBdy well observed of
: as

and

Lamprias

in

Lucian,

hnic pnellcB
in sinum
mannm
bin son, "/Vow ego te videham
?
inserere ? Did not I see thee put thy hand into her bosome
pJuno in Lncian Deorum^
such love tricks.
go to, with many

complainsto Jupiterof Ixion, ^'he looked so

on
her, and sometimes would sighand weep in her
attentively
and when I drank
by chance and c/ave Ganymede
company,
Tom.

3. dial. 3.

desire to drink stillin the very cup that I

the cnp, he would
drank
place where I drank, and would
oj",and in the same
and sometimes
kiss the cup, and then look steddily
on
me,

sif/hand

then

to

dally,have

that

to

confer

and

talk

If it be

neer
they cannot come
or
opportunity,
familiarity,
accjuaintance
if
be
in
; yet
they
together
presence, their

ayain smi/e.

so

ibi oculns, as the common

saying is,Avhere 1 look I like,and where 1 like I love; but
theywill lose themselves in her looks.
eye will

Ubi

bewray them;

Alter in alterius

amor

lamina
jactantes

Qua^rcbant taciti nosier

a
f

Lncret. 1.4.

Epist.16.

tiias

adeo

Deducfo

tariRo,"c.
in

me

biLn;n3,Sec.

aspexit,et

ore

Lncian.

iuterdum

vultus,
amor.

dial.Tom. 4. Meret. spd et aperientes,

"c.
" (n deiicits
basio demiilcet.
mammas
'" Attente
t-'Tom. 4. mcnt. di.il.
ingemiscebat,et lachrymabatur.Et si quaudo

longo me

fTcrf-nt

ubi esset

4, Subs.

Mem.

look

Love.

Syniptomesof

1.]

off whom

they love

297

they will hnprer/nare

; be stillgazing-,
faces, smiling,glancingat her, as ^Apollo
stealing
.staring,
Leucothoe, the Moon on her ''Endymion,when she stood
on
They

cannot

deflowre
camipsisoculis,

with their eys

her

caused her chariot to be stayed.

stillin Caria, and at Latmos
They must all stand and admire, or if she go by, look after
her ; she is animce auriqa, as
her as long as they can
see
calls her; they cannot
Anacreon
go by her door or window,
but as an adamant, she draws their eys to it; though she be
needs glancethat
there present, they must
way, and look
of
back to it. Aristasnetus
Exithemus,Lucian in his Imagin.
of himself,and Tatius of Clitiphon
; Ille ocnlos
say as much
'^
lovers confess,
de Leucippe nunquam
dejiciehat
; and many
not

'^

in their mistress
they could
presence,
and
but
looked
off
their
not hold
wistly
on
her,
steddily
eys,
and
hiconnivo aspectn, M'ith much
greediness,as
eagerness
look thorow, or should
have enough
if they would
never

they came

when

sightof

her.
-fixis ardens

by him,

So she will do

drink

to him

pueros,

hteret ;

with

her eys, nay drink

Martials Mamurra
is re-

him, as

him, swallow
up, devour
have
done :
membred
to

him

molles
Inspexit

obtutibus

comedit,"c.
oculisque

this purpose, in Navigat.Vertom.

The Sultan of Sanas wife in Arabia, because
lib. 3. cap. 5.
fair and white could not look off him, from
Vertomannus
was
she could not desist; she made him
to sun-setting,
sun-rising
There

is

day

one

pleasantstory,to

into her

come

tiiebatur,non

me

chamber,

unqnam

gemincehorce spatioiii-

et

aciem

ociiloriim

observansvelntiCujndinem
qiiendam,for
him.

stillgazed on
Venus

picture,he

there continued

all

A yong
came

day

man

in

two

Lucian

avertebat, me

hours

space she
fell in love with

morning to her temple, and

every
to sun-set, unwilling
long,"^^from sun-rising

to go home
at night,sitting
over
againstthe
he did continually
look upon her,and mutter
picture,

I know

what.

If

goddess
self
to him-

they cannot see them whom

about their
theylove, they will stillbe walking and Availing
mistress doors,takingallopportunity
to see
them, as in ^Longus
and Cloe, two lovers,were
stillhovering*
at
Sophista,Daphnis
not

so

be

omnia cemere
debes
LeHcothoen
spectas et 'virgine
fi^s in una qnos
^
debes ociilos. Ovid. Met. 4.
Lucian, Tom. 3. Quoties ad Cariam venis
alio oculos
currum
"^Ex quo te primum vidi,Pythia,
sistis,et
desuperaspectas.
fait.
''Adoccasum
vertere non
i^Lib. 4.
e Dial, amoruni.
solis a?gie doinum rediens, atque lotum diem ex adverso Dta: sedens recto, in ipsam
sLib. 3.
";c.
perpetuo oculorum ictus direxit,

^aQuique
mnndo

Love-Melancholy.

298

anothers gates ; he

one

to

Sec. 2.

soughtall occasions
and

in summer,

hunt

3.
[Part.

catch

to be in her company,
birds in the frost,
about

lier fathers house in the winter, that she might see him, and
A kingspalaceteas not so diligently
saith
he her.
attended^
tchen
I
house
in
was
Aretines Lucretia,as my
lay Romey the
^

porchand
set

full of some,
on
walkingor riding,
stillupon
me
; their eye was
my window,
choose
but
look
could
back to my
not
; they

street
to see

purpose

ever

was

they passedby
wnen
they were past,and
occasion
take some
impertinent
as

house
look

and

out

observe

them.

lover; 'tisall

to every

sometimes

hem

cough, or
speak aloud, that I might
'Tis so in other places
mon
; 'tiscomhis felicity
to be with her,to talk
or

to

well but in her company,

and will walk
the
street ichere she dtcells,
or eighttimes a day,through
seven
her
errands
stillwhere^
sleeveless
to
make
and
see
; plotting
when, and how to visit her :

her, he

with

is

never

"=

Levesque sub

uocte

susurri

CompositA.
repetuntur hora.
he is gone, he thinks every

when

And
hour

long as

as

day,ten dayesa

minute

whole

an

hour, every

year, tillhe

see

her

again.
d

And
viosa

si numeres,

Tempera

bene

quae

amantes.

numeramus

wilt say so too, Et

vale charissima
valcj farewell sweet-heart,
be in

if thou

love,thou

longumforArgenis,^c.

more
farewell,farewell. And
once
my dear Argenis,
he is to meet
her by compact, and that very shortly,

Farewell

though
perchanceto morrow,
yet loath to depart,he'l take his leave
look after,and
back again,
and
then
and
come
again,
again,
his hat afar off. Now
shake his hand, wave
gone, he thinks
her again,and she him 3 the clocks are
it long tillhe see
surelyset back, the hour's past,
"

whether he come
window
to see
still,
; ""and
report,Phillis went nine times to the sea-side that day, to
if her Demophoon were
approaching; and s Troilus to the

she looks

by
see

HospilaDemophoon lua te RodopheiaPhillis,

Ultra promissumtempus abesse queror ;
out

at

citygates, to
tillshe

see

aRegam
"c.
ut vel uoico
"

Ovid.
Chaucer.

look

him

again; peevishin

palatiumnon
bUno

arnicassuae

for his Cressid.

She

the

is illat ease, and sick

mean

time, discontent,

stipabant,
cnstodiA septum fuit,ac ades meas
diligent!
eodern die seitips vel septiesambulant per eandem
plateara,
"^ 0\id.
^'Hor.
frnantur aspectu, lib.3. Theat. inundi.
f
Hygiuus,iab. 59. Eo die diciturnoaies ad littuscurrifise.
tam

et

4. Subs.

Mem.

Symptomes of Love.

I.]

299

heavy,sad, and why conies he not ? where is he ? why breaks

he is not well ; sure
he promise? why tarries he so long? sure
he forgets
he hath some
himself and me j
mischance; sure
And then confident
with infinite such.
again,up she gets,
out she looks,listens and enquires,
barkens,kens, every maa
afar off"is
that's

sure

he,

male

in the street, now

he is there,
he, every stirring
male
Soli
Auroroe^
dicitydejeraUjue,
Sfc.the

longestday that ever was ; so she raves, restless and impatient

j
for Amornon
patiturmoros, love brooks no delayes ; the time'sj
quicklygone that's spent in her company, the miles short,the
all weather
is good whilst he goes to her house,
way pleasant,
heat or cold, though his teeth chatter in his head, he moves
not, wet or dry, 'tis all one, wet to the skin, he feels it not^
it and much
endure
cares
not, at least,for it,but will easily
with alacrity,
and
it is done
for his mistress
because
more,
sake ; let the burden be never
sweet
so
heavy,love makes it
served
for
Jacob
seven
Rachel, and it was
light,
years
quicklygone, because he loved her. None so merry, if he
for the time ;
; he is in heaven
may happilyenjoyher company
in
and if he may
he
not, dejected an instant,solitary,
silent,
sighing,
complaining.
departsweeping,lamenting,
a

the symptomes

But

of the minde

in lovers

finite
almost inart can
no
so
diverse,
comprehend them ;
; and
be
and
though they
rapt beyond themselves
merry sometimes,
are

that

for

joy, yet

bitter sweet

part,love is

most

passionat

plague,a

last ; ^Amor

melle

simuSygustum dat dulcem et amarum.

hilare torm"ntum;
dolentia delectabilis,
c

Et

Et

Like

melle

me

felle necant

beant

'Tis suavis

an

amaricies,

suaviora,
amariora

fly or Sphines wings, or

summer

me

hell,a
etjelle
estjoecundistorture,

rainbow

of alf

colours.
Quae ad Solis radios
Adversus

fair,
fowle,and
bad.
to

For in

it;a

nubes

full of

conversse

aureae

erant,

csBrulese,
qualejubarIridis,.

variation,
thoughmost

part,irksome and

is not comparable
word, the Spanishinquisition
^execution
he
cals it in the
it
and
torment
is, as
a

unquenchablefire,and what not ? From it,saith

Austin,arise bitingcares, perturbations,
passions,
sorrows^
poet, an

"
"" Plautus Cistil.
= Stobseus e
Gen. 29. 20.
dpiautus.
Graeco.
"^ De
Credo ego ad hominis carnificinara amorem
civitat.lib.22.
inventum esse.
insana
Ex eo oriuntur mordaces curae, perturbationes,
formidiries,
cap. 20.
moerores,

gaudia,discordia;,
lites,bella,
adulatio,
iuimicitia?,
fallacia;,
fraas,
iracandia;,
insidiae,

fartum,nequitia,
impudentia.

Love.Melancholy.

300

discontents,
contetit
J}firt!,suspiitons,

3. Sec.
[Part.

2.

ions,(riscord.'",wars,
eries,
treach-

riot,lust,impudence,
euniitiesjjiattery,
coseniny^
cruelty,
^r.
Ixuavery,
dolor,querelse,
Lamentatio,lachrymcc
percnnes,

Languor, anxietas,amaritudo:
si triste magis potest quid esse,

Aut
Hos

tu das

comites,Neocra,vitse.

These

be tlie companions of

tomes,

as

lovers,and

the

ordiuary
symp^

the poet repeats them,

bin

hsce

insuntvltia,
inimicitice,
Suspiciones,
audacise,
Bellum, pax rursum, "c.
Insomnia, terumna,
error, terror,et fuga,

amore

Excogitantia,
excors, immodestia,
et malevolentia;
Petulantia,
cupiditas,
Inhseret

etiam

aviditas,
desidia,injuria,

Inopia,contumelia

et

In love these vices

Peace,

suspicions.
impudence,detractions,

and

war,

Dreams,

cares,

"c.
dispendium,

and

are

errors, terrors

and

affrights.

Immodest

and flights.
pranks,devices,
sleights
Heart-burnings,
wants, neglects
; desire of wrong.

Loss

Every poet
fear and

continual,expence

hurt among.

is full of such

of love symptomes ; but

catalogues
the chief place: Though
justlychallenge

sorrow

may
de Saxonid

Hercules

and

cap. 3. Tract, de melanch. will exclude

fear from Love-Melancholy,
otherwise perswaded.
yet I am
*i Res
solliciti
'Tis full of fear,anxiety,
est
plena timoris amor.
it turns
peevishness,
suspition,
Hesiod
(belike)
put Fear
daughters:

doubt,
man,

care,

made

which

"Marti
Alma

because
arc

of
to

clypcosatque

Venus

arma

peperitPallorcm,

fear and love

are

stilllinked

man

into

and Paleness

a m'o-

nus
Ve-

secanti
unaque

Timorem

together.Moreover, they

too credulous sometimes, too full

mistake,amplifie,
an"l
and
(hen againvery jealous,unapt
hope
confidence,

apt

to

believe

or

entertain

prettily
paintedout

any

good news.

this passage

Thecomical

amongst

Poethath

the rest in

*dia-

"Marnllns,1. I.
''Tcr.Eunuch.
'"Ovid,
^Plautns Mercat.
Adcljih.Act. "l.sc('n.5. i\l IJonoauimors,"liictsiixorcm
JV.. Hem,
Iiaiic,.'l'"iSchime,s.
paUr, iiiim tu ludis rnc nunc/
M. Kgouc tc, fiuamobreut? Al, Quod tam
cupio,"c.
"^

Symptomeg of Love.

1.]

4. Subs.

Mem.

;J01

father and a lovea g^entle

sick
loo-ue betwixt Mitio and /Eschines,
thou
shalt
have
her
chear,
M.
Be
of good
my son,
son.
31. / jnock
M. Ah father,do yon mock me note ?
to

wife.

^.

thee, whif?

That

which

M.

Get you

suspect and fear.

earnestlydesire,I

so

home, and

setid for her

more

to

be

wife?

father ! ^c.
now,
the
least
are
These doubts, anxieties,suspitions,
part of their
from
times,
passionsto actions
torments
they break, many
What,

icife. M.

your

now,

speak fair and

by, theyare

and

obsequiousand willing,
by
wrangle,fight,
swear,
quarrel,laugh,

flatter;now
averse;

most

he that doih not so by fits,''Lucian

weep : and
touched with this loadstone of love.
throuo-hly

it self;

Plato calls it ;

amaram,

rem

Love

is bitterness

to many

bitter

not

So their actions
of all other passions,

but

hath the greatestshare.

sorrow

intermixt

passionsare

and

holds,is

potion,an

agony,

plague,
mihi
hailc pestem perniciemque
Eripite

subrepensimos

Quee mihi

torpor in artus,

pectore laatitias.

omni

Expulitex

ut

this mischief from me,

take away this plague,
all my body.
Which
over
a numbnesse
as
Expelsmy joyes,and makes my soul so heavy.

Plreedra had

when
touch of this,

true

-c

Pars
Aut

Thais, utinam

Or

as

it doth

So had that yong

"^

cryedout,

mihi

esset

fieret ut
Eequa amoris tecum, ac pariter
mihi
dolet.
hoc tibi doleret itidem,ut

Thais, would

he

hadst

thou

me

now,

when

man,

so

of these my
make

it would

he roared

painsa part,
thee smart.

againfor discontent;

stimulor,
Jactor,crucior,agitor,
rota miser,
distrahor,
Exanimor, fei'or,
deripior,

Versor
Ubi
1

am

Where

in amoris

sum,
vext

ibi non

sum

; ubi non

and toss'd,and rack't

not, I

am

; but

where

am,

sum,
on

ibi est animus.

Loves

do not

wheel

feel.

to Venus, that she was

her mone
in ^ Liician,made
Moon
dead for love,pei'eo equidem amore, and after a long
almost
^
tale,she broke off abruptly and wept, O Venus, thou

The

"

Tom.

4. dial, amorum.
= Ter.
Eunuch,

part. Ovid.

quod posthacdicturus fuerim.

Aristotle 2. Rhet. puts love thereforein the irascible

fScia
eTom. 3.
dpiautus.
1. 8C. 2.

Act

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302

3.
[Part.

Sec. 2.

Cliarmidcs
in
patient,
Lucian,was so immy poor heart.
that he Kob'd and sighed,and tore his hair,and said
*

hnowest

I
^indonp,O sister Tri/phenn,
he Mould hang himself; / am
endnrc these love panf/s, what shall I do ? Vos, O Dii
cannot
his cur is,O yee Gods, free me
from
Aver r unci,solvite me
these

of the

and miseries,out

cares

of his soul,''Theang-uish

Shall I say, most

part of a lovers life is full of
and
grief,complaints,
sighs,suspitions
anxiety,fear

ocles prays.
agony,
and

heart is wo) full of silence and irksome

(highho, my

cares

solitariness!

shady bowers
Frequenting

in

discontent,
he will vent;

the ayr his fruitless clamors

To

such times that he hath lucida intervalla,

pleasant
alterations
ifhis
mistress
smile
sudden
as
or
;
upon him,
gales,
comfortable message
give him a oood look, a kiss,or that some

except

at

brought him,

be

his service

is

accepted,"c.
raptbeyondhimself,as

confident and

ifhe had
the
in
heard the nightingale
spring before the cuckow ; or as
Melebseas
hac mortali
at
'Calisto was
presence, Quis unquam
transcendere
vita tam
gloriosumcorpus vidit ? humanitatem
He

is then too

videor,^n. who

enjoyedsuch delight?More
Gods, wished,had,

or

what

a sight
glorious
;

so

saw

ever

content

of

hoped,

cannot

be

mortal

man.

any

man

ever

given of the
There

is

happinessin the worla comparableto his,no content, no

joy to this,no life to love,he is in paradise.
no

Quis

lives

In this

He

will

so

happy

life,
may

our

change fortune

not
fi

magishac
quispoterit?

vita dicere

Optandum
Who

vivit foelicior? aut

uno

me

Donee

bliss

as

my

be

compar'dto this ?

in that

gratuseram

Persarum

self? what

vignirege

case

est

with

prince.

tibi,
beatior.

he is ; Ofestus dies
as
kings are not so joviall
when
he came
hominis, O happy day ; so Cheerea exclaims
well pleased
from Pamphila his sweetheart,
;
The

Persian

Nunc
Ne

'

interficicum
me
profecto
perpeti
possem,
vita
gaudium contaminet
;
aliquaajgritudine

est

hoc

aToDB. 4. dial, meret.

nere

possum.

Trjphena,Amor

seen.

perdit,
neqae

."j.Etmuch.

malum

hoc

ampliassnsti-

*^Ccelestina,act. 1.
votorum mortalium sumniam

Si inihi Dens omnium

^ Catullus de Lesbia.
Ter.

fruuntur.
majore la-titianon
cedat, non magis,"c.
'Act. 3.

me

lib.2. epist.8.
Aristffinetus,

eHor. ode

Sancti
con-

9. lib.3,

Love-Melanchofif.

304

for ever afterto

all other labour
In-esfucrCj

wore
hecauac i/irif

want

lahorcs

was

be

not

carendum

he icithout
Amyntas, carefuU
painfull
cannot

sackt, a royal army

sunk, and twenty thousand

were

fingerake; so zealous
They would all turn
liope,
by that means,

*'

when

an

that I

Oiunc^
company.
but this nii^ht
light
;
my

"

ciuhiretl,
Tui

for I

Sec. Q.

[Part.3.

are

quod

erat

Amyntas,
thy company^ luournfuU
city
Amyntas; better a metropolitan
an

overcome,

invincible

armado

then her little

kingsshould perish,
they,and so tender of her good.

in
friers for my sake (asshe follows it),
to meet, or see
me
fessors,
again,as my conbreak :" And
so
afterwards;
or
at barlyat stool-ball,
^
had
hid my maid say.,
If I
importunatesuiter came,

was

not within, husy,conldnot

leisure,
speakicitJt
astonished,ayid stood like a pillarof
instantly

not

at

him, he was
viarble; another
clUa

sibi

cursing,
Jbaming.
swearing,chafing,

went

ipsaJovisviolentior ira,cum

vox

tonat, "c.

had been sweeter

musick ; hut he to
the voycc of a mandrake
in the Elysianfields,
ravished
I gave entertainment,was
whom
'Tis
the
of all
h
umour
generall
beyondhimself.
for joye,(pnte
and guide.
lovers; she is their stern, pole-star,
d

sui.
Deliciumqueanimi,deliquiumque

(which our herbalists call Narcissus)

when
fos ad radios solis se pandem,
the sun
flower exposingit self; but when
sets,
a glorious
hides
it
and
hath
it
self,
no
a
pinesaway,
or
tempest comes,
pleasureleft,(whichCarolus Gonzaga, duke of Mantua, in a
used
for an imprese) so do all
not
unlike, sometimes
cause
their primum
to their mistress ; she is their sun,
inamorates
mohile or animi informans
; this 'one hath elegantly
expressed
which
otherwise hath
by a windmill, stillmoved by the winde,
to
atulipant

As

the

sun

it shines,is admirandiLS

"-'

motion

no

of it self.
Sic tua

ni

truncus
spiret
gratia,

ero.

whollyanimated from her breath; his soul lives in her

she keeps the
body; "sola claves hahet interitiis ct .salutis,
keys of his life; his fortune eb])esandflowes with her favour;
bad aspect turns him up or down
or
a gracious
;
He

is

''Si responsuni esset dominam

Ter. Tui carendum
quod erat
occnpatam esse
ille statiin vix hoc audito velut in inarnior
obriguit,alii se damnare,
"^ Maotnan.
Atcui
"c.
favebam, in campis Elysiisease videbatur, )vc.
"* Loechaeus.
" Sole se
clauditur
ac
aut tenipestateveniente,atatiiu
occiiltante,
fEmblem. ainat, 13.
laDguescit.
sCalistode Meliba;i.
*

aliisque
vacaret,

Mem.

4. Subs.

Mens

lucescit,Lucia,luce

mea

his

Howsoever

Sijmptomeaof Love.

1.]

be

305

tua.

or
pleasing

'tjs
displeasing-,
he loves; he can
do nothing,
think of
nothing but her; desire hath no rest, she is his Cynosure,
Hesperusand Vesper,his morning and eveningstar, his goddess,
his soul,his every thing;dreaming,
his mistress,his life,
continuate

so

present

long as

state

waking,she is alwaysin his mouth ; his heart,eys, ears, and

full of her.
His Laura,his Victorina,
all his thoughts,
are
his
Delia
or
Columbina, Flavia,Flaminia, Caslia,
Isabella,
(call
her how you will ;) she is the sole objectof his senses, the
soul,nid^ilus animoi

of his

substance

; he

snce

in ilia,full of her, can

totus
above measure,
but her.
/ adore MelihcEa,saith love-sick ^

magniliesher
breath

nothing

Calisto,I believe
in Melibcea,I honour, admire and love my Meliba;a ; his soul
was
sowced, imparadised,
imprisonedin his lady. When
took her leave of Phsedria,

Thais

"

Phsedria,et nunquidaliud

mi

i"

me
(shesaid)will you command
vice
any further serand
this
in
readily
replied, gave
charge,

heart

Sweet

? he

quidvelim?

egone
Dies
Me
Me

noctesque
somnies, me
me

Meus
Dost

coxites,
expectes,
iota sis,
oblectes,mecum
me

te

Depend

day

me
on

nightis all I

know, my

be

love,that I

all this needed

not, you
will be his,settle her love on
-d

crave

to expect, to think

me,

tuus.

sum

service T will have ?

hope,stillcovet

Delightthy self in
For

animus, quando ego

and

me,

and

desideres.

me

me,

(my dear)what

ask

dream

To

ames

speres,
fac postremo

love

To

But

vis ?

me,

to see,

me

whollymine,

whollythine.

am

if she affect once, she

will say;

him,

ilium absens

on

him

on

alone,

absentem

Auditquevidetquethink and dream of noughtelse but him

of him, as did Orpheus on his Euridice,
continually

she

can,

she

Te
Te

"

A^nima

non

baeam, "c,
VOL.

II.

must

solo in littore mecum,

veniente die,te discedente canebam.
dulcis

conjux,te

est nbi animat,sed ubi amat.

c Ter. Eunuch.
Act. J . so. 3.

*'

act, I. Credo in MeliCoelestina,

"i

Virg.4. Mn.
3L

Love-Melancholy.

2Q6

thee,sweet

Ck\

3.
[Part.

all m^

wife,was

Sec. 2.

son^,

Morn, evqiing,aud all iUong.

And

Dido

her ^noas;

upon
."

"

et quae me
terrent,
insomnia
currit imago.
viri virtus,et plurima

"

Multa
And

ever

That

was

in
Clitiphon

and
so

the

she thinks upon

anon,

man

so
blith,so debonair.
fine,so fair,

the first book

of Achilles

Tatius,conjplainetli,

in
him much
more
that his mistress Leucippe tormented
For
all day lony he had some
the night,then in the day.
his
senses
; hut in the niyhtall ran
objector other t" distract
^ awake
and could think of
upon her: all nightlong he lay
nothingelse but her ; he could not get her out of his minde ;

how

'

morningsleeptook

towards

awhile,but all his dreams

-"=

te nocte

were

littlepittyon

him, lieslumhei'ed

of her.

sub atra

falsaquein imaginesomni,
Alloquor,amplector,
sollicitam

Gaudia

palpantevanida

mentera.

nightI speak,embrace and finde,

fadingjoyesdeceive my careful rainde.

In the dark

That

complaintEurialus makes to his Lucrctia : day

and nightI think of thee, I icishfor
thee,I talk on thee,call
on
thee,look for thee,hopefor thee,
delight
myselfin thee,day
and nightI love thee.
The

''

same

Nec

mihi vesper6
Surgentedeoedunt

allisalike
Morning,evening-,
'^Tc

Still I think
I live and
gO

on

thee,

.^nima

Leucippesomni:i

I have restless

tc nocte
est

uhi

thoughts;

requiro.

animat, sednbi

amat.

for thee.

niveam

mihi reddere lucem,

qiise te poterit
mihi felicem terque quaterque diem.

loterdin oculi,et
soranns

non

thee,I wish

happyday that shall restore

rorain

with me,

vigilans
oculis,animo

brcatii in

amores,

.Solem
rapidumfugiente

Nec

aiires

thee to my

sight. In

the

mean

occapata;distrahunt

ad AitaDiranm, at noctn solas jactor,

tamen
animo puellaabiit,sed omnia mihi de
ex
bTot:"i har nocte somuniii
hisce oculis non
vidi. Ter.
''/Ea. Silv. Te dies, noctesquc amo, te cogito,te desidero,

misertus,
jjanlntn

nec

eranL

""liuclianau.
Sylv.
te voco, te
oblerto me, totus in te suui.
expe cto,te spero, tecum
f Petronias.
ode 0.
t' T.bullus I. 3.
Eleg. 3. j

^Hor. lib.2.

Symptomes of Love.

1.]

4. Subs.

Mem.

307

her ; her sweet

face,eys, actions,gestures,
on
time, he raves
hands, feet,speech,length,
bredth,hightli,
depth,andtherest
of her dimensions, are so survaied,measured, and taken, by
witli such

strong

and

earnestness

such

lengthhe

at

continuance,

thinks

he

sees

so

her

he talks with her, he embraceth

her, Ixion-like pro
said.
he
for
cloud
as
Juno,
Levmihem, a
Nihilprceter

indeed

Junone

cippencerno, Leucippemihi pcrpetuo

I

satur;

present

or

meditate

and

see

absent, all is
Et

of

naught

in

oculis,et animo

but

Leucippe.

ver-

Be she

one;

forraae,
preesentia
quamvisaberat placidae

Quern dederat

That

violently
sometimes,

so

eagerness,

that
imagination,

an

that

and
phantasie,

of

that Astrolabe

her

of
impression

forma, manebat

pieesens

beauty is stillfixed

amor.

in his

minde,

''haerent infix! pectore vultus.

"

he that is bitten with a mad

dog, thinks all he sees dogs,
tress
in his meat, dogs in his dish,dogs in his drink: his mis-

as

dogs

Valleriola had
is in his eys, ears, heart,in all his senses.
and "=Ulricus
in the same
predicament,
a merchant, his patient,
of
that
hath
a story
Molitor out of Austin,
throughveheone,
mency

still thoughthe
love passion,
of,this

present with him; she talked with him;

videbatur,stillembracinghim.
vigilans
Now

if this

passionof

love

intended,what
pleasantly
it is with

(as commonly
pain must it be

shall it breed, when

bitter torments
sorrow,

suspition,
care,

is)still accompanied,what

it

'^

ifitbe
producesuch effects,

can

continual

fear and

et

his mistress
commisceri
cumed
saw

agony,
intolerable

an

?
Non

tam

grandes

Gargara culmos, quot demerso

Pectore

longa nexas

curas

Usque catena, vel quae penitus

vulnera miscet.
Crudelis amor
Mount

As
And

Gargarushath
lovers

brest

hath

not

so

many

stems,

grievouswounds,

linked cares, which

love

compounds.

king of Babylon would have punisheda courtier of

the royalblood, and far above
yong lady of
his,for loving'a
in presence, by all means
perswaded
his fortunes, '^Apollonius
When

Ovid.

the

Fast. 2.

ver.

775.

yirg.^n.

4,

hostis, quantum

tela,nee
ira Deimi tantum, nee
Ital. 15. bel. Punie. de amore.
vel docere te possum,
quod excogitare,

-^De Pythonissa.
tute

potisanimis

ju^o^n^c

Ulapsns.

Philostratus vita ejus. Maximum

est ipseamor.
"

Minis

tormentum

Loh-e- Melancholy.

308

alone; For

to let him

speakahle
a

at

gnat

enjoyvan

not

Sec. 2.

moat

nn-

invent the like punishment;

tyrantcould
;
self.
himcandle, in a short space, he would consume

torment

as

love and

to

[Part.3.

no

love is a

For

perpetual^Jlux,angor animi, a warfare,

is love still,
and a
a
amans,
grievouswound
lovers heart is Cupids quiver,a consumingad
"
accede
^fire,
hunc ignem,
fire.
Sfc.an inextinguishable
militat omnis

alitur at crescit malum,

intus,qualis^Etnaeo vapor

Et ardet
Exundat

JEtnn

As

antro

doth love, and

rageth,so

then

more

iEtna,or

any

material fire.
-"^ Nam

Vulcano

Vulcans

flames

Amor

soepe

ardentiorem flammam
are

butsmoak

to

Lyparco
incendere

solet.

this;For fire,saith ^Xeno-

phon, burns them alone that stand neer it,or touch it ; but
this fire of love burneth and scorcheth afar off,and is morohot
and vehement
then any material fire : ^lynis in lynejurk ;
'tis a fire in
burnt

Rome,

fire;the
as

Calisto

bodies and

mens

and

of fire. For wten Nero

quintessence
urgeth,he fired houses, consumed

goods ;

''

soul is worth
one
this wild fire.

but this fire devours

bodies.

100000

'In pectus

No

the soule it self,

water

can

quench

absorbuit

ignes,
imbre
nee
perimipotu^re,
aqua
susurris.
Diminui,neque graminibus,
magicisque
ceecos

Ignesqui nee
A

fire he took
Which

Nor

water

hearb,nor

Could

Except
a

into his
could

art, nor

nor
quell,

it be tears

and

brest,

quench,
magick spells

not

any drench.

sighs;for

so,

they may

chance

find

littlecase.
^

Sic candentia
Sic

me

bianda

colla,sic patens frons,

tui Nesera ocelli,

Sic pares minio gense perurunt,

Ut ni me
lachrymae
rigentperennes,
Totus in tenues eam
favillas.

Ausonius,

35.

''Et caeco carpiturigne; et mihi sese offertultromens

") Sen. Hippol.
" Theocritus
Ter. Eunuch.
edyl.2.
f
Levibns cor est violabiletells.
solum
urit,at fonna procul
Ignistangtntes
h Major iliallamnia
astantes inflaminat.
eNonnius.
quiu consumit nnam
^ Marullus
' Mant.
aniniam, quam quae centum milliacorporuni.
eel.2.
lib. 1.
Bpi^'.
c

ignisAmyntas.

"^

Mem.

Symptomes of Love,

1;]

4. Subs.

S09

thy white neck, Negera,me poor soule

Doth scorch,thycheeks, thy wanton
eys that roul :
that
for
tears
it not
Were
hinder,
my dropping
I should be quiteburnt up forthwith to cinder.
So

which made those old Graefire strikes like lightning:

their
of
in
cians paintCupid
temples,with Jupiters
many
for
it
hands
his
in
;
thunderbolts
wounds, and cannot be perceived
it came, where it pierced
how, whence
;
This

Urimur, et

And

discerned

hardlybe

can

pectoravulnus habent,

caecum

at

first.

"st mollis flamma

medullas,

insano vivit sub pectore vulnus.

Et tacitum

gentlewound, an easie fire it was.

and secretly
did pass.
And
slyeat first,

But

by

and

by

it
'^

began

Pectus

insanum

This
And

flamma

vorat

ssevus

per

entrals ;

house, it nimblyruns
And
at the last the whole
lib. 1.

the

when

as

An

HofFemannus

latens,

tr abes.
percurrit

fiery
vapour ragethin
scorcheth

meat

venas

et venis

mersus,
ignis

alias
agilis

vapor,

medullas,atque

Visceribus
Ut

rage and burn amain

torret, intus

Amorque
Penitus

to

veins,
fire burns

alongthe

beames,

it overturns.

conjugal,
cap, 2. pag. 22.
relates out of Plato, how that Empedocles the philosopher
was
presentat the cuttingup of one that died for love, his
heart icas combust, his liver smoakie,his lungsdried up, insO'
believed his soul laas either sod or roasted,
that he verily
much
made a
throughthe vehemencyoj"loves fire. Which (belike)
modern writer of amorous
emblems, express loves fury,by a
the
and Cupid blowing the coals. As
fire,
pot hanging over
Abraham

amor,

the heat

consumes

the water,

fSic suaconsumit

doth love

so

love

to a

dry up his radical

meltingtorch,which

csecus

moisture.
stood

too

amor;

Another compares
the fire.
neer

^ Seneca.
eCor
^Oyid.
c^neid. 4.
Imagines Deornm.
coinbiistuin,
jecur suffumigatum,
pulinoarefactus,nt credam miseram illam aniob ignem
bis elixani aut coiubustam,ob maumum
pationtur
ardoreiB,quem

totum
mam

viscera

amoris.

^Embl. Amat.

4 et 5.

Love-Melancholy.

;J10

[Part.3. Sec.

2.

est,
"Sicquo quispropiorsua: puellce
ruina)
stullus
est.
Hoc
propiorsucc
The

his mistress

he unto

nearer

The

he

neerer

is,

his ruine is.

unto

''Casfilio"lesrribes it. TIw hcffinnhifj,

tliatto say trntli,
as
else but sorrow, vexation,aijony,
mkldlc,end of love^is?iou(/hf
torment, irksomness,icearisoinness ; so that to bes(/uarKl,vghf,
So

death, to
to wislif'or
discontent,dejected,
miserable,solitary,
rave,
complain,

and

to be

are
peevish,

the sertain siiines,andorThis continual painand

dinaryactions of a love-sick person.

if theybe
makes them forget
themselves,
torture
it,in doubt, or
all

far gone with

of obtaining;
eagerlybent
despair

to

neglect

business.
ordinary
*^

minaeque
pendentopera interrupta,
ccelo.

iagentes,
aequataque machina

Murorum

Love-sick Dido

undone;

left her works

so

did

''Phaedra;

Palladis tclaevacant,
Et inter

in

Faustus

ipsaspensa
''Mantuan,took

Nulla

Carminis

And

in
pleasure

no

incrs,et

sensus

manus.

any

thinghe

did

dulcis erat, nullus labor ocgro

quiesmihi

Pectore,

labuntur

;
torporesepulta

mens

occiderat studium.

of them

'tisthe humour

all,to be careless of their persons,

the shepheardin 'Theocritus,I^t hmc

and

their estates, as
their beards flag,
harba incultaest,
and they
squalidique
capilli,
of prankling
liave no more
care
or of any business
themselves,
j
which
end
forward.
as
theycare not,
theysay,
goes
s
*"

Oblitusque
greges,
Uritur,et

domestica,totiis

et rura

amaras.
expendit

in luctum

noctes

flocks of sheepand country farms.

Forgetting
The silly
and burns.
shepherdalwaysmourns

Love-sick
and

had

'

Chierea,when

he
welcome

came

from

Pamphilashouse,

he did expect, was

allamort;
good
Parmeno
meets
him, quidtriMis es ?
Why art thou so sad,
?
do'st
nnde
es?
how
? but he sadlyrewhence
com'st,
man
not

so

as

Kyo hercle nescio neque

])lies,
oblitus s7im mei ; I
itaprorsus

nnde earn, neque qriorsum earn.,

have so forgotten
I neither
myself,

know where I
will,nor what I do.

whence
I come,
whither I
nor
in love. Prudens
so ?- Ch. / am

nor

am,

P.

''

How

sciens.
a',Grotiu8.
habent

bljib. 4. Nam

istiusamoria neque

principia,
neque

adeo
dolores,
cruciatus,
defatigatioues^
quid^quammolestias,

ut

media ainid
miserum

esse

mortem
outare, seniperque
debacrhari,sunt certa
gemitu,solitudine tor(|ueri,
'^ Sf
*^ Virg.
amantiiim signact certap artiunes.
yEn. 4.
neca
Hip. act
'" Ov, Met. 13. de
K Mant.
"Erlog. 1.
fEdyl. 14.
Eclog.2.
Polypliemo.Uritur oblitus pecorum, antrorumque auorum
; jaui4uetibi formte,
fiiC.

rooerore,

'Ter. Eunuch.

*^

Qui, quetso'Amo.

he had
torlcklie could;bythescars
service he had done, or what soever
he
besoii")-hthisg-overnour
his

[Part.3. Sec.

Love-Melancholy.

312

he woidd

moreover,

else

might have

as
^yii'e,virtntis
svccspolhnn,

; and

the
received,
formerly

the

reward

"-ood

untoTiim,

dear

was

captiveviro-in to
of

forgivehim

2.

be

his wortlTand
vice
ser-

the money

which

reckoningsbesides due unto him ; / ask

but Rhodanthe
to bemy
no
no
no
portion,
more,
part of booty,
faire
her
could
he
And when as
not compass
by
means,
irij'e.
and set his lifeat stake
he fell to treachery,
force and villany,
his desire. 'Tis a common
humour this,
to accomplish
at last,
of
all
be
lovers to
affected ; and which
so
a generallpassion
in Castilios discourse,
JEiniUa. told Aretine a courtier,
^surely
Aretine,ifthou werst not so indeed,thou didst not love: infjeenamored,
7iuonsly
cotfess;forifthou hadst been throurjhhj
then to please
tress.
thou icouldst have desired nothitiy
more
thymisFor that is the law of love, to will and nill the same
;
owing, and

was

all

Tantum

velle et nolle,velit nolit

quod

arnica.

may be pronounced of them all ; theyare

for the time, mad
fools,dizards,
men,
very slaves, drudges
beside themselves,and as blind as beetles. Their
atrabilarii,

Undoubtedlythis

dotageis most eminent ; Amare simul et sapere ipsiJovi non

love and be
datur,as Seneca holds; Jupiterhimself cannot
of them, if once
wise both together
theybe
; the very best
the
this
most
staid,discreet,
w ith
overtaken
passion,
grave,
in
able
and
otherwise
to
wise,
govern themselves,
generous
tliiscommit
absurdities,
many indecorums,unbefitting
many
their gravityand persons.

'*

"

Quisquisamat
Fert domita

senit, seqiiitur
captivus
amantem,
cervice

jugum

Sampson, David, Solomon, Hercules, Socrates,"c. are justly

taxed of indiscretion in this point;the middle sort are betwixt
and buzzard
hawk
knowledge
although theydo perceiveand ac; and
their own
dotage,weakness, fury,yet theycannot
well
and
witness those expostulations
withstand
it; as
may
confessions of Dido in Virgih
Plimlra
effari,
mediaque in voce resistit.
Incipit
vincit ac rcp^natfuror,
" Quod ratio poscit,
dominatur Deus.
tola mente
Myirha
Po^ensquc

in Seneca.

in

*"

Ovid.

J 11a quidem sentit,

fcedoque
repugnat amori,
Certe vix crcdam, et bona fide fateare, Aretine. te non amftsse adeo vehenihil prins aut-potins
optAssts,qnnm aniatje mnlieri
vere.
amasses,
"".Strozasil. Epig.
vtlle
lex
nolle.
et
idem
enini
amoris
est
plactre. Ea
"'Immensas
atra Itileet amorc
' Qiiippeliwc omnia
ex
poveniiinL JasoD Pratensis
^^ Mautuau.
'Virg.
dt1.
est. Cardan, lib.
sapieutia.
amor
ipsa slultitia
V
''Met. 10.
S StuLca
4.
-iilu.
Uii'pol.
*

Ijih.2.

meuter; ni enim

Et

secum

Quo

Dii, precor,

313

Sym.ptomesof Love.

1.]

4. Subs.

Mem.

feror,quidmolior?

mente

inqult.

"c.
pieLas,

et

her fault,and doth resist.

Againsther filthylust she doth contend,
I about ?
And whither go I, what am
Again,
And God forbid ; yet doth it in the end.

She

and knows

sees

igne
Pervigil
vota retrectat,
Carpiturindomito, furiosaque
vult
modo
tentare, pudetque
Et mode
desperat,
invenit,"c.
et quid agat non
Et cupit,

and

recals

now

when

'tispast,

Her

vow,

Her

former thoughtsshe'l prosecutein hast ;

not at the last.
what to do she knows

And

will not, abhors

will and

She

she burns, and

then despairs
; and

raginglust

With

Trahit invitam

nova

aliud suadet ; video

Mens

; and

yet as Medea

did,doth it:

vis,aliudquecupido,
meliora,proboque,

Deteriora sequor.
She
a

another ;
way, burninglust
what's good,but she doth
and knows

pullsone

Reason
sees

fraus,amorque, et mentis
Quo me abstulistis ?

major part of

The

beasts ;

brute

lovers

carried

are

counsells

reason

one

danger,and
disgrace,

shame,

follow; yet

furor,

emotee

way

headlonglike so many
fortunes,
; thy friends,
of

ocean

an

lust

this furious

neither,

cares

that will

tainly
cer-

prsecipitates,

counter-

other; though it be their utter

come
infamy,loss,yet they will do it,and beundoing,perpetuall

weighs down
poiseth,

the

on

degenerateinto dogs,
hogs,asses, brutes; as Jupiterinto a bull,Apuleiusan asse,
Lycaon a wolf, Tereus a lap-wing, Calisto a bear, Elpenor
For what else may we think
and Grillus into swine by Circe.
in their wittyfictions
those ingenious
poets to have shadowed
and poems? but, that a man,
once
given over to his lust (as
of
that
Apuleius,Alciat of Tereus)is
Fulgentiusinterprets
at

last insensate void of

sense

''

*=

better then

no

"iRex

beast.

fueram, sic crista docet, sed sordida vita

Immundam
I

was

But

Their

by

upupa

king,my
my

"" An

coraedat,idem
btercora

amans

ad
;

crown

filthiness am

dotage; or

Buchanan.

culmine

tamo

blindness is all
and

rosas

se

avf

out

rather

as

an

fecit
a

avem.

witness

come

is.

to this.

great, as manifest

as

their weakness

companion,an
inseparable

ordi-

"^
induit duni
Feram
is like a bear.
immodest
woman
Animal
imtnundum
d Alciatns de
Enibl.
redeat,
upupu
hac nihil focdins,nihil libidiuosius. Sabiu. iu Ovid. Met.

Love-Melancholy.

314.

and'so

are

is blind,as the

^Lovc

ft.

narvsignof

[Part.S.

Sec. 2.

ig,Cupids blind,
saying-

all his followers.

Quisquisamat

putat

ranam

ranam,

esse

Dianam.

his mistress, though she be very deformed

Every lover admires

wrinkled, pimpled,pale,red, yellow,

self,ill-favored,
have a s"volnjuglers
face,orathin,
platter
tan'd,tallow-faced,
of her

clouds

chittyface, have

lean,

in her

face, be crooked,

dry,

with staringbald,g'og-g-le-ey'd,blear-ey'd
eys, she looks like
asrpiisMcat, hold her head stillawry, heavy,dull,hollow-ey'd,
or

the eys,orsquint-ey'd,
sparrow-mouthed,
Idackoryellowabout
fox
have
a sharp
Persean hook-nosed,
nose, a red nose, China
like a promontory,
a nose
flat,g-reatnose, nare simo patuloquc,
rotten
gubber-tushed,

brow^id,a
her
her

witches

brown

teeth,black, uneven,

beard, her breath

drop winter and

chin, a sharpchin,

with

summer,

nose

stink all

teeth,beetle

over

Bavarian

the room,
poke under

eared, with a longcranes

neck,
too, pendulismammis, her dugs like two

which stands awry

else
or
double jiigsy
she
faln-fingers,

have

lave

dugs in the other extream, bloodyfilthy

longunpairednails,scabbed hands
no

wrists,a tan'd skin,a rotten carcass, crooked back, she stoops,

in the
a
as
cow
is lame, splea-footed,
as slender hi the middle
her shooes, her feet
7cast, gowty legs,her ankles hang over
or

a
changeling,
very monster, an
harsh voyce,
her whole complexionsavours,
an
aufe imperfect,
or an
incondite gesture,vile gate,a vast virago,
ugly tit,a slug,
a
trusse, a long lean rawbone, a skeleton,a
a fat fustilugs,
meliora jmta),
sneviker (si
andtothy]udgement\ooks
qualate7it
couldst not fancyfor a
whom
thou
like a mard in a lanthorn,
in her face,or
and wouldst have spit
world, but hatest,loathest,
amoris to another man,
in her bosome, rcmedivm
blow thy nose
a scold,a nasty, rank, rammy,
filthy,
beastly
a dowdy, a slut,
base,
dishonest peradventure,
rude,
obscene,
beggerly,
quean,
Thersites
Irus
sister,
daughter,
foolish, untaught,peevish,

lice,a

stink,she breed

Grobians

scholler

meer

; if he

all this,he takes no notice

of body or mind.

love

her

of any

once,

he admires

such errours,

or

her for

tions
imperfec-

-^

Ipsa heec delectant,veluti

Balbinum

polypusAgnae ;

If he
in the world.
he had rather have her then any woman
O
a
were
king, she alone should be his queen, his empress.
of both the Indies to
that he had but the wealth and treasure
carrack of diamonds, a chain of pearl,a
a
endoM' her with
;

cascanct

pairwere
a

Love

jovels(a pairof calf skin glovesof four pence a

such toye,to send her for a token ; she
or some
fitter),

of

is like

sat. rb. 1. sat. 3.

false

fairer then
wliich representaevery thiog
glasse,

it is.

Hor.

4. Subs.

Mem.

Symptomes of Love.

1.]

315

sljould have

it with all his heart ; he would spend myriadesof

Venus herself,
for her sake.
Tarcrowns
Panthea,Cleopatra,
quinsTanaquil,Herods Marianine, or Mary of Burgundy if
^

she

alive,would

were
^

Vultus

Vincet

Qui

haec

her.

Tyndarios,

horrida bella.

moverunt

Let Paris himself

match

not

judge ;

be

renowned

Helena

that

Rodopheian Phillis, Larissean

Thysbe,Polixena,Laura, Lesbia,"c.
were

never
*^

fair

so

Babylonian

counterfeit ladies

your

she is.

as

Quicquiderit placidi,
grati,
lepidi,
atque faceti,
Vivida
What

not

Deorum.

e're is pretty,pleasant,
facete, well,
she
e're Pandora
doth excell.
had,

"^ Dicebam

was

retines Pandora

cunctorum

What

Diana

short

comes

Corinis,

to

Trivise formam

be

nihil

Dianae.

esse

compar'd to her, nor

Juno,

nor

Minerva,

as
brightas silver ; the
any goddess. Thetis feet were
ancles of Hebe
of Aurora
the arms
clearer then chrystallj
as
nor

the

ruddy as

wise; Venus
She

breasts as white as snow

fair;but what of this ? Dainty come
; Junes

rose

is all in all

; Minerva

thou

tome.

:
^

Caelia ridens

Juno, Minerva

Est Venus, incedens

*^

Fairest of

that
fair,

fairnesse doth

loquens.
excell.

far admireth
his mistress good
so
Aristasnetus,
of them,and challengethall
parts,that he make proclamation

Ephemerus

in

in her behalf.

comers

"

Who

ever

saic

the beauties

of the East,

of the West ? let them come from all quarters, all,and tell
truth,ifever theysaio such an excellent featureas this is, A
tell his
good fellow in Petronius cryes out, no tongue can
ladies fine feature,or expresse it.
Quicquid dixeris minus

or

erit,^c.
No

tongue

In whose

Most
nulli

of your

'

Triton

each

lovers

secunda,a

of his

can

rare

are

her

tell.
perfections

part all tongues may

of his humour

creature,a

dwell.

and

opinion. She

is

the sole commandress

phoenix,

: as
thoughts,queen of his desires,his onlydelight
that love-sick sea-god:
now
sings,
feelingly

c Lcechaeus=" The
bgeneca in Octavia.
daughter and heir of Carolus Pugnax.
f
JMantuan.
eEpist.12.
Eel. 1.
eAngerianus.
Faery Queen Cant. lir. 4.
et dicant
veniant undique onines,
forraas vidit orientis,quisoccidentis,
Quis unquam
^ Nulla
formam
ejus
vox
comv
iderint
formam.
possit
an
tarn
insignera
veracea,
prehendere.
dial,Galat
'Calcaguiui

Love-

316

et placet
atra Melsene,
placet,
omnibus
una.
placetlongemagis

Galatea

Leucothc, black Melaene pleaseme

Fair

Galatea doth

But

2"

Lcucothoe

Candida
Sed

[Part.3. Sec.

Melancholy.

by

ods

well,

the rest excell.

All the gracious

comparisons
metaphors,Ijyberbolical
elegies,
soever,
in the world,the most
names
of the best things
glorious
; what-

are

I say, is pleasant,
delicious,
amiable,sweet,grateful,and
her.
littlefor
too
et
pulchrior

Phcebo
His

Phoebe

She

dims

is
the

Phoebi.

sorore

fair,she is so bright,
suns
lustre,and the moons
so

light.

mettals,sweet
smellingflowers,odours,
stones,
pretious
ivory,pearls,
perfumes,colours,gold,silver,
cannot
expresse
paintedbirds,doves,hony,sugar, spice,
snow,
she.
is
fair
so
so
radient,
sweet,
lier;^so soft,so tender,
Stars,suns,

moones,

MoUior
''

superas lac,et lilium,

simul rosam
et rubicundam,

Albamque

expolitumebur

Et

Indicum.
white

Fine

Lydia my

mistress

The

milk, the

do not
lilly

The

rose

And
a

"c.
capillo,

Lydia bella,puellaCandida,
Quoe bene

Such

cuniculi

so

white,the

Indian

comes
ivory,

fair,

and

thee

come

of

makes

er^at (Snu'Itat|)atfoag fntrer to

fair lady.

ht ^ttn,

tfjestalk grctn

Cljen {5 Iillp
upon

red to see,
short of thee.
so

rose

our
EnglishHomer
description
"

neer

flolurrs ntlu,
hjitlj
ixt^ln-tj^cniH"i})
iFor tott^tt)exo^t colour strobe |)ciIjetD,
3E not topicsina^ i'bt
taixtxof tljetloo.
QnU

In tbis very

phrase^ Polyphemus courts

Candidior

folio nivei Galatea

Galatea,

ligustri,

Floridior prate,

alno,
longujjrocerior
t
enero
lascivior
heedo,"c.
vitro,
Splcndidior
MoUior et cygniplumis,
et lacte coacto.
Whiter
Fresher

Galet
then

Brighterthen
Softer then

OvwIt'lS.

the white

swans

withie-wind,

field,
higherthen

glass,
down,

wanton

more
or

free.
then

ought that

'PetroniiCatalect

kid,

may

^Chaucer
.

be.

the kDightstalc.

4. Subs.

Mem.

Love.

Symptomes of

L]

3\T

in that conceited dialogue

of Liician,
ag-ain
elegant Dutch modern poet, hath
us, an
Doris and those other seanymphs,
When
translatedinto verse.
lover Polyphemus,she
upbraidedher with her ugly niishapen
replyes;they speak out of envy and malice :

So she admires him

which Job n Secund

Et

planeinvidia

Quod

Say

what

writ

to

orbis
quam
then

theycould, he

the worlds

or

empress
si

me

proper

countrey

think she is

vices, vertues;
if she be
and

Si

as

tua

Heloissa

Auc/ustus

me

meretrix

esse

rather be his vassal

or

quean,

queen.

Jupiterhimself.

loathsome

most

discommended

that

saw

no

as

exquisite

such

replyed,

spectator,

existimabis

; and

creature
once

by Zeuxis, ^for he
love-sick

ocnlos et Deam

And

man.

Abelhardus,

love for

change her
thy thinkingshe is
fellow

Jupiter ipseforte velit,

not

it; Nicomachus,

meos

orbis imperatrix
; she had

pictureof Helena, made

in

was

videtur,

Polyphemus amet

me

expeteret, mallem

imperatoruxorem

she would
To

ut

stimulare

vos

Peter

her sweet-heart

"non

when

mera

itidem

vos

non

hue

beauty

S?ime tibi

take mine

eys, and thou wilt

her forthwith ; count
all her

goddess; dote on
her imperfections,
absolute and perinfirmities,
fect:
if
s
he
is
flat-nosed,
lovely; hook-nosed, kingly;

little,
pretty ; if tall,
proper and man-like,our
Brittish Bunduica; if crooked, wise; if monstrous,
brave
ties.
comely; her defects are no defects at all;she hath no deformiif dwarfish

Immo

nee

ipsum

as
nasty, fulsome
hadst as lieve have

and callest her

canst

amicm

stercus

Parmenos

sow

she be
:

thou

thy bosome, a toad in thy dish,

thou
witch,divel,hag,with all the filthy
names
a

snake

invent; he admires

her

in

on

lady,mistress ''Venerill a, queen,

an
angel,a star,a goddess.
c

foetet
; Though

bitch, or

Sosteatus

Thou

art my

Thy

hallowed

the other

the

Vesta, thou my

side; she is his idoll,

of beauty,
quintessence

Goddess

templeonelyis my

art,

heart.

The

is in her face ; Nee

fragrancyof a thousand curtesans
hcec Cypridisaut Stratonices ; 'Tis not Venus
pulchraeffigies
as
picturethat,nor the SpanishInfantas,
(good
you suppose,
his
divine
no
but
o
r
Sir)
princess, kingsdaughter; no, no,
mistress forsooth,
his daintyDulcinea,his dear Antiphila,

aurea

Plutarch.

Sibi dixit tam pulchram non

"c.
videri,
Phcebe, tanto virginibus
conspectior omnibus Herce.

Drayton,Son. 30.

''

Qnanto qu"m Lncifer,

Ovid.

eMich,

Love-Melanchohf.

318
to

he

service

whose

is

wholly consecrate,

[Part.3.
whom

Sec. 2.

he

alone

adores.
"''

Cui comparatus indecens erit pavo,

Inamabilissciurus,et frequcnsphoenix.
a peacocksundecent,
confer'd,
harsh,a phoenixtoo frequent.
squirrels

To whom
A

'vv'
fy.,
'

attend her.
All the graces, veneries,eleg-ances,
pleasures
of
before
ladies.
h
er
court
a rayriade
prefers
Phillis

''He that commends

or

He

Nereea,

Amarillis,or Galatea,
Tityrusor Melibaea, by your leave,
Or

Let him

Nay,
^

all the

before

Quintus

be mute, his love the

Catullus
Pace

gods

admired

mihi liceat

Mortalis

By

your
There's

All the bumbast

visus

have.
praises

and

goddesses themselves.
friend Roscius.
his"quint-ey'd

dicere
(Ccelestes)

pulchrior

So

vestra,

Deo.

esse

leave,gentleGods, this I'llsay true.

none

of you that have

so

fair

an

hew.

epithetes,
patheticall
adjuncts,
incompariihly

"c. pretty
delitious,
neat, divine,sweet, dainty,
fair,curiously
be
6,c. pleasant
names
diminutives,corc?"/Mm,.f7^"y*o/Mw",
may
lamb, puss, ])ioeon,
invented,bird, mouse,
pigsney,
kid,hony,
love,dove, chicken, "c. he puts on her.
^

Meum
Meum

meum
suavitas,
mel, mea
cor,
suaviolum,mei lepores.

My life,
my Jewell,
my glory. Margareta speciosa,
ray light,
garet,
Marmundi
sordent ; my sweet
omnia
cujusrespectu
pretiosa
sole delightana
darling. 'And as Rhodomant
my
^

courted Isabella;
all kind words, and

gestures that he might,

He calls her his dear heart,his sole belov'd,
comfort, and his sweet delight.
Hisjoyfull

By

His
As

mistress,and his goddess,and such

Every
I!
;

names

dames.
loving
knightsapplyto lovely

cloth she wears,

her hand,
O

every fashion

qualesdigitos,
quas

him
pleaseth

habet ilia manus

above

sure
mea-

"
Martial. 1.5. epig.
bAriosto.
38.
'Tully lib.1. de nat. Deor.
"^MaruUus
ad Neteram
PalcliriorDeo, et tamen prat oculisperversissimis.
' Ariosto,
e Barthius.
lib.29. hist.8.
epig.1. lib.

Love-Melancholij.

320

They

arc

[Part.3. Soc. 2.

commonly slaves,captives,
voluntaryservants:;
"Castillo
terms
him ; his misa
s
tress
tnaucipium,

amicfr

Amator

servant,

iier

tlru(l"-e,
prisoner,bond-man,

what

not?

lo hrr
composethhimficlJ'ialwHii

to p/casrher
(ij/'rcfio'is,
;
lackei/. All his cares,
himspffher
suhordinat.e to her will and comare
actions,all his ihoiKjhts,
mandment
her
most
aiFectionate servant
devote, obsequious,
;
and vassal!.
For love (as Cyrus in Xenophon well observed)
then any disease ; and theythat are
is a meer
tyranny ; irorse

He

and

jEmilia

as

said,makes

''

troubled
hound

with

it, desire

to he

free and cannot,

in iron chains.

then

hut

are

harder

What

if theyiccre
greater captivity
there
be
can
then to
(as Tullyexpostulates)
slavery
7vhom a tvoman
bee in love ?
Is he a free man
over
domineers,
she
lohom
to
prescribeslaices,commands, forbids what she
dares deny nothingshe demands ; she
will her self? That
asks, he (jives
; she calls,he comes
; she threatens,he fears;
hunc
this man
I
account
servuni
a
Nequissimum
puto ;
very
'^
he
follows
this
And
Is
small
no
it,
as
servitude
drudge.
for an enamorite to he every hour combing his head, stif'
ning his heard, perfuming his hair, washing his face with
and not to come
abroad but
sweet
waters, painting,curling,
sprucelycroimied, decked ayid apparelled? Yet these are but
"^

or

toyes in respect to go

her

attend

must
streets

to the

barber, baths, theatres,"c. he

wherever

upon
and windows
doors
her
by

she
tosee

along the
goes ; run
her; take all opportunities,

and as
sleeveless errands,disguise,
counterfeitshapes,
many
and
himself
forms as Jupiter
ever
took;
come
every day to her
do ifhe be trulyenamoured)and offer
house (ashe will surely
from room
her service, and follow her up and down
to room,
contain himself, but he
Lucretias suiters did ; he cannot
and will be. where she is,sit next her,still
will do it;he must
If I did but letmy glovefallby chance (as
talkingwith her.
as

"

the said Aretines Lucretia brags)/ had one of my suiters,

nay^
three at once, ready to stoop and take it up, and kiss
or
two
it ; ayid u'ith a loio congy, deliver it unto me : If I would walk,
another

was

ready to

sustain

me

by the

arm

; a

third

to pro*

Alterius affectui se totum

a Lib. 3. lie aulico.
componit,totiw placerestudet,et
1. 5. Amor
servitus,et qui
'jCyroptud.
ipsiusaiiiinnm amat;L" pedis.seqnamfacit.
liberari tamen
alio
liberari
morbo,
ac
quovis
non
sccus
eo
neffiie
amant
posoplant
siint,sed validiore ncct'ssitate ligatisunt quani si in IVirea viiiciilaconjecti forent.
? cui leges imponit,
ille miiii liber videtur cui mulier iinperat
"" In paradoxis. An
nihil audet, "c.
nihil
videtur?
vetat
Qui
negat,
qiiod
iniperanti
jubet,
prasscribit,
? dandum
poscit

; vocat

? venienduin

; minatur

? extimescendum.

Illane

fere horia pectinecapilluui,

calamistroquebarbani
singulis
parva
*^ Si quando iu
facieni aquisredolentibus diluere? "c.
couiponere,
uiihi
inde
nisi
elevare
incautius
nee
excidisset,
quid
pavinientuni
quam promptissime,
osculo coDipactomihi commendarc, "c.
est servitus amatoruni

4. Subs.

Mem.
vide
or

much

All this and

he

when

home,

comes

his meditation

I would

eat

he doth in her presence ;

his Cressid, 'tis all
on
himself his actions,words, gestures;

more

Troilus

as

with

to recount

321

whatsoever

or
fruits,
pears, plums, cherries,

drink.

and

Symptomes of Love.

1.]

had, how kindlyshe used him

she smiled,how she gracedhim, and that

entertainment

what

he

how
place,
pleasedhim ; then he breaks out, O sweet Areusa !
infinitely
O most divine looks! O lovely
graces!
Omy dearest Antiphila!
makes
he
or
a
sonnet
to
an
epigram,
and thereupon instantly
in such

five
how

tunes, in her commendation;

his service,denied him a
she rejected
him.
torments
and that as eftectually
or

seven

or

else he ruminates

kiss,disgraced
him,

And
these are his
"c.
"c. these
madrigals,
elegies,
exercises betwixt comb and glass,
all
But
this
is
easie
and
tillhe see her again.
bis cogitations
the least part of his labour and bondage;no hunter
ffentle,and
will take such painsfor his game, fowler for his sport,or souldier to sack

city,as

veniam, neque

Ipsacomes
Saxa,

he will for his mistress favour.

me

nee

As Phaedra to Hippolitus. No
that be true the poets fain,Love

salebrosa movebunt

timendus

dente
oblique

aper.

For
danger shall affright.
is the

son

of Mars

and

if

Venus;

from his mother, so

elegancies
he hath delights,
pleasures,
as
hath he hardness, valour, and boldness from his father. And
nihil mollius,nihil violeji'tistrue that Bernard hath ; Amore
boisterous,
nothingso tender as love. Jf once
so
tins,

nothing

therefore enamored, he will go, run, ride many a mile to meet

her, day and night,in a very dark night,endure scorching
heat,cold,wait in frost and snow, rain,tempests, tillhis teeth
chatter in his head; those northern winds and showrs cannot
flames of love.
Intempestdnocte non dewill
sustain hunger,thirst,
he
take
he
will,
my word,
terretur,
Penetrabit omnia, perrumpet omnia, love will findout a way,
montes
throughthick and thin he will to her ; Expeditissimi
will
swim
he
an
videntur amnes
tranabiles,
through ocean, ride

cool,or quench,his

post over

the

Alpes,Apenine or

Pirenean

atque
algnem marlsquefluctus,
Venti

one

sweet

per tenebras Faunus

sake

he will undertake

VOL.

II.

theu"

pointsdownward, lightor

Roscida

for her

turbines

paratusest transire,

though it rain daggerswith

dark, all is

hills,

ad antra

venit

Hercules twelve

Plutarchus araat dial.

labours;

Love-

322

Melancholy.

ciulnre, hazard, Sec. ho fools it not.

[Part,3. Sec. 2.

Wfiaf shall T aaij

""

(saith

IhviXxu)of their f/irat dunr/eisthey wideryo,sinylecombats

they undertake.,how theywill ventvre their lives,creep in at
windotcs, yutterft,climb
iloors and

the
(anointing-

walls

over

to

their sweet-hearts.,

hingeswith oyl,because
wade,

creak, tread soft,swim,

not

to come

watcli,"c.)

theyshonhi

and

ifthey

be

leapout at windows.^cast themselves headlonydown,

surprised,
or
bruisinr/
breakinytheir leysor arms, and sometimes loosinq
Hear some
Meliba\i.
Calisto did tor his lovely
as
lifeit self,
of their own
confessions,protestations,
complaints,
proffers,
this
labours
brutish
in
kind.
wishes,
attempts,
expostulations,
served Omphale, put on an aprono,
took a distafio
Hercules
spun ; Thraso the souldier was
resolved to do whatsoever
he was
and

to Thais

submissc

so

she

enjoyned.

(juodjnhet, I

^'

Eyo

that
me

her service.

faciam
to his mistress; I am
readyto dye,
epistle
.fweet-heart,if it he thy ivill;allay his thirst whom
thy star
river
and
the
hath scorched and undone ;
fountains
deny no man
thou
doth
the
shalt not
riot
drink that comes
fountain
;
say
drink, nor the apple thou shalt not eat, nor the fair meadow,
dedam,

Thaidi

Philostratus in

tvalk
or

at

am

at

'^

an

in me, but thou alone wilt not let me

come
near
thee,
I
Polien
thee; contemned and despised,dyefor yrief.
us,
iu
but
frown
did
PetroCirce
mistress
him,
his
upon

not

see

M'hcn

his

nius, drew

kill,stab or whip him to

striphimself naked, aud notresist. Another

sword, aiid bad

ho would

death;

her'

niolestias non
naviyationis
journey to Japan,longce
ill
she
third
not
A
speak a word for a
curans:
(if
say it) v.
shall be most
her command
twelve-months
inviolably
space;
club
from
and with
Hercules
will
take
fourth
him,
A
kept;
will
kill ten men
in the Spanish Cnelestina,
that centurion

will take

for his mistress

in two.
I^liye (p/o mortis
bucklers

"lid

Mantua
love of

fur

ho would
river

do

mouth, he will cut

like flies;
like pippins,and flapdown
men

Areusa, for
yenere

littlemore
maid
for

word

of her

ilium, occidi
:

for

when

cupis?

he

was

'

(ialeatus of

almost

mad

for

ci"y,she, to try him (belike)what

sake, bad him, in jest,leap into the

in the

her

Po, if he loved

her;

ho forthwith

did

leap headlong-

3 Lib.
pericniaetclades,
1. De contem,
qui in ainicarum
amor.
Quid referaiiieornin
sedaut prxcipites,
aedes per fenestras inffressi,
stillicidiaque
egressi,iudequedeturl)ati,
Seen. 8.
bTer. Eunuch. Act. .'J.
aniiltunt
aut auimain
niembni
frangunt,collidunt,
ad obeundaiu
morteni, si tu jubeas ; banc sitim .ustuantis seda, queni
c I'aratus sum
"l Sioccidere
placet,fierrum
nejjant,"c.
tuuin tjidu.spenlidit:
aquiv, et fonte.s non
nudu.sud poenani.
"Act. 15. 18.
curro
vides; si verberibus contentaes,
ineum
Puellam niisere depe'(Jasper.Ens.
liDperamihi; occidain decern viros,".c.

e ponte se
Alius,
al" efi in Paduni desilire jiissns,statiin
pra^c.ipitavit.
rifiis,
per jocum,
illicofecit.
aniens, ab aiiiicajussua se susi)enjere,
an"ore

i'iiino, iiisano

4. Subs.

Mem.

Sipuptomesof Love.

]"]

off the
like

bridge,and
when
passion,

I dare

and

Another

Ficiniim,in

at

harm
no
by chance (thinkingthe
next
hang;
night,at her doors
(saithXenophon) is a very accept-

Iiismistress

sware) bad him go

hanged himself.
able

drowned.

was

32-J

Mony

guest, yet I had

welcome

rather give it my
dear
I
had rather serve
him, then
Clinia,then take it of
;
others ; 1 had, rather he his drudge,then take my
command
others

his sake, then live in security.

Clinia then all the world besides ; and

undergoany dangerfor

ease,

rather

For

I had

had

rather

angry with the

and
thank the light

am

and

I will

him,

into the

run

see

the

ivant

then him alone;

sightof all other things,
nightand sleep,that I may not see him ;
sun,

hecanse

firefor

his sake

theysheio me
; and if yon

you likewise ivould run

his
to
me
mistress,^ Command
it : hid me
J
to
am
sea,
gone
go

knoiv

that

ivith

Philostratus
I

ivill do

take

so

I am. ready :
stripes,

many

my lifeand
iEoliis to .Juno :

lay down

soule

what
in

thy feet,His

at

see

me.

So

you

will,

instant

an

through the

run

Clinia.

my

did hut

and
fire,^

done.

So

^.lid

Tuus, 6 regina,
quod optas

labor,mihi jussacapessere
Explorare
O

queen,
I am

And

And

Phsedra

bound

to execute

vel sororem,

call

me

call
sister,

rather sei-vant, I

'^Non

me

famulam

aut
Hippolite,

me

am

vocn,

servitium feram.

omue
Famulamque potius,

Or

enjoynme still.
thy will.

Hippolitus

to

Me

it is thy painsto

fas est.

servant, chuse,
thine to use.

nives,
per altas ire si jul)eas

Pindi jugis,
Pio;eatgelatis
ingredi
Non si per ignesire,aut infesta agmina,
Cuncter, paratus '^ ensibus pectus dare.

Te

tunc

jubere,me

decet

jussaexequi.

rem
alntelligopeciiniam

libentius darem Cliniae,

tamen
esse
jiicundissimam,meam
aliis
ab
Noctem
aliis
"c.
libentius
hiiic
acciperem
:
imperarem,
servirem,
qnam
quam
et somnum
quod ilium non videatn;liiciautem'et soli gratiam'habeo,
quod mihi
accuse,
Cliniam ostendant.
meEgo etiam cum
Clinia in ignem currerem
; et scio vos
quoque
^
si videretis.
conscendo :
cum
ins^ressuros,
Impera quidvis navigarejube, navem
;

plagasaccipere,plector; animam
facie.

Seneca

lib.2. Vivam
Propert.

in

profundere,in ignem
d Hujus
Hipp.act. 2.

si vivat ; sicadat

currere
ero

non

recuso

vivns,mortuus

cadain. Id.
ilia,

y2

; lubens

hujus ero.

Love-Melancholy

324

3.
[l^art.

It shall

to the

grieveme

not

Or

frozen Pindus

Or

run

snowy

tops forthwith

to

an
throughfiie,or throuj;-h

Say but

the

word,

for I

alwaies

am

Callicratides,in ^Lucian, breaks

out

hills.
clime,
army.
thine.

into

f/odoj"heaven, rjrant me this

to hear her
af/ainst
imj mistress,and

this

speech; O

J
life

over

sweet

in and

Sec. 2.

or

passionate
ever,

voyce ;

to

siit

to yo

her,to have every other business

with

with
common
she
saile
when
she
sailcs
labours,
;
;
and
he that hates her thouldhdte
kill
me
he
a
her,
;
if tyrant
should kill me ; if she should
dye,I would not live,and one
hold us both.
grave should
out

labour

I would

her

irhen

Finiet ilia meos

Abrocomus,

in

moriens

morientis

makes
"^Aristsenetus,

amores.

the like

for
petition

his

Delphia;
'^

'Tis the

Tecum

vivere amem,

tecum

obeam

lubens.

strain which

Theagines used to his Chariclea,

So that 1 may
but enjoyethy love, let me
dyepresently: Leander to his Hero when
he besoughtthe sea waves
to letliim
and
his
kill
him
to
love,
coming back*
go quietly
same

Parcite dum

'Tis the
wish

for

propero,

humour

common

death,

mergitedum

of them

to confront

redeo.

all,to

death in this

contemn
case

death, to

Quippe (puts

vec
iynis,
f return, nee ensis,
ne(jue prwcipitium,
'Tis
videntur
their
desire
yravia
;
(saith
Tyrius)
ne(pie la(pteus
to dye.
nee

f era,

nee

Haud

timet

mortem,

obvius

cupitire in ipsos

eases.

dragonsordivels keep the gates,Cerberus

himself,Scyron and Procrustes layin wait, and the way as
tlames and over
as inaccessible as hell,
throughfiery
dangerous,
coulters,he will adventure for all this. And as 'Peter
Inirning
Abelhardus
lost his testicles for his Heloisa,he will (I say)
not
venture
incision,butlifeit self. For howmanygallants
an
ottered to lose their lives for a nightslodgingwith Cleopatra
of death, 'tis
in those daycs3 and in the hour and moment

Though

tiiousand

ultra sitvitaliac perpetua,ex adverso arnica:

*Dial. Anioruni,
JJiiccelestes,
o
jVlihi,
sustinebo,et idem erit
audire, Kc. si nioriatur,vivere mm
sedere,et suave
luqutiiteui
"'Kuclianan.
cEpist.21. Sithoc votiim a
sepulcrum utrisqiiH.
et locjuenteui
aiidire.
JHor.
Diis,ainare
Uelphidem, ab ea ainari,allotiiii
piilchram
'Mart.
'Lege Calaiiiitates Pet. Abelliardi Epist prima.

4. Subs.

Mem.

their sole comfort

did his

to

their dear

remember

France, and Brandimart

bino slain in

325

I.] Symptom^s of Love.

in

Zer-

mistress,as

Barbary; as

Arcite

Emely.
|9u5JtelfhotijU^ tp^, ants falfelrfg iji^
hvmth
fttlifet^t,
38ut on W
latfi?
pet ca^tttij
la^t ioorlf l"a5,mcrcj) "Jf
mcli),
anU nut Snent tj^crc,
?i)i5
5ptvttcljaiis'If,

W^

M|)tti)cr"
"

When

cannot

Gobrias,by
captain

ne
ttXl,

tDficrc.

unluckyaccident,had

an

received

miserum
wound, Jieu me
exclamat, miserable man
that I am, (instead
he cries out, shall I dye
of other devotions)
before I see
mortem
Rhodanthe
heart ? Sic amor
ray sweet
his deaths

mine author)aut quicqnidhumankus

accidit,asperna(saith
death itself.
love triumphs,contemns,
insults, over
tnr, so
lost their lives for that fair HippoThirteen proper yong men
damias
sake, the daughterof Onomaus, king of Elis; when
that hard condition
was
proposed of death or victory,they
made
of it; but couragiously
for love died, till
account
no
perately
desher by a slight. As many
Pelops at last won
gallants
"*

adventured

their dearest

for Atalanta

blood,

the

daughterof Schenius, in hope of marriage,all vanquished

tillHippomenes,by a few goldenapples,
happily
overcome,
his suit.
obtained
Perseus
of old, foughtwith a sea
sake ; and our
S'. George freed the
monster, for Andromedas
kings daughterof Sabea (thegoldenlegend is mine author)
Our
that was
exposed to a dragon, by a terrible combat.
knightserrant, and the Sir Lancelots of these dayes,I hope
will adventure
for ladies favours, as the Squire of
as much
Dames, Knight of the Sun, Sir Bevis of Southampton,
or that
and

renowned
"

peere

Orlando, who

long time

Angelicathe fair,and
About
Did

he is
not

do

more

salian

the

world

had

loved dear

for her sake

in nations far and

high attemptsperformand

dastard,a coward, a block and a beast,that will

as much, but theywill,sure
dinary
they will ; for it is an orthese
of
and
do
enamoratos
fo.r
our
thing,
times,to say
very

; to stab their arms,

There,

in blood

carouse

that bit off his

own

thumb,

b Chancer
Ariosto.
id the Knights lale.
lib.6. interpret.
Gaulmino.
'" Ariost. lib.I. cant.
f Pint. dial.
i. .staff.
5.
amor.
'^

Amorum,

near,

undertake

or,

as

provocans

that Thesrivalem

^ Theodoriis
prodromos
""Ovid.10. Met. Plyginiis
c. 185.

Love-

326

with
ricqut'Mt
iuistrcKS
''

sake,to run

inucli.

as

fur their
fieUI,

'Tis

ladyand

tilt;

to it

with their

And

neither

That

again

fire did

And

both

axes

so
sorelypour,
rauile sustained the stour.

platenor

like rotten

rivekl wreak

But

is

do

other down

then up, and

and

challengethe

Sec. 2.

either bears (so furiously

they meet)
under the horses ieet,

That
The

and

to
tlieiii,

[Part.3.

his conivnl

to make

aiiuilandum',

ad hoc

Melancholy.

wood

asunder,

after dmnder;
tlash,like lightning

in her

le
buckto fight
so
quarrel,
iong^tilltheir head piece,

be all

broken, and sicordx hackt

they must

not

'Tis

name

in any sort ; 'tisblasphemy to

dishonour,without all good respect, to

with these creatures, to drink

healths
it
mile
the
bottome
to
knees, though were
a

of what

(no matter

for

saws;

many

'^

common

their bare

upon

so

her abused

see

s|)eakagainsther
her.

like

If she bid them

mixture)oti'itcomes.

they

''
will go barefoot to Jerusalem
the great Chams
court; to the
; to
East Indies,to fetch her a bird to wear
in her hat ; and, M'ith

and

Drake

Candish, sail round

siikc,adrersis vends
for Rachel

crcdus

; do

as

much

beaten

bones

as

Venus

he died ; or,
to powder, and

*"

AristaBuetiis

they undertake
to

for her

wears,

they adore

her true love,eat

drank her husiiands

bury him

so

in

admire

and

sake; her
it

herself;and

1:^1his colitur

Paris,

or

such

is well

dure
en-

sacrifices

pleased.

as

rally,
Gene-

for their
any j)ain,
any labour,any toyl,

all her friends

them

Artemesia

as

for ber sweet

Jacob did
as

years,
the daughterof Tan-

for Guisardus

holds)Venus

sake; love and

unstress

Gesmunda,

ikure, et victinusywith

maffisquam
(as

seven

Theseus

then

torments

more

but

"^

princeof Salerna, did

his heart when

these

twice

serve

the world

about

as

servant,

to

not

her

and

followers;they hug

alone,

endjrace

and everything she

dog, picture,
If any man
from her,
come
reiitjiie.

iheyfeast him,
do him
^

reward
him, will not be out of Ids company,
all oflices,
stillremembring, stilltalking
of her :

Nam

si abest

et
lllius,

"

nomen

quod

ames,

dulce

Faery Qiictn,cant. 1. lit).4.

instar

scrra.

"

proestosipudacra

obversatur

rant.

3. lib.4.

ad

sunt

aures.

''"

exri.siis,
scutuui,Jfec. BartliiiisCft'lfsliu;;.

JustiiiaItibatur.
"'As XantUus
sepleiii
Erot. cap. 8.
ixidgidvit.IV.rtlieiiius
I- 1'.
fc'Lucietiuii.

tamen

''Dum cassia
c

tiisis
|"cr"ii!"a,

Li-shia

sex

cyathis,

foi tlielove of Eurippe; Ouineui lCiiro|iam

* Btroalduj
17
e Bocacio.
'lipibt.
;

[Part.3.

Love-Melancholy.

3^28

For you shall

he will send
*

Vos

see

my

to

message

that blow

that

way.

loves fair face to

day ;

winds

happy western

her

by

the winde

de
Alpinoc,
placidis

aurse

Sec. 2.

montibus

aurae,

illiportate.

HtEC

of her acquaintance,fur his

he desires to confer with some
talk
and commendof
ing
her,admiring
heart is stillwith her; 'to
himself
her,lamenting,
moaning,Avishing
any thingfor her

'"

sake, to have

to
opportunity

see

her.

that he

might

but

enjoyeher presence! So did Philostratus to his mistress;"^O

I if she
ffromidon ivhich she treads,and happy were

happy

I think lier countenance

icould tread upon me.

the rivers stand; and
about her.
and come
Ridebunt

when

she

would

abroad, birds

comes

valles,ridebunt obvia

make

icillsi?ig,

Tempe,

ibit humus.
In florem viridis protinus
fields will

And

all the ^rass will into flowres turn.

ambrosiam

Omnis
*=

When

laugh,the pleasantvalliesburn,

The

she is in the

aura.
spirabit

meadow, she is fairer then any flowre

but it vaday ; the river is pleasing,

doth
not
nisheth on a
fade,thy stream
thyflowre
the
look
is greater then the sea.
Jfl
heaven^me thinks
upon
the sun
1 see
fain down to shine below,and thee to shine in.
I desire. If I look upon the night,
thinks
his place,whom
me
and
A
I see two more
stars, Hesperus
thyself. little
glorious
his mistress:
after he thus courts
If thou goestforth of the
that
keep the town, will run after
city,the protectingGods
thee: If thou saile upon the seas, as so many
to gaze
upon
thee : what
river would not run
small boats,theyxcillfolloic
and
he hath
into the sea ?
sobs, swears
Another, he sighs
and
dissolved
bruised
to
melted
powder,
cor
scissum,an heart
from him, to his mistress bosome,
within him, or ("uite
gone

for

that lasts but

for

sudden,hut

in the fire,
so scorched
belike ; he is ijian oven, a salamander
her
for
to sit on;
with loves heat; he wisheth himself a saddle
not grievehim to be
a posiefor her to smell to ; and it would

b
Happy servants that serve her,happy men that
LoamanL
Son ipsossolum sed ipsornm memoriam
si
vultustnua
calraveris:
!
O
solum
ter
felix
beatus
me
can"'EpisL
ego,
sitflores siiperat;illi
e Idem
sistere potest,"c.
epist.In prato cum
amnes
it
sed
diei
fluvias
fied
tantum
evanesr
nnius
grattis,
; at tmis fluvins mari
;
pulchn,
'Si
et in terra ambulare,"c.
solem existimo cecidisso,
Si cccliim
a

are

Fracastoriiis
in

Naugerio.

her company.

major.
civitafe
tur: qms

"

aspicio,

te
egrederis,sef|iientur

fluvms salum

tuum

uon

Dii

spectacnlocominoU;
custodes,
rigaret?

si naviges,
sequvtt-

Mem.

Love,

St/mptomesof

1.]

4. Subs.

329

"

might be strangledin her garters: he would

that she might kill him with her
die to morrow,
so
willino-ly
Ovid would be a flea,a gnat, a ring: Catullus
hands.
own

hano-ed, if he

'^

sparrow

ludere sicut

si tecum

levare

Et tristes animi

Anacreon

a gown,
glass,

curas.

chain, any thing:

speculumego ipsefiam,

*" Sed

Ut

ipsapossem,

tuum

me

Et vestis
Ut

usque gestes.
opto in undam,

Mutari

et

Lavem

tuos

Sim

ut artus

fiam,
puellam,

Nardus,
Ut

ipsefiam,

tuum

me

cernas

usque

ego teipsuminungam ;
facia in papillis,
cello.

et monile

Tuo

Fiamque calceus,me
Saltem
c

But

calces.

pede usque

ut

would be.
looking-glass

by

Still to be lookt upon

Or I, my love,would

thee ;

be thy gown.
be
thee
to
worn
;
By
up and down
Or, a pure well full to the brims.
That 1 might wash
thypurer limbs
balm
pretious

Or, I'de be

choicest

With

thy neck thy happy

would

Or

it

were

be the lawn

To

Or would

were

Dailytrod upon
O thrice
Hero

happy

in Musaeus
e

and

sponsiet

"c.

felix nutrix."

socii

saw

"

lecti.
dignabere

her break

passionmade

same

out

Nse illsefortunatse sunt quse

aEI. 15. 2.

Technog.Act.
lib.5.

enjoyeher : as they that

'^ Salmacias
to Hermaphroditus,

Felices mammse,

Quern fructu

hap,
thy fair pap.
thy shooe,to be
by thee.

my
o'er

longecunctis,longequebeatior ille.

Sed

The

chain.

blessed

that shall

man
:

joynt;

be fain

Or, if I might,I would

About

'noint,

to

each choicest

care

bCarm.
1. seen.
f

30.

7.

Plautus de milife.

in the

cum

comcedy,

illocubant;

Englishedby M. B. Hollidayin his

eXenophon Cyropsed.

Qvid. Met. lib.4,

iJSO

Love-Melanchoh).

are
Iia|)|)y

bed-fellows;ami

his

[Part.'3.Sec

she said of

as

Cyrus,

'

2.

B'ala

that shall be
lira
esset, blessed is that woman
qiice illiuxor Jul
jiiswife ; nay, thrice happy she that shall enjoyehim but a

nightJ
''

Such

Una

nox

:
Jovi^ sceptro sequiparanda

nightslodgingis worth Jupiters

scepter.
"^

Qualis nox erit ilia,

Dii,Dec3oque,
mollis
!
thorns
Quam

it be, how
soft, how sweet a
O what a blissful nightwould
all her estate for such a night;for
bed I She will adventure
a
nectarean, a balsome kiss alone.

Qui

te videt beatus

Beatior

Qui
The Sultan of Sanas
niannus,

manner;

but

me,

God

he

te

est,

qui te audiet,
est
potitur

Deus.

she had

wife,in Arabia, when

lamented
traveller,

that comely
''O God, thou hast made
mine husband, and all my
irere

this

man

Verto-

children

black ; I would to
such a son ; she fell a

husband, or that I had

my

seen

to her self in this

to hiter then the sun,

for love at last,

that (asPotiphars
impatient
wife did by Joseph)she icouldhave had him gone in with her ;
she sent away
Gazella, Teyeia,Galzerana, her waitingmaids;
icith
loaded him
fairpromisesand giftsand wooed him with

weeping,and

so

all the rhetorick she

could;

extremum

hoc

raiseras da

munus

amanti.

he gave not consent, she would have gone with him,

and left all,to be his page, his servant, or his lackey; Certa
sequicharum corpus vt umbra solet,so that she mightenjoye
when

But

him; threatningmoreover,
much

as

the

nun

and

were

for women,

more

Bat

as

King

John for Matilda

this yet privilcdg'd

may be,
I
live
with
thee.
monk, so
may

kingsin

I'llbe

non

Men
will do
herself,"c.
tunes;
spend goods,lands, lives,for-

kingswill leave their crowns,

at Dunmow.
'-'

The

to kill

de Diis
(afqueaVufuis
very Gods will endure
any shame
tristibu.9imjuit.
iMars and Venus
as
Sec.)be a spectacle,
to all the rest; so ditl Lucians
Mercury wish,and per-

"' E (!ra;co Ruf.

"' liUcian.
'^ Lod. Wrtomannns
'
Pitrouiu!*.
navig.
lib. '2.c. 5. 0 Drills,
hiinc cre;istiSole catulidiorcin ; e diveirso,
conjiiKeiniiuuni
meet
i-tnatos m"os
"ic. Ivit Gazella, Ttgcia, Oalzcrana,
oinncs
uigricaotes. Utinani liic,

ct

ontravit,ct douis,fete.
promissis

'

IVli.Drayton.

4. Subs.

Mem.

jidventure

Symptomes of Love.

1.]
doUithou.

so

They

3151

will adventure

their Iive" with

ahicrity.
a

this

ninus,wrote

help it.
darlingstomb ;;

his

on

dye twice,nay
remedy; they
lover in Calcag-

her, they cannot

die with

must

bis mori, I will

dye, there's no

If she

-twenty times, for her.

mori

metuara

non

metuam

non

pfo qua

nay more,

pro cjua

Quincia obiit,sed non Quincia sola obiit;

Quincia et ipseobii :
Quincia obiit,sed cum
lusus obit.
Risus obit,obit gratia,
anima in pectore, at in tumulo
Nee mea
nunc
Quincia
am

Sweet
And

How
the

But

in my

; for 'tisnot

too

doting lovers
!

same

soule

my

many

alone,

dead, and with her I am gone ;

smiles,mirth, graces, all with her do rest.

For

dear is dead, but not

my

est.

these

brest.

the like occasion

upon

might say
they will hazard

toyes in respect,

are

their very souls for their mistress sake.

inter juvenesmiratus est, et
Atque aliquis

verbum

dixit :

Deus esse,
ego in coelo cupercm
habens dorai Hero.
uxorem

Non

Nostram

said,to

One

heaven

would

I not

desire at all to go,

If that,at mine own
such a fine wife

as

for Adonis

heaven

forsook

Venus

house,

Coelo

I had

Hero.

sake,

Adonis.
preefertur

lie had
when
Old Janivere, in Chaucer, thought,
live so
he should never
go to heaven, he should
he protests,
earth ; had I such a mistress,
ou
^

Ccelum
Sed

Diis ego

sortem

Another

as

inviderem,
inviderent.

not

earnestlydesires

will adventure

suum
meam

merrilyhere

:
envy tlieirprosperity
should
gods
envy my felicity.

I would

The

non

mihi Dii

his fair May,

and

leave all

his sweet-heart

to behold

this,and

more

then

this,to

her alone.

Hor. Ode

9. lib.o.

Ov. Met. 10

iiutha.uauHtudecabjI.

"^^

; he
see

Love-Melancholy.

332
"

Omnia

quie

mala
patior

velit

si pensaro

[Part.3.

Sec. 2.

fors,

nobis prosperitatc,
Dii,
aliquA,

Una

cerncre
precor, ut faciant,faciant me
coram,
Cor mihi captivumqute tenet hocce, Dcam.

Hoc

If all my
And
God
I would
Which

mischiefs
would

recompenced,

were

what

giveme

requested,

my mistress presence onlyseek,

doth mine heart in prisoncaptive
keep.

up the dotage, madness, servitude,and

blindness, the foolish phantasmsand vanities of lovers,their
torments, wishes, idle attempts?
But

who

Yet

reckon

can

for all

this,amongst

so

many

some
irksome,absurd,trouble-

fitsand passymptomes, inconveniences, phantastical

sions,
which
some

are

good and

causeth.

usuallyincident to such persons, there be

in lovers, which this affection
qualities
graceful

As it makes

wise

men

fools,so many

times

it makes

it makes

base Jelloics
become gejierous,
fools become wise :
Cardan
of
out
as
notes
Plutarch ; cacowards
couragious,
liberal and maf/nijicent
vetons,
; cloivn,civil ; cruel,gentle;
^

neat ;
prophanepersons^ to become religions
; slovens,
dumb
and
lazie
dogs,eloquent; your
drones^
churls,mercijiil
;
domat
that
mentes
and
eras
nimble;
f
Cupido ;
fierce,
(flick
cruel and rude Cyclops,
Polyphemus,sighed,and shed many
sake.
No passion
causeth greater alterations,
a salt tear for Galateas
of
vehement
discontent.
or
Plutarch.
more
or
joye
that the soule of a man
1.
lib.
6.
in
saith,
Sympos.
qucest.
love is fullof perfumes and sweet
odours, and all manner
of
insomuch
it
and
that
is
hard
tunes ;
to say (as
pleasingtones
harm then good.
more
he adds) ichether love do mortall men
and makes them otherwise soft and silly,
It adds spirits,
rous
geneAriadnes
and couragious, audacem
fuciehat amor.
Theseus
adventrous, and Mcdeas beautyJason
so
love made
timorem.
Plato is of opinion,
victorious;expectorat amor
so
Mars
Venus
valorous.
made
so
that the love of
Ayong man
thai shall
abaslied to commit
will be much
any foul offcjice,
sired
to the hearingand sight
come
of his mistress. As '^he that deof his enemy,
now
dying, to lay him with his face upward,

wicked

"^

''

"

ne

amasius

videret

eum

tergo vulneratum, least his

Ex vilibos genero.sos efficere solet,

i" Cardan. lib.2. de sap.
ex
crudelibus inansHetos,ex
avaris splendidos,
civiles,
ex
ex
agrestibus
sordidis nitidoH atque cultos,ex diirismisericordes, ex mntis eloex
impiisreiigiosos,
^ Anima
et odoribus :
mientes.
horaiiiisamore
captitota rt ferta siiflitibii.s
'' Ovid.
"^ In convivio. Amor
Veneris IMartem
Pacanes resonaf, "c.
detinet,et fortem facit';
adolescentem maxime cruhcscere cerniniiis,
qmiui amatrix eum
f Plutarch. Amator.
dial.
quidcommittentem offendlt.
tiirpe
* Petrarch.
timidis audaces,

ex

-""

4. Subs.

Mem.

Symptomes of Love.

1.]

should

sweet-heart

he

say

was

363
And

coward.

if it

were

cityor an army consist of lovers,such as

valiant and
love,or are beloved,theytcould be extraordinary
detain them from
wise in their government ; modesty would
doing amiss, emulation incite them to do that which is good
pany
a great comand honest, and afeiv of them would overcome
There
is
others.
man
no
so
so very
pusillanimous,
of

=*

to
possible

have

love

dastard, whom

would

incense, make

not

of

divine

As he said in alike case,

Tota
temper, and an heroicall spirit.
coeli
can
thingnoruat
terrific,
moles, non
terreor^Sfc. Nothing^

dismaythem

can

those

in presence

Florimel
^

And

drawingboth

Like

mad

two

but,

as

Sir Blandimor

faery knights,fought for

brave

two

their swords

mastives

each

of their brests, that

slew,
rash,and

And

have

of blood

streams

helms

did hew:

rent

did trail

springsof life were

spent ;
with
blood
was
ground
purple
sprent,
stain'd with bloodygore.
all their armour
to breath would
once
they relent.
scarcely

Adown,

Yet

the love of fair

with rage anew,

other

shields did share,and niailes did

each other did assail,
So furiously
As if their souls,at once, they would

That

Paridel,

"

And

Out

and

as

So mortal
That

if their

all the

both

their malice, and so sore,

resolv'd (thenyield)
to dye before.
was

swain

in

love,will dare

to do

much

for his dear

He will fightand fetch *^ Argivum clypewn,
sake.
buckler of Argos, to do her service ; adventure
that famous
And as Serranus the Spaniard,
undertake any enterprise.
at all,

Every base

as

mistress

to Marquess Spinola,
then governour of Sluys,made
answer
ifthe enemy
him, he would keep
brought50000 divels against
it. The nine worthies,Oliver and Rowland, and fortydozen

of peers are all in him; he is all mettle,armor

of proof,
more
in
this
and
then a man
himself.
For
case
improved beyond
;
lover is wise,just,
as ^Agatho contends,a true
temperate,and
^I doubt
valiant.
but
had such an
not therefore,
if a man
he might soon
army of lovers (as Castilio supposeth)
conquer
he met
with such another
all the world, except by chance
to oppose it. s For so perhapstheymight
army of inamoratos
as
fight,

one

another

Ferdinand
''

that fatal

dog

round, and

and

fatal

never

KingofSpainwould

hare,in

make
never

an

the heavens, course

Castilio thinks
end,

haveconqueredGranada,

Si quo pacto fiericivitas aut exercitus posset partim ex

his qui amant, partim ex
""
^ Zened.
=
Angerianus.
proverb,
Faery Qu. lib.4. cant. 2.
e Plat
f Lib. 3. de Aulico.
cont. 6.
Conviv.
Non dubito qain is qui
talem exercitum haberet,totius orbis statim victor esset,nisi forte cum
aliquoexercitu
et Lepore
amatores
assent.
fc'Hyginusde Cane
confligendnmesset in quo omnes
et Decimator.
ccelesti,
a

his,8fc.

Love-Melathchofy.

334
had

Qiifon Isnbell and liorladios bron

not

what
r.rpreasrd,

he

/t rttnnof

"

took, v'lipu

tlip.Indies

mnllitvde

Moors.

[Part.3. Sec.

courdr/f

at the

sie^e:
Spmihh kfnf/hf."i

present
Iho

2.

few Spaniardsoverrrane
soever,
Tljeywill inirlero-oany danger whatSir Walter
Edward
in
the
as
thirds time,
Manny
stuck full of ladies favours,fouoht like a drag-on. For soli
nmantes, as ''Plato holds, pro amieis mori appefimt; onlylovers
will dye for their friends, and in their mistress ((uarrel. And
a

of

present

rceic

he would

have

follow ll"e camp, to be

of noble actions : upon
such an
spectatorsand encouragers
of
Dames
the
Sir
hijuself.
Lancelot
Sir
or
occasion,
Squire
Alexander
shall
be
not
resolute
or
more
Tristram, Caesar,
or
for that

cause

women

'^

go

beyond them.
Not courage
only doth

and

add, but

as

wit
said,subtilty,

pretty devises ;

many
'^

love

doles

Namque

amor,
inspirat

ministrat
fvaudesque

love with Leda, and not knowing- how to compass

and
Venus
oot
to
his desire, turn'd himself into a swan,
which
she
in the likeness of an
him
eagle;
doing,
pursue
""

Jupiterin

for shelter he fled to Ledas

embraced
Leda
him, and

by
Jvpiiercompressit,
such

tricks

can

with wisdome

manner

the

son,

ashamed

asleep; sed dormientem

finite
Jupiterhad his will. In-

fell fast
means

love devise ; such

and wariness ;

fine feats in abundance,

this purpose, which he borrowed

which Beroaldus
hath turned into Latine,
of Cymon and Iphigenia. This Cymon

tale to
pleasant

Greeks, and
into verse,

fool,a proper

eoUocavit

haviour,
civility,
decency,complement and good besalis et leporis,
;)/?/"
polite.
graces, ami merry conceits.

Bebelius
was

which

se
eju"i
rjremio

of

P"ocace hath
from

so

in

amantam?
^quisfallere possit

"

all

lap,et

but

of

man

very

him,

ass

sent

of person, and the governour

of Cyprus
insomuch
that
his
father
;
being

him

to

farm-house

he

had

in the

broughtup; where by chance, as his manner

walking alone, he espieda gallantyong gentlewoman
was,
named
Iphigenia,a burgomastersdaughterof Cyprus,with
lier maid, by a brook side,in a littlethicket,fast asleepin her
smocke, where she had newly bathed herself: When^Cymon
saw
gaping on her imher, he stood leaninr/on his staff'e,
country,

to be

Vix dici potestquantain inde

Maiiroriim copiassuperarunt.
*

QiM-en, 3. book, cant. 8.

f

V4rff.

et

mirabnndtis, "c.

Hanc

inde paiici
audaciam
infinitas
assiunerent
Hispaui,
'"
"^ Spencers
Lib. 5. de legibus.
Faery
'^
c Aratns
in phaenum.
Hyginiis,I.2.

iibironspicatusist Cymon, hacnlo innixiis,

inimobilisstetit,

Love-Melanchohf.

S36

[Part.3.

Sec. 2.

did she come,

althous^h'twas her desire,
lier self and trim'd her tire.
Till she corapos'd
Nor

And

to

was

her looks to make

so

ordered the matter,

had

Venus

him

set

before

appear

to

that when

Dido,

Queen

admire.

he

her

^iEneas

son

was

huraerosqueDeo similis (namque ipsadecoram

genitrix,
lumenque juventce
Purpureum et laetos oculis afflarat honores)
Os

Ccesariera nato

like

did

her

the tire-woman

was

and

all natural

with

out

for she

god ;

her

artificiall impostures. As

new
Heliogabalus,
of the peoplefirst.
Cyclopical
Polyphemus courted Galatea;

Mammea
when

he

""

son

set

him

mother

chosen

Emperour,

When

the hirsute

to be seen

was

self,to

Jamque tibi formae,jamque est tibi cura placendi,

rigidos
pectisrastris Polypheme capillos,

Jam

spectare feros in aqua, et componere

Et

And

head, and

his

And

look his face ith' water

And

to compose

was,

upon

hatchet.

He

ego

Nuper
Come
I

my

aquae,

sum

Cum

*Tis the

my

poor

to be

glass,

ground

new

good opinionof
a gallant.

then

and

scorn

placidumventis staret
humor

forma

mea

prodigalin

with

powdred hairs,comptus

me

thought
not

me

me

I say.

in littore yidi.

mare

apparel,
pure

lotus,neat, comb'd
et calamistrafus

themselves,
and curl'd,
with

new

as
suits,

l.JEo.
".Virg.

the
b

long

scarfs,
perfumed gloves,rings,
a
were
princesGanymede, with
fashion varies;going as if he trod

in his ear,
a flowre
love-lock,
"c. as if he
feathers,points,

day

own

vidcnti.

of all suiters to trick up

to be

every

his

me
not.
Galatea, scorn
but
yesterday,
presents ; for,

adeo informis,
nuper

common

shave,

and keen, as

nave

mihi
placuitque

Full fair I was,

Noa

to

myselfith' water,

saw

to

veni,nee munera
despicenostra.
novi,liquidaquein imagine vidi

me

now,

spruce

good parts; now

Certe

Nor

now,

began

Galatea

Jam

as

beard

liimself for to be brave.

sudden

now

feature,and

begin to prank himself,

then he did

pleateand combe

To

He

tibi falce recidere barbam,

vultus.

libet hirsutam

Jam

Ovid. Met. 13.

Ed.
'^.Virg,

2.

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337

Symptomesof Love.

1.]

sotted
Primieriis,
*//*oncehe be behis
renounce
wenche, he must lifeawake a nights,
a
on
and
and
then
book, sighand lament, now
weep for his hard hap,
upon

egs, and

mark

above

writ to

Hensius

as

thingswhat hats,bands, doublets,breeches,are

all

his lock,to turnup

hoiv to cut his beard, and icear
his
his
head, prune
or
pickitivant,
his mushatos, and curl
ifhe
to the loest :
it abroad, that the east side be correspondent
wear
in

fashion;

otherwise, as Julian that apostate embeard, fit to

for wearing-a long hirsute,goatish
perour was,
in his Mysopogone, or that apologetical
make
ropes with, as
cally
himself,he doth ironiat Antioch, to excuse
oratioji he made
he

scoffed

be

may

at

confess,it hindred his kissing;nam,

non

licuit indepura

suavioribus labra labris

; but he did
adjungere
d
e
seems
sequel, accipiendis
it,as
esteem
by
not much
laboro ; yet (to follow mine
dandisve osculis non
author)it
be
he
must
more
a yong
lover;
respectful
concern
may much
with
excellent
in
be
an
he
must
in this behalf,
taylor,
league

puris,eoque

the

it

barber,
Tonsorem

puerum,

Quails nee
have

sed arte talem,

fuit Neronis ;

shooe-ties,points,
garters,

neat

print,eat
must

Thalamis

and

be mad

drink in

in

and
jjrint,

umlk
speakin print.,

that which

is all in

in

all,he

print.

fellow is endowed
an
amorous
Amongst othergoodqualities,
ment
instruwith,he must learn to sing and dance, playupon some
or

touched

other;

as

without

all doubt

he

of love.

For

with this loadstone

will, if he be truly
as

"=

Erasmus

bath

them musilove will make

cians,
poesin,
nets,
love-sonand to compose
ditties,
madrigals,elegies,
and singthem to several prettytunes, to get all good qualities
'^
in
love
be
to
had.
be
perceived
Mercury
Jupiter
may
he
learned
because
with Philologia,
speech,
polite
languages,
Venus
herself
arts
as
some
Suadela
was
daughter,
write)
(for
all to ingratiate
and sciences, quo virginl
himself,
placeret,
'Tis
their
chiefest
mistress.
and pleasehis
study to sing,
without
dance ; and
gentlemen and
question,so many
well
in this kinde.
qualified
gentlewomenwould not be so

it,musicam

docet

amor

et

Noctes insomnes traducendae,literisrenunillachryniandumsorti et conditioni tnae.

cultus
te
deceat,
Videndum
qais in nsii sit,utriim latus barbae,"c.
vestes,
quis
quae
^ Mart.
insaniendum.
cura
Cum cura
loquendum, incedendum, bibendum, et cum
"* Martianus
cChil. 4. cent. 5. pro. 16.
Capellalib. 1. de nupL
Epig. 5.
ejusque studio plureshabere comparatasin fateneri,
philol. Jam ilium sentio amore
a
Epist
ciandum,

mulitio
VOL.

An

s^epe

uxor

literatositducenda.

geraendnra,
nonnunquam

et

"c.
disciplinas,
II.

Lor,0'Melinch".hi.

338

if love doth not excite them.

minde to
//?."?
to play,or f/ire
cause,

and

theyhope by
their

win

and

women

Who, sn-tlidistilio,xcovld learn

leant to dance, or make so
mii.sifdc,

means,

do, fnif for tr

to

purchase

sake ? he-

omens

their

f/oodiri/ls,

verified in niiryon""maids,took so mtieli jiains

; they that heinc;'
to tjieir
dance, with siirh cost and rhaijre
^Vc

favour ?

wives

play,and
sing-,

to

that

2.

"

most
as
rimes,/ore-sonr/ft,

many

[Part..0. "^oc.

see

litis

d.iily

now
being married, wdl
qualities,
parents,to g-etthose graceful
touch an instrument; theycare
not for it. Constatitine
scarse

lib. 11. cap. 18. makes

Cupid j)imself to he a great
nyricnlt.
he
was
token, as
dancer, by the same
caperingamongst the
down a howl of nedar, 7chich distiUiny
gods,^he fluncj
upon
the white

rose,

of
lielp

Daedalus

wenches

still a

much

aiTected

it red: and Callistratus,

by the
made
Cupids statue,
yong
many

since made

ever

about

*^

to signifie,
belike, that Cupid
dancing',

with

it,

as

all doubt

without

lie

was.

was

For

at

his and

Psyches wedding, the gods beingpresent to grace

abundance
filled
in
nectar
feast,Ganymede
(as '^Apuleius
cook
the
describes
the
Howres
made
all
Vulcan
was
;
it);
fine with roses
and flowres; Apollo plaidon the harp ; tJie
Muses
Venus saltaxrit,
sang it,sed suavi mnsiccc svperinyressa

the

but his mother

Venus

danced,

their sweet

to his and

love passage,
Witty ^Lucian, in thatpathetical

content.

scription
pleasantdeof Europa, and swimming from
of Jupiters
stealing
Phoenicia to Crete, makes
the sea calm, the winds hush; Neptune
and Amphitrite
their
break
in
the
to
waves
chariot,
riding
before them ; the Tritons dancingroundabout, M'ith everyone
phins
naked, keeping-time on dola torch ; the sea-nymphs half
and
backs,
singingHymeneus ; Cupid nimbly tripping
and Venus
herself coming after in
the top of the waters;
on
and flowres on their heads.
a shell,strewing
roses
Praxitiles,
of love, fains Cupid ever
in all his pictures
ing
smiling,an"l lookor

dancers ; and in Saint Aiarkes Garden

upon
(whose work I know not)one of the most delicious

in R"mie

pieces,is

that danSatyresdancingabout a wencljc

i
t
love
to
matters.
is,as werCja necessary appendix
cingstill
Yong
lasses are never
better pleased,
then when, as upon an holiday
after evensong, they may
their sweet-hearts, and dance
meet
about a may-pole,or in a town-green, under a shady elm.

asleep. So

many

Lib. .3,de aulico.

Qui'!clioreis insuderaf

nisi foeminanirn

nisi quod illiusdulcedine

operam,
coraponeret, nisi ut inde aftVctus suos in mulieres

tantara navaret

caussa? quis musicne

tot carraina
pernmlcere speret?qiiis
?
'"Craterem
explicaret

ncctaris evertit saltans apud Deos, qui in terrain

radens, rosam
prinsalbam rubore
c Puclias
infecit.
choreantes circa juvenileni
Cnpidinisstatiiani fecit.
"i Lib- 6.
Philostrat. Imag. lib..3.de statuis. Exercitinni aniori aptissiraum.

Met.
"Toin. 4.
dormieoti insultantinni,
"c.

'^Kornman.

de

car.

niort.

part. 5. cap. 2S. Sat. puellae

4. Subs.

Meai.

Symptomes of Lore.

1.]

familiar in ^France,

Nothing-so

S39

for citizens wives

as

and maids

in the streets; and often too, for want of better

voices, and
instruments
to make
good musick of their own
times
this
will
old men
love
make
after
it.
dance
Yea, many
then teeth dance,
John
toes
that have more
and women,
for
and
Comus
and
mask
mum
kiss me now,
come
Hymen
;
above measure,
will allow
love masks, and all such merriment
in some
womens
to
cases, and promiscuously
on
men
apparel
round

to

dance

to

dance, yong-

put

and

old, rich and poor, generous

and

base, of

.lovius taxeth

AugustineNiphus the philosopher,

^i^or that beingan oldman, and apiibliqne
projlessor^
so mad for the love of a yong
children^he was
a fatherof many
maid, that which
of his friendswere ashamed to see,
many
old go7cty fellow,yet tcould dance
afterfdlers. Many
an
this
but
for
it,
to
scorn
omnipotentlove would
laughed him
Paulus

all sorts.

have

it so.
"=

bacillo
Hyacinthino

adegit
sequendum.

Properans Amor,
ad

Violenter

me

did make
Love, hastywith his purplestaffe,
dance
undertake.
the
and
to
Me follow,

And
may
and

indecorum
; for why ? a good reason
both in an inne,
met
be given of it. Cupid and Death
did
arrows
exchange some
they
being merrilydisposed,

from
old

no
this,

'tisno

news

either

quiver;ever

Sic moritar

sic moribundus
juvenis,

amat.

be in love,yong,
we
once
like
heads
jacks,
virginal
old,thoughour teeth shake in our
there is no
asunder like ihe arches of a bridge,
stand parallel

And

or

dye; and oftentimes,

men

dote.

men

''

or

since,yong

who

remedy ;

can

must

wo

dance

chairs,'and
sjools,"c.
Plutarch,
and

Sympos. 1.

telleth

us

moreover,

and

will

make

for

Trenchmore
And

need,

is

princum prancum

qucest.5. doth
in what

licet prinsfneritrndis, how

skill before,learn to singand
power

If

then withstand it ?

in

sense,

love

over
a

sort

some

excuse

it;

docet amor,

Musicam

that had

them

makes

tables,

fine dance.

no

dance; he concludes,'tisonlythat
Love (ashe holds)
hath over
us.

love
prerogative
a silent man
speake;

modest

man

most

;
officiotis

b Vita ejus. PuellcB amore

senex
*ViewofFr.
usque ad
septuagenarius
sine pudore, conspexenint
multi, non
insaniaui correptiis,miiltis liberis susceptis
:
"^ Anaet philosopliuni
seneui
podagricnm,non sine risu,saltantem ad tibiaemodos.
"
taciturno
De
^
loquacem
Carni. 7.
Joach. Bellins Epig.
cieon
facit,et de verecundo officiosnm reddit, de negligenteindnstrinm, de socorde im-

pigrnm.
z

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Love-Melancholy.

2.

luinhle;andthat ivhich is most to be admired,

dull,quick;sloic,
hard base,vntractable
an
churl, as firedoth iron in a smiths
and easie to be entreated.
r/enfle,
Nay 'twill
Jorge, free,facile,
him

make

tor

sesterces

Corinth
like

a
^

; or

Mundus

the other extream,

prodioalin

as
niuhts loduing-,

to Paulina

spend all his

For

his suit.

obtain

case)to

drachmarum

ducenta

love to wine, which

makes

fortunes
which

(astoo

cause

jovialand

men

sad, whine, sinff,dance, and what

But

and ir'wean ^hundred

they did of old to Lais of
millia pro nnicd nocte, as
many

do in

many
compare
frolick and

merry,

not.

of lovers,this is not
all the other symptomes
that
of
what
condition
be over
if once
soever,
passed,
their
in love, they turn
(to
ability)
rimers,ballet-

above

to
lightly
be
they

For

makers, and poets.

and

7iesses

them

trumpeters
with

They icill he witing

fjood
parts, bedeck'^

their paramours

of
and

verses

gold,that

with

Plutarch saith,

as

commendatory
be remembred

they may

tues
songs, as ice do staand admired of all.

inen will dote

in this kinde, sometimes, as well as

of love will thaw their frozen affections,

Ancient

heat
rept ; the
dissolve the ice of age, and so far inable them, though they
the girdle,
30 beneath.
to be scarce
be 60 years of age above
and
old fool rime,
makes
Pontanus
turns poetaster
Jovianus
an

the

pleasehis

to

mistress

"iNe
De

Sweet

ne
canos
;
dispice
ringas,Mariaua; meos
nam
sene
juvenem, Dia, refene potes, "c.

Marian

thou

For

canst

mine

do not
make

age
old man

an

disdain,
yong

again.

and ditties (ifyong

They will be stillsingingamorous
songs
it
be
when
and
especially) cannot abstain,though
they go to,
should

or

be, at

church.

We

have

pretty story to this purpose

in ^Westmonasteriensis, an old writer of ours

(ifyou will
Colewitz
1012. at
in Saxony; on Christbelieve it)an. Dom.
mass

eve,
at mass

was

in the

of yong
company
in the church, were

church-yard,he

they sung
song

on

sent

still; and

and

men

singingcatches
them

to

if you

maids, whilst the

to

will,you

make

priest

and love
songs
less noise, but

shall have

the very

it self.

Equitabathomo
Ducebatque secum

per

sylvam frondosam,
Meswinden

Quid stamuS;

cur

non

formosam.

imus?

^ Clellins1. 1.
Pretium.
cap. 8.
volnnt snanim
amasiarum
pulchritndinis
iit auro
testes esse,
laudihiis,et cantilenis et versibiis exomare,
eas
ac
pracones
"" Tom.
2. Ant. Dialogo.
statuas,nt memoreDtnr, et ab omnibus ailniirentur.
' Flores
hist. f".l.29S.
a

Josephnsantiq.Jud.

nortis centum

sestertio.

lib. IS. cap. 4.

"

Jpsjenim

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Mem.

341

Symptomes of Love.

1.]

fellow rid by the green wood

fair Meswinde

And

stand

Why

his

was

so, and

we

sfde,
bride,
do not

go?

as he was,he
theysang*; he chaft;tillat length,
impatient
prayedto St. Mag-nus,patron of the church, that theymight all
three singand dance, 'tillthat time twelve month; and so
they
and
wearisomness
or
drink,
did, without meat
givingover, till
absolved by Hereatyeares end theyceased singing,and were
of Colen.
bertus,archbishop
They will in all placesbe doing
of this
thus, yongfolksespecially;
readinglove stories,talking
such a fair maid, singing,
that yong man,
or
or
telling
hearing-

This

=*

lascivious tales,scurril tunes, such

and
their continual meditation,
in 4.

proh.Arist. oh

27.

objectsare
as

their sole delight,

Guastaviniusadds,Com.

abundnntiam

crehrce

cogipruriensvoluptas,Sfc.
hence ; piurienscorpus, pruriens
earnest
an
longing comes
conceits,tickling
anima, amorous
thoughts,sweete and pleasant
sec.

seminis

veneris Jreqvensrecordatio
tationes,

hopes ; hence
speak,almost of

or

if it may

it

is,they can

no

other

done

be

et

think,discourse willingly,

subject. 'Tis

see
by art,
glass; theyT give any thing to

to

their

only desire,

their husbands
know

picturein

M'hen

they shall be
have, by Cromnyo-

husbands
they shall
many
kind
of
with
''onions laid on the alter on
divination,
mantia, a
Christmas
St. Annes
eve
on
or
eve
; or by fasting
night,to
who shall be their first husband; or by Ainphitomantia,
know

married

by

; how

in

beans

of all good

cause

Sec. to bnrn

cake,

the

same.

This is love the

elegancies,
conceits, neatness, exornations,playes,
c

sweet
pleasant
delights,
expressions,

motions and gestures,

and
all
the
of our
sweetness
joyes,comforts,exultancies,
life;'Squalls
jam vita Jar et, ant qnidjucundisine aured VeEmoriar
istd non ampliusmild curujuerit,
?
cnm
let me
nere
^

live

no

longerthen

I may love, saith a mad

merry
This love is that salt,that seasoneth

Mimnermus.
and

dull labours, and

rellish
gives a pleasant

proceedings
; ^Jlbsit amor,
ternnm,

^-c.
pestis,

All

mings,banquets,merry
fine tunes,

poems,

our

to

our

fellow in
harsh
our
other

savory
un-

vesnrgunt tenebrce,
torpedo,

feasts

almost, masques,

mura-

meetings,weddings,pleasing
songs,

love-stories,
playes,comoedies, attelans,

jigs,fescenines, elegies,odes, "c. proceed hence. sDa_

of Bel us, at his daughterswedding at Argos,
naus, the sun
instituted the first playes(some say) that ever
heard of.
were
Per totum

annum
cantarnnt, pluviasuper illos uon cecedit ; uon frigus,
non
calor,
lassitudo illosaffecit,
noraina inscribnntur
sitis,
bjjis eorum
nee
"c.
c Huic
de quibusquferunt.
munditias, ornatum^ leporem,delicias,
ludos,
"

non

elegantiam,omnem
"EGracco.

'' Hyginus
denique vitaesuavitat"m debemus.
8 Lib. 4. tit 11, de prin.instit.
Angeriauus.

cap. 272.

Love-Melanckoly.

342

[Fart.o.

devises,if we
Symbols, emblems, impresses,

shall believe Jo-

vius, Contiles,Paradine,Catnillus de Camillis,may

Most

to it.

of

rest, was

For when

for loves sake.

to take

Sycionian

was

to

arts and

our

first invented,saitli

de.nderio

nt

wars,

Patritius,ex,

amnriii

daughterof
her

of

ejus minus

the

beneficio,

^Deburiades

sweetheart,now

the

going-

tabesceret,to comfort

her
with
cole
picture
upon a wall,
which
her
father
admiring,
;

self in his absence, she took his

the candle gave
the shadow
as
and
afterwards,
perfected

be ascribed

sciences,paintingamongst
"

the

leave

tSec. i!.

the firstpictureby report that

was
ever
ving,
carlong-after,*^Sycionfor painting,
and
musick,
A
vas
b
efbreall
philosophy
preferred
statuary,
the cities in Greece.
Apollowas the firstin venter of physick,

divination,oracles
curious

Mercury

iron-work;

talia adamdssent
sake

made

Axion

and

letters;but

undertaken

admirable

Temeuus,
to

out

bruch

'Tis true, Vulcan

neck-lace,M'hich long after
for the singular
worth
sons,
at first.

or

Phegius
Apollo at Delphos ; but, Pharyllusthe

tyrant stole it away, and

whom
he miserablydoted.

presentedit

Aristons wife, on
(Partheniustels the story out of

Phylarchus); but why did Vulcan make

to giveHermione, Cadmus
wife, whom
our

weaving ; Vulcan
who
prompted all

nisi
Nnncjuam talia invetiissent,
such things,or some
party, for

they loved

it,consecrated

of

Love.

they were

most

found

Minerva

this into their heads?

whose

it was

.4nd

made.

orders

tiltsand turnaments,

to

this excellent
he

ouche?

dearlyloved.

of the garter,

All

golden fleece,

"c.
Nobilitas

their

owe

sub

amore

jacet

beginningsto love; and

saith Jovius,
theywould

this means,
and
to their mistress,

to

many

of

our

histories.

invention tends to it,all our

; all our
those old Auacreons, and therefore,Hesiod

almost, of poetry
whatever

the

Muses

and

holds, Menander
All

our

Greek

Graces

By

press their lovingnsindes

the beholders.
'Tis the sole subject,
ex

still follow

Cupid;

and

as

songs,
makes

Plutarch

and
and

the rest of the poets were

Loves priests.
Latin
thony
love-writers,Anepigrammatists,

find in
we
Diogenes the most ancient, whose epitome
Achilles TaPhociusBibliotheca,LongusSophista,"ustatnius,
PI
nius,
Partheutarch,Lucian,
Plato,
Heliodorus,
tiuSjAristaenatus,
Our

Theodorus, Prodronius, Ovid, Catullus, Tibullus, "c.

new
authors,of Arcadia,Urania,Faerie
Ariostoes,T3oyards,

Queen, "c.

Marullus, Leotichius,Angerianus,Stroza,Se-

Gr.
Gerbelius 1.6. descript.
^Fransiis I.3.
voluit niniirum,hac actione iiiiplicatuiu
At Symbolis. Qui prinjus
syinboiumexcogita\it,
vel doinin;t vel aliisintiiei.-tibus
osttnclere.
sinimnm tvolvere, cumque
"Plin. lib. 35. cap. 12.

'-

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344

Melancholy.

Choosiiio- lords,ladies,
kings,({ueens, and
go

[Part.3.

Sec

2'

valentines,
"c.they

by couples;
Coridons
With

Phillis,Nysa and Mopsus,

daintyDousibel

Instead of odes,epigramsand

and

Sir

Tophus.
their ballads,

"c. theyhave
elegies,

the broom, the honny honny broom,

Bess a Bell, she doth excel, they must

country tunes, O
ditties and

songs,
Mrite likewise and
^

"

indite all in riine.

Thou

hony-fuckle of the hathorne hedge,

Vouchsafe
in Cupids cup my heart to pledge;
hearts
dear
bloud, sweet Cis is thy carouse,
My
Worth

all the ale in gammer

Gubblns
house.
I say no more, affairs call me
away ;
My fathers horse for provenderdoth stay.
Be thou the ladyCressetlight
to me,
Sir

TrollyLollywill

Written

in

my cowslipsweet.
Sunday at the ale-house meet.

Pray let's a
Your
away

grim

most

with

this

to thee.

I prove

hast, farewel

stoicks

and

Mill
philosophers

severe

passion; and

if

them

Athenseus

bely

melt
not,

have made love songs

Aristippus,Apollodorus,Antiphanes,"c.
commentaries
of
their
and
mistress praises,orators
write
whatnot?
''Xerxes
honours,
epistles,
princes
givetitles,
gave to
Themistocles, Lampsacus to finde him wine. Magnesia for
'^

bread,

and

Myunte

kings alloted whole

dimiculnm

for the
cities

to

rest

of his diet.

like use;

Tlie

Persian

hcec civitas mnlierire-

hcvc in
prcsbeat,

collnm^ hcec in crines,one whole

cityserved to dress her hair,another her neck, a third her
would
hood.
Assuerus
have 'given Esther half his empire,
and e Herod
bid Ilerodias danyhterask what
she would, she
have

it.

sesterces
to his
Caligulagave an 100000
curtisan,at first word, to buy her pins;and yet v.lien he was
the desollicited by the senate, to bestow something to repair
cayed
walls of Rome, for the common-wealths
good,he would
that Sicilian
'"Dionysius,
give but (JOOO sesterces at most.
allhis
a
nd
was
so besotted on
privycounsellors,
tyrant,rejected

should

Mirrha, liis favourite and mistress, that he would bestow no

business of the kingdome,do
or in the most
office,
weig])tiest
send, entertain
de|)ose,
ought,without her especialadvice; prefer,
no

S. R.

man,

1600.

and
thoughwortljy

bLib.

well

13. cap. Dipnosophisi

but by
deserving,

her

See Putean. epist.

3.3.de
i'
Herod.
Tally
'' fJravissimis
fEsth. 5.
sMat. 14. 7.
orat. b Ver.
rejjni
negotiitt,
nihil sine atnisia-suae conwn.su
actiones sua.s scortillocommunicavit,
fecit,
oojnesque
gtc. Nich. BelKis discurs. 26. de amaL
a

sua

Marjjoreta,Beroaldus,Sec.

Men.

Steph.apol.pro

of Love-Melancholy.345
1.] Prognosticks

4. Subs.

Mem.
consent

a^ain,M'hom

he

and

she

howsoever

commended,

unworthy,

as

in stead of poems,
besides constellations, temples,altars,statues,

"

in love

alone

doctor

matters

; et

in

infinite

to all eternity.
Socrates
Hephfestion
loves servant;
ignorantin all arts and

fesseth himself
a

images, "c.

bestowed

his

to set out

sums,

Alexander

of his Antinous.

the honour

fit,
un-

highlyapproved.Kings and emperours,

Adrian built Antinoa in ^gypt,
build cities;

was

proences,
sci-

'alienarum

cjuvm

saith jMaximus
dijfiteretnr,
Tyriushis
professor,^-c.and this he spakeopenly,
sectator, Imjus negotii,
and
home
at
abroad, at publiquefeasts, in the academy,m
Pyrcso,Lycoco, sub Platano, SfC.the very bloud-hound of
beauty,as he is stiled by others. But I conclude there is no
scientinm

omnmm

rerum

of loves syraptomes ; 'tisa bottomless

ject
pit. Love is subbe
dimensions
to
not
art
to no
or
ensurvayedby any
;

end

gin: and besides I am of Hsedus minde, no man

that
o^ love matters, or judge of them aright,
"^

tryalin his

own
person
little doted,been mad

but

as

JEneas

lovesick

or

Silvius

hath

made

not

'^

adds, hath
himself'.1 confess I

not
am

novice, a contemplator
only,

Nescio

1 have

quid sit amor,

nee

amo

I lye,
dissemble

tincture;for why should

yet homo

Sec. not

siim,

or

it,

excuse

altogetlier
inexpertin this subject,non
ex
; and what I say, is meerlyreatling-;

prcBceptor amandi

sum

or

discourse

can

by
aliorumjorsaninepiiis,

mine

observation,and others

own

relation.

MEMB.

V.

SUBSECT.

I.

Prognosticksof Love- Melancholy.

Yt

hat

fires,torments,
anxieties,accompany
griefs,
said
such

; the

theyforetell.

accompaniesthem
Idem

b Serm.
agnoscit.
nisi qui et is aliquantuminsanit?

rem

nor

hac

de

re

aerainem

aut

est

of opinionthat
medicabilis herbisy

are

pecoripecorisqueraagistro
;

8.

Quis

"

scientissimum
tamen
se
horum
scribere molestias

Lib. 1. de contemnendis

recte posse
disceptare

fecerit periculnm.
magnum
/En. Silv.
amat.

aut

wSome

amandi
scientiam dilfitetar,

omnem

in love, 1 have sufficiently

will be the event
of

are

"

exitio est

amor

Amoris famulus

as

be cured, JSTnllis amor

last.
to the

this love cannot

It

such

questionis, what

next

miseries; what

fears,
jealousies,
suspitions,

cares,

aut

judicarequi non

Semper moriturjnunquam

amoribus.
in

ea

mortmis

docto

potest,

Opi-

versatnr,
est

qui

Lov"-Melanc/wijf.

jIG

[Part.3.

Sec. 2,

tliatby no perswasionalmost,it
coiitinnalo,
may be
said
not
bid
Hid
the
me
love,
Eurialiis,
mountains
relit^ved.
and is so

-'

into

down

com*'

the

I can
Joiintains;
course

plains^bid

as

the rivers

leave to

soon

the

love, as

to

their

leave

sun

hi^

;
et montibus
''Et priuseequoribus
pisces,

First

singiugbirds,the winds
love, bid

not

speak,lame
relish ;

no

Non

run

deaf

counsel

pbysickcan

sliade,
fade,

humanos

"^Omnes
Solus

ease

do

good;

no

and

sec,

sick

man

dumb
cannot

me.

quai prosunt omnibus

Jupiterhimself

curat

morbi

amor

hear, a l)lind man

man

can

prosuntdomino

Apolloconfessed

"^

shall

murmur

love allaid.
ray fair Amaryllis

Then
me

ignes.
Ainaryllidis

their fish,the mountaius

shall want

seas

Woods

Bid

et niunnuiii

mihi discedent tbrmosai

Quam

umbrsc,
ventis,

sylvis,

deerunt

Et volucres

As

back

rim

non

medicina
habet

artes,

could

not

be cured.

dolores,

artificem.

Physickcan soon cure every disease

Exceptinglove,that can it not appease.

love may be cured or no, and by what means,

But whether
time, if ittake his
shall be explainedin his place; in the mean
and be not otherwise eased or amended, it breaks out
course,
and prodigious
events.
(often)
outragious

Amor

et Liber
''Tatius observes, et eousque
aninuim
inare
so
cendimt, ut pudorisoblivisci cofjaut; Love and Bacchus
that
mindes,
violent Gods, so furiously
theymake
rage in our

into

violenii JJii sunt,

as

forgetall honesty,shame,

us

men,

as
are
ordinarily,

and

For such
civility.
throughlypossessedwith this humor,
common

insensati et insani,for it is ' amor

calls it; beside themselves, and as I have
become

insanus,as the poet

proved,no betterthen
void of fear of God
or
stupid,
head-strong,
beasts, irrational,
forswear themselves,spend,steal,
commit
theyfrequently
men,
incests,rapes, adulteries,murders,depopulatetowns, cities,
to
countries,
s

satisfie their lust.

A divel
As

never

and
'tis,

yet did

mischief such

Pagan,Jew,

doth work
or

Turke.

deficiam ? roga
Eurial. ep. ad Liicretiam,apud i^ilneainSilvium.
Rogas ut amare
te non
ut in planum deveniant; ut fontes fluiuiua rt-petant;tarn poasum
amare,
*'
"
Buchanan
cursum.
I'lioebusrelinquere
Syl.
I'ropert.
ac
suuiii
"^ Est orcns
ilia \is,
est rabies insana.
lib.2. Eleg. 1.
cstiinmediiabilis,
uR.T.
'Lib. 2.
'Virg.Ecl3,
*

luontes

of Loce-Melancholy.
l.J Prognosticks

iy. Subs.

Mem.
The

and

themselves
bro7(f/ht

calamities, the

sharp as

down

sufficient witness

Anthony
all Egypt, into
and

hist, saitli of

lib. 5.

as

be

Trey may

of

wars

of her

end

is

death, her steps lead

to

Prov.

(Eccles.7' 28.) and

then death

love

miserable

and

extream

and

worm-wood,

as

5. 4. 5.

hell.

to

on

Appiau

as

Cleopatra, Their
^

bitter

as

sword.
two-edc^ed

and

3*47

Her

She

the sinner

is

feet go
bitter

more

shall be

taken

qui saxo

salit.

bg

her.
I'

in

Qui

"^He that
bad

as

wits,

altogetherMadness
:

rock, is

gulfof love.

not

For

in

and

to

make

desperation;theg loose
of their fortunes
shipicrack

make

themselves

away

and

others;

est talis,saith Gordonius,

Prognosticatio

violent death.

so

hence,

repentance,

comes

themselves, their

the

top of

he that falls into this

saith 'iPlatina,

non

the

headlongfrom

runs

case,

pejusperit
prsecipitavit,
quam

amore

lis,aut in maniam
cadunt, aut
will
either
is,
mad,
run
prognostication they
succurratur

si

vioriuntnr ;
or
dye. For

it makes the
passioncontinue,saitli 'iEliau jMoutaltus,
bloud hot, thick, and
black; and if the inflammation get
ivith
the
contifiual meditation
into
and waking, it
brain,
dries it np, that madness followes,
else theymake away
so
or

if this

themselves.
"

Now,

O Coridon, Coridon, quae te dementia

ArnolJus

as

adds, it will speedilywork

cepit?
these

effects,if
run
mad,

helped; They will pine away^

presently
and dye upon a sudden : facileincidunt in maniam, saith
lescus, quicklymad, nisi succurratur, if good order be
^

it be not

taken

Vanot

;
'

Eheu,

tristejugum
norit

amoris habet,
quisquis
periisse
perit.

Is

priusac

heavy yoke of love, which

quiteundone, and that at

Is

So she confessed

se

of herself in the

who

so

bears,

unawares.

poet.

utrosque et totam yEgyptum extremis calamitatibas involvjt.

aQui quidem amor
Austin. 1. 2. de
Plautus.
amore
"Ut corpus pondere,sic animus
praecipitatur.
"^ Dial. Hinc
et non'
oritur pcenitentia,
desperatio,
civ. Dei, c. 28.
ejdemSavauaroIa, et plure"
simul amisisse.
vident ingenium se cum
re
Amore.
f Cap. de Heroico
Rabidum
factum" orexin. Juven.
alii,"c.
ad cerebrum
Haec passiodurans sanguinem torridam et atrabilarium reddit: hie vero
et crebro desiderio exsiccaus.
delatus,:n^ -niam parat, vigiliis
.?Virg.Eel. 2.
1' Iiisaui
aflFeruut. Langueutes cite mortem
aut
fiunt^aut sibi ijjsis
desperantesmortem
'
maniam
Calcagninus.
patiuntur.
^

Love-

348

intervallo
pili

Vix

As mad

for his

Orlando

as

illisaevus

He

cruel God

The

''At the

how
village,

tell how

I cannot

his

like

It is

either

dyed

have

grief,

thief.

examples.

many

mad.

ran

many

puellfE,
pulchritudine

conceal
him

on

comes

for

to Bedlam

hisHylas;

tortur'd him, alas.

whilst he doth

Madness

for

he was,

whither,mad

celans insanit

Alius vulnus
And

Go

so

sightof Hero,
"^

Hercules

Angelica,or

he car'd not

went

distracted.

I, now

am

quo pedesducebant, furibundus,

Deus intus jecurlauiabat.

At illeruebat
Nam

perceived,

off scarce

hair breadth

An

Sec. 2.

furore absum.

before it be

I shall be mad
*

3.
[Part.

quissentiat,
priusqiiam

Insaniam

Melancholy.

well

so

voluntarily

love, or

for

in every

known

made away
themselves, that I need not much labour to prove
amoris : Death
nisi mors
it ; ** Nee modus ant rerpties
reperihir
to such persons.
is the common
catastrophe
"'Mori mihi

Would
But

As

soon

as

were

death

can

Eurialus

me

pacto istis.

fuerit uUo

dead, for
rid

alia

enim

contiogat;non

Liberatio ab eerumnis

nought,God

of these

departedfrom

knows.

woes.

Senes, Lucretia his paramour

up, no jestscotild exhilarate her sad

joyescomfort her xconnded and distressed soule, hut
htever looked

no

aftershej'elsick a?id died.

death,such

persons

But

commonly

this is a
make

gentleend, a

minde,
a

little

natural

themselves.

away

in sanguineleetus,
proprioque
animam
Indignantera
so

did Dido
Sed

riramus

and

vacuas

effudit in

auras

moriamur, ait,sic

sic juvatire per umbras,

Thysbe,Medea, ?Coresus

and

TheaCallyrhol",

*" Lncian.
aTheocritos Edyl. 14.
Imag. So for Lucians mislress,all that
cMusa-iis.
her,and could uotenjoye lier,ran mad, or hanged themselves,
f /Eneas
eAnacreon.
Silvius. Ad ejus decessam
"lO"'id met 10.
nunqnam
visa Liirretia ridere,nuUis facetiisjjoris,
nnllogaiidio
potuitad lactitiam rrnovari,mox
et sic brevi cootabuit.
g Pansanias
Acha"c. I. 7
incidit,
IB
aegritudinem
saw

of Love-Melancholy.
1.] Prognosticks

5. Subs.

Mem.

and
gines, the philosopher,
will

do

ever

et mihi

Est manus,

merchant,

story of

more

woe,

her Romeo

and

Eroticis;and Plutarchs amatorias narraloves stories;all tending almost, to this purpose.

tiones,or

in

narration of a
lib. 2. observ. 7. hath a lamentable
that ravingthroughimpatience
his ^atiewt,"
of love,

watched.,ivould

he not been

story; and

another

yong
doctors

daughter,having

his wenche

^Anno

1615.
to

have

lence
viooffered

56. hath such

car.

observ. lib.

1, a third,

and for the love of

physick,

hope

no

betrothed

was

cent. 3.

Plater,med.

Faelix

gentlemanthat studied

poysoned himself,

while

every

Lucitanus,

himself. Amatus

to

dablt hie in vulnera vires;

that of JuHet

Parthenium

Valleriola

of

heard

ever

Then

"i

fortis

et amor,

est

Who

had

so

;
b

Read

myriadesbesides,and

many

349

his desire,
compass
barber in Francfort,because
to

another,cut his

throat.

own

because
he could
g At
Neoburge,the same
yeer, a yong man,
ward
not get her parents consent, killed his sweet-heart,and afterhe gave up
as
himself,desiringthis of the magistrate,

theymight be

the o'host,that

buried in

grave;

in
requiescat

Quodque regissuperestuna
which

one

besoughtof Tancredus,

Gesmunda

urna

her

father,that she

might be, in like sort, buried with Guiscardus her lover ; that
in the grave, as their soules
their bodies might lye together
so
in the Elysianfields,
about
wander
lugentes
campos
'

quos durus
in

myrtea

Sylvategit:

curse

to

peredit,

myrtlegrove.
et

You

crudeli tabe

amor

have

not

yet heard

themselves,

nearest

only in

dearest

and

ad orci
misitque

circum

non

ipsain

the worst
this rage

friends.

pallida^lethi

of

morte

rehnquunt.

they do
lust,but

not offer violence

unto

others,their

'^Catiline killed his

obsita
obniibila,

only

tenebris

son,

loca,

cFuri*
bOvid. 3-met
Megarensis amore
flagrans.Lucian. Tom. 4.
d Juven.
"c.
et coram
loquiblandiens illi,
bundus putavitse videre iraaginempuellse,
^ Juvenis
dans doctoris filiam depenbat, "c.
medicinae operam
Hebraeus.
Collumnovaculaaperuit,etinde
vernal.
1615.
mund.
fGotardus Arthus Gallobelgicus,
S Cum
expiravit.
hoc
ipsiimetipsam interfecit,

sent.

Virg.6. iEneid.

parente utroque, et ipsa virgine friu non posset,

magistratupetens, ut in eodem sepulchrosepelin pos-

renuente
a

Bocace.

'

kSal.Val.

Sedes

eorum

quipro

amoris

pereunt.
impatientia

Love-Melancliolif. [Parf.:5.Sec.

350

2.

for tho love of Aurelin Orestilln,r/uodejus nvptiafi,

civo filln,
the
of
sister
aLaodice,
rcriisarf'f.
xMifhridates,
poysonedher

hiisl)an(l.to

to a
give content
^Alexander, to please
Thais,a
on

fire.

Nereiis

"

wife,

turned

his

loved.

iiis.set Persepolis
concnhineof
widdow
and lady of Athens, for ihe

oentleman,

Venetian

love of

M'honi she
fi.llow,

hase

betrayedthe city; and he for

his wife, the daughterof a noble man
lier sake, rnurthered
in
Venice.
made
Catherine
his
wife,
,i ConstantineDespota,
away
Michael

son

for the love of

beauty he

whose

citywhere

she

enemies

his other

scriveners

base

ana

""

dwelt, for her sweet-hearts

Pithidice

camp.

of doors,

out

daughterin Thessalonica,with
Leuccphriabetrayedthe

enamored.

was

children

sake,that

the govemours

in the

was

daughterof

thinia,for the love of Achilles,betrayed the whole

^le-

island

to

him, her fathers enemy.

^Diognetusdid as much, in the city
where
he dwelt, for the love of Policrita;Medea
for the love
of Jason

taught him

she

brass-feeted

bulls,and

golden fleece ; and

tore

how

the

fire-breathing
mighty dragon that kept the
her littlebrother Absyrfusin pieces,
might have somethingto detain him,
to

tame

kill the

father ^Ethes
with her beloved
while she ran
Jason, "c.
away
and scenes
hath this trage-comoedv of love.
that her

MEMB.

VI.

SUBSECT.

Dy(?t,PhtfsicJc,

Although
it be controverted by some,
be cured, because
it is so
^Melancholy
may
violent a ])assion
know,
; for as you
''

Sed

revocare

Hie

labor,hoc opus

It is

But

Yet
and

facilisdescensus

an

to come

without

by many

Averni

Love-

irresistible and

ad

auras;

est.

easie passage

back,

whether

evadere

gradum,superasque

acts

I.

of Love-Melanchohj,hijLabour
",-c.
Fastinff,

Cure

Such

once

down

to

hell,

there,you

if it be taken
question,
remedies
amended.
good

in

cannot

well.

time, it may
Avicenna

be

helped,

lib.3. Fen.

1.

"" Curtios lib. 5.

^Sabel. lib.3. En. 6.
c Chalcocondilas de reb.
"i
Turcicifl lib.9. Nerei uxor
Athenanun
domina, "c.
NicephorusGreff.hist,
lib.8.
Uxorem
occidit,liberos, et Micbaelein fiiium viderp abborruit : Thessalonicae
* Parthenius
Erot lib. cap. 5.
amore
filia;,"c.
captus, pronotarii
^Ideiuca. 21.
gldem
Gubernatori* fiiiaAchillis amore
capta rivitateni prodidit
I'
9.
/En.
(i.
Vir^.
cap.

Melancholy.

Love-

352

be.
if it may
idle,but at the hovrs oj'sleep,
of

great moment,

diem

ante

Intendas

By

miser

do'st

For if thou

"=

in

Cur

ply thy book.

study bent,
honest thing,
intent.
ahvajesciC"LU|iied,
seriously

subit,

tenues

vulgusaffectus
ask, poor folks

dost thou

poor

tenet?

"c.

often free.

are

daynty placesstillmolested

And

and

torment.

eligenspestisdomus,

Mediunique sanos

Because

be

penates rarius

delicatas

Why

honestis,

rebus

not

to
candle-hsjht

pbysickthanto

Hsec

non

torquebere.

Imploy'dabout some
Env7 or love shall thee
No better

lumine, si

cum

studiis,et

amore

to he

ni

librum

aniinum

Invidia vel

Sec. 2.

Maguinus adds, Never

"

bet

Posccs

3.
[Part.

be ?

people fare coursly,work

hard,go

wolhvard

bare.
Non

habet

unde

paupertas pascat

suum

amorem

his patient
cloth
/o 170 with hairGuianerius, tberefore,prescribes
and hare-leg
his skin, to go hare-footed,
next
(fedin cold
and
then, as monkes do, hut
tceather, to whip himselfno\o
and pottage,
above all,to fast. Not with sweet
wine, mutton
**

of those

as

many
Lenten

tenterbellies

faces, and whatsoever

of meat.
Fastingis an

howsoever

do,

they put

they pretend,but, from

on

all

all-sufficient remedy of it self;

holds, the bodies of such persons that
for as Jason Pratensis
andlive
feed liberally,
anddix'els,
atease, earefuIIofhad spirits

manner

thoughts; no

divelish
to

fast.

Hildesheim

baths, viuch exercise

better

physickfor such parties,then

2. to this of hunger adds, ^ often
spicil.
and sweat, but hunger, and fasting,
he

before the
Srescribes
racle,This kinde of divel
rest.

prayer,
of

And
is not

M'hich makes

the fathers so

fasting,.^s

hunger,saith

'tis
cast

indeed,

out

but

our

Saviours

by fastingand

tion
imujoderate in commenda^

Ambrose,

is

friend of

"Part. 2 c. 2^}. reg. San. His, prater boram

sorani, nulla per otium transeat.
^^^ Seneca.
''Tract. 16. rap. 18.
bHor. lib. 1. epist *2.
Sa;pe nuda came
ciliciuni portent tempore frigidosine califjis
incedant, in pane et
; et nudis pedibiis
verberil)us CKdant, "c.
referta sunt
cDa;monibus
se
aquajejunent, ssepiiis
illorum
et corporipra;ciptie
qui delicatis vescnntur eduliis,
advolitant,
corpora nostra,
ad pudicitiam.
bus inhaerent;banc ob rem, jejunium impendio probatiir
fVictus
sit attenuatns,balnei freqnensiisus et sudationes, cold baths,not hot, saith Magninns
in a cold river,S;c.
lifad and ears
e Ser. de gula.
to dive over
part .3.ca. "Z^i.
Fames
castitatem perdit,
et nutrit
anjica rirginitati
: saturitas vero
est, inimica lascivia;
illecebras.

Mem.

6. Subs.

I.]

of Love-Melancholy.

Cure

353

over
is it an enemy to laschions?iess ; hut fulness
so
virginity,
all
If
manner
and
ofprovocations.
throives chastity, fostereth
-

adviseth thee,to take

thine horse be too lusty,Hierome
away
of his provender; this meaiies, those Pauls, Hiliaries,
some
of the flesh;
ancliorites,subduedthelusts
and famous
i\nto!iies,

by

his asse, as he called his oivn

\l\\ix\\onmade
relates of him in his life)
(so Hierome
body,leave Jdckinf/,
such
foule offence. By this
when the divel temptedhim to any
those ^Indian Brachmanni
keptthemselves continent ;
this

by

means,

means,

the oround covered vvith skins,as the Redshanks

on
one
do on hadder, and dyeted themselves sparingly
dish,
in
and
which Guianerius would have all yongmen
put practice;
tvould have tliem soundly
Gordonius
if that will not serve,
their
courage, keptin prison,and there
whipped, or to cool
fed with bread and water, tillthey acknowledgetheir errour,

theylay

upon

and hunger
If imprisonment
of another minde.
become
will not take them down, accordingto the direction of that
^
it out ; if time will not, the
Theban
Crates,time must wear
But
this
last refugeis an halter.
you will say, is comically
'Howsoever,fasting,
by all meanes, must be stillused;
and

spoken.
and as theymust
which

mentioned,
formerly
must
an
use
provokelust, they
posite
op-

refrain from such

venery, or
dyet. Wine must
cause

meats
so

avoided of the yonger

altogether
have the magistrates
and
would
So Plato prescribes;
sort.
ing
commendfor examplessake,highly
themselves abstain from it,
this
in
kinde.
for their temperance
the Carthaginians
that
it
commendable
s
o
were
And 'twas a good edict,a
thing,
'^

be

sinister respect,as those old Egyptians

"]one for some
fabidous poets had given
abstained from wine, because some
bloud of the gyants; or, out of
out, wine sprang firstfrom the
modern
Turkes, but for temperance, it
our
as
not

superstition,
virus
being ammo:
taken.

et vitiorum

a plagueit self
fontes,

of old

Women

for that cause,

if immoderately

in hot

of it ; as severely
punishedfor
of wine, as for adultery
; and yong folks,as Leonicus
drinkistg
hath recorded, Var. hist. I. 3. cap. 87, 88. out of Athenaeus
and some
other
in Italy
and others; and is still practised
countries of Europe and Asia ; as Claudius Minos hath well

countries,were

forbid the

use

on
illustrated in his comment
choyceis to be made of other

of Alciat. So

the 23 embleme

dyet.

inter cetera,
aaemon titillatione
lib.3. epist. Cum tentasset eum
Vita Hilarionis,
b
1.
15.
Strabo
Geog. Sub
"c.
aselle,ad corpus suum, faciam,
E^o, inquit,
et oon valt obedire,
"=
cubant, "c.
Cap. 2. part.2. Si sitjuvenis,
pellibus
^ Laertius,lib. 6.
fretere.
cap. 5.
dum incipiat
flagelletur
frequenteret fortiter,
"^Vinaparant
Amori
medetur fames ; sin aliter,
tempus ; si non hoc,laqueus.
bibissent
minus si vinum
f 3. de Legibus.
8 Non
auimos
Veneri,"c.
si adulterium admisissent.
Gellius,lib.10. c. 23.
ac
a

VOL.

II.

Love-Melancholy.

354
minus

Nee

vitare

est

aptum

erucas

Veneii corpora
quicquid
Eringoesare not good for
all lascivious meats

And

to be

Sec. 2.

salaces,

nostra

Et

3.
[Part.

parat.

taken,

be forsaken.

must

which oughtto be used,are, cowcumbers,

meats
Those opposite
water
mellons, purselan,
lillies,
rue, woodbine, ammi, lettice,
much
which Lemnius
so
commends, lib. 2. cap. 42. and Mizaldus Jiort. med. to this purpose ; Vitex, or Agnus castus,
the rest, which, saith
Athenian
Those
in it.

before
vertue

Magninus, hath

wonderful

in their solemn

women,

feasts

dayes from the

Thesmopheries,were to abstain
which
saith
of
iElian,theylaid a
time,
during
men,
company
certain hearb named
Hanea, in their beds, which asswaged
nine

called

love,and freed

of

flames

those ardent

them

from

the

torments

in Porta,Matthiolus,Cresof that violent passion. See more

and what every herbalist,
centius Uh. 5. Sf-c.
almost,and physician
et Priapismo; Rhasis
hath written, cap. de Satyriasi
jected
again,if they be much deand
ready to despair
brought low in body,and now
throughanguish,grief,and too sensible a feelingof thieir
misery,a cup of wine and full dyet is not amiss ; and as Va-

among^stthe

In

rest.

some

alia ho7iestd

adviseth, cum

lescus

Laugius Epist. med.

which

{ad assiduationem

Rhasis

it,cap. 16.

Ancilla,aut
Malis ?

Jason

Pratensis

cretio enim
the

ant

raginglust

endam, per
And

non

to be

as

tibi quum

sccpe

exercetido^

24. approves
out of
epist.
and
Guianerius
conds
seinvitat)
remedie
:
very profitable

i^

num
inguina,

si

rumpi
prsestoest, tentigine

verna

ego

veyierem

lib. 1.

coitus
16.

tract.

tument

*^

cases

namque,

"c.

to this

subscribes

counsel of the poet, Ex-

lenit a:f/ritudineni.
As
tollitprorsus,atit

itdid

of Assuerus, "="//"
ad

amoris leniimpatientiam
si)i(/7tlas
fere nocte.s 7iovas puellasdevirginavit.
drunk too, by fits; but this is mad physick,
ifitbe
If not, yet some
istobeallowed,
permitted.
pleasure

atall to be
that which
as

Vives

speaks of,

lib. 3. de animd.

^A

lover,

himselfthroughimpotency,
impatience,
a traveller by musick,feasting
good wine, ifneed be, to drunkenness it self;which many so
commend
much
for the easingof the minde ; all kinde ofsports
merriments ; to see fair jiictures,
and
hangings,buildings,
that hath,

must

as

lost
it were,
be called home

as

^
Cnm muliere aliquit
aRer. Sam. part.3. cap. 2.3.Mirabilem vim habet
gra"^
^Hor.
tiosa saepe coire erit utilissimiun. Idem Laurentius, cap. 11.
Cap. 29.
eBeroaldus
fAmatori, cujiise.st pro
orat. de aiiiorf.
de morb. cerrb.
animus velnt a peregriuatione
dumnm
impotentiumens
amota, opus est, lit paiilatini
Per aucupiuni,
fabulas,et festivas narratiooes,
revocetur, per mnsicam, convina, "c.
laborem usque ad sodorem, Sec.

Mem.

6. Subs.

Cure

1.]

of Love- Mefanchohf.

355

"

orchards,gardens,
pooles,rivers,
fields,
pleasant
groves, ponds,
hear
to
tales,and
fishing,
fowling,hawking,hunting
merry
exercise tillhe sweat, that
to use
pleasantdiscourse,
reading,
vehement
succeed
or
new
affection
; or, hy some
spiritsmag
^

diverted,till

he

contrary passion,to

he he

fully weaned from

%c. and habituated into another

suspition,
cares, feares,
adviseth Calisto
course.
Semper tecum sit, (as ''Sempronius
his love-sick master)qui sermones
jociilares
moveat, condones
historias,fahulas venustas
ridiculas,dicteria falsa, suaves
anger,

recenseat,

singand

to

ludat,^c. stillhave

coram

tell merry

discourse,"c.

And

as

doth
singing,dancing-,
^

as

Avicenna

notes,

good. These
partiessymptomes

and

facete

lovers,
augment the passionof some
it expelleth
it in others,and doth very

so

much

pleasant
companion

sweet
histories,
the melody of inusick,merriment,

tales,songs

thingsmust
vary,

and

be

they shall stand

as

the

warily applyed,as

variously

affected.
If there be any need
or

Carolus

men.

for his
amantes

and

thatthe
physick,
aggregated,
theymust

matter

new

any

of

men

Lorme

amongst

be

be

be cured

as

choly
melan-

hath

this,An

iisdem remediis curentur

lovers
? Whether
the
remedies?
he
affirms
same
by
it;
is meer
madness.
Such physickthen, as

cured

for love extended

is either inward or outward, as hath

prescribed,
handled
in the precedent
in the cure
partition

is

altered,

cussed
disquestions,

other

degree,at Montpelierin France,

et amenles

mad

humours

Consult

with

Valleriola

been

merly
for-

choly.
of melan-

lib. 2. observ. 7Lod. Mercatus lib. 2, cap. 4. de mulier. affect.Daniel Senlib. 1. part. 2. cap. 10nertus
Jacobus
Ferrandus, the
observat.
*=

Frenchman,

in his tract de amore

Forestus lib. 10.
Erotique,
observ. 29. et SO. Jason Pratensis and others,for peculiar
receipts,
d Amatus
almost
Lucitanus cured a yong Jew that was
mad for love,with the syrupe of hellebor,
other evaandsuch
cuations
and
choler

which
purges,
Avicenna
confirms

^b loud- lettingabove

usuallyprescribedto black
and
much, if need require,

are
as

the rest, which

makes

amantes

sint

ne

and keep in their right

amentesyloverstocometo theujselves,
mindes.

'Tis the

same

which

Schola

tensis,
Jason PraSaliternata,

Hildesheim, "c. prescribebloud-letting

to be used
a

principal
remedy.

Those

old

Scythianshad

trick,to

as

cure

Cffilestinre
Act. 2. Barthio interpret.
bCap. de IHshi. Multos hoc affcctu
musica ; et quidam snn.t quos haec angent.
cantilena,laititia,
cThis author
to my hands since the third edition of tliisbook.
came
dCent. 3. curat. 56.
Syrnpo helleborato etaliis qiia"adatram bilem pertinent.
ePurgetur,si ejus
f Amantium
venerit ad adust, humoris e.tphlebotoiaizetur.
dispositio
morbus ut
n

sanat

"

pruritussolvitur,
venae

sectione et cucurbitulis.
A

Love-Molunc/iofij.

:)56

[Part.

appetiteof burning lust, by "lotting themselves

all

the

and

ears,

10.

Tit.

curialis

Horol.

in

var,

cui inter

dorso

et

turn,

Lahoravit

lactucce

vel

oleo

vera

ut

sperma

Jreqnenter

et

et

acetosa,

lamiyium

Lan-

p/umbeam

sic

coriandrum
earn

folia

salicis

in totum

Benedictus

liberavit.

tritaet

auferunt.

dexterum

lupi

epota,
Idem

testiculum

Veneris
lac

in
cis-

piwpara-

morbo

exhibitum

rosata

aqua

Alexander

scribit

inducere

reason

viginti portaret
jussit earn qiiam par

irapediunt et remittuntcoitum
et si frequentius usurpentur
ipsa
annulo
gestatus,
prsestat topazius
et

Benzo,

of which

dies

Porro

attritum,

and

sopientia,ut camphora
fjes^tata
(quideni ait) memhoc
morho
virr/onobilis,

ad

pertusam,

manducare

et

semen

prascripsit medicns,

exsiccandum

cibariy

braehd

reddit.

ccetera

ad

Indians,

.Salmuth.

Venerem

et in

foraminibus

multis

sime

aUiyata,

flaccidum

brmn

out

as

report. Mer-

nov.

Hippocrates

of

der
un-

epist.10.

medicamenta

faciunt

pudendis

1.

7.

2.

hairen,

Wliich

de

Sec.

bloiul

women

uttheni.

Pancirol.

the

amongst

use

lib.

gius gives,
Hue

comment,

lee. lib. 3. cap.

and

men

relates

still is in

say

botii

in his Enneades

Sabellicus,
de

to

make

3.

butyri

taedium
commix-

idem
camphora exhibita
prrestant.
libidinem
herba
Verbena
exstinguit,pulvisque ranse
gestata
Ad
exsiccata?.
et
decollatse
coitum, ungantur
exstinguendum
in
et
et
membra
opium Thegenitalia, renes
pecten aqua
qua
libidini
maxime
contraria
sit dissolutum;
baicum
camphora
siccum
coriandrum
erectionem
et
frangit coitum,
virgse
est, et
Da
efficit
ebibitum.
idem
verbenam
in
sinapium
impedit ;
erigetur virga sex diebus ; utere mentlid sicca cum
potu, et non
hyoscijami ant cicuta;, coitus apaceto^ genitaliaillinita siicco
petitum sedant, ^c. R. senwiis luctuc. portulac. coriandri an. 3 j.
sacchari
albiss.
sicca:
menthce
pulveriscentur omnia
5 iiij
3 ss.
misce
J\'eunpharis,f. confec.
subtiliter, et post ea simul
aqua
tum

et

iolida

cannabis,

semen

in

Innumera

morsiilis.
fere

his

Ex
similia

et

his

sumat

petas

ab

mane

unum

Ilildesheimo

qnum

loco

Mizaldo, Porta, caeterisque.

'

Cura

vena;

sectione

per

anres,

unde

spmper

steriies.

surgat:

praedicto,

6. Subs.

Mem.

357

ofLorn-Melancholy.

Cnrc

2.]

SUBSECT.

II.

; avoid occasions;changehis place:

beginnings
ivith ivitty
tions:
inven; contrary passions,
fair and fowl meanes
the former.
to bringin another,and discommend

Withstand

the

Other

good

sicians,
precepts areenjoynedby our phyalone, yet certainlyconjoyned,may do

rules and

whioii if not

to withstand
principiis,
the beginning; Quisquis
amorem,
pepiiHtqne
iuprimoobstitit,
that
resist
will
but
he
at
victor
first,
tutus ac
may easily
fuit,
this
Baltazar Castiliol. 4. u'-geth
at the last.
be a conqueror
he shall chance, (saith
above the rest, ^when
he) to
prescript
ned
tvith
her
behaviour
hath
that
joy
good
lightupon a tcoman,
his eys, with a kind of
excellent person, and shall perceive
and carry
them this image of beauty,
to pullunto
greediness,
incensed
be
somewhat
to
it to the heart : shall observe himself

first of which

; The

much

is ohstare

with

this

which
influence,

moreth

ivithin : when

he

shall discern

sparklingin her eys, to administer

spirits
more
fuel to the fire,he must wiselyicithstatid the beginnings;
almost ; fortify his heart by all
stupified
rowze
up reason
and shut up all those passages, by tvhich it may have
means,
those subtle

'Tis

entrance.

precept which

^Opprime dura

sunt

nova

in
licet,

Deum

prime

Thy quick disease

By

all means

all

concur

subiti mala
limine siste

upon,

semina

morbi,

pedem.

whilst it is fresh

to-day,

crush,thyfeet at firststep stay.

speedierbe done, then, if he confess his grief

tacitus ardet magis
friend ^{(pii
and passionto some
judicious
he conceals, the greater is his pain)that by
uritur,the more
and withal
iiim on a sudden:
ease
his good advice,may happily
Which

to

cannot

avoid occasions,or any circumstance

disease;

by

to remove

fire and

not

the
burn

^Sussilite obsecro

objectby
?

etmittite istanc foras,

Quae rnisero mihi amanti

'Tis

that may aggravate his

for who can
stand

all means;

ebibit

out
to keep quite
good therefore,

sanguinem.
of her company

which

snavitatens
b Cum
a Seneca.
forma morum
in mulierem incident,qnas cum
aviditate qu"formae ad se imaginem cum
conjunctam habet,et jamoculospersenserit,
"i -Eneas
Silvius.
"^ Ovid,
lib.1.
de rem.
dara rapere, cum
eadem, Scr.
,

""

Plautus gurcii.

Love-Melancholy.

S58

Hieronic

so

sostome

and

so

much

labours

much

inculcates

to

Paula, and his

in

Nepotian; ChryCyprian,

in contubern.

ser.

other fathers of" the church

many

Sec. 2.

[Part.3.

; Siracides

in his ninth

Pratensis,Savanarola, Arnoldus, Yalleriola,

chapter;Jason
and every

that treats of tliissubject. Not only

physician
to avoid, as
dallinnce,
Gregory Tholosanus exhorts, kisainr/,
lore-letters
all speeches,
mid the like ; or, as Caslilio,
tokens,
with them, hear tliemspeak,orsing-,("o/cralib. 4. to converse

"c.

"

hilius
saith

audire

est
^

basiliscum

Cyprian,a serpent hiss)''those

able graces, and

"^Neu

sweet

all

any

other

administer
occasion
any
may
adviseth
not
to read
yong men

they forbid, as before, the

all

sight; they must

not

so

of

remembrance.
the Canticles, and
for such

; but

as

mentioned,

name

much

as

come

mored,
ena-

are

"c.
or

neer,

especially
look

them.

upon

Et

decet
fugitare

Abstinere

Gaze
a

aftbrds.

solitis niorsiunculis,

parts of Genesis,at other times

some

smiles,adinir.

of them, and of
mention, or cogitation
book, or
circumstance,amorous
persons,

women,

Prosper

amiable

their presence

talk,name,

tale,that

hear,

hast better

papillarum
oppressiunciilis

Abstineat

but

gestures,which

capitaliment

his

Et

sibihintem,thou

not

on

simulacra

sibi atque alio

pabulaaaioris,

et

convertere

mentem.

turn away
maid, saith Siracides,

beautifultcoman,

9.

c.

5. 7. S.

v.

thine

eysfrom

ocnlos, saith
adviseth, let not

averte

them, as Ficinus
thine eye be intentus ad libidinem,do not intend
her more
then the rest : for as
sibi
alimeitta
sPropertiusholds, Ipse

David,

maxima

if thou

or

dost

prmbet amor,

see

love

as

snow-ball

it self by
iidargeth
avt
ama,
a:(ptaliter

to Nepofian,aut
sight; but as Ili(rome
(Eipiaiiter
ignora,either see all alike, or let all alone ;
thine eys, as ''Job did ; and that is the
a leaguewith
course;

rrvives,
doth

let all
^

or

alone, see

tcaxeth

sore

by sight' As pompe
covetousness
; a beauteous

none

of them.

again, as
renews

Petrach

ambition

object

Nothing

sets

make
safest

sooner

hoids, then
;

the

onjirethis

love

sightof'gold,
burningluit.

"Tom. 2. lib. 4. cap. 10. Syntag.uied. art mirab. Vitentur oscula,tactus. sermo,
et
*" Lib
""'Tani
"c.
de singiil.
cler.
adniiscriptaimpndica,literae,
"c.
rabileni splendorem declinet,
aniabiles risn.s,
scintillas,
gratiatn,
gestiissiiavissinios,
d
" Lib.
3. de vit. ccelitns coniiwr.
Lipsiushort. leg.lib.3. antiq.iec.
f Lucretius.
3 Ele?.10.
i'.Ioh.31.Pepigi
p Lib
cnp G.
oculis meis ne cojptarem de virnine.
'Dial. 3 de conteaiptu
Nihil faciliusrecrudescitquani
auri
aiuor
renovat ambitioDein,
; ut potnpa Tisa
forma iiiceuditluxiiriaui.
speciesavaritiam,(({tcctata
corporis

fcedus
mundi.

cum

Melancholy.

Lov6-

360

[Part.3. Sec.

C.

thisinconvenicnceanddjjngorthatcomes
discerninghy seeing-,
much
he heard Darius
."fo
tchn
commendod
irij'e
for her
her
admit
irould
in
in
his
scarce
come
foroheautifi
sir/hf,
that
videre perricu/obelike,
o(V\iitarch,J'or7n(!sam
knowing-,
"'

full of

danger it is to see a proper woman

; and
in
other
he
in
this
was
things,
though
intemperate
yet
super fji^
himself
he carryed
se
bravely. And so, when
as
f/essit,
much
had
that
in
so
divine face
magnified
Araspes Xenophon,
^
how
much
she
of Panthea
to
icns
bj/
Cyrus,
fairer then
the viore
to see her.
nnwilliny
ordinary,hy so much he vas
of
of
23
and
the
most
man
beautiful
a yong
yeers
Scipio,
age,
of the Romans, equal in person to that Gra;ciau Charinus, or
Homers
Nireus, at the siegeof a cityin Spain,when as a
fair yong
and
noble
most
a
gentlewoman was brought uuto
sissimum, how

him, ''and he had heard

her,and

she

betrothed

was

to

ed
Lord, reward-

to her siceet-heart.

her hack

S*. Austin, as
of
him, we cum
snrore
fjuidemsua jmtavit
Gregory reports
in
the
house
live
with
w
ould
his own
not
sister.
habitandian,
of
Lais
Corinth
with
all
''Xenocratos
and
"vouId
lay
night,
sent

not

touch

her.

him

to

Socrates,

though all the cityof

fair Alcibiades,
yet when

dote upon

Alliens posed
suphe had an

so/o,to lye in the chamber

with, and
wood by him besides, as the said Alcibiades publiqucly
was
et superhecontempsit
confessed, ^formam sprevit
fully
; he scornthat
had
him.
Petrarch,
so
his
rejected
magnified Laura
so/?^sc?/w
opportunity

she was
in several poems, when
offered
by the Popes means
"
would
her.
of
ft
is
not accept
unto
a yood happiness
him,
love
and
to he free from this pmssion
(jreat (Viicrethmit
of
;

argues, in such
thou art

once

in

Nam

can

contain

himself;but lohen
thyself(as he saith)is "i

so

love,to moderate

singular
pointof
^

that

man

wisdome.

vitare

plagasin

amoris

ne

jaciamur

ita difficileest, quam

captum rctibus ipsis
nodes.
Exire, et validos Veneris perrumpere
Non

avoid

To
But

for

But
that
curb

can

as

such

ta'en,to

much,

contain

their senses,

is no

nets

escape
as

few

such

is all the
men

are

mastery,

victory.
free,so discreet lovers,
or

themselves,and moderate
as

not

to see

them, not

their

to look

to
passions,

lasciviously,

Cum
*Curtius lib. 3.
Oarii laudatani aiidivisset,tantiiin ciipiriitati
iixorcin
suae
ut illam vix
vcllet intneri.
fr?ennm injecit,
Cum Panthea' forinani
bCyropa'ilia.
evezisset Araspes, tanto magis, inquitCyrus, ahstinero oportet, quanto pulclirior
est.
c Livius.
Cum
cnmidatain
earn
regulo cuidani desponsatatn audivisset,munerihus
remisit.
"l Ep. 39. lib.7.
eEt ta loquij)os.set
Itxjui
quae soli Rinatorrs
f Platonis Convivio.
Solent.
lib.4. l'yXp"Ttpiii
f- Ihdiodorus
esse
amoris l)catiludo
e.st ; at quuui raptus his,
ad tuodcrationcm revncart
aDiuium priidentia
"Lucretius I, {.
fln^darjs.

not

confer witfi thera,such

to

361

of Love- Melancholy.

Cure

2.]

0. Subs.

Mem.

is the

furyof

this

head-strong

passionof raginglust,and their weakness, /eroa?ille ardor

it,such a furious desire nature
naturd hisitus,^as he terms

inscribed,such unspeakabledelight,

hath

furor

Sic Divae Veneris

nientibus incubat,

Insanis adeo

which neither

counsel,poverty, pain,
misery,
drudgery,

reason,

deter them

partus dolor, ^-c.can

from

we

must

use

some

and prevent that,and all other incoato coiTect

speedymeans
venience, which come
by conference,and the like. The best,
readiest,surest way, and which all approve, is loci vmtaiio,to
send them several wayes ; that they may neither hear of,see,
another again,
to send to one
have opportunity
gether,
or live tonor
soli

sold, as

cum

Gilbertines.
a
Elot"(fa4io
many
fourth rule,and Gordonius
precept,
so

'tis Savanarolas
putrid,
send
distrahatur ad lo7iginquas
regiones,
that which

most

run

poets,divines,

upon,

Valesius ; ''as a
ayr ; Tully 4. TuscuL
Pratensis

so

many

to travel.

hounds

all ;
physicians,
philosophers,
sick

Jason

as

him

he

man

The

be cured

must

best

'Tis

with full cry ;

mutet

with

patriam,

change

of

is to get thee gone,

remedy
soyl,Laurentius.

change ayr and

Fuge littus amatum.

Utile finitimis abstinuisse locls.
Vir().
Ovid. I procul,
et longascarpere perge vias.
sad fuge,tutus eris.
"

antidote of love

is an
Travelling
"1

iter ad doctas

Magnum
Ut

me

this purpose,
Athens ; time and
For

for want

out

goes

Quantum

proficisci
cogor Athenas,

longagravisolvat
saith

absence

amcre

via.

Propertius,
parents sent me
my
as
wear
away pain and grief,

to

fire

of fewel.

oculis,animo

tarn

proculibit amor.

they tarry out long enough ; a whole yeer '^XenoCritobulus ; vix enim intra hoc tempus ab
phon prescribes
will hardlybe weaned
under. All
amore
sanaripoteris
; some
this Heinsius merrilyinculcates,in an Epistleto his friend
Primierus : First,fast^then,tarry;thirdly,
changethy place;
But

so

as

'

convalescens
bLoci mutatione tanquam non
1.2.
dQuisquis amat, loca nota nocent ;
fines.
dies a3griti'.dinem
relinquere
adimit,absentia delet. Ire licet proculhinc patrireque
f Lib. 1. Socrat.
e Lib. 3. eleg.
Ovid.
Tibi, O Critobule,
memor.
20.
consnlo ut integrum annum
est ut csurias. 2. Ut moram
sProximum
absis,"c.
'.i.
Et locum mutes,
4. Et dc laqueo cogites.
tcmiJorisopponas.
*

Hwdus

cnrandus

lib.1. de

amor,

est. cap. 11.

contemn.
^

Anionim

Love-Melanchohj.

302
think
fourthly,

of

will

time,absence

of

it will

halter.

an

not

If

removed

hardlybe

Sec. 2.

of
continuance
chang^e
place,
with those

itout

wear

[Part.3.

medies,
precedent re-

these

but

commonly are
to his patient,
of force.
a
his maid, and desperate;
almost mad fortheloveof
by removingin a short space cured.
her from him, he was
lsfeus,a philosopher
dissolute liver in his youth;/"a/"w
of Assyria,
a most
was
;

Felix VXixievohaerv. lib. 1. had

baker

in love
lasciviens,

with all he met; but after he betook liimself

and leftwomens
his friends advice to his study,
companie,he
so
changed,that he cared no more for playes, nor feasts,nor

by
was

masks,

nor

toyes

he

nor

songs,
became

fine cloathes.

verses,

new

man

upon
mine
ocaiIos
amisisset,
(saith
priores
:

'"^

liisformer

Peter

eys.

nor

author)as

love
si

tanquam

Godefridus, in the last

such

no

sudden

if he had lost

chapterof

his

third book, bath a story out of S'. Ambrose, of a yong man, that
meeting his old love after a long absence,on whom he had ex-

treamlydoted,

would

notice of

take
scarely

esteem
so
at it,that he should
lightly
lenihat dictis animum, and told him
inqtdt:At ego non sum ego ; But he

her; she wondred

her, called him

again,

who

she was, Ego muij

he was
not the
replied,

tandem, (asDido fled from '^Eneas ;)

propripuitsese
her any farther parly,
his folly,
and
not vouchsafingloathing
of that which formerlyhe hath done.
ashamed
man

same

"^

Non

stultus ut ante

sum

jam, Nesera,

hereafter upon
Nesera, put your tricks,and practise

body else ; you shall befool

me

no

longer. Petrarch

some

hath

such

that loved a wench

with one eye,
tale,ofa yong gallant
that
his
and for
sent to travel into far
by
cause,
parents,Mas
he
countries: after
retiirned;and meetingthe maid
someyecrs,
another

sake he

whose

for

was

chance she lost her

hace
as

eye?

abroad, asked her how, and by what

no, said

she, I have lost ncne,

hut you

signifying
therebythat alllovers

found

yonrs :
saith, Amantes

Fabius

cannot

sent

were
blind,
jndicarenonpossunt, lovers

de forma

judge of beauty,nor scarce

easilyconfess, after they return

will
discontinuance

of any

thing else

as

they

untothemselves, by some

at their own
folly,
; Avonder
blindness;be much abashed,awr/ /"?/"///
at
madness, stupidity,

love, and

caWt

should

they
they have
If

so

so

be

be

better advice

or

an

idle

so

besotted

thing,condemn

to divert

"

themselves
;

and

be

that

ever

heartily
glad

happilyescaped.
(which is seldome)that change of placewill

then
eftect this alteration,
fair and fowl means;
to
as
or

or

misled

by

some

other remedies

be

not

annexed,
terrific,
perswade,promise,threaten,
or
tales,
newes,
rumour,
contrary passion,

Plijlostratiis
de vitia .Sophislariim.

are

Virg.6. JEu.

to

'

Buthanau.

6. Subs.

Mem.

wittyinvention,to

same

of Love- Melancholy.

Cure

2.]

alter his

affections;
^by

363

greater

some

saith Gordonius.as that hishouse is

to drive out the less,
sorrow
on
fire,his best friends dead, his mony stoln: '' that he is made

great governour,

some

him;
ishejaln
false

accusation, as

make

them

or

hath

they do
Saint

forgetit.

ance
inherit-

honour, office,
some

some

he shall be

knight,a baron, or by some

have the hickhop,to
as
16. to RusHierome, lib.2. epist.
a

to

such

ticus the monke, hath an instance of a '^yong man

of Greece,
that lived in a monastery in /Egypt,that by no labour,no continence,
could
persicasion

no

trick he

delivered.

icas

quarrelivith him, and tvith some

to defame him before
company,
likewise

the loitnessesivere
first,

diverted ; but at last by this

sets one
to
of his convent

be

The

abbot

scandalous

reproachor

then to

and

and

come

other

complain

the plaintiff
The
e.
subornedfor

ningly
him, the abbot cunwept, and when alltvere against
yong man
ivith immoderate
took his part, least he should be overcome
grief:but tchat need many icords ? By this invention he

cured, and alienated from his pristine

love-thoughts.
slanders,
Injuries,
contempts, disgraces,

was

formgB,
spreteequeinjuria
are

lid

to withdraw

means

mens
"^

or

redeam

affections ; contumesaith ; lovers

Luciau

amare
desinunt,as
or
neglected,contemned
misused,turn

amatores
affecti

reviled
*

forcible

very

Non

si

me

obsecret.

I'll

love to
love thee

never

hate;
more.

So

Egone illam, qutB ilium, quce me, quce non

Zephyrus
hated Hyaciuthusbecause
he scorned him, and preferred
his
corrival Apollo (Palcephatus
fab. JVar.) he will not come
he
intreated.
Tell
him but how he was
scofled
again,though be
the counsel of Avicenna)that his love
his back, ('tis
at behind
?

is false,and

entertains

another, rejectshim, cares

that she is a fool,a nasty quean,

or

which

divel,or
loathsome

Italians

commonly

not

slut, a vixen, a

do, that he

or

for

him,
scold,a

she hath

some

disease,gout, stone, strangury, falling-sickfilthy

ness;
that they are hereditary,
ject
not to be avoided ; he is sub-

and

the pox, that he hath three or four

incurable tetters, issues: that she is bald, her breath stinks,she
is mad by inheritance, and so are all the kindred, an hair-brain,
to a

with

hath
consumption,

other secret

many

infirmities

(which I

That

he is

will

not

so

much

name) belonging
hermaphrodite,
a
a gamester,
eunuch, imperfect,
impotent, spend-thrift,
to women.

as
an

an

^'Ant
Annuncieniar
valde tristia,
ut major tristitia
possitminorem obfuscare.
"^ Adolescens
Grsesit factiissenescallus,ant habeat honorem
magnum.
erat in /Escypti
ccenobio, qui nulla operismagnitudine,nulla persuasioneflammam
ciis
Imperat cuidaiu e sociis,"c.
poterat sedare : monasterii pater hac arte servavit.
adversabautur ; solus pater callide npponere, ne abundantiatristitiae
Flebat ille,omnes
a

quod

absorberetur.
catus.

Quid multa ? hoc invento

J

Tom.

4.

eTer.

curatus

est,et

avQpristinis
cogitationibus

Lova-Mfilaiichohi. [Part.3.

3G4

a bcgger,
a wlioremaster, iar
fool,a g^ull,

Ijer,a

maintain

in

See. 2.

debt,and

not

drunkard, liismotljer was

witch,his father hang'd,that he hath a wolfe in his bosome,

able
a

to

common

he is a leper,
hath some
incurable disease,
that he
leg-,
will surely
beat her,he cannot
hold his water, that he cries out
will stab his bed-fellow,
walks
in the night,
or
tell all his
and
his
in
dare
that
secrets
no
sleep,
body
lye with him ; his
house is haunted with spirits,
with such fearfull and trao-icall
and terrific
able to avert
or Moman
any man
things,
living-,
a

sore

consulit : Parctur
cap. '20.part. 2. hunc in modum
velula
cum
turpissima
aliqua
turpiet vili huhitu : et
aspeetUy

Gordonius

vienstrnalem, et dicat,quod
r/remiumpannum
sua
quod mingat in lecto ; et quod est
et impudica;et quodin corpore suo sunt excrescenticc
epileptica
et alicc enormitates,
foetwe aniielitus,
enoi'tnes, cum
quihus

portet suhtus

sit ebriosa,et

arnica

edoctce

vetulcc sunt

si nolit his

persuaderi,suhito

extrahat

talis
^panmtni menstrualem^coramJacieportando,exclajnando,
est arnica tua ; et si ex

his

Idem

holus incarnatus.

non

non
demiserit,

fere Avicenna

Narrent
1. Tract. 4.
incurrat,et
quihusabominationem
lib. 3. Fen.

duent.

Idem

Arculanus

est

a more
effecting

alteram

dia-

cap. 24. de curd

^

res

Ilishi,
vetulce,ex

immundas

res

sordidas,et

hoc assi-

16. cap. in 9. Rhasis, ^c.

the old, for the better
discommend

they do
speedy alteration,
they must

Withall, as

homo, sed

inducer

commend

other
an-

; set him

e
or her to be wooed,
paramour,
other that shall be fairer,
of better note, better
some
birth,parentage, much to be preferred
fortune,
:

or

wooe

alium

Inveniens

"

si te hie fastidit Aluxis ;

this means,
which
Jason Pratensis
of affection another way.
streame

by

Successore

Valesius

as

or

trudit ur

novo

adviseth,by

great river cut into many

^

Hortor

et ut

''

omnis

wisheth,

amor

to

turn

diminish itj
low at last.

to
subdividing

channels,runs

binas
pariter

habeatis

the

as

arnicas,"c.

If you suspect to be taken, be sure, saith the poet,to have two

to another:
mistresses at once, or go from one
as he that goes
is loth to de[)art
from it,
from a good fire in cold Mcathor
whicli
will
there
the
be
refresh
next
room
a better,
though m

him

="

eiim
""

as

much

there's as much

difference of ha:c

as

hie

ignis;

muliebribus pannis, et in
prolatis
qnen'lanise adamantem
h Savanarola
amoris insania liheravit. Siiidos et Etinapiiis.
conjectis
reg. ."".

HypathiaAlexandrina

Distribulioamoiis
.''

Vir. Eel. 2.

aj)plicpt,

""

Ovid

'

fiatiu

ad pliircs
aniicas aniinum
pliucs,

G. Subs.

Mem.

2.]

Cure

of Love-Melancholy.

365

where
meetings,
publiqueshews, playes,
loath his firstchoice;
and he shall likely
he may see variety,
the next town, yea peradventure, to the next
carry him but to
love by seeingHelena, and
house ; and as Paris lost Oenones
Cressida forsook Troilus by conversingwith Diomede, he

or

bring him

to some

will dislike his former mistres,and leave her quitebehind him,

fast asleepin the Iland of Dia, to
left Ariadne
Theseus
as
'' Nunc
er'st his lovingmistress.
seek her fortune, that was
as he said, Doris is
Dorida vetiis aviator
contempsi,
^^

prhnum
buta doudy to

this.

As he that looks himself in

glassforgets

forthwith,tins flattering
his phisiognomie
glassof love will he "
after a littleabsence, itwill be remitted;
diminished by remove;

object will likelyalter it. A yong man, in

in love, he came
to the theater by
pittifully
Lucian, was
there,mentis sanitatem
chance, and by seeingother faireobjects
'' and
icent merrilyhome, as ij'he
was
fullyrecovered,
recepit,
oblivion.
A
dram
an
mouse
had taken a
(saith
apologer)
of
fed
with
there
in
chest,
a
fragmentsof bread
was
broughtup
and cheese, thoughtthere could be no better meat, tillcoming
of viands,
of other variety
forth at last,and feedingliberally
loathed his formerlife : moralize this fable by thy self. Plato,in
hath a pretty fiction of a city
his seventh book De Legibus,
small store of
which
little
under ground, ^to
holes,some
by
the inhabitants thoughtthere could not be a better
light
came;
place,and at their firstcoming abroad, theymight not endure
solem intneri;but after they were
customed
acthe lio-ht,
(Pf/errime
e
their
little
it,
to
fellowsmisery
a
they deplored
lover is in like state ; none
that lived under ground. A silly

the

fair

next

'^

"

so

fair

after

for none
his mistress at first; he cares
while, when he hath compared her with

as

her name,

and
sight,

memory.

'Tis

but her ; yet

he hors
abothers,

generally
true; for
ignisextrudit ; et

he observes, Priorem fiammam novus

multorum
anient, one
natura, ut prccsentesmaxime
ea
weakness, that
drives out another: and such is womens
love, commonly, hira that is present. And so do many
''

as

fire

they
men

he loved Amye tillhe saw

Floriat,and when
(as he confessed)
comparably
he saw
Cynthia,forgatthem both: but faire Phillis was in-

her; and yet

beyond them all ; Cloris surpassed
his
sole
she
he espiedAmarillis,
mistress;O divine
was
when
ad instar,quam
Amarillis ; quam
elegans,
procera, cupressi
how
how
she
how
decens!
tnll,
comely
^-c.
lovely,
quam
she
and
then
till
he saw
was
another,
(saithPolemius)
was,
he loves her
the sole objectof his thoughts. In conclusion,
d E theatro
"= Lib. de salt.
bpetronius.
egreasns
fin
cista
in
e Mus
natus, "c.
si pharmacnm oblivionis bibisset.
ac
hilaris,
miseriam,
eoram
lucis
illabitur.
s
Deplorabant
inodicam
subterraneo
e specu
quem
h Tatius lib.6.
qui subterraneisillislocis vitam degunt.

^Hyginussab.43.

Love-

366

he

best
he

till
of

last,

saw

in

came

loved

another

which

by

do

orpin
icith

Vashti

another

Alterius

several

the

first

widower

in

doted

of

Basil,
a

upon

him

him

they

as

Princes

desire

of Queen

Eliacis,

contend

with

saith,

another,

love

one

his

drives

out

amor.

C.

Cotta,

difTering- in

observations,
of

his, by

his

servant

this

first.

of

no

long
After

till the

comfort,

lady

of

his

court,

of

tioned
mo-

whom
name

very

Lucretia,

Emperour

that

they

town,

the

children,

the

abhorring

so

cured

alone,

mind
in

and

he

friends,
his

death

Plater

stratagem

alienate

the

tion
men-

Felix

how

when

after;

makes

office.

boasts

maid,
to

serve

with

lived

noble

with

disputing

could

the

of

admit
to

alter

toanotherhonestmansdaughter

sight

would

subtrahit

patient

poor

and

loved,

and

to

practised.

Persian

in

because

him,

Cupids,all

book

perswasion

he

painted

vires

Dear,

S.nat.

Tully

nor

seven

thino-

another^

Pausanias,

was

from

usually

reqxiite the

might

he

of three
in

those

others.

of

garland

"1

and

one

'Tis

with

lore

ress

complains)

another.
been

2,

Sec.

command

''she

(as

3.

Leucothoe,

the

was

and

Which

they

Cupid

one

the

take

to

love

out

pin.

that

the

therefore

and

with

but

hath

report,
drive

first loved

she

Milaene,

another,

eitsoons,

[Part.

sea-^od

Galatea;

saw

^^ssuei'us,

to

that

presence

philosophers

peg,

did

the
of

Jlieromes

Heathen

Triton

till he

heart,

his

Melancholy.

Eurialus

"

Sifjismondrnarried
in

short

he

space

was

freed.

Aristanatus

praslaturus
sseculi

septeui
d

quani

veterem

epist. 4.
primum

principes

Ovid.

ducali

Eurialo

Persanim
*-'

sanguine,
et

Lucretia.

Liignbri

formosam

fccere,
veste

Galat.

ut

clavum

Vasfa;

indutus,

virginem

Mox

aliam

prsetiilit,aliam

""Epist. lib. 2. IG.

arriserit.

quasi

novo,

amoreni

Dial.

''Calcagnin.
occasio

clavo

repellere,

regina*

desideriuni

consoiationes

matrimonio

iion

conjunxit.

qiiod
amore

et

Pliilosoplii

Assuero

adniisit, donee
itlneas

regi

coiupensarent.

Silvias

Caisar

hist,

ex

de

Love-

3()8
lore,

to

Imve

Melancholy.

rich overseer,

some

[Part.3.

an"l show
expostulate

(o

Sec. 2.
them

inconveniences, imperfections,
siichahsur(fiti"'s,
discontents,
as
follow; which tli("irblindness, fnry,madness, cannot
ii^ually
unto
themselves, or will not a|)prehend
ness
throuschweakn])ply
dis"
and
for
them
lose
to
to
tliemsclves,
ear
;
to
good
g-ive
T"?ll me, swr.'et heart,(sailh
admonitions.
iViendly
Tryphen;"
Charmides

to love-sick

in

'^

Lucian) what it is that troubles

thifminde, and further theo in

I can
ease
theo; peradvonture
ihifsuit; and so without *"i:estion she might,and
if the

capableof

patienthe

so

good counsel, and

maist thou,
will hear at

be ^aid.
least, what may
If he love at all,she is either an honest woman
or
a whore.
read
let
him
inculcate
If dishonest,
mons
or
to him that 5. of SoloEcclus.

lib. 1. cap. 4. in his book of

26. Ambros.
Platinas f^i'a/.
Cain; Philo Judajus de mercedenicr.
aiid those three books of Pet. Ihrdus
; Espencasus,

Prov.
and

Abel

in Amoves

which he wrote
de content, amorihus; /Eneas Silvius tart epistle,
of Wartburge,which
he calls medelam
to his friend Nicholas
ilUciti amoris, Sfc. ^For
whafs
an
ivhore, as lie saith,b?(t

pollerof youth, ruina of men, a destruction,a devourer

a
downfal of honour, fodderfor the divcl,
of patrimonies,
iliegate of death, and supplementof hell ? '' Talis amor
delicate
est laqueus animce, S^c.a bitter hony,sweet
poyson,
commixtum
a
sterdestruction, voluntarymischief,
cwnum,
^Pet.
Aretines
A
nd
notable
as
a
fjuilinium.
Lucretia,
quean,
confesseth; Gluttony,amjer, envy, pride,sacrilege,thef't,
all born that day that a whore
were
s.'auyhter,
beyan her
: for, as she follows
it,her prideis r/reaterthen a
profession
^

rich

churls,she

as
melancholy,

world

is

covetous

wounded,

as

hell.

then the pox,

Iffrom the

as

maUtious

as

beyinniny
of the

mala, pejor, pessima,bad in the superlative

were

any
deyree,'tis a whore
hut

envious

more

slain !

God
tcithin,

how

Antonia,

knows,

Let hiuj
quean.
let him see the event and

pocky

Ilolofernes,"c.

have

many

I undone, caused to he
I am
without,

thou seest hvhat

a sink of sin, "C

puddleof iniquity,

now

that
of

success

those inhuite

so

dotes,meditate

on

this ;

others,Sampson,Hercules,
attend it; if she be

mischiefs

" Tom.
4. dial, meret.
Fortasse etiam ipsa ad aiiiorein
istnui nonnihil contiilero.
virorum rapinasen mors
""Quid enim meretrix,uisi juventutisexpilatras,
; patrimonii
devorntrix,honoris pernicies,pabulum dialjoli,
janua mortis, JDferni supplemen"^
Idiotic c. 34.
tum ?
^Sanguinem hominum sorbent.
Contemplatione
Diserimen vita;,mors
blanda, mel felleum, dulce venenum,
perniciesdtlicata,malum
" Pornodidasc.
dial. Ital. Gula,ira,invidia,superhia,sacrilegia,
spontaneum, "c.
latrocinia,
cxdes, eo die nata sunt, quo primuni meretrix professionem fecit. Su-

pprbiamajor

quam

rustici,iuvidia
opulenti

avuiitia in immensum
melanclK-i'.r.,
intra novit Deus.

quam

profunda.

luis venerea;;

iniuiicitianocentior

"^Qualisextra

sura

vides,qualis

6. Subs.

Mem.

another
and

men
a

loves,'tisabominable

he will
religion,

have aay
the loathsomeness of his

abhor

36^

of Love-Melaneholy.

of God
in the sight
ment,
forbidden in Gods commandis expressly
: adultery
mortal sin,able to endangerhissoule: if he be such a
wife he

mans

that fears

one

Cure

3.]

God,

maid, 'tisto abuse,

or

or

fact,(though
adulteryitself. If to

fowl

some

fact.

own

eschew

If he love

an

it,and
honest

her; if to

abuse, 'tis fornication,a

lightof it)and almost equalto

marry
make

consider what
marry, let him seriously
he
the
before
look
he takes in hand;
leap,(as
proverbis),or
the party and condition
settle his affections,and examine, iirst,
it
be a fit match, for fortunes,
of his estate and hers, whether

parentage, and

veers,

such

other

circumstances,

an

sit suxe

to proceed
itbe likely
: if not, let him
wisely
his
curb
inordinate
in
himself off at the first;
passion,
stave
of
other
his
some
desire, by thinking
subject,
and moderate
Or if it be not for his good,as.^neas
divert his cogitations.

Whether

Veneris.

forewarned

by Mercury

got him

all hast

Mnesthea.

"

Classem

to

dream,

love, and in

left Didos

Sergestumque

vocat,
taciti
jubet
aptent

did oppose

althoughshe

and

sea

in

fortemqueCloanlhum,

with vowes,

tears, prayers, and

imprecation,
nuUis ille movetur
aut illas voces
Fletibiis,

tractabilis audit ;

allallurements,seemthyMercury-reasonrulethee against
Thou
outward
inward
or
ino- deliohts,pleasing
provocations.
necfrater
maist do this if thou wilt,pater non
deperit
Jiliam,
brother
his
on
dotes
not on
own
daughter,a
a father
sororem,
Let

sister;and why? because it is unnatural,unlawful,unfit. If

he be sickly,
soft,deformed,let him think of his deformities,
vices, infirmities: if in debt, let him ruminate how to pay his
a

debts

if he be in any

danger,let

him

seek

to

avoid it ; if be

have any law-suit,or other business, he may do well to let his

alone and follow it,labour in his vocation, what
love matters
himself,yet let him wisely
so
ease
it is. But ifhe cannot
ever
their estates ; if theybe unequal in yeers,
sheyono-and he old, what an unfit match it must needs be, an
it! asLyciuneven
yoak,how absurd and undecent a thingis
of both
premeditate

nus,

in

Lucian, told Timoiaus,for

an

old bald crooked-nosed

is to see
yong wench; how odious a thingit
old leacher ! what should an old fellow do with a combe, a
an
with a looking-glass,
doter with a pipe,a blind man
dumb

knave,

to marry

Virg.

VOL.

IT.

"* Tom.

2. in voti.i. Cah

ns

cnm

sis,nasum

habeas simnm, "c.

B

Melancholy.

Love-

370
and

with such

thou

wife ?

wife,for

[Part.3.

absurd

How

is it,
for

of

Sec. 2.

yono^ man
put case, she be

But

good.
qualities
correspondent,
in
which is an honourhedolh
desire to be coupled
able
marriage,
Her
what
for
but
respects?
beauty,belike,and
estate,
she is
comeliness of person, that is commonly the main ol)ject;
absolute form in his eye at least;CiiiformnmPaphia,
a most
to

old

an

marry

peece

equaliuyeer,birth,fortunes,and other

CJiarites tribucre

ct

much?

Or

is it an
Fallunt

decoipm

in his

errour

oculi

nos

do

but

other

affirm

men

as

judgement?^

vagiquesensus,

Oppressa ratione mentiuntur,

eys and other senses
thee thy self,
upon

our

to

will
a

littleabsence, she is not

tnr

et

touch-stone

to

fair as she

her
compare
try ; confer hand

sunt

non

more
so

deceive

It may be,
serious examination, or after a

commonly

to

to

us.

riden-

Quadam

seems.

another

standingby. 'tis a
hand, body to body,face to

examine
to neck, "c.
to nose,
eye, nose
every
it
in
then
all
several
and
self,
sites,
altogether,
part by
postures,

face,eye
tell me
but

neck

to

thou

It may be, not she that is so faire,

in her cloaths,and she will
another
coats; for,put
all out as faire;as the ^poetthen prescribes,
separate her
how

likest her.

her

seem

herina base beggersweed,

her cloaths; suppose thou saw
old hirsute attires out of fashion,fowl
in some

from

else dressed

or

linnen,course

raiment,besmeared

ith opoponax,
assa
sagapenum,
undecent
about some
dirty,
gums;
w

case

"^

as

after

Brassivola, the

with soot,
or
foetida,

action

potionof hellebor,which

or

found
physician,

colly,
perfumed
such filthy

some

other:

or, in such

Malatasta

his tient,
pahe had prescribed
: Ma-

mhnfi in ter ram deposit

is^etano versus
caelum elevafo ("icsi videSocraticus ille .Aristophanes^
figurasin
qui f/eometricas

retur

scribens,tubera collir/ere
videbatur)atrani

terrain

injiciebat,
parietem.
adeoquetotam
all
to
pabat, ut, S\c.
bewrayed, or worse
(I say) v, ouldst thou affect her
beheldest her in

thou

et

detur-

se

her
; if thou saw'st
dost ?
thou
Suppose

''

frosty
morning-,in cold weather,in some
of
"c. rivel'd
perturbation mind, Meeping-,
chafing,

passionor
and

as

cameram,

bum,
bilem in al-

illfavoured

to

behohl.

Utokseemssoamiable
she do but

S.he,many
and

times, that in

posed
com-

if
tarn scifnlajhrmd,
delitious,

laugh or smile, makes

an

u-jfly
sparrow-mouthed

face,and shews
She

hath

under

ecce

loathsom, rotten, foul teeth:

a pairof uneven,
black skin, gouty legs:a deformed, crooked carkass

fine

"P" tronjiis.
foiniosa psf

coat.

'"
:

si

It may

be, for

all her

costlytires,she

is

"" Si ferveat defonnis,

" In
Ovid.
lib. 2.
Cnfarticis,
frigeatformosa,jam fitinrorinis. Th. Moms
Epigram.

6. Subs.

Mom.

bald

and

Cure

3.]

though she

371

of Love-Melanchoiy.

seem

by dark, by

faire

so

candle

light,

afar off at such a distance,as Callicratides observed in *Lushe ivould

cian; If thou shouldst see her neer, or in a mornimj,
consideres,
quid
nglythen a beast ; ^si dilic/enter
appear more
villus
m
eatus
sternareset
et
cceteros
OS
corporis
egredltnr,
per
vidisti. Follow my counsell; see her iinquiUnium
or

nunquam

drest;

of her attires ;

out
her, if it be possible,

see

furtivis

be she is like

nudatam
colorihus ; it may
/Esopsjay,or "^Plinies
thou wilt not
cantharides ; she will be loathsom, ridiculous,
in a
endure her sight:or suppose thou saw'st her sick, pale,
her death-bed, skin and bones, or now
dead,
on
consumption,
Bernard
horrieiit
as
erat
saith,
Cujus
gratissimus
amplexus,
hilis aspectus ;

redolet,sed olet,quae redolere solet.

Non

As

and faire one

smels sweet, is mostfresh

withered, and stinks another.

she
posie,

dried up,
that Homer

Beautifull

day,but
Nireus,by

deformed
dead, is more
admired, once
then Thersites; and Solomon
deceased, as uglyas Marcolphus:
that
erst
was
thylovelymistress,
much

so

*! Charis

thine eys,

to thee then

dearer

charior ocellis,

sick

once

Vili vilior sestimata

then any

worse

dirt

or

is
departed,

or

cceno.

dunghill. Her

embraces

were

not

so

hold
her looks be terrible: thou hadst better be-

now
as
acceptable,
then Helenas
a Gorgons head
that to see
of opinion,
Some
are

cavkass.
a

naked, is able

woman

of

it self to alter his affection ," and it is worthy of consideration,

saith
Montaigne,the Frenchman, in his Essaies,that the
of amorous
dalliance,appointfor a remedy
skilfullestmasters
"

full survey
a
passions,

of veuereous

of the

body

which

the

poet insinuates,
f

lUe

quod

obscoenas

Viderat,in
The
When

It is

cursu

love stood
once

in aperto corpore partes

quifuit,hresit amor.

that
still,

it saw

ran

in full careire,

those parts should

not

appear.

that seeinghis
reportedof Seleucus, king of Syria,

wife

"
dial. Tom. 4, Si qufs ad Auroram
Amoram
contempleturmultas mnlieres a nocte
^
Hugo de claustro ammm,
lecto surgentes, turpiores
putabitesse bestiis.
but a
hath golden wngs
that
c
A
I.
Bist
36.
fly
lib. 1. c.
nat. 11. cap.
^
""
Apol. pro. Rem. Se.b.
Buchanan, Hendecasyl.
poisonedbody.

fOvid. 2.

rem.

2
,

[Part.3.

Love-Melancholy.

372

^ec. 2.

uiidrcssino- her by chance

he
Stratouices bald pate,as she was
ati'ect her after.
Lidlins,the physicould never
llaynHiiulus
cian,
in his mistress

breast, whorn lie

abhorr'd
that
the looks of
so
dearlyloved, iTOin
day following
lib. 4. cap. 24.
the French
her.
as Neubrigensis,
king-,
Philip,
relates it,married the kingofDenmarks
daughter;-"arKlaj'trr
ulcer

an
spying"

used her

he had

theysay,

or

Jar

as

or

canker

because
night,
secret fault,
sent

one
wij'e,

other

some

her breath
her back

stunk^

ayain to

her father. Peter Mattheus, in the lifeof Lewis the eleaventh,

fault with our
Andes
English i' Chronicles, for writing how
Margaret the king of Scots daughter,and wife to Lewis the

oris,rejectedby her
king,was, ob graveolentiam
made
for by-respects,
matches
such
are
husband.
or
Many
is
after
which
turn
comeliness,
some
hony-moon past,
seendy
for burning lust is but a fllash,
to bitterness
a^ini powder
the
in
follows
hatred
oft
highestdegree7"Iislike
passion; and
11. French

and contempt.
"^Cum

cutis arida

se

denies.

Fiiuit obscuri

old,and
theywaxe
longerabide them.

Ufa

when

Jam

laxat,
"

voured, theymay, commonly, no

gravises nobis,

they grow stale,fulsome, loathsom,odious,thou

filthy
bea.stly
quean ;

be gone,
a

"^Faciem,Phoebe, cacanlis
thou

art Satirrni
e

podex,withered

and

art

babes
et vetnla,
dry ; insipida

nives,
quiarugoe turpant,et capitis

To

patent, proficiscere.
gone ; ^portre
will
but
infer,your mistress is compleat; of a most
Yea,
you
be taken
absolute form in ail mens
can
no
exceptions
opinions;
ather; nothingmay be added to her person, nolhingdetracted;
and
for her beauty, comeliness
she is the mirror of women

(Isay)be

she is
delicia,meri leporis,
magazine of
a mere
py.ris,
Myrothnfiiim Veneris, Gratiarvm
and Graces,
naturall perfections
; she hath all the Veneres,

pleasant
grace

unimitable.

mera^

mille fares et mille

in eacl) part absolute

and

fignras,

compleat.

? Post unam
nocfem, inrertiim nude offensatn repit,propter foetentem ejus spiritam
faciens plane illicitam,et repae
ali'Hiciint,
fneditatoni. repiirliavit
: rem
vel latentem
J Mart.
"' Hall and
c Juvenal.
belike.
inHpcoram.
Crafton,
innlfnm

person;!'

'"Tallyin Cat.

Har.

ode l.S.lib. 4

6. Subs.

Mem.

arenas, laeta

Leeta

admired

to be

able peece,

Cure

3.]

os

roseum,

f-M- her person,

ad
proles,

rmrea

S73

of Love- Melancholy.

incomparableiinmatcb-

most

sinm

Iceta :

lumina

vaga

Inch

alicujnsfunninis

rum

com-

posita;a Phoeniy, vernonth cetatnlce Fe"er?7/a,a nymph, a

faery,''likeVeuns her self when shewas a maid ; nvUl secnnda,
et amaracnm,
a
/?ore."f
meer
spirans
Jcemirue
quintessence,
prohow
continue'?
she
will
she
Put
be,
case
:
long
digium
"^

decoris

Florem

singuli
carpunt

dies

Every day detracts from her person, and this beauty is

a meer
flash,a Venice glass,quicklybroken :
fragile,
"1

mortalibus,
Anceps forma bonum
donum
breve
exigui
temporis;
As that fair flower

it will not

last.

auemony,

flourisheth

but

beauty fades in

Adonis,which
this

month,

one
an

"^

It is

instant.

the
is

godd esse, ya/A^arerifas,

painters
and beautyis vanity,
Prov.
deceitfull,
a

brittle jem, bubble, is

dew, snow,

rose,

If she be

we

call

a;i

manding
all-comgratious,
a

jewel

soon

lost,

picture. Favour

meer

31. 30.

^Vitrea gemmula, fluxaquebuUula, Candida forma

nihil.
et aura,
Nix, rosa, ros, fumus, ventus
A

hayiwn

est,

beautypale,

smoke, winde, ayr, naught at

all.

the

saying is, she is commonly a fool if

proud,scornfull ; seqidturcpie
superhiaformam; or dishonest,
concordia
she he f aire and
est
rara
can
formceatque pudicitice,
honest too ?
married aSpartan
Ariosto,the son of Agasicles,
lass,the fairest lady in all Greece, next to Helen; but for her
and beastly
of the
creature
conditions,the most abominable
fair,as

world.

So that I would

her person
which hath a
not

jewels?

us,

mock

''Loechaens.
Seneca.

to

respect, with Seneca

'\

qualities. Will you say thafs a good blade

ivith gold and
gilded scabbard.)imbroidered

JsTo;but that which

and

thee

but

tempered mettle, able

alone;

wish

what

is

to

hath

resist.

that, but

as

of time and sickness ;

''

good edgearid point,icell

beautyis of the body
telleth
'GregoryNazianzen

or

This

as

%o^{h.\\\s,^
mutable
as

as

fuit virgo,balsamum
Qualis fuitVenus cum
spirans,"c.
fcCaiucranus e:..i3.(38. cent. 1. Flos
Hip.
omnium
pulcherrimusstatim languescit,
formae typus.
Bauhusins
r Bernar.
sPausanias
Lacon. lib. 3. Uxorera duxit Sparttemulieruni omnium
Ep- 1- 4.
at ob mores
post Helenam formosissimam,
omnium
TO'.
''Epist.
turpis.sioiam.
bonum
Gladium
cui deauratus
dices,non
est baltheus,cec
cui vagina genimis di
sed cui ad secandum
subtilis acies, et
.stingnitur,
uiuinmen'.nm
omne
mucio
rupi Pukhritudo
turus.
corporis,temporiset morbi lndii)riuDi.orat. .3.
"" Florem
mutabilitate fugacior,nee
sua
natiua formosas facit,scd spectantiumin"i-"

mkas.

Seneca

Love-Melancholy.

3X4
a

and 'tisnot
/loicre,

of
:

tell ine

how

so

the br/t"i{l""r.For
mihi per

Die

matter

nature

[Part.3.

makes

7is, but most

ask

another, he

Sec.

2.

firmity
part, the insees

no

such

I pray thee
yratiasqualistihi vifletur,
she
asked
hersister
my sneet-heart, (as

thoulikest

-u-Iiom
ill Arista;iietus),

so

much

admire

; me

thinhs he is the

that ever
I saic: bftt I am
yentleman,the properest man
and
in love,J confess,
(neepudot fateri) cannot thereforewell
Anacreou
as
jiidge. But, be she faire indeed, gohlen-haired,
she have
his Bathillus,
(toexamine particuh^rs)
sweetest

''

Flamineolos

oculos,collaquelecteola

white
complexion,little mouth, coral! lips,
sanguirje
teeth,soft and plump neck, body, hands, feet,all iaireand
absolute
an
to behold,composed of all graces, elegances,
lovely
a

pure

peece

;
^

sint Melitee

Lamina

Junonia, dextra

Maraillae Veneris, sura

Let

'^

her head

France, back

be from

Minervoe,

dominse, "c.

Prague,paps

Brabant, hands

from

Rhine, buttocks

maris

out
out

of

Austria,bellyfrom

of

England,

feet from

Switzerland, let her have the Spanish

gate, the Venetian tyre,Italian complement and endowments;
"

Candida

from

sideriis ardescant
coUa

Sudent
Mellea

rosas,

purpureum
Venercm

ac
Fulg-eat,

Dearum

Forma

Let her be such

lumina

et cedat

flammis,

ciinibus

depromant era

aurum,

ruborem

coelesti corpore

vincat,

omnis, "c.

Lucian deciphers
in his
as
throughout,
Imagines; as Euphanor of old paintedVenus ; Arislaenetus
describes Lais; another Helena, Chariclea,Leucippe,Lucretia,
her self still,
of beautyto repair
Pandora
; let her have a box
such

one

as

one

Venus

gave
all

Phaon,

when

he

carried her

over

ford; let her use

helpsart and nature can yeeld; be
and
whom
thou wilt,or all these in one; a
and
her,
her,
littlesickness, a feaver, small pox, Mound, scarre, loss of an
the

like

heat or cold,
a distemperatureof
eye,or limb, a violent passion,
old age,
all
in
all
instant,disfigures : child-bearing,
an
marres.
Venus
that tyrant time will turn
to Erynnis; raging time,
rivels her upon a sudden; after she hath been married
care,
small
while,and the black oxe hath trodden on her toe, she
a
will be

so

much

altered,and

wax

out

of

favour, thou

wilt

11. Quem ego depercojuvenes mihi piilrherrinms

videtiir; sed forsnn amore
'E|)ist.
de am
''Luc. Briigen"is
recte jiulico.
ore
non
t Idem.
p""rritn
""B"beliHS adagri*Ger
"Patron. Cat.

37(5

Love-Melancholy.

thy concupiscence
increasing
; hethhik
is but

earth

thou

thee, which

thou

Take

rest.

lovesf, a

it ; that

sinewes

which

vexeth

so

soiile.ici/l be at
admiresf, and thy rac/inrj
shaft
someness
Iter
and
thou
all loathsee
from
face,

so

her skin

under

it

thy selfthat

with

pxcrement

mecr

Sec.

[Prrt.S.

skin
beautyis a supfrjicitd

and

bones,

hoarie-headed,
rivp/'d,
suppose her sick, note
within
she isfulloffitlhy
old;
hollow-cheeked,
fleame, stinkinrj,

nerves,

putride,excrementall
in
spettle

her

and

stuff'e
; snot

nostrills,

s"ievi/l in her

mouth, water

in her ry,s, ichat Jilfhin hfr brains,

Sfc. Or take her at best, and look
upon her in the
staiul
thoushalt
lier,nearer
nearer
light,
perceiveahuost
yet,

narrowly

much, and love less,as ''Cardan well writes,7ninus amant

qui acute vident,though Scaligerderide hini for it : If he see
as

Ler

look

or

near,

posture, wl.osoever be is,

rules of symmetry and proportion,
those

the true
of Albertus Durer, Loniatius

to
accordingmean

him

such

exactlyat

of her.

and

Tasnier,examine

eleyansformarumspectator,he shall finde

faults in physiognomy,and ill colour; if form, one
side
many
of the face bkely bigger then the other; or crooked
nose, bad
eys, prominent veines, concavities about the eys, wrinkles,
ties,
pimples,redde streeks,frechons,hairs,Marts, neves, inequaliand
paleness,
roughness,scabredity,
yellowness, as many
colours
other

If he be

as

in

are

turkicocks

in their

indecorums

neck, many

leers,
parts; est quod desideres,est quod ampntes, one
And 'tistrue
frownes, a third gapes, squints,"c.

another

that he saith,^ Diliyenter

considernnti raro
shall you finde an
qucc vitio caret, seldom
I have

fault,as

out

this defect

often

observed

fades absoluta,et
absolute

face M'ith-

in the face

; not

alone,is

to be found ; but in all the other

disproportion
parts of body and minde ; she is faire indeed, but foolish ;
pretty,comely and decent,of amajesticallpresence, but perselfwil'd : she
adventure imperious,unhonest, acerba, iniqua,
or

is rich,but deformed

bringingup
but
As

is

and

in

wanton

garden have

fragrantsmell,but
to

the taste,

face, but bad carriage; no

flurt,a neat body she hath,

sweet

otherwise, a very slut,of

nasty quean

flowres

have

; hath

rude

as

colour some,

are

rue;

as

unseemlyto
bitter

mostmedicinaUcordiallflowre,most
so

are

men

and

poor and

v.omen;

base:

one

good

foot,Jk'dapedf's fwda
et

but

is mcU

eye she

manus^

as

the eye;

one

wormwood,

acceptable
but
qualified,
hath, but

kinde.

others
sniell,

no

to

fine

bad

the

yet

stomack;
hand

teeth,a

and
vast

all parts of body and minde, 1 advise

of all.
See her angry, merry,
ihee to encpiire
laugh,weep,
all attire*,
in
hot, cold, sick, sullen,dressed, undressed,

body,"c.

Examine

savory
un-

of ill
tion,
propor-

bad

leg, bad

is

and

-Snbtil. 13.

''Cardan, subtil, lib. 13.

Mem.

6. Subs.

Cure

3.]

of Love-Melancholy.

377

in some
sUes, gestures, passions,
of
eat her raeales,"c. and
these you wiil surelydislike.
her
let
him
not
serve,
obYea,
onely,
but her parents, how
theycany themselves; for what
of body ormiiide,be in them
deformities,
defects,incumbrances
at

such

like

an

be subjectto, be molested
in
they will likely
matrizare.
will
And
o
r
with
all
patrizare
; they
notice of her companions,iw convictu (as Qui-

age,

manner

let him

take

conversetur,
prescribes)et qiiihiiscum

verra

whom

she

con-

verseth with.
Noscitur

ex

comite,qui non

ex
cognoscitur

se.

is commonly the best,de

to Thucydides,she
Accordingquo
minimus Jarashabetur
is
that
least
talked
of
abroad.
For
sermo^
if she be a noted reveller, a gadder, a singer,
a
pranker or

dancer, then take heed

At

YDS

of her.

festivee ne

saltate

ne

En, malus

hirciis adest

Yong

will do

men

Fawnes

and

in such

wanton

and

as

^Heedus

note

theirfaults,
vices,errours,

For

in

what

puellse,
saltare paratus.

vos

it,when

saith Theocritus

they come

to it.

playwrecks,when
satyreswill certainly

theycome
m hen
they
presence.
shall perceiveany such obliquity,
indecency,disproportion,
bad conditions,"c. let them stillruminate on that,
deformity,
'tisthe

Bacchos

Elenoras

adviseth

out

Now

of Ovid, earum
mendas
notent
;
and think of their imperfections;

loves furious head-strong

mitigate
comb, theysay, make him
passions;as a
filthy
and
of
his
his
tail; she is lovely,
fine
feathers,
pride
faire,
forget
and kinde ;
well favoured,
well qualified,
courteous
next

way

to

divert and

peacocksfeet and

if she be not

But
What

care

I how

so

to me,

kinde

she be?

I say with ''Philostratus,

/brmosrtaliis,mild superha; she is a
and
her
Besides these outward
so let
tyrant to be,
neves,
go.
or

"c.
to
case

open
some

the

there be many
inward infirmities,
secret
1
will
and
some
more
common
private,
(which
omit)

faults,errours,
sexe;

sullen

evil qualities,
fits,
diseases,in
filthy

fit to be considered.

(menstruasimprimis)quam

Consideratio
immundse

sunt, quam

penitusobservandara.
proponitregulaseptima,
dial. Amoris,Juseperstrin(iei.
Lodovicus
2. cap. 2. Pet.

this

foeditatis mulieruni
Savanarola
Et

Platina,

Boncialus?n?///e6. lib.

Alover
Haedus,Albertus,e^
injinitiferemedici.
"=

^
Lib. de contera. amoribus.
Earum
mendas vol vant anirao^saspe ante oculos consti"" Jn (Je]jciig_
c
tuant, ssepe damnent.
Quum aniator annuliim se amicsB
vices
O te miserum, ait anmiliis,si meas
optaret, ut ejns araplexu fiui posset,"c,
obires,videreSjaudires,"c. niliilnon odie digniimobservares.

Love-Melancholif,

378
in

wished
apologies,
Calcagniiius

to hear, embrace,
inistressring-,

3.
[Part.

with all his

see, and

dol

Sec. 2.

heart,he

were

know

what; O

not

his

inyrooni,thoushoul(ist
thon fool,quoththering,ifthonwer'stiiJ
and
see
pudnida et pccnitenda
; that which
hear, observe,
and
loath
hate
thee
iier
make
all
ould
w
; yea, peradventure,
for her sake.

women

envy,

the vices of their

nothingof

inindes,their pride,
tiable
insaliglitness,
inconstancy,weakness, malice, sclfwill,

1 will say

; Ecchis.
lust,jealousie

25. 13.

.A

malice

to a

womans;

author
bitterness like hers. Eccles. 7. 26. and as the same
no
Who
shall
de
10.
icnman?
He
Proii. 31.
fin a vertuous
urgeth,
of
it.
honum,
Necpiejus
makes
a question
ncc/ne
yiequecequum
'"

nisi quod libido

prositobsit,nihil vin'ent,
sciunt,melius pejus,
Jieither
be
knoiv
itbetter
or
worse
good nor bad,
sugqerit.Theif

(asthe comicall poet

do tchat

hath

or
it)benejiciall
hurtj'uil,
theywill

they list.
''Insidisehumani

generis,
queremoniavitae,

noctis,durissima cura diei,

et juveniim,
"c.
Poena virfim,nex
Exuviae

And

to

that purpose

in the

'^

The

fire that bold Prometheus

plaguescal'd

women

and
alluring

whose

mortalls

Poor

In

they first made,

non

quid:

habeat
''

stole from

me.

shall

revengedbe
face.
entising

doting,shall

fine,as Diogenesconcludes

quce

ates
Jupiterinsinu-

as

poet.

With
On

were

in

they have

their death

embrace.

Nevisanus, Nulla essfoemina

all their faults.

i^d) of tljtin5at" ^omc iiire,

(Irbcrp
5f one ic full of billany,
a liquovt'fii)
Snotljtr ij.itlj
rnc;
be full of iuantonnr^S,

3tf one

^notjbn-ii a "Wtxs^.
When

Leander was
drowned, the
Heros lanterne to Anteros

inhabitants
; Anteroti

of Sestos

sacrum

secrated
con-

and he

the candle ;
in his love, should light
that had good successe
it; which I can
refer to
found to light
was
but never
any man
of women.
and lightness
nought,but the inconstancy
^

For in
All be
With

thousand,good

there is not

one

prond,unthankfull and imkinde,

hearts,careless of others moane,
flinty
so

In their

own

lusts carried most

headlongblinde.

*" Lanliaeus.
"^ See
our
EnglishTatias,li.I.
aTer. Heaut. act. 4. sc. 1.
hanc
in
facilem
se
amore
of
the
Rose.
'Qui
probarit,
in
Romant
d Chaucer
ad huxic diem repertnsnemo.
Calcagninas.f ArioBto.
At qui tniccendat,
succeodito.

3.] Cure of Love-Melancholy.

6. Subs.

Mem.

But

herein to

more

Sometime, for
I

forbidden

am

speakingtruth,one

willing,
you

not

am

speak,I
to

see,

and therefore take heed

379

be chidden.

may

prosecute the

them,
against

cause

mistake

milme
not; ^matrouam
you
the
honour
I
with
all
and
as
sexe,
good men,
ef/o tancfo ;
Rather then displease
them, [ will voluntarily
I ought to do.
which
Mercurius
oath
Britanicus
take the
took, Viraghu
lam

Me

lib. 2. fol.95.
descript.

nihil unqnam

mail

nohilissimo

sexui, vel verba, vel facto mackinaturum, "-c. LetSimonide?,

bare
Mantuan, Platina,Pet. Aretine, and such women-haters

blame, if ought be said amiss

the

might be urged

which

that

possmit iiivectiva;onmes,

et

that which

writ

not

of them

out

satire; in

comprehendi.And

volnmine

I have

and

tenth of

others

noii

una
fceminas scriptce,
I have said (tospeak

them then men

be
concerns
; though women
truth)no more
this
Tract.
(To apologizeonce
more
frequentlynamed in
neiiher
I
for all) am
partiall
againstthem, or therefore bitter:
of the one,
of the other.

is said

what

understood
*"

Lucian

paintedwith

to be

horse

back, he made

him

words

My
when

whom,

of

nomine, may

mutato

his heels

passant

like Passus

picture,
bespoke an
upwards,tumblingon his
are

good

fellow had

when

now

and

the fellow

said,it

his peece, he was

very angry,
Passus instantly
but
minde
turned
his
to
;
so

alter the name,

let him
my words,
all one in effect.
But

read

in
purpose : If women
than they, what a hazard

to my

worse

men

the

quiteopposite
pictureupside

the horse at that site which

he requested,
satisfaction.
If any man
take exception
at

him

gave

was

for

came

him

down, shewed
and

part, be

most

finde

good wife,

him

for

her,and

be
generall

'tis

bad, and

so

is it to marry

? where

husband

?
good
A woman,
a man
doing
wedding is unmay eschue, but not a wife
(some say)marrying,marring; wooing,woing: '^a wife
calls her, and not to be cured
is afeaver hectick, as Scaliger
but by death, as out of Menander, Athenseus
addes,

shall

man

or

woman

pelaguste jacisnegotiorum,
non
Libyum, non ^gseum, ubi, ex triginta
Tria navigia
: ducens
servatur
uxorem
prorsus
In

Non

wadest

Thou
In
Of
But

The

into

sea

itselfof

woes

Libycke,and jEgsean,each man

not three shipsare
cast
thirty,
on

this rock not

one

escapes,

pereunt
nemo.

knowes,
away ;
I say.

discontents,that accompany
worldlycares, miseries,

"Hor.
hectica nsor,

bChristoph.Fonseca.
et

non

nisi morte

avellenda.

*^Encom.

Demosthen.

mar-

dpehrie

Love-Melaneholy.

380

pray you learn of them

riage,1

was/^a?
lyu

'

none

Aoyu?

Vita

meo
jiigata

married

many
wives

non

right;I

down

For

;
puellce
juvat,"c.

c^eniis cste

facit ingeiiio
: Me

exclaimc

men

mciitis liberi.

with him;

proculnymphae,fallax

Este

Sec. 2.

for I have
experience,

HbH

iyivr,jxij.n*,

port I'lldissemble

my

that have

[Part.3,

at

the miseries of

tried,but

never

I hear

as

it,and rail at
of them

some

say,
^

An

Irish

baud

Mare

is not

sea

and

turbulent

so

ragingas

wife.
litigious

Scyllaet Charybdis,Sicula contorquens freta,

":

Minus

There

is

beast that is

no

made

the

M'hen he had

taken

mebor

; nulla non

timenda

est

Scyllaand Charybdisare
Which

accerrimmu

mare

vos

mare,

lesse

fera est.

dangerous,

noxious.

so

hold,
divel, belike, as most
interpreters
ct JorUduv bona,
away Jobs goods,corporis

health, children,friends,to prosecute him the more, leave his

wicked
wife; as Pineda
proves out of TertuUian, Cyprian,

Austin, Chysostome, Prosper,Gaudentius,

viro existeret,to
then all the
inj'ernus,

hide genus

calamitutu

fjitam totns
knowing the conditions
worse

of

bad

dwell

Better

18.

like

vickedness

her.

to

in

heart, an

25.

wicked
She

23.

wounded

hell ; as
fribnit

wife. Ecclus.
a

sorry

hands,

rceak

are

No

19.

makes

minde,

ayid death

icoman

him

better dice// tcith

icilderness. l*rov. 21.

Ecclus.

heavy countenance^
25.
knees- vers.
andj'eehle

in

Jnpiternon
a

novum

gaule

fiends

woman.

his mah(m,sn\th
pestilent
then keephousewith
lion^
drar/onor a

25.

and

vex

Simonides

homini

Ut

"c.

oj'the

two

niihi ducenda
est
bitterest thingsin the world : uxor
; id
te. Ter. .^nd.l. 5.
et suspende
mihi visus est dicere,abi domum
married ;
And
yet for all this,Ave batchelors desire to be
hodie

with

we
long for it,
virgin,

that Vestall
**

Felices

nuptse! moriar,nisi nubere

thingin

'Tis the sweetest

the world

dulce

est.

I had

husband,

nav

; I would

wife,

saith he,
For fain would
If I could

hai-ho
worst

for
that

an

me

good

singlelife,
wife.

cries she, a
is better then none.

husband,

ever

".Syne"iiw. Libros
A"iu. act, 1.

get

I leave

was,

liberos ireimi.
.Sentc. in K*rciil.

epo
"^

bad
O

l)lissfulmarriage;

Lipsiusantiq.Lcct.
""

Sciec.

the

lib. "^.^
..

''

Plaulas

G. Subs.

Mem.
O

marriai^e
; and

welcome

most

of Love- Melancholy.

Cure

3.]

happy

381

they that

are

are

so

seek, it,and are

well tillwe
never
earnestly
coupled
have effected it. But with what fate ? like those birds in the
so
^Embleme, that fed about a caoe,
long as they could fly
:

well of it; but when

they were
had
not
the same
loose,
though
they
get
for sullenness,and would
So we
not eat.

pleasure,liked

their

at

away

do

we

and

might
meat, pinedaway
commend
marriage,
taken

miselii liberi

"donee

Aspicimusdominam
Fel intus est

long as we
nothingis so
are

once

giveme my
merrily;we
Dulce
of

wars

and

mel

postquam, heu

janua clausa

est,

fuit:

pleasure
may kiss and coll at our
;
in
think
but when
are
heaven, as we
:
; we
tied,and have lost our liberty,
marriageis an hell ;

So

we

quod

sed

arc

wooers,

sweet

yellow hose ayain:

in

mouse

trap lives

as

in

of us, if not hell it self.

are
a purgatory, some
the proverbis ; 'tis fine talking
bellum ine.vpertis,
as
and marriage,sweet
in contemplation,
'tillit be tried:

then

as

most

are

wars

dangerous,irksome,every

minute

When
those wild Irish peers, saith
dore,so is,"c.
feasted by King Henry the second (atwhat
were
''Stanihurst,
deaths

at

kept his Christmas at Dublin) and had tasted of his

his
cheer, generous
Avines,daintyfare,had seen
princelike
*^massie plateof silver,
gold,inamel'd, beset with Jewells,
golden candle-sticks,goodlyrich hangings,brave furniture,
heard
his trumpets sound, fifes,drums, and
his exquisite
when theyhad observed his majesticall
musick
in all kindes
in purplerobes, crowned, with his
scepter,
presence, as he sate
his
in
"c.
royallseat, the poor men were so amazed, enamored,
and taken with (he object,that they were
domestici
pertcesi
and ashamed
of their own
et pristini
sortyrotarichi,
weary
oflife.
and
would
all
be Englishforthwith
manner
They
didity
!
but
but
when
had
who
submitted
now
English
they
;
themselves, and lost their former liberty,
theybegan to rebell,
he

time

of them, others repent of what they had done, when

it
'Tis
late.
with
when
and
too
so
batchelors,
was
us
we
see
those sweet
behold
faces,those gaudy shewes that women
some

make, observe
their Siren
are

in

as

them

see

fine

their faces

as

But

we

when

we

rave.

we

are
Me

feel the

and
we

graces,

giveear

to

tions
think their condi-

taken with

dumbsignes,

burn, and would

miseries,cares,

fain be

woes,

that

c Gemmea
''De rebus Hibernicis,1.3.
pocula,
candelabra, aurea, "c.
Concbyleata aiilaea,biiccinarum clancoronati
tibiarntn cantum, et symphonise suavitatem, raajestatemqueprincipis

Amator.

gorem,

dance, "c.

tunes,

Emblem.
argentea vasa, calata
cum

pleasant
gestures

amplexum, ruimus

married.
*

their

'

vidissent sella deanrata^"c.

and
leniitli
of

and

the comicall

inform

Fowl

secundus,

He

fallhim

knew

pityhim

no

my

part;

to

prime imprecor!
the

harm, poor

did, nor

he

second

match

man,

alas,

what

it

that marries

him

Stulta maritali

to

passe

was.

againand again?

ora
capistro.
qui porrigit

do as he may, bear
for the first time he must
by the head and shoulders,and let his next

not;

sometimes

it out

wivingfor

primus fuit.

brought

what

not

shall I say

What

us, farewell

nihil

nam

that

first I wish

The

of us, cry out at

many
If this be true now,
some
as

moanc,

merrilysaith,

poet

Ignarus ut puto mail

^

Sec. 2.

ille pessirae
qui faeminam

Perdatur
Duxit

our

he released.

catmot

experiencewill

as

"

make

it, we

accompany
out

3.
[Part.

Love-MelancJwl.f.

382

neighbourride,

or

else

run

away,

or

that

as

Syracusian,in

be

exonerated
tempest, when all ponderous things were
maxhimm
of the ship,f/)iia
out
pondns erat, flinghis wife into
But this I confesse is comically
the sea.
spoken, '^ and so I
to

sadness,

marriageis a bondage,
hinderance
to all good enterpri.ses
; he
a thraldom, a yoke, a
come
hath married a wife,and cannot
ments
; a stop to all preferwhich
and
rock
saved,
on
are
a
impinge
many
many
;
you

pray

take it.

In sober

evil in it self,or some,

troubleaway ; not that tlie thing is
and happiness
of the
but full of all contentment
; one
thingswhich pleaseGod, Uchen a man and his wife

cast

are

three

and happy estate ; who

honorable
knows
; an
agree tocfether
the
be
as
If
?
it not
they sober, wise, honest,
poet infers;
s

Si commodos
Nullum
If

matcht
fitly

to

be

amores,

voluptatis
genus.
man

and

wife.

wanting to their life.

pleasure's

No

But

nanciscantur

iis abest

undiscreetsensuall

persons, that

as

brutesare

whollyled

plague;many times an hell itself;and

gular
can
give littleor no content, beingthat theyare often so irreintheiraftections.
diverse
their
and prodigious
in
so
lusts,
he said,a wife is a
as
non
Uxor
nomen
di(/nitatis,
voluptatis,
of honour, not of pleasure;she is fit to bear the office,
name

by

sense,

it is

ferall

''

*" Translated by
Ebnlus in Crisil.Athensens dypnosophist.1. 13. c. 3.
my
""
nt credas.
" Juvenal.
dicta
H"c in speciem
cave
brother Ralfe Burton.
hot in
Bacon.
S"ek eternityin memory,
eRatchelors alvrayesare the bravest men.
like Epaminondas,
that,instead of children,lefttwo fcreatvictories behind him,
pcsterj',
fEcclns. 'J8.
eEuripides
which he called his two daughters.
'' j^2Iiiis
Verus
imperatnrSpar. \it. ejus.
Andromach.
"

Love-Meltinvholij.

384

full o"

be
i^ov tttjertijcn

3.
[Part.

Sec. 2.

jcalougif,

(I5v ma5tcr"ulf,
rtc.
or lobeli iicbrUp,

Good

have

moil

Elevoia
o-ood wives

and

to

amne

lus,and

known

often matched

as

are

Herod, Serena

Thyra

and

jvood

often ill wives, as had

to 8'. Lues,Isahella to

had

Edward

our

Dioclesian,Theodora

to

to Gurmunde.

to

crates,
So-

thesecond:

ill hnsl)ands

to

to

as

Mari-

Theophi-

But

of dis1 will say nothingsolute

Imshands, of hafchelors and their vices;their

fiftersubject for
are
a
qualities
ill
town
already every village,
lest I should

and

asXantippewas

just volume, too well

city;theyneed no

and

any matches, or dishearten

maids, for this present,I will let them passe.
lovingblazon

marre

are
so
depraved by
Being that men and women
irreligious,
their
in
so
so
affections, brufish,so subject
nature,
wandring
unobservant
of marriagerites,
M'hat shall
to disagreement,
so
thou
such
beest
thou
such
1 say ? If
a one,
or
a wife,
lighton
there be, Avhat hope of agreement? 'tisnot
what concord can
but co7ijurf/inm
in the -^Emconjnfjinm
; as the reed and feme
and opposite
in nature:
'tistwenty to one
thou
bleme, averse
but
"wilt not marry to thy contentment
in
as
a
:
forty
lottery
drawn
for
of
blanks were
multitude
o
ut
a
one
commonly
prize,
choose
shall
a good one
: a small ease
hence, then,
hardly
you

littlecomfort.
^

If she be

Nee

integrumunquam

Isetus diem.
transiges

she be sucli

If he

or

Thou

hadst

much

one,

better be alone.

barren,she is not

"c.

thy state be not good,though thou

thy chargeMill undo thee.
foecunda

wilt

thou

no

patriscor
when

M'hat

so

education,

hast

they

good

proverb,'Hgwwv

raxva

^Camerar.
more
are

82. cent. 3.

bitter. Bacon.

liberos,ad qiios nihilex

Fonseca.
"^Christoph.

crcumspect,

but

cum
hnnr/er and thirst ?
ro(/antiuin
panem, penetrantes

voces

means,

them

up to the wide
like
to want:
and
plague
and art very careful 1 of their

grievousas

will not

be \vary and

and
children,

tibi prolegravabit;

shift for themselves?

thou

*^

bring-them up ; "^ and what (jreater

to he(jet
children, to whom, thou canst

strident

James dominatnr^
world, to

to

there be,then
other inheritance

miserycan
leave

be able

not

domum

If she have

to

turn

No

be ruled.

irrif/.aTai, Hcroum

Think

but

Jiliinoxcc,

of

that old

great

mens

'' Children
bSimonides.
make misforiunes
Nihil miserius quam
Heinsiiis Epist.Primiero.
procrehiereditate t\ia pervenirevidea.s,
prseterfainem et sitim

""

6. Subs.

Mem.

do well

seldome

sons

of Love-Melancholy.

Cure

3.]

uthiam

pro/ecarerem! Augustus
*

his

and

Ruben, Simeon,

Adoniah
that

wise

exclaims

Levi

mens

optimum
better

to

et

iitilem

have

been

an

bad

Absoion,

fools,insomuch

viar/norum virorum
They had been much

prope

re/lquisse
Jilhim;

i*

'Tis too

childless.

Jacob

Amnon,

an

commonly

Spartianconcludes, Neminem

uut
mansissetn,

in Suetonius.

David

are

sons

coelebs

ant

385

in the middle

common

a drunkard, a gamester, a spendthrift

; thy
Thy sonnes
lazie drones and theeves ;
whore
; thyservants
daughtera fool,a
thy neighboursdivels ; theywill make thee weary of thy life.
when she may not have her will,thou
be froivard,
If thy wij'e
alive
hadst better be buried
; she will be so impatient,
raving
in
there's
Juno
the
like
and
tragedy;
still,
nothing
roaring

sort;

*=

but tempests: all is in an

thou werst better have a
thy secrets : if wise and

If she be soft and foolish,

shame thee and reveal
will
she
block,
there is as
learned, well qualified,

uproar.

side,mnlierem doctam
culosissimum,saith '' Nevisanus, she will be too

much

danger on

ducere

the other

peri-

insolent and

peevish.
Malo

heed

Take
shee'l

if she

be

begger thee,

all Arabia
if fair and

unll

qiiam te Cornelia

Venusinam

not

wanton,

mater.

wilt loath her ; if proud,

shee^l spendthypatrimonyin bawbles,

serve

slut,thou
to

perfume her haire,saith

shee'l make

thee

cornuto

Lucian

if deformed,

paint. If her face be filthyby nature, she will mend

s
ivhich,icho can init by art, alienis et adscititiis imposturis,
thou canst
she will look so filthy,
If she do not paint,
dure ?
she will

not

love

will make
her,and that,peradventure,

thee uuhonest.

unlib.12. hist, relates of Casimirus, ''thathe was

Cromerus
dauohter
of
landsthe
wife
his
Aleida,
because
chast,
Henry,
she
If
be
deformed.
of
so
was
Hessi,
poor, slic brings
grave
discontent.
and
If
Nevisanus)misery
beggerywith her (saith
uncertain how she proves :
you marry a maid, it is

Hsec

forsan veniet

non

satis apta tibi :

civious;
and untaught; \i lusty,
too laswanton
If yong, she is,likely,
where
and
know
v"hen,
and ifshe be not satisfied,
you
nil nisi Jnrgia,all is in an uprore, and there is Httle quietness
to be had : if an old maid, 'tisan hazard she dies in childbed ;

Liberi sibi carcinoniata.

Melius fuerat

eos

sine liberis cbscessisse.

omnia impacata in
Lemnius, cap. 6. lib. 1. Si morosa, si non in omnibus obsequaris,
'' Lib. '2.
numer.
"c.
muttaj
misceri
omnia sursum
videas,
tempestates,
ajdibus,
mariti opuleniiam
e Juvenal.
ffom. 4. Araores. Omnem
101 sil.nup.
mentis sustiEt quissana?
s Idem.
redolens.
totam Arabiani capillis
profundet,
'' Subegitaucillas quod uxor
ejus deformior essct.
nere
queat, "c.
c

VOL.

II.

t' C

Love-

386

Melancholy.

if a rich widdow, ""inducps te in

all away
self; she will make
children, "c.
''

dominam

laqueum,tbou
before

dost halter

hand,

quispossitfeiTe

Sec. 2.

[Part.3.

her

to

tonantem

she will hit thee stillin the teeth with her firsthusband
and

yongwiddow, she is often unsatiable

immodest.

a great dowry, or
rich,well descended, bring'

friends will

thy wives

eat

thee out

of house

cedihus inducit ; she will be

imperious. For

ruinnm
so

nihil est

will ride

gosse-hauk,she
^

the breeches

wear

and

if a

noblyallied,
home,

dives

dite ;

shalt be

as

the tassell of

thee, domineer

she

as

list^

heroligarchicall
g-overnment, and begger
Uxores divites serritutem exirjunt,
(asSeneca hits

thee besides.

them

npon

be

If she be

proud,so high-minded,

so

magis intolerabile

thou
nothingso intolerable,

there's

thy

other

in

declam.lib.2.

declnm.G.)Doteniaccepi,imperiumperdidi.

will have

arcessis ;
sovcraignty,
They
pro conjuge dominam
In
they will have attendance,they Mill do M'hat they list.
dos intrat^libertas
taking a dowry thou loosest thy liberty,
**

thine estate.

exit,hazardest

atque alise niultm in magnis dotibus

"c.
Incommoditates, sumptnsque intolerabiles,

Hse

with many
w

sunt

such

inconveniences.

Say

the

best,she is a

manding
com-

servant; thou hadst better hav(? taken a good husSince then, there is such hazard,
maid in her smock.
ifely

if thou
mucli

be wise, keep thy self

better to be free.
procreare liberos

Ilercle

thou

Art

vero

liberum

yong ? then

as

thou

art

; 'tis

good to match,

lepidissimuni,

esse, id multo

match

not

est

yet ;

lepidius.

if old,

match

not

all.

at

*"

juvenisnubere ? nonduni vcnit tempus.

Ingravcscenteaetale jam tempus prtetcriit.

And

Vis

with
therefore,

that

stillmakeanswer
philosopher,

to

thy

Dives inducit tempesfatera,

pauper curam
; ducens viduam
^ Si
'Si dotata
quisquedicit,alteram ducit famen.
'' If"
c
onabitur.
Petrarch.
viro
a woman
erit,iinperiosa,
inequitare
continuoqne
Eccl-is. 25. 22.
nniirisliher husband, she is angry and impudent, and fullof reproach.
^ Stobseus
";Plautu3 Mil. filor.act. 3. sc. 1.
Scilicet uxori nubere nolo meas.
06. Alex, ah Aiexand. lib.4. cap. 8.
ser.
25.
Sil. nnp. 1.2. outn.
inducit in laqueum.

"1

se

6. Subs.

Mem.

importunethee

friends

that

'tisyet

unseasonable,and

adhuc

to marry,

intempeslivum,

will be.

ever

free, how

withall how

Consider

387

of Love-Melnncholi/.

Cure

3.]

happy,

how

how

secure,

he said in the

is, as
coheavenly,in respect,a singleman
isti
Et
uxor
em
fortunatuviesseautumant,
moedy,
quod
muKpiarn
admire and applaud
habui,and that which all my neighbours
had a wife ;
I never
so
me
for, account
great a happiness,
consider how contentedly,
neatly,
plentifully,
sweetly,
quietly,
hath
for but
to care
and
how
no
man
merrilyhe lives ! he
to please,
no
himself;none
charge,none to controle him, is
*

when,
may go and come,
he
and
do
what
master,
whither, live where he will,his own
^
of virgins,
ccelum
listhimself.
Consider the excellency
Virf/o

tied to

no

residence,no

to serve,

cure

the earth,but virginity

Paradise^
'mer?"7,man-iage
replenishes
is a
wereTjachelors
:
Elias,Tlliseus, John Baptist
Virginity
a never
a fair garland,
fadingflowre ;
pretiousjewell,
was
Daphne turned to a green bay tree, but to shew

"

for

why

that virginity

is immortall ?
^

Ut flos

nascitur

secretus
inseptis

hortis,

nuilo contusus
Ignotuspecori,

Quam

mulcent

Sic

virgodum

Cum

castum

aratro,
firmat Sol, educat
chara
intacta manet, dum
auroe,

imber, "c.
suis,sed

amisit,"c.

calls it;a blessed

"Bonaventure
is a fine picture,
as
Virginity
thingin it self,and if you will believe a papist,meritorious.
And
inconveniences, irksomeuess,
althoughthere be some

solitariness,"c.

incident

comforts, qnce ccgro

to

assideat

such
et

persons,
curet

of

want

those

cvyrotmn,fomentvm

embracing,dalliance, kissing,
and wanton
anew
"c.
pleasures
colling,
spect,
married wife most part enjoyes;yet they are but toyes in recumbrances
those
to be endured, if conferred to
frequentineasily
solitariness may be otherwise avoided
of marriage;
business, imployment;
with mirth, musick, good company,

paret, rof/et mediciim,

tVc.

those furious motives

dolebit ; for their

Gandehit
minus, et viinus
thinks sometime
he shall have good dayes. And
me
good nights,
other, amongst so many rich bachelors, a benefactor
or

in

word,

should be found to build amonasticall

discontented maids
deformed
or
have
are

lost their first

howsoever
willing

loves, or
to

lead

for old,decayed,
college
to live togetherin, that

otherwise
a

miscarried,or else

singlelife. The

rest, I say,

not defiled witli women.

They shall attend the Lamb in heaven, because they were
"^ Daphne
Hier.
Paradisum.
14.
virginitas
r
eplent
i^Nuptice
terram,
Apoc.
virginibus
p
udicitiam
docet gloriamparatam
immortalem
in laurum semoer
virentein,
*

'

servantibus.

22.
^ Catul. Car. nuptiali.
"= Diet, salut. c.
f Mart.
infinitipretii,
et picturaspeciosa.
gemma
.

mum

sertum

Pulchern-

Love-MelancJioly.

388

[Part.3.

Sec. 2.

toyes in respect, and

sufficiently
recompensed l"ytliose
of virginity.
incomparableprivjlcdges
Think, of these tliing^s,
confer both lives,
and consider
last of all,these commodious
a bachelor
prerogatives
hath,
how
well he is esteemed, how
w
elcome
all
to
his
heartily
Tertullian observes,with
as
friends,
obsapiiis,
(luam 7ne7ititis
Avhat counterfeit curtesies they will adore him, follow him,
hcnnatis dnnh : it cannot
he beleeved,
present him with gifts,
(saith
^Aramianus)icitk what humble service he shall be worshipped,
how loved and respected If he want
children (and
have means) he shall be oftenimnted, attended on by princes^
are

inniuuerable

and

contents

have

and

advocates

addes.

to

plead his

thou

Wilt

then

for nothinr/,
as

cause

be

reverenced

and

''

tarch
Plu-

had

in

estimation

dominus

"^

et domini

tamen

rex

nullus tibi parvulusaula

fieri,
Luserit ^neas, nee filiadulcior ilia?
Si tu vis

Jucundum

slerilis facit

et charum

uxor

singleman, inarry not, and thou

those Haeredipetffi
(forso they were

Live

how

amicum.

shalt soon
called of

perceive
old)will

seek after thee,bribe and flatter thee for thyfavour,to be thine

Aruntius
and Aterius, those famous
heire or executor
:
rasites
pain this kinde,

Tacitus

and

''

Seneca
have recorded,
shall not go beyond them.
that g-ood
Periplectomines
perdelicium senis,
Avell understood
old man,
this in Plnutus;
sonat
as

for when

Pleusides exhorted

children

of his own,
habeo

Quando
Nunc

bona

nil

apud

To

I have

I live

Now
And

when

them

dicam
cog-natis

interpartiant.
ecquidvelim,

curant, visunt quid agam,

ad piandium,ad coenam
munera,

edunt, me

Qui mihi mittunt

Whilst

marry, that he might have

readily
repliedin this sort,
to

cognates, quid opus mihi sitliberis?

fortunate, atque animo ut lubet.

morte

mea
me

him

multos

vivo et

bene

Mea

he

kin,what

well,and

as

need
I

vocant.

I brats to have ?

will,most

brave.

I'llgive away

I dye,my goods
that do invite me
every
send

That

visite mc,

and

And

strive who

shall do

me
me

day,

pretty toyes.
most

curtesies.

This respect thou shalt have in like manner,

as he did,a
livingBut
if
thou
in
omni
vita te
singleman.
coyitato
marry once,
servnm
forc^ bethink thyselfwhat a slaveryit is ; what an
'

a Lib. 24.
QuH obsequionim diversitate colantur boniiiiessine liberis).
b Hnnc
aliiad canam
oriitores "gratis
Lib. de
patrocinantur.
iiivitant,
princepshuic famuiatur,
"-AuDal. 11.
^CO de beuefic.38.
eEGra;co,
amore
prolis.
^

6. Subs.

Mem.

heavy burJhen
tied to, (foras
uxoris

et

thou shalt

of Love-Melancholy,

389

task thou art

hahet, debitor esty

hard

undertake; how

hath

it,qui uxorem
and how continuate,what
alligatiis,}

Hieronie

sermis

squalor

for wife and children

irksoineness,what
charges;
bill of charges; besides a myriade of cares,
perpetuall

attends
are

Cure

4]

what
it,

miseries,and troubles

trulysaid,He
ship,or marry
children

have

undone

accompany

tumuit, ^c.

or

for

that comical

as

Plautus

and
merrily

that wants
trouble,must get to be master of a
another seconds
him, wife and
as
a wife ; and
me

; so

this kinde

and such infinite incumbrances

many,
of life. Furthermore, uxor
in-

he said in the

as

comoedy

alia cura.
quarn ibi miseriam vidl ! nati filii,
nofriend will esteem
and invitations cease,
All gifts
thee,and
thou shalt be compelledto lament thy misery,and make
thy
a

Duxi

Scheraeus

with ^Bartholomaeus

moane

and

uxorem

professorof Hebrew

in

long since,but that

work

Witenberge :

?"^er

poet laureat,

that famous

alia dura

et

finished this

I had

tristia,
quce misero

(I use his own words) amongst

pcene tergum frecjerunt
broke my back avl^vjix.
oh Xantiwhich
almost
miseries
many
pismum; a shrew to my wife, tormented my minde above
So shalt thou be compelledto
and beyond the rest.
measure,
mihi

complain,and to cry out at last,with '^Phoroneus

How
happy had I been,if I had icanteda wife!

the

lawyer,

If this which

lib. 4. cap.
in Lemnius
said will not suffice,see more
13. de occult, nat. niir. Esnenaceus de continentid. lib.6. cap. 8.
dial. Practica artis
in Amor.
de viryinitate
Kornman
; Platina

I have

amandi;
and

him

Barbarus

de

that is instar

almost
nuptial,

re

nxorid.

omnium

Arnisceus

in

the
Nevisaniis,

polit.cap. 3;

lawyer,Sylva

in every page.

SUBSECT.

IV.

PhilterSfMagicalland Poeticall Cures.

Where

perswasionsand other remedies will not take

amulets, magick
philters,
place,many flyto unlawful means;
wound
as
a
characters, charmes, which
spells,ligatures,
and caused, must
so
with the spear of Achilles,if so made
saith
Paracelsus,
and
If forced by spells
philters,
be cured.
be eased by characters,
Fernelius Pa^/i.
incantations.
it must

Mag.
/i6.'
6.

lib. 2. cap. 28. and

ca/?. 13.

"^

by

Sckenkius
'^

BriK^n.

*" Itineraria in
Ter. Adelph.
psalmosinstructione ad lectorem.
d Exfelicitatem defiiisset.
deesset, nihilmihi ad summam
lib.7. cap. 22. Si uxor
fabula est, nonuulh reenim
maleficiis
incantamentorum
virilitas
neqtie
;
ex
stinguitur
sunt, ut ex niultishistoriispatet.
privati
pertisunt,quiex veneficiis amore
a

Love-Melancholy.

090
4. observ. Med.
I'll).

hath

[Part.3.

examplesof such as
cured; and by m
magically

Sec. 2.

have

some

been

itch-craft:
caused, and
in;ip,icnlly
H. cap. 6. de mor.
Malsaith Kaptista
Codronchus, li//.
ven.
'Tis
1
confess ;
not permitted
to be done,
k'us malef.cap. Q.
Wierus
in
lih.
3.
often
see
more
attempted
cap. 18. de
yet
2.
prccstnj.deremedih per PJii/tra.Dchlo torn. 2. lib.2.(jiia:st.
sect. 3. disquisit.
nuujic. Cardan lib.16. cap. 90. reckons up
medicines, as to pissthroufrh a ring,"c.
mag-netical
many
LobeiMizaldus coit. 3. 30.
BaptistaPorta,Jason P'ratensis,
absurd remedies.
Wixspag.87" Matthiolus,"c. prescribe
many
ebibkoi
anmili
Radix
ex
mandruf/ora;
;
unynUs asiul ; siercus
cervical
ilia
sub
amatcc
nesciente,S^c.quuin odorem
positum,
solvitur.
JS^ocina^ ovum
abstemios
sentit,amor
jceditatis
facit comestuin, ex consilio larthce Indorum f/omnosophista:
lib. 3.
Sanyuis amasicc ebibitus omnem
(ipudPhilostratum
so

so

amoris

Faustinam

tollit :

scnsum

Marei

Aurelii

uxorevi^

consilio Chaldaorum
ffladiaioresa more
captam, ita penitrts
Julius
of our
Some
liberafam, rej'ert
Capitolinus.
astrologers
Avill effect

much

as

characteristical

by

images, ex

Siyilli^

Ilcrmetis,Salomonis, Chaelis,^'c.mulieris imayo habentis

writers have
6fc. Our old poets and pliantastical
crinessjmrsos,
for such as are
fabulous remedies
love-sick : as that
many
in Philostratus,
in his dialoguebetwixt
of Protesilaus tombe
the

of
Vinitor,upon occasion, discoursingtelleth
him
Protesilaus
that
shrine,

and Vinitor.

Phoenix

of that

virtues

rare

altar and

[ombe

almost

cures

dropsies,
quartan
such

as

saith Sands

bee
she

From

Cum

vesana

which

she could

know

of him

Juno,thithergo to
others.

Curat

ease

onines

know

what

her

to

of

do to

Petra,where

freed; and

when

it,he told her again,

he

was

enamored

on

hiniself,andafter himdiverse

wash

love of

love,

she should

Leucata

forthwith

reason

for

after the

medullas,

when
'Jupiter,

and

Cephalusfor the

in Greece, of
Saint 3Iaures,

Venus

rest

no

flamma

torreret

that he had often observed

take

the

she woultl needs

far from

cured.
instantly

was

suas

not

rock

self
rock, if any lover flung him-

temple of Apollo to
eased of her pain: Apollosent
herself,and was
pracipitated
to

came

lib. 1.

Adonis, Mhen
''"

renowned

writes, Geoy.lib.10.

headlong,he

down
of

Petra, that

Leucata

Avhich Strabo

death

aynes,

of diseases,
tions.,
consumpeys ; and,amonystthe resty
be helped. But the most
mous
fa-

sore

shall there
love-sicky

are

is

allmanner

Protela,Degonetus
daughter,

morboB, phtliises,
hydropes, ei ociiloriim niorbos, et febre quartnna
art'ibiis
''The moral is,vehedeniulcet.
eos
capfos, riiiris

et aiiiorf
lalioraiitis,

lit tear
Io"p.
Catullus.]
(i^xpells
solitus lavare,8:c.
iuipotentef^ibi

iii"

";

"^

Quuui JuuoDcm

Jupiter
deperiret

uchohi.

Love-Mela

392

SUBSECT.

Sec.

2.

V.

best Cure of'

is,to let them
Lovc-3Iclanckoli/,
have their Desire.

laat and

The

[Part.3.

refngeand surest remedy,to be put in practicein

other means
will take effect,is,to
when
no
tlie utmost
place,
and
cvra
let them go together,
enjoyeone another; potissima
saith
heros
sua,
amasid
Guianerius,cap. 15.
potiatur,
est ut
invent
himself,to this malady,cannot
tract. 15.
iEsculapius
cedat
amanti
better remedy, fjuam ut
amatum,
a
"(Jason
have
his
desire.
lover
that
then
a
Pratensis)
J. HE

last

torulo
pariter

Et

bin!

jun^anturin uno,
Lavinia conjiix.

detur ^Enese
Et pulcbro
both

joyned in

be

And

let them

And

let .Slneas fair Lavinia

bed,

wed.

bleed in vend Hi/menccd,for

cure, to let them
special
let it be :
and if it be possible,
so
is a pluresie,

'Tis the
love

optataque gaudiacarpant.
holdsitthe

^Arculanus

rolas '^lastprecept;

the best cure; 'tisSavanaspeedicstand

infallible remedy; ibe last,
principall

sole,and safestrefuge.
''

flammas,
extinguere
sed potes ignepari.
glacie,

sola potes nostras

Juba
Non

nive,non

Julia alone

quench my desire,

can

Willi neither ice

When

have

you

all

nor

but with like fire.

snow,

done, saith

"

Avicenna, there be

no

acor
safercourse^ then to joyn the partiestof/ether
speedier
and
the
custome
to their desires and wishes,
forme of
cordiufi

law

and

so

we

have

restored
(juicAlif

him

seen

to

his former

Ian finished
health,that was
awaii to shin and bones ; afterhis
and we
his discontent ceased,,
flesire iras satisfied,
thouqht it
that
opinionis,therefore,

stranr/e;our
be

to

obeifcd. Arateus,

instance of

yong

author,lib. 3.

old

'when

man

Cap. 19. (1e morh. cerebri.

riira.

an

no

bPatiens

cap. 16. in 9 Rliasis.

in such

other

means

re amata,
potiatur

cases,

nature

is

cap. 3. hath an
could prevail,
si fieripossit,
optima

Si nihil aliiui,
et copiilatio
cum
niiptiie

ea.

invenitur cura, nisi regimen conet legis

nt-xioniH inter con, secunrluni modiim
; et sic vidimus ad camem
promis.sionis,
sensit,"c.
ad arefac fioneni ; evanuit cura
restitiitura,
qui Jam venerat
po"t"iuan"
f Fama
ubi puellsese
se hauentein,
est melancholirum
quendam tx aniore iusanabjliter

"'

Pelronins Catal.

"r.
conjunxissct,
rcstitutum,

Cap. de llislii.Non

6. Subs.

Mem.

them

Citre

of Love- Melancholy.
What

relieved.
speedily

so

was

5.]

then

remains

393
but

to

joyn

illmarriage ?
et basia

^Tanc

morsiunculasque

fovere
Surreptimdare,mutuos
licet
et
jocari.
Amplexus licet,

They

coll, lye and

then kiss and

may

look

their syres before them did :

which
themselves with loves pleasures,

others eys,

as

and

wished

babys in one antiate

they may then satheyhave so long-

expected.
Atque uno simul in tcro quiescant,
Conjunctosimul ore suavientur,
Et somnos
agitentquietein una.

Yea, but hie labor, hoc

done, by

of many

reason

be
conveniently
opns^ this cannot
and severall impediments. Sometimes

themselves are not agreed: parents,tutors,

parties
guardians,will not give consent; lawes, customes,
fear and suspition
hinder : poverty, superstition,
:

both
masters,
statutes

many

much

dote

men
on

him,

it known,

one

woman,

semel

et

simul:

she dotes

a"

them, and in modesty must

not, cannot
woo,
to love : she dare not make
confess,as willing

or

unwillingto

as

on

her

shew

or
affection,
speak her minde.

And

/iart/l

either^
choyce(asit is in Euphues) ichen one is compelled,
with
live
shame,
with
to
o
r
silence
to
by
speaking
grief,
dye
by
the
inthiscasealmost, was the faire ladyElizabeth,Edward

is the

on
Henry the
daughter,when she was enamored
saluted king,when
and new
seventh, that noble yong prince,
forth into that passionate
she break
speech, O that I were
!
but
my father beingdead, I
worthy of that comely prince
shall I say ? I
such a matter
! What
want friendsto motion
minde to any.
What, if
all alone, and dare not open my
am
with
it ? bashfulness
forbids. What,
I acquaintmy mother
that I might but
0
lords
?
audacitywants.
of the
if some
conferwith him, perhapsin discourse I might let slipsuch a
How
modest
word that might discover mine intention !
many

fourth his

''

maids
1

am

ome,

I am
a poor
servant, what shall I do?
may this concern,
blith and buxfatherless child,and want
means
; I am
and lusty,but I have never
a
suiter;exspectant

yong

stolidi ut ego illos rogatum veniam, as '^shesaid;

of silly
fellows, look, belike,that I should woo
speak first: fain they would and cannot woo ;
d

q^ge

primum

exordia

sumam

company
and
them

^
"
Jovian. Poutanus, Basi. lib. 1.
Speede'shist. e. MS. Ber. Andreae.
"i Virg.4. /En.
Lucre'iia in Coelestina,
act. 19. Barthio interpret.

Love-Melancholy.

394

3.
[Part.

may not make

inconveniences, which 1 know

sute, with many

they
bein!?incerlypassive,
h'ts and

such

do in such

we

Some

are

so

dearlylove,

Fortune
sing'

curious in this
Dutch

Venetians

modern

by

case

the

not;

what

shall

Foe?

my

those old

as
belialf,

and

Sec. 2.

Romans,

that if two

French,

our

parties

noble, the other ig-noble,

they may

one

not

tunes,
though equalotherwise in yeers, forIn Germany, except
by three descents,theyscorn to match
gentility

match,

their lawes

education, and all good affection.

they can

prove
them.
A

with

genllemans:

otherwise,
all

abhor

marry

noble

woman

knight,a knights;agenlleman,
their slattes,do theydegrees
never
rich, faire,well-qualified
so
The
him forsake her.
Spaniards
a

slatters sort

as

If she be

families.

and

must

man

daughter;

baron, a barons
a

noble

make

they will

repute them

the Turks

widdowes;

past five and twenty.

But

these

strict customes, dandum.

aliquidaniori

too

are

old

lawes, and

severe

we

are

if

women,

all the

of

sons

to nature, it ought not to be so.

Again,
; 'tisopposite
she
loves
and
not
so
tra.
he loves her most
him,
e conimpotently,
Pan loved Echo, Echo
Satyrus,SatyrusLyda.

Adam

""

aniantem
oderat,
ipsorum aliquis
odiosus
erat.
amans
ipsius

Quantum
Tantum

love and loath of all sorts

is loathed of him, on whom

They
and

love,all

to force

darts,one

"'^ Quod

Another

of

"^

we

gold,and

facit auratum

dearlyloved

Choresus

he loved

verified

often

too

her, the

that

more

to

two

hinder;

amorem.

in

our

common

experience.

but
virginCallyrrhol-,

she hated

her
rejected
therefore created

that

Cupid hath
sharp,

est.

blunt,of lead,and that

see

her, she hates him;

siie dotes.

fugathoc, facit iUud

This

he loves

him.

Oi-none

stiffeof all

the

loved

more

Paris,

sides,as
beauty
I giveher all
undo, or be undone.
"^
attendance, all observance, I pray and intreat,
Alma^ precor,
miserere mei, faire mistress pityme, I spend my self,
my time,

but
were

he

theyare

if

to

friends and
*

in the
fortunes to win her favour, (ashe complains
to her,
Eglogue,)I lament, sigh,weep, and make mymoane

but she is hard

as

flint;

cautibus

Ismariis immotior

""Ovid. Met.
": Pausanias
a E
Acha'icislib.7.
1.
Graeco Moschi.
vehementior, tanto
Perdite amabat Callyrrhoen
nrginem, et quanto erat Choresi amor
i"
" Erasmus
alienior.
animus ab ejusamore
"rat pnelljn
Virg.6. iEn.

Egl.Galatea.

6. Subs.

MeiQ.

hard

faire and

as

tics tihi

sum) or

Cure

5.]
as

diamond, she will

hear

not

respect,{Despec-

me.

fugitilia vocanlem,
lachrymasmiserata

Nil

395

of Love-Melancholy.

nil flexa

meas,

querelis.

shall 1 do ?

What

should
yong man
Sir,she said,I love not you.
her

I wooed

But
a

Durior at

as

mea
scopidis

Robore, rupe, antro,

do,

ferro,
Coelia,marmore,
adamante, gelu,
cornu,

-"

Rock, morble, heart of oak with iron bar'd

hard.
not
are
so
Frost, flint or adamants
I

give,I bribe, 1
b

Rusticus

I swear,
protest,

send presents,but
est

Coridon,

I weep

they are
curat

munera

nee

refused.
Alexis.

amores,
odioquerependit
lachrymas
c

Irri^u

She

for all this ; she derides me, contemns

Phillida flouts me
: Caute,J'eris,
quercu

neglectsme

she hates

me:

churlish,rocky still.
Enrydice,stifFe,
And 'tis most
gentlewomen are
true, many
scorn

body

so

me,

durior

nice, they

and think no
all suiters,crucifie their poor paramours;
good enough for them, as daintyto pleaseas Daphne

her self.
"i

ilia aspernatapetentes,
peti^re,
quidHymen, quidamor, quid sint connubia,curat.

Multi illam

Nee

Many
And

did

woo

she scorn'd them

her,but

said she would

not

marry

by

her

still,

will.

they will not marry, as they say at least,(when as

another while not yet,when
'tistheir
nothingless,)
but not
only desire ; they rave upon it. She will marry at last,
but he wants
him: he is a proper man
indeed,and m ell qualified,
hath
another
of
her
suiters
means
good means, but he wants
while

One

theyintend

wit;

one

is too

old, another

too

yong,

too

deformed, she likes

third too

loosely
given,he is rich,but base
born : she will be a gentlewoman,a lady,as her sister is,as
her mother
is : she is all out as faire,
as well broughtup, hath
and she looks for as good a match, as Matilda
as good a portion,
not

his

carriage
; a

''Angerianus
ErotopzEgnioru

'"Virg.

cLouchceus.

* Ovid.

Met. I.

or

Melancholy.

Love-

39G

Dorinda

yoijor

if not, she is resolved

to booole

maids

at

yet

as

object,
so

every

hard

so
quicklydiverted,

[Part.3. Sec. 2,
to

tarry:

soon

won

apt

so

or

are

lost with

to be

pleased.In the
toye,
suiter
one
time, qiiottorsit amanfes/
pines away, lanmean
sio-h's
!
mori
another
in
and
(juotdemqw. cof/it
guisheth love,
so

every

she
grieves,

and which ^Stroza

not:

cares

objectedto

Ariadne

magis Euriali gemitu,lacrymisque

raoveris,

Nee

prece turbati flectiturora salt.

formosior alter in urbe,
Tu juvenem,quo non
insane
mori.
e
t
cogisamore
Spernis,

Quam

Is

with those sad

mov'd

more

no

Of her sweet-heart, then

Thou scorn'st the fairest
almost

him

mak'st

And

sighsand

tears

with prayers
raging
youth in all our city,
sea

for love to

mad

dye.

to makeyong
They take a prideto prank up tiiemselves,
enamored,

viros
''captare
to dote

tbera,and

on

*=
"

et spernere

scd nullis iliamovetur

Fletibus,aut

ullas tractabilis audit:

voces

their favours theydiscover.

niggardly

Whilst

They love

to

be

belov'd,yet

as

are

men

et

be over-run,
curious
as

theymust

Atalanta

them, presents too base:

gaudetamantis

Tormentis

the lover.

scorn

All suit and service is too littlefor

As

captos,

for their sakes,

mad

to run

men

or

obstinate,and

spoliis.
not

Many yongchoycc,as tyran*

won.

in their

as irrefrao-able
deceitful,
false-hearted,
proud,insulting-,
nically
and peevishon the other side ; Narcissus like.

''Multi ilium

lenera

Nulli ilium

juvenes,nullte

Yong

and

men

in his

Yong

and

men

or
pittyme
pitty,

Ante

he would
after

rather

maids

superbiaforma,

puellec.
petiere

did to him

sue,

youth so proud,so

wept and wooed

Echo

tarn dira

Sed fuit in

But

for

puellae,
juvenes,multae petiere

maids

coy was
him adiew.

bad

by oil means
for

above

love,but be

ait cmoriar

quam

was

he,
the rest ; love
obstinate.

sittibi copianostri,

dye then give consent.

Psyche ran whining

Cupid,

Erot. Lib. 2.

bx. H.

me

^virg.^ ^a

"^

Metamor.

3.

6. Subs.

Mem.

Formosum

Et

Psyche formosa requirit,

Deum, puerumque
puella.

Dia

Cupid,thy faire Psyche to

Faire

lovelylass

397

te

tua

poscitte

of Love- Melancholy.

Cure

5.]

fine yong

thee

sues,

gallantwooes

but he

Thus many
her nevertheless.
lovers do hold
rejected
s
tand
in
their
till
on
own
themselves,
long,doting'
light,
in the end they come
and rejected,
to be scorned
as Strozas
was
Garg-iliana
;
out

so

Te

od^re

juvenes,te

desertaquelangues,
publicacura prius.

senes,

Qute fueras proccrum

Both
That
as

once

Narcissus

old do hate thee scorned

now,

all iheir

too.

and

yong

was

joyeand

comfort

himself,

was

"Who

despising
many,
he could

Died, ere

love of any.

enjoyethe

themselves
of others,as he was
They begin to be contemned
and
with
take
a
ing-man
shadow,
poor curat, or an old servup
had their choyce of right
at last,that might have
good matches in their youth; like that generous mare, in
of his

Plutarch,which

when
saw

her tail M'as

her

self

admit

would

oft'and

cut

none

mane

in the water,

deformed

so

but great horses ; but

shorn close,and she now

of

when

drink, ah ashio conscendi sepassa, she

was

be covered

common

not

be

by
and
left,

an

Yet

ass.

cannot

be

this is

she

came

contented

at

to

last to

humour, Avill

helped.

volo quES non

vult,illam quae vult ego nolo:
vult animos, non
satiare Venus.

*^Hanc

Vincere
I love
She

maid, she loves

would

have

me,

not

me

but I not

full fain

her

again;

So

love to crucifie mens

soules is bent,
But seldoth doth it please
or
givecontent.

Their love
about; he

danceth

in

dotes,is doted

ring,and Cupid
on
again.

hunts

them

round

accendit etardet;
Dumque petit
petitur,
pariterque
their affection cannot
be reconciled. Oftentimes
'tistheir
that
will not;
foolish proceedings
own
are

too distrustful of

rich,thou poor
most

and

they may
mars

: say she be
dejected
thou
and faire,
she lovely

themselves,

thou

"Fracastorius

all;they

too soon

she yong, thou old :

illfavoured and deformed
thou base
: she noble,

fine,but

and

an

ugly clown

Dial, de aniiu.

nil

Dial.

am.

she

pruce

there's
desperandum,
'^Ausonias.

-i^*^
Love-

:J98

Melancholy.

[Part.3.

Sec. 2.

hope ^noiioh yet. Mopxn Ntsa datur ; qnid non speremus

? Put thyself forward once
matches
as unlikely
amantcs
more,
ami are dailymade, see what will be the erent.
have been
loath hony and
love
Many leave roses and gather thistles,
various
are
as
as
our
our
monly
palates. But comlikings
verjuice;
omit
oscnla
opportunities,
^c. they
they
(juisnmpsit,
usual
and
times.
the
means
neglect
that will not when
he may,
When
he wiil he shall have nay.
He

They

and sued
wooed, soughtafter,

look to be

IMost part,

to.

cannot, either for the above-named

or
reasons,
for that there isa multitude of suiters equally
enamored,dotingalone must speed,
what shall become
all alike ; and where one

they will and

Hero

of the rest?

Penelopehad
In such

cases,

v,as

beloved
of

of many,

unsettle his affections

^

divert his

quiu stultos

enjoyeher;

selves,
wiselyand warilyunwind themthose
rules
above
by
prescribed,
excutit

ignes;

else bravelybear
or
cogitations,

did, Tua sit Lamn'ia

heroical scorn
a kindof

did

one

suiters,
yet all missed of their aym..

company
he or theymust

but

conjux;

when

he could

he bid ^Eneas

take

it out,

Turnus

as

gether,Mith

not

with

her,

or

milder

farewel,let her go.

Et Phillida solus

habeto,

take her to you, God giveyou joye,sir. The fox in the

would eat no grapes, but why r because he could not
them : care not thou for that which may not be had.
Many such inconveniences, lets and hinderances there

are,

and crucifiepoor
wliichcross their projects,
again,cannot be so
may, sometimes

But

put

case,

theybe reconciled
likingbe

lovers;which
;

get

times
some-

removed.
easily

all,agreedhitherto

blem
em-

suppose

this

betwixt

two
alone, both partieswell
good
and great affection :
is
mutual
love
there
viutnitsamor^
pleased,
thence all
tutors, cannot
agree;
yet their parents,guardians,
match
the
is
is dashed :
unequal;one rich,another poor : du-

love

ru3

not

or

pater,nu
marry

hard-hearted,unnatural, a

his son, except he have

so

covetous

much

mony;

father will
ita in

an-

nor
Chrysostome notes
joyn his
in
her
for
that
(o
he
dowry or
cannot
daughter marriage, save
rum

omnes

insaniunt, as

for the service

spare her
witli nothingwhilest he

she doth

him, and

is resolved to

part

not
a penny,
lives,
thoughhe may perwill
he
tillhe
well
dies
not
adventure,
giveit,
; and then as a

O^-id- Met. 9.

Horn. 5. in 1 episLTliess. cap. 4.

ver.

1.

Loce-Melancholtf.

400

3.
[Part.

"
in. 4. sent, flenies that he
aijd noiiavonture
that marries a maid
s'l/is,
fil/if
for romrliHPSs
ainon.o-st the
Jews, Deut. 21. 11. if they saw

her

to

should

They

ife.

if there be no
especially
])ediment. 'Tis good
that in their contracts
vj'
poor folks,or seek

such
for

yonr/

bo

not

too

in that

severe

occasion

urgent

should

men

afterrich.

vrniThe

oj'person.

"Plato

holds,

avoid the

never

Povertyand

kinde,

img-rievous

or

commonwealth.

(is

beaua
captives
observed,)might take

(some small circumstances

tifiill
woman,

much

so

Sec. 2.

base

affinitrf

parentage

recompenced by many other good qualisufficiently

ties,
and
'"/
modesty, vertue, religion choyce bringingup.
I therefore
and an.
am
contemptible,
; hut am
poor, I confess
object? Love it selfis naked, the Graces, the Stars ; and
be

may

Hercules

clad in

was

lions skin.

Give

love,wisdomc, favour,beauty,person;
Besides
cannot

to
soaietliing

be

consider
that Amor
you must
be compelled,
theymust aiiect

partihusHits qnas
and hanging-goes
riag-e
est in

vertue,

all for mony.

potest,love

not

non
cofji
Fatum
as
they may.
sinus abscondit,as the saying"
is,marin
made
are
by destiny,matches
'^

heaven.
It lies not in
For will in

maid

servant

which

us

she

Arista^netus

fortunehath

made

her

her mistress

The

sore.

by tlie hair of
cryed,O mistress,

the house

about

wench

"^

your servant^ but not my soule !

to be commanded.
Moreover, it may

body

my

free,not

are

loved

minion,
in
a jeart^wiJ/Zr/i^jowc,
perceived,y?"'/o.s"
lous

dragged her

head, and vexed

Affections

'^

in

her dame

when
humour

the

to love or hate,
power
is ovcr-rul'cl by fate.

our

be to restrain their ambition, prideand covetousness,

to
those hereditarydiseases of a family,God in his
and
judgement assig-ns
1

am

of Plato

bounds

and

extent

or

which

tuall tenor

'Bodines

and

well

periods

as

continuance

yeers,
and

permitssuch

as

to be made.

have

that families

mind,
as

just
For

their

kingdomes,beyond which, for

theyshall

theythere

Peucerand

matches

rect
cor-

not

exceed,six

illustrate by

^Melancthon

or

seven

multitude of

approve:

dred
hun-

examples,

but in

perpe-

pcdegreesof

gentlemen,
knights,
by many
they began,for many descents with little
alteration.
to
Howsoever, let them 1 say, give somethingwhom
love.
think
must
not
to
they can fancy
youth,
They
yeomen)

(as

M'esee

continue

as

"Lib. 6. de leg. Ex usu reipnblicwest, ut in nuptiis

juveiiesneque paiiperum aflSnitatetn fugiant,
cliviliiiii
sectentur.
pauper
';I'liilost.
ep. Qiinuiaiii
neque
et Astra
et aojectior
nudusest, (Jratia;,
tibi \idear? Ainor i|)se
sum, idcirco conteinptior
"! Lib. 'i.
Juvenal.
ep. 7
; Hercules
pelleleoiiina indufus.
'De repub.
e.Ejulansinquit,non mentem
addixit niihi foituna sir\itute.
una
t; Com.
in car. Chron,
c. de period,rerunipub.
'

Mem.

6. Subs.

Cure

5.]

of Love- Melanclwly.

401

enim non imperatur,

liber si quis
^Amor
affectns
theyappoint;
this is a free passion,
alias et vices exigens^
as Plinysaid in a
be forced.
not
Love
of his,and may
craves
paneg-yrick
it
nuitiiall
the
a
as
spondency
affection^,correliking-,
sayingis; requires
:

invito

datur

non

himself

learned, Ovid

nee

teach

cannot

it laiy not
be
attj'ertur,
how
Solomon
us
to love,

Helena expresse it. They must not

or
paint,
pelles
enim (asFabius urgeth)
compellor intrude ; qtiis

A
describe,

therefore
amare

alieno animo

potest ?

but

consider

withall the miseries

marriages
youth; and such,
; take pittyupon
be very
above the rest, as have daughters
to bestowe,should
in due time.
Siracides
car^fuU and provident
to marry them
'25. calls it a weightymatter
to perform,so to
cap. 7. vers.
of
a daughterto a man
understandingin due time :
marry
Lemnius
enim tempestive
locandce,as
admonisheth,
Virgines
lib. 1. cap* 6.
Virginsmust be providedfor in season, to
of enforced

prevent many

of which
diseases,

lib. 2. cap. 3. and

affect,
cap, 4. de melanch.
And

Rodericus

Lod.

mulierum

discoursed.
larg-ely

'^

Castro de morbis

Mercatus

virginumet

therefore

as

lib. 2. de mulier.
viduarum, have both

well to avoid those ferall

maladies, 'tisgood to get them husbands betimes,as to prevent

other grosse inconveniences, and, for a thing that I
some
know

besides ; ubi

nuptiarumtempus

Chrysostomeadviseth,let them

et

advenerit,as

(etas

defer it; theyperchance

do worse.
If Nevisanus
the
not

will marry themselves

else,or
do
not
lawyer
impose,they may do it by right: for as he
other civilians,
Sylvcenup.
proves out of Curtius and some
lib. 2.

nnmer.

30.

maid

past 25 years of age, againsther

such a one as is unworthyof,and

marry
her father,by latve,
be compelled
must
to her, and
inferiour
Mistake me
not in the mean
to giveher a competent dowrie.

parents consent, may

time,

or

think

unruly wanton

that I do
flurts.

{comment, in Genesis 24.

apologizehere
I do

for any headstrong

that of S*. Ambrose

approve
which
he hath
51.)

written

touching
should giveunto her parents
spousals.A rcoman
the choyceof her husband,^ lestshe be reputedto be a malapert
and wanton, if she take upon her to make
her own
choyce,*
\for she should rather seem to be desired by a man, tlien to
her self. To those hard parents alone,I retort
desire a man
that of Curtius, (in the behalf of modester maids)that are

Rebeccas

'' Declam.
c Puellis
PHn. in paneg.
306.
nulla danda
a
imprimis
lib.I. cap. 54. de vit.instit
occasio lapsus.Lemn.
d See more,
part 1. s. 3.
" Filia excedens
memb. 2. subs. 4.
25, potestinscio patrenubere, licet
annum
' Ne
indignnssitmaritua,et cum
appetenti"
cogere ad congrue dotandum.
enim magisdebet vjderia viro qaam
8 Expetita
auctor.
reputetur
procacioris
ipsa virum expetisse.

VOL.

II.

Love-Melancholy.

402

if they tarry longer,

body will respect them.

past date, and no

with us in Italy(saith

woman

Lucretia)24 yeers of ag-e, is old already,

past the
An old fellow,
as
confesseth
account.
Lycistrata

Aretines

best,of

For

truth, they are

to say

Sec. 2.

and riper
tiraq
veers.

remiss and careless of their due

too

S.
[Part.

no

cito

etsi
Aristophanes,

sit camis^
for an
newes

puellam virginemducat
old
fellow to
and 'tisno
uxorem,
marry a yong
mulieris
brevis
he
follows
occasio
but
wench :
as
it,
est, etsi
vult ducere uxorem,
hoc nonapprehenderit,nemo
expectans vera
in

for an old maid ? she may set, "c.

A virgin,
sedet ; who cares
lascivi
et
the
petulanspuellavirgo^is like a
as
poet holds,

flowre,a
*=

withered

rose

mode

Quam
She
Is

that

sero

take time
of youth,and as he

Faire maids, go
think that

love,dum

May,

as

steales away.

so

they may
prescribes,
esto

memor

anum.

fresh

as

time

conspexitEcus,

vidit

then, while

And

Let's all

maid

rosas
''Collige,
virgo,

Et

rutilus

old crone,

Let them

sudden.

vespere

erst

was

an

now

nascentem

rediens

Hanc

on

dum

flos

gatherroses
as

vires

et nova

nevus

sic properare

eevum

; make

in the

flowre,so goes

matters, and

pubes,

tuum.

prime,
on

time.

sinunt,whiles
ajinique

flowre of yeers, fit for love

advantage

while

we

in the

are

time

serves

for
"

Soles occidere

Nobis,

et redire

semel occidit brevis lux,

cum

Nox_est perpetuo una

f

Suns
But

we

dormienda.

that set may rise again;

lose this light,
once
we

if

'Tis with

Volat

possunt :

us

perpetual
night.

irrevocabile tempus, time past cannot

need

no

such

exhortation,we

are

neque

voe

But

all commonly too forward :

all be not as it should, as

if there be
any escape, and
Diogenes struck the father when the
taui"lithim no better,if a maid or
yong
their parents oftentimes,

yet

be recal'd.

son
man

swore,

because

he

I think
miscarry,

guardians,overseers,
governours
immunes
(saith Chrysostome)a supplicio
evadetis,
"

" Malier
'' Comced.
retula estet projectitia.
apnd nos 24 annorum,
And. Divo.
d
14.
Idem.
Ausonius
Edyl.
Interpr.
Translated by AI. B, JohasoD.
s; Horn. ').in I Thes.
cap. 4. 1.
f^

Lycistrat
";

Catullus.

Mem.

6. Subs.

si

statim ad

non

^c.
nuptias,
as

in

are

their

punished,

to be

403

of Love-Melancholy.

Cure

5.]

fault,and

much

as

as

verely
se-

for them
children,in providing

sooner.

no

for such

Now
could

put in

free

to
liberty

bestow

themselves, I

counsell of the comicall old

good
:
practice
that

wish

"''

have

as

man

were

filias

ut
pauperiorum
Opulentiores

domum
:
Indotatas ducant uxores
Et multo fiet civitas concordior,
Et invidia
rich

And

that without

men

much

would

Less

envy

theywould

utemur,

utimur.

quam

some.
marry poor maidens
dowrie,and so bringthem home

would

That
So

If

minora

nos

should

our

have, much

we

less for

care

be in

concord

wealth,we

city,
more
pitty.
should

have

much

more

in a common-wealth.
Beauty,good
quietness
of
sufficient
it
is
me
self,
thinks,
portion
bringing-up,
and

content

Dos

est

and he doth well that will

in

*=

Aristaenetus, married

bin, of

sua

forma

puellis,

accept of such a wife. Eubulides,

illcetachild,jf"cie
non
a poor
mans

of
and heavenlyvisage,
in pitty
countenance,
that quickly. Acontius
coming to Delos, to
with
fell
love
in
Cydippe, a noble lass ;
Diana,

merry
her estate, and
sacrifice to
and

wanting means

her

lap,with
Juro

this

inscription
upon

tibi sane

per

tibi venturum

Me
I

comitem,

needs

her person
more

by
a

tam

storm

ado.
both

Dido

into

wooing,
long a doing,

the

sayingis; when

one

enquiryof his person

is the

is not

? dost thou know

? let her meanes

any

futurum.

sponsumque

small
upon some
married unto him.

Blessed

each other, what

Diana;,

it,and

considered of
and estate, was

the

mysticasacra

all the rites of Diana,

and be thy husband, if I may.

That

As

it;

by

swear

I'llcome

She

get her love,flunga goldenappleinto

to

known
are
sufficiently
parties

to

stances
circum-

so
many
scrupulosity,
her condition,her bringingup, like
take her without
be what they will,
driven
and ^Eneas were
accidentally

such

cave,

they made

match

upon

^ Ovid.
12. 1.2. Eligit
Plautus.
conjugem panpereni;
c Epist.
"^
Virg. ^n.
et subito deamavit,ex commiseratione ejusinopise.

DD

it;

indota-

Love-Melancholy.

404
married

Masiiiissa was

^vife,the

to that faire

Sec. 2.

captiveSoplionisba,
king

that he

day
Scyphax
least
and
Lffilius,
they should
Scipio
same

[Part.3.

her

saw

to prevent
first,

determine

otherwise

of

lovest the party, doe as much:

good education
stand
Erant
not
competent dowrie,
upon mony.
aurei homhies (saith
et arlamantes
ol'iin
redamahant.,
Theocritus)
did so, (in the reignof
in the golden world men
Ogyges,
If thou

her.

beautyisa

and

Ninus
belike,before staggering
that is

true

reported:

here

much,

and

and

some

for

forma

so

Venere
her

procsagio,

thinkes,and

me

doing. Leontius, a philosopher

c
alled
Athenais,
daugliter
{saithmine

portionbut

no

of

out

done

*"

faire

mnlto

occnlto

'tis well

'here one;

befall them
all Iiapj)iness
of Athens, had

corporislepore ac
he gave
comely carriage,

began to domineere)if all be

few now
a dayes will do as

secret

some

authour) of

her

bringingup,
fore-knowledge

he
of her fortune, bestowing that little which
But she thus qualified
his other children.
was
friends

had

amongst

by
preferred

to serve
Pulcheria,the emConstantinople
of whom
she was
sister,
baptizedand called Eudocia.

some

perours
Theodosius

to

the

in short space took notice of her

emperour
and
good parts,and a littleafter upon his
beauty

excellent
sisters sole commendation

made

her

his wife

'Twas

nobly
lady in her
her,and by chance (her
; she Aveut to wash
dayesin all ii^lgypt
while lookingbut carelessly
to her cloathes)
maids mean
an
laid
of
her
and
it
in
stole
one
Psammeticiis,
shooes,
eagle
away
the king of .^Egypts
at the
lap,at Memphis : he wondred
and
the
shooe
of
but
more
excellency
aquilas
pretty foot,
the
the
of
caused
it
and
of
at
manner
bringing
factum^
;
that
forthwith proclamation
to be made, that she that owned
should
his
to
court ; the virgin
come
shooe,
presently
came,
forthwith manied
and was
cally
heroito the king-. I say this was
him for it,and all
done, and like a prince; I commend
that will either doe (as he did)themsuch as have mennes,
selves,
done

of Theodosius.

or

so

rich, let him

given;
a

for

wise and

have

1. 13.
ventam

good woman

c.

had

many

as

the fairest

their

If he be

children.

wants, if she be vertuously

cap. 7. ver. 19. adviseth,Foregoenot
;J'orher grace is above gold. If she
a

her own,
a

marry

one

as

let her

make

man.

Danaus

daughtersto bestow, and

of

meanes

*" LipsiuspolitSebast.
Sec.
ipseconjunxitpopulos.
'
1. rap. T3.
Mayems select, sect. 1. c. 14. et yElian.
famuli^ lavantis vestes inciiriosiiis
costodirent,"c. tnandavit per
33. Cum
calceus
esset ;
ut
fnemina
is
ciijus
qnsereretiir,
jKg^'jitnm
in matriiuoniam accepit.

Fabius

pictor.Amor

Mayer. Select
uiuversam

Siracides
of

Rodolphe

love, "c.

take such

fortunes

Laccdffimon

as

for

"^

sect.

6. Subs.

Meiu.

enough

all ; he

for them

405

of Love-Melancholy.

Cure

5.]

inquiringafter great

stood

never

of
company
home to his house, and bid his daughters
brave yong gallants
she liked best,and take him for
choose everyone
one, whom
ado.
This act of his was
her husband, without
any more
much
Aye, but in this iron age of
approved in those times.

matches,

husband

now,

covetousness

such

Hist.

Rom.

the emperours
it, yet she could

desired

sister ;
not

magni

troublesome

his

own

girlfive yeers of age

*^yeerselder then the emperour
able and unlikely
matches, can
And

that

noi

covetousness

it

suiter

brother

much

had

the
he

emperour

was

desired

his

three

still,

great prince
and
affinity,

daughter Simonida to him, a

(he being fortyfive,)and five
himself.
Such disproportion-

wealth

alone, it is
vainglory,pride,ambition, do
yet

But

earnest

for he

him;

because
faciens,

little

an

though her

neighbour,much

betrothed

to that end

it,)was

''abide

wives, all baselyabused.

Oralis amiciiiam
and

for

sent

prince,(as Nicephorus

Servian

lib. 6. relates

Eudocia

former

must
alone, (for a maid
buy her
him :)
with a great dowrie
if she will have
and tilthy
lucre marres
all good matches, or some

by-respects.Crales,a

Gregoras
to

do, but

to

respect riches

we

ours,

used

others

as

self, in another

and

fair fortune make.

but sometime

only mouy,

not

much

as

harm
If

extream.

as

wretched

yeoman

have

her, above her birth

daughter,he must over-match
of her great
because
and calling-,
to a gentleman,forsooth,
rank, as he supposeth.
portion,too good for one of her own
A gentlemansdaughterand heir must
be married to a knight
barronets eldest son at least;and a knightsonlydaughterto a
baron himself,
earl, and so upwards, her great dowrie
or an
their
for more
honour
deserves it. And
thus striving
to
discontents
follow,
wealth, they undo their children,
many
Jovius
their
families.
'^Paulus
and oftentimes
ruinate
they
gives instance,in Galeatius the second, that heroical duke
of Millan, externas
decoras
affinitates,
quidem regiojastu,
sed sibi et postcrisdamnosas
et Jere exitiales quoBsivit
; he
his eldest son
John
Galeatius to Isabella the king of
married
his sister ; but she was
France
tarn, gravis,
nt ducentis
socero
sole

one

millibus

costlythat it almost

so

married

was

Edward
tantos

to

Lionel

the third
opes

tarn

undid
duke

him.

at

Millan

was

daughterViolanta

the youngest son

to
but, ad ejusadveiitum,

of Clarence,

king-of England

admirabili

His

liberalitate

sunt,
proj'usce

ut

opU'

lib. 3. de Laconicis.
Dimisit qui nnntiarunt,
"c. optionem puellis
dedit,
quajlibeteuin sibi viruin deligeret,
cujus maxiine esset forma coraplacita.
Illiuscoiijugiuin
t Socero
natii major.
abomiuabatur.
quinque circiter auuos
"Pausanias

ut
b

entertainment
co7istit"rit,hev

aiireorum

earuin

""Vit.

Galeat. secuudi.

[Part.3.

Sec. 2.

406

Love-Melancholy.

letitisslmorum regum
wclcouiod with such

viderehir,he was
splemloremsvperdssc
that a king^s
incredible raag-nificence,

al)Ie to bear

scarse

was

purse

he made

jewels,"c.

of horses, arms,
phite,
mony,
in which were
his
for him and
company,
nt rehilccamensu
much
left,
as
provision
would serve
ten
as
hominum
svfficerent,

died, vovcc

little after, Lionel

presents
dinner

one

and
thirtytwo messes
dopes decern millihiis

tliousand

nnptcc

et

But

men.

iutempeM'whcon-

lemnity
great loss, the somake
So can
honours, ambition,
ended.
titles,
was
of all sides for by-rematches,
but
infortunate
spects,
brave,

viviis operant dans, ^-c.and

many

and

averse,

But

of it in the end.

smart

this subject.
let
Another
lawes

and

times, and

binderance

or

body and minde, mostunwilling,

love is

so
unfit,)

often

the Dukes

to

erased in

(thoughboth

banished, and
too

am

see

feel the

in
peradventure

severe

some

discipline,

to marry

base inferior offices.

as
licet,

through grate, they

prisoners
a

as

we

at set
rigorouscustomes
in some
servants, coUegiats,
places;as prentises,

of lives in coppy holds,or in

Velle licet in such cases, potirinon
but

lavish

is strict and
that forbid men

states
a

rich

it;for besides many

he said.
covet

and

They
catch,

and vain it is
but, Tantalus a labris,^-c. Their love is lost,
nee
in such an estate to attempt. ^ Gravissimuni est adamare
and
love
not
to
'tis
They
enjoye.
may
potiri, a grievousthing
indeed, I denye not, marry if they will,and have free choyce
of them; but in the mean
time, their case is desperate,
some
anrihns tenent, they hold a wolfe by the ears, they

lupum

'Tis cornntnm
sophisma,hard
If they marry, thf y forfeit their estates, theyare
to resolve.
throughbeggary and want :
undone, and starve themselves
if they do not marry, in this heroical passion,
theyfuriously
their
and torn in piecesby
predominate
rage, are tormented,
let him
the
of
hath
continence,
not
aftections.
gift
Every man
in his tract de Divortiis,
for it then, as Beza adviseth,
either burn

must

starve.

or

"'pray

hath

God

because

called him

so

to

singlelife,in takingaway

marriage. Paul would have gone from Mysia

sutJered him not; and thou wouUlest,
but the spirit
to Bythinia,
with all thy will, l)utthat
be a married
man
peradventure,
angelshold itnot fit. The divel too sometimes may
protecting
and marre
divert by his ill suggestions,
good matches;
many

the

means

of

"

Paul

as

the

of

Satan,he could

same

''

aApnIeins in Catel.
"

Continpntiae donum

dcais,"c.

was

not.

willingto
There

the Romans, but hindred

be those,that ihink they are
sec

*"
Anacreon
56.
velle da(, |)osse abnegat.
Nobis ciipido
ad
coehbatuui
vocari
sit
certiitn
cui
euin
fide
postiilet,
ex
quia
"i Act
" Rom.
1.13.
16. 7.

sucli

and friers and

live in

as

and much
worse.
tyrannical
inclines,and
passionforcibly
order and

checks

vow
*

What

them

and

raoeth

on

the

forma

but their

repugnat.

theyheap unto
indulgences

inhumane

side

one

the other.

sua

by it'

themselves

not; but I am sure, from such rash

niences,
of life,
proceedmany inconve-

commodities, I know

vowes,

Sec. 2.

orders,but far more

religious
Nature, youth,and his furious

on

Votoque suo

merits and

what

[Part.3.

Melancholy.

Love-

408

manner

vices,mastupration,
satyriasis,
diseases, many
madness, fornication,adultery,
bugmelancholy,
pri^pismus,
many

''

of mischiefes.
and all manner
frery, sodomy, theft, murther,
Read
but Bales Catalogueof Sodomites, at the visitation of
dotus
abbies here in England ; Henry Stephenhis apol.for Hero"that
of his epistles,
that which
Ulricus writes in one
;

ofhifaiits
retracted
thereupon
of fishpond
nunnery^
the
cause
that decree ofpriests
of such
marriages, tchich was
and purged himself
pentance.
j}iuchgrieved
at it,
by rea
; was
slaughter

Pope Grer/ani,%chen
taken

is this

out

vow

saw

6000 shnls and

near

hones

Read

such, and then ask what

to

or

many
be broke

not?

is

to

be

done;

ca;).38.
de voto casli-

No, saith Bellarmine,

scortari et tirifpiam
nuptias transire,better burne or flyout, then to
And
Coster in his Enchirid. de coclihat. savow.

lib. de monach.
hatiis ad
break

he

Melius

est

thy

cerdotum, saith,it is absolutely

graviuspeccatum,

greater

at
then to keep a concubine
priest
the
maintains
Gregory de Valence, cap. 6. de ccelibat.
that
those Essei and 3Jontanists of old. Insomuch
as
of merit and holiness
votaries,out of a false perswasion

sin for

to marry,

kinde, will

of their lives.

^Anno

the

king of
Lisbone, being very
to

told him, that his disease

wench,

marry,

commended
marry

.^li(C sunt

him

or

same,

many
in this

though it be to the saving

James
phew
Rossa, ne1419. Pius 2.
pope,
Portugal,and then elect archbishopof
sick at Florence, ^ ichen his physieians

dye then

sooner

home.

marry,

was

such, he

must

either

lye with

chocse to dye. Now

they
dye, cheerfully
ter
for'
it : But S*. Paul teacheth otherwise. Bet-

then burne ; and

legesCasarum,

as

S'. Hierome
alioj Christi

gravelydelivers it,
; aliud Fapinunms,

c JMeniorabile qnod
b Mercnrialis de
" Ovid.
I. met.
Priapismo.
allata
plus"|uain sex
(jiiadam.
ex
Ulricns epistola
piscina
refert,Greijorinm,qmini
ca'dis
mille iDfani.mi capitavidisset,in^emuisse,et decrpliiin de ccelibatu,tantani
concil.
Keninisins
ex
confessns
iliiid
frnctn
pnrt:;"issp.
condiinin
cansam
poenitrntise
"^ Si iiiihat,
Trident, part.3. de coelibatu sacerdotum.
quain si donii coucii' Ciim
meiim.
"
lib.de
binam alat.
Rest, pontifir
Alphonsus Cicaonius
potius
dici snaderent nt aut nuberet,aut cojtu uteretur,sic mortem vitarijosse, mortem

Sec.
intfepidas
expectavit.

C. Subs.

5.]

aliud

Pavlus

noster

Gods

ordinances, and

Epist. 8.

of Love-Melancholy.

Cure

Mem.

there's
prcecipit,
lawes

mens

difference betwixt

and

4-09

therefore, Cyprian

denounceth, impium est, adulfrrum

boldiv

est,

sa-

crilegnmest, qnodcnnquehnmano furore statuitnr, nt d'lspoadulterous,and

sitio difina violetur,it is abominable, impious,
and ordaine after their own
make
ries,
fuhat men
m
sacrilegious,
to

Gods

cross

Georgius ^^ icelius one

eccles. par/. 18.)exclaimes
(hispect.
lawes.

of their

difines
against
and
monasticall
would
have
such
vowcs
rash
such
all
and
;
it,
what
whom
consider
mit,
they doe,
they adpersons seriously to
inanibus
de
lest
in
stupris,
they
7ie
querantur
arch

own

post'erum

he follows it,^you must

allow
repent it at last. For either,as
them
for
shall
to marry
scarce
them concubines, or sutfer
;
you
three
of
cctatem
thousand,
non
tinde three priests
qui per
ame//^

that

conclude,

it is

this Christian
""

with

troubled

not

are

unnatural

an

liberty,

too

and

severe

burning lust. Wherefore

to bar men
impiousthing,
and inhumane

an

I
of

edict.

Vgt gdlp inrt-n,tjc titmouse algo,

ricctioit,
C^c \itt\t rrBtirraetfjabrtjjrir
r
E
6ah)
antJ
torfctijf
Z\)tvflip
gone,
Ijtm list,about rnbtron,
^Klfjcrra^
9^ t"rp of fiinUc Jjatcindiu.^tt'oiT,
^ntr a^ nature
tm.prci5 antf guitfr,
0i

li^t to proiiiUc.
tfjing
cbrtrp

33ut

alas tlit
ijauti
stonir,

alcnr

man

;{?uU rruclliibn fctntfgorbtnanrr

(Con"trair.fb is, anb bp statuifiSiiaunb,
Sub bebarrrb from alUutlj plfs"intE:
5I5I)atmranett) t^ii,to"at i5 t|)i5
prctcnre
cf hinbf
all
i bii^,
0i lalotS,
rtgbt
against
SSHit^Quta fau^f, *o narrobj men to \y.\\^t.
,

marriagesabove the rest,

Many lay-menrepinestillat priests
sort and
and not'atcleargymen
onely,but all of the meaner
rich
condition; theywould have none
marry, but such as are
be
shall
belike,
andabletomaintain
wives, because their parish,
pesteredwith orphanes. and the world full of beggers but
:

shallow
of men.
unnatural, mone^ters
hard-liearted,
world
of
the
that
a great part
they do not H^onsider
polititians,

"^

these

is

not

them

"

are

Amecolonies into rica,

be sent ? Let
Terra Australis incognita,Africa, may
Alexanders book of colonies,
consult with S^ William
vet

inhabited

l-Vide

Episf.30.

g-atein Chaacers

as

it ought.Hon-

"" LidiiiHltitndebnt idlenesse

awork, and bring them up in some

c-jusedit. 1623. by D. T. -James.

vHam

flower of curtesie.

v.hich causeth begioy.

honest trades.

many

"

"

Or to set tueui

Tis

not

Love-Melancholy.

410

[Part.3.

Sec. 2.

Fleece, Captain Whitburne, Mr.

Orpheus Juniors Golden
"c. and they shall surelybe otherwise informed.
H!ij"(lior|),
of another minde; theythouoht
Romans
were
Those
polili(|ue
betoo populous. "Adrian
their cityand country could never
said he had

the cmperour
homhium
se

ratiier liave

then

men

vmlle

mony,

ampliare imperium,qnampecunid; Auadjectione

perswade
gustus Ca'sar made an oration in Rome adc(rlibes,to
countries compelled them to marry of
Some
them
to marry.
Jewes, Turkes, Indians,Chinese, among-st the

"^

old, as
these

Monder

much

dayes,who

at

to
discipline

our

in

rest

suffer

so

idle persons to live inmonestaries, and often marvel how

many
In the isle of Maragnan, the goverthey can live honest.
^

and

nour

admire

petty

how

so

live without

would not
multitudes

king there,did

many

wives;
believe
of

all

at

it.

If these

the Frenchmen,

should

men

houses, observe
religious

over

31 cloisters of

wonder

and

and the rest of their company,

could
friere,
it
and
they thought a thing unpossible,

Europe

nunneries

; 18

monkes, 28 of

our

nunnes,

but survey
numbers
of

in Padua

"c.

ex

our
nasteries
mo-

; in Venice

leonem, 'tis

wigue

proportion,in all other provincesand cities,what!

would they think, do they live honest ? Let them dissemble
of Tertullians minde, that few can continue
as they will,I am
but by compulsion. ^ O chastity
(saithhe) thou art a rare
yot, seldom continuate : Thou
goddessin the worlds not so easily
and tJien be compeld either for defectof nature^ or
maist now
such byperswade,decrees enforce; or for some
if discipline
to this

theyhave lost their firstlove,

respects,suUennesse,discontent,
whom
not have
may
But
rash vowes,
"c.

they will themselves,want

he "villingly
containe !
can

Therefore, either

of commiseration

in

or
policy,

toprevent afar

of them,

it,some

out

worse

as

as

necessary
the
of
state and
youth,
vigour
desire
furiously

so

it,they

of humane

meat

and

imbecility,

drink: and because

most

bodies

mens

heretofore,in

and stewes,

admitted
liberally

meanes,

inconvenience,fortheyhold

temper of

have

of

Ithinkenot.

do

nations,

some

thousand

hundred

an
polygamy
Cairo
in
'^Radzivilus
as
observes,
grand
/Egypt,
at
Fessa, Rome,
tolerated,besides boyes : how many
are
other proin many
Naples,Florence, Venice, "c. and still,
vinces
and citiesof Europe,theydo as much, because theythink

curtizans

yong

men,

in

churchmen, and

Dion. Cassiiis lib.56.

his hist, of the Frenrhmen

Dea

tu es, O

servants

hSardus.
to the Isle of

in his terris !
Castitjis,

ner

vtl si
potest,ob naturjc (leffctiuii,
quam
Hierosol.
ePeregriu.

amongst the rest, can

Bnitorfiiis.
1614.
an.

"^

Alba^ille

Claude

Marajjnan,

"i

R;ira

qiiidem

facile pcrfecta,rariiis pprpotiia,cogi nontiunceusura

discipliua
pcrvaserit,

coiupresserit.

6. Subs.

Mem.

Cure

5.]

of Love-Melancholy.

411

hardlylive honest. The consideration of this,belike,made

when his friend ^'Crassus,
that rich Roman
Vibius the Spaniard,
(etas illadesilay hid in the cave, vt voluptatis
gallant,
quam
him
the more,
send two
derat copiam Jaceret, to gratify
all
that
he
while
lasses
there imprisoned
to
him,
was
accompany
''lusty
;

Surenus, theParthian

and

the Romans,
ag-ainst

to

the Swissesouldiers

as

this

oeueral,when he warred
about
with him 200 concubines,
carry
do now
(commonly) their wives. But

is not

tradicted
generallyapproved, but rather conunlawful audabhorred,'^inmost countries theydoe
as
them to marriage; givegreat rewards to such
encourage

because
much

course

children, and mulct those that will not marry;

many
/f^. 2. cap. 15. /Elian.
trium liberorum
; and in Angellius,

have

as

Jus

lib. G. cap. 5.

Valerius,lib.

9. ^we

1. cap.

read, that three

offices ; and
five from
children freed the father from painful
shall be saved by hearingchildren.
./?icojiian
all contribution.
all marry, and as
Plato will,6 delegibefore
35
marrieth
that
not
he
pelled
combus,
yeers ofage,mustbe
and
the
and
Junos
consecrated
to
punished,
mony
have

EpictetusAvould

*=

appliedto publiqueuses.

temple,or

countries, unfortunate

some

*Boetius

that

sweet

my

See

son,

they

are

wife,a

in

most

and

much
lament him for it: O
de luctu ; Sands fol.83, ^^c.
with us are of the oppositepart,

Luclan.

notwithstanding,
many

Yet

him,

account

inferres ; and if at all happy, yet

in his supposedhappiness. "They

unhappy man, as
felix,unhappy
irifortunio
commonly deplorehis estate,
"c.

They

dies without

married themselves,and for others let them

theybe

troubled

burne, fire
with

not
them.
not, so
and
some
too
too curious,
covetous; theymay marry
are
both
andmeanes
for
when
will,
ability
; but so nice,that
they
ther
presentedby his moexcept, as Theophilusthe emperourwas

flame,they care

and

Some

all the rarest beauties of the

of his palace,at once,
and bid

Euphrosune with
the

great chamber

her he liked best.

goldenappleto
choose

out
they list,

whom

affords,
theycould

why

should

matrimony

man

but

happlycondescend
marry,
matter

entrenched on, confined

with these manicles
those

too, that

If

theymight so

of all the faire maids

to

saith another

marry

empire,in
to give a
take and

their nation

othervvise,"c.

rout,
epicurean

of mony;

what's

why s!)ould free nature

to this or that man
or
or
obliged,
of body and goods .^ "c.
There

dearlylove, admire

and follow

women

be
man,
wo-

are

all their

"'Ancillas duas
constitntiis.
"iTres fliii
Alex, ab Alex. 1.4. c. 8.
*
patrem ab excubiis,quimjue ab omnibus oificiisliberabaut.
Pra:cepto
et publica
primo, cogatur niibeie ant mulctatnr, et pecnniatemple Junonis dedicetur,
' Cousol. 3.
Ijat.
S Nic Kill. Epic,
philvys.
pros. 7.

aPlutarch. vita ejus. Adolesce ntiaemedio

egregiafoi-ma

et

aHatis flore.

"

Love-

412

Melancholy.

3.
[Part.

Sec. 2.

well but in their companies,

never
Penelopes,
ftpnnsi
long",
their beauties,observingafter
on
close,
hangingwistlygaziiii^"
them, dallyingstill with them, and yet dare not, will not
sort, are too
Many poor people,and of the meaner
marry.
wilhiot
Gods
of
distrustful
providence
; they
marry, dare not,
lives

for such vnrldly respects,fear of want, woes, miseries,or that

"Lemnius
saith,on a scolde,a slut,or a bad
as
they shall light,
Venere desert a colunt,
wife. And t herefore,^tristemjiiventam
resolved

theyare

prius,melius

ait esse

"J Nil

as
'^Epaminondasdid.
single,

to live

nil coelibe vita ;

to abjureall women.
ready with Hippolitus,
But,
horreOyJugio,exsecror,Sfc.
omnes,

and

Detestor

necis quod fugisvitse bonum,

Rippolite,
nescis
Hippolite,

thou knowest
thou saiest;'tis
not what
alas,poor Hippolitus,
Uterato
otherwise,Hippolitus. Some make a doubt, an uxor
sit ducenda, whether a scholler should marry ; ifshe be faire,
'

to his horne-book
;
bringhim back from his grammer
dalliance
she
hinder
his
and
will
with
or
else,
study;
kissing
well intend to both, as Phicannot
if foule,with scolding
: he
lippusBeroaldus,that
greatBononian doctor,once writ,impediri

she will

and in
enim studia literarum,^-c.but he recanted at last,
sort,with true conceived words, he did ask the world

forgiveness.But

all women,

himself,inhis Commentaries
a

long time

I lived

ah

vxore

ducenda

jucundius;

marriage; but as a rambler, erraticns ac

amores
words)per mvltiplices
(to use his own

amator

rebatn; 1 took
when
and

snatch

I could

get it; nay

volaticiis
discurmore,

at

; but

omen

have

wile, so

ith Stesichorus, Palinodiam

cano,
of marin ordine maritorum
riage,
; 1 approve
^
I
married
am
a
glad I
heartily
man,

recant

now

censeri
poenitet
1 am
glad I

Tiec

where

semper
1 could

iji a publiqueauditory,
and
marriage,down right,
thatsixt satyre of .luvenal, out of Plutarch
I did interpret
Seneca, 1 did heap up all the dicteries 1 could, against

railed

et
single life,

abide

not

lemn
so-

and

lates
you shall have the story as he rethesixt
on
ofApuleius.For

qnicquam liber lecto censui

abhorrui,nec

sweet

am

wife, so

noble

wife,soyong,

so

chast

wife, so lovinga wife, and I do wish and desire all other

Qui

se

capistromatrimonii alligarinon

Lemn.
patiHntiir.

1. 4. 1.'^.
de occult

nat.

axorein
acerliani,amarnni
luultia niatriuionio,
ne
querulara,
Abhorrent
perroorosam,
^ Sfuec.
'Ccilebs enini \ixerat,nee ad
Hippol.
ferre copantur.
indiicipotuit.
''Scnec. Hippol.
tHor.
(liicfntlam unquam
iixoriin
Heinsins.
gilabeo luoremex
Primiero.
Silv ins de ciictisSigisniinidi.
Eneas
"^.

(iliatnPaleoliijuri^couaulli
aniuii sciitiDtia,Caaullaiu

6. Subs.

Mem.

Cure

5.]

of Love-Mdanckohj.

413

schollers ; that as of old, Martia

especially
did by Hortensius, Terentia by Tullius,Calphurniato Plinins,
bands
Pudentilla to Apiileius,hold the candle whilst their hus-

men

and

to marry;

write,so theirs may

and

did meditate

do to them, and
Let other men
be averse
;
and say what they can
to the
expers est, S^c.a singleman

doth to me.
my dear Camilla
raile then and scofFe at,women,
contrary, vir sine %ixore*malorum
but this is a toye.
is a happy man,
as

dulces

Nee

these

sperne, puer, neque

distrustful and

too

are

men

amores

much

tu choreas

blame

to

to

such

use

speeches;
*^

They

diffundere crimen

Parcite paucorum

all for

condemne

not

must

in

omnes.

As there be

some.

bad,

some

be vitious,some
there be many
be vergood wives; as some
hath said in their praises,
what Solomon
Prov. 31.
tuous
; read
and

Saracides, cap. 26. ^-V"Q.

vertuous

wije,jbrthe number

vertnous

ivoman

Blessed
his

is the

that hath

man

of
her husband^ and he shall fulfil
the
rejoyceth
in
A
is
good wife a yoodportion{3G.
yeares of his life peace.
columna
a
an
of rest,
quietis.
24.) helpe, pillar
"i

25, He

And

that hath

ing. Minmintur

onlyjoye,and

atrce

comfort

Blanditise
Vota

old

sororetn.

wife,icandereth to
conjugecures ; women

of

mans

and

fro, mourii'

are

life ; born ad

the

usum

sole,

et lusum

familicE
;

solatia vitse,
generis,
cura
noctis,placidissima
diei,

Delicise humani

capitatque

no

Frrmamenta

hominum.

fratrem

capituxorem,

Qui

dayesshall he double.

wifeis a

viriim,
juvenum spes,

nurse

mans

mans

yong

"c.

mistress,a middle ages

Icetorum
particeps

et

an
companion,

tristium,a prop,

an

helpe,"c.
s

est
Optima viri possessio
iram
et avertens
Mitigans

Mans
She

There

is no

world like

best

uxor

benevola,

animam

is a lovingwife.
possession

tempers anger and diverts all strife.

joye,no comfort,no sweetness,

to that of a good wife.

Quam

tristitia.

ejusa

cum

Unanimes

chara

domi

no

pleasurein

the

maritus
fidusque
conjux,

degunt

candelas et candelabrum teniierunt.

'Legentibaset meditantibus,
""
f^Bacoa's Egsaies.
cOvid.
"Loech8eas.
Aphranius.

'' Hor.
e

Euripides.

Love-JIeluncholf/.

411
saith

Lntin Homer.

our

the
is ."5til

She

[Part.3.

Sec. 2.

in sickness

same

and

health; his eye, his hind, his bosonie friend, his jinrtner at
all times, his other self,not to be separated
by any calamity,
in

share all sorrow,

discontent; and
and
live
with
to
doe,
him, nay more,
dye

readyto

but
M'omen

as

the Indian

dye presently

when
he lay upon his
Admetiis, king of Thessaly,
death bed, was
told by A polios
oracle, r}iatifhe coidd get any
die
for him, he sliould live longeryet; but, when
all
body to
his
i
and
followers
etsi
forsook
,irien(is
refused,
decrepit
parents,
for him.

him, Alceste, his wife, thoughyong,

undertook
willingly
it ; what more
be desired or expected? And
can
althoughon
the other side,there be an infinite number
of bad husbands (I
should rail downrightagainst
of them) able to discourage
some
good ones again,and those most
yet there be some
any woman,
observant of marriagerites. An honest country fellow ( as Fulin the kingdom of Naples,-'at plough by the
gosus relates it)
his wife carried away
sea
side,saw
by the Mauritanian pirats;
he

most

after in all haste,up totlie chin first,

and when
he could
of
the shipto
to the governour
no
longer,swam,
calling
her restored, to let
deliver his wife,or if he must
not have
ran

wade

prisoner;for he was resolved to be a gaily

that he might
to endure any misery,
so
slave,his drudg,willinothe
The
but enjoye his dear wife.
Moors
stancy,
conmans
seeing
and relatingtheir governour
the whole matter
to
at
him

follow

Tunis,

as

them

set

maintain

to

free,and gave

both

themselves

during their

them

honest

an

I could

lives.

stories to this effect ; but put case it often prove

marriageis troublesome, whollytherefore

argument

no

''

He

things

"^

ednlcatnr
to

sweeten

not.

Etsi grave

sit matrimo7iium,sii\th

inultis,6fC. yet there be many

it, a pleasant
wife,placens uxor
; pretty
the chiefs
; delicice filiorumhominum,

children, c?w/ce5 w"^?

delightof the sons of
Mere

tamen

subeundum,

And

Ecclus. 26. "c.

men.

all troubles,'^ntilitaiispnblicce
causa

(jvidlihenter

cause
otherwise,beis
to avoid it,

that icillavoid trouble must avoid the world

Evanrj..5. cap. 50.) Some trouble there

(Euscbiusprapar.
I deny
is in marriage,
Erasmus,

pension
tell many

it must

though it

devorandum^grave

be undcrgon
willingly

for

publiquegoods sake.
Susarion
eAuclite,populus,haec,inqiiit
Malae
Hoc

eum
esse

Cum jnxta mare

fecerat. Non
Sec.
jiissit,

O
inulieres;veruntamen,
sine malo, domum
inhabiture non
sunt

populares,
licet.

coiyugalis
amor,
aifriim coleret,oninis enim miseriae immcniorem
liberos
sine ingeutiadiniratione,tanfa hominis caritate motus rex
^Qui vult vitare niolestias vHet miniduni.

TtitTifTTyov,aT"f %ft^o-"!?
vita est,qiuuso, quidve esse
A^p^tT))?
; Q.ii.l
dalce ? Mimner.

'^ Erasmus.

E Slobaeo.

"^Tioc

sine

^"o?,

Cypride

Lovp-Melancholii.

41G

Earth, avr,

land eftRoon

it self should

world

The

sea,

would

be to ruine

[Parf.S.
to

come

Sec

2.

nouo-lif,

brought.

therefore compels us to marry.

noressity
But what do 1 trouble myself,fo tiiide arg-uments

to perbehold
brief
of all
abstract
a
to, or commend
marriage?
that which
I have said, and much
succinctly,
more,
pithily,
and
delivered in twelve
pathetically,
perspicuously, eleoantly

swade

the
mitigate
A^oragine.
motions

miseries of

to

Res

est ?

Non

est ?

3 Secundce

marriage,by

hahiSS qua tueatur

et
hahes quce c/mcrat.
sinit

res

4 Adverser

'Jacobus

aitgent.

felicitas
dnplicatur.
nt
porticipat

Consolatnr,adsldet,onus
lerahile fiat.
sw/t

solitudinis tcedium

Domi

es

Foras

Discedentem

redeuntcm
7

Nihil

to-

pelnt.

r-'tsn
nhsetitem
proseqnitnr,

l"eta

de

desiderat,

eicipit.

jucvndum absquesociet ate

nulla societas mntrimomo

suavior.
8

caritatis adamantimim.
conjuc/alis

Vinculum

dulcis

9 Accrescit

turba; dupUcatnr7iumerus
ajfflnium

tum,Jratrum,
10

Pulchrd

11

Lex

sis proleparens.

jMosis sterilitatem matrimonii

civUhatum

pUus
12

Si

Hast

Hast

Art

Art
Art

am-

pwnam

burden
5

exsecratur, qnanto

voluntas quidem effnqiet.

ne
notieffurfit,
thou hast one
thou meanes?
to keep and increase it.
none?
thou hast one
to heipeto get it.
?
thine
in prosperity
happinessis doubled.
shee'l coud'ort, assist,
in adversity.^
bear a part of thy

nntura

paren-

nepotum.

sororum,

at

make

to

tolerable.

it more

shee'l drive

home?

melancholy.
away
after thee going horn home, wishes
for thee in thine absence, and joyfully
welcomes

6 Art abroad

.? she lookes

thy

returne.

nothingdelightsomewithout society
; no
sweet
as
so
matrimony.
band of conjugallove is adamantine.

7 There's
8

The

9 The

sweet

10
11

Thou

Moses

art

made

curseth
more

of kinsmen

increaseth, the number of

doubled, of brothers, sisters,
nephews.

company

parents

society

is
a

A\ther

by

the barrenness

faire and
of

happy

issue.

matrimony,how

singlelife ?

'Gen, 2. Afijutoriuiu
simile,"c.

much

6. Subs.

Mem.

If Nature

12

of Love-Melanclwhj.

Cure

S.J

punishment, surelythy wjiV/ shall

not

escape
avoid it.

417

not

but howknowes
it not?
is true, say you, and who
these motives, and
to make
an
is it to answer
matter
quiteoppositeunto it ? To exercise myself, I

this

All

easy
anti

parodia

"will essay.
thou
1 Hast

hast

? thou

meanes

spend

to

one

it.

thy beggery is increased.

prosperity?thy happinessis ended.
sery;
adversity? like Jobs wife shee'l aggravate thy mivexe
thy soule; make thy bui"den intolerable.
?

Hast

Art

in

Art

in

Art

at

Art

abroad

none

? shee'l scold

home

be

? if thou

thee

wise

keep

in thine

grafthomes

of doores.

out

thee

absence

so

shee'l

; scovvie

on

perhaps

thee

ing
com-

home.

7 Nothing givesmore

like this of
The

increaseth, thou shalt

number

Thy
Thou

made

art

bring

up

Paul

12

Is marriao-e

by

cornuto

be

of

loosing-

devoured

by thy

marriage,yet

honourable

he

!
virginity
himself
speaks

in stead

of thine

shalt
owne.

preferresa singlelife.

What

wife; and

unchast

an

children

folks

other

commends

11

hope

no

friends.

wives
10

ness
solitari-

art undone.

it ; thou
9

; no

single life.

marriage is adamantine;

of

band

then solitariness

content

immortall

an

longs
be-

crown

to

So

Siracides

ag^ainstwomen;
and

poet

every
vulgvs hoviinum
con;

ture, and

so

Tristem

cur

viduo

tore

juventam

prohibe.

said,yet

since

some

I conclude

venture.

be

fore
there-

lie

luxus

nunc

rape,

optimosvitae dies

habenas,

viorosciy whilest

and

jaces?

solve

Effluere

Marry

be for

Effun-de

dost thou

may

philosopherplead pro
case
(though what cares
I conceive, peradvencan

all is

When

thou.

canst

"

argues

as

every
the

they say?) so

what

with Seneca

away

thus

bad, let's put it to the

good, some

Why

almost

doth

so

much

as

alone, let thy youth and

whilst

thou

thou
art

maist,

donee

best

virenti canities

yet able,yet lusty,

Elige cui dicas,tu

mihi

sola

dayes to

places,

passe
abest

Love-Melancholy.

418

3.
[Part.

and that freely,

make
fliy clioyce,
forthwith,
it
falls.
'Tis
fortune
as
but take thy
true,
make

calamitosus

In malam

'Tis

qui incident
qui inbonam.'

or
confess,to live single

ducere

et uxorem

ducere,malum

et non

to marry;

est;

on
good ; as it is a cross and calamity
an
side,so
delighte.
incomparablehappiness,
blessed estate, a most
sole
benefit,
a
tent
conunspeakable
the other; 'tisall in the proofe. Be not then so wayward,

bad, it may

be

it may
the

Nam

delay,

felix

uxorem,

hazard both wayes

an

est

no

Sec. 2.

be

'tis a sweet

one
a
on

covetous,

so

curious and

distrustful,
so

so

nice,but let's
to thee,and
me

all marry, mutuos

foventesamplexus. Take
is St. Valentines day, let's keep it
thee to me;
to morrow
holidayfor Cupids sake, for that great god Loves sake, for

Hymens sake, and celebrate ''Venus VigilM'ithour

for company
together,
singingas they did,
Cras
Ver
Vere
Et

Lei
de

ancestors,

amavit ; quique amavit, eras

qui nunquam
orbis est,
natus
ver
vere
jam canorum,
novum,
concordant
nubunt
vere
alites,
amores,
amet,

"c
resolvit,

coma

nemus

Cras

amet, "c.

him

that is

from

averse

amet

marriageread

more

in Barbaras

lib. I. cap. 1. Lemnius

de institut. cap. 4. P. Godfridus de amor.
lib. 3. cap. I.
lib. 3.
'^Nevisanus
Alex, ab
8.
lib.
4.
Tracts inhmdem
Alexandre,
Tunstall,Erasmus
cap.
and
I
doubt
the
end he will rest
but
in
not
matrimonii,^c.
re

uxor.

satisfied,
recant

with

Beroaldus, do penance

for his former

desire to be reconciled
ditties,
penitentiall

some
folly,
sinffing
to the deityof this great god Love,

shrine, offer

to his

go

pilgrimageto

his

sacrifice upon his altar,and be as

willingat last to embrace marriageas the rest. There will not
bo found, I hope, no not in that severe
fami 11/ofstoicks,icho
shall rejme to submit his (/rave beard, and supercilious
lookes

image,

the

of a icife;or disagree from his fellowes in this

clippinr/
For
rchat more
a
wiHinf/li/
point.
(as Varro holds)can
then
aire
sweet
a
see
a lovinc/
irife,
wife ?
f
wife,a
proper man
the world afi'ord a better sight,
can
sweeter
content, a fairer
a more
object,
gratiousaspect ?
to

Euripides.

vetere

poet^.

E Graco

"" Domiis

non

Valerius lib.7. cap. 7.

potestconsistere sine

uxore.

" Pen
igilinmVeneris e
Ne visanus lib.3. num.
18.

Nemo
in severissiina .Stoicoriim fauiilia,
qui non barbain quoque
aut in ista parte a reliqiiis
dissenserit.
plexibusuxoris snbmiserit,
'Quid libentius homo inasculus vidcre debet qnaiu bellam uxorem?

et

anisuperciliuni

Heinsius Primiero.

G. Subs.

Mem.

5.J

of heroical

reufoved
both

; I

their

otherwise
his wish

love, all doubts

what
ag-ain,

say

kinde,and

mine!

antr ("oti tJjat

all

toorltf]batB
t|)i^
jjiurousSt,
^enU Stm ijtsIoi3e,t|jat
Satl)it go Iftarc ioug^t*

Dosicle

sponsd,sponso

shall go

match.

Rhodanthe

and

^Fruitur

Dosicles

and
together;Clitiphon

Leucippe,Theaginesand
Argenis,Lysander Calista,(to
maske) Potiturque
sudpuer IphislantJii.

Chariclea; Poliarchus
make

me

be pleased,
asketheirbanes,'tisa
parties

Rhodanthe

refugeand
impediments
to
according-

happilyjoyned, since it cannot

send us all good wives;
every man

helped?God

in this

cleared and
remaines, that but
are

419

be

desires,they

be

If all

of Love-Melancholy.

is the lastandbest
then, this of marriag-e,

Since
cure

Cure

the

up

hath his

"^

^niJ CroiluS in lust antf in quut,

B hJit^(Jrre55i5,
m ol"M jbeartstoeet
And

althoughthey have hardlypassed the pikes,through

difficulties and delayeabrought the match
about, yet
many
Aristae netus (thatso marry) for their
let them take this of
comforte ^. After many
troubles and cares, the marriagesof
"i

lovei's
a

sweet

more

are

comoedy with

and
a

pleasant.

^wedding,and

As

commonly

we

clude
con-

shakingof hands, let's

and end all with an s epithalamium.

discourse,
God givethem joyetogether.^ Hymen O
nuptis,
Hymena:e,Hymen ades O Hymencee ! Bonum factum. 'Tis

shut up our
Feliciter

equidemsine mente reor, sine numine Divum,

a fortunate match, an
even
couple.
happy conjunction,

well done.
'tis an

Hand

Arabo

animis,ambo

Florentes

annis,"

ambo
viribus,
praestantes
"

theyboth excell in giftsof body andminde, are both equalin

she is faire and lovely
Lais
as
yeares, youth,vigor,alacrity;
Helena, he

or

as

another

Charinus

Alcibiades,

or

ludite ut lubet,et brevi

Liberos date.
Then
And

""

Chaucer.

modestlygo sport and playe,

let's have

every year

Conclusio Theod.

Prodromi.

boy.

"^

9. 1. Amor.

Ovid.

^Epist.4. 1.2. Jucundiores multo et suaviores longe post molestas turbas amantium
* Olim
intus fiunt nuptiae.
f Quid expectatis,
meminisse juvabit
nnptiae.
The musick, guests, and all the good cheere is within.
gThe conclusion of
' Catallus. J. Secundus
h Catullus.
Chaucer's Poem of Troilus and Cressid.
lib.Jam virgothalamum subibit,
unde ne virgoredeat,marile, cura.
"ylvar.
E

e2

Love-

420
(jhc

^Goe

that

lUly;

the

as

may

we

Scitus, mccastor!
In the

*^

O
I'lte,aglte,
Brachia

non

hederee,
neque

vincant

more

Helena

wishinggood

cohimlree,

vestra

conchgB.

oscula

selves betimes,

outpass your murmurings,

armes,
ivyclasping

in the

And

murmura

the doves

Let not

Pamphilopuer.

juvcnes,non

yoiiths
go sport your

Gentle

Or

est

natus

1 say,

tuue

mean

Sec. 2.

as
incense,and bringforthflowres,
say hereafter,

smel

sweet

[Part.3.

Melancholy.

oysterkissings.

or

lasses saluted
betime, as those **Lacedaemonian
and
and Menelaiis, singingat their M'indowes
do

successe,

at

we

yours ;

det vobis Latona

Salve, O sponsa, salve felix,
Inter

Venus

sobolem;

Felicem
vos

Dea

Dormite, in pectoramutuo
Et desiderium !
Good

master

morrow

Many

faire

Let Venus
Let

Long

may

Inspiring
Even

all your lives

e

bride,

betide !

to

you
love procure,
riches to endure.

you
sweet

mistress

mutual

giveyou
sleepin

Saturne

inspirantes,

amorem

bridegroom,and

lovelybernes

to you

sequalemamorem

durabiles divitias.

Saturnus

mutuo;

det

anotbers

one

and
desire,

free from

armes,

harraes.

long,

Contingatvobis

coucordia,

turturum

Corniculse vivacitas
The

love of turtles

hap

ravens

stillto

And

yeares

to you,
renew.

sing,(as he said)the Graces dance not at their

T\Jeddings
only but all their dayeslong;soeonple their hearts,
them:
that no
irksomeness
Let him never
or
hej'all
anr/er ever
Let the Muses

she call him

otherwise then sweet-heart.
To this happiness
of theirs,let
not old age atiy whit
detract,but as their yearesy so let their
call

"

her other

name

then

"" Galeni

Ecclns. 39. 14.

my

Joi/e,my

Epithal.

""

Uqht ;

nortem

or

qnater et quatfr

beatam.

P. 7^:^(111.Nee saltent nio"lo. Rtrt duo

"iThpocritiis erlyl.
18.
'Erasm.
Epilhal.
iit niliiliinquBm
charissima pectora indissoluhili mutual
btiievolentifh ikhIo ropiilent,
incedere posset irtevel taedii. Ilia perpftuo nihilaniiiat nisi,niea lux : iilevicissiin
eos
nihil ni"i,anime

adangeat.

mi

atqne huic jnnmditati ne

scnectus

ali^id
detrahat,imo [Xitius

mutual
this

Subs.

6.

Mem.

love

Cure

5.]

not

He

bury

One

one

Nulla

dies

hsec

de

Benedictuin,

Laurentium,

jj-or
^

^peaS

01

j?ou

Co
0i
33"t

'Kom

manuus

de

tt

put

or

til

to

amoris,

Alexandrum

Nasonemj

Poetis

conclude,

in

lcbe'5

art,

Uiscretion,

pour

Utniinutfoit

tjat

j^urpo^e

reme-

tcxxttiiaxi

uxCOtx

maCf

lauiguage

noil)

linea

all

de

ebtri? part,

autf

t|"at feeling; i)ab?

iiitrcat
m2?

whom

quod

Montaltum,

Crimisonuiu,

Ijtxt
all

Sent

volet

qui

Arnoldum,

with

taor^a

tin)

correctione,

suh

Valleriolam,
"c.

eevo.

Phira

Valesciim,

Cbaucerum,

^n^

sufficiat

JasonemPratensem,

Langium,

possunt,

eximet

vos

sentientis.

melim

legal

carmina

mea

dixisse

Savanarolara,

nostratibus

quid

fate,

jointly separate.

memori

unquam

amore

ille, ciijusque
auioris,

si

ambo,

other,

even

let

soules,

their

houre

ilia.

together,

the

with

him,

usquam
ab

liv'd

before

day

she

her,

Fortunati

Atque

dye

annos,

conjugis

nee

sweetly

so

tot

tamulandus

sit

nee

have

they

Because
Let

eadem,

videat,

suse

vixere

quoniam

duos

hora

Auferat
Busta

diis

depart

life,
-Concordes

ait

they

when

AwiX

increase.

comfort

cmd

421

of Love-Melancholy.

3E gou
ai

"^

rat|)er 6p" tt^"

mg

Finis

6"5eccB

3.

bookof

Troilus

and

Cressid.

Love-Melanchofy.

422

SECT.

Sec. 3.

III.

SUBSECT.

I.

MEMB.

[Part.3.

I.

JEALOUSIE.

definition,
extent, severall

name,
Jealousie,its (Equivocations,

oj'
princes,
parejits,friends. In beasts,men :
in this place.
as
as
corrivals;or after,
fore marriacfe,
kindes ;

iElian Montal-

cap. de Melanchol.

de Taranta

ALESCUS

bc'

of
for a cause
Platerus, Guianerius, put jealousie
melancholy,others for a symptome ; because melancholypersons,

tiis,Felix

amongst these
obnoxious

most

are

of the minde,
passionsand perturbations
But

it.

to

note, so
love it self,
as

as
a

as

furious

eminent

out

be treated of

viixture

it

ordinary
symptomes, it
species
apart,beingof so great and

above
hath, and that prerogative

ought to

thinks, for the latitude

me

other

passion,and
Varchi

^^Benedette

of Jealousie
; qui

non

of

almost

as

tent
great ex-

love with'
For
amat.

holds,No

zelat, non

tljese causes,
1 will dilate,and treat of it by it self,
as a bastardbranch
kinde of Love Melancholy,
which, as heroical love
or
before marriage,doth
follow,torture,
usually
crucifie in like sort; deserves therefore to be rectified
in settingout the
and industry,
as much
care
alike,requires
I have
and cures
of it. Which
severall causes, prognosticks

goethcommonly
and

done,
willingly

more

that he

that

is

or

hath been

jealous,

as
errour
glasse; he that is not, may learn
may
others that are any
to detest,avoid it himselfe,and dispossess
sec

wise

his

affected with it.

Jealousie
which

in

is described

the lover

and

defined

to be

suspitiori

certain

hath, of the party he chiefyloveth,lest he

or

she should be enamored

of another : or any eager desire to enbeauty alone, to have it proper to himselfe only:
joye some
share
or
doubt, lest any forrainer should participate
a fear or
with him in his love.
Or (as ^Scaliger
adds)a fear of losinr/
whom
he so earnestly
her favour,
affects.Cardan cals it a

'

"
*

In his Oration of

Exercitat.317,

Jealousie,put out by Fr. Sansevino.

Cum

uittuimus

ue

amatx

rei cxtnrbtmur

Benedetto Varchi.

possessioue.
,

Love-MelancJioly. [Part.3, Sec.

421

3.

emulators, subjects,or
thorn)successouis,
such as thoy liave offended.
Omnisqne potestas hupatiens
consorfis crit : The}}are
still sitspilious,
lest their authority

(ifI

may

so

call

"

be

should

it,

'^

It

their

diminished,''as one

cannot

observes; and

l)e expressedichat slender

Comineushath

as

theyhave of

causes

griefeand

secret
a
disease,that commonlf;
suspition,
lurkes and breedes in princes
it is for
families. Sometimes
their honour
that
of
Adrian
the
?/"""
onely; as
emperour,
killed all his emulators.
Saul envied David ; Domitian
Agri**

cola, because

did excell

he

him, obscure

his

honour

as

he

Juno turned Pra?tus daughtersinto

his fame.
thought,eclipse
with her for beanty; Cyparissae
for
that
contended
kine,
they
envied of the goddessesfor their
children,were
kingEteocles'
excellent good parts, and
dancing amongst the rest, saith
Constantine ; and for that cause, funr/doione headlonr/
from
heaven, and buried in a pit; but the earth took pity of them,
^

and

bronrfhtout
*^Niobe,Arachne,

trees
to preserve
cypress
and Marsias can
testifie as

their
much.

memories,
But

it is

grievousM'hen it is for a kingdome it self,or matters of

commodity,itproducethlamentable effects,especially
amongst
and
such
feared
as
are
more
iviperio,
tyrants, in despotico
that get and keep their sovethen beloved of their subjects,
Quod civibus tenere te invitis
raigiity
l)yforce, and feare.
Pcriauder held theirs. For
scias,Sfc. as Phalaris, Dionysius,
and
in Plutarchs opinion,
though feare,cowardise
jealousie,
be the common
of tyranny, as in Nero, Caligula,
Tiberias,
causes

most

yet
what

most

take

to be

them

hauf/man(as Bodine

well

symptomes.

For

tvhat

slave,

expresseththis passiou,I. 2.

derep.)can so cruellytor t?ire a condemned person, as this

?
Feare
feare and suspition
of death, infamie,torments, are
and disquiet
those furiesand
vultures that vexe
tyrants, and
and affrights,
torture themday and niyht,icithperpetuallterrors
feare, desire of revenge, and a thousand such
envy, suspition,
and affright
the soule out of
turn
perturbations,
disayreeiny
the hingesof health ; and more
wound
atid pierce,
grievously
c.

5.

then those cruel masters

aLiican.

DanspHs

can

exasperate and

vexe

their prentises

Aphoris.polit. Semper metniint up eoniin

aucforitas
Belli Neapol. lib. 5.
Dici nou
potestquara teniies et intirnias
mreroris et suspiciunis,
et hie est morbus occnltus,
qui in faniiliisprini) Omnes
amnios
interfecit. Lamnrifl.
'Constant, agricipum repnat.
cult, lib. 10. c. 5.
Eteocli.s filia?,
saltantes ad ajmulationem Deamin, in puCyparissa;,
teumdemolita;
fOvid. Met
sunt; sed terra niiserata,cupresaos inde produxit
''
crudelius adiciat,qnam
Quis aiitem carnifex addictum supplicio
g Seneca.
tnetus? Metns, inrpiam,mortis, infauiia*,
sunt ilia;ulfrices l-'urire
cruciatiis,
qua; tyrancrudeles domiui ser\os
no.s
exa^itant,":c. Multo acerbius sauciant et pungunt, quam
vinctos fuslibus ac tormeutis exulcerarc possunt.

minuatnr.
habent
causks

":

Jealousie

Mein. 1. Subs. 1.]

servants, with clubbes,

Many terrible examples we

or

of Princes.

tchippes,chairhes
have

in this

and

tortures.

kiude, amongst

jealousoutrages

especially,
many

425

the

Selimus
killed
;
of
five
his
his yongest brother,
Cornutus
nephevves,
Mnstapha
the
divers
others.
and
second
Turke, jealous
''Bajazet,
Bassa,
of the valour and greatness of Acmet
Bassa, caused him to
Tiirkes

the

murdered
his own
magnificent
sou
ordinarythingamong-st them, to make
their
at the first commingor
brothers,
any competitors,
away
at their fathers
: 'tis all the solemnity they use
to the crown
his
What
in
mad
funerals.
pranks,
jealousfury,did Herode
he massacred
all the children of
in Jury,when
of old commit
the emperourin Constantinople,
when
ayeareold? '^Yalens,
in
his
alive of quality
he left no man
as
kingdome that had his
with
Theo, Theodoti, Theognosti,Theodosii,
name
begun
Theoduli, "c.
They went all to their long-home, because a
should succeed
in his empire.
wizard told him that name
hath
Jo.
what
furious
And
Basilius,that 3Iu'scodcsignes
vian
(o read that
tyrant, practisedof late ? It is a wonder
which Suetonius
reports of Claudius Csesar,
strange suspition,
afraid
of every man
and of Domiiian
they saw :
; they were
be slaine.

'^

Solyman

Mustapha; and 'tisan

And, v.hich

reports of Antonius

Herodian

two

jealousbrothers; the

the

others

servants

but

one

made

could
away

not

and

endure

Geta, those
so

much

as

him, his chiei'estfollowers,

his well-wishers.
belongedto him, or were
be odious to most
to
3Iaxinwins
perceivinghiniselj'e
men,
to that heightof honour
because he was
come
out
of base
his
and
meane
he
suspecting
beginnings,
parentage would
the
caused
all
that
senators
to
him,
were
objected
nobly
descended, to be slain in a jealoushumour, turned all the
his predecessor,
out
sei'vants
of doores, and
of Alexander
lamented
because
their masters
slew viany
theg
of tkem,
death, suspecting them to be tragtors, for the love theybare
in his furyhad made
Alexander
When
to him.
Clitus,his
deare friend, to be put to death, and saw
now,
(saith
sCurtius)
alienation in his subjects
durst talk -with him ;
an
hearts,none
he began to be jealous
of himselfe,
lest theyshould attempt as
much
on
him, and said, theylived like so viany wilde beasts
and all that

Lonicerus

torn. 1. Turc. hist. c. 2i.

"" Jovius

vita ejus.

"

Knowles.

"i Nicephonis lib. 11. c. 45. Socrates lib.7.

Basbeqnius. Sand. fol. 52.
cap. 35.
"^ Alesand.
Neque Valens alicui pepercitqui Tiieo cognomine vocaretur.
^Dr. Fletcher,
Timet omnes
Gagnin. Muscov. hist,descrip.c. 5.
insidije
ne
essent.
Herodian. 1. 7. IVIaxirainasinvisum se sentiens, quod ex infimo loco in tantam
fortunam venisset moribus ac genere barbarus, metuens
natalium obscuritas objicene
omnes
Alexandria praedecessorisministros ex aula ejecit,pluribnsinterl'ectis
retiir,
S Lib. 8.
quod moesti essent ad mortem Alexandri, insidias inde metuens.
Tanquam fers solitudinevivebant,terrentes alios,timentes.

Love-Melancholy.

426
in

Our
of another.
aj'raide
notable examples. Henry the

afford

Sec. 3.
stories

third of'France,
of Guise, Anno
1588, caused
^
chamber.
Lewes
the eleventh
"

many

us

duke

jealousof J lenryof Lorainc

in his

be murdered

to

owne

he durst
suspitious,

so

was

for
about him he suspected
man
of
him.
How
telleth
Comines
"=

modem

icUdernesse, one

him

[Part.3,

lie was

which

Richard

king

fourth of

deposed! and

the

of his

his

children;every

traytor many

stranj^etricks

not

trust
:

jealouswas

came
princewell perceiving",

the

his sicknesse,in

watchet

the

he lived,after
Ilcmy, in his later dayes!

son

own

Henry

our

second, so lonoto

as

visite his father in

full of oilet holes,and

velvet gowne,

in them, (as an embleme

with needles sticking
father,after some
his4'iperstitious
and so pacified

of

jealousio)

speechesand
used
had
that
Avhich
he
to
Perpetual
purpose.
protestations,
'duke of Normandy, in the
Robert
that
of
as
imprisonment,
of marriageto some
sons,
perdayes of Henry the first;forbiddingand
edicts
like
such
with
are
jirohibitions,
ordinaryin
he said)three thingscause
In a word
all states.
jea("^as
lousie : a mighty state, a rich treasure, a faire wife ; or
where

there is
In

our

crackt

state,

our

as

much
title,

we

His fortune hath

But

all his

to

And

not

Which

I confesse.

such,

which
or

that alone

is for

this

the

raign

to none,

as

placedworthily.
cause

to be

;
disloyalty

his greatnessestands.
hearts,and all our hands.

which

brooke

no

These

and
jealousies^
equivocations,

crucifie the soules of men,

in this distinction of ours

meant,
prop(!rly

theycan

under

but for their love alone.

so

Is held of all our

many

happy

whereon
pedistall

The

I rove,

him

tions.
exacmany
feares and

all these

;
peopleuniversally

to them

set, he hath no
Jealous, or dreadfull of

But

and

secure

indebted

they account

is

He

tyranny, and

being freed from

be most
may
fortunate prince.

miseries,
of

are

not

included

to love, and
beauty,tending-

here
; but

wherein

endure
or
corrival,

jealousie
belongsas

well

to

And
any participation.
Some
bruite beasts as men.

doves, cockcs, bulls,"c. are

creatures, saith sVives, swans,
well
and
much
as
moved, for feare of comas
munion.
jealousas
men,

a Serres
homini fidebat omne.'j
fol.56.
i" Neap, belli lib..5. Nulli prorsns
i" Mat.
" Camden'.s
insidiarisibi putabat.
Paris.
"K. T.
lleinaines.
f Daniel in his Panep:yriek
eli. lie
notes in blason jealon.sie.
to tlieking.
animii cap. de zel.
Anirnalia finnedainzelotypia
galli,
tanguutiir,ut olores,columb.T,
Stc, ob metuiu conimuuionis.
taiiri,

1. Subs.

Mem.

Jealousie

1,]

of Beasts.

427

Grege pro toto bella juvenci,

Si conjugiotimu6re suo,
Possunt
timidi proelia
cervi,
Et mugltus dant concept! signafuroris.

In Venus'

what

cause

mighty battels

ravingbulls,and

Your
And

harts and

bucks

that

Will

fightand

roare,

if once

are

another

bull

in

pascuis

non

feed in the

to

same

sake !

timorous,

so

theybe

In bulls,horses,goats,this is most

especially
; al'mm

make

stirs for their herds

but

jealous.

discerned,bulls
apparently
admittit

he will not admit

which
pasture, saith ''Oppian:
;

StephanusBathorius, late king of Poland, used as in impresse,

with that motto, Regnum non
capitduos. R. T. in his blason
of

jealousie,telleth

story of

cocke

how

after

many

done, came

back

done

Thames,

upon

as

Fidem

tell.

can

and

Windsore, that

with

to

and neighbourgentlewater-men,
men
liberet ; for my part, I dobeleeve
have ever
with that
been branded

many
suam

it may

be true ; for swans

of jealousie.
epithite
"

about

swan

his mate, did swim, I know

not
him
and
when
kill
he
had
so
him,
;
killed his hen; a certain truth,he saith,

findinga strange
miles

gJuanne
Clje ffalouiS

asatn^t6f"JIfratBt]bat
6ntg;et|j,
iiingcti).

oi Ijcat]^
6otft
^nlf tkt tjbcoiult tj"at

"^Some
then

as

much

other

any

tians,

as

say
*

phicks,the
fearingthe

of

creatures

Pierius

whatsoever

informeth

passionof
worst

that they are

elephants,
; and

more

jealous
iEgyphierogly-

those old

in their
expresse,
^ because
camell
jealousie
by a
;

stillabout

us,

matters

of venery,

that

he loves solitudes,

that he may

enjoyehis pleasurealone,et in qnoscunqne

he will quarrel
stimuUs agitatus,
insurgit,
zelotypicB
and
or
come
beast, in his
fightwith whosoever
next, man
jealousfits. I have reade as much of crocodiles;and ifPeter
be authentique,legat.
Martyrsauthority
Bahylonicce lib. 3.
shall
have
tale
that
related.
to
a strange
you
purpose confidently
Another
of
the
Hierome.
Fao
f
in
see
jealousie dogs,
story
bricius Tract. 3. cap. 5. de loqueld
animaliuni.
But this furious passion
is most
eminent
in men
; and is as
ohvios

"

married
well amongst batchelors,
as
batchelors we commonly call them

aSeneca.
dAldrovand.

aniat,quo
Sic.
siini,

men.

If itappear

rivals

or

amongst

a metacorrivals,

"^Lib. 11. Cynoget.

c Chaucer
in his assembly of fowls.
" Lib. 12.
solitudines
timens
circa res veuereas,
^^fSibi
solus sola foemina fruatur.
et u.xorum
aiuantisg Crocodili zelotypi
.

'^

Love-Melancholy.

428
from

derived

phor

divides

art.

is a

so
it,
to
likely enjoy her;

and

out many
lamentable
ceth

They

singlecombats.

bite off

anotbers

one

and

river,

both

cipate
parti-

suiters,both

two

this

comes

in Ter. Eunuch.

which
eniidation,

endure

cannot

producruelty,
least injury

the

before their mistress; and in her defence

them

unto

thence

as

Sec. 3.

times into tempestuous stornies, and

it self, with much
murder
effects,

breakes

many
done

Donat.

Poi't. and

iirounde betwixt two men,

indifferent betwixt
woman

coinnion

of

"^rivo; for
a
river, rivaloft,

in Her.

saifliAcron

[Part.3.

they are

noses;

floute,disgrace,the least emulation

of any
impatient
in
participation that

most

or

mordax
Memnius.
Memtels
the
de
lib. 2.)
aratore
(as Tully
story
corrival
witn
bit
him
a
t
the
Terracina,
Larg-us
beingby
arme,
kinde.

lucertnm

will

Lacerat

which

fact of his

was

proverbein those
Thraso:

for when

whether

he Mould

he) but
(saith

famous, that

so

parts-

^Phfedria

Parmeno

grew to a
abide
his
not
corrival

him

service : No more
and
behalj'e, to drive away his
in the eleventh book of his
Constantine
any

more

speakein his

to

11. hath a
faire maid, whom

husbandry,cap.
once

it afterwards

could

"iemixm\ed,nnmquidaliuditnperas

connnand

corrival, if he could.
was

Laryi

the Roman

nius

tale
pleasant
Pineus

and

of the

pine tree;

Boreas

two

she

corrivals,

Boreas broke her neck, "c.

And
; but jealous
dearlysoug-ht
in his 18 chapterhe telleth another tale of Mars, that in his
Petroniuscalleth this passiono??2a"f??///i
slew Adonis.
jealousie
'^

fnriosam cEmu/atiouem, a furious emulation ; and their syuiChaucer, in his first

ptomes are well expressedby Sir Jeffery
Canterbury tale.
fall out;

they

It will m.ake

the neerest and dearest friends

all other thingsto be common,

will endure

of each others pleasures,

and
participate
in
take in good part any disgraces,
injuries another kinde;
describes
well
it
in an
elegy of his,in this
but, as Propertius
have no corrivals.
tiieywill suffer nothing,

lands,monys,
g-oods,

'Tu
To

mihi vel ferro pectus, vel

A doraiua tantuai
te mode
socium
Te

Locto

doininum
te

Rivalcm

"

Qui dividit agram

tc
vitce,

corporis

solum, lecto

coramunem

tolle
esse

admiLto

possum

perdcvcneno,

non

te

mca

licebit,

rebus, amice, meis.

deprecoruno
ego

fcrrc Jovem.

inde deducitur ad amanles.

"Ter. Emi. act. 1. sc. 1.

chil. 1. cf-nt. 9. adafj.99.

ah t a pellito.
verbis,et isliim aniiilnui,
quoad potpris,
" iMars
Adouideiu iuterfecit.
fuit,8ic.
zeloty|JUs

'

bErasmna

Mnnus
nostrnm
ornato
"* Finns
qtiondain
pnella
' R.
1
,

Mem.

1. Subs.
Stab

with sword, or poyson

to work
me
my bane ;

me

Give
So thou
From

as

my

ever

strong

not

selfe,
my

own

body, purse.
goods take all,

ever

dearest

my

thine

And

429

my lass,so thou
mistress mine refrain.
court

Command
As

of Jealousie.

Causes

2.]

friend,

thee shall.

use

spare my love, to have alone

Her to my self I crave
;
himselfe
endure
I'll
Jove
not
Nay,
O

rival for to have.

My
This

wliich
jealousie

to married

am

in respect to

men,

of, is that which belongs

their own
wives; to whose estate,

to treat

be compared in the
can
happinesse
pleasure,
and loveingly
world, if they live quietly
together;so if they
bitter
be
those
of
and grief,
disagreeor
jealous,
pils sorrow
disasterous mischieves,mischances, tortures, gripings,
tents,
disconfrom them.
A most violent pasnot to be separated
are
sion
it is, where it taketh place,an unspeakabletorment, a
Ariosto cals it; ajiiri/y
hellish torture,an infernal plague,
as
contbmal fever,
a
tyr
feare, and sorrotc ; a marfullof suspition.
The
and grief'
monster.
dome, a mirth-marring
sorrow
of
heart of one woman
is
heavier
then
jealous
another,
death,
of
did Hannah, vexe
Peniunah
her a?id upbraid
JEccliis.26. 6. as
as

no

sweetnesse,

her
a

sore.

'Tis

main

vexation, a

most

iutollerable

burden,

^
corrosive to all content, a frenzy,
it self,
nedetto
Bea madness
as
of that select sonnet
Varchi proves
of Giovanni
out

de la Casa, that reverend

lord^as

he stileshim.

SUBSECT.

Cavses

of Jealousie.

II.

Who

most
are
melancholy,
apt. Idleness,
selves.
absence,
impotency,long
beauty,icantonness, naught them-

Allurements

Astrologers

from time,place,
personsy

make

the stars

bad

usage.

signe of this
bitter passion; and out of every mans
horoscopewill give a
hether
will
he
be
probableconjecturem
jealousor no, and at
what time, by direction of the significators
to their several promissors ; their apborismes
to be read in Albubator, Pontaare
Bodine
"c.
nus, Skoner,Junctine,
cap. 5. meth, hist, ascribes
^

1 Sam.

1. 6.

''

Blason

cause

or

of Jealousie.

Love-Melancholy,

430

[Part.3.

Sec. 3.

to the

countryor clime,and discourscth largely

that soutlierne men
tl)ereofthissul)ject,
are
more
saying,
hot,
then such as live in the north ; they
lascivious,and jealous,
o-roat cause

hardlycontaine themselves in those hotter climes,but are

lusts. Leo Afertelleth incredible
most
subjectto prodigious
of his country men
of
things almost,of the lust and jealousie
and
such
live
about Carthage;and so
as
especially
Africke,
doth every geographerof them in ''Asia,Turkic, Spaniards,
Italians.
Germany hath not so many drunkards,
England toFrance
Holland
dancers,
alone
Lacconists,
mariners, as Italy
And
in ''Italy,
them
hath jealoushusbands.
some
account
of Piacenza more
jealousthen the rest. In '^Germany,
France,
Brittain,Scandia, Poland, Muscovy,they are not so troubled
M'ith this ferall malady,althoughDamianus
I
a Goes, which
wonder
doe much
at, in his topography of Laplande,and
the stream
of
of all other geograHerbastein
Russia, against
phers,
can

fasten

it upon
those northerne
inhabitants.
in his description
of BaAltomarius Poggius,and Munster
den,
and
that
of
all sorts, go commonly
women
men
reports
w
ithout
all
bathes
the
the name
into
together,
suspition,
of
is
much
not
heard
so
as
once
Munster)
(saith
jealousie
of
Frisland the women
In
him
them
kiss
drink
:
they
amonri

would

kissed againof those theypledge. The virgins

in
from home, glide
Holland go hand in hand with yong
men
their
harmless liberty,
and lodge togethe ice, such is
on
ther
which
rash
abroad without
suspition,
Sansovinus,an
to, and

are

great signeof unchastity.In France, upon

it is usual to court
other mens
wives,
acquaintance,
and
their
them
to
houses,
in
arme
accompany

Italian,makes
small
to

come

In the most northerne

in the streets,without imputation.
and
maids
dance together,
men
countries, yong
familiarly
"*
their
Siena
and
wives, which,
men
onlyexcepted,Italian*
The " Greekes, on the other side, have their
abide.
not
jnay
and women,
bathes for men
where
they must not
])rivate
arme

not

neer,

come

this^or
him

mad

much

lib. 5. de

observes

dine

so

and

as

will not suffer them

another:

one

and

repuh.the Italians could

Spaniard;the
for that

see

cause

to be neer

very

never

conceit of it would

theylocke
men,

as

so

'^

Bodure
en-

make

and
up their women,
e
the
in
as
churcb"

much

Mtilierum conditio misera ; nullum liOBeslam crediint nisi domo

eoncliisa vivaf.
"= Nomen
Morison.
apud istos locum non habet. lib.3. c. 8.
zelotypi;r
^ Pra- amore
d Fines Moris,
"
Sands.
Biisbeqiiius.
part.3. cap. 2.
et zelotjpia
i
nsaniunt.
F
Aiistrales
fieri
sacra
ne
saepius
qiiidempiihiica
nisi nterqne sexus
natiiintiir,
parietemedio dividatiir; et "|intin in Ansliam, inqiiit,
dicentem,
legationis
causa
profectus
legutuni
llispauiarum
essein, audivi Mendozam
ike.
turpeesse viros et foerainas,
a

'" Fines

Love-Melancholy.

432

odious

Comparisonsare
thera

tlebase

iu)r

subject
symptome and cause
and

to

too

teacli

apt

to

us

be
*

any
this

neither

; I
more

them
parallel
and

men

women

Sec. 3.

with

others,

both

are

It is most
pernicious
infirmity.

of

melancholy,as

melancholymen
melancholy.

are

Plater

to be

apt

and

bad,
part a

Valescus

and
jealous,

jealous

of insatiate love,

child
jealousie,

Pale

[Part.3.

thoui^htswhich

melancholybred,
feare, no faith can move,
hell-tormenting
By discontent with deadlypoyson fed ;
With
headless youthand errour
vainlyled.
A mortall plague,a vertue
drowning floode,
Of heart-sick

hellish

If idleness

not quenchedbut
fire,

with

concurr

with bloud.

melancholy,such

persons

are

most

is prejealous; 'tis^ Nevisanus"" note, An idle ttioman

sumed
and oftenjealous. Mulier cum
sola
to he lascivious,
'tis not unlikely,
for they have no
male cogitat
: and
cof/itat,

apt to be

their heads

to trouble

other business

these that follow.

be

causes
particular

More

with.

Impotency

Avhich he

is not able of himselfe to performethose dues

oug-htunto his wife : for though he be an honest

liver,hurt

no

when
first,

man

make

lawyermay

tion,
queshe gave every one
their
he takes notice of his wants, and

cuiquetribuat^whether

ansuum
owne

the

yet Trebius

man,

; and

therefore,when

her
perceives

to be

craving,clamorous, unsatiable and

is fit,he begins presently
to suspect,that
more

then
prone to lust
she will be
she will satisfieher selfe,
he is defective,
wherein
CorneliusGallushath
elegantly
pleasedby some other meanes.

expressedthis
Jamque
Me

For this

humour

in

an

epigram to

his

Lycoris.

alios juvenesaliosque
amores.
requirit

vocat

imbellem

is most

cause

decrepitumquesenem,
in old men,

evident

"c.

that

"*

are

to yong wanton
drye by nature, and married succipleuis,
With old dotingJanivere in Chaucer,theybegin to

all is not

well

cold and
wives.
mistrust

^ijitDai0i)on5 anU iftInaiJ oto,

Qnti tibcrcfort
jbefcartH to Jjca furfeoXtJ.
age is
and feare ; when
self,loathsome, full of suspition

And

how

should

imable,unfit

"R. T.
ssepe

zelolypa.

it otherwise

for such

^ Lib. 2.
":'Lib.2.

matters.

num.

K.

ouui.

4.

Old

be?

Muliei

'^

Tarn

disease of it
it is at best,

apta nuptiisquam

et
liixuriosa,
oliosn facile pruosauiitur

I. Subs.

hruma

messibus,as welcome

2.]

vesf, saith Nevisanus

Many

nua.

thy head.

""

to

yongf

433

woman

as

in bar-

snow

si

iibi
capisjuvenculam.facit
and she will surelygrafthomes

Et

lustymaid

All

qf Jealousie.

Causes

Mem.

cor-

on

to their
slippery^
oftenmifmthfull
38.
seconds
bnt
to old
epist.
him)
had
rather mortem
of all : they
amplex'' Oderunt
then such a one.
ilium pueri,
are

women

husbands, (asiEneas Silvius

treacherous

most

men

arier,lyewith

corse

beriddcn

kr.ave

"=

the rest.
in ^
cause,

as

she had

coute,

as

to her

I have

littleand

was

thatshe did

Poor

man.

an

old

as

unable

old,bald,

an

barred

as

as

woman

grim sire to my

husband,

childe,a bedfull

loched upon me:

jealous,and she made

was

and

without a cause,
keepingher up. Suspition
it
(i(
selfe to make
is able
a woman
flyeout, that
for

cuckold

hard

much

so

Apuleius,of

good

of bones, he keeps all the doores

is me, ivhat shall I doe ? He
tco
him

In

"ve

tchat shall I doe ?

bald

as

other

saith
side, many
men,
of their wives, if theybe lightly
suspitious

Hieronymus,are
given,but old folkesab
not
complainwitliout a
am,

the

On

viulieres.

contemnnnt

usage
otherwise

honest.
"^

Esse

bad usage

bonas
plerasqiie

facit,

aggravates the

fpioscuntmaritum
holds,when

tractatlo pravas

"

hoc

matter.

JsTam

quando mulieres

advertere^licentius peccant,

as

co-

Nevi-

thinks

her husband
watcheth her,
offend
^liberius
sooner
omnis abest,
;
peccant, etp^idor
them
makes
the
M'ifeof
Bathe
worse
:
as
rough handling
good

sanus

woman

she will

in Chaucer

brags.
In U^ oion grtasc 3tmaifc |)imtrie,
dTov anger anXf iot bcr j }talou5t".

this of hard usage is the worst.

'Tis a
extreames,
be
fault
fond
t
o
too
of
their
some
men
are
(for
uxorii)
great
''
senior Deliro on his Fallace,to be
wive=, to dote on them as
etfeminate
as
some
doe, to be sick for their wives,
too
; or
breed cidMren for them, aud like the Tiberini,
lyein for them,
Of

two

'"

as

some

Cselius

birds hatch egges

by turns, theydo

all womens

ant. lect. lib. 6. cap. "^4. makes

Rhodiginus

offices.
mention

of

omnibus infidelesfcemine, senibus infidellssimie.

a Qunm
b Mimnerrans.
'^
"ViT aliqiia
non
impudica,et quam non suspectam merito quiahabeat.
Lib. 5.
seniorem
de aur. asino. At ego misera, patre meo
niarituinuacta sum, dein cucurbita
calviorem et quovispuero pumiliorem,cunctam
domum
seris et catenis obditam custof Lib. 4, n. 80.
dientem.
c Chaloner.
g Ovid. 2. de art. aniandi.
'
1'
Calcagniniis
Every man out of his lianiour.
Apol. Tiberini ab uxorura
partu
vices subeunt, ut aves
"c.
earum
per vices incubant,
VOL.

II.

Love-Melancholy.

434

[Part.S.

besotted
so
fellow out of Seneca, that was
could not endure a moment
out of her company
*

scarfc,when

he went

drinke

that
fondlings,
malum

uaoi'

there's

no

his

abroad, next

but in that cup

she

S7iperans lirum

than

man

have

take my

muffe

Now

giveme

Pearl,and

and

do you

the

such

domineer)
breeches,

whither,

come,

hear,good man

carry you

never

poet hath it,

let his wife

to

her

slaves,
(//ffMjr/?f/re

and fan ; let her weare

to carry her muffe, dog-,
layout, spende and do what she w ill,
go and
she will,theygive consent.
when
Here

wife, he
wore

many

the comical

suum,a^

to a
greatermisery

; he

heart,and would

bei^anfirst. We

their wivespackhorses
and

are

his

on

Sec. 3.

fan, "c.

my

redimicula,inanres ;
bposcitpallam,
cessas?
hie
vulgovult ilia videri.
; quid

Curie

pete lecticas

Tu

trespassedin this kinde,

and many
mnltosforasclaros domestica hose destriixit injamia,
have
lost their
and souldiers (as Plinynotes)
noble senators
overruled
honour, in being uxorii,so sottishly
by their wives.
his
therefore Cato, in Plutarch, made
And
a bitter jeste
on
many

and

brave

have

worthy men

'^

the Romans,
citizens,

fellow

icives at home rule

and our
but toohard and too severe,
As

justa
theymust

cause

of

may

be,

all the icorhl

r/orern

tee

These offend in

us.

far

are

long absence

be much
necessity

one

offensive

more

on

abroad^

extreame;
the other.

of either

from

home,

as

when
"party,
lawyers,physicians,

their

otherwise make
or
professions;
by
frivolous impertinent
journeyes; tarry longabroad to no purpose,
lyeout and are gadding still,upon small occasions, it
when
of suspition,
needs yeeld matter
must
they use their
time, and never
wives unkindlyin the mean
tarry at home, it
such conceit.
but ingendersome
cannot
use

marriners,

'^

Uxor,
Aut
Et

si cessas,

tete

tibi bene

art

te

cogitat

amari, aut potare,

esse

If thou be absent
Th'

amare

aut

animo

obsequi,

sibi sit male.

soli,quum

long,thywife

then thinks,

some
drunk, at ease, or
pretty minks,
thee,or else beloved of some.
she,poor soule,doth fare full illat home.

with

'Tis well with

Whilst

the physician,
had
Hippocrates,

when

he

was

to go

from

home

a
as

smack

of this

far

Abdera, and

as

Exitnrns fascia nxoris pectus alligabat,

momento
nee
hauriebat uisi nraegustaftimlabris ejus.
uon
''Ttr. Adelpli.
act. 1. so. I.
'Panegyr. Trajano.
*

potumque

disease;for

prfeseutia
ejuscarere

some

poterat,
''Chaloner.

Mem.

1. Siihs.

Cay.^ps

2.]

of Jealousie.

435

other remote
cities of Greece,he writ to liis friend Dionysius
be his)^ to oversee
his loife
in his
(ifat least those
epistles
his Coronis)although
to watch
absence,(asApolloset a raven
'"

she lived in his house icith her father and mother^ ivhom he
knew
wo?ild have a care
of her ; yet that tcould not satisfe
his jealousie^
vould
have his speciall
he
friendDionysiusto
dwell
and

i7ihis house tvith

to

her, all the time of his peregrination,

observe her behaviour,hoic she carried her self'
in her

husbands

absence

and

that she did

afterother men.
nest
to keep her hooverseer
bad by nature, and lightly
; theyare
givenall,and ifthe})
be not curbed in fime, as aji unproynedtree, theywill be full
in
ofwilde branches, and degenerate
of a sudden. Especially
their husbands
Lucretia were
one
absence; thoug^h
trusty,and
made
one
Penelope,
Agamemnon a cuckold ;
yet Clytemnestra
and no question
there be too many of her conditions.
If their
husbands tarry too long-abroad upon
business,
unnecessary
well ihcy may suspect : or if theyrun
wives at
their
one
way,
home
will flye
out another.
Quid pro quo. Or if present,and
Avhich they ought,'^primuminthem
that content
not
g-ive
invitee noctes quce per somnum
transiguntur,
they
grata;,mox
endure to lyealone, or to fastlong-.Peter Godfridus,
cannot
hath a story out
in his second book of love, and sixt chapter,
of S'. Anthonies
life,of a gentleman,who by that good mans
advise, Moirld not meddle with his wife in the passionweek,
she set a pairof homes on his head.
but for his pains,
Such
another he hath,out of Abstemius, one
ried
perswadeda new marHo forbear the three first
and he should all
man,
nights,
his life
time afterbe fortunatein cattle ; but his impatient
wife would not tarry so long:m'gII he mightspeedein cattle;
Such a tale hath Heinsius of an impotent
but not in children.
"

JFor

icoman

had

need

to have

not

lust

an

slack scholler,a meere

student,and
and
seeingby chance a fine damsel sing'
and

friend of

his,that

dance, would

needs

her; the match Mas soon made, for he was yong and
arte mnlticins,etforriche,genisgrains, corpore glabellus,
marry
tund

like
opulenUis,

that

Apollo in ^Apuleius.

The

first

"Fab. Calvo Ravennate

reilierodomum
hDum
habitameam
interprete.
bis. et licet cum
et ejusmores
famen
eani
peregrinatione,
parentibusliabitethac mea
^ F(bant quffirat.
observabis uti absentia virisui probe degat,nee alios vires cogitet
custode eget, qui se pndicam contineat ; suapte enini natura nequitias
mina semper
'' Hein"c.
insitas habet, quas nisi indies comprimat, iitarbores stolones eniittunt,
sius.
"^ Uxor
bebdomada
cojusdam nobilis quam debitum maritale sacra
passionis
f Ne tribus prioribus
haberet eum
noctibus rem
obtineret,alterum adiit.
non
ea,
noctem
s Totam
"c.
ab uxore
morse
ut esset in pecoribusfortunatus,
impatiente,
nullius conscius
bene et pudice uemini molestus dormiendo transegit
autem quum
; mane
audisse se dicebat cum
dolore calculi solere
facinoris sibi esset, et inertia; piideret,
neminein laeseratet honeste
contlictari. Duo prceceptajurisuna
nocte expressit,
earn
vixerat, sed an suum
cuique reddidisset,qu*ri poterat. Mucins opinoret Trebatius
hoc negassent. lib.1.
F

Love-Melancholy.

436

taken
liborally
night,Iiavino;fine schollcr

thoydo) my
ruheret^when
an

so

that he
fusletl,

the faire

with

morn

1 know

waked

playthe

man

out

was

tillmorning-,
Aurora

cum

of

'gan shine,he
HippocratesCous,

currant; but when,

afterward,

as

do, she fell in

he should

as

countrcy

sooner

no

purplehew

what,

not

for that time it went

he did not

that

abashed,purpvreis
J'ormosarosis

excuse,

and

"c.

Mas

liquor(as in

bod, but lie fell fast asleep,

never

laicl in

an"l then niucli

made

his

Sec. 3.

[Part.3.

leaguewith

good fellow,and whil'st he sate up late at his studyabout

those criticismes,
in Festus or Pollux,
mendingsome hard places

cold to bed, and -would tell her stillwhat

she did not much
regard what he said, "c-

he had

came

another

have

was
perceive

mended

matter

corrupt

much

Shee

done,
would

rather^ which

thus he continued

"^

he did not
studylate,she

at

his

at her

hatingall
sport, alihi enim Jestivas noctes agitabat.
tilt
schollers for his sake,
at lengthhe began to suspect, and
turned

littleyellow,as

fault;and

if men

the mends

be

is in their

well he

might; for

jealousin such

AV'ho will

owne

oft itfallsout)
(''as

cases

thank

hands; theymust

owne

his

it was

themselves.

saith

them,
Neander, or be much offended with
pitie
redet cornutos
decepta;
priusviros decipiant^
yers
dant, if they deceive those that cozened them first? A lawwife in'^Aristsenetus,
because her husband
was
negligent
threatned
in bis business,quando lecto danda
to coropera,
nute
him; and did not stick to tellPhilinna one of her gossips
as
much, and tliat aloud for him to hear: J f he follow other
mens
matters, and leave his otcn, Vll have an orator shall plead

such

my

wives, si

cause

if he know

not

care

A fourth eminent

of

cause

it.

jealousie,
may

Pindarus

says of

this,when he
Vulcan, sine y rat its
be

deformed,
as
hirsute,
given,will marry some
natus,
ragged,yet vertuously
huswife,beginsto misdoubt
(as
very faire nice peece, or light

that is

and

Lis est cum

may) she doth not affect hitn.
forma
and
beautie
have
been
at oddes.
ever
magnapudicitia;
honesly
;
Abraham
was
jealousof his wife because she was faire : so was
Vulcan
of his Venus, when
he made her creekingshooes,saitii
sandalio scilicet deferente,
that
ne
mcecJiaretur,
Philostratus,
he might hear,by them, when she stirred ; which Mars indigne
forre/w^s not well pleasedwith. Good cause had Vulcan to
well

he

'^

does

he

did,forshe

fine faces have

was

no

commonly

honestcr

then she should

and itis harde to

this fault,

be.

Your

saith
finde,

a Alterias loci ^inendatkioem

serto
uptabat,quern roiTU|ituiu
^esseille non invenit
bSuch anoUier tele is in Neander *lr Jocosariis his first taJe.
c Lib. 2. Ep. .3.
Si permitn'Jenia aefiolVis
dart",sni npgligcns,erit alios mihi orator qui rem
op.-nun
''Ovid. Kara est concordin Jormji atjne juidiciti;?.
iiM?ajnagat.
'"Epist,
fQuod striiieretejuscalceamentum.
"

Mem.

1. Subs.

in
Philelphus,

Francis

honest,

man

he

woman

proper

honest

f aire

an

437

of Jealousie.

Causes

2.]

his friend,a
to Saxola
epistle
unchast.
Can
not proud or

rich
she

too

Ssepeeteuini occuluit piclasase Hydra sub herba,

specieformae, incauto se saepe marito
iSequam animus vendit,

Sub

He

that marries

wife that is snout-faire

saith ''Barbarus, for no better successe

Venus, or Claudius with Messalina.
in such

cases,

the wife should

alone,let him look,

then Vulcan
And

had

with

most
al'tis impossible

containe, or the good man

be

jealous. For when he is so defective, weak, ill proportioned,

in those parts which women
most
affect,
unpleasing'
and she most absolutely
faire and able on the other side,ifshe
be not very vertuouslygiven,how can she love him ? and although
not

she be
in his conceit

faire,yet if he admire

not

she is

absolute; he holds

her and think her so,

it unpossible
for any

man
livingnot to dote as he doth ; to look on her and not lust
with her,not to laysiege
or
to
covet, and if he be in company
her honestie:
mities,
of his infiror
else,out of a deep apprehension

deformities,and other mens

good parts, out of his own
littleworth and desert,be distrusts himseife,(forwhat is jealousie
but distrust ? he suspects she cannot
affect him, nor be
and loving'
she should ; she certainly
loves some
as

kinde

so

other
"

better then himseife.

man

JSI^evisanus lib. 4.

72.

rium.

will have

main

cause

of jealousie.If herhusband

some

other

shall;theywill leave

thereuponthe good

man

gTowes

barrenness

to

be

playthe man,
remedies
no
unassayed,and
stance,
jealous. I could give an incannot

but be it as it is.
I finde this

because they have

givenby some
men,
themselves
think
formerlynaught
theymay be so
; they
served by others; they turned up trumpe, befor* the cards
shuffled ; they shall have therefore legemtalionis,
like
were
reason

been

for like.
d

Ipsemiser docui,quo possel ludere pacto

Custodes,
Wretch
And

Mala
cause

as

now

eheu

nunc

I was, I
mine own

premor

taughther

slyetricks

mains

animus,as
illsuspitions.
mens,

the

arte

mea!

bad

to

be,

are

put

on

saying is, ill dispositions

b De
15.
a Hor.
uxoria lib. 1. cap. 5.
re
epist.
"iTibullns
luutatione viri se putant concipere.
eleg.6.
^

me.

"^

Cum

sterilessunt,ex

3. .Sec.
Lovc.-Mclancliolii. [I-;irt.

438

is

There

I durst
jealous,

none

And

life,

pawnc
my
anothers v/ife:

dehrd

But lie that hath

for tliat he himself hath gone astray,

thinks his wife will tread that waye.
straightway

He

these t^vo above named

or incendiaries
causes,
well
those
circumstances
of
annex
very

To

J may

which

by

persons,
as^'Vives

3.

it ebbes

flowes, thofewell

and

of this rage,

time, place,
of thisfurie,

accidents or occasions
trulyobserves ; and suchlike
from
the
which
themselves, or others,
proceedingparties
humour.
For many
much aggravate and intend this suspitious
are
so
men
given,either out of a depravednature,
lasciviously
much
which
too
unto
or
themselves,
they do assume
liberty,
that
of
their
in
noble
are
they
by reason
men,
greatnesse,
(forliccntia peccandi,
et multhudo
peccantinmare great motives)
wives be never
so
faire,noble, vcrtuous,
though their own
and
able
well
honest,wise,
given,they must have change.

Qui

legitimi
jungunturfosdere lecti,
faciequedomoque pueliis,
egregiis,
tamen, foedasque
lupasin Ibrnice qucerunt,
adulterium
nova
carpere gaudia tentent.

cum

Virtute
Scorta
Et per

beingraatch'd

Who
Noble

to wives

vertuous,

most

lascivious.

fair,
fly

and

out

Quod licet mgratum

est, that which is

(saithTacitus)abhorred Octavia

Mero

lady,and loved Acte, a

a noble
rejected
Sulpitia,

vertuous

rjnthus
a

poor

tanta

wont

was
emperour
culo huhcntur

love,which

by

Aspiceut

So

Withers

he

messa

sun

like stolne

mans

in cceIo modo

and

nobis

una

Moone

theychange

Sat.

noble

respect.

*'

Ce-

courted

voluptas,

: or
jileaaanl

more

be, at game

Sic etiam
As

in

and
daughter,

to say, Jncnndiores

in another

that may
f

wife,

own

quean

mans

walk,
of their

to

Luna

puellaparum

have

the

to

hunt

fairest

minislrct,

est.

change their

''3.dp Aniiiin. Crescit

"Alarullus.

belter

periis that

own.

Sol, niodo

in heaven

sweetest

theylike

tln.n

Vitellius the

(juicum

amoics,

loves,thoughoften

loris,trmporibtis,
ncf;otiis.
'Propert .eleg.",'.

as

venison, still ihe

attained
is mostdillicultly

steahhe

course

aliena in

est

stolne icaters

"

his

maid.

servant

for that

base

ordinaryis unpleasant.

to

course,
worse.

tlecrcscitzelotypiu
ciiin
persoiiis,
Tibulliis Ei"ii;.
tProv. 9. 17.

nr
'

the

Love-Mtlancholy.

440

within

A dove

'Twixt Mars

made
head-piece

and Venus

an

see

[Part.3.

her nest,
interest.

if theybe bald,for bald men

have ever
Especially
in Aristotle sect. 4. prob.19)
(rcademore
pitious

Otho, Domitian,
Urbcpii,servate

this bald
vir

remarkable

he made

Caisar

moec'ium

uxores,

CcCsar, saith Cureo

nius,to TertuMa
true

the rest.

xn^ueion, w^fiomn'mmmuliervm

of

Crassus, and

Pompeys wife ; and

And
Mell he might,for if all
to lyewith whom
a licence
Mutia

to

how

not

Galba,

as

amongst

siis-

adducimvs; besides,

calvum

besides.
many
that I have reade,he had

I know

been

love to Eunoe
queen of Mauritania,to Cleopatra,
wife toSergiusSulpitius,
to Lollia wife to Gabi-

to Posthumia

be

and

Sec. 3.

he list. Inter alios honores

Cccsari decretos (as Sueton.

lib. 44. relate)
/Mi" illi datitm,cum

cap. 52.

deJnlio,and

([uibus-

Dion

will yeeld
se Jungendi. Every private
cnniiuefceviinis
history
such variety
of instances; otherwise good,wise,discreet men,
and valiant,but too faulty
had fifty
in this. Priamus
vertuoiis
alone laAvfully
begotten.''Philippusbonus
sons, but seventeen
left fourteen bastards.
Laurence
JMedices,a good princeand
None
lascivious.
a wise, but, saith '^Machiavel,
prodigiously
valiant

so

hath

it,

"^

Castruccius

as
none

incontinent

so

predominantin

Castrucanus, but
he

as

the said author

as

And

was.

'tis not

only

thisfault;but
grandies,

ifyouwill take agreat

basesouldierin
France,

'tisfamiliar with every

manstestimony,
(and elsewhere I think)This vice (saith mine author) is
"

comvioii

with

coward,

not

ns

in

France,

worthy the

whore-master.
his wife
marvail

name

In

hath

not

then, if poore

that he is

of no accornpt, a
that is not a
oj" soiildier,
a

he
Italy,

is not

courtisan

nicer

rious
noto-

sides
begenilemuii,that

and

in such

women

so

misiress.
be

cases

'Tis

no

when
jealous,

contemned,
they shall see tlieniselves manifestly
neglected,
used
their
husbands
loathed, unkindly
to entertain
disloyal
;
others in their

faces; other
poore

woman

fQuis
How
from

oji

and

ladies to their
wives
their jewels: how shall a
to wear
mens
in such a case
moderate
her passions
?
rooms,

tibi nunc,

times

many

Dido, ccrnenti

the other side shall

this feral maladie, when

when
inconstancy?
every

Sneton.

yong-

man

she sees;

"' Pontiis

court

taliasensus?

poore
he shall

of his wives
upon

to

contain

man
see

manifest

so

himself

signes

as, like Milos

or

as

Ilenti r vita ejus.

wife, she dotes

siVlartialsSota,

Lib. 8. Flor. liist.

Dux
"' Vita
niaritis abalienavil.
Castriicci. Ideui iixores
eSesillius lib.2. cle repub.GalloIta mine
i)btinuitlioc vitinin,
rum.
lit niilliusfere pretii
apud iniiino.s
sit,et ignavus
f
niilt.s,
qui uon in acortatione uiaxiiae excellat,
et adulterio.
Virg. /En. 4.
KEpig.y. lib.4.
"

oniiiiiinioj-titnus
et aapientissiiiius,
set! in

re

venerea

prodiiciosus.

1. Subs.

Mem.

.deserto

husband

her

Though

behold, able

of Jealousie.

Causes

2.]

sequiturClltum

be proper

give contentment

to

and

441

marilo.

tall,faire and lovelyto

woman,
any one
yet she

to

of the forbidden fruit : Juvenals Iberina to an hair,

If a yong
she is as well pleasedwith one
man.
eye, as one
into
her
by chance
presence, a fastidious brisk,
gallantcome
will taste

that

his cloths well

weare

can

in fashion, with a locke, ginand withal complement,

cringe,

glingspur, a feather,that can

court
gentlewoman, she raves

him, 0 ichat a lovehj

upon
another
he ivas,
Hector, an Alexander, a goodly
man
how
with how
sweetlyhe carried hixnselfe,
demi-god,

proper
a

man,

comely a
neatlyhe
^

grace, sic oculos,sic illemanus,sic

his cloaths !
did weare

Quam

sese

ferens,quam

ore

how
oraferehat,

forti pectore et arrais !

bravelydid he discourse,ride,singand dunce, "c. and

then she begins to loathe her husband, repnf/nans osculatur,
and his filfhie beard, his goatishcomplexion,
to hate him
as
Doris said of Polyphemus, Totus cjni
saniem, totus ut hircus
fulso:ne fellow,a goblinfaced fellow,he
del, he is a rammy
how

smels, he stinkes,
Et

simul

cepas

alliumquerue

quando ad thalanmm, S^c.how

si

like

looks, how

he
not

come

did her

Venus

as

him

neer

Nee

hold

her eys oft"him

eEt

Dea

himselfe!

asse

'she will

dignatacubili

nee

est.

in his presence.

egregiodecus
think

All
She

of

none

enitet ore,
but him, odit viruin

forthwith,
might not abide him.

conjngalis
negligenstori,viro

Prsesente,acerbo

dizard,a foole,an

ladyof Senes, after she had but seen Euriahis,

domum
not
totaferehaiur,
reversa, ^c. she would

could
in his absence
she loaihed her husband

againstthe
did abhor

fastidio.

nauseat

lawes

of

matrimony,
phisnomy,

her husbands

her sweet-heart again. Now

to see
soughtail opportunity
shall observehis
wife so lightly
the good man
given,to he

") Secuudus
Virg J: jEn.
.SimoniiliH.
Grecco
3.
"

and

when

he behaves

mensa,

"'Tantum

and

like

"

but whollyrejectshim,
by her good Vvili,
Vulcan, at last,
fuliginous

huuc

Deus

So did Lucretia
illEnrialum

clowue

tat

syl.

"^

-Eneas

Sylvius.

"i

Virg.4. -En.

Lovc'Melancholif.

442

[Part.3. Sec.

her immodesti/
cvpni
and
f/a/lanL,
sofrfc,fHidf(imtHnru'ith

(as

lonucss,

'

Camerarius

notes) it must

when
suspitioiiliiiii,

needs

she still|)ranks
up

to

ican-

yeeld matter

herself

3.

of

beyond

her

and fortunes,makes impertinent

journeys,
unnecessary
^vithsuch
staies
and such companions,
out
so
visitations,
long-,

nieaues

so

frequently
goes

such

use
meetinos,
and withal shew some
lie chuse, thoui"h he

and

masks, feasts,and
playes,

to

shall

innuodest
another

publique

free speeches,
''gestures,

distast of her
were

all

husband

own

but
Socrates,

be

how

can

suspitious,

jealous?
instantly
c

Socraticas tandem

faciet transcendere

metas

when he shall take notice of their uu)re

secret
especially,
their husbands
to cornute
and slyetricks, which
monly
they comhidos
Jucc
tefacit)
theypretendlove,
use, (dnm /talis,
them
beforeall
seem
men
honour, chastity,and
torespect
living,
will
saints in shew, so cunningiycan
not
theydissemble,
they
More

so
so

look upon
and so
religious,

much

sightof

another

as

in his presence;

devout, theycannot

harlot,out

an

fjuean,

man,

endure

Ijer ! and

upon

''so

the

chast,

name

in their

or

ward
out-

lovingand ofhcious,will kiss their

about his neck, (dearhusband, sweet
band)
hussalute him, especiand with a composed countenance,
ally
if
he
when he comes
home, or
go from hoine ; wecj), sigh,
Jolament, and take upon them to be .;ickand swoune,
(like
cundos wife in "^Ariosto,v/hen her husband
to depart)
was
not for him.
and yet arrant, "c. they care
carriageare
husband, and hang

Aye
That

me,

the

most

(quothshe)makes
thoug-ht

the breath

scarse

Peace, my

sweet

love and

fast,and

And

weeps as
not
All this mi;^ht

Need
Nur
Tiie

From
That
That

in my

rae

so

fraid,

brest ;

wife,Jocuiido said,
her his best,"c.

comforts

asswage

the

pain:
again,

womans

dye
you come
I can
life
devise ;
keep my
doleful dayes and nightsI shall sustain,
meat
my mouth, from sleepwill keep miue
that went
before the morrow,
very night,
he had pointed
surelyto depart,
before

must

huw

Jocundos
Amid

abideth

to

wife

his amies,

sick,and swoun'd

was
so

heavywas

for

cys, "c.

sorrow

her heart.

JoAnd
yet for all these counterfeit tears and protestations,
back
in
all
for
lie
had
haste,
cundo coming
a jewell
forgot,

Miiiierislibcrius ei familiarius comniunicanti cum

'' Cont.
2. CR. 38. oper. subcis.
inatei"i:ini\iro pra'het.
omnibus licentia et immodestia sinistrisernionis et .suspicionis
'' V'ocps
oculonini coiioquia,coiKrectaticiit's
niotiis immoliberie,
paruiii verccuiiihi',
"i What
"" Chaloiier.
is here said,is uot prejudicial
"c. tleiiisius.
"lici,
^ Lib. 2S. sc.
]3.
to honest women.

1. Subs.

Mem.

Causes

2.]

of Jealousie.

443

and

he t'omid,
yoke-fellow
Yok't with a knave, all honestyneglected
;
Th' adulterer sleeping
sound,
very
Yet by his face was
easilydetected :
A beggarsbrat bred by him from his cradle,
And now
saddle.
was
ridingon his masters

His chast

Thus

their customes,
the
on
hanffinfj
their

^Platina

they cunningly counterfeit,as

can

kiss their husbands, whom

theyhad rather see
theylove him dearer then
gallowes; and swear

lives,tchose soide theyicould

own

describes

not

ransomejor

their

little dogs;
similis si
Morte

detur,
permiitatio

animam
viri cupiunt

catellse.

servare

and holyforsooth,
and will go
precise
to such a '^church,to hear such a good man,
by all meanes, an
'tisfor no other intent (ashe followes it)
excellent inan, when
then to see and to be seen, to observe what fashionsare in use,
to meet
same
pander,bawde, monk, frier,or to eniise some
For (hey pers\^adethemselves, as
Nevisanus
f/oodfelloic.

Many

of them

to be

seem

shews, that it is neither sin

if he be
parishpriest,

nor

proper

shame
man

to
:

'^

lye with

and

lord

or

thoughshe kneele

bands
not for her husPiatina)
often,and pray devoutly,'tis (saith
childrens
but
we/fare,or
good, or any J'riend, for her
If her husband
hearts return, her pandershealth.
would
have her go, she fains her self sick, et simulat subito condostir : but if her
luisse caput : her head akes, and she cannot

sweet

ask as much, she is for him in all seasons,

at all
paramour
and about
houres of the night, '^inthe kingdome of 3ialabar,
Goa in the East-Indies,the women
are
so
subtiie,that with a
certain drink theygive them
to drive away
cares
as
they say,
toxicate
inthem
will
make
houres,
or
so
they
sleep
for twenty foure

"

theycan remember naughtof that theysaw

done, or heard,
by washing of their feet,restore them
cuckolds to their faces.
again, and so make their husbands
Some
ill disposedat all times, to all persons
are
they like,
them, that

and

others

more

wary

to

some

few,

at

such

and

such

seasons

as

Pentlet fallax et blanda circa oscula mariti,quern in cruce,

si fieri
Dial, amorvelit, Illius vitain cariorem esse
deosculari
sua
jurejuraado afBrmat : quern
posset,
i" Adeaut
aninia catellisi posset
redimeret
ceite non
teinplum ut rem divinam
sed
vel
ut
monachum
nt
fratrem,vel adulteruni lingua,oculis,
aiidiant, ipsissimulant,
'^ Lib. 4. num.
ad Hbidinem provocent.
81.
Ipsjesibi persuadent,quod
adulterium cum
"iDeum
principevel cum
prsesulenon est pudor, nee peccatuni,
sed pro reditu mcechi si abest,
ccgnativota suscipit,
rogat, nou
pro salute mariti,fiiii,
i Ootardus
.\rtus descript.
si aegrotat.
"^Tibnllus.
pro ialetudine lenonis
5 Garcias
ab Horto hist lib. 2. cap. 24.
Daturam
IndiffiOrieut. Linchoften.
Tarn proclives
sunt ad venerem
mulieres,ut viros inebrient
nerbain vocat et describit.
dormiant ; et post
per 2-t boras, liquwe quodani, ut nihil videant,recordentur,at
"c.
lotionem pedum, ad se restituunt,
a

Love-Melanckolij.

444

Auo-usta,Livia, non
he said,
a

7iisipleadnavivectorem

tollehat.

Sec. 3.
But

as

pen could write,no tongue attain to tell.

of eloquence,
force
or
helpof art,
By
treacheries the hundredth
Of womens
part.
No

often

Both, to say truth,are

of

men
faulty;

suspition: but

and

givejust
yeeld

women

discontent,ag-gravateand

of

in this humor

occasions
matter

[Part.3,

part of the chief

most

proceed

causes

other adventitious accidents and circumstances,

though
well
themselves.
The
be free,and both
unthe parties
given
lascivious
of
of
contra
(
et
e
discreet carriage some
some
gallant

from

lightAvoman) by

his often

of
frequenting

make

gestures, may

an

house, bold

breach, and by

his

seemly
un-

liarity,
fami-

over

If
colour him quite
out.
if he be inclined to yellowness,
he be poor, bfisely
born, saith Benedetto Varchi, and otherwise
unhandsome, he suspects him the lesse ; but if a proper man,
in

suchaswasAlcibiades

Greece, and CastrucciusCastrucanus

commendable

well descended,
Italy,

in

taketli

on

the more, and watcheth

his wife Eudoxia

emperour,gave

she

for his

good parts,he

his
a

doings.''Thecdosius
golden applewhen he

the
was

longalter bestowed

to
lant
galupon ayong
The
in the court, of her especial!
acquaintance. emperour,
then
in
his
this
more
band,
forthwith,
suspected
apple
espying
banished
him
the
from
and
court,
Avas, his wives dishonesty,
a

suiter

her, which

A
her any more.
accompany
he
rich merchant had a faire wife ; accordingto his custome,
fellov,'
his
in
his
absence
a good
to travell ;
wife;
went
tempted
she denied him; yet he dying a littleafter,gave her a legacy
that

forbare
day following

At his return, her Jealoushusband,

by land than he had done at sea,

for the love he bore her.

she had

because

got

'^

to

more

her away
upon suspition.
of time and place,
other circumstances
those
hen
w
opportunity
shall concurre,
what will they not
and importunity

turned
Now
eflect ?
Faire
So

can
opportunitie

wiselyhe

Then

win

takes time,

he that loves

as

her gamesome

art,
Bringslove that swimmeth

As

at

the coyest she that is.

he will not
hee'll be sure

vein, and

miss

tempers toyes

with

in her eys, to dive into her heart.

masks, great
playes,

feasts and

banquets,one

out
singles

a third
his wife to dance, another courts her in his presence,
tempts her, a fourth insinuates with n pleasingcomplement,a

sweet

"

himself
smile,ingratiates

Ariosto, lib.28. st. 75.

with

LipsiusPoiit.

an

amphibological
speech,
"

Sintca

lib.2. contror. 8.

1. Subs.

Mem.

Causes

2.]

of Jealousie.

445

did to his Glycerium,

that merry
companion in the ^satyrist
adsidens et interiorem palman amabUlter
concutiens,

as

Quod

hortus habet, sumas

meus

Si dideris nobis

with

such, "c. and then

many

^^c

ina"

Cijat
For

after

saith,
,

Vino

tberi) siHr.

ichich

in his drunkenness,

shelved his nakedness

yeers he had covered in soberness.

daughters in his drink, as Cyneras with

six hundred

for

lay with

nescit arnica vinim.

suum

ssepe

^
Hierome)
(saith

JVoah

he

habet,

i\\t^^^titvafiilff
Irljilc

no

a55ai3Jon

t"

as

impune licebit,
hortus

great feast,

Lot

quod

tuus

his

Myrrh a,
quid enim

"

The

most

keep

bad

dare

not

may

company,

they that

Alia

rjet

of

they
and
themselves,
impudent,and

quaestAs
gratiaraatrimoniura corrumpit,

if they dwell
some

are

if otherwise

or

modest

ill habit.

an

Alia peccans

be many

offend, confirmed hy ^ others,grow

s

neer

ebria curat

be overcome,

continent

and
conjident,

Or

Venus

in

stewes,

multas

vult morbi

habere

as
suspectedplaces,

monkes,

neer

in

socias.
an

Nevisanus
friers,

infamous

inne,

addes,where

and

idle persons
fliatfrequent
solliciters,
it may give justcause
their companies,
of suspition.
Martial
of old enveighedagainstthem that counterfeited a disease to
times,
go to the bath ; for so, many

tempters

relicto

Conjuge Penelope venit,abit

^Eneas

Silvius

puts in

Helena.

against
princescourts,because
there be tot formosijwejiesquipromittunt
brave
; so many
suiters to tempt, "c.
If you leave her in such a place,you
shall likely
her
in
Jinde
company
you like not; either theycome
caveat

to

ne

^ Kornmannus
makes
her,or she is gone to them.
illibata
jestin his lascivious countrey, Virginis

castitas

ad

quam

frequenteraccedant

ing
doubt-

censeatur

scholares ?

And

a Bodicher.
b Chancer.
c Tibullus.
Sat.
"J Epist.85. ad Oceannm.
Ad
nnius horse ebrietatem nudat femora,qose per sexcentos
sobrietate contexerat.
annos
" Juv. Sat. 13.
f Nihil audent
prime,post ab aliisconfirmatse,audaces et confidentes sunt, nbi serael verecundiae limites traDsierint.
? Euripides,
^ De
raiser,curialium.
' Cap.
Aut alium cuui
invenies. ant isse alium reperies.
ea
18. de Virg.

Love-Melanchofi/.

44n

[Part.3.

Soc. :3.

Bnldiis,t]u) lawyer,scoH"j

puclld,

uon

rxm

schollor talkes
it is

presumed ho

widdowes

These

the

are

remitted

as

by

up

chamber

to administer

goes

or

saitlinot

orfrierclimbe

monke
or

srhoinris,
on, quum
iufpiif^
loquilur
e't dicrrr,pater noster ; u'lieiia
prcc^t/nn'ifnr
nitli a maid, or aiiollior mans
wife in private,
pater

iioster.

ladder

window,

causes
ordinary

II.

into

hardly think

sec

virgins
he then

take her confession.

of jealousie,
which are intended

the circumstances

MEMB.

iC 1 shall

midnioht

at

I shall

the sacraments,

Or

to

or

vary.

SUBSECT.

I.

Jenfnrisir;
art ions,
Si/juptomesof
row,. m^piiio7i,stranf/e
J'ea.r,sor
oathes,trials,
lawes,Sj-c.
f/estnres,
outrayes, lockin(/-iip,
\JF

all passions,
as I have

aiui of those bitter

this bastard

an

is most violent,
this Love-jMelancholy
affords,

is the greatest,as
jealousie

symptomes
besides

alreadyproved,love

which
potions

feare and

gious
appears by those prodithat it produceth. For

M'hich it hath, and

which is conunon
sorrow,

to

allmelaiicholy,

of
xiety

are

restless tlioughts,
minde,snspition,
aggravation,
ness,
paleof
and
the
these
business,
like,
neglect
men
meagerness,

farther

yet misaffected,and in

vehement

higherstrain.

an

'Tis a

furious

a bitter
passion,
perturbation,
a pernicious
a gallcorrupfingthe
pain,a fire,
curiosity,
honyof
then ordiour
narily
life,
madness, vertigo,
plague,hell,theyare more
lose
boninn
serves
disquieted,
they
pads, as ^Chrysostomeobbe
; and though they be rich,keep sumptuous tables,
miserrimi
omnimn
able
misersunt, theyare most
noblyallied,
yet
then
are
more
more
ordinarily
sin\,7iihil
discontent,
; they
then ordinarily
tristins,more
Jealousie,
saith
suspitious.
in
the
and day : he
''Yives, hefjets
nu(piietvess
minde^ ni(/Jif
hunts afterevery word he hears,evert/ whisper,
and aynplifies
n]\ melancholymen
do in other matters)with
it to himself(i\s
most
a
injustcalimmt/of others,he 7nisinterprets
every thinyis

more

said

or

done^ most

into every

proper

to

corner,

apt

to

follows

so
jealousie

to

more

mistalceor

misconstrue; he

close,observes
do.

to

an

hair.

prycs
'Tis

Pale

hag,infernal] fury,pU'asures
smart,
Envies
""
observer,pryoincc
every part.

* Horn.
^'.i.de Aniinii.
38. in c. 17. Gen. Etsi msipnisallluunt divitiis,
"c.
Omnes
inoinneH
siisiirro3
apit4se cum
voces,
auras,
capiat zclotypns,et amplifirat
de siiiijulis
calunmia.
Maxinic suspiciosi,
el ail p-joiacrcdi uduiii proclives.
iquissinia

3. Sec.
[Part:.

Love-Mdmicholi/.

448

chest, or behinde the tloor, or hangings,or in

steal in at the window
those barrels ?
May not a man
down
of ropes, or come
he is asleep?
in when

ladder
oet

or

winde

blow,

good

his

By

casement

will

no

man

chimney,have

the
If

-nonse

do but

of

some

oToat

3.

with

false

stir,or

key,
the

that's the viliaine,there he is.

clatter,
shall see her, salute her,spe^k "vith

to do her
as
so much
go forth of his sight,
needs.
Non, ita bovem Jlrr/ns,
S,'c. Argus did not so keep his
the
that watchful dragon the golden fleece, or Cerberus
cow,

her, she shall

not

-in of

commino

If a dear friend

he!!,as he keepeshis wife.

or

as guest to his house, to visit him, he will

come
neer
let him be out of his own
sightand company, lest pernever
of his business be such, that
If the necessity
Sec.
adveiiture.

kiifsman

he doth either lock her up, or commit

he must
go from home,
and protestations
to some
her with a deale of injunctions
One
trusty friends,him and her he sets and bribes to oversee.
and
all
serve
watch
to obanother,
is set in his absence
to
servant
ness
his wife, and yet all this will not serve, though his busihe is halfeway,come
he will, when
be
very urgent,
back againin all post hast, rise from supper, or at midnight,
leave his business undone, and as
and be gone, and sometimes
habit. Though
wife in some
his own
disguised
a stranger court
she live in
of suspition,
cause
there be no danger at all. no
such

would,

if she
a

bawdy
all

where

her self could

Messalina

place,where

yet he suspects her

house,
comers

as

much

princescourt, or
might have free accesse.

some

sudden, all to naught ; she

No
whore.
arrant
a bitch,an

is

not

He

strumpet,

if she

as

in

be dishonest

in

Mere

inne,

common

cals her

on

lighthuswife,

can
perswasion, protestation
or
divert this passion,
givehim
nothingcan ease him, secure
what
It is most
satisfaction.
outragious
strange to report

by

acts

by
all

men

and

women

have

no

committed

been

in this kinde

into
after their husbands
that will run
especially,
did
Pontanus
wife
by
placesand companies,as ^.Jovianus

women

him,

follow

upon

what

him

it matters
went,
not, or
like Juno
in the tragoedy,
nns-

whithersoever

business, raving

he

and mistrusting
cursing,swearing,
every
calling,

Gomesius,

Ximenius,

she

one

in his third Ibook of the life and deeds

sometime
archbishopof Toledo, hath

sees.

of Francis
a

strange

of Spaine,
of Joane queen
story of that incredible jealousie
and
Charles
the 5"'.
motiicr of Ferdinand
wife to king Philip,
her husband
When
Philip,either for that he
emperours.
had some
or
great business,
was
tryedwith his wives jealousie,
went

into the

rholyupon

she
low-countries,

Mas

so

that she would

his departure,
"."neasSilv.

and
impatient
scarce

''Ant.Dial.

melan-

eat her meat,

2. Subs.

Mem.

Symptomes of Jealonsie.

1.]

449

she were
with any man
with cliild,
; and thoug-h
the season
of the yeer very bad, the winde againsther,in all
Neitlier Isabella,
haste she woidd to sea after him.
her queen
other
cuuid
the
o
r
friend,
mother,
archbishop, any
perswade
converse

or

When
she
contrary,but she would after him.
into the Low-countries, and kindlyentertained

to the

her
now

come

"^hut in
liusband, she could not contain her self,
v/ith whom
she
upon a yellow hair\l icench,

her

was

by

raqe,

suspected

ran

her

husband

hlacke and

nought, cut off her hah; did beat hrr

ahont.
It is an ordinary
so drar/yedher

be

to

blew, and

in such cases, toscratthe faces,slitthe noses

thingfor
Momen,
Juno
as
theysuspect;as Henry the seconds itnportuue
for she complains
did by Rosamond
in a moat Woodstock:
she scarse
derne ''poet,
spake,
of such

me
Offering

most

Look

"c.
tigresse,

how

fellshe

So

if it be

on

me

in

wise,
outragious
devise.
jealousie

disdain and

could

As

Or

furyto my face,
unwomanly disgi'ace.

flieswith eager

But

they dare not, or cajinot execute

any such
will
rail
and
miscall,
revile,bear
tyrannicalinjustice,
they
them deadlyhate and malice, as
Tacitus observes ; the hatred
so,

"

of

is inseparable
ayainstsuch

woman
jealous-

"^

vis flammee, tumidiqueventi

Tanta, nee teli metuenda torti,

Nulla

Quanta

Windes,

tsedis

conjuxviduata

cum

Ardet

As

she suspects.

as

et

odit.

flames make

weapons,

raving

turn

women

not

such

hurlyburly,

all topsie
turvy.

did

Agrippinaby Lollia,and Calphurniain the dayesof

curbed in such cases,
But women
are
sufficiently
is more
the rage
of men
eminent, and frequently
put in
practice. See but with what rigourthose jealoushusbands
In Greece, Spain,Italy,
their poor wives.
tyrannizeover
overall those hot countries,
Turkic,Africke,Asia,and generally
So

Claudius.

^mnlieres

vestra, arate
in his Alcoran, givesthis power
to
terra

land,tillthem, use

your
you

vestrce

will

intreat them

faire

or

fowl, as

yourselves.
^

They

them,

sicut vnltis'. JMahomet,

wives are as
: Your
men

Mecastor,legedura

lock them

stil in

vivunt mulieres.

tljeir
houses,which

as

are

so

many

pri-

faciem vibicihns
aRabie
mirabiliter insultans,
concepta, cfesarienj abrasit,puellEeque
"^ Anna',
lib. 12. Principesmulieris zelotypae
est
foedavit.
b Daniel.
^ Seneca
in Medea.
iu alias mulieres quas suspectashabet,odium inseparabile.
fPlantns.
I' Alcoran
Ricardo prsed.8. Confiitationis.
cap. Bovis,interprete
VOL.

11.

Love-Melancholy.

450

ives to be

v\

will suffer

seen

abroad

them

to

sons

must

not

so

theyhave

much

look

as

eunuchs

their

or

if theybe f^reatpersons,
the Grand
Sei'^ruor

keep them, as
Sophiesof Persia,those

Tartarian

Infantes masculos

reyiserviant,saith

nt

And

out.

to

and
meros

them,

at

the Turkes, the

kingsof Cliina.

among

to come

Sec. 3.

cainpos liceat lustrare patentes.

nee

They

body

no

3.
[Part.

^Riccius;

nors
Hoinnn-

castrant

thnyf/f/dinmnncrahlr

this purpose.
The
king of "'China inainta'nis
eumichs in hisj'amihf,
The Xeriffes
to keep his wices.

hif'antsto
10000
of

Barbarykeep their

any man
chance

come

to

see

in such

curtisans

strict manner,
but in siglit
of them, lie dies for it;and
and
though from their ^yilldo^ves,
man,

crie out, theymust

be put to death. The
instantly
I know
eunuciis
not how
many, black deformed

iltiiey
do

Turkes

not

have,

(forthe white

to this purpose sent

ministcries)
commonly from
in
their
childhood
of
all
their privities;
and
^gypt, deprived
the
in
their
a
t
to
seraglio Constantinople, keep
brought up
wives, which are so penned up, theymay not confer with any

.'

ervefor

that if

other

livingman,
or

carret

and

sent

with yonger
converse
women,
in to tliem for their diet,
but

live,and

so

dayes of
theycome
or

or

to go

them,

as

leftalone

are

to

have

their unchast

feare,"c.

all the
thoughts,

their lives. The vulgarsort ofwonien, if at any time

abroad, which is very seldome, to visit one another,
to

fhcir

bathes, are

covered, that

so

no

man

in old Rome, lecticd ant

the matrons
were
Dion
and Seneca
so
record,velatce totw
^

vectee;
"'which

cucumber

for
sliced,

Alexander

relates

Alexandro

ab

of tlie

can

see

sella tectd

incednnt

Parthians,

lib. 5. cap. 24. which, with Adreas

his commentator,
Tirafjuellus
1 rather think should be understood of Persians.
have not yet said all. They do
adhibent.
Hear
et jmdendis
seras
of

Venetian

his

about
tates

Quiloa

adiernrit,
qui

(juoadnrincc exitus

up, sed
relates,lib.0*.

Beinbus

inhabitants

that

dwell

Lvsitani^ inrjitit,
(jnornndamcivi-

naiis stalim
ne

onelylock them

what

those

History,of

in Africke.

not

fwrninisvatnram

impediatnr^easqne

in mafrimoninm
sic consntas
sit ronr/lntinatas
puella;oras

quuni

consunnt,

adoleverint

collocant,nt sponsi
prima cura
In some
interscindere.
ferro

old Jcwcs, they will not

their wives
beleeve
menstrnatnni
honest, nisi pannnm
are
Sands, in his pereprima noctc rideaut. Our countryman
grination,

parts of Greece

at

this

day.like

those

*"

observed
saith,it is severely
and

Leo

Afer

in his

in

Zazynthus,orZanfe;

time, at Fez in Africke,won

'"'
Evpedit,in Sinas 1. 3. c. 9.
lez'A thmilii,qui servant
uKores
i:iiiiti-rioribMs,
ah eo'ura
st'rvri:i[

*'Dpcem

eiinuchornm

Lib. 57. ep. SI

ejus.
conrsperliiiiniiiunes.
'

"

crednnt

virr/i-

millia nnmerantiir in
"'Seniotas a viris
Lib. 1. fol. 7.

Mem.

?. Subs.

wem

nisi videant

esse,

451

Sijmptoimso/'Jeulotme.

1.]

sancfuineamviappam

ni noti, ad pri'
shewed
publiquely
;

pudore rejicitur.Those sheets are

their
by
virginity.
parents, and kept as a signe of incorrupt
The Jewes of old,examined
their maids, ex temii memhrand,
called hymen, which Laurentius
in his Anatomy, Cohimhns,
rentes

lib.12. cap. 16. Capivaccius,

lib. 4. cap. 11. de uteri
Vincent.
vied. cent. 4.
Alsarns Gennensis
qufcsit.
Mercurialis

mus

Claudinus

consult.

Respons.4.

as

Hierony-

Parens, Julius

Ambros.
that also de

confute
sanguisfluat,copiously

affectibns,
Cfesar

'^rupturdvenarum

'tis no
defend
again
:

vt

sufiicient trial,they
it. Gasper Bartho-

contend.
And
yet others
linus Institiit. Anat.
Pineeus
of Paris,
lib. 1. cap. 31.
Albertus Magnus de secret, mulier. cap. 9. et 10. S^-c.
and
^
think theyspeak too much
in favour of women.
Ludovicus

Boncialus,lib.
labiorum

2. cap.

2. vmlicbr.

natnralem

illarn uteri

cousistere volant,
constrictionem,in (pidvirr/initatem

medicinis fieriposse vendicat ; et si dejlorutce

astringentibus
mulieres (impiit)uos fallnnt in his.
Idem
sint, astutm
Aisarius Crucius Genuensis
Idem
Avicenna
iisdemjerererbis.
"^

lib. 3. Fen.

Rodericus
in

nurse,

a
"^

''Rhasis Continent, lib. 24.

20. tract. 1. cap. 47.
Castro denat. muL lib. 1. cap. S.
An old bawdy
that
Aristaenatus,(like
Spanish Caelestina,*"/?":"?

quinque

mille

arte

sua

when
virgines)

and

made

and

Jecit mulieres, totidemque mulieres

virgines

her

with

moan

faire maid

of her

her, how

she had

acquaintancewept
l)een defior.ered,

readyto be married, M'as afraid it would

Noli vereri,Jilia,
S^-c.Fear
replyed,
comfortably
now

be

perceived,

not, daughter
ril teach thee a trick to help it. Sed luec extra
I'o
callem.
what end are all these astrological
sit virgo,cm
an
questions,
sit casta, an
sit mulier ? and
such strange absurd trials in

Albertus
Wecker.
and
pisse,

Magnus, Bap. Porta, Mag. lih. '"2. cap. 21, in

lib. 5. de secret, by stones
perfumes,to maJce them
in their sleep. Some
what
confess I know
not

jealous brain
passionmay we
.yum.

5.

Hebrewes?
c.

5. de

the

was

ascribe

first founder
those

severe

of

And

them.

laws

to

wlsat

againstjealousie,

14. Adulterers, Deut. cap. '2'2.v. '^2-2.

amoiigst the
s
/" 1.
amongst the Egyptians (reade Bohemus

mor.

of the

gen.

Carthaginians,
cap.

6. of

Turkes,

of old?
lib. 2. cap. 11.)amongst the Athenians
halians
this day v.herein they are to be severelypunished,cut

peeces,

buried alive,
with
burned, ?;iDa-com6?/rio,
"c.

are

'^Disruptioneshymenis
b

Idem

exercere.

Rhasis Arab. Cont.

"l

Qui

et

they not
sigpe

as

so

many

severall

symptomes

at

in
purgations,
ex-

of incre-

fiunt a propriisdigitisvel ab aliis instrumentis.

clfa clatisaspharmacis ut non
possunt coitniu
ti.Meicero
eljjpjst

pharmacuin pisescribit
decetque.

ffiartliius.
fiorem nientitis inacliinispro
Ludus illitenieratum
pudicitise
integrovendere.
Ego docebo te, qui mulier ante nuptiassponso te probesvirKincia.
K Qui mulierein violasset,
viriliaexsecabant, et mille virgns dabant.
Inter.

[Part.ij. Sec.

Love-Melanchobj

4,52

dible

We

't
jcalousic

in

that fetched water

urh. condllii 800.

of those vestall

say the same

sieve,as Tatia

may
a

did

in

3.

virgins

ah
Rome, anno
'/Emilia, vinfo

the senators; and

Edward
the
hot irons ; as
Emma,
innocens^ that ran over
mother
Confessors
did, the king himself being a spectator ;
reade in Niccphorus,that Cunogunda,
We
with the like.
before

Bavarus,emperour,suspcctedofa(iu

the wife of Henricus

imhnulata

coulters,and had

red hot

upon

finde in

we

Such

harm.

no

2. in Aveutinus
his wife Richada, An.

Regino, Hb.

the third and

Charles

illccsa trajisiit; trod

vomeres
'uju'itos

achtltern per

such

of
eye-witness

miracle

Dianas

at

887. that
was

temple;

was

so

once

an

without any harm at all,walked

upon burningcoales.
of Europe, c. 46. relates as
secund. in his description
at
conunonlypractised

that it was

temple,for

Dianas

try their honesties.

hot coales,to
go bare-foot over
mention
of ''Feronias
make
writers
and
Solinus,
many
and DionysiusHalicarnasseus, lib. 3. of Menuions

to

Avhich

used

were

this purpose.

to

like old

(much
wherein
they did use
When
Leucippe went
cave,

St.

to

maid,
Fius

much;
women

Plinius,

temple;

statue,
lib. 6. of Pan his

Tatius

needle

Wilfrides

story

Sigonius,of

saith,thathe

Pausanias

hot irons.

pureed with

another

and

in

Yorkshire)

try maids, '^whether theywere

eivuudin sonus
in, suavhsimus

honest.

ccepit.

such exam16. relates many

c.
ples,
Austin, tie civ. Dei,
de specfr.part. 1. cap. 19. contends
Lavater
all which
(}.
to be done
by the illusion of divels ; though Thomas tpicest.
lib. 10.

^-c. ascribe it to good angels. Some, saifh

potcntid^
"^
they be honest; as if
Austin, compelltheir wives to swear
cles,
perjuryw ere a lesser sin then adultery. Some consult oraof
Others
Phaerus that blinde king
reward,
as
.Egypt.
de

"

as

those

old

with

used

Romans

one

corona

man,

to

do.

If

bestowed on
chastity
Gaguinus,cap.

of

serve,

saith Alexander

were

donabahir^
pudiciiia
lier.

crown

woman

When
5.

tented
con-

she had

all this will not

3Inscovi(e,
deacript.

the Muscovites, if they suspect their wives, will beat them till
they confess, and if that v.illnot availe,like those wilde Irish,
be divorced
as

the old

'

at

their

Gaules

orelse
pleasures,

have

done

knock

in former

them

on

tlieheads,

Of this tyranny
ages.
Erot. cap. 10. Camera-

in Parthenius
Cielias Epistles;
2. cap. 3\.
riiis
cap. bv. hor. subci.^.et cent.
1
Ariosto lib. 31 staffe
ffc repnb.Anrj.lib. 9.
Tho. Chaloner

of

reade
jcalousie

more

Fffilix Platerus observut.

lib.

1, ^'c.

"' Viridi
"Ismene
Halic.
RandensFeronia laco. Virg.
in
was
so triP'l
by Dianas well, which maids did swiinme, unchast were drowned, tlusta"" Phariis
"^ Contra
inendao. ad confess. 21. cap,
yEgyptirex
thius lib.8.
Herod.
Euterp.
captiisocnlis per decenniiim, or;i( uliiin consuliiitde iixorispndicitia.
f
in uxorcs
habuerunt poteslateiu.
Csesar. lib. 6. de bello Gall. Vitx necisiiiie

aDion.

Mem.

Prognosiickes
of Jealotme.

3.]

MEMB.

ProffHosiickes
of Jealonsie

III.

madness, to
despair,

themselves

HOSE

make

awai/

aiid others.

most
jealous,
part,iftheybe not otherwise
to hatred ; J'romhatred to
relieved,^proceedfrom siispition
vinrder and despair.
Jrenzie,madness, injurie,
-fl.

which

453

are

plagueby whose most damnable effect,

deep despairto dye have sought,
is brought,
neer
to madness
By which a man
As well with causlesse,as v/ith justsuspect.
Divers in

Ill their

madness, many

themselves

and

fcecundam
minarium

et

times, saith

others.

Which

they make
Cyprian to

Vives,

indiiceth

multiplicemperniciem,
fontem

delictornm

fruitful!

offences,and fountain of murders.

common

"^

in this

kinde,

both

new

cladium

away
cal it,
et

se-

mischiefe, the seminary of

examplesare
Tragical
and

old, in all ages;

as

too

of

'^

Cephalus and Procris,^Phaerus of ^Egypt,Tereus, Atreus,

and Thyestes. '^Alexander Pharus
murdered
of his wife,
was
oh pcUicatus suspicionem,
saith.
Verus
Antonius
was
Tully
of
made
the
Demetrius
so
son
Antigonus,
by Lucilla;
away
and Nicanor,by their wives.
Hercules poysonedby Deianira;
Cfficiima murdered
ladyby
by Vespasian; Justina a Roman

her husband.

''

Ametris,Xerxes

wife,because

she found

her

husbands
cloake in Masista
his
his house, cut off Masista
wives paps, and
gave them to the dogs; Jieadher besides,and
cut ojfher eares,
of Artynta
lips,
tongue, and slit the nose
her daughter. Our
full of such
late writers are
outrages.

'Paulus

story of

.Emilius, in his historyof France, hath

the firsthis death, made
Chilpericus
away

Animi

tragicall
by Ferdea

dolores et zelotypia,
si diutius perseverent,dementes
reddiiot. Acad, combAriosto lib.3). staff.6.
=3. de anima, c. 3.
et odium, et sibi et alii.t
violeutas sa;pe nianiis
injiciunt.
"*
e Phasrus
Hyf^rinius
.^gyptirex de cajcitate oraculum
cap. 189. Ovid, "c.
consiilens,visnm ei redditiiruin accepit,si oculos abluisset lotioraulierisquiB aliorum
viroram esset expers
et aliarutn t'rnstra ; eas
expertus nihil profecit,
; uxoris urinam
onines
in locum coactas concrema\
it. Herod.
(ea excepta per qiiam curatus fuit)
unum
h Herod,
lib.9.
Euterp.
'Oflic. lib. 2.
S Aurelius Victor.
m
canibus
Calliope.Masistae uxorem
excarnificat,mammillas
easque
prsescindit,
abjicit,
filias
Dum
' Lib.
1.
formae
nares
prwscidit,
labra,linguam,"c.
curandcB intenta capillum in sole pectit,a marito
furtim
leviter
lusum
percussa
per
siipervenientevirga. Risu snborto, uii Landrice, dixit,frontem ^-irfortispetet,"c.
Alarito conspecto attonita,
Landrico mox
in ejus mortem
et statim inter
cum
conspirat,
venandum
etficit.
a

'

in par. art. Galeni.

de zelotyp. Transit in rabiem
luent

Love-

454
In

Hiiiulchis queen.

jonlonshtMUonr, he

Sec. 3.

[Part.3.

Melancholy.

from

cnmc

hmifiiig-,

dressino- and r()nd)ing:umI sf")h' liehinde his wile, as slie was

her a familiar tourh with liiswand,
hir head in tlie snn, oave
"or lier lover, said, Ah
niistakiiii^

"vhi"Ii she

herself

saw

(o snake

bpfore,and

strike

should
h-nif/hfp

Landre,

hehinde

not

fjnod

she

when

hut

took order
his presence, she instantly
book
in
eleventh
llieronie Osorius,
the

betrayedby

liiin away,

kini"-of Portuoal, to this efVect hath

wounded
tragical narration, ofoneFerdinandusChalderia.that
deeds

of the
a

of Emanuel

noble
a
(ioiiicrjnns,

Indies,-"and

cut

of

oj'his

off'one

in the East

Goa

his,at
for that
hrjs,

countryman

he looked,

he

us

afterwards
7ipon his 7cife; ichich iras
tho"ff/ht,
toojamiliarbj
and much hkmdshed.
Guianerius,
cause
a
quarrels^
of many
of
matr.
a silly
jealousfellow,
speakes
cap. ?A).de (pgritud.
that
^

ti

liischildenew
seeing-

FranciMian, that vsed

of it,it teas
the frier to

born,included
to

like the frierscoule

so

kill him.

The

the father

housey was

and

thereuponthrcatned

Bassa

story of Jonuses
"^

]Mant(" his wife,iswell known

history;and that of Joanc of
former

kell,thouoht sure

in Narbone, that
Fulgosus,of a woiiian
in the night,
because she thought
privities

off'her husbands
Jjc plaidfalse with her.

out

his

to

come

in

to

such

as

and

faire

read the Turkish

have

I treated in my
of
saith Gouiesius,was
lier jealousie,
cause

section.

Spain,of which

King-Philipdied for griefa littleafter,as,

''^Jarlian his physician
gave it out; and she.for her part, after
discontented
holes,and
life,mispentin Inrkinr/
a melancholj/
made an end of her miseries. Fcelix Plater in the first
Qorners,

both

their deaths.

of

booke

observations, hath

his

many
his
^that
of
acquaintance,
pliysician,

such

instances

of

wasfrst mad throuf/h

that
and
afterwards desperate.Of a merchant
jealonsie,
and
the
in
same
humour,
killed his icife
afterprecipitated
Of
of
his
law
that
doctor
oil"
Of
mans
cut
nose.
a
himself.
mother of nine
wife in Basil,anno
1600, that was
a
painters
children,and had been 27 yeers married,yetafterwards
jealous,
she
that
a
nd
would
became
and so impatient,
desperate,
a

neither

eat

nor

shouhl
the

poyson
humours

it will

drink

in her

own

her.

'Tis

common

stirred,and

are

itself in divers

vary

house, for

feare her husband

signethis;forwhen
the

forms;

once

misatt'ected,
iiuaginafion
and

many

such

absurd

viniin,quod iixori siia;

habens, Gothprinnm, principem quentlain
Qui Oofe nxoreni
uiide niiitiiaj
injrentiviilnere dcformavit in facie, et tibiam atiscidit,
adjecisset,
^ Eo
credcbat eiini liiiciin
inlHiiH nafns iiivolutiis
esset panninilo.
fratris
"|iiod
ciPdes.
"i
*" Knowles,
arrelora\ it
roirismortem
Zflotypiare)rio"E
Francisci. "".
^

mii!os

rclnlit. iliaaiilcin ati;\ bilr inde exajjitala,

ia
iiaiilo post, lit IMartiaiuis mediriis iiiibi
e .\
aiiimi r"-iii|uaiii
iaifhrassp siibdiicens,
pnv ""-.;riliiiliiie
Itnipus ronsiiiupsit.
redactus
si*li"typia

desperabundus,ex

ad in:"Hiiiam"-t

alto

kc

desperaiioiiuiu.

prscipitavit.

'

Uxorem

inde
intereiiiit,

Lom-Mdanchohi.

45G

[Part.3. Sec.

3.

iiincpratos, jrrievcshimself and others : what an ar"-ur7)ent of

in its own
it is,how absurd a fhi!)i"Mrakuess
culous,
nature, how ridihow sottish,how odious ; how
how l)riitisha passion,

disease,mad

ami furious.

For

Hierome well
sihi odio est, others
hate him, and at last he hates himself for it. If he will but
'^
hear them speake,no doubt he may be cured.
Joane,queen
I have formerly
of Spain,of whom
under
spoken,
pretence of
harei"raine
hnlh

-^

as

stdj'acit, ipsenovissime

it, odium

et

toComplutum,or AlcadadelasHeneras,
"hangiito;'ayr,wassent
of Toledo tlien lived,that
the archbishop
where Ximenius
by
his good counsell
(as for the prtjsentshe was) she might be
eased.
"I^or a disease of the sovle,ij'
concealed,tortures and
he removed
overturns
it, and hj no physickecan sooner
then
discreet
1
will
mans
here
not
hjl a
comjortahlespeeches.
this
insert any
to
s
entences
forestall
or
consolatory
purpose,
invention,but leave it to everyone

mans

any

he

as
plitie,

shall think fitin his

with

advise

own

to

dilate and

judg-ement.

am-

Let

him

Siracides

Be
not
jealous over the
cap. 9. 1.
wifeofthybosome ; reade that comfortable and pithyspeech to
this purpose of Ximenius
in the author himself,as itisrecorded
Gomesius

by
or

Caelia in

considered
or

Chaloner, lib,i".derepub.Anqlor.
lierepistles,
"c.
Onely this I will adde, that ifit bo
causeth

which
aright,
with

whether
jusr,

un

Avith

; consult

this jealous
passion,be itjust

without

or

true

cause,

or

it oijo-jit
false,

to betaken; 'tisno such real or capital

hainously
matter,
make so deep a wounde.
'Tis a blow that hurts
insensible smart, grounded many
times upon
not, an
false
and
fostered
sinister
conceit.
so
a
If
alone,
she
be
suspition
by

not

so

that it should

dishonest, he troubles

not
cause

case,

helped,the more
own
misery.How

be

cannot

his
to

put

or

which

dissemble

himself without

macerates

is the "vorst, he be a
he stirres in it,
tlie more
much

it! why

contemne

or

be redressed?

cannot

and

multce tandem

he vates
aggrabetter were
it,in such rTcase,
should that be feared which
iit (saithVives)
deposueru
''

muritos non
wonien
fjuum ftecti
posse vident,many
is
there
have
been
no
see
remedy,
pacified
; and

jealousthen women?

more

to

have

de

can

some

comfort

M-hen
shall

they
be

men

in such

case

companions.
Solaraen

Who

'Tis

cuckold, it

miseris socios habuisse

say he is free?

prccterito,
or

secure

Who

dolciis

himself

he is not

one

? If it
hunf^aWdeJuturo

his

case

can

assure

were

"" C!nip.fsins. lib. .'i "lo

ain Jovianuni.
Xitnenii.
repuli.
j,'is1is
eiiini|)ra)cor(lia
niiiini
ntldncta mcntetn
a'^'ritiidocoiiiiirfssa, i-t in angn-stias
aliu iiadicaniiuc faciliustrigitiir,
HOC
.seriiuuK'.
qiiani cordati luMiiiiiis
:iniiiia.

Urit

siibvprtit,
""

3. "lu

4. Subs.

Mem.

Cure

1.]

of Jealousie.

457

but

lamity,
cabeing as it is, almost a common
'tis not so grievously
to be taken.
If a man
have a
locke, which every mans
key will open, as well as his owne,
why should he think to keep it privateto himself? In some
countries they make nothingof it,
we
^Leo
woZ(i/es^?MV/em,saith
of
Africke
she
iti
be
there's
Afer,
(if
parts
past fourteen)
many

hard;

alone, it were

not

noble

'tis so
the

that marries

man

the

; as

common

maid, or that
gives horns

moone

world, do they to their husbands,

part true, which

that

hath

once

at least.

chast wife ;
moneth
to

And

'tismost

Caledonian

lady(wife of Arg-etocoxus,
a
Augusta, when she took her up
for dishonesty,
We
Brittaines are ncmght at least with some
J'eivchoycemen oj'better sort, hut you Romans
lyewith every
base knave ; you are
tvhores.
Severus
a compafiy
of common
British

prince)told

the emperour,
vice; and as

in his

^Dion

time, made
Niceeus

chormn, three thousand

adulter antes,
natures

mony,
Non

the miller
but

as

in

sees
our

Julia

lawes

for the restraint of this

relates in his life,
tria millia mcc-

cuckold

makers, or

natnra

monetani

Philo

as

cals them, false coynersandclippers

of
summoned
into the court at once.
And

were

molitor quae fluitundam

omnem

all the water that goes

of the
dayes, these were
not

much

called in

videt ;

by his mill : no
commonalty;

questionfor it.

doubt
all the
*'

Martials epigram,I suppose,

have
been
might
generally
applied
solus liahes,"c. thy goods,
in those licentious times, Omnia

greatones

were

not

so

as

lands,mony,

wits,are thine

cvmpopulo;

but

Husband
termes

how

and

Uxorem

owne,

sed

neighbourCandidus

cuckold

your
in that age, it seems,
did wear
themselves

; the emperours
Ca;sars might I reckon
many

hahes,Candide,

wife is
were

common.

reciprocal
badge;

Actaeons

together,and what a
princesin every story! Agamemnon,
of
Ptolomasus
of
Greece,
Menelaus,PhiIippus
^gypt,
ninus,
Lucullus,Caesar,Pompeius,Cato, Augustus,Antonius,Anto"c.
that wore
fair plumes of bulls feathers in their
The bravest souldiers and most
crests.
heroical spirits
could
not avoid it. They have been active and passive
ness,
in this busithey have either given or taken homes.
King Arthur,

of cornuted
catalogue

up

kings and

*=

whom

we

call one

of the nine

worthies,for all his great valour

by Mordred, one of his round-table

unworthilyserved
knights: andGuithera, or

was

Helena

Alba

his faire wife,as Leiand

a Lib. 3.
b Argetocoxi Caledonii reguli
ipsaiii
uxor, Julise Augustas,cum
morderetquod inlionesteversaretur,respondet: Nos cum
optimisvhis consuetndiuem
"^ Leges
habemus; vos Roroanas autem occulte passim homines conshipraut.
de mcechisf'ecit,
"'L. 3. Epig. 126.
civibus plnieSin jus vocati.
ex
c-Asser.

Artliuri, Parcerem
Ijbeuterheroiuarum
vellicaret. I el"i."i

laess majestali,si

non

Veritas
liistoria;

aiuem

Love-Melanchohj.

458

honest

it,Avas an arrant
intiM-prefs
liero
''mine
autl)or)
(saith

in a

[Part.3. Sec.
Parcerrm

woman.

fihenter

s'lnan
niajrsfafi,

hcsa'

nun

3.

Iiisfo-

winke at a Cairo
vcllicarcf,1 could willinoly
ri(r i-critds (uirem
the
laues
of history,
tliat
I
bound, by
am
to
ladies iauits,but
God
did
he
his
truth.
write
will,
knowes,
the
tell
it,
Against

repeat it. I speak not of our times all this while;

and women,
whom
men
have good honest, vertuous
fame,
we
and
feare
ofGod, religion
zeale,
andsuperstitioncontaines;yet
have
too
all
we
that,
for
many knightsof this order,so dubbed

and

by

do I

so

good
and
place.?;

their wives;
in

enjoyn

to

some

in

water

carry

shall

What

many

do

man

abused

women

such

persons

sieve,as
in such

now

had ? how
h.ard to be effected
matter

si

By suinga
famen

(hat thoughit be
cunningly,

so

clear and

manifest

as

the

as

in

nose

as
a

have

Gallus

knave

fast and

all made

Ne

will

common

he shall

and
necessity,

then

to

theywill
Sulpitia,

it.
mouth:

mans

fasciis,
videat.

husband, be he

her

it up:

put

divulgehis

conceal

it,'tis in every

in the fact

coiicambentem

Caleno

by
hardlybe surprised

more

thatis

theycarry the
as
simony,as

with that Roman

or

face,yet itcannot

mans

dcstitutam

cadurcis

se

INIuch better

wary.
it,the

v.'atch ;

soon

sure,

Nudam

She

to

divorce

caute,

proved,or theylikelytaken
evidently

be

as

may

is to
V/hatrfemedy

case?

caste,

non

you

bands,
hus-

keep themselves honest.

to

shall he be eased?

be

by dissolute

the

shame

ownc

make

Yea, but the world

never

so

he strives in

more

vertue

of

takes notice of

taike their

let them

of
pleasure,
the highestto the
is no remedy then

speakthey not in this sense ? From

lowest,they are thus censured, all. There
and hath no reason
fault,
but patience.It may be 'tisliisowne
lieto complain,'tis qnid pro quo, she is bad, he is worse.
hast thou not done as much for some
Ihiiihfithjiself,
of thtj
that
? why dost thou I'equire
of thy uufe, which
itcUihhonrs
Thou
u-iff
thou
not performethyself;
rangest like a toicu hull;
ichyart thou so incmsed ifshe tread awry ?

whom

'^

"'

I'e it that

And

some

leaves

her husband
it is

and

without

commonly

She

sees

She

feels that lie his love from

And

luith

on

man

some,

not

in sin her

unchast

beLomes

Yet

her

chast wedlocks

break

woman

lawcs,
;

cause,

to waste,
i;oocls

her

perhaps,loss

witlulrawcs,

worthyplac't.

cCogita an sic aliis tu imquam

assert. Aithuri.
''E|iiRr,ini.
fiericlicniini
sit? stv" rus aliis, indnlgens tibi,cur ab uiorc
hoc tibi nunc
''
ipse"|iii)%i3rai)iaris,
Vaga libidinf rum
f xigis
rinodnon ipsepranstas?Pliitar.
' Arioslo
li.*$.
stafltHU.
insauis
;"
vcl
M)odiciiinabcriet
si
ipsa,
rur,
a

Lelands

"^ecerig; an

Mem.

4. Subs.

And

Ea

459

scabbard

them

strike,

may
like.

love,like asketh

love craveth

sure,

saitli Nevisanus,pares redclere vices,s\\e

sludehit,
"

semper

will

sword, the

strikes with

Who

of Jealousie.

Cure

J.]

if she

quit it

And

can.

her not

9. 1. teach

cides,cap.

therefore

well adviseth

as

evill lesson

an

Sira-

ac/ainstthi/self,

which
Jansenius, Lyranus,on this text, and Carthusianus
as
is no otherwise
to be understood, then that she do
interpret,
thee

not

but

if both be

is,a

good

Yea,

I do

mischief.

naught,mend

husband

makes

her

excuse

in

first;for
thyself
wife.
good

'Tis
repliesi,

thou

but

not

not

the like

accusingthee
the old

as

betwixt

reason

sayingman

faidt my children are bastards,

I may
sit imperiosa,
endure
it; ^sit amarnlenta,
cNc. let
not
procFu/a,
modo
sit
her scolde,brawle, and spend,1 care
not,
casta, so she

and

throughher

woman,

bear it;but this 1 cannot, I may not,

honest, I could easily
1 will not; my faitl),
not be touched,
my fame, mine eye must
be

as

the diverbe
Non

is,
fama, fides,oculus.

patiturtactum

I say the same

of my wife,touch all,use
all,take all but this.
of
be
1 acknowledge that
Seneca
to
true, nnllinshoni jucnnda
is
in the possession
there
s
ine
sweet
content
no
socio,
possessio
of any good thing without
And
why this?
say. This.

horrest,it may

be for

I
companion,this onlyexcepted,

Even

this which

thyprogenies
good ;

"^

thou

so

much

better be any

abmans

thine,to be begotof base Irus, poor Seius,or mean

Moevius,the town swineheards, a shepheardsson : and well
son

then

fathers ; for thou

is he, that like Hercules, he hath any two
diseases then an horse,more
self hast, peradventure,
more
of

body and minde,

the worst

make

it is
as
insensibile,
sure

it is

so

he

without

so
a

of

firmities
in-

tions,
soule, crabbed condivnlnns
insanahile,sic

it,as it is vulnus
incurable,so it is insensible.

But

art

thou

.''
"^

doth

acankerd

thy

indeed ?
cause

agitille tuas

res

It may

some

as

be, thou
if it be

are:

art

over

and
suspitious,

octimestris partus, born

eightmoneths, or like him, and him, theyfondlysuspecte

he got it ; if she speake or laugh familiarly
with such or such
is
them
then
she
with
is thy weakness.
: such
naught
presently
men,
terpret
\\'hereas charity,
minde, would inor a well-disposed
at

all unto

the best.

S^ Francis, by

chance, seeinga frier

another mans
wife, was
familiarly
kissing
that
he
down
kneeled
it,
presently
aSylva nupt. 1.4. num.
'Optimum bene uaaci.

72.

"iMart.
.,

Lemuius

so

far from
and

ceiving
miscon-

thanked

God

lib. 4. cap. 13. de occult, nat. mir.

Love-Melancholif.

4C0

3.
[Part.

Sec. S.

much
left: but they,on the other side,
so
there was
charity
to naturall causes,
miliarity,
will ascribe nothingto faindulg-e
nothingmutual society,
but one ola sinister sus:
fViendshij)
them

locke
presently
|)ition,

close, watch

them,

thinkingby

prevent all snch inconveniences,that's the

it
by such tricks theydoe aggravate the
way to help ; whereas
'Tis
vain
but
in
that which will away.
to watch
mischicfe.
those

to

meanes

custodiri si velit iiUa potest;

mentem
servare
potes, licet omnia

s^Nec
Nee

serves;

intus adulter erit.

exclusis,

Omnibus

for her part.

;
kept resisting
heart
within
her
be
kept close,
Tiioughbody
it there's no art.
t'exclude
lurks,
Advoutry
None

Argus

be

can

with

hundred

an

Jlmor,as
Jejellit
If all our

in

hearts

holds,uxor

Hieronie

unus

sitpe

eys, yet sure, they said,

should be betray
'd.

were

of

husbands

We

hunc

keep her, et

eys cannot
Ariosto.

wives

our

servari

impmUca

potest,pudica

non

7ion

to what end
is all
injidacristas castitatis est necessitas^
be
dishonest
A
?
cannot
woman
kept;an honest
your custody
is
be
not
to
a
woman
kept; necessity keeper not to be
ought
trusted. X"iffi.cile
custoditur,quodplnresamant
; that which
"^Salisburiensis
be
as
thinks.
covet, can
hardly preserved,
many

debet ;

Silvius

of /Eneas

am

minde,

''

Those

ill to locke up their wives ; for icomen

they icill 7nost covet that tchich

jealousItalians do vei-y
are
of such a disposition,
isdewjedmost,andojfend

to trespass. It is in vain to
they have free liberty
up if she be dishonest;et tyrannicum iinperium,
Aristotle cals it, too tyrannical
a taske,
great master

least when
locke her
as

our

For

unfit.

most

her and

when

she

perceivesher

suspects,liberius peccat, saith

zelotypodedit

moecha

uxor

husband
Nevisanus.

observes
"
Toxica

marito, she is exasperated,seeks,

by ailmeanes,
because

and will therefore offend,

to vindicate her self,
she is unjustly
suspected. The best course then is to

let them

have

any

their

own

free

wills,
give them

without
liberty,

keeping-.
in vain
For

our

friends from

this do

beautywill be where

''

is most

lis

dehort.
resort.

Policrat. lib.8 c. 11.

judiciominus ntiliter
ut id poli.ssiimiiii
iiuoHmaxime denestmt enim eo in^viiioniiiliere.s,
ciipient,
f'ijciuiit;
ndliibes,sx nousit
iiiinu.s
: l'rii."ili'a
.serum
d"'liii(|iiiiii(
^ntiir. Si liberus habeiit linlicrias,
f Ausouius.
'^ Quaudo
lioc advxrtcrc.
cognoscuut iiiaritos
spouk- caola.
""

De

Ovi.l.
amor.

amor.

lib.3. ele- A.
''Etirial.
ei Lucret

Lib. 4. st. 7'2.

Qui

tuorts

'

nrrliidinit,
ineo

4. Subs.

Mem.

If she be honest

of Jealoiisie.

Cure

1.]

Lucretia

as

to her

tesilaus, Penelope
honour, good name, credit

Leodamia
Collatiniis,

to

Ulysses,she will

Phocias

as

wife in

The

ero.
Ulyssis

'^Plutarch,called her husband

vow

keepersthen
relig-iou,zeale,arebetter
; she will not be moved.
prisons
mihi

b At

her

her

she will
world,joye,deliaht,orbeandspheare,
she made
her good man
unto
; love, vertue,

n-ealth,treasure,
hers.

so

to Pro-

continue

Penelopeconjuxsemper
And

461

vel telhis

allthoselooks,eunuches,

ima dehiscat,
prius

optem

pater omnipotensadigatme fulmine ad umbras,

Pallentes umbras
Erebi, noctemque profundam,

Aut

Ante

pudor,quam

te

violem,aut

juraresolvam.

tua

First I desire the earth to swallow

Before I violate mine honesty;
thunder

Or

from

those

With

above

paleghosts,and

She is resolved with Dido

false,she will be
*=

Shall
And

true

wals

These

drive

to be

and

to

me

dwell.

ugly nightsto

chast ;

though her

keep me

all unspottedunto

me

hell.

Octavia writ

as

that here do

keep

mee.

out

husband

to her

of

b"^

Anthony ;

sight,

thee,

tesiifiethat I will do thee

stain thine

I'llnever

right,
house, though thou

shame

mee.

her loose to all those Tarquinsand Satyres,

she will not
the emperour,
be tempted. In the time of Valence
saith d S*.
of
A ustin,
Archidanms, a consul
one
Antioch,offeredan hundred
Turn

pound of gold to
band

free,who

was

faire yong" wife, and besides to set her busthen sub gravissimd
custodid,a dark prisoner,

would
j^ro ujiius noctis concubitu : but the chast matron
*^When
commended
Theanas
of
it.
fine arme
not accept
one
to his fellows,she took him up short,Sir, 'tisnot common;
she
is

whollyreserved
and

to her

his breath

her spouse,
it abroad, comminc/home
she did not tell him
cause

husband.

^Bilia had

man

to

stunke, so that nobody could abide

one

told him, but that

strong as his. s Tigranesand Armena

to

old

his u'ife,
heday, he reprehended
ofit: she voiced nnto himsheiooulde
she thouf/ht
breath had been
every mans

have
as

an

supper

by king

"'Opessuas, mnndam

Cyrus ; when
thesaurum
16.

his

they came

ladywere

invited

home, Tigranes

"^ Daniel.
b Virg. JEn.
formosiis lacertus hie, quidam
' Bilia
Diniituni
est.
Publicus^ inquit,
non
inquitad a?qualesconversus
; at ilia,
habuit et spiritumfoetidum habentem, queni quum
virum
senem
quidam exprobrasset,

dl de

"c.

serra.

suura,

d. in monte

sNumquid

ros.

tibi,Armena,

suum,

";c.
eO quam

Tigranes,videbatnr

1. 3.
a:depol,"c. Xenoph. Cyropsed.

esse

pulcher?

et

ilium,inquit,

'3.Sec.
[l*art.

Love-Melanehnhf.

462

liis wife, liow she

nskcd

coniineiidin liim

sho

ho

looked

she

dyefor

made

She

on

wliat she did cially

espehim.
did iint ohsprve

she

swore

observe, whom
husband, that said he

she

then

rephfedar/oin,what

Wht'n

tcovld

Cyrus,and

liked
?

did

answer.,

Her

Such

and
properties
be well given,she
naught,use all the

her sake.

3.

conili-

ihe

are

will so
and if she
women:
tions of g-ood
if otherwise she be
meanes
carry her self;
animns
sed
corJSTon decst
thou canst, she will be naught.
hath
hare
meshes,
as
an
she hath so many
lyes,excuses,
r"7;/or,
'tisto no purpose to
shifts
to
deceive,
bawdes,
tricks,panders,
Faire meanes,
kee[)her uj", or to reclaime her ])ybard usage.
do somewhat.
may
peradventure,

^Obsequio vinces aptiusipsetiio,

predicamentin this behalfe,

volnnt non
:
and
better pacified. Buci
co(/i
won
sooner
as
a scolde
Xantippe,as cruel as
though she be as arrante
Medea, as clamorous as Hecuba, as lustfull as Messalina, by
Many patient
such meanes
(ifat all)she may be reformed.
reclaimed
have
this
kinde,
in
their
I'Grizelsby
obserpiiousness
Francia
In Nova
lusts.
from their wandringtheir husbands
and

Men

are

women

both

in

and

(as Lea, Rachel, and Sarah did to Abraham

.Jacob)theybring-their fairest damsels to their husbands
Turkic

and

beds.

of Augustus : Stratonice
the lustfull appetites
Livia seconded
Electra,a faire maid,
wife to king Seleucus did not onlybringchihlren begot on
the
bed, but brought up
toiler

goodmans

her, as careful

if theyhad been

as

her

Tertius .^milius

owne.

her husbands
wife, Cornelias mother, perceiving
much
oflhe maid, and
made
dissimnlaint,
rem

notice of it.

his,to
M-ith

he,
not

married

new

shewn
ciu-ry favour, had

let

iiim do his

trust

him

courtingand
gallant,

yong

take

I dare

his

a
w

ife familiar

my

in

no

private

Tush,

Sic.
dallying,
trust

take

pickfhankfriend of
said

wife,though 1 dare
; if

remedy then is by faire meanes

place,to dissemble it as I say, or turn

The

him.

that will not

worst

when

man,

intemperance,
would

best

it oft'

in this case, vel joco

advice
jest. Hear Guexerras
vel silentio ehides ; for if you take exceptions at
excipies,
wisdome, Hercules
thing your v^ife doth, Solomons
every
Argus vigilancy
valour, HoTuerslearning,Socrates patietice,
w

ith

'=a
minus malum
Therefore
turne.
will not serve
^
be
cunarum
Nevisanus
holds, dissimnlare, to
then
tlie
proverb is,
a
l)uyerof cradles,as

leys mischief,

"

Ovid.

lib.4.

num.

SI).

P.-trarrhs tale of patientGrizel in Chaucer.

Read
''

Era^smll8.

to

tor,
empbe too

"^

Sil. nup.

Love-Meianc/io/if.

404

[Part.3.

Sec. 3.

of Tholousc, againstMartin Guerre

Tilius "li"lin the court
for that he counterfeitefl his liabit,
and was
his tcllow souldier,
with his
I'aiiiiliar

too

reniaine for

to

take

or

cases,

then

]"utit up,
will

though he
oxe,

yet

on

divulgeliisown

Erasmus,

to trouble

at it as

much

Cornutus,to
Melius

better

contenuiein

sic errare,

([nam

better be awittall
seconficere^
himself

to

dormire,be

many

shame, ami

How

record ?

notice of it?

omnibus

not

winke

to

cuckold

no

saith
C7iris,
zeloh/pioj
and

to

Tacitus, then Publius

be Cornelius
such

ever

so
"vife)

do,

no
an

as

asse,

is notamisse

if it be
parties,

And

purpose.

he is

an

times,

at some

for his

commodity, or
sake, his land-lord,patron, benefactor,(as
some
great mans
Plutarch
did by Maecenas, and
saith
the Roman
Calbas
when
he promisedhim
Phallyusof Argos did by king Philip,
office on that condition,he might lye with his wife)and
an
in

to

cases,

some

some

""

so

to let it passe

polme

baud

Scilicet boni dimidium

troubles

it never
;
piter

let it not
"^Tu

cum

pcenitet
dividere

cum

Jove.

said Amphitrio,to be cornuted by Jnmolest thee then ; be friends with her.

me,

Alcmena

antiquam in ^atiam

uxore

Redi

let

it,f say, make

no

breach

of love

betwixt

you.

ever,
Howso-

''

it; which
the best waye
is, to contemne
Henry the
courtier
of
advised
of
a
his,jealousof 1ms
second, king France,
\vife,and complainingof her unchastness, to rejectit,and

himself; for he that suspects his wifes incontinencie,

live a merry houre, or.
feares the popes curse, shall never

comfort
and

sleepa quietnight: no remedy but patience.^V'hen all is

done, accordingto that counsell of ^Nevisanus,si vitium
vxoris corrif/i
non
potest,J'errendumest: if it may not be
Date
vcniam et sustinete tacit i,
helped,it must be endured.
'tis Sophocles
advice, keep it to thy self; and which Chrysoet domesticnm
calls palastram pkilosophia,
stome
r/j/mnasium,
it
other cure,
There
is
of
school
no
a
philosophic,
put
up.
it out,

but time to wear

they iiad drunk

conclude, age
and

injuriarum remcdium

draughtof

will bereave
end

patiencemust

and
passionskills,

aAmator.
Dial.
French.
ciinjiirat.

""

ohlivio,as

in Trophoniusden.

her o( it,dies dolorem

if
To

time
viinuit,

it.

*^The minds affections

It

Lethe

est

will appease,
patience
healeth

each

bpiautiis seen.
ult.Amphit.
80.
fR.T.
Lib 4. num.

disease.

cldetn.

"'T.Daniel

4. Subs.

Mem.

SUBSECT.

II.

or
aftermarriage;
before,
By jnevention

"philters;stewes;

curtisan;

marry

of
yeers, fortunes,
them well,6fc.
use
a

Of

medicines

such

Platos

comnmnitie;

to marry

equalin

one

goodfamily^education,goodplace,to

as

conduce

to the

treated ; there be
have sufficiently

by

465

of Jealousie.

Cure

2.]

of this malady,I

cure

good remedies

some

ing",
remain-

or
of"prevention,
admonitions,which
precautions,
much
Jo
monwealth,
good. Plato in his compractised,
may

way

if rightly

to

thingscommon,

prevent this mischiefe,belike,would

wives

children

and

observed

all as

of those

CcEsar in his commentaries

firstinhabited this land; theyhad ten

or

to
family,or promiscuously

one

all

which

and

that
oldBritaines,

twelve
be

have

Avives allotted

used

by so many
six
to one, as
to one, as
not one
men:
saith Austin,
a sect that sprung,
The ^Nicholaites,
in Turkic.
woukl
have
inditlerent
women
from Nicholas the deacon,
; and
the causeof this filthiesect, was Nicholas thedeacons
jealousie,
to

such

with us;

anothers

or

condemned, to purge himself of his

lawful to lyewith
this heresie,that it was
Like to
to lyewith his.
wives,and for any man

he
for which, when
offence,he broched
one

orfoure,five

was

with other
in Muuster, that would consort
anabaptists
moved
them.
Or
the
as
wives as
^Mahomet, the seducingmens
spirit
needs
he
list
would
women
as
to
himself,
use
prophet,
Alcoran
in
love
with him,
205 their
were
saith,
begetprophets;
^
old
fortiemen.
able
and
he as
as
Amongstthe
Carthaginians,
'^Boheiiius relates out of Sabellicus,She king of the countrey
as
and once
in the year theywent
laywith the bride the firstnight,
promiscuouslytogether. Munster Cosmog.lib. 3. cap. 497.
of this brutish custome(injustly)
ascribes the beginning
to one
those

Frenchumn, that invented

did, and to use
go naked as Adam

Picardus

new

of

sect

Adamites,

promiscuousvenery at
that
of Genesis, Increase
When
the priest
set times.
repeated
*
the
candles
in
the
went
and multiply,
out
placewhere they
catch
met, and without all respect of age, j)ersons, conditions,
her
fasten
took
came
that catch may, every man
some
next, S^c.
to

ea

ut
[jib,(3eheres. Quum fie zelo culparetur,
purgandise causa
fertur,
permisisse
versuui
est, qua placet
qui veliet uteretur ; quod ejusfactum in sectam turpissiraaui

indilferens feminarum.
Alcoran edit, a Bibliandro.

t)

usus

Sleiden. Com.
mor.
gent. lib.cap. 6.

Alcoran.

Nupturs rejridef Luraina

exhibentur.
nee
virginandae
exstinguebantur,
personae ei aetatishabita
mulierem cognoscit.
in quam quisqueper tenebras incidit,
reverentia,
"1

VOL.

II.

De

Love-

400
those ancient

tin'son

of

inhabitants
and

as

themselves

; until

of the town,
in our age;

and

Bohemians

=*

and

valleyin

those

*=

In

Islanders;

'^

on

the

Piedmont;

as

parts of ''India,
nians
amongst the Babylo-

some

and

their wives
old, they will prostitute

of

others

Sec. 3.

in Scotland amongst Christians

practised
iNIalcomes
time, the king,or the lord
king-

their maidenheads.

had

[Part.3.

Russians;

in the Lucerne

Mambrium,

read,it was

Melancholy.

modern

Greek

daughters

writer, for

of
want
(which Chalcocondila, a
better intelligence,
to such travellers or
puts upon us Britains)
men
as come
sea-faring
amongst them by chance, to shew how
far they were
and how little
from this feral vice of jealousie,
The
of
esteemed
'Lod.
it.
Vertomanthey
kings Calecut,as
will
relates,

nus

touch

of

But

old,were
have

those Essaeai and

in another

any
theyheld them
7utm.

women,

tillone

of their Biarmi

them,

to sanctifie their

Montanists,two

they would

extream;

societywith

33.

their wives

lain first with

high priestshave

or

wombes.

or

not

because

not

strangesects
marry at all,

their intemperance
oj"
the lawyer,
lib.4.

Nevisanus

all to be nanr/ht.
syl.nup. would have him

the worst, marry

non
tricem,hoc habet saltern boni,r/iiod

malady, to prevent

that is inclined
a

this

to

capiensmerescit earn
c/uia
decipitnr,
quean

aliis. A fornicator,
in Seneca, conquod non contingit
wenches
the one
in a night:for satisfaction,
sired
detwo
stuprated
him.
to hang him, the other to marry
sHierome, king
of Syracuse in Sicily,
himself
to Pitho,keeperof the
espoused
took
and
a
Thais,
common
stewes;
whore, to be his
Ptolomy
wife ; had two sons, Leontiscus
and Lagus by her, and one
daughterIrene : 'tis therefore no such unlikelything. ''A
citizen of Eugubine gelded himself to try his wives honesty,
and to be freed from jealousie
did a baker in 'Basil,to the
: so
in this kinde,that of
intent.
But of all other presidents
same
sic esse,

''Combalus

memorable
is most
to prevent his masters
: who,
asabeautiful
for
and sent by Seleucus
he
.suspition, w
yongman,
his lord and king-,
with Stratonice,the queen, to conduct
her
into Syria,fearing
the worst, geldedhimself before he went,

"Leander

Albertus.

Flagitiosoritiicnncti in (rdem

in Venereni
cOncionem, exstinctis Inininibus,

riumt.

convenientes, post impuram

^ Lod.
Vertomannus

Polus lib. 1. cap. 4"J. Uxores viatoribus prostituunt.

navig.lib.6. cap. 8. et Marcus
habens amico
uxorem
Dithmarus, Bleskenius,ut Agetas Aristoni. Pulcherrimam
^ HerodoL
in Erato. Mulieres Babyloni csecnm
prostitait.
hospitepermiscentur
ob argenfiim qnod post Veneri sacrnm.
Bohemus
lib.2,
*Na\igat lib.5.
init,quani a dignioresacerdote no\a
non
nupta deflorata sit.
cap. 4. Prius thonim
fBohemns
lib.2. cap. 3.
Ideo nubere
nollent ob muliernm
intemperantiam,nullam
viro fidem putabant.
Herod,
Alius e lupanari
ser\are
fc'Stt-phanus
privfaL
meretricera, Pitho dictani,in uxorem
duiit,
duxit;Ptoloraaeus Thaideni nobile scortum
''
' Felix Plater.
et ex ea duos liliossuscepit.
See.
Poggius Florent.
c

I* Lucian

tarchus.

Salmutz

Tit

2. de

com.
porcellanis

in Pancirol.

de

nov.

repert

et

Plu-

4, Subs.

Mem.
and
to

accused

to

in like

rophon was,

Seleucus

case

46/

box, sealed up. His

with him, but he not yeelding"
of incontinency,
(asthatBelle-

him

tlie way, fellin love

by

her,was

of Jealousie.

behind
genitals

left his

mistress

Cure

2.]

in

traduced by Sthenobia, to king

falsely

and
non
Pr{3etus her husband, cum
posset ad coitum inducere)
his
into
therefore at
that by her, and was
comming home, cast
he
cleared
of
the
prison: day hearingappointed, was sufficiently
the
which to
admiration
and acquitted shewinghisprivities,

by

cut off. The

beholders,he had formerly

of the

saith
they suspected,

whom

geldwomen

to

Lydians used

Leonicus

var.

hist,

Saint Francis,
To this purpose
to prevent
in
women
private,
himself before
and prove himself a maid, stripped
suspition,
the bishopof Assise and others : and frier Leonard, for the
went
same
throughViterbum in Italy,without any
cause,
lib. 3. cap. 59. as well as men.
because
he used
to confess

garments.
to help these inconveniences which
pseudocatholickes,
nest,
their wives hoto keep themselvesand
proceedfrom jealousie,
make
lawes: against
severe
adultery,
presentdeath : and

Our

withal,fornication

venial sin.

As

sink to convey

that furious

of concupiscence,
swift stream
theyappointand permit
the
to
and
more
secure
sinners,
those
pleasant
stewes,
punks
their wives in all populouscities;for they hold them as necessary
avoid
to
unlawful,
a
And
howsoever
churches.
as
yet
and

as
policy,
usury, for the
this
hearts ; and for
end, they have whole
hardness of mens
''
colledgesof curtisans in their towns and cities. Of Catos
minde, belike,that would have his servants (cum ancillis con-

greater mischiefe,to be tolerated in

coitus
ffredi

afacinoraevitarent,
cere, ut gravio,
dejinito
such feminine
with
familiar
some
interdicens)

causa,

cceteris interim

avoid

creatures,

to

allowance

for it.

mischiefs in his house, and

worse

made

for idle persons,

They hold it unpossible
to
lusty,so many servants, monkes, friers,
them
to be
to
a burden
compel
tyrannical

rich, and
yong,
live honest ; too

brothers
unfit to suffer poor men,
yonger
ries,
also diseased persons, votaand souldiers at all to marry,
as
the
and
ease
Therefore, as well to helpe
servants.
priests,
the other,
tolerate and wink at these kind of brothel
as
one

chast; and

most

they
arguments they have to
Many probable
and a toleration of them,
the necessity,
prove the lawfulness,
in policy,
of usury ; and without question
they are not to
as
in religion.Others prescribe
be contradicted
but altogether
honest. '^3Iuand women
charms
to keep men
hikers,spels,
Iier ut alienum virum non admittat pr aster suum : AccipefeU
houses

and

stewes.

Ste^amis "

^Wecker

1. confor. Bonavent.

c.

G. vit.Francisci.

Plutarch, vit.ejus.

lib.5. secret,
"H

Love-

468

Melancholy.

[Part.3. Sec. 3.

hirci,ft adipem^et exsicca, calescat in oleo,^-c,et non alium

In A le.vi,
Porta, SfC.plura
et multo
invenies,
prcvter te amahit.
his ahsnrdiora; nti et in Rhasi, no mulier virum admiitat,et
maritum
solum dilirjat,
Sfc. But these are most part Pagan,

absurde,and
impious,irreligious,
The
to take

best

to

meanes

the

ridiculous devices.
avoid these and like inconveniences,are,
and occasions.

To this purpose, ''Varro

but
it
lost.
is
''Patricius prescribes
3Ienippeam,
writSatyrani
away

causes

in chusing'
of a wife
foure rules to be observed
the Spaniardin his 45.
will may rede)Fonseca

(whichwho so
c. Amphitheat.

six

men:
specialcautions for men, foure for wofive for men,
Neander
out of Shonbernerus,
Sam.
five
for women
lessons:
Cleobu: Anthony Guiverra
many good
lus two alone,others otherwise;as first,
to make
a good choyce
in marriage,to invite Christ to their Medding, and which
'^ Saint Ambrose
and
adviseth,Dtum conjur/ii
prasidejn
habere,
for her, (a Domino
enim datur uxor
to pray to him
prudens,
and
be
rash
Prov. 19.) not to
in his election,
too
to
precipitate

Jlmoris,sets down

the first he meets, or dote on every stout faire

peece
his
he sees, but to chuse her as much
to
be
as
well
ears
by
eys ;
what
he takes,of
advised whom
age, "c. and cautelous in his
run

upon

proceeding.
or

yong

An
an

man

old

man

old

woman

not

marry

yong

ad aratra

juvenci!

needs minister a perpetual

cause
such matches must
each
other.
distastful
to
be
tion,and
^

lit in

Noctua
Talis

apud Sophoclemnostra

For

upon
old

wench

with

owl

puellasedet.

sits on

dead,

carcass

Sophoclesin

bed.

Sophocles,as Athen"eus describes him, was a very old

as cold as
January,a bed-fellow of bones ; and doted yet
Archippe a yong curtisan,then which nothingcan be
^Sene.v maritns
uxori juveni ingratnsest, an
odious.
s

man,

more

lyes

of suspi-

tumulis,super atque cadavera bubo,

Night-crowson tombes,
So

woman,

veniunt
inaequales

male

^Quam

should

is

man

most

unwelcome

guest

to

yong

wench, unable,

unfit.
'

Oranis

cNe

eOvid.
Poutanns

"

horret amor,

eu

blande nimis agas,

f Alciat. emb. UG.
biarum lib.1.

de officiomariti.
4. Tit. 4. de instit reipnb.
"" Epist.70.
''
1.3. cap. 1*2.
Eflripides.
Deipiiosoph.
^

"" Lib.

Citatur a Gellio.
cum

puelloe,
fugiunt
Venusque Hymenque.

Amplexus suos

nc

objurgespnesentibusextraneis.
b

4. Subs.

Mem.
And
his

in like case,

as,

weekly

2.]

to

Cure

ofJedlousie,

good

fellow that had

grinde,yet would

needs

for either he
eftsoons,

errour

it quitedown,

let others

or

must

grindeat

therefore disallowes

Seneca

build

all such

469
a

peck

mill for

a new

let his mill

of

corn

it,found

lyewaste, pull

it. So these men,

"c,
unseasonable
matches;

crebr(s nuptice. And

as
^Tully
His unfit
farther inveighs,
for any, hut ugly and filthyin old
Turpe senilis amor, one of the three things^ God hateth.
age.
hahent

maledicti

enim

locum

downrightat such
kiiide of marriages,
which are attemptedby old men,
quijam
et a voluptatihis
deserti,
pecca?itanimo ; and
corpore impotenti,
makes a question,
whether,in some
cases, itbe tolerable at least
in his book

Plutarch

for such

to marry,

man

qui Vencrem

with
olim

past those

afFectat sine viribus

as
a gelded
man
lyes
exercises,
30. 20. and now
complains
him in Vetronius,J'unerata
est hwc purs Jam, qucejuit
Achillea,he is quitedone.

that is now
with

Coleten, rails

contra

virginand

*^

Vixit

venerous

sighs,Ecclus.

puellse
nuper idoneus,
sine gloria.
non

Et militavit

questionis,whether
Priapeianpopes, which in

he may

delighthimself,as those
their decrepidage laycommonly
between
two
contactiiformosarum
every night,
yong wenches
adhuc
rmni
et contrectatione,
gaudeat; and as many doting
shame, their childrens undoing,and
syres stilldo to their own
their families confusion : he abhors it,tanquam ab agresti
et
it
be
avoided as a bedlame
furioso domino J'ugiendum, must
and
not
obeyed.
master,
But

the

Alecto
et malus Hymen
nubentibus,
Ipsa faces prsefert

Triste

ululat,

the divel himself

reckons

three

makes

such

matches.

"^

Levinus

Lemnius

which
things,

disturb the peace of

generally
or unseasonably,
theymarry intempestive
mortall men
and
derately,
inconsias many
marry precipitately
when theyare effcete
and old.
The second,when they
and
birth.
The third,when a
for fortunes
tinequally
marry
sick impotent
nuptoi spes
person weeds one that is sound,novw
dislikes instantly
follow.
: Many
frustratur
Many doting
up

marriage. The

firstis when

*"Ecclns.
Offic. lib.Luxnria cnm
turn senectuti foedissima.
omni actatitarpis,
''
c Hor.
that dotes,"c.
An old man
lib. 3. ode 26.
Cap. 54.
instit.ad optimam vitam.
Maxima
mortaliiim pars pr;ecipitanter
et inconsiderate
nubit, idque ea ;vtate qiiffiminus apta est; qnum
adolescentiilse,
senes
samis
morbidsc,
dives pauperi,
"c.
"

25. 2.

Love-Melanclioly.

470

ilizarJs,it niny

be

not

filthy
of theirformer
and

obselete,iinseasomihle

(sobe calls thera)with a remembrance

againstnature, theystir up their dead fiesh:
pleasures,
remedies

old leacher is abomiuable

; mulier

luhrica
hQ\f\s,pr"Esumitur

et

the third time may

Of them both
should.

terfio

inconstans,a

presumed

be

Sec. 3.

confessotb,^re-

Plutarch

denyed, as

themselves with such

create

[Part.3.

to

be

Ambrose

thus

but

an

nuhens, ""Nevisanus
that marries

woman

than she

honester

no

concludes,in

his

ment
com-

Luke, they that are coupledtoqether,not to yet

their lust,are not husbands,but cators
fornichildren, hut to satisfie
'^

upon
;

of

hope

S'. Austin

M'ith whom

Matrimony,without

consents.

matrimonium, sed concubium

children,non

did

debet,

or
jumblingcoupjing"
together. In a
helpeand comfort
word, except they wed for mutual society,
'^
of another, (inwhich
respects, though Tiberius denye
one
old folks may well marry)for sometimes
a
it,without question
Mhen
need
of
to
Puccius,
a
wife,
hath
most
according
man

is

not

wedding, but

odious, when
he hath no need of a wife; otherwise,it is most
that
hath
foote
in
his grave, a
dizard,
one
old Acheronticke
an
that is blithe
shall flicker after a lustyyong wench
silicernium,
and

bonny:
e

salaciorque

"

passere, et albulis cohmibis.

Verno

What

he

can

^Tu

detestable ?

more

capitaamas,

cano

Jam

senex

nequissime,

plenusfetalis,animaque foetida,

Senex

hircosus

Utine

adiens

tii

osculare

voniilum

mulierem?

potiusexcuties

old SToat, hoary leacher,nau"hty man

AVith stinkins:
breath, art thou in love ?
Must
thou be slavering? she spewes to see

Thou

Thy

filthieface,it doth

so

move.

to
tolerable for an old man
will,it is much more
erit
for
ladies
match
call
it) eras
(our
they
marry a yong woinan
in
Critobulus
the
Cato
he
said
in
Roman,
mulier, as
Tidly.

Yet

as

some

^Xenophon,
many
contra:

yong

''

famous

'tisnot
man.

of late,Julius Scaliger,(S:c. and

Tiraquellus
precedentswe have in that kinde ; but not e
held fitfor

For

as

Varro

an

ancient

woman

will,^Inus dum

to

match

ludit morti

with

delicias

a Obsoleto,intempestivo,
tnrpiremedio fatenlnr se uti ; recordatione pristinaram
excitant
et enectem
voliiptatemse recreant, et adversante natiira, pollinctamcamem
b Lib. '2.nu.
sed explenda;libidiniscausa,
35.
''Quivero non procreanda?prolis,
''Lex Pafomicarii habentur.
tarn roiijnces qnam
sibi invirem ropiilnntiir.
non
fPlautus.
lib.I.
Mercator.
biaruni
erontaniia
2:?.
Claud,
Sneton.
c.
pia.
'' V^ide Thuani historiarn.
Sy mposio.

Loxe-Meiantioii^.

472

they sacrifice
;

Sec. 3.

follow the fairest,by

locEsk, bo^
agree

[Part.3.

and
Jophers appointment,
and
seldom
tosrether. Beauty
honesty

them

lo

often crooked manners;

faire
illconditions. Sus^pieiomis
goodcomplexioiLS,
have

straightpersonages

faces, foale rices

^Chrysostome)is fuD
plena re* est^et inndiannm, beauty(saith
of treacheryand suspition be that hath a faire wife,cannot
it: as ifnothingelse
mischief e, and yet most covet
have a worse
and
be
wealth were
to
but that
in marriage,
respected. Francis
:

of Millain.

Sforza, duke
would

not

fcCT"Mked

lawes, and
as
Italy,

'In

in

Morns

daughters,

or

eftsoons: if deformed,

pot them

so

daughter,except he
first; which
Lycurgus appointedin his
his Utopian Commonwealth
approves.
have

man

three

or

faire, they are

foure

married

theychangetheir

of Lucia,
lovelynames
Lrsula,
Dorothie,
Bridget,and
if none
fit for marriage,
as
were

caU them

Cynthia,Cam^na,

behalfe,that he

of Mantuas

traveller observes, if a
and they prove
more,

in this

carious

so

the dake

many

might see

was

into monasteries,
areeminentlie faire: buttbeseareerroneous

teneuts:
butsuch as
such
fair-snout
to
a
a modest
virginwell conditioned,
peece, is
w3t
avoid
If
thou
take
them,
be
much
to
preferred.
away all

and jealousie,
suspition
marry
Cassanslras
temple,which was

of

causes

her from

Italyto

lie

shalt be

so
maids,
sure
rcckold, but forspight.A citizen

fiULydowdy,

findingber in bed

and

thou

fetch

peece,
in

wont

and

a sanctuary of all deformed

thee
wOl make
that no man
of Bi2ance in Thrace, had a

wife,

coarse

with

deformed

another

maa,

slut

erred

to

his

out

as

?
I fpaz te P.ece^^^ia^knc ad"ijlt
O thoa
amazed J O miser
one
wretch, v^hat necessity
broughttbee hither.' as well he might ;
But this is warilyto be understood,
afi'ectsuch a one?
for who can

in another ex"ream:
fore
they preferwealth beshe be rich,they care
she look ;
not bow
so

ocecd

most

and
f^eauty,
these

but

ail

are

cut

as

as
faulty

the

Attendenda

rest,

Salssburiensis adviseth,ae
as
mjrori^Jcrrma.

fialteram

mox

earn

married

to

old

an

3-r

hr..

Chaucer

that

was

ifCO^im

axtrr

kaS ijim,^

zi an

oisle,

bcCr UaktS

6c

lanlt.

thy wifes complexion,lest whilst thou seest

loathes! her. she prove Jealousthou naught.

(fill
JiicJtt. MBi.

^mk itmt

Leaaiam
PliAtrek.

cxit

koigbt in

of

care

aaother,thou

cKKKKltaL

woman

all rar

gs
Have

pTtte*.as the

sordere

temper

a^pexeris,

tie "ar.

ad Isann,
BbX
43L
e

K"Me

ay^fa^
Aflis

*Pai;uiitLK"F.I1.

tn"

Gcr.

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ISLSI^lDMtmt

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ipM iiiMiiiriftii
iL^iMM
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4. Subs.

Mem.

of Jealoitsie.

Cure

2.]

conjux,si

Si tibi deformis

473

venusta,

serva

utaris serva,

Ne

Molestum
est possidere
quod
perhapsgive instance.
that
which
habere dignetur,
a misery to
no
man
nemo
possess
ciistoditur
other
the
likes : on
side,difficile
qnodphiresamant.
vaunted
in
the
souldier
the
And
as
comoedy,nimia
bragging
nimis.
hominem
so
est miseria pulchrum esse
Scipiodid never
these
will
beset
gallants
hardlybesiegeCarthage,as
yong
I

can

with wit or person, another with wealth,"c.

thine house, one
howsoever.
saith Guazzo, she will be suspected
If she he faire,
Both extreams
are
facile
naught,pulchracito adnmatur,fceda
is
the one
is soon
beloved, the other loves : one
"onc7ipiscit,
hardlykept,because proud and arrogant, the other not worth
keeping; what is to be done in this case ? Ennius, in Menelippe,adviseth thee as a friend,to take statamformam, si vis
of a middle
habere incolumem
one
size, neither
pudicitiam,
too

nor
faire,

which

old

too

foule ;
mihi

magis quam

formosa

Nec

casta

placet,

Cato, though fit,let her beautybe, neque lectissimaf

between
neqtie illiberalis^
other two I resolve with

both.

This

I approve;
but of the
cceteris
Salisburiensis,
paribus,both

alike, endov/ed alike, majori miseria deformishabetur

faire one,
and
a
quam formosa servatur, I had rather marry
put it to the hazard,then be troubled with a blowze; but doe

rich

wilt,1 speak only of my self.

1 would
advise thee thus
Howsoever, quod iterum moneo,
much, be she i'aire or foule, to choose a wife out of a good

thou

thou

as

kindred,parentage,
b

well

animo

Primum

Moribus, in junctosveniat
that marries

wife

out

honest

of

nupta penates.

alehouse,
Pauls, as
horse,a knave

suspectedinne

likelyhave

hires

servant

his

is ; shall

for his man,

sumitur esse

honest woman
to his wife.
arrant
an
saith "=Nevisanus: Such
matri similis,

daughter:
e

Scilicet

At^ue

aMarnllns.
Si genetriicaste
Sat. 6.

mail corvi malum

exspectasut

alios

mores

jade to

ovum,

tradat mater

quam

quos

to

Filia pra^

mother,

her kinde.

honestos

habet ?

bChalonerlib. 9. de repub.Ang.
filiavivit; Si meretrix mater,

caste quoque

cat

or

in

the diverbe

such

place.

quo

nova

horse in Smithfield,and

buyes a

an

sanguinecreta,
quibusqueante omnia virgo

tibi proponas

Qua forma, qua astate,

He

in

brought up,

"Lib. 2.
filiataliserit.

num.
*

159.
Jnven.

Love-Melancholi/.

474

[Part.3. Sec. 3,

all likelihood the daughter

will matrizare, take after her in all good qualities,
Creden'

dishonest,in

be

mother

If the

futuram
tauripotente

Pasiphaenon

Tauripetam?"
trot, the foale will not amble.
My last caution is,
do not bestowe
her self upon a fool,or aji appathat a woman
rent
is a sy mptome of that disease,
melancholyperson ; jealousie
If the dam

and fools have no moderation.

Justina,a Roman
lady,was
andafter made away by herjealous
much persecuted,
husband,
she caused and enjoynedthis epitaph,
to
to others,
as
a caveat
be engraven

her tombe.

on

discite patres,
aDisciteab exemploJustinae,
Ne

children to

marriage,I

After

their wives
man,

in

stratus

can

dizards for to

no

give"nobetter

are

you

speeches

bed,

and
niglit,

which

admonitions

then

discretion,

time and

in the

to

them

maintain

so

harde, and

to

have

turn

observes,because

keep them

so

short in diet and

makes
of meanes,
them dishonest,or
forceth them to flyout;
churlish behaviour

want

it to cry
as the
liberal,

make

quittance.In the
proverb is, turdus

rod for their

own

bad
or

their
ap-

hunger,

usage ; their
bad examples,

other extream, some

malum
sibi cacat,

tailes,as Candaules

their

liberty

women

Nevisanus

parell,
paupertas cogiteas meretricari, ])Overtyand

too

use

flatterhig
morning. Let

placerequires. Many
^

by compulsion,

they doe

to

wives

of'your

sermons

likewise

as

are

heed

'^Patricius ingeminates,
and letthem
as

queans
husbands

take

curtain

do their endeavour

meanes,

place.

and for quietness

Stobseus, to avoid future strife,

over

with

case,

well ; and which a friend ofmine, that was

a married
told me, I will tell you as good cheape,saith Nico-

sake,when
them

viro,"c.

parents all,and by Justinas

Learn
Your

fatuo filiavestra

nubat

did

to

are

they
Gyges in

his wifes beauty hiniselfe,

and besides
him
have
her
needs
Whilst theygivetheir
would
naked.
see
wives too much liberty
to go abroad, and bountifull allowance,
*

Herodotus,commend

miseries;animce
accessary to their own
simeolent, as Plautus jybes,they have deformed

they are
by

their

and colours
painting
hate ; especially,

aCamerarina

procure odimn

mar

u.rorum

pes-

soules; and
bands
their husiti,

cent. 2. cap. 54. oper. siibcis.

i-Ser.72. Quod amicus qiiidam
liabens mihi dixit,
dicam vobia, in rubili cavendaj adulationes vesjieri,mane
"=Lib. 4. tit.4. de in.stitut.reipub.cap. de officiomariti et uxoris.
claraores.
"i Lib. 4. syl.
81. Non curant de iixoribiis,
volnnt iis.siibvenirede victii,
nee
nup. nam.
";ln Clio. Speciem uxoris snjjra nioduni extollens,
vestitu,"c.
fecit ut illam
nadaiu coram
aspiceref.
uxoreni

Mem.

4. Subs.

misere

cum

of Jealousie.

Cure

2.]

475

labia xnariti.

viscantur

Besides, their wives (as'' Basil notes)impudenterse exponimt

masculorum
tunicas,ct coram
aspectibits,Jactatites
tripudiantes,
themselves

impudentlythrust
their undecent

by

into other

and
companies,

mens

carriage,
provoke and
should
women
keep house
spectators. Yertuons
well performedand ordered by the Greeks,
mulier

symbole of

For

alone,is like

and

abroad

woman

silence

womens

and

mille venatores
msequuntur ,
she
foliowes ; and besides,in such places,
her self,but as that virginDinah

parke,quam

forth to

daughtersof the

the

see

be defiled and

may

daraee

Imbelles

And
would

therefore
have

overtaken

women

cannot

come

of

out

every hunter
well vindicate
so

(Gen.34. 2.) going

she
land, lost her virginity,

on

sudden

philosopherhe

not

what

but

thrice abroad

married, and
baptized^

be

whom

quidnisi prfedasumus

I know

treadingon
keeping.

house

deer broke

'twas

Phidias,belike,at Elis paintVenus

made

tortoise,

; and

qua in publicum
viro
sine arbitro prsebeat

ne

Spectandamse
which

tempt the

wanton

buried;

but he

too

was

that

was,

all their

time,

"=

to

strait laced.

in good sort, and go in good sort,

liberty
cetatis sua; domi relinquant^
modo non
annos
as
a good
viginti
that
look
fellowe
not
said, so
they
twenty yeers yonger
abroad then theydo at home, theybe not spruce, neate, angels
abroad, beasts,dowdies, sluts at home ; but seek by all meanes
to their husbands; to be quiet,
to pleaseand
gi\e content
above all things
censed,
; if they be in; obedient,silent and patient
their w ives must
not
cample
angry, chide a little,
honest
1 cannot
againe,but take it in good part. An
woman,
Let them

have

their

"^

tell where

now

she

dwelt,but by report an honest

chance

of her

one
gossipsby
hearingtold
impatience, her an excellent
her m ithall a glasseof water, which

was,

husbands

gave
she should
often

as

successe,

thankes
told her
was

not

hold

he chid

stillin her
; she

did

she

woman

complainof her
remedie
when

for it,and
he brauled,

mouth, and that toties quoties,

as
three

times

with

good
lengthseeingher neighbour,gave her great
the ingredients she
for it,and would
needs know
in brief what it 'was,faire
: for it
tcater, and no more
the water, but her silence which performedthe cure.
and

so

two

or

at

"

"" Orat. contra ebr;

kisse his wife for paint
d j,jon vociferatur iliasi maritus
" Ad
tuinuluni.
et
matrimonium,
baptismum,
ostenditei non aquam, sed silentium iracuudiaj
^Praudem aperieus,
obganniat.^
*

Javen. Sat. 6.

moderari.

He

cannot

Love-Melaneholy.

476

3.
[Part.

Sec. 3.

imitate this example,and be quiet

Let every frowartl woman
within doores, and (aj:"31. Aurelius prescribes)
a necessary
that love their
caution it is to be o])served of"all good matrons
liltle
but
fbllowe
their
work
at home
abroad,
credits,to come
;
look to their houshold atFaires and private
business,ceconomicc
be sober,thrifty,
modest, and
"incumhcntps,
Mary, circumspect,
themselves

compose

good

labore
Qiisestudiis gavisacoli,
partita
Fallet opus

cantu, formcc assimulata

coronEe

not
keepe them private,

'tisgood to

Quisquiscustodit uxorem
stultus
Etsi sibi sapiens,

Reade

velvet,"c.

Cum

as

circum fusosquerotasque
puellaris,

Cura

Howsoever

meanes,

do.

huswife should
^

live to their husbands

to

vectibus et

in

prison.

seris,

est, et nihil sapit.

of this

Horol. prhic.lib. 2. pei' tofum,

subject,
Bohsus deniidier. apparat.
Tertullian,
Cyprian,
polit.

more

Arnlsveus

lib. 2. cop. 4.
Levinus Lemnius, cap. 54.
de Amor.
de re uxor.
lib. 2. cap. 2. Frnncle instkut. Christ. Barbarns
ciscus Patricius de ivs^titut.reipuh.lib. 4. Tit. 4. et5. de officio

Godfridus

Amor.
laoris,Christ. Fonseca Amphifheat.
cap. 45.
Sam. Neander, "c.
These cautions concerne
him; and if by these, or his own

mariti

et

discretion,otherwise

he

moderate

cannot

himself,his friends

to
wantingby their wisdome, if it be possible,
and
to prevent
the
remove
givethe party grievedsatisfaction,
him.
if
it
be
If
it
be
to
secure
one
occasions,
objects, may
must

be

not

he suspects,
to consider whom
many,
he
is
what
most
incensed,in what
times,in
places
'' Nevisanus
whether
makes
a
a
question,
yong

alone,or

be admitted

ought to

house,

mans

to

physick.The

in

Persians

of

case

administer
of

ajulip,a
old,Mould

amongst
cuckold, and Mas
gaoler,in Aristametus,had
to come

sicknesse,into

"

M'onien.

him

cornuto.

measure

married
such

sician
phy-

made
alive for it.
A

fine yong
gentleman to his
of his youth and person he let
he

unkindly

to Paris,
gave good Melcome
and familym ere at his comman"le
;

his best beloved wife.

offered to Agis, king of Lacedamon,

urgentlystole
was

new

Menelaus

stranger; his M'holc house

but he

companies
physician

to

made

what

ApollonidesCous

commiseration
Erisoner
of the prison,
but
im loose,
enjoyethe liberty
; 'in

at

syrupe, or some
not suffer a yong

after buried

Artaxerxes

or

aMay

Tlie like

by "

Alci-

fceiuinis iliustribus iie freravenflum

Princi. lib. 2. cap. H. Diligenter
"' Lib. 5. num.
"' Cliaioner.
"" Mi-nandiT.
I).
vulvae raorbiiraesse, nee curari posse, nisi ciiiii viro " oiicum" Ctesias in Persicis finxit,
' Exsolvit vinculis aolutuui"iue
at ille
liciuisit,
beret ; liac arte voti compos, "c.
k Plutarch,vita ejus.
luhumanus stupravit
conjugtiii.
a

Horol.

cpienterexeaiit.

4. Subs.

Mem.

of

Cure

2.]

Jealoiisie.

^Tti

too
exile ; for his good entertainment, he was
blades an
childe
her
of
his
called
Tiinsea
with
wife,
a
familiar
begetting

Leotichides ; and
to

Athens,

that he had
If such

monians.

when

bragging,moreover,
a

should

son

objectswere

might easilybe
parties

be

he

king of

removed,

home

came

the

Lacedajbut the

doubt

no

that they could

or
satisfied,

them

use

to revile them, scoffe at,

intreat them well, not
mane
hate them, as in such cases
commonly they doe ; 'tis an huand
should
vexation
add
miserable
not
a
they
;
infirmity,

gently,and

but seek to please,

nor
aggravate their misery,
griefeto griefe,
moving
and by all meanes,
give them content; by good counsell ; remediation
of
discreet
offensive
such
or by
some
objects,
a temple erected
friends. In old Rome, there was
by the maDea, another toVenns verticorda,qiice
to the
trones
Viriplaca
""

hapned betwixt
they did

offer

(ifany

difference

there
resort:
wife)theydid instantly
a white
hart,Plutarch records, sine
sacrifice,
and

man

gall(some say the like of Junos temple)and

ferent
''indifpeace : before some
prayers for conjugall
the

without
felle,
made

henevolos,whither

reddebat

nxorihus

maritos

their

heard betwixt
the matter
arbitratours and friends,
was
In our
times we
and wife, and commonly composed.

man

want

if use
stone
contra

churches,or good

sacred

no

called

made

were
"

of them.

Some

say

such
that

versies,
contro-

precious

diamond, hath excellent vertue,

invicem conciliare,
to reconcile
hijurias,ei
conjugatos

others
beryllus,

hostium

to end

men

and wives, to maintaiue unitie and love ; you may

If none
of all
trye this when you will,and as you see cause.
and
cautions will take place,I know
not what
these meanes
men

whither
or
prescribe,
except theycan get into the same
shall have as manyfaire unves

remedy

to

cleare eys, and

no

fear,no

them

such

as

danger of

observe

look

on

persons may go for ease,

"*Turkic
paradise,
icherethey

such

as
none

theyicill themselves, xcith

but their

being cuckolds.

that strict rule of

Or

oicn

husbands

else,I would

Alphonsus,to

marry

have
a

deaf

help,let
and
an
astrologer,
them, to prevent the worst, consult
in her horoscope
whether
the significatours
see
agree with his,
that they be not in signiset partihnsodiose intuentibus aut
antisciis et ohedientibns ;
sed mntuo
et amice
imperantihus,
there
will
be intolerable enmities
otherwise, (as they holde)
and

dumb

man

to

blinde

woman.

If this wili not

with

between

them.

Or else

'

get him siy ilium Veneris,acharacter-

b Alexander
ab Alexandro
"Rosinuslib. 2. 19. Valerius lib.2. cap. 1.
'' Strozius
f Fr. Rneus
de gemmis 1.2. cap. 8. et 15.
1. 4. cap. 8. et gen. dier.
ibidem
volunt,
cnm
Habent
uxores
15.
qaot
lib.
2.
incan.
et
spirit,
Cicogua
cap.
Breden"c.
fixnri
maritum
in
sunt,
ocalis clarissimis,
aliquem
praster
quos nunquam
e Uxor
ducat maritum surdum, "c.
caeca
bacchius, idem et Boheraus, "c.
in Alcabitium, ubi plura.
fSee Vaient, Nabod. ditfer.com.

in

stamped

istical seal

such

with

isfortunate,

and

Villanovanus

tho
and

Leo

us

mulier

ut

eys,
he
as

and

divorce

out

geth,

if that

dosius

vivos,

should
those

he

might

shall

avoid

which

and

so

he

out

put

his

lust,

without

woman

his

in

not

care

de

great,

ur-

of Theo-

in

your
that hath
In

I will
next,
you
This
the
is
best

1 meet

the

ear.

because

he

et coelihes

could

himself

make

molestation

Try

need

of,

occasion

as

look

not
to

the

Lord

proverbe
deliver

'Cap.

46.

serves

I
may

see

blinde,

of

watching his
repeat, an especial

tell

you

give ;
applye unto

can

not
ceal
con-

not

it,

what

it is

which

he

himself.

time,

mean

Di

as

peradventure

of

reports

troubled

much

counsell

in

use

I could
soveraign remedie
I am
but
antidote
against jealousie, an excellent
cure,
emperick I
disposed to tell it,not that like a covetous
now
I am
other
it for any
gaine, but for some
reasons,
desirous
know
be
to
willing to publish it; if you
very

when

all

not

in

as

other

One

wife.

for

sue

couples left.

; let him

and

medies
re-

more

that

were

long

so

other

justd

or

en-

womens

place,

""Tertullian

was

all

haheremus,

married

eys
and

de

effect, and

divorce,

or

put upon

and

last

to

viduas

enjoye

that

the

tracte

the

which

wife,

own

approved,

difficult

remedies

former

his

in

must,

modmn
prope
have
almost
no

that

Democritus,
upon
that

they

not

suche

possit, hicide

with

Valentinian, concerning

we

therefore

be

course

Constantino

of

times, innumeras

our

or

she

sif/iUisvutf/icis

ex

2;^raciousin

he

3.

which

magitians

iion

surely
disagree

Felisacus,

lawe

and

adidterare

channes

many

natural

our

wlien

Venus,

and

prescribe,

is somewhat

as

words

set

shall

had,

that

For

fit.

so

be

but

he

If this

not

may
a

aliquo

and

it.

wears

of

some

suspect

never

of

Ragiielis, S^'C. with

and

cum

plllisejus, Sfc.

such

Suavius

Saloni07iis, Hermetis,

Alexis, Albertus,

hoiire

and

daye

3. Sec.

[Pavt.

Love-Melancholy.

478

talem

is, from

terris

avertite

pestem,

heresie, jealousie, and

frensie, good

us.

Apol. Quod

mulieres

sine concupiscentia aspicere

non

posset, "c.

ReligiousMelancholy.

480

and into the other, whose

[Part.3. Sec.

4.

is God,
o))ject

Plato in Convivio,
of two distinct furies; and anionost
Neoour
tericks,Hercules de Saxonid, lib. \. pract. med. cap. IG.cap.
doth expreslytreate of it as a distinct species.
de Melanch.
; the firstis that
Love-Melanchohf (saithhe) is tirofolde
mention

makes

'^

rvillnot vouchsafethis name

some
or
(to which peradventiire
those
which
God
of
of melancholy
) affection
species
put
for
about pi'ayer, fasting^
their object,
and are altogether
the
6^-c.
other about
livereth

as

women.

much

deForestus,in his observations,

Peter
in the

same

words

and

Felix

Platerus de

in qua
est ejusspecies,
cap, 3. frequentissima
curandd
; 'tis a frequent
sapissimemultum fui impeditus
of
what
disease ; and they have
a ground
they say, forth of
''
Aretseus and Plato.
Aretseus,an old authour, in his third
and derives
booke, cap. 6. doth so divide Love-Melancholy,
which comes
wise.
otherthis second from the first,
or
by inspiration
"=
hath
these
his
in
Phsedrus,
words, ApoUos
Plato,
mentis alienat.

priestsin Delphos,and at Dodona, in their furie do many

the Greekes, but never
in their riqht
pretty feats,and benefit
them all mad, as well he might ; and he that
wits.
He makes
of old, those prodigious
that superstition
shall but consider
will
shew the several furies of
effects of it (asin its placeI
PseudoFatidici Dii, Pythonissas,
Sibyls,Enthusiasts,
our
and Schisniaticksin these our latterages)
Heretiques
prophets,
afford
shall instantly
confess,that all the world againcannot
much
of
madness, so many stupend symptonies, as
matter
so
heresie,schisme hath brought out ; that this
superstition,
the former,hafh agreater
speciesalone maybe parallel'dtoall
effects ; that it more
besots and
miraculous
and more
latitude,
doth
then any other above named
Avhatsoever;
to mankinde, and hath
harme, work more
disquietness
mortall
of
crucified thesoules
(suchhath been the
men,

infatuates men,
more
more

divels

craft)then

wars,

plagues,sicknesses,dearth, famine

all the rest.

but a littleleave, and I will set before your eys, in
Give me
of incredible madness
briefe,a stupend,vast, infinite ocean
and folly
full of shelves and rockes, sands, gulfes,
: a sea
and

Euripesand

contrary tides

; full of

fearfullmonsters, uncouth

shapes,roaringwaves, tempests,and Siren calmes,Halcyonian

and
tragoedies,
seas, unspeakablemisery, such comoedies
and
f
erall
lamentable
that I
such absurde
and ridiculous,
fits,
*
est, duplex est: prima, qua; ab aliis
araore
Melancholia Erotica,vel quae cum
qui pro objectoproponunt
est affectio eorum
forsan non meretur
nomen
melancholia',
Deum, jejunia,
visilias
Deum, et ideo, nihil aliud curaut aut cogitant
; altera
quam

furoris speciesa prima vel a secunda,Deorum

ob mulieres.
''Alia reperitur
cQui in Delphisfutura
furor hie venit.
vel afilatunuminum
rogantiuin,
nmlta
aacerdotes
jucunda Graiis dequideni
praedicunt
furentes,
vatea, et in Dodona
sani vera exigua aut nulla.
ferunt,

Mem.

6. Subs.

know

not

481

Melanchoiy.
5.] Religious

whether

they are

to be

more

derided, or
or
pitied

be beleeved ; but that we

dailysee the same stillpractised
fresh objects
nova
fresh examples,
??or?V"",
in our dayes,
in this kinde, that are stillrepresented
of miseryand madness
bosomes.
the midst of us, in our
unto
us, abroad, at home, in
several
of
these
treat
errours
to
But, before I can come

may

and
say
and

"c. I must
their causes,
symptomes, affections,
obliquities,
self;
of
of the object this love,God himnecessarily
somethingit proceeds
what this love is ; how itallureth ; whence
;
how
all
mistake,
of
we
is
our
the
miseries)
cause
(which

wander

and

from it.
swerve
all those divine attributes that God

doth vindicate
Amongst
jesty,
wisdome, mahimself,eternity,
omnipotency,immutability,

to

beauty is not the least. One

justice,
mercy. Sac. his
saith David, have 1 desired of the Lord, arid that I icill
thincf,
stilidesire,
to behold the beautyof the Lord, Psal, 27. 4. And
is the perfection
out ofSion which
ofbeauty,hath Godshinedy
"

50. 2.

Psal.

All other creatures

other

are

faire,1 confess;and many

a faire house, afaire horse,

us,
objectsdomuchenamour
''/
am
amazed,
comely person.

to

up

saith

Austin,when

1 look

heaven, and behold the beautyof the stars, the beauty

who can
expresseit?who
principalities,
powers,
of angels,
commend, or set out this beautyichich appears
can
sufficiently
in us ? so fairea body,so fairea face,eys, nose, cheeks,chin,^
browes, all faireand lovelyto behold ; besides the beautyof
be discerned.
the soule which cannot
Ifiveso labour, and be
icith the comeliness of creatures, hoiv should
much effected
so
lustre of God himself?
with that admirable
be ravished
%ve
and power, and
If ordinarybeauty have such a prerogative
what
and

is amiable and
affections of all

faire,to draw the eys and ears, hearts

spectatoursunto it,to move, win, entise,

soulcs,which
allure : how shall this divine forme ravish our
of all beauty? Coelum puU
is the fountain and quintessence
be so faire,
the
coelifabricator
; ifheaven
chrum, sed pulchrior
made
them
that
faire
?
fairer shall he be,
how much
faire,
so
sun
For

by the greatnessand beautyofthe creatures, proportionally

If there be such pleaWisd. 13 5.

sure
of themis seen.
and
beautifull
as a plausible
in beholdinga
person alone,
this
shall
what
much
affect
he
so
beautyof God
us,
sermon,
fairer then all creatures, men, angels,
himself,that is infinitely
Omnis
"c.
pulchritudo
forum, hominum, angelorum,et
ad Dei pulchritudinem
omnium
collata,
rerum
pulcherrimarum
the maker

"

ciim

Deos bonus,Justus,pnlcher,
juxta,Platonem.
coelnm aspicioet pulchritudinemsideruni,angelorum, "c.

et
^Wltoj
et

stupeo.

quisdigne laudet

oculos,innares,
genas,
quod in nobis viget,corpus tarn pulchrum,frontem pulchrum,
c Drexteilectum,omnia pulchra?si sic in creaturis laboramus, quidin ipsoDeo '".
elius Nicetclib. 2. cap. 11.
VOL.

II.

II

482

Religious
Melancholy.
est et tenehrce ; all other

Sec. 4.

night it self,meer
darkness
to this our
incomprehensible,
inexplicable,
able,
unspeakadmirable
and divine beauty. This
eternall, infinite,
lustre,pulckritndoomnium
pnlcherrima. This beauty and
the
divitie
is itthatdrawes
all creatures
3Tajesfi/,
^splendorof
nox

to

it,to seeke

beauties

[Part.3.

it,love,admire,

and

are

adore

And

it.

those heathens,

out of those reliques

philosophers,
theyhave
forth
far
incensed, as not only
yet
image,are so
to acknowledgea God, but,thoughafter their own
inventions,
to stand in admiration
of his bounty,goodness,to adore and

pag-ans,
left of Gods

seeke
and

him

; the

of the world

magnificenceandstructure

it self,

all his creatures, his goodness,

providence,
protection,
inforceth them to lovehim, seeke him, fear him, though

beautyof

wrong

\vay

to

that

adore him.

But

for

us

that

are

illuminated

his

generate,
Christians,rehis
word,
by

adoptedsons,
havingtheeys of our hearts and understandings
opened; how
himself!
doth
he
Ambit
Deus
offer
and
7ios
fairly
expose
us
by his beauty,
(Austinsaith)donis etjormd sua, he wooes
is a
him ;
the tchole scripture
unto
gifts,promises,to come
are

message,

an

us, and
creatures.

mium

exhortation,

love letter

invite us; "^Gods

He sets out his son

as
Epistle,

and

this purpose, to cite

inGregory cals it,to his

to

his church

in

mysticall
song of Solomon, to enamour
his
head
to finegold,his lockes curled
comparing
a

or

raven,

washed

Cant.
with

5. 10. his ei/s like

doves

thatepithalaus

the

more

and black

;
as

rivers

of waters,
doirn
lillies,
dropping
pure
his
and
set with chrysolite
:

milk ; his

on

as
lippes
as
ringsof gold
church to a vineyard,a garden inclosed,afountaine of living
seiits of saffron,
waters, an orchard of pomegranates, with sweet
the
and
all
and
trees
calamus
cinnamon,
of incense,
spike,
the chiefspices,
the fairest
Jio
as
women,
spot in her,
amongst
his sister,
the onlydaughterof her mohis spouse, undefiled,
ther,
the
dear unto her,f aire as the moone,
as
sun, looking
pure
that glasse,
these
out as the morning. That by these figures,
blance
resemwe
might perceivesome
spiritual
eys of contemplation,
of his beauty,the
love betwixt his church and him. And
in the 45 Psalm, this beautyof his church is compared to a
so
raiment of
Queen in a venture of gold of Ophir, embroidered
in her beauty.
needle worke, that the kingmighttake pleasure
makes
To incense
further yet, John in his Apocalypse,
a
us
of that heavenlyJerusalem, the beautyof it,and
description
the
maker
of it ; likening
it to a cityof pure gold,like
in it
deer glasse,
unto
of
shiningand garnishedwith all manner

juyce, his hands

'*

"^

b In Psal. 64. Misit ad nos

et
epistolas
Fulgor diriuae mogestatis. Aug.
totam scripturain,
^Epist.48. 1.4. Quid
qnibusnobis fareret aniandi desideriuni.
"i
suam?
rst tota scriptura
Dei ad creaturam
nisi epistola
Cap. 4. 9.
oinnipotentis
'

^Cap.21..11.

Mem.

1. Subs.

I.J

That

it is a distinct Species.

483

the lamhe
preciousstones, having 7io need of sun or 7noone:for
is the light
of it,the glory of God doth illitminate it : to give
the infinite
it.
Its to understand
glory,beautyand happiness
of'
Not that it is no fairer then these

to which

creatures

it is

pared,
com-

but that this vision of his,this lustre of his divine majesty,

otherwise be expressed
cannot
to our
wo
apprehensions,

tongue

heart
no
tell,

can

himself,Exod.

conceive

can

he desired

33. 18. when

Paul

it,as

saith. Moses

God

to see

in his

was
answered, that he might not endure it,no man
his face and live. Sensible fortedestruit sensum,

glory,

could
a

see

ject
strong"ob-

in phito that axiome

sight,accordinglosophy
creatoris:
non
'.fulgorem
j)otes,multo
magis
solisferre

overcometh

the

if thou canst not endure the sun

dure
beames, how canst thou enthat fulgorand
of him that made
the sun
?
brightness
The sun
it self,and all that we
shadowes
but
can
imagine,are
of it; 'tisvisio prcvcellens,
calls it,the quintessence
as ^Austin
of

heaatythis,tvhich far exceeds the beautyof heavens, sun

stars, angels,
moone,
goldand silver,woods, fairefields,

and

and whatsoever

fail,
vary,

All those other beauties

is pleasantto behold.

^bitt this is
to loathing*;
subjectto corruption,
immortall vision,a divine beauty,an immortall
an
love,an in^
love and beauty,with sightof which we shall never
defatigable
be

are

wearied, but stillthe

tired,nor

shall covet
is absolute

more

we

see,

the

more

we

ivhere this vision is,there

saith,
beauty; and ivhei'e is that beauty,from the same
all pleasureand happiness
comes
; neither can
fountaine
beauty,
him.

*=

For

as

one

be separated
or
happiness,
from his vision or sight,
pleasure,
life
this
In
his vision from beauty,pleasure,happiness.
we
have
shall
but a glimpseof this beauty and happiness;we
hereafter,as John saith, see him as he is : thine eys, as Isay
33- 17. shall behold the kingin his glory; then
promiseth,
sire,
shall we
be perfectly
enamored, have a full fruition of it,de"^

fairest

behold

and

or
object,

love

corrupted
; and
all
and
our
our
heart,
love this object,
as
been

Atid him

In Psal. 85.

we

as

we

soule

Oranes

or

for

to

amiable

that end

not

with all

born, to

we

were

to

soughtalone

terrenas aurijargenti,
nemorum
pulchritudines
pulchra
superans.

will

our

love God

discourseth,and

have loved and

and

good.

done, Had

enjoynedto

are
:

the most

chiefest

have

now

Melancthon

will would

our

alone, as

bonum,

smmnum

This likewise should

it.

him

enjoye
as

our

et camporum,

b inmaortalis
Osorius.
et visio.
Ubicunque visio
amor
sec
amor,
ab
nee
divini aspectiis
ibi voluptasex eodem fonte omnisque beatitudo,
et pulchritudo
dLeon
ejus aspectuvoluptas,nee ab ilia voliiptate
aspectus separaripotest
terminetur.
felicitasDeo eognoscendo an amando
Hebrffius, Dnbitatur an humana
Ad hoc objectum amandum
: et hunc
eLib. de anima.
et fruendum nati snmus
expe-

solis et

omnia
lunas,stellariim,

Eulchritudinem
immortalis
indefessus
visiO;

unieum
hnnc amasset, humana
tisset,
ordine.
eo
omnes

"=

voluntas, ut

sumnmm

bonum,
1

i2

et

caeteras

res

Melancholy.
Religious

484

[Part.3.

Sec. 4.

good,and all other (foodthiuqs

principnll
she proceededfrom it,xrould
as
for Gods sake: and nature
in this iufirmitij
have sought this f'outitaiue
: hut
of humane
summuni

bonum,

nature

this order

or

is disturbed, our

is like that monster

a

Me

man.

love is corrupt

in -'I'lato,
composed of

carriejl away

are

and

man

Scylla,alyon,and

lieadlono- witli tlie torrent

of'onr

affections: the world, and that infinite variety

of pleasingjects
obdo so allure and enamor
in it,
that
much
cannot
we
so
us,
look towards

God, seeke him, or think on him as we should

we
cannot
cannot, saith x4ustin,rempub. coelestem cogitare,

as
"we

contain
to

it

selves from

our

saith
IMarriage,

us.

their sweetness
is so
Gualter,detains many ; a

them,
^

pleasingthinq in

self laudable,good and

carried
the love
hath

aivag

deceived and
necessarg, but mang
the blinde love oj'it,
have quitelaid aside

with

and

of God,

overcome

as

desire

of

whilest

mang,

his

glorg. Meat and drinke

theg rather strive to please,

then to serve
God
and nature.
satisfe their guts and hellg,
Some are so busied about merchandise, toget money, theyloose
their ownsoales, whiles covetously
carried; and with an un-

gain,theyforgetGod. As much we may say

health, wealth,and all other
honour, leagues, friendships,
in this life,whatsoever.
In this world
or
pleasures
profits
there be so mang
objects,
splendorsand hriqhtness
beautiful
of
assistance
of friends,fairepromises,
gold,majestg of glorg,
smooth words, victories,triumphs,
and such an
infinitecomand
beauties
allure
drawe
to
us
us,
from God,
ofpleasing
pang
that we cannot
And
this is it which Christ
look afterhim.
much
thundred
himself,those prophetsand apostles
aoainst
so
satiable desire of
of

'^

1. John

2. .15. dehort

that
thijigs
love

of

us

from.

Love

in the world; if ang

is not in him, 10.

are

not
man

For

the Father

xcorld, as

lust

is not of
life,

of the feshe, the

the

Father,

but

passethawag
thereof:but he
will of God, abidethfor ever.
Xo man,
other,^c.
Austin

ynasters, but he
bonos
vel inalos mores

two

serve

well

infers

inculcate.

He

friend, that

is

and

must

is in the

of

the lust

and

can

all that

the egs, and pride of

the u'orld : and the world

lust

of

the world, nor

the
the
love
world, the

that
saith

love the

one

boni vel mali

this is that which

the
fulfilleth

Saviour,

our

and

hate

fanunt

the

amores,

all the

fathers

(''Austinadmonisjieth) be
delightedwith the pleasuresof the

Gods

cannot

world

in epist Johannis cap. 2. Multos conh Horn. 9

alioqui.salutarispt necessaria,eo quod ca'co
ejus amore
dccepli,
cibus etpotus perdit.
divini amori.s et Rloriaestudiura inuniversumabject-runt; pluriniog
" lu muodo
veborum
splendoropuin, gloriirinajestas,amicitiarum prapsidia,
blaiiditisB,
victorise,triumphi,et infinitaalia ab amore
De^
voluptatum oranis generisillecebra",
"^ In Psal. 32.
Dei amicus
K:c.
bstrahunt,
nos
e.sse
non
potest,qui

*9. tie Repub.

jucriiim
decepit,res

miuidi stTidiisdelertatur

ul

l.anc formani tideaj",munda

cor,

serenacor,

"c.

Mem.

I. Subs.

make

clean

this

Causes

1.]

thine

by
which

lifts

hearts, and
cited

by

thy selffor
must

we

up and

ns

rears

Jt is the eye

it.

behold

it ; the

soules

our

winy of

with

And

as

meditation

saith

Philo Judseus

see

plation
of contem-

the motion

of contemplation. So

sweetnesse

Bonaventure.

""

485

heart,pvrifiethine heart,if thou wilt

beauty^prepare
which

of ReligiousMelancholy

of

our

Greoory,

seconds

bini,

He

that loves God, willsoare

aloftand take him wings ; and
leavingthe earth f ye up to heaven,wander with sun and moo?ie,
stars, and that heavenly
troop, God himselfbeinghis guide. If
desire to see him, we
we
must
m hich
layaside all vain objects,
detain

us, and

daze]

eys ; and as '^Ficinus adviseth us, get

solar eys, spectacles
ns
as
theythat look on the sun : to see this
divine beauty,
lay aside all material objects,all sense, and then
thou shalt see him as he is. Thou
covetous
wretch, as "^ Austin

expostulates.
Why
excrernents
hills,
filthy
thee; behold

wooes

He

invites thee

eat

and

drink

to

with

onr

dost thou stand

gaping on this dross,mucka far fairerobject;God

himself
him, enjoyehim, he is sick for love. Cant. 5.
into his f aire garden,to
his sight,to come
him, to be merry Mith him, to enjoyehis
? behold

fur

in the streets, besides

Wisdome
ever.
presence
cryes out
the gates, in the top of highplaces,
before the city,
at the entry
of the door, and bids them give ear
toher instruction,
which
is
better then

gold or preciousstones

it : leave all then,and follow

to

In

et obsecro.

'

Ficinus

words,

no

be

pleasurescan

pared
com-

her, vos exhortor, 6 amici,

exort

and

beseech

you, that

embrace
all your
and follow this divine love with
you would
hearts and abilities,
and endeavours
make this so
by all offices
For whom
unto
alone, saith PlolovingGod propitious
you.
sake
and
the kingdvmes
tinus,we must for
empiresof the whole
into him^
earth, sea, land, andayr, ifwe desire to be ingrafted
"

leave all

Now,

God,

as

inclined
must

we

andfolloivhim.

forasmuch,
''Thomas
to

this love of God

holds,

love God

pray

as

to God

above

is

an

habit

iffused

tvhich

a
(picest.92. by
his
and
all,
neighbour as

1. 2.

that he Mill open

our

eys, make

man

o{
is

himself,
cleen

Contemplationispluraa nos sjiblevat,atque inde erigimuriotentione cordis, diilce''Lib. de victiinis. AiDans

contemplationisdistinct. 6. de 7. Itineribus.
recte volat, relicta terra^cupidns abDeum, sublJQiia petit,sumptis alis et in caelum
^'In com.
errandi cum
militia ipso Deo duce.
sole,luna, stellarumquesacra
Plat. cap. 7. L't solem videas oculis,tieri debes Solaris : ut divinam aspiciaspuichri"^
Avare,
et Deum
tudiuem, demitte raateriam, demitte sensum,
qualissit videbis.
quid inhias his, "c. pulchrior est qui te ambit ipsum visurus, ipsum habiturns.
eProv. 8.
hunc divinura totis viribus aniplexarcini
;
fCap. 18. Rom. Ainorem
Deum
vobis orani ofSciorura genere
?Cap. 7. de pulchritudine.
propitiumfacite.
Regna etimperia totiiis terrse et maris et coeli oportetabjicere,si ad ipsuuiconversns
'" Habitus
homo ad diligeudum
velis inseri.
infusus,per qiiem inclinaiur
a Deo
*

dine

Deura

super

omuia.

Melancholy.
Religious

486

[Part.3.

Sec. 4.

rayes, and
may be capableof his glorious
Deut. 6. and
those duties that he requiresof us.

hearts,that

our

we

5"erforme
To love God
Fos. 23.

all,avd

above

as
neifjlibour

onr

ftelj]

our

In this tee knoti\ saith John,

comniandements.
love the children of God, ichen xce love God and

keepe his

to

5. 2.

c.

we

of God, that we
keep his coynmandments ; he that loveth not^ knoweth not God,
for God is love, cap. 4. 16. and he that dwelleth in love,
God
in God, and
in hint ; for love presupposeth
dwelleth
knowledge,faith,hope,and unites us to God himself,as ^Leon
is the love

This

keep his commandements.

accompanied with the

all those vertues,
feare of God, humility,
meekness, patience,
shall love our
love God, we
For if we
it self.
and charity
and performethe duties M'hich are required
at our
neighbour,
hands ; to which
are
we
exhorted, I Cor. \5. 4. 5. Ephes. 4.
shall not be envious
Rom.
12.
3.
We
Coloss.
or
puttedup,
be
think
to
boast,
or
evil,
or
provoked anger, but
disdaine,
in
to keep the unityof the spirit
suffer all things;endeavour
Forbear
one
the bond of peace.
one
another, forgive
another,
those
all
and
works
the
visit
the
cloath
sick,
naked,
performe
delivereth

Hebrseus

unto

and

us;

is

cals amoris
Alexandrinus
et amiof mercy, which ''Clemens
and complement
citice impletionem
et extentionem, the extent
feare
and
for
that not
of love ;
or
worldlyrespects,but ordine
This

Beurn^ for the love of God himself.

be truly enamored
we
come
; but

ad
we

love God

neither

nor

neighbouras

our

in spiritual
things is

"

too

shall do if

we

short

in

both,
Our

should.

we

in worldly
defective,

we

love

thinystoo

We
love the world
there is a Jarre in both.
excessive.,
much; God too little; our
neighbour not at all,or for

too
our

ends.

owne

Vulg-usamicitias
The

thing we respect is our commodity; and M-hat we

for vain-glory,
fear of worldlypunishment,
praiseof

chiefe
for

do, is
men,

fashion,and

neither

know

multitude
of God

The

for these

of errours,
is a

into

running
without

by respects ; not
nor
seek,love
aright,

which

sense,

both
as

exfreams,

in the

now

are

us
we

next

amor

our

We
as

we

selves into

love and

worship

unspeakable miseries;
fooles,mad-men,

become

placeI

innumerable

the face of the earth,farand

" Dial. 1. Omnia

convertit
Greenham.
lib.2.

of

sake.

worshiphim

from this true

unto

cause

or

involve

defects,we
swerve

we

affected
parties

'

for Gods

such

God

And

should.

over

utilitate probat.

will shew

you.

almost, and scattered

neer, andso

in ipsiuspulcbriDaturam.

have been

in all

I'Straroaluu)

488
and

Religious
Melancholy.
some
folly,

symptomes
besides

out,
yet all miserably

themselves

for reliorious sake.

and
distinguished,
true
were

all the world

false; false is that vain

or

of

Sec. 4.

shewed

in the

then other, as shall be

more

and

[Part.3.

and
perplexed,
dotino^,
For as
Zanchy well
^

knowes,

religionis twofold,

of idolaters,
such
superstition

old,Greekes, Romans, present 3Iahometans.

as

Ti-

"c.

Deonnii innnenu ^TuWy cou\i] terme

if, or as Zanchy
defines it,ubi falsiDii, aut J'aho cultu colifur Dens, when
false gods,or that God is falsely
serable
worshipped. And 'tisa mimorem

of the soule,a
it,or insanus

plague,a torture
insania, .Meteran

cals

'^

mndnes^.

meer

''

as

crror^

relif/iosn
Seneca,

frantick errour;
or
as
Austin, insanus anirni morbus,
disease of the soule; insania omnium
insanissima,a
of

madness;

quiet. 'Tis proper

furious

sence
quintesbe
can
never
superstitious,
alone, uni superbia,
ataritia,snper-

for he that is

to

man

stitio,saith Plin. lib. 1 cap. I. atqne etium post sa?vit de

Jut uro, which wringshis soule for the present, and to come
:
.

the greatest miserie belongs to mankinde,

^ex timore iimor, an heavie
a slavery,

tude,
perpetualservi-

yoak,the seal of
They thatare superstitious,

damnation,an intolerable burthen.

stillfearing,
are
vexing themselves
suspecting,

with

auguries,

false

tales,dreams, idle,vain workes, unprofitable

^Boterus observes, curd mentis ancipite
versantur:

f)rodiges,
abours,
as

enemies

to

God

and

to

Deum
concludes, Relir/io

but
destroyes,
vbi

In

Seneca
a word,
as
destrnit.
colit,superstitio
stition
Super-

honours
religion

God.

True

religion,

God

is truely
colitur,where the true
shipped,
woris the way to heaven, the mother of all vertues, love,
It rears
the dejected
feare,devotion, obedience, knowledge,"c.
soule of man
amidst
so
miseries,
cares,
; and
many
versus

Deus

true

themselves.

vere

Mhich
persecutior)s,

this world

unspeakablecornforte,a

affords,it is a sole

ease,

an

/m^j/w
reposal,
anchor and an haven.
It addes courage, boldness,
lightyoak,an
and begetsgenerousspirits:
althoughtyrants rage, persecute,
and that bloody lictor or serjeantbe ready to martyr them,
of the primitive
aut Ufa, aut morere,
(as in those persecutions
reade
in Eusebius
church, it was put in practice,
as
you may
and others)though enemies
and all
l)e now
to
ready inva.de,
in an uproare,
illabalur orbis,impavidosferient
^Sifractiis
ruinee, though heaven should fall on his head, he Mould
not
But
be dismaid.
Ciiristian
made
a good
as
princeonce
scelerala hominum
to a menacing Turke, J'acile
answer
arnia
sweet

'De relig I.2. Thes. 1.

''"2.
De
insanus enl. epist.123.
orror
Superatitio
'
quietusesse nunquam
potest.
(^reg.
"^

suave

nat.

et

leve,a

tleorum.
*

Nrtm

c Hist.
Belpic.1.8.
imbatus est,
qui snpersfitione

gPolil. lib.1. cap. 13,

bfjor.

1. Subs.

Mem.

Parties

1.]

affected.

tutvs
contemnit,qui Dei proesidio

Alexander

in

quiscontra

nos

est :

he

a
cause,
wrong
terrifie him, for that he trusted in

or

489
^Phalaris writ

as

to

could
any other enemy
God.
Si Deus
nobiscnm,

nor

In all calamities,persecutions
whatsoever,
22. 2. he will singwith him. The Lord

did, 2 Sam.

David
as
is my rock, my Jortresse,
my refuge,the toicre
my strenc/th,
all
troubles and adversities^
and home
of my salvation,^c. In
and
is
God
46. 1.
PsaL
helpe,still ready to be
hope
my
founde,I will not thereforefeare, ^c 'tis a feare expellino-

conscience,and

of

feare; he hath peace

is full of

mortalis, the
is (saith Austin) vita
the sole
mortal
life, hope of immortality,
vitw

''

miserie

otherwise

Paul

as

saith,we

hope,which

life of this

our

comfort

our

of all others

of

most

were

hearts
us
icretched ; but this makes
our
happy : counterpoising
is
and
from
the
in all miserie; superstition
divel,the
tornsents,
authour of lyes; but this is from God himself,as Lucian that
Autiochian
Auctor

priestmade

nobis

de

Deo

his divine confession \{i "^Eusebius,

is the author
of our
Dens
est, God

himself; his Avord is our rule, a

religion
by the Holy Ghost, he playesupon
and
harp-string,

are

we

his

lanthorne
our

hearts

temples, he dwelleth

to
as

us,
so

tated
dic-

many

in us,

and

in him.

we

is the braine, heart,will,

part affected of superstition,
and
faculties of it, totum
the
all
soule
understanding-, itself,
compositum,all is mad, and dotes. Now for the extent, as

The

I say, the world it self is the subjectof it,(toomit that grand

all times have been misaflbcted,
sin of atheisme)
past,present,
that doth good, no not one, from the prophet
there is not one

thing-it is to consider,
priest^S^c. A lamentable
this idolatrie and superstition
how
myriades of men
many
(forthat comprehendsall)hath infatuated in all ages, besotted
bastard,
by this blinde zeale, which is religions
ape, religions
shadow, false glasse. For where God hath a temple,
religions
hath sacrifices,
God
the divel will have a chappel where
to

the

the divel will have his oblations: where God hath ceremonies,
the divel will have his traditions : where there is any religion,
divel

the

Mill

plantsuperstition
; and

'tis

pitifull
sight

and reade,what tortures, miseries ithath procured;

to behold
of soules it hath made; how it raged amongst
what slaughter

those old Persians, Syrians,^Egyptians,

Greekes, Romans,
Britannia jam
"c.
Tuscans, Gaules, Germanes, Britaines,
"'
hodie celebrat tam
attonite,saith Pliny,tantis ceremoniis,

The
ut dedisse Persis videripossit.
(speakingof superstition)
in their ceremonies,
Britaines are so stupendlysuperstitious

'

Epist.Phalar.

Jn Psa!. 3.

Lib. 9. cap, 6.

'^Lib.

3. cap.

Melancholy.
Religious

490
that

they 2;"0beyond those

He

Persians.

[Part.3. Sec.

3.

that shall but reade

alone, those g-ods,

temples,altars,idols,statues,

in Pausanios

m:"de with such infinite cost and charge,

curiously
among-st
of them, and frequent
multitudes
those old Grcekes, such
Gerbelius
varieties,as
truelyobserves, may stand amazed,

so

and

never

the

by

enough wonder at
of the Gospel,we
light

slavish idolatriein these

all
of

it : and
are

so

thank

God

withall,that

happilyfreed

from

that

But

therefore,almost in
dayes.
hath
placessuperstition blinded the hearts
bath the true church
all ages, what a small portion
our

countries,in all
In

men.

been

ever

!
Divisum

Patriarchs

The

and

respect,Christ and
Into what

Jove

imperiumcum

Doemon

habet.

their families,the Israelites a handfuU

in
and not all of them neither.
his Apostles,

hath
straights

it been

littleflocke! how
dilated her self,errour,

compinged,a

the other

hath

side

on
superstition
madness, deceived,triumphed,
ignorance,barbarismc,folly,

and
men,

and

wise, discreet and understandinginvolved

monarches, all Mere
philosophers,
dyuastes,
then Cymmerian
ovor-shadowed
in this mist, in more

insulted

darkness.

the most

over

Adeo

mentes
ifjnarn
superstitio

animos
sapieutihn

et nonnnnqnam

! How

small

quota pars
f)resent,
ittle in respect. Divide
not
sesse

of

much

so

hnmiman

depravat,
ar/it.At this
How
religious!
part istruely
ti'ansversos

the world

into six parts, and

Idolaters and Mahometans

is Christians.

almost Asia, Africke,America, Magellanica.The

China, great Cham,

Siam

one

or

pos-

kings

and

Bornaye, Pegu, Decan,

and many
other
idolaters,
Narsinga,Japan,"c. are gentiles,
in
and
I knowe
not
princes Asia, Monomotopa, Congo,
all
Terra
in
Australis
cognita,
inAfricke,
low
Negro princes
many
of America, Pagans,differing
all in their severall
most
extend
superstitions
; and yet all idolaters. The JMahometans
themselves
Turkes
dominions
in
over
thegTcat
Europe,Africke,
Asia, to the Xerif?'es in Barbary, and his territories in Fez,
Sus, Morocco, ":c. The Tartar,the great Mogor, the Sophy
of Persia, with most
and subjects,
of their dominions
at
are
this day Mahometans.
the
Those
how
divel
at
^Sce
ragetli.
oddes, or differing
for Alii,some
some
tliemsclves,
among

{)ettie

'^

for

Enbocar, for Acmar, and Ozimen, those

]Mahomets
sectes,

as

successours,

''Leo

Afer

foure

doctours,

and

subdivided
into 7- inferior
are
of
reports. The Jewes, as a company

Nulla est via qiiA non

innnroeris idolis est referta.
6. descrip. Orapc.
a Lib.
Satan
in niisstrriuios inorbilps poteutia;et rrndelis tyrannidis
Tandim
tunc tem|)ori8
^ Alex, ab Alex. lib.6.
^
I'urtlias Pilgrim,lib. 1. c. 3.
exerruit.
cap, '26.
"i Lib. 3.

Mem.

1. Subs.

vagabonds are

1.]

Parties

scattered

over

from

Thomas
Creed.
fesseth

but

CHRIST;

all parts ; whose

time,is

to

inlarded

so

story,present

set

down

and

there is scarce

that
superstitions,

interlaced witn several

sound
part to be founde,

agreement amongst them.

any

lord of those
a

491

fully
by ^Mr.
in his Comment
the
on
Jackson, doctor of divinity,
A fiftpart of the world, and hardlythat, now
pro-

estate, progresse

or

time

affected.

PresbyterJohn in Africke,
is by his profession
Abyssines,or ^Ethiopians,

but
Christian,

ditlerent from

so

with

us,

such

new

ties
absurdi-

such a mixture
of idolatry
liberty,
little
then
and
more
a bare title
paganisme,Mhat theykept
of Christianitie. They suffer poligamy,circumcision,stupend
divorce as theywill themselves,"c. and as the Papists
fastings,
Thomas
call on
the VirginMary, so do they on
Didymus

ceremonies, such

and

before
from
so

Christ.

''

The

Greeke

or

Eastern

Church, is

rent

West, and as theyhave foure chief Patriarchs

they foure subdivisions,besides those Nestorians,

this of the

have

"c. scattered over

Armenians, Georgians,
Jacobines, Syrians,
Asia Minor, Syria,iEgypt,"c. Greece, Valachia, Circassia,
Bulgary, Bosnia, Albania, lllyricum,Sclavonia, Croatia,
the
Thrace, Servia, Rascia, and a sprinklingamongst

Russians, Muscovites, and most of that great

dukes
church, and still
subjects,are part of the Greeke
'^
Christians : but, as
mnltas illi
one
saith,temporis
successu
in
stitiones
of
addiderunt
time, they have
;
processe
super
Tartars.

added

The

so

then

many
otherwise.

with

in

they be
superstitions,
That which
; but

remaines

rather

semi-Christians,

is the Western

Church

with severall
eclipsed

so
schismes,
Europe
that
knows
where
not
one
to finde
superstitions,
it. The Papistshave Italy,
Spaine,Savoy,part of Germany,
in the rest of Europe. In
and
a sprinkling
France, Poland,
America, theyhold allthat which Spaniardsinhabit,
Hispania
the
"c.
In
East
Castella
the
Indies,
Peru,
Aurea,
Nova,
small holds about Goa, Malacha, Zelan,
some
Philippinoe,
which
"c.
the
Ormus,
Portugallgot not long since, and those
Jesuites have essayedin China,Japan,as appears
land-leaping
in Africke they have Melinda, Quiloa,
by their yeerlyletters;
fewe towns, theydrive out one superand
"c.
some
Mombaza,
stition
Poland
with another.
is a receptacle
of all religions,
where
in
Samosetans, Socinians,Photinians (now protected
and
be
Transilvania
are to
found,
Poland)Arrians, Anabaptists
us

heresies

as

well

and

as

in

some

German

cities.

Scandia

is

Christian,but

a 2
bTJteimanniis. Maginus. Bredenpart sec. 3. lib.1. cap. et deinceps.
bachius. Fr. Aluaresias Itin. de Abyssinis. Herbis solum vesciintur
votarii,
aqiiis
''
" Bredenbachiiis
meuto
Jod. a Measrn.
See
tenus dormiunt. Sec.
Possevinus Herbastein,Magin. D. Fletcher,Jovius,Hacluit,Purchas, "c. of their

errours.

(Tart.S.

Melancholy.
Religiotis

492

Sec. 4.

the

Portugalknight complains,so
ritPs,and ceremonies, they may be
mixt
niagick,
pagan
said of a like
well counted idolaters, \\'hat Tacitus formerly
as
nation, is verified in them ; a people subject to superstition,
as

A-Goes

Damiatius

with

contrary
the

Lapland and

reUyion.

the
Pilapians,

h(sc yens

Misera

to

(saithmine

possessio,et quod maxime

"

be

is to

admired

And

them,

divels

to
possession
Satance
'^authour)

mirandum

if
pittied,

and

of

some

et

as

this

about

daye,

hactenus

dolendum, and

which

be baptized,
any of them
labour, they dye Avithin 7

much
kingsof Sweden
for
that
and
9 dayesafter;
cause
or
theywill hardlybe brought
but worshipstillthe dive),who daylyappears
to Christianity,
In their idolatrous
them.
to
yaudentibutDiis
courses,
Yet
are
colunt, cVc.
they very superstitious,
patriis,
(ptos reliyiose
better
of
the
wilde Irish.
like our
note,
Though they
and Sweden
the kings of Denmark
themselves, that govern
the

which

them

be

Lutherans; the

remnant

Calvinists,Lutherans;

are

himself,
in Germany
; and
yet the emperour
most
are
dukes of Lorraine, Bavaria,and the princes
electors,
and
France
part of
papists.And thoughsome
part professed
Ireland, Great Britaine, half the cantos in Switzerland, and

equallymixt

the low countries be

yet at oddes amongst
And

which

holy land,

''

themselves,

not

the monke

Brochard

after he

defecate

more
Calvinists,

had

in

censured

then

the rest,

superstition.
of the
description

free from

his

the Greeke

church, and

Latinis
I^axit Deus
their errours, concluded
at last,
ne
there
stultitice; I say, God
be no
multcB irrepserint
grant
church.
damme
of
in
in
As
one
a
Mater
stopt
fopperies our

shewed

I say
place breaks out into another, so doth superstition.,
Socinians, Brownists, Barrowists,
nothing of Anabaptists,

Familists,"c.
our

hearingof

There

is superstition
in

sermons,

strange

bitter

our

prayers

often in

contentions,invectives,
cutions,
perse-

conceits, besides

schismes,factions,"c.

But

as

Eliphaz the Termanite.

and

his

diversitie of

the Lord
two

(Job 42.

opinions,
7.)said

friends, his icrath

to

was

kindled

ayainstthem,for theyhad not spokenoj'him thinys

and
that were
riyht: we may justlyof these schismatiques,
how
in
wise
their
recte
soever
own
conceits, non
heretiques,
de
Deo,
loipiunlitr
they speak not, they think not, they
write not well of God, and as theyought. And
therefore,
mi
Erasmus
concludes
to
Quid qua:so,
JDorpi,as
Dorpius,
/mee
nisi
ant
theoloyisJaciamus,
J'orte
ipiidpreceris,
shall we
Jidelem medicum, qui cerehro medeatur ? What
^ Deplorat.Gentis
adversa.
"'Gens siiperstitioni
Lapp.
ohuoxia, relisionibus
Boisardiis de Magift. lutra septitniini
Hinc
aut iiouimi
diem moriuutur,
a baptisiuo
"c.
fif,
Cip. de in colis ttrrar sanctac.
''

1. Subs.

Mem.

2.]

Causes

of ReligiousMelancholy.

493

?
But
them, but saiiam
mentem, and a g-oodphysician
of their differences,
paradoxes,opinions,mad prankes,
more
hasten to the causes.
in the symptomes : 1 now

wish

SUBSECT.

11.

cles,
of Religious
Melancholy. From the Divel ; by miraorac/es.
His
instruments
or factors;poliapparitions,
hlinde
titians,
imposters,
heretiques,
guides. In them
priests,
solitariness,
simplicity,
f ear e, blinde zeal,ig?iorance,
curiosity,
his
solitariness,
Sfc.
presumption,
pride,vain-glory,
engins; fasting,
hope,
fear,Sfc.

Causes

that the divel rangeth

taughtin holy Scripture,
abroad
like a roaring lyon,still seekingwhom
he may devour
severall
and
in
several!
and
:
as
shapes,so by
engins
Sometimes
he transdevices he goeth about to seduce us.
forms
himself into an angelof light;and is so cunning,that
he is able,if it were
He
to deceive the very elect.
possible,
will be worshippedas "God
himself; and is so adored by the
"

are

heathen,and
""as Eusebius

Dandinus

esteemed.

And

in imitation of that divine power,

Gods glory,
emulate
or
as

abuse

observes,
addes, he will have
*^to

all

tions,
oblahomage, sacrifices,
and whatsoever
else belongsto the worshipof God, to be
done likewise unto
him, similis erit altissimo,and by this
infatuates the world, deludes, entraps, and destroys
meanes
thousand
soules.
Sometimes
by dreams, visions (as
many
God to Moses
familiar
conference)the divel in severall
by
In the '^Indies,
it is common
shapestalkes with them.
; and in
China nothingso familiar as apparations,
oracles,
inspirations,
with
them
false
counterfeit miracles,
by terrifying
prodigies,
diseases,
sendingstorms, tempests,
plagues(asof old in Athens
there was
et malorum
ApolloAlexicaciis,
ApolloAo//"(,jo?,7"es/i/er
their
raisingwars, seditions by spectrums, troubling*
depulsor)
them
of
tolerable
to
t
errours
consciences,driving
minde, indespair,
and
faire
pains; by promises,rewards, benefits,
his
he raiseth such an opinionof
meanes,
deityand greatness,
that theydare not do otherwise then adore him ; do as he will
And
have them ; they dare not offend him.
to compel them
* Plato
in Crit. Daemones
custodes sunt hominum
domini, ut nos aniet eorum
maliura ; nee
hominibns, sad et regionibusimperant, vaticiniis,auguriis,somniis,
oraculis,nos regunt. Idem fere Max. Tyrius ser. 1. et 26. 27. Medios vult dseniones
inter Decs
Deoruin
et homines
ministros, pvaesideshominum, a coelo ad homines
"* De
"= Vel
descendentes.
in abusum
Dei vel in
prseparat.Evangel.
d Daemones
semulationem.
Dandinus
in lib. 2. Arist. de An. Text. 29.
com.
consulunt, et farailiareshabent daemones pleiique
sacerdotes. Riccius lib. 1. cap. 10.
expedit.Sinar.

Melancholy.
Religious

494
more

in

stand

to

their
disquiets

of

awe

him,

he

sends

[Part.3.

and

Sec. 3.

diseases,

cures

spirits,
(asCypriansaith)

and

torments

fies
terri-

them adore him : and all his study

^
is to dii-ert them from true relif/ion
to
because he is damned
himself and in an
all the world participate
he tcould hav
of his errours,

their

soules^to makes

all his endeavour

: and
superstition
errour

be damned

him.

with

primnm nobile therefore,and

of all superstition
is the divel, that great enemy
first mover
of mankind, the principal
agent, who in a thousand several
divers
after
fashions,with several engins,illusions,
shapes,
hath deceived the inhabitants of the
and by several names,
at their
earth, in several placesand countries, stillrejoycing
fals. ^11 the loorld over, before Christs time^ he freelydomineered,
and held the sonles of men
in most
slavish subjection,
saith "^ Eusebius,in divers formes, ceremonies, and
till Christs coming; as if those divels of the ayr
sacrifices,
and

had shared the earth

for Gods

and

Ludus
("=

keepers. In

The

amongst them; which

Deorum

sumus) and

the Platonists held

Mere

our

governours

several

orders,
places,
theyhad several rites,
which
read
of
Wierus
de
d
cemonnm
lib. 1.
names,
prwstigiis
''Strozius,
Cigogna,and others. Adonided
cap. 5.
amongst
Adraraelech
the Syrians;
amongst the Capernaites
; Asiniae
the
Astartes
with
the
Emathites;
Sydonians;Asteamongst
roth with the Palestines ; Dagon with the Philistines;
Tartan
with
the

the

Hanaei; Melchonis

Babylonian;

Beelzebub

amongst

the

Ammonites;

and Baal with the Samaritans

Beli
and

Moabites; Apis,Isisand Osyrisamongstthe^Egyptians;

Apollo
piter
Pythiusat Delphos,Colophon,Ancyra,Cuma, Erythra; Juin Crete; Venus at Cyprus ; Juno at Carthage;^Esculapiusat Epidaurus; Diana at Ephesus ; Pallas at Athens, "c.
And even
in these our dayes,
both in the East and West Indies,
in Tartary,
what strange idols,
"c.
in what proChina, Japan,
digious
with
what
absurd
ceremonies
are
formes,
theyadored !
What
strange Sacraments,like ours of Baptismeand the Lords
sacrifices theyhad in
Supper ; what goodlytemples,priests,
the
when
firstlanded
America,
there,let Acosta the
Spaniards
Jesuite

relate,lib.

imitated the

Egypt

5. cap.

ark, and

with many

the

such.

1, 2, 3, 4, "c.
children
For

as

and

of Israels

how

the divel

coming out

of

Lipsiuswell discourseth out

*Vitam
turbant, somnos
inquietant,
irrepentesetiam in corpora mentes
terrent,
valetodinem
aliud his
lacessunt, ut ad cultum
sui cogant nee
frangunt, morbos
ad superstitionemvertant ; eum
studium, quam ut a vera
sint ipsipoenales,
religione
b Lib. 4.
quaenint sibi ad poenas comites, ut habeant erroris participes.
praeTantamque victoriam amentia hominum consequutisnnt, ut si colligere
paraL Evanejel.
in
unum
velis,nniversum orbem istissrelestibus spiritibus
subjectum fiiisseinvenies.
ca;de pemiciosissimosda^mones placabant,
Usque ad Salvatoris ad\ entnni, hominum
""
c Plato.
"c.
Strozins,
Cicogna omnif. mag. lib. mag. lib..3.cap, 7. Ezek.
8. 10.
Reg. 11. 4. Reg. 3. et 17. 14. Jer. 49. Num. 21. 3. Reg. 13.

Melancholy,
Religious

496
a

vision

Lihi/cum

Aristai^oras in the

to

tibicine Pontico

cum

[Part.3. Sec.

3.

tihiciiiem
night,Cras, itif/uiff
tam,iind the daye follow-

commit

was
understood; for with a great south winde
aniigtna
from
Mithridates
came
Libya,she quiteoverwhehned
^Vhat
and
miracles,
dreams,
visions,
prodigies
army.
predictioi"s,
oracles,have been of olde at Delphos,
apparations,
Dodona, Trophonius denne, at Thebes, and Lebaudia, of
in ^Egypt, Amphiareus in Attica, "c. what
JupiterAmnion
performedby Apolloand yEsculapius
; Junos
strang-e cures
and
^Fortune
''Castor
and
that
of
Pollux
image,
spake?
fouoht in person
for the Romans,
againstHannibals army,
Pallas, 3Iars,Juno, Venus, for Greekes and Trogans,"c.
as
familiar as such
so
nothingAmongst our pseudocatholiques,
How
done by our
miracles.
cures
lady of Lauretta,at
many

this
inii-

which

Sichem!

of

olde,at

was

to

fightfor

seen

our

S'. Thomas

Arnulphus duke

"c.
slirine,
of

S^ Sabine

Spoleto; S'.

George

foughtin person for John the bastard of Portugal,

againstthe
In the
for the Spaniardsin America.
Castilians;S'. James
the seconde, our Engbattel of Bannoxuurn, where Edward
lish
was
foyledby the Scots, S*. Philanus arm was
king-,
fight(if Hector Boethius doth not impose) that Mas
*

to

shut up in a silver capcase : Another

Now
author S'. Magnus foughtfor them.

time
for

in the

seen

fore
besame

visions,
revelations,

miracles, not onelyout of the Legend, out of purgatory,

from the Lidies,and at
newes
every daye comes
home, read the Jesuites letters,Ribadineira,Thurselinus,
Acosta, Lippomanus, Xaverius, Ignatiuslives,kc. and tell
but

what

me

difference ?

His

ordinaryinstruments or factors,which he useth,as God

himself did good kings,lawful magistrates,
patriarchs,
phets,
prohis
of
to the
church, 'are polititians,
establishing
blinde
statesmen,
priests,
heretiques,
guides, impostours,
to propagate his superstition.
first to
And
pseudoprophets,
with
it
hath
been
axiome
ever
a principal
polititians
begin
M'ith them, to maintain religion,
which they
or
superstition,
:

determine
seems

human
ac

of, alter

best.

They

invention

as
superstitio,

de civitut Dei

and

vary upon all occasions, as to them

make
meer
a
cloak, a
religion
policie,

nihil aque
valet ud reffendos
vulgianimos
^Tacitus
and ''Tully
holde.
Austin
/. 4.

ledging,
saying and acknowthat it was
fit
a
expedirecivilatcs rclif/ioiiejalli,
should
be deceived by religion,
thingcities
accordingto the
c.

9.

censures

Scievola

" Orati
""
mnlieres. Dion Halicarn.
legeme dicastis,
Tullyde nat. Deornin
' Jo. Molanus
lib.2. i-EquaVenus Teucris,Pallas iniqnafuiL
lib.3. cap. 59.
"" Pet
Oliver. De Johanne priinoPortugalliir
et adversa; partis
rcge strenue pugnans,
'
ictus clypeo excipiens.
L. 14. Loculos .sponteapeniisseet pro iispugnasse.
'
invented alone to keep men
Heligion,as they hold:-,is policie,
in awe.
S 1. Anna!.
''Ounes
reli^oneinoventul-. 5. in Verrein.

1. Subs.

Mem.

497

Melancholy.
of Religious

Causes

2.]

if the world will

diverbe,Si mundus vult decipi,decipiatur,
be oulled,let it be gulled;'tis good howsoever
to keep it in

subjection. 'Tis that

Aristotle and ''Plato inculcate in their

bringsplagues to the city^

politiques;
Religionneglected^
late
opens a gap to all naughtiness.'Tis that which all our
/.
hist.
Cromerus
2.
Boterus, I. 3.
ingeminate.
pol.
polititians
de incrementis urbium, Clapmariiis
/. 2. c. 9. de Arconis
rewill
4. lib. 2, polit. CaptainMachiavel
Ariiisaeuscft/).
rump.
be
have a prince,by all mean
counterfeit
to
to
perstitious
sureligion,
in shew, at least; to seem
to be devoute, frequent
holyexercises, honour divines,love tlie church, affect priests,
and did ; non
as
Numa, Lycurgus,and such law-makers
were,
metu
ut his /idem haheant, sed ut suhditos religionis
faciliusin
"Nam
in
obedience.
natucontineant, to keep people
officio
""

(as Cardan writes)lex Christiana lex

titicc,
6rc. But this errour
Jidei,simpUcitatis,
raliter

est

pietatis,jushis,Inno-

of

centius Jentilettus a French lawyer,Theorem.

9- comment.
I.
de Relig. and Thomas
Bozius, in his book de minis gentium
f
confuted.
Many polititians,
copiously
and
cerely
sintrue
a
as
meanes,
religion
zealous and
of
it
without
are
truely
speak
hypocrysie;
the
chief
and
Justice
themselves.
two
are
religious
religion
but
props and supporters of a well governedcommonwealth:
have

et 7'egnorum,

dare

not

most

of them

denye,maintain

ends;
politicall

Machiavellians; counterfeits only for

but

are

for,Solus

Rex

(whichCampanella cap.

18.

Triumphatiobserves)as amongst our modern Turkes,

Reipub.Finis,as knowing '^magnum ejusin animosimperium;

Atheismi

that

and

as

"^

Sabellicus

delivers,a mamcithout

is like
religion

bridle. No way better to curb then supera

stition,
terrific
to
mens
consciences, and to keep them in awe:
monies,
cerereligions,
they make new lawes, statutes, invent new
^
ends. Haze
as
so
stalkinghorses,to their owne
many
horse without

an

sifalsa sit,dummodo
credatur, animorum
vera
(religio)
ferociam domat, libidines coercet, subditos principiobsequentes efficit.Therefore(saith Polybiusof Lycurgus)

enim

"

did

he

maintain

ceremonies,

but that he
himselfe,

not

that

mortall
perceived

he
men

superstitious

was
more

apt

to

brace
em-

dust attempt no
evil
Zamolcus
stratagem

paradoxes,then ought else,and

for feare of the gods. This was
things
plot,when
amongst the Thracians ; Numas
conference
with the nymph ^Egeria
; and

he

said

he

had

that of Sertorius

aZelcDcus, praefat.
legis. Qui urbera ant regionem inhabitant,persuasos esse oporblO. de legibus.
Decs.
esse
Religioneglectaniaxiraam pestem in civitatem
"^ Cardanus
Cora, in Ptolomaeum
fenestram aperit.
scelernm
iufert,omnium
d
" Homo
sine reli?ione,sicut eqnus
qiiadripart.
Ljpsius1. 1. c. 3.

let

s Lib. 10. Ideo

fVauinus dial. 52. de oraculis.
Lycurgus,
sed quod videret mortales paradoxafaciliusamplecti.
quod ipse ?',iperstitiosus,

sine ffceno.
"c.

non

Bee

res

VOL.

graves
II.

andere sine

Deorum.
periculo
KK

[Part.3. Sec.

Melancholy.
Religious

498
witli

hart;

an

get

to

credit to their decrees,by

else they did all by divine

more

4.

deriving

the "-ods ; or
them
instinct,
mcH observes of Lycurgus,Solon,
wliich Nicliolas Daniascen
piter
and Minos, they had their lawes dictated,monfe
sacro, by Jufrom

himself.
^

Ang-elGabriel,by

and Pollux, and

Castor

under,(who, as

wererelir/ionemaxime

out,

proves,

they were

keptthose

Romans
et

12.

and did curb

superstitious:)
then by force of armes,
or

this meanes,
Sola

plehecnlaearn

dial, 1. lib. 4. de admirandis

(saithVaninus

the

to

be familiar with

to

lib. I. dispnt.
cap. \l

lawes.

severityof humane
of
speaking-

himself

lawes

new

oave

such, M'hich

most
7"o^i,

by

people more

fained

many

Michiavel

his

direction,he

whose

Caligula,in Dion,

made.

the

referred

Mahomet

So

ar/noscehat

natiircB

arcanis)

Jiiar/natesvera
religion,
qua^ faciledecipitur,

et

grandiesand

had
philosophers
et amplijicano
imperiicoiifbrmationem
tueri non
tiotiem,quam sine pra:textu reliqionis
poterant ; and
held as much, philosothousands
in all ages have ever
phers
many
hi
hcec
animadvertebant
essej'ahellas,
especially,
semper
silere
ob metum
attamen
publico'potestatis
cogebantur,
they

philosophi
necpiaquain
such

your

sed ad

conceit,

still silent for fear of lawes, "c.

were

To

this end, that

SyrianPhyresides,Pythagoras his master, broached in the

East amongst the heathens, first the immortality
of the soule,
as

did
Trismegistus

Those

and

French

in

iEgypt, with

of fained Gods.
many
in the west, first taught,

Britain druides

saith ''Ccesar,non

interire animas, but afterdeath to go from

to another, that so
one
tJtey
might encourage them to vertue.
'Twas for a politique
end ; and to this purpose
the old poets
fained those
Elysianfields,their iEacus, Minos, and Rhada*^

their infernal

judges,and those Stygianlakes, fiery

of torments
after
Phlegetons,Plutos kingdome, and variety
death.
Those
that had done well,went
to the Elysianfields;
but evil doers to Cocytus,and to that burning lake of *'hell,
mantus,

with

fire and

which

Turkes

Plato

brimstone

for

labors

for in his

in thoir

ever

to

be tormented.

Phsedon,

et

'Tis this

9. de
rep.

The

rewards,and
they set down
and
vertue
vice; 'when
punishmentsforevery
particular
theyperswademen, that theythatdyein battle,shallgodirectly
Alcoran, when

severall

to heaven
sortes

but wicked

(much

be tortured

like

our

in their

livers to eternal torment,

and aU of all

purgatory)for
papistical
graves,

as

appears

by

time shall
a set
that tract which John

a Cieonardns
epist.1. Novas leges snas ad Ang^elum Gabrielem referebat,qno mo^ LJb. 16.
belli Gallici. Ut metti mortis
nitoie,mentiebatiir omnia se gerere.
c
ad
virtutem
incitarent.
Dp ;,iglege Lucianum
de luctu Tom.
neglecto,
1.
"' Barathro
Homer. Odyss. 11. Virg. ^En. 6.
et flanima staguante
siilfiire
" Et
seternmn
.3.de reptib. Omnis
demergebanlur.
institntioadolescentum
eo
f Boterus.
referenda,ut de Deo bene sentient,ob conirauae
bonum.

1. Subs.

Mem.

Causes

^.]

Melancholy.
of Religious

that Mauritania!! priest,

now
Alfaqui
Baptista

turned

499

Christian,

hath written in his confutation of the Alcoran.

After a mans
death two
black angels,Nunquir and Nequir (so they call
his grave, and punishhirafor his precedent
him the less ; if ill,
if he lived well theytorture
to him

them) come
sins

to

theyincessantly
per indesinejitescruciatns ad diem judicii,
nish
puhim to the daye of judgement. Nemo
viventium qui ad
horum

mentionem

horret et contremiscit,
the thought
all their lives long-,
and makes
them

totus

non

of this crucifies them

and
spende their dayesin fastingsaith
gant, "rc. A Tartar prince,

prayer,
Marcus

we

ha^c contin-

mala

Polus,lib. 1. cap.

28.

called Senex

de montibus, the better to establish his ment

governand to keep them
in awe, found
amongst his subjects,
environed
with hils,
convenient
placein a pleasantvalley,

in

which

and

fruits,and

delitious park,fullofodoriferous
floiores

all

ivorldly
contents, that
be devised, nmsick, pictures,
of meats,
possibly
variety

could
"c.

he made

and

chose

palace full of

out

certain yong

man,

whom

with

sopo-

riferous
potionhe so benummed, that he perceivednothing:
and so, fast asleepas he was, caused him to be conveyedinto
this f aire garden. Where
after lie had lived a while in allsuch
could desire,''^e cast
a sensual man
pleasures
againe,and brought him forth,that ichen he
tell others he had

been in

paradise.

The

bythismeanesbroughthis

him
awaked

into

he

sleep
might

like he did for

hell,

people subjection.Because
in the scriptures,
heaven and hell are mentioned
and to be beleeved necessary by christians : so cunninglycan the diveland
and

to

his

counterfeitand
in imitation of true religion,
ministers,

the

like,to circumvent
such

Many

trickes and

and

delude

his

are
impostures

but with what

China, especially,

forge

followers.
superstitious
acted

in
by polititians,

effect 1 will discourse

in the

symptomes.
if I may distinguish
of
them, are some
polititians,
if
far
make
our
priests,
(who
religion
policy) not
beyond
and
selves.
themstatesmen
them, for they domineer over
princes
exercent, one
saith,
theytyrannizeover
Carnificinam
Next

to

then any other tormentors

whatsoever,
and
for
their
;
nium
commodity
gaine religionumenim ompartly
^
abusus (as Postellus holds)qucestusscilicet sacri/icum
consciences

mens

in

causa

est

for

more

to
credit,
soveraignty,

maintain

their

state

*
floribusofloriferiset
Citraaqnam, viiirlarium plantavitraa:::imumet pulcherrirautn,
''Potun[, qnendam dedit,quo inescatus,et graw
suavibas frnctibus plenum, "c.
"= Atque
iterum memosopore oppressus, in viridarium interim ducebatm-, "c.
ratiim potum bibendum
reduxit,ut cum
exhibuit,et sic extra Paradisnm
evigilaret,
pore
so"*
Lib. 1. de orb. Concord, cap. 7.
solute,"c.

kk2

ReligiousMelancholy.

500

of ambition

out
reputation,

and

rhiefe

supporters.

beleeve?

What

have

and

3.
[Part.

avarice,which

they

not

made

the

Sec. 4.

are

common

in nature, incredible
Impossibilities

their
ple
peo-

things;what

devices,traditions,
ceremonies, have they not invented in all
in
to
men
obedience, to enrich themselves ? Quibiis
keep
ages,
sunt
cjuccstui
captisuper stitiovc nnimi, as "Livysaith. Those
of old,got allthe soverai^nty
into their hands,
^Egyptianpriests
and knowing, ''as Curtius insinuates,7i?i//ares efficacius
vinltitudinem re(/it
jnelius
ducibus
stitio;
vatihusquam
quam
super
relif/ionc
capti,etiam impotentes
parent, vanu
foeniinoc
; the
Avill
then captains,
common
sooner
and nopeople
obey priests
thing
forcible as superstition,
better
then
so
or
blindezealeto
rule a multitude ; have so terrified and gulledthem, that it is

incredible

to relate.

in this kinde.

AH

nations

Amongst

Druides; Magi in Persia

almost, have

Britainjs and

our

in
Philosophers

been
old

besotted

Gaules

Greece;

the

Chaldeans

the Orientall ; Brachmanniin

India;Gymnosophists
the Turditanes
in /Ethiopia;
in Spaine; Augures in Rome,

amongst
have

in Greece, Ph^bades
insulted ; Apollospriests
and Pythonissse,
by their oracles and phantasmes; Amphiaraus and
his companions; now
Mahometan
and Pagan priests,
what can

they not effect ? How doe theynot infatuate the world ? Adeo
(as ScaligerMritcs of the Mahometan
turn
uhiqiie
priests)
ministra,vulqisecat
gentiumturn locorum, gens ista sacrorum
spes, ad ea
quae ipsiJinguntsomuia, so cunninglycan
they
the
all
in
and
countries.
But
commons
above
all
gull
places
that high priest
of Rome, the dam of that monstrous
othei-s,
and superstitious
brood, the bull-bellowing
now
pope, which
in
the
that
three-headed
hath
Cerberus
rageth
west,
plaidhis
Whose
this
is
at
meer
state
religion
day
part.
policie,a
ichollif
and wit, and needs nothingbut icit
composedof superstition
and superstition
to viaintain it : that Tseth coUedgesand religious
houses to as good purpose as forts and castles,and doth
this day by a company
of scriblingat
more
parasites^
fiery
z
ealous
friers,
anchorites,
spirited
confessours,and
hypocritical
those pretorian
ciable
souldiers,his JanisaryJesuites,that dissoterms
diaboli
as
it,
society, Langius
postremus
conatus,
'^

''

"^

et sceculi excrementum,

battle,will have
but domineer

in

that

now

stand

monopoly of,and

all other learning,

ingrosse

divinity;

soli totius
^Excipiunt

and

in the fore fronte of the

fightalone almost,for

the

rest

vulnera
are

belli,

but his dromedaries

c Exprc. 528.
a Lib. 4.
b Lib. 4.
'
consult. d" princ.inter provinc.
Lucian.
Europ.

Sir Ed

Sands.

and

In

1. Subs.

Mem.

asses)then
What

of

power

will

of Religious
Melancholy,

he could have

ever

could enforce

Causes

2.]

doe that which

to

As

undergo?
voluntarily

be it

never

for conscience

armies.

so

strict,

sake

they

to fast from

to their prayers

marriage,rise

from

and
by j^arrisons

poenallaw,

prince,

or

men

done

501

all fleshe,abstain
selves,
at midnight,whip them-

and pennance,
abandon
the world,
stupendfasting
wilful 1 poverty, perform canonical and blinde obedience, to
selves
fortunes,bodies,lives,and offer up themprostratetheir goods,
? What
at their superiours
so
feet,at his command
erful
pow? which
an
engin as superstition
theyrightwell perceiving,
Primum
enim (as
of no religion
at all themselves
are
of their life
Calvin
rightlysuspects, the tenor and ])ractice
illins theologies,
quod aprideos regnat^ caput
proves)arcancc
with

est, nnllnm.

Deum, they hold there

esse

did, Hildebrand

is

God,

no

as

Leo

10.

the

magician,Alexander 6. Julius 2. meer

atheists,and which the common
proverbamongst them approves
Christians
The
worst
of Itahf are the Romans, of
;
the priests
are
the Romans
wildest,the lewdest priests
are
ferred
pre^

to

he cardinals, and

the baddest

nals
amongst the cardi-

man

is chosen to be pope, that is an epicure,

most
as
part the
infidels and Lucianists,forso theythink andbeleeve;

popesare,
and

what

and hell, day of judgement^

heaven
the

Christ, to be fables and impostures; of

is said of

soule,

are

of
paradise,
immortality

all.
""

Rumores

vani, verbaqueinania,

Et par sollicito fabula somnio,

Dreams,
to

toyes, and old wives

make

tales.

Yet

other tools cut, but cut not

at all,
religion
theywill make

as

so

'^

many

stones
whet-

themselves,though

others most devout

they be of no
and
by promisesand threats,compel, enforce
superstitious,

from, and lead them

when

as

their end

by

the

is not

kingdome,seeke

to

nose

like

so

many

bears in

line;

propagate the church, advance

his

rich
good; but to engloryor common
and
to domineer
themselves, to enlargetheir territories,
of
to the see
compel them to stand in aM e, to live in subjection
what
otherwise
mundus
For
Si
vult
?
Rome,
care
they
decipi,
'tisfitit
should
what
Austin
cites
be
And
so.
decipiatur
;
his Roman
better
to maintain
from Varro
we
religion,
may
them:
multa
scire
est utile ;
non
vera,
apply to
cpice vulgus
existimare
aliter
populum expedit
;
pleraquefalsa,qucetamen
ends
which
for
their
are
owne
some
false,
some
things
true,
they will not have the gullishcommonalty take notice of.

Gods

'^

As

qnw

well may

witness

their intolerable covetousness,

Sir Ed. Sands in his Relation.

exsors
ferrutn valet,
ipsasecandi.

"= Vice
cotis,acntnni
Seneca.
^ De
civ. Dei lib. 4. cap. 31.

strange
Reddere

Sec.- 4.

[Part.3.

RcUyiousMelancholy.

502

subtleties, imposfooleries,unrighteous
tures,
forgeries,fopperies,
false
racles,
mit
raditions,
doetriiies,
new
illusions,
paradoxes,
which

and
stillforg^ed,
to enlhral,circumvent
while
One
their own
estates.
maintain

theyhave

subjugatetheui, to

=*

and
their doctrine of good
by buls, pardons,indulgences,
by that
works, that they be meritorious ; hope of heaven
and
spurredoji
theyhave so fleeced the commonalty,
meanes,
and
himself
that
he
blinde,
runs
horse,
this free superstitious
is an asse
to carry burdens.
They have so amplifiedPeters
rex
that from a poor bishop,he is become
regum,
patrimony,
make
him
IjIscanonists
(lominus dominantium, a demi-god,as

rest) above

the

(Felinus and

for his

And

himselfe.

God

not inferiour to many

kings; 'his
^temporalties,is
cardinals,
princescompanions;and \x\ every kingdome almost,
monkes, friers,"c. and his cleargyhave inabbots, priors,
placesall,into their hands.
grosseda third part,half,in some
Three princeelectors in Germany, bishops;besides MagdeIn France,
Saltsburge,Breme, Bambnrge, "c.
burge.Spire,
as
Bodine, lib.clerepuh.givesus to understand, their revenues

wealth

and

'^

twelve

parts of the

Jesuites,a

The

seven.

revenues
new

in France, the church

possesseth
sect
begun in this age., have, as
up, three

reckon
Middendorpiusand "^Pelargus
colledgesin Europe, and more

princes.Iti France,
have got Ms

nothingof

centum

the

rest

Arnoldus

librarum
of their orders.

We

in

of the old rent,

revenues

then
'2000001.
had in

hundred

esteems

many

and

I say

England,

thousand
thirty

friers

at

others,almost

thousand

pound,

belonging them; besides images

to

ornaments,
ofo-old.sdver,plate,
furniture.goodsand

calculates,and

foure hundred

thirty
yeares they

have

of Lelande

once, and as ^Speed collects out

two
houses, and neer
()00 religious

or

revenues

proves, in
millhi annua,

demonstrates, above

Armachanus

as

as

livres;and of

thousand

and three hundred

uiillions,

twelve

are

them

at

the

dissolution

as

''

AYeever

of abbies,

gold. How many towns in every kingdome

VVhat a deal of mony
enriched !
hath superstition
by musty
their
have
mass-priests
ingrossed,
images, idolatry,
reliques,
their
other
tricks!
have
what sums
and
they scraped by
in
those dayes,
in Italy,
Lauretum
Walsingham in England,
worth

million of

ubi omnia

Erasmus, S*. Thomas

nitent,saitli

auro

shrine,"c.

b He hath the dutchyof Spoledo

Seeking their owd, sailh Paul, not Christs.
and
the territoriesadjacent,Bologna,
beside
Rome,
of
Ancona,
in Italy,the marqnisate
"" Estote
fratres niei,et principes
Ferrara, Avignon in France, "c.
'^ The
laitysuspecttheir greatness, witnes.s those statutes of niorthuju3 mundi.
a

Jesuit. Rom. proPrwfat. lib. de paradox.

13. Lusit. \b. India orient."27.Brasil. 20,"c.
vincia habet Col. -i^.Neapol. 23. Veneta
'' 15
vit.Hen. 8.
( Id his
cap. of his funeral Monuments.

main.

'Lib.

8. de Acndem.

ciironic.

'

Melancholy.
Religious

504

seek

[Part.3. Sec.

4.

marlyrdomc in

the Indies, but

deatli,murder
to be assassinates, to meet
kino?,
superstition?
of merit, of canonical or blinde obedience
but a false perswasion

countries,

native

to

go

they instill into them, and animate them by

hope of beino- martyrs and saints ? Such
stranofe illusions,
and so well for their
pretty feats can the divel work by priests;
their
own
not
advantagecan theyplay
parts. AwiX if itwere
and
to
delude
polititians
mankind,
yet enough, by priests
which

and

crucifie the soides

of

he

hath

in his
actors
more
in
ih.e
anolljer
of
irons
fire,
uioro
sceane
tragoEily,
heretiques,
impostors,
factions,and)itions wits, insolent spirits,
schismaticks,
men,

blind "ruides ;
propliets.
blinde zeale, cause
vainglory,

false

that

out

much

of

gularity,
pride,sin-

madness

more

doctrines, paradoxes,
yet, set all in an uprore by their new
make
new
divisons,subdivisions,new
tigments,crotchets,
sects, oppose

to another,
superstition

one

brother
princeand subjects,

another, commit
father

son,
against

wealih,

to

confusion

How

many

"c. their

one

to

the mine

and

kingdome to
brother,
against

destruction of

common-

of peace, and to make a generall

How
did these Arrians rage of old!
of all estates.
did theycircumvent
! Those
Manichees,
Pelagians,
the disturbance

alone

would

make

Hov,- many
a justvolume.
still
deluded, drawn away, and
sillysouies have impostors
alienated
Christ!
from
LuciansAlexander,Simon Magus,
quite
names

and adored in Rome, saith Justine

hose statue was
to be seen
Simoni
P'Cn scmcto, Sfc.after his decease.
Martyr,
^Apollo-

nius
new

Tian.x'us,
Cynops,Enmo,
cereujonies

fire,and
spitting
men,

and

and
the
did

who

some
by counterfeiting
juggling tricks of that Dea Si/ria,
by
of fortythousand
like,got an aruiy together

much

harm

with

Endo

de

stellis,of

Nubrigensisspeakes,lib. 1. cap. IJJ. that in kinofed I know

Stephensdayesinn'tated most of Christs n)iracles,
how many
the
in
a
nd
built
not
castles in
Avilderness,
people

whom

the ayr, "c.

the seducing-of nudtitudes of poor souies.
to
In Franconia. 147(),a base illiteratefeUoM took
upon him to be
and preach,John Beheim
a prophet,
by name, a neatherd at
Nicholhausen ; he seduced 30000 persons, and was
taken by
the commonalty to be a most
from
heaven.
holyman, come
^

Tradesmen

their distaves,servants
lefttheir shops,women
ran
from their masters, children J'rom their parents, schoUers
lefttheir tutors, all to hear him ; some for novelttf,
some
for
zeale.
lie was
burnt at last by the Bishop of Wartzburr/e^
and

so

he

and

*
Hierocles contends
Ensebius confutes.

his heresie

vanished

Apolloninsto havr been

together.How

many

preat a prophet as Christ, whom

Cosmoi;. I.3. c. '.iG. Artifices ex
ofBcinis, foemiDa"e co)o, f^c. quasi numine
quorlam rapti,nesciis parentibns et
demum
dominis, recta adeunt, he. Combustug
ab HerbipoleDBJ
episcopo,haeresis

evanuit.

as

'' Miinster

Mem.

1. Subs.

of ReligiousMelancholy.

Causes

2.]

505

impostours,false prophets,Lave lived in every kings

raign! What chronicle will not afford such examples!that as
such

so

others, that

deluded

some,

led

have
ignesj'atni,

many

the blast of every

of poor
company

winde,

the way,
terrified
apt to be carried about with
inconstant nniltitude,
a silly

are

rude

of

out

men

soules,that follow all,and

pibblesin

cluttered

are

gether
to-

tide. What

follies,
prodigious
absurdities,
madness, vexations,persecutions,
impossibilities,
have
thrust
"c.
these impostours,
heretiques,
upon the world;
like

so

many

in the symptomes.
strange etfects,shall be shewed
the meanes
by which, or advantagestliedivel and his
the world
infernall ministers take, so to delude ajid disquiet
what

Now

with

idle ceremonies, false doctrines,

superstitious
peries,
fopfrom themselves, innate ieare, ignorance,
simplicity,

such
are

hope and

feare, those

and princannons
battering*
cipal
reward and punishment,
objects,
gatory,
pur-

engius,with

their

Limhus

Patrnm,

tyrannize;^J'orichat

two

6:c. which

now

then

more

provinceis free from

ever

atheisme, st/per-

and
idolatrif,
scliisme,heresie, impiety,their J'actoiirs
stition,
and
from
that
same
followers? thence theyproceed,
decayed
in
is
Avhich
of
us.
yet remaining
image God,
Os

homini

sublime

tueri
dedit,ccfilumque

Jussit,
our

there is

God, and

dictate

sed

boreus

dissentiet

farther

addes)

(as

unto

non

Gr

us;

know

v,e

Xvlla

yens tarn
insideat hcec persiiasio
Dpum

evens,

us

Persa,

nee

Tyrins the

3Iaximus

coyitinentis

nee

much

so

doth informe

nature

(saithTully) cui
nee
Scytha,nee

barbara
esse;

doth

conscience

own

insularnm

nee

Hyper-

nee

Platonist

1.

ser.

hauiiator,let

there is no
he will, in what coast soever,
dwell
that is not
nation sa barbarous
perswaded there is a God.
It is a wonder
to reade of that infinite superstition
amongst the
him

where

Indians

in

kinde, of

this

quisque lihitu varias

animalia,

(some
all).

Si-c. cmne

montes,

few

res

placesexcepted,as

So the heavens
declareth

mament

their tenents
venerabantnr

will evince

his

declare

quod

in

horrebunt

ant

he grants, that had

the

sno

plantas^
svperstiiiose,

amabant

yloryof God,

handie-ivork,Psalm

19.

no

and

God

at

the fr-

Every

ture
crea-

it ;

herba
PrKsentemque refert qugelibet

Nolentes

America, pro

Deura.

the said

scinnt,fatentnr inviti,as

Tyriusproceeds,
philosophers,
Socrates, Plato, Plotinus, Pythagoras,
Trismegius,Seneca,

wiil

"

nill, they

or

Nulla

non

acknowledoe

must

hjeresibus, afheismis.
pi-oTincia

hisce heiliiisiminiinis.

"c.

it.

plena.

Lib. 1. de nat. IJeorum.

The

Nulhis

orbis angnlns ab

Religious
Melancholy,

50C

[Part.3. Sec.

4.

those Majri,Druides,"c. went

far as tliey
as
could
Epictetus,
Nature
of
multa
de
the
nalnrd
light
prcvclara
Dei
;
by
writ
well
the
a
reliquerunt,
nature
thiuys
of
script
many
of God,
a glimpse
hut they had but a confusedlight,
;
="

per inoertam hinam

iter
in sylvis,
Est

Quale

sub hice

maligna

he that Avalkes

in a wood, they
by moonshine
oropod in the
had
ho
darke.
a
in
O
They
gross knowledge,as
Euripides,
sive
sive
sive
Dens, quicfjuid
aliud
and
ccehim,
onid;
terra,
es,
as

entinm
that of Aristotle, Ens
miserere mei.
And
of the
so
tlie
of
and
future
sonle,
immortality
happiness. Immortalianimcc

tatem

critus

non

Demo(sai(hIlieronie)
Pythagoras soniniavit,
in
consolationem
damnationls sua: Socrates
credidit,

disputavit
; Indus, Persa, Gothus, 6,-c.philososaid
this, some
some
that,as they conceived
phantur.
which
(he
divel
led them farther out
themselves;
perceiving-,
and
made
'^Lemnius
them
observe?)
(as
worship him as their
in

carcere

So

God, with stockesand

sJones; and torture themselves to their

fit himself;
destructione,as he thongiit
his
owne
inspired
and
with
ministers
lies
and
fictions
to prosecute the
priests
which
tlseir
for
ends
own
they
as
were
to
same;
willingfeare and
undergoe, takingadvantageof their simplicitie,
the
For
common
liocke
are
of sheep,
as
a
people
ignorance.
a

rude

illiterate rout,

void

times of

many

meer
beast, hellua mnltornm
they are led : as you lead a

capitum,will

common

sense,

go M'hithersoever

gap by tht homes, all

the rest M'ill follow; '^noji (judeunduni, sed qua
itur, they
others doe, and as their princewill have
will doe as theysee

them; let him

be

of what

ram

over

he will, they are

religion

for him.

Maxentius
and Licinius ; then, for
Now for those idolaters,
Christian.
Constantino a
Qui Christum negant male pereant,
"=

acclamutum

decies,for

est

houres

two

space ;

colunt, Augusti inimici sunt, acclamatum

non

and

by

and

idolaters

by

againunder

qui Christum

est

tor

decies ;

that

ApostateJulianus;
; good Catholiques
againunder
And
littledifference
there is betwixt the discreJovinianus.
and children in this case
lion of men
; especially
ofoldfolkes
Cardan discourseth,when as theyare
and women,
as
tossed
and tcith other mens
with feare and superstition,
follyand
all Arrians

under

Constantius

'

**
^
a Zanchius.
A divinitatia
ex
Virg. G. /En.
Siiperstitio
ignorant!
emersit, f-x vitiosa semulatione, et Hwnionis illicebris,
tiraena,iliictuans,
inconstans,
et

cni

se

atldicat nesciens,qutni

Lcmnius, lib.3.
annnm

distat

c.

imploret,cai
''Seneca,

8.

3-'4. vit. Constantin.

sapicntiavjronim

mni(o
pnerili,

stitione et aliena slultitiaet

se

(Ia;mone facile decepta.

a
coniniiftat,
"^ Vide
Baroniuin 3. Annalimn, ad

file

rcriim

minus

seniim

vnrietate 1. 3.
et

c.

38.

ciim
mnliernai,

agitantar.
irnprobitate
simplices

Panim

metn

vero

et snjier-

of Religious
Melancholy.

2.] Causes

1, Subs.

Mem.

507

say their ignoranceis a cause

and madness
it self;
their superstition,
a symptome,
that 1 may

So

dishonesty.

causa
Siipplicii

Their

their

givesoccasion

amongst

our

poor
and

naturally
prone

are

to

the

For

heads.

own

firstatFected,
are
parties
that

sui.
suppliciuinque

to be deploredletharg-y,
is
feare, folly,
stupidity,

own

that which
on

est,

of

other,and puisthese

miseries

and superreligions
stitions,
shall ^tillfinde that the

in all these

idolaters,you

rude, ignorant
silly,
people,old folkes,
weak
to superstition,
or
some
women,

illiterate persons, that are apt to be wrought

upon,
gulledin this kinde, prone without either examination or

rude

consideration, (for they take

due

a trust, as;
at
religion
the
any thing. And

up
beleeve

they do their wares) to

meanes
they have to broach first,or to maintain it Avheti
they have done, is to keep them stillin ignorance:for Ifjnomercers

best

is the mother

rance

times

these

and
practice,
Saviour
the

by

world,

in all ages;

the divels
not

as

our

fishermen,to confound the wisdome

silly
and sinners, but to make
save
publicans

ignorance,to

that

they may

confound

them

better effect what

and

their

of
vantage
ad-

ciates;
asso-

they intend, titey

illiterate persons.
poor, '^stupid,
he publis'ied
his Alcoran, v/hich is a

with

did when

Mahomet

knowes, and

Isath been

few

to

1 say,

begin, as

the world

This

witness.

his infernall ministers

of their
and

amply

Can

hH

of devotion^ as

So

piece
(said Bredenbachius) J'nllof non-sense^ fxirbaivithout rime, reason,
or
risme, coiifusion,
position
amf r/ood comrude
to
rustickes,
a
of
published
; Jirst
hogcompany
standing
rubbers, that had no discretio?i,
art, or underJ7idyement,
of work

is

and
let

so

still maintained.

man
policy
this
to
day,any
(piestion,

to

; dare
part of it,be

comment

no

For
to

it

it is

part of their

disputeor
never

so

call in

absurd,

ridiculous;fabulous as it is,it must be beleeved

incredible,
dare to contradict
must
pain of death no man
implicite
; upon
else do our
it,God and the Emperonr, Sj-c. What
Papists,
but by keeping the peoplein ignorance, vent
and broach all
their

when
traditions,
they conceal the
reade it in Latine, and to some
few alone, feeding
Sciipture,
the slavish people in
the
mean
time, with tales out of
new

ceremonies

Legends,and
begin
rude,

with

such

and

like fabulous

narrations'?

Whom

do

they

ladies,some
tradesmen, supercollapsed
stitious
old folkes,illiteratepersons, weak women,
discontent,
circumvent?
So do all our
silly
companions,or sooner
but

few

*
b
lu all superstition,
follow fools. Bacon's
wise men
Essayes.
Peregrin.
Hieros. cap. 5. Totum
ef
scriptnm confusuui sine ordiae vel colore, absque sensu
rationc ad rustioiHsinios idem dedit, rudissitnos. et prorsus agrestes, qui nulljns erant

ut dijudicrfre
djscretionisj
poasent.

Melanchohj.
Religious

508

[Part.3.

Sec. 4.

Marcus
and Valentinian,
scliismaticks and heretiqiics.
liereseduced
I
know
first,
how
in
not
Irenneiis,
tiqiics
many
^

made

and

women,

belceve

them

Cornelius of Dort, seduced

all

are
a

theywere

company

of

prophets.
Momen.
silly

Frier
What

Brownists. Barrowists, Familists,but

Anabaptists,
base fellowes ? What
of rude, illiterate,
capritious

our

company

but stupid,
and blinde bayioiiorant,
Papists,
ards?
otherwise
be,
when
as
they
theyare brought
stillin darkness?
If their pctstors(snith
Lavater)
up and kept
had done their dfitica,and instructed their Jiockcsas
they
had not foror
of the Christian religion,
bidden
ought,in the principles
them the readingof the Scriptures,
theghad not been as
of

most

are

our

should

how

"

But

they are.
and

we

then

like

at

blinde, and

hawkes, how

superstition,

they prove

can

their hands?
in

Neither

? what

is it sufficient to

Cymmerian darkness,but withall,as

his

boyes,to make them follow their

and encouragements;
books,sometimes by good hope,promises
strict
of all by feare.
threats and
but most
discipline,
severity,
and
sooth
tbeir
do
auditors,
silly
punishment, they collogue
up
and so bring them into a fools paradise. Re.r eris,aiunt,si
recte fades, do well, thou shalt be crowned
; but for the most
and
affrights,
they tyrannizeand
part by threats, terrours
that fenre alone isthe
terrifictheir distressed soules; knowing*
in
obedience, according
to keep men
sole and onelymeans
to
a

schoolmaster

doth

all their lives in

ideots,and superstitions
asses

blinde

expect else

keep them

mis-led

so

hood-winked

carried

otherwise
8hall

beino-

by

of

that Hemistichium

timor, the feare of

Petronius, primus in orbe

divine

Deos

fecit

and

supreme
powers, keeps
the people do their duties ; they
in obedience, makes
play upon their consciences; '^ which was practisedof old in
When
there wasan
eclipse,
theymade
/Egyptby their priests.
the peoplebeleeveGod
was
to come;
angry, great miseries were
some

men

of naturall causes,
to delude
the
they take all opportunities
of
tales
and
with
fearfull
out
fained
peoplessenses,
purgatory,
in
earth
tranicall exor
China,
Japonia
amples
quakes
apparitions,
false
of divels,
obsessions,
miracles,counterfeit
possessions,
doe
insult
and
"c.
restrain
so
visions,
ihem,
they
over,
that
dared
will
offend
the
not
so
a
larke,
never
they
Iloby
^

tread,or scarselook awry. Deusbone,('L^vntcr

tradition,
misere ajfiixit!
de purgatorio
exclaimes)(juothoc commentuni

least

good God,

how

many

men

have

been

miserablyafflicted by

this fiction of purgatory !

'' Meteranns
" Lib. 1.
^ Si
li.8. hist. Belg.
cap. 9. Valent. hsres. 9.
iostitaissentde
recte
doctores saum
fecissent oflicium,et plebem fidei commissam
sacris scriptnris
de multis pronildiibio
doctrina: Christiaux capitibus,
interdixissent,
nee
"* Curtius li.4.
"See more
in Kemnisitis Examen
recte sensissent.
f Part
). c. 16. part 3. cap. 18. et 14.
Coocil. Trident de Purgatorio.

2.]

1. Subs.

Mem.

of Religious
Melancholy.

Causes

509

plicity,
advantagesof hope and feare,ignorance and simhe hath several engins,traps, devices, to batter and
severall
enthrall ; omittingno opportunities,
accordingto mens
these

To

inclinations,abilities,to circumvent
maintain

his

and

in

an

he infects

; sometimes

uprore

humour

them

besot
stupifie,

to

factions, to
oppositions,

againby

sometimes

and

superstition
; sometimes

one

set

all

them;
oddes

at

and

man,

; to

makes

whole

sometimes

cities,countries.
principall
agent ;
canonicall
blind
obedience,
meaner
sort, by stupidity,
If of better note, by pride,ambition, popularity,
zeale,"c.
vain glory. If of the cleargyand more
eminent, of better
he puffesthem up
the
then
more
learned,eloquent,
rest,
parts
with a vain conceit of their own
worth, scientid mfiati, they

him

If of

begin to
and

swell and

crotchets and

new

mad

learnino- become

much

in

respect of themselves,

schismatickes, broach
heretiques,

thereupon turn

doctrines, frame

all the world

scorn

the
out

or

like;or else

new

of too
of curiosity,
they will
out

into Gods

search
secrets, and eat of the forbidden fruit;or out
of presumptionof their holiness and good gifts,
inspirations,

enthusiasts,and
propliets,
discontent,and have
displeased,

become

to

worth,havesome

their

esteemed

what

Or

not?

else,if theybe

(as theysuppose)preferment
disgrace,
repulse,
neglected,
not

lation
theyfondlyvalue themselves, or out of emuthey begin presentlyto rage and rave, caelum terrce
in an instant,that a whole
so
miscent, they become
impatient
tion,
kingdome cannot contain them; they will set all in a combusallat variance,to be revengedof their adversaries.
Dohe
Cecilianus
before
him
when
in the
saw
natus,
preferred
of
and
turned
did
so
Arian,
bishoprick Carthage,
heretique
;
advanced:
have examplesat home,
because Alexander
was
we
of such persons. If theybe lay-men
and too many experiments
of better note, the same
ambition,emulation,
enginsof pride,
and jealousietake
will
be
gods themselves.
place; they

or

not

as

''Alexander
would
that

to

in India

be adored

for

height of

them; sacrifices
J). Adrianus

to

after his victories became

a

god :

and

those Roman

madness, they
deities;Divus

must

their

so

he
insolent,

emperours

came

have

temples built to
Augustus,D. Claudius,

at Rome,
Heliogahalus
put out that Vestalljire
and
banished
all
other
all
virgins,
religions over the
world, and tvould he the sole god himself. Our Turkes, China
kings,
great Chams,and Mogors,dolittleless;assumingdivine
:

"

the
expelled

and

bombast

titles to

themselves

; the

meaner

sort

credulous,and led with blinde zeale,blinde obedience,

and maintain
*

et

Austin.

sacnim

I'

Ciirtius lib. 8.

hoc stndens ut solns Deus

coleretur.

"

omnes

too

to prosecute

their sottish leaders shall pro-

whatsoever

ignem Roraae exstinxit,et

are

Lamprifliusvita ejus. Virginesvestales,

ununi
ubique per orbem terra; religiones,
,

Melancholy.
Religious

540

[Part.3.

.Sec.4.

in prideand sing-ularity,
revenge, vain glory,
pose : what they
for game,
shall raslily
maintain and broach,
ambition, spleen,
make a inatter of conscience, of hell and damnatheir disciples
tion,
if theydoe it not:

and will rather forsake

v.ives,
children,

home, lands,goods, fortunes,life it self,then omit

or
abjnre the least tittleof it; and to advance the common
underg-o
cause,
any miseries,turn traytors, assassinates,
pseudowith
full
and
of
reward
in
that
assurance
other
hope
martyrs,
honse

and

world,

that

merit by \i,win heaven,

they shall certainly

canonized

when

Now

be

for saints.

nusled with

theyare

tndy possessedwith

he hath
superstition,

blinde

other baits

zeale,and

inveao-Ie
many
farther yet ; to make
them quitemortified
that untler colour of perfection
to merit by

and

infatuate tliem

and

mad

; and

to

woilward, whipping-,
almes, fasting,
"c.
An.
goingof ''whippers
1.320. there was
in G^ermany^that
a sect
to the
of
the
and
astonishment
beholders, lashed,
cruellytortured
I could givemany
other instances of each
themselves.
ticular.
parpenance,

But

operate,r-.v
those

vowes

almost

of
to

done

so

their

consume

counsells
evarigelicall

tholickes
''

works

for themselves
condif/}}o,

and

macerate

these

call them

are

ex
meritorious,

opere

and

others,to make

them

bodies,specievirtuti^-et

are

propounded,

; canonical I

as

our

nmhrd^

pseudoca-

obedience, wilful I poverty,

life,which extend
chastity,
monkery,and a solitary
all religions
and superstitions,
to Turks, Chinese,

Gentiles, Abyssines, Greeks, Latines, and

all countries.

Amongst the rest,

were, certain rams
the

solitariness,
fasting,
contemplation,
are, as it
which
thedivel
doth
batterandwork
by
upon
constitutions.
Nonnnlli
P
eter
ob
(saith
Forestus)
strongest

de rebus
inedias,studia et ineditationes coelesies,
lonr/as
et relifjione
much, and
over
semper mjitunt; by fasting

meditations, are

Not

sacris
divine

that

is a thingof it
fastingto keep
; for itis an excellent meanes
the
devotion,
t
o
a
thebodyinsub)ection, preparative
physickof
the soule,by which chastethoughtsare ingendred,
true zeale,
whence
Avholesome counsells do proceed,
a divine spirit,
concupiscence
is restrained,vicious and predominantlusts and hution
are
mours
expelled.The fathers are very much in commendaovercome.

selfeto be discomniended

of it,and as Calvin notes, sometimes immoderate.

"mcther of health, keijof heaven^ a spiritual
winrjto ereare
the chariot

of the

hoh/Ghost, banner

offaith,Sfc. And

"=

The
us,

'tistrue

used, by such
theysay ofit,if itbe moderatelyand seasonably

'"Votum coelibatu.s
Flagcllatornmsecta. Monster, lib..3.Cosmog. cap. 19.
^Blater sanitalis,
clavis roelorura,
ala animae qace leves penuas
ut in sublime ferat ; ciirrus
producat,
sancti, vexilliiin fidei,porta paradisi,
Spiritiis
vita angeloruni,
"c.
"

monachatus.

Melancholy.
Rel'ujious

512

meditation. Not that these

(asI said
thing's

[Part.3.
of

are
fastins,)

disroinnion(ledofthemselves,hiit
very behovefuU,

joyn
yood: sobrietyand contemplation

and

tell us.

*Porphyriecan
bifn-hicli we are united
happiness,
J'ntiire
winr/,Bonaventure
melanchohf, a spiritual
as

that heathen

up

to

heaven:

but

it is

as

abused,

in

to be

some

oursoules

cases

Cod,

to

E.rtasis is a taste of
unto
God; a divine

meer

it,to liftus
dotajje,madness, a
ternies

of

refir/ious
melancholi/.If'you shall at
time see (saith
a
Guatinerius)
relir/ions
person over
any
stitious,
supermuch
that man
trill
or
too solitary
yiventofastiny,
maist
thou
he
will
he
so.
he'melancholy
boldlysay it,
;
certainly
cause

and

Sec. 4.

symptome

hath

P. Forestus

the

almost

same

words, and

Cardan

subtil,

lib. IS. et cap. 40. lib. 8. de rerumvarietate

fast; solitariness,
all
the
hermites
humour, are
causes
of
iny, and that melancholy
10.
and\9.
de
1.
illusions.
Lavater,
sped. part.
cap.
puts
solitariness

main

divels bath
in this

so

kinde, as such

l)olds,that
diqiis,
wholly ab
those
cause,

instinctu

prophesiesand

they suppose
daemonum,

come

by

monkes

revelations,

from God, do proceed

the divels

meaJies:

from
enthusiasts,anabaptists,
pseudo-prophets
spracastorius

dotage

live

those

dreams, which

visions and

solitarylives ; they hear and act

lib. 2. deprodot aye. 'PolydoreVirgfil

as

stranye ihinysin their

nunnes

;
spectrums and apparitions
and hermites, the
monkes

melancholy as
melancholy; none so subjectto

saith he,

none,

of such

cause

lib. ^2. de intellect. w\]\ have

to be
Sibyls,and pseudo-prophets
Pythonissa3,

meer

and
the

so

same

all your
choly
melan-

doth Wierus
: so
prove, lib. I. cap.S.et I. 3. cap. 7. and
Arculanus in 9. Rhasis,t\mt melancholyis a sole cause, and the
and solitariness,
of such Sibylline
divel tooether,with fastingifthere were
prophesies,
others I justly
except

eversuch; which with ''Causabon

and

that the
at; for it is not likely
reveal such manifest revelations and

of
spirit
should ever
Cod
tions
predicof Christ, to those Pythonissa?,
M'itches,
Apollospriests,
no
the divels ministers,(theywere
better)and conceal them
from his own
prophets.For these Sibylsset down all particular

''Ex" Lib. de abstiticntiii.

Sobrietas et continentianipntem Deo coujnnpunt.
in Deiim.
toti absorbemur
in qua
tatis nihil est aliiid quain gustus futiirjebeatitudinis,
c Si relipiosum
niraisjejuniavideris nbser\ aniciii,
Erasnins episL ad Dorpiiim.
"' Solitude
ipsa,
audacter melanrholicum
proniinciabis.Tract 5. cap. 5.
et
cibis
laboribus
aiixiis
mnfata
t
urn
ap;restibus,
et
mens
teniperatura
jcjuniis,
sfp-a
"" Solitudo est raiisa
sunt.
humor nielancholicus,heremitis illusionuni causii'
apparitionum; nulii visionibus et huic delirio niagisobnoxii sunt quani qui collegiiset
soli vivunt monachi ; tales plenimque melancholici ob \ictuni, et solitudinern.
eremo
stinctu
'Monaclii sese
putant prophetareex Deo, et qui sulitariam agunt vitam, quuni sit inDeo,
a
fntidica;
malo
diemonum
sic
f;i'luntur
liabent,
a
et
genio
putant
;
;
qua"
et prophetic
et sic enthusiastae.
phag Sibylla;,
Pytliii,
qui divinare solent,omnes
natici sunt melancholici.
iiEvcrcit. c. 1.

1. Subs.

Mem.

did.

of'Religions
Melancholy.

and many
coming-,
and plainthen
perspicuous

prophet
I am
Sibyls,

ever

any

there be

howsoever

513

dents,
other future acci-

of Christs

circumstances
far more
But

Causes

2.]

no
Phaebades, or
Dii Fatidici,
enthusiasts,prophets,
lected
colBoissardus,who hath laboriously
^volume
of
with
late,
elegantpictures,
great

be other
ilifa^?,
(ofwhich read Jo.

assured, there
them

into a
their
and epitomized

"c.
lives)

in all ages, and

have been

ever

those causes,

stillproceeding
from

^quivisiones suas enarrant^

futura,prophetisant, ejusmodi deliriis ar/itati,
sibi communicari
SpiritumSanctum
putant. That which is

somniant

et

written of Saint Francis

ticall effects,
of him and

melancholy,

our

of

"^monke

five

And

who

Evesham,

in

king Stephensdayes,and
that

was.

down

that went
shewed

as

heaven

saw

of

him

monas-

be referred to this
others,may justly
that which Matthew Paris relates of the

"^

Sir Owen,

wounds, and other such

and

hell in

into Saint Patrickes

saw

much

much

as

by

vision

purgatory

Walsingham

Beda

Saint Julian.

of

lib. b.

cap. 13. 14. 15 et 20. reports of king Sebba, lib. 4. cap. 11.
eccles. hist, that saw
strange ^visions: and StumphiusHelvet.
Cornic.
at

Basil,1520, that beheld

cobler of

Germany.

Ausborough Hn

Alexander

apparitions

rare

Alexandro, gen.

ab

dier. lib. 6. cap. 21. of an enthusiasticall prisoner,

(allout as
that
Eris
Platos
of
in
tenth
as
Armenius,
probable
dialoguede
Repub. that revived again ten dayes after he was killed in a
and
battell,

told strange wonders, like those tales Ulyssesrelated

in Homer; or Lucians vera
historia it self)
to Alcinoiis,
still after much
solitariness,
fastingor long sickness,

was

when
as

their brains

their heads

were

addle,and their bellies

hath
Florilegus

of wit.

divel

perswadedhim

Carolus
heaven

that

one

the better

to

delude

Magnus

therefore
him.

vision

an.

''In the
185.

same

or

examples,
foughtwith

^the
solitariness,

fast,as Moses

to

empty of meat

such

many

of Saint Gutlake
of Crowalde
stillafter
but
overmuch
divels,
longfasting,

fol.191.

as

and Elias

authour

did,

is recorded

extasis,wherein

he

saw

hell after much

and meditation.
So did
fasting
the divel of old with Apollospriests.Amphiaraus and his
stillenjoynlongfasting
before he
fellowes,those /Egyptians,

would

and

give any oracles,triduum

cibo et vino

abstinerentj

divinatione et magicisprffistigiis.
c Post
15 dierum
bloiem.
^
mirabiles videbat visiones.
etjejiiaia,
Fol. 84. vita Stephani et fol. 177.
,
Post trium mensium
inediani et langnorem per 9 dies nihil comedens
aut bibens.
e After
contemplationin an extasis ; so Hierome was whipped for readingTully ; see
millions of examples in our Annals.
f
Bede, Gregory, Jacobus de Voragine,
Lippomanus, Hieronymiis,John Major de vitisPatrara,"c.
? Fol. 199. Post
a

De

"

preces

abstinentiaj curas
miras illusiones dajmonum audivit.
meditationem in vigiliis
diei domjnicae visionem habuit de
VOL.

ir.

Fol. 255. Post seriarn

purgatorio.
L

ReligiousMelancholy.

514

[Part.3.

Sec. 4.

Volateran lib. 13. cap. 4.

as
any answers;
records, and Strabo Geog lib. 14. describes Charons den, in
betwixt Tralles and Nisum, whither the priests
led
the way
: but nothing
sicke and fanaticke men
performedwithout long

"before

theygave

no
good to be done. That scoffingLucian conducts
fasting,
his Menippus to hell,by the directions of that Chaldaean Miand such like idle
trobarzanes, but after longfasting,
tion.
preparawell
of what force
Which
the Jesuits right
perceiving
meditation is, to alter mens
and solitary
this fasting
mindes,
ravish
make
would
when
man
him,
a
mad,
improve him
they
great business of moment,
beyond himself,to undertake some
the
to kill a king,or
like,'^they
bring him into a melancholy
for many
dark chamber, where he shall see no light
gether,
dayestoof divels all
littlemeat, ghastlypictures
no
company,
he
will
and
about him,
himself,on the bare
leave him to iye as
of meditation,as they call it,on his
floor in this chamber
him quite
tillby his strange usage theymake
back, side,belly,
then
And
after some
mad and beside himself.
ten dayes,as
and
find
him
animated
make
of him.
resolved, they
use
they
such factours,
such engins,
The divel hath many
which,
many
what effect they produce, you shall hear in these following
*"

symptomes.

SUBSECT.

III.

Symptomes generall.Love to their own sect; hate of all other

religions
; obstinacie ; peevishness
; ready to undergo any
dience,
danger or crossejbrit. Martyrs : hlinde zeale, blind obe:
Jastingvoices, belief
oJ'hicredibilities,impossibiHti
Christians
Particular
and
of Gentiles,Mahometans,Jewes,
;
,

in

them, heretiqnesold

and

new,

schismaticks,schoolmen,

enthusiasts,
^-c.
prophets,
Heraclitus, an rideat Democritns ? in attempting
speak of Aese symptomes, shall I laugh with Democritus,

JFleat
to
or

weep
the one

with Heraclitus

side,

so

they are

lamentable

so

and

ridiculous and absurd

tragicall
on

the

on

other;

full of errours,
and a promiscuous
that I know
not in "vhatstraine to represent
varietyof objects,

mixt
it.

scene

When

fables,and

offers it self,so
1 think

of

that Turkish

rites ;
pontifical

those

those Jewish
paradise,
their
pagan superstitions,

"Ubi mnltos dies manent jejuni,

consilio sacerdotum,anxilia invocantes.
Necromant.
Etcibasquidetn ^landes erant.potiis
aqua, Icctas sub dio,"c.
Everardofl Britanuo-Ronianus
of it.
lib.edit. IGll. describes all the manner

"' In
'John

1. Subs.

Mem.

sacrifices,and

of Religious
Melancholy.

Causes

3.]

ceremonies,

and adore them

to make

as

done;

theyhave

when

"c. I cannot
But,when I see them

creep
mocritus.

them

see

choose

to the crosse,

all matter,

images of

to

kiss the pyx,

laugh with De-

but

Avbipand

515

themselves,

torture

grind their soules for toyes and trifles,desperate,and now

readyto dye,I cannot choose but weep with Heraclitus. When
I

priestsay
murings,"c. read
see

all those

the customesof

meskites, I
amici
teneatis,

with

masse,

but

hometan
Maor
synagogue,
risum
"laugh at their folly,

needs

must

when

apishgestures, mur-

the Jewes
them

see

make

of

matters

science
con-

of such toyes and trifles,

to adore the divel,toendanger
their soules, to offer their children to their idols,"c. I must
needs condole

When
theirmisery.

I see

orders
superstitious

two

and hold, de land

ytro aris et Jocis,which such have
take
write such great volumes
to no
caprind,some
purpose,
much
so
painsto so small effect,their satyres,invectives,
I see grave learned
dul and grosse fictions ; when
apologies,
contend

scold

rail and

men

like

sport,and

fit ^for

But

when

see

so

so

butter-women,

Calphurniusand
much
blood spilt,
so
many
"c. 'tisa
cruel battels fought,

many
for Heraclitus to lament.
massacres,

methinks

'tis

Democritus

to

pretty

laugh at.

murders

and

fittersubject

As Merlin when he sate by the lake

side with Vortiger,
and had seen the red and white dragonfight,
fell
before he began to interpret
to speak,
or
proritpit,
injletmn
the
what
declare
to
then proceeded to
a weeping, and
king
should

it meant"
humane

with

kinde

*=

pittyand bewaile this misery of

preface,wishingmine
passionate

first
some

then to my
of tears, as Jeremy did, and
it is that great torture, that infernall plague of
and able
onmiumpestinmpestilentissimasnperstitio,

fountain

eys a
task.

For

mortal men,
of it self alone

miseries,and

stand

calamities

pestiferous,
more

to

in
w

to
opposition

hatsoever

; far

all other

more
generall,

more
grievous,

plagues,

cruell,more
violent,of

more

of body
Odier feares and sorrows,
grievances
greaterextent.
for the time; but this is for ever,
troublesome
and minde are
afire. An inundation
eternal damnation, hell it self, a plague,

provincealone,and the loss may be recovered; but

involves all the world almost, and can
never
superstition

hurts
this

one

be remedied.

stitious soule

Sickness
hath

no

and
rest

and go, but asuperimbiitns animus

stitione
super
peace, no quietness.True

sorrows
:

'^

come

quietusesse potest, no
are
longediversa carsuperstition
quiteopposite,
Lactantius
et pietas,
as
describes,the one creates,
nijicina
illorum pietas,mera
the other dejects;
; the one
impietas
nunquam

and
religion

risum vix
Varius mappa
componere
fAlanus
Hor.
de Insulis.
a

'' Pleno
ridet
finibus.
''Cicero 1. de

poterit.

l2

ore.
Calphurnius

ReligiousMelancholy.

51(1
is

yoak,the

casic

an

the

tyranny;

one

other

an

4.

intolerable

burden, an absolute
haven; the other a tempestuous

anchor, an

sure

[Part.3. Sec.

is
makes, the other marrs
; the one
; the one
is
wisflome, the otlier
madness, indiscretion ; the one
folly,
the
other
counterfeit
a
a dili"vent observer,
unt'ained,
; the one
ocean

leades to heaven, the other to hell. But

ape; one
these differences will more
evidently
appear by these particular
What
and
of what parts it doth conis,
sist,
religion
symptomes.
the other

an

it hath,
every catechism will tell you, what symptomes
what effect it produceth. ikit for their superstitions,
no

and

tell them, no pen express, they arc so many,

so
tongue can
and
different
from
so
diverse, so uncertaine,
so
unconstant,
Tot mundo
themselves.
one
superstitiones,
qnot ccelo stellfp,
in the world, as there be
be as many
superstitions
divels
themselves
that are the firstfounders
in
heaven, or
stars
absurd symptomes and signes,
of them; with such ridiculous,

saith,there

severall

many

so

and vexations actorments

companying,
well
and
beseem
the
divel
as
to be
may
expresse
and maintainer of them.
1 will onlypointat some

the authour
of

them,

ex

wifjue

the chief kindes

domineer

now

ceremonies,
rites,

of
and

leoiiem guesse

at

which
superstition,
crucifie the

the

rest, and those of

besides us Christians

world, Gentiles,Mahometans,

Jewes, "c.
Of

these

symptomes

some

be

to
some
generall,
particular
love
extraordinary

Generall to all,
each private
sect.
are, an
and affection they bear and shew to such
secte, and

as

of their

are

'

own

then

Vatinian hate to such as are

in
opposite
in
call
it
from
them
their
as they
religion,
; or disagree
stitious
superblinde zeale,
is
mucli
as
a
rites,
(which
symptomeas a
more

bilities,
cause,)vain feares,blind obedience,needless works, incredimonstrous
impossibilities,

"c.
blindness,obstinacy,

and

hate, as ''Montanus

qu(B contrahiUir

rites and

ness,
ceremonies,wilful-

For

first,which

saith, 7ml/a

hinc ; nulla discordia

the

is love

firm'wramicitia (piam
major, (/nam qj/a: a reli-

fit; wo greater concord, no greater discord then that

ffione
which proceeds
from religion.
It is incredible to relate,
did not
what factions,
evince it,
ieterrima;
our
daylyexperience
qnam
''Rich.
Dinolh
have
been
of
late,for
JactioneSy(as
writes)
of religion
in France, and what burlyburlies all over
matters
Europe,for these many years. JYi/iilest quod tam impotenter
rapiatliomines,
; siquidem
susccpta de salute opinio
quam
pro
ea

omnes

necessitudinis vinculo
in

et

rjentcscorpora

Christ,servants

therefore

are

or

se

of

should

"In Micah

animas

iiivicem
one

devovere

We
collicfare.

Lord,

be at least
comment,

solent,et arctissimo

members

of

all brethren

are
one

body,and

dearlybeloved,inseparably
'' Gall.

hist. lib.1.
,

Mem.

1. Subs.

allied in tbe

3.] Symptomes ofReligious

Melancholy. 517

greatestbond

only of

not

the

united parfamiliarity,
takers
but
comforters,
crosse,
coadjutors,
all occasions
as
they did in the
5. they sold their patrimonies,
and
of love and

same

all

times, upon
church, jJcts the
at the apostles
feet,and

helpers,at

f)rimitive
aid them
of mutual

love
since.

many

we

amples
exmafjy such memorable
have had under the ten generalpersecutions,
Examples on the other side of discord

Saviour

therefore into the

saith,he came
world to set father against
In imitation of whom
the
son, "c.
divel,belike Qiam ""snperstitio
imitatrix,
verce
irrepsit
reHfjionis
is
still
in
all
other
religions
superstition
things,so in
ape, as
and glewtogether
doth so combine
his superstitious
ers
followthis)
and
in love
affection,that theywill live and dye together:
and
what
innate hatred hath he still inspired
other
to any
! How
those old Komans
were
atfected,
opposite
superstition
those ten persecutions
be
and
that
cruel
a
tioner
execuwitness,
may
in Eusebius, ant lita aut morere,
sacrifice or dye. No
continuate, bitterfaction,
wars, persecution
greaterhate, more
of religion;
in all ages, then for matters
such ferall opposino
tion,
father againstson,
mother againstdaughter,husband
kingdome against
kingdome: as
againstwife, cityagainstcity,

like, as

none

our

and

of old at Tentira
^

odium,

Immortale
Odit

uterque locus,quum

Esse

Decs

vulgo,quod
quos

at this

they commonly
their main

solos credit habendos

ipsecolat.

his alone

day, count

call

past

cure,

stillto endure

cityt'others gods as

one

vulnus,

vicinorum

hate it breeds,a wound

Deride, and
Turkes

numina

furyto the commons

Because

sanabile

et nunquam

furor

Immortal

will turn

Inde

And

The

Combos

vain

good, maintain.

as

no

better of

us

then of

dogs; so

miscreants, make that

yaures, infidels,
of
Christian
cause
persecution.If he
he shall be entertained as a brother,and had in
us

quarreland
Turke,

is a greater tye
or a beleever,which
esteem, a Muselman
then
The
them
Jewes stick
or
to
consanguinity.
any affinity
like so many
burrs,but as for the rest whom
together
theycall

good

Gentiles, they do hate and abhor, they cannot endure their

Saviour tons all,and rather,as
Messias siiould be a common
Luther writes,then theythat now
at them, curse
them,
scoffe
persecuteand revile them, shall be coheires and brethren icitli
*

^ Jav. Sat
": Comment,
15.
in Micah. Ferre non
a Lactantius.
possunt ut
servator sit,nostrum
illorum Messias commuuis
gaudium,"c. Messias vel decern decum
angeliset creataris
cies cnicifixuriessent, ipsumque Deiim, si id fieri posset, una
etsi mille inferna subeunda forent.
omnibus, uec absterrentur ab hoc facto,

Religious
Melancholy.

518

[Part.3.

Sec. 4.

them, or have any part or fellowshiptcith their Mes.sias,theij

their Messiah ten times over, and God hitnse/j',
xeonid eruci/le
his

anyels,and

all his creatures,

if it were

possible,
thour/h
helsforit. Sucli is their malice towards
Now
for Papists,
what in a common
us.
for the
cause
advaucement
of their religion
will
endure,
our
they
traytors
will declare unto us ; and how hitler on
and pseudocatholicks
the other side to their adversaries,
how violently
bent,let those
Marian times record, as those miserable slaughters
at Merindol and Cabriers, the Spanish inquisition,
the duke of Alvas
they

endure

thousand

tyranny in the Low-countries,the French

massacres

and

civil

wars.

Tantuin

Not there
racks

religio
potuitsuadere

only,but

and

all over

Europe,we

malonim.

read of

bloudybattels,

wheels, seditions,
factions,
oppositions,
^
"

"

"

obvia

Signa,pares
Invectives

and

signis
et pilaminanlia
aquilas,

pilis,

contentions.

They had rather shake hands with

the Spaniardsdo, suffer Moores to live
a 5ewe, Turke, or
as
and
Jewes
then Protestants ; My name,
amongst them,
(saith
is
odious
them
then
to
murderer.
Luther) more
any thiefor
So it IS with all heretiques
schismaticks
whatsoever:
And
or
violent in their tenants, opinions,
so
obstinate,
none
passionate,
a
nd
wilful,
factious,
peevish,
refractory,
singular stiflein
defence of them ; theydo not onlypersecute and hate,but pitty
all other religions,
them damned, blinde; as if they
account
alone were
the true church, they are the true heires,have the
feesimpleof heaven by a peculiar
donation,'tis entailed on
them and their posterities,
their doctrine sound, per funeni au~
de
ccelo delapsadoctrina; they alone are
reum
to be saved.
The Jewes at this day are so incomprehensibly
ish,
proud and churl-

saith

''Luther, that soli salvari,soli doniini terrarnm

saA nd, as
Buxtortius adds,so iynorant
and selfv:illed withall, that amonyst their most
under stayidiny
rablutari volunt.

hines you

"

shall

but gross dotage,

horrible hardness
findenouyht
in all their actions,
of heart,and stnpendobstinacy,
opinions
conversations : and yet so zealous withall,that no man
living
be more,
and vindicate themselves for the elect people
can
'Tis so with all other superstitious
metans,
sects, Mahoof GOD.
Gentiles in China, and Tartary;
our
ignorantPapists,
j

"Lncret.
nllus homicida

Liican.

Nomen
odiosiiismeiim
(!alat.comment.
qiiam
Micah. Adco
et aspera
incomprihensibilis
he.
I. Inter eoriim
Judaornm.
corura
intellicentissimos
ca.
snperbia,
'Synaj^oj;.
Rabbinos nil pra:terignorantiamel )Dsii)ienliam
grandem inveuies,horrendam iDduraice.
tonem, et obstinationera,
b

aut fur.

Ad

'' In romuunt.

MelaneJwly.
Religious

520

[Part.S.

Sec. 4.

superstition.O /Egypt (asTrismeg-istus

exclaims)
and
such
t
cill
is
beleeve.
as
not
posteritg
thj religion fables,
*

tilingis

it self,
relif^ion
mysteriesare so apmany
prehended
that
of
the
alone by faith,
Mhich Turkcs
as
Trinity,
deride;Christs incarnation,resurrection of the body
especially
(sailh
at the last day,quodideocredendinn
Tertullian)
(juodinthat in

1 know

true

miracles

credihile,^-c.many
Mirari

of.

in divinis

et

rimari

non

sapicntia

(as good
Sec.

with

followed
againadmired.

be controverted

to

vera

qncedam admiranda,

not

est, saith

father informs

disputed

''Gerhardus;

us) qucedam credenda,

thingsare

some

or

all submission

to be

and

beleeved,embraced,

obedience, some

Julian

the apostate scoffe at Christians

Though
hitelleclum in ohsequium
in tliispoint,quod captivemns
Creed
is like the Pythagorean
Christian
the
that
saying,
Jidei,
too slavishly
Ipse dixit,Me make our will and understanding
without farther examination
of the truth;
subjectto our faith,
creed
is
altioris prceour
yet as Saint Gregory trulyanswers,
divine:
and
Thomas
much
and
as
will,
more
constantice,
;jie

sideranti semper

suppetnnt rationes,ostendentes credibilitatem

beleeve it,and
mysteriis
snipernaturalibus,we do absolutely
well
informeth
as
for,
ns
Gregory
;Jides
upon good reasons;
ratio qncerit
habet meritum, vbi humana
non
experimentum;

in

that faith hath

no

merit,is

apprehendwithout

will not
and M illbeleeve

Gods

words

not
a

worth

the

name

of

certain demonstration
; and

if mo

be mistaken

faith,that
: Me

or

must
erre

in

Richardus de sancto
he
Victore,vowes
the
himself
of
Christ
at
M'ill say to
day judgement; Lord, if
alone
hast
deceived us : thus Me
tho7i
be
we
deceived,
plead.
our

generalbeliefe,as

"

that
for the rest, 1 will not justifie
which
^Mahometans
and
tiation,that
at, as Campanella confesseth : Atheismi
But

consubstanpontifical
Jcmcs
justlyexcept
triumphat.cap. 12.
aliud subjectummagis

dogma e.^se, nee

Difficillimum
et stnltis irrisionibns poUticorum rehfereficorum blasphemiis,
in
Deum
periri. They hold it impossible,
pane raanducari ;
and besides they scofte at it,vide gentem coniedentem Deum
Hunc
Deum
musew
et vermes
qnidam Maurus.
inquit
svum,
devorant
subditus
et
est igni,
irrident,quum ipsumpollnunt
;
humi prosteret latrones Jnrantur ; pi.ridem
auream
aquce,
hie Deus.
non
Qui fieri
dejendit
potest, nt
nunt, et se tamen
idem
in
hostia"
sit integer
particulis,
singulis
corpus nnmero,

fol.125.

"

locis,cwlo^ terra?
the ^Turkes Alcoran, the Jsmcs

tarn

multis

S^-c. But

he

Talmud,

and

that shall read

PapistsGolden

fabolar ea-qne incretlibilesposleris

tuje solan strpersimt
tnis.
a O
j^gypte, religioniB
"= Lili. 1. de Trin.
doinin.
bMeditat. I'J.Ae roena
rap. 2 Si decrptisiimiis, "c.
""
Milesium.
"i Vide
Lege Hoffman.
objec^onps in monachnm
Samsatis Isphocanis
'As true as Homers
Iliad,Ovid's Metamorphosis, ^sop'"
Miis exenUratuB.
,

Fables.

1. Subs.

Mem.

the

Legend,in

Melancholy.
3.]Symptomesof Religious
time will

mean

that such

swear

fictions,
ceremonies,

oross

traditions,
paradoxesand
prodigious

fables,vain

521

then that of the

could never
proceedfrom any other spirit,
author
of
the
confusion
and lies;and
divel himselfe,who is
wise men
such
have been
of the
as
M'onder withall,how
as
Averroes, AviJewes, such learned understandingmen
could ever
be perthose heathen philosophers,
or
cenna,
the
least
subscribe
of
to
them :
to
swaded to beleeve, or
part
Vanninus
answers,
fraudem nan detegere:but that,as
allatrare
non
anpkilosophi
oh publico;
formidhiem
jDOtestatis
for
feare
the
lawe.
But
of
I
durst
will
not speak
dehant, they
'^

ant

descend

to

read
:
particulars

their severall

symptomes, and

then

guess.
Of such

symptomes

or
properlybelongto superstition,

as

ri1 may say as of the rest, some

are
that irreligiovis
religion,
diculouSjSome againferall to relate. Of those ridiculous,there
can

be

no

absurd

the multitude

testimonythen

names,

actions,offices theyput

of their

upon

gods,

those

them, their feasts,

holydayes,sacrifices,adorations, and the like. The ^Egyp300

tians that pretendedso great antiquity,
kings before
the
from
13000
Mela
and
writes,
as
Amasis :
beginning
yeers
much
of their knowledge of
so
of their chronicles,thatbrag'd
old, for they invented arithmetic^,astronomy, geometry : of
their wealth and power, that vaunted of 20000 cities : yet at the
and superstition
was
most
time their idolatry
same
gross. They
and moone
under
Siculus
Diodorus
sun
records,
as
worshipped,
the

of Isisand

name

Osyris;

and

such
after,

men

as

were

ficial
bene-

that did them good. In the

any creature
cityof Bubasti they adored a cat, saith Herodotus; Ibis and
^
storks,an oxe (saithPliny); leekes and onions,Macrobius ;
to

them,

or

"Porrum
Hos

tu,

et ceepe

Decs

Decs
JJile,

imponerenubibus ausi,

colis.

Historia^v/hichas he confesseth
written as a truth,but in comical
not perswasively
himself,was
surdities
fictions,and gross abfashion to glaunceat the monstruous
of writers and nations,to deride,without doubt, this
fains this story of himself; that
^Egyptianidolatry,
prodigious

Scoffing^ Lucian,

he had

when
away,

pray
did

in his

seen

vera

fields,and

the Elisian

Radamanthus

gave

him

in any
accordingly;for when he
to that when

he

was

island of treacherous women,

delivered.
and was
instantly

3 Dial. 52. de
oraculis.
mina ! Juven. Sat. 15.

was

now

mallow-root,and

comming
him

bade

or
extremity; which
peril
to Hydamordia in
came

he made
The

his prayers

to his

root,

Chaldeans, had
Syrians,

''O sanctas gentes quihushsec nascuntur

""Prsefat.ver. hist.
Prudentiiis.

he
the

as

iu horto Nu-

Melancholy.
Religious

522

invention
manypropergodsoftheireownc
de Ded

Si/rin. Morny

kius

Sacrorum

cap.

Guliel.
relig.

Gentil.

descript. Peter
Sgris; Pur-

Selden
c. I,2, 3.
''Rosinus
the
of
Romans,
cbas Pilgrimag-e
;
The Romans
borrowed
dus of the Greekes.
their
as

gods, which

own

Varro

Stuc-

de Diis

/.3.

Semester.

Faber

Sec. 4.

the said Lucian

; see

2-2. de veritat.

Sacrijicinr
unique

3.
[Part.

Lilius Giral-

from
minorum

and

majorum

were

holds,certain and

and

all,besides

gentium;

select
coelestiall,
Dei,Lares,Lemures,

uncertain; some

and Semiothers Indigentes

Soteres, and Parastatce,Dii tutelares amongst the
J)iosc7iri,
for the land,
Greekes: gods of all sorts, for all functions ; some

and greatones;

for

some

sea

for

; some

for hell

some

for birth,some

diseases,some
woods, waters,

heaven,

for

some

for passions,

weddings,husbandry,
All

gardens,orchards, "c.

fices,
actions,and of-

Strenua, Stimula,
Pax, Quies,Salus, Libertas,Foelicitas,
Horta, Pan, Sylvanus,Priapus,Flora,Cloacina, Stercutius,
Febris, Pallor,Invidia,Protervia,Risus, Angerona,Volupia,
Doris, Kings,
Veneranda, Pales, Neptunia,
Vacuna, Viriplaca,
emperours,

valiant

that

men

had

done

any good offices for

adore for gods ; and it

they did likewise canonize and

as '^Jo. Boissardus
was
usuallydone, usitatum apud antiquos,
homines qui henejiciis
mortales juva^
well observes, deijicare
second
their intents,
still ready to
rent^ and the divel was
illorum sepulchris,
statuis,templis,
statim se ingessit
^-c.
rms,
he crept into their temples,statues, tombes, altars,and was
doe miracles,"c. as by
ready to give oracles,cure diseases,
Tiresias,Apollo,Mopsus, Amphiarus,
Jupiter,iEsculapius,
Semi- Dei, demiFor as they were
gods,
Dii et Semi-Dei.
"c.
Max.
medii inter Decs et homines, as
some
Tyrius,
them,

''

the

26.
ser.
Platonist,

words.
soule

ex

When

good

djemon

homine

et 27.
man

maintains

dyes,his

and

body

in
justifies
is

many

buried, but his

a demi-god,
evadit,becomesj'orthtvith

nothing disparagedtcith malignityof'ayr, or varietyof

exults and sees that perfectbeautyewith
formes : rejoyceth,
he helpeshis
Now
in commiseration
his eys.
being deified,
kindred
here
his
and
on
earth,
allies^
informs^
poor friends
do
that
and
those
amiss,
are
bad,
^c. punisheth
succours,
as
a.
good genius to protect and govern mortal men
pointed
apby the gods; so they will have it; ordainingsome
for one qfficey
for provinces,some for privatemen, some
Hector and Achilles assist souldiers to this
some
for another
.

''Rosin, antiq.Rom. 1. 2. c. 1. et deinceps.

"Tignrifol.1494.
*^^''?'
^ Cohhio
de dev-inatione ft niagicis
in Mopso.
Paccio interpret Nihil
praistigiis
ab aeria caligine
exnjeruit,
varietate iinpeditns
aut fignrariim
nieram
pulchritudinem
erultan.set misericordia motns, cognatos araicos "|iii
adhuc morantiir in terra tiietur,
boDos
rantibns succiirrit,
Dii tutelares hoiiiinibus,
"c.
Dens hoc jussit
ot essent gcuii,
"c.
juvantes,males puuientes,

523
3.]Symptomes of Religious
Melancholy.

1. Subs.

Mem.

day ; iEsculapinsall sick

and

"c.

sometimes

upon
and

Dioscuri, Hercules

the

men,

Dioscuri

seafaring
men,

occasion,theyshew themselves.
he
iEsculapius,

The
(or the
vigilansipsevidi:
himself

saw

somuians
sed
non
likenesse)
not good men
So far Tyrius. And
only do they thus adore,
but tyrants, monsters, divels (as Stuckius
inveighs)Neros,
and
arrant
whores
Domitians, Heliogables,
beastlywomen,
For all intents,places,creatures, theyassign
amongst the rest.
gods ;
divel

in his

=*

Et

domibus, tectis,thermis,et equis soleatis

Assignaresclent genios
Cuna

saith Prudentius.

for cradles ; Diverra

for

sweeping

knots; Prema, Premunda, Hymen, Hyme-

houses; Nodina

the god of good fellows ; gods

Hebe
of silence,of comfort ;
goddess of youth ; Mena menand dimensions,
struarnm, "c. male and female gods of all ages, sexes,
with
beards, without beards,married, unmarried,
neus,

for

weddings ;

born

begot, not
head.

all, but

at

reckons

Hesiodus

Jupiters.As

Comus

Jeremy

up

told

Minerva

as

start

at least SOOOO

out

of

Jupiters

gods ; Varro

them, their gods

were

300

titude
the mul-

to

of cities.

Quicquid humus, pelagus,coelum

Id dixere

and

heavens, sea

Hils,seas

and rivers,God

was

poets

theatris,as

land
was

begat,

this and

absurd, they made

most

occasions
their

gignit,

freta,flumina,flammas.
Decs, colles,

"Whatever

which

And

miserabile

as

children make

did eat his own

kingdome by his

gods upon

babies

gods; et quos adorant

scoffes.
Saturn
Lactantius

make

that.

such

culous
ridi-

(sosaith ''Morneus)
in
a

templisludunt in
self,
gelded himman,

children,a cruell tyrant driven

out

of his

Jupiter,as good a god as himself, a

Avicked,lascivious,
paltryking of Crete, of whose rapes, lusts,
son

a whole
murders, villanies,

volume

istoo littleto relate,

Venus,

chair ; Mars,
strumpet,
is
a great she-goddess
whore,
as well as the
Adonis, Anchises
much
their
with
renowned
such.
by
rest; as
poets;
many
and foolishly
And these gods,so fabulously
made, ceremow?Vs,
a

notorious

hymnis,et

as

cauticis

common

as

celebrant; their

iras, nuptiaset liberorum

amores,
bius well taxeth)
weddings,mirth
and

Sacrorum

they did
quarrelling

barbers

errours,

luctus et

gaudia,

procreationes,C^as Euseand mournings,loves,angers,

celebrate in

hymns,

and

sing

meritos solnm, sed et tyrannos pro Diis coportentosainimanitate divexarunt,"c.

^
Cap. 2'i. de ver. rel,Deoa tinxerunt eorum
poetae,ta
"^ Proem,
lib. contra philos.

gent descript.

humanum
fcedas meretrices,
Stc.
infantium puppas.

lunt,quigenns

Non
horrenduni

bene

in niodum

ReligiousMelancholy.

524
of in their
But

ordinarysong:s, as

more

see

4.

their villanies.
publishing

it were

originals.When

of their

[Part.3. Sec.

Romulus

made

was

the people,
the sedition of the senators, to pacifie
taken up by
was
''Julius Proculus gave out that Romulus
and
be
after adored
ever
therefore,to
Jupiter into heaven;
of yEgypt had
the Romans.
for a

by

away

Syrophanes

god amongst

onelyson,

one

dearlyloved

he

whom

his servants
their masters
o-arlandes,to pacific
adored
littleand littlehe was
in his house, which

so

; lie

did adorne

when

wrath
for

by

erected
with

and

crownes

he

was

angry^

This did Semi-

god.

his statue

the Emperour by
Belus ; and Adrian
for her husband
rich
in Rome, and
harlot
Flora
a
Antinoiis.
Mas
his minion
her heir,her birth day
the common-wealth
for that she made

ramis

plausible
long after; and to make it a more
her goddess of flowres,and sacrificed to
The
of Rome, as Dionysius
matrons
amongst the rest.
solemnised

was

holyday,they made
her

at their entreaty, Coriolanus

Halicarnassseus relates,because
desisted from hiswars, consecrated a church jFortuncc nndlebri:
had a templeerected, for that somewhat
Barbata
and "* Venus
The citizens of Alaamiss al)0ut hair ; and so the rest.
was
"

banda,
Romans,
and were

small

formidable
and

hera

made

goddess,with

of houses

and sacrifices. So a town

side to
of the one
flattery
on

the other to

Tully writes
made

to

with

the

ofMacedon,
a
temple to
annual

games

ful
deified,Avith shame-

was

give,and

intolerable arrogance

accept, upon so vile and absurd an occasion.

Atticus, that his daughterTulliola might be

and
goddess,

adored

as

Juno

and

Minerva, and

as

mcII

all out
holydayesand adorations were
Lupercalsof Pan, Florales of P'lora,
Perenna, Saturnals, "c. as how they M'ere

it. Their
Those
ridiculous.

she deserved
as

favour

parts)consecrated

these

to

to curry

with Perseus

in Greece

warred
(vvhothen

cityof Rome,

the

Minor,

in Asia

town

Bona

Dea, Anna

lascivious

celebrated,with what
ceremonies, '' by what

and

gestures, bald

wanton

how
bawdy priests,

theyhang

their

of sacrifices,saith Lucian, and lick

the smoke
over
noses
about the altars,
like flies. Their carved
bloud that wasspilled
idols, giltimages of wood, iron, ivory,silver,brass, stone,
"

olim truncHS

eranu,

for

^c.

were

Seneca

absurd,as beingtheir own

Deos,
notes, adorant
lif/neos

most

as
workmanship ;
interim
contemnunt,
qnijecerunt,
fahros

the workman;

and

as

Tertullian

theyadore work,

et

temn
con-

follows it, si homines

bAnth.
Quirites.
"Livius lib.1. Deus vobis in postenim propitius,
"^ Mulieres
candido splendentesaraicissine varioque
Verdure Imag. Deoriim.
florentes conaraine, solum
sternentes, "c.
Apuleiiislib.11.
vemo
Isetantes Restimine,
mimprare.
(jiwritur
cjuir pos"itadiiiteria pfiira
dMag^na religione
eLib. de sacriUciis. Fumo
ct imiscarumin
luorcm
iiihiantes,
saDguinemcxsugentescircum aras eflusum.

de asino
Alinut.

aureo.

nan
propitii,

had

they

men,

Diis

essent

nan

3.] Symptomes of Religious

Melaneholy

1. Subs.

Mem.

been

nevei'

essent

gods,

had

Dii^

it not

but blocks

been

and
still,

525
for

stupid

their nests,
mice, swallowes,birds made
and
in
their
laid their
very mouths
spiderstheir webbes,
which

in

statues,

images, I

all out as gross, as

the shapesin which
they did represent them : Jupiterwith a
head; Mercury a dogges. Pan like a goat, Hecate with
rams
with a beard, another without ; see more
in
three heads, one
Those

excrements.

and

Carterius

pictures
images came
:

from

formes

heaven

coelo cecidisse credebant

Athens,

sanias.

and

absurder yet, they told them

in her
; as that of Minerva

was

quod e
They formed
seriouslybeleeved;
they made
at

were

of their monstrous

Verdurius

which

and

say,

like

some

their

temple

accolce,saith Pau-

buls,and yet

storkes, apes,

and that which

impious,and

was

ugly
these

minable,
abo-

gods notorious

cestuous
whoremasters, inwell
as
were
all,
sodomites, (as commonly they

Jupiter,Mars, Apollo,Mercury, Neptune, "c.) theeves,

tiles in
slaves, druges, (for Apollo and
Neptune made
Hercules
Vulcan
a
empty'd stables,
Phrygia,)kept sheep,
dwell
the
earth
for
their
unfit
to
black-smith,
villanies,
upon
much
less in heaven, as ^Mornay well saith,and yet theygave
as

them

to be

out

lament, and
also all her
vexed

what

such

;
as

roare,

so

and

weak

Isis for her

brutish, some
and

son

weeping priests.Mars in
Venus
run
crying,and
away
be

can

ridiculous

more

Nonne

colas,vel colere quod lugeas? which

whine,

to

Cenocephalus,as

Homer

to be

wounded,

the like ; then which,

ridiciilum lugerequod
"^Minutius

^Si
objects)

that it is no mar? si mortui,cur adoraiis?

vel
Diif cur plangitis
"^
adamantine
of
that
and
if Lucian,
persecutor superstition,

Pliny,could so scoffe at
they did. Diagorastook

them

and

Hercules

their horrible

as
idolatry

image,and

put itunder his

he said,his V6^ labour.

his pottage, which was, as

in Cypr. 4. tract, de Idol,
of their fopperies
see
more
varietat. Chrysostome advers. Gentil. Arnol)ius adv. Gentes.

pot

to seeth

But

Austin,

de

Clemens

Theodoret,

civ. Dei.

Alexandrinus,

de

Grcec.

curat.

Minutius

affect.
Lactan-

Foelix,Eusebius,
and fearful
Lamentable, tragicall,

tius,Stuckius,"c.

those

with
theyshould be so far forth affrighted
their fictitious gods, as
to spend the goods, lives,
fortunes,
in
their
sacrifice
best
to
unto
honour,
dayes
time,
pretious

symptomes

are, that

them,

to

their

Tom.

loss,such hecatombes,

so

many

Be ver. relig.
qui
cap. 22. Indigni
et
JupiterTragoedus,de sacrificiis,
^QQQ severall kindes of sacrifices in ^gypt Major reckons up,
2. coll.of which reade more
in cap. 1. of Laurentius Pigaoriushis iEgypt characters,
of which, Sacubius givessubcis. lib.3. cap. 1.
a cause

Imagines Deorum
Sec.
calcent,
passim alias.
a

terram

inestimable

lib. sic inscript.

"

Octaviano.

3.
MelancJioly. [Part.
Religious

526

sheep,oxen
kinijof Lydia, Marcus

thousand

Viclimarins

with

horns, goats, as
g-ilded

Julianus, surnamed

et Tmiricremns

oh crehras

Sec. 4.

Croesus

hostias,

; and the rest of the Roman

such labour and cost : and not

em-

emusuallydid with
and
at
bono,
were
great ones, pro commvm
perours onely,
for their ordinaryoccasions.
this charge, but privatemen
for the invention of a
Pythagoras offered an hundred oxen
and
it
an
was
Geometrical probleme,
ordinarythingto sacriLucians
time, a heiferfor their good healthy four
lice in
nine huh for
oxen
for wealth, an hundred fur a linrjdome^
their safereturnfromTroja to Pylus,",'c. Every god almost
sacrifice : the Sun horses, Vulcan
fire,Diana
had a peculiar
Ceres an hog,Proserpine
a black
hart, Venus a turtle,
a white
sides
in
Stuckius M large)belamb, Neptune a bull, (readmore
sheep,cockes, corals, frankincense,to their undoings,
And surely
aflfectedwith blood orsmoke.
iftheir gods were
as
he) if one should Init repeat the fopperiesofmortall
(""saith
feasts,worshippinytheir yods,their
vieyi, in their sacrifices^
rites and ceremonies,tchat theythink of them, of their diet,
they make ; ifone
houses, orders, ^-c.what prayers and voices

perours

'^

''

but observe

should

their absurdities

and

madnesse, he would

ondpittytheir folly. For what can be

lauyhiuy,
absurd then their ordinaryprayers, petitions,
'requests,

burst out
more

oracles,devotions
sacrifices,
Maxim

? of

1. Platos
Tyrius,serwi.

us

Avhich

we

have

taste

in

Alcibiades Secundiis,Versms

exploded,Mactnnt
opimas et pinyueshostias Deo quasiesurienti,profundunt vina
accendunt
velut in tenebris agenti
lumina
tanquam sitienti,
an
lib. 2. cap. 6.) as if their gods were
hungrie,a
(Lactantius
and drink.
in the darke, theylightcandles,offer meat
thirst,
and
their
counsels
And what so base as to reveal
give oracles
and excrementall
out of the bowels
sterquiUniis,
e viscerum
Varro
truely cals them
parts of beasts ? sordidos Deos
therefore,and well he might. I say nothing of their magnificent
structures.
and sumptuous temples,those majestical
To the roof of Apollo Didymeus temple,ad Branchidas, as
Sat. 2. Juvenal.

Strabo

Sat,

10. there

writes,a thousand

likewise

oakes

and
relate the glorioussplendor,

did

not

suffice.

Who

can

the
stupendmagnificence,

lectis phialis
cum
lecta pecora
ter mille Delphis, una
mactarit.
sine
pecudes
innumeras
Julianus
parsimonia
tribus.
bguperstitiosus
25. Boves albi M. Csesari sahitera. Si tu viceris perimus. lib.3. Romani
Aramianus.
' De
sacrificiis. Bucnlanii
observantissimi sunt ceremoniaruui, bello prreserlira.
c
entum
tauros
bona
boves
divitiis,
valetudinp,
qiiatiior
pro sospitea Troja
pro
pro
si quis
" Enimvero
^ De sacris G.ntil. et sacrilic.
Tyg. ir"96.
reditu,"c.
\ ota faciant,
in
Diis
adorandis,"c.
festis.
stultimortales
sacrificiis,
recenseret
qua"
quae
f Max.
Tyrius ser. 1.
quid de lis statuant,",c. baud scio an risunis,"c.
dide
a
lius
arenarum,
de
namero
lebete
Croesus
stultissimus
omnium
consnlit,
a

Herod, Clio.

Immolavit

regum

meoaione

maris, "c.

Lib. 4.

ReligiousMelancholy.

528

Jerusalem;and
besieg-cd

[Part.3.

Sec. 4.

Jewish

Christians in Africke,
the
suffered
Gothes,
set iij)on by
themselves,upon the same
of the
occasion,to be utterly
vanquished. The superstition
some

town
Dibrenses,a bordering*

almost

is miraculous
into the

to

only fountain

in Epirus,besieg-ed
by the
Because

report.
which

the

citie had,

thirst all,rather then drink of that

up the citie upon
any conditions.

Turkes,

dead

Jog-was flunotheywould dye of

unclean

water, and yeeld

Though the praetor and
all good perswasions,
first,
using'

chief citizens

began to drink
their superstition
would serve, theymust
was
such, no saying*
all forthwith dye or yeeldup the citie. Vix ausim ipsecredere
tantam
(saitli
''Barletius)
super stitionem, vet affirmarelevishanc

simam

risum potius qnam

duhitem
The

story

because
to

rei,vet marjisridiculam,f/uum

iantcB

causam

he

ridiculous,he

too

was

thought nobody

relate what

non

excitaturam.
admiratioiiemposteris
ashamed

was

would

beleeve

strange effects this

it.

to

report it,

It is

stupend
idolatryand superstition

hath

broughtforth of the latter yeers in the Indies and those

borderingparts : in what ferall shapesthe divel is adored,
ne
twixt
beas
quid viali iiitentet^
they say; for in the mountains
Scanderone
and Aleppo,at this day,there are
dwellingkinde
called
certaine
of
of
Coordes, coming- the race
a
people
of the ancient Parthians, who worshipthe divel,and alledge
in so doing; God
this reason
is a good man
and
will do no
but
is
the
divel
bad
and
be
lest
he hurt
must
barm,
pleased,
It is wonderful
them.
the divel deludes them,
to tell how
how he teiTifies them, how they offer men
and women
fices
sacrihundred
unto
at once,
as
him, an
they did infants in
Crete to Saturne
of old, the finest children, like AgameraSec.
At
nons
Mexico, when the Spaniards first
Iphigenia,
corda e
them, they daily sacrificed viva homimnn
overcame
vivetitium corporibusextracta, the hearts of men
yet living-,
20000 in a yeer (Acostalib. 5. cup. 20.) to their idols made
*^

"^

of flowre and
of both sexes:
their wives

harder

bloud; and every yeer six thousand

mens

and, as

relate

infants

'how

to
prodigious
they burie
'tis
fearful
to
deceased,
report,and

"vith husbands

to beleeve.
s

Nam

habent

certamen

Conjugium,pudor
and burn

them

grandiedies j

lethi quse viva sequatur

licuisse mori,

est non

alive,best goods,servants,
''

12000

'
of the Greek
They were
templisimmaDia idolonim

at once

church.
inonstra

horses, when
the Tartars, when

amongst
"' Lih.

5. de gestisScanderbegis.

conspiciuntur,
marmorea,
placarenon est opus, quia non

"i Deum
ciiis.
enim
sacrificiisplacant,"c.
Vvr. Cortesius.
c
dec.
na^^g. lib.G. cap. P. Martyr.Ocean,
'' Matthias
a Michoa.

a
a

'^

In

lignea,lutea, "c. Ric-

nocet ; spd daemonem

.M. Polns. Lorl. Vcrtoaiannus.
lib.3. eleg.1*2.
g Piopertius

3.] St/mptomesof ReligiousMelancholy.529

1. Subs.

Mem.

or
great Cham departs,
who
themselves,
plague

old

those

Bannians
sake

flesh

how

they

like
all that hath life,
the
immoderate
as
fasting's,

with

Surat; they of China, that for

about
eat

abstaine from

Pythagoreans;

never

emperour in America

an

fish all their

superstitions

lives,never

marry, but
some
pray to their idols 2A
intermission,bitingof their

nor

and
by-places,

live in deserts and

without
tog-ether,
any
have
when
Some
done, for devotions sake.
they
tongues
madness
their
that
by
priests,
superstitious
again are broughtto
vain
of
and
tell
th.em
such
stories
the
(that
immortality,
joyt-i
''that many
thousands voluntarily
of heaven
in that other life)
hours

break

their

Amborciatus'

neckes, Cleombrotus

own

themselves, that
old, precipitate

of

theymay

auditors

of
participate
Onepoysons,

unspeakablehappinessin the other world.

himself; and the king-of China hath
strangleth
much, deluded with this vain hope, hail he not been
But who can
tell of
by his servant.
sufficiently

that

another
as

severall

torments?
vexations,follies,
superstitions,

with

I may

done
tained
de-

their
clude
con-

Possevinus, Religio
facitasperos mites,homines

"^

ex
hominihusj'eras,
Religionmakes wilde
eferis;superstitio
makes
beasts
wise
and fools;
civil,superstition
men
and the discreetest that are, if they give way
to it,are
no

beasts

than

better

dizards ; nay

relirjionis
scopus,

unus

the drift of
what

to
religion

shall be
and

stockes

lit

make

us

be true, is
ilhims similes Jiamus,that's
like him whom
we
worship;
c

the end

stones?

of idolaters,but to degenerateinto
of such as worshipthese heathen Gods,

(for Dii (gentium dcemonia)

most

if that of Plotinus

more,

ei quern

"^

but

to

'Tis therefore exitiosus error,

?
and dangerouserrour
perilous
hominem
holds, turhiilentapassio

troublesome

away
are

so

life,but

not

it,morte

non

selves
them-

maxime

periculosus,
tarch
others,as "^Pluconsternans, a pestilent,
et

of all

undoeth
passion,that utterly

'Pliny cals
superstition,

divels

become

Unhappy

men.

death
Jinit}n\

takes

superstition.Impious and

far more
happy then theywhich
like to it,none
so
continuate,so
violent.

ignorantmen
are
ture
torno
superstitious,
so
general!, destructive,

for antiquitie
superstitious
row, Jewes
may go next
Gentiles ; what of old they have done, vvhat idolatriesthey

In this
to

*
Epist.Jesuit, ann. 1549. a Xaverio et sociis. Idemque Ricclus expedit. ad
Sinas. 1. 1. Jejiinatores
apnd eos toto die carnibus abstinent et piscibusob religionem,
et die idola colentes ; nusqnam
nocte
''Ad imraortaegredientes.
"c.
litatetn niorte aspirantsummi
Et multi mortales hac insania,et
magistratiis,

praeposteroimmortalitatis studio laboraut,et niisere pereunt ; rex ipse clam veiienum

fuissetdetentus.
f Cantione
in lib. 10. Bodini de repub.
hausisset,nisi a servo
f'
"^ Lib.
fol. 111.
de superstit.
Quin ipsiusdiaboli ut nequitiamreferant.
f Hominibus
vitsefinismors, non
antein superstitionis
terminos ultra
hsec snos
; profert
vitsefinem.
VOL.

II.

Melancholy.
Religions

530

in tlieir i^roves and

committed

have

what
hi^^hplaces,

Saddiicees,Scrilies,
Essei, and

Pharisees,

maintained, I will
I presnmo

no

not

much

so

under

nation

[Part.3.Sec.

snch

mention

as

heaven

sottish,ignorant,

more

blinde, superstitious,
M'ilfuU,obstinate, and
tlienssclves with
tyring'
that shall but

vaine

ceremonies

reade their Rabbins

to

ridiculous

their
have

sectaries

for the present,

he

can

4.

no

peevish,

purpose

he

Conunents, their

of Scriptures,
their absurd
interpretation

strange
fables,childish tales,which

fhey

be

ceremonies,
will think
beleeve,
tiieystedfastly

rational

their foolish

creatures;
in
the
rise
they
morning ; and

when

scarse

customes,

how

selves
they prepare themwith what superstitious
to prayer,
to meat,
washings;
how to their sabbath, to their other feasts,
weddings,burials,
of
Last
"c.
of their 3Iessias,and those
all, the expectation
vaine
that siiall attend him; as
figments,miracles,
pompe
how
he shall terrific the gentiles,
and overcome
them by newdiseases ; how Michael the Archangelshall sound his trumpet,
how he shall gati)er
all the scattered Jewos
into the holy land,
and

there make

the

them

^wherein
great l)anf|uet,

birds, beasts,fishes,that

that

f/reif in

cellar

ever

great

Paradise, and

since.

At

God

ever

that

made

shall he all

cup of wine
bren kept in Adani's

hath

shall be served

the first course

in that

in Psal.

oxe

50. 10. that every day feeds on a thousand

41. that great Leviathan; and a great bird that

liils; Job.
laid

an

and

Eve,

egge so big,''that by chance iumhliHyont of the nest,

it knockt doicn 300 tallceders,and breaking
itfell,drowned
as
IGO villar/es.This bird stood
up to the knees in the sea, and
the sea was
so
deep,that a hatchet would not fall lo the bottom
in seven
Of their IMessias ''wives and children ; Adam
yeers.

When

why
he

the Jewes

compared

wood
to

"c.

he
he

was

that

princeasked
himself

to

mighf,and
400

amo!;gst the

Jehosua

of Rabbi

ben

miles

compared to a
no
ordinarylion, but
he desired

forthwith
made

he

set

aborts

in the

pray'd

forward;

roared

so

answer,

one

the Rabbin

see,

the lion

from Rome,

in Rome

to

to

rest

Ilanajiia,

lion;he made

when

(jreat-helUed rcomen
down ; and ivhen he
the second

stupendfiction

one

G()"l was

Ela, which

God

when

and

Roman

Jiut

that all the

the citie walls

fell

hundred

miles nearer., and roared

time, their teeth fell out of their heads, the emcame

an

"Buxtorfins,Synagog.Jnd. c. 4. Inter precandutn nemo

vel
pediciilos
attinjrat,
pnlicem, ant per piittnr inferius ventuui eniittas,
".c. Id. c. 5. et seq. cap.
36.
""Illic omnia
animalia,pisces,aves, quos Deus unqiiain rrcavit mactahuntiir,et
viniini
":c.
c Cujus lapsii
cedri altissinii
300 dejectisunt,
generosnni,
fiierat confracttnn,
qiiu.nqufe lapsu ovum
pagi IGO inde siihmersi, et allmione inund
aati.
Kvery kintcin the world shall send him one of bis daughters to be bis
because it is wntten
Psal. 4.% 10. kinss daughters shall attend on him, "c.
wiji-,
*
Quum
quadringentisadhuc milliaribus ab iuiperatore
leo hie abesset,tam fortiter
ru^ebat, ut mulieres Romanse abortierint omnes,
h.c.
uiurique,

1. Subs.

Mem.

531
3.] Symptomes of Religions
Melayicholy.

himselffelldown

perour
With

dead, and

infinite number

an

the

so

of such

lion icent

lyesand

hack

"

which
forgeries,

beleeve,feed themselves with vain hope,and in the

theyverily
time will by no perswasions
be diverted,but stillcrucifie
mean
their soules with

of idle ceremonies, live like slaves

company
be
relieved
reconciled,
or
vagabonds,will not

and

"

Mahometans

are

Christians;and

so

taken

that

absurd

which

in their

is most

Mecha,
"how

the

sent

clownes.

Mahomet

downe

came

for

bnrbarous

sa'uted

stones,

moone

God

and

when

from

him, spake

him,

to

it,which

consists

last 50000

must

cocimdi

in

hominibvs

et

hestiaUs
scriptum^

Virgil,Dnntes, Lucian,
Their

rites and

and

wine

yeers;
comedendi

nor

ceremonies

swinesfiesli

are

of

moone,

sounds

be

wholly

pecorinis
fabulous.

more

and

by

prepare

that
ridiculous,

so

vain

forbidden

company
and
stars,

to

vohiptate,and
can

how
from

came

Paradise,which

poet,
most

are

utter

As

to visit him

with

"c.

beatitndo, is
any

he

heaven

stupend figments of the angels,sun,

Of the day of judgement, and three

"c.

if they had

as

of them ;
of every one
their
Alcoran
it
law;
superstitious

of rude

company

birds, beasts,

to

ceremonies,

of lyes,
tales,ceremonies, traditions,
gallimaufrie
cepts,
preother
stole from
sectes, and confusedly
heaped up, to

delude

of

Gentiles, Jevves, and

sottish out

full of idle fables in their

self

of

compound

superstitious
;

their

law; ''they

day ; and stilltowards the south ; wash

pray
before and after,
all their bodies over, with many
such.
For
orders, peregrinations,
vowes,
religious
they go far
fasting',
fast
month
a
together
beyond any papists. They
many times,
five times

must

and

must

eat

not

vises,and

bit tillsun

Torlachers, "c.

be
are

set.

Their

more

some
"^abstemious,

Kalenders, Derof

them, then Carthusians, Franciscans,Anchorites; forsake all,

live
are

fare hard,
solitary,
as

those
as

far
tracts

as

no

man

For which

Maximus

the

likewise

they hold,

sins,and
it.

to

hath
can
reason

go
river

naked,

"c.

Their

pilgrimages

'^Ganges(which the

Gentiles of

do) to wash themselves; for that river,

them of all
to
soveraign vertue
purge
be

saved

theycome

gentiumomnium

that hath
far and

not

been

washed

in

from

the Indies ;
infinite numbers

near

con/luxusest, and

^Stroziiis Cicogna,omnif. mag. lib. 1. c. 1. Putida multa recenset

ex
Alcorano,
b
coelo,stellis,angelis,Lonicerus, c. 21, 22. 1.1.
Quinquies in die orare
ad meridiem.
TurcEe teueetur
c In quolibet
anno
Bredenbachius, cap. 5.
"' NuUis
"c.
mensem
integrum jejunantinterdiu,nee comedentes iiec bibentes,
"? Lonicenis,
Leo Afer.
uiultiper totam sstatem carnibns vescnntur.
nnquam
f Gotardus
torn. 1. cap, 17, 18.
Artiius,ca. 33. hist, orient Jndiae. Opinio
mandum
ab omni
est expiatoriumesse
Gangem ; et nee
peccato nee salvum fieri
tota India, "c.
hoc flumine se ablnat : quam
ob causaam
ex
posse, qui non
de

[Part.3.

Melancholy.
Religious

532

yeerlyresort

it.

to

tonibe, which

Others

Journey

far

as

go
is both

Mecha

as

miraculous

Maliomets

to

and

Sec. 4.

meritorious.

to stone
stones
thedivel;of eating
flingingtheir runningtill
their fastings,
at Cairo by the way;
a camell
temple, tombe,
they sweat, their long prayers, Mahomets
aske a whole volume
of it,would
to dilate: and
and building
all their sins arc
for their painestaken in this holypilgrimage,
And
divers of
saints.
and theyreputedfor so many
forgiven,
them
bricks, when
w ith hot
theyreturn, will put out their
bite out
aftersee amf pruphane thinr/,
eys, that theifnever
look
their
Mahomet
for
as
their tonrptes,"$-c.They
prophet

of

ceremonies

The

"^

Read

of their custornes,
rites,ceremonies, in Louicerus, Turcic. hist. torn. 1. from the
Leo
10th to the 24th chapter. Breclenbachius,cap. 4, 5, 6.
for their Messias.

doe

Jewes

more

Busbequius,Sabellicus,Purchas, /;7).3.cap.
Theodorus
Bibliander,"c. Many foolish ceremonies

Afer, lib. 1.

2".et

4, 5.
shall finde in them

you
is
which
be
the
and
to
lamented,
most
;
in
that
the
if
curious
them,
so
observingof
peopleare generally
be omitted,theythink theyshall bedamned
least circumstance
;
irremissible oftence, and can
house, amongst my followers

'tisan
in my

the Turkes

byciiancedid eat
the next day when
sick to cast and

hardlybe forgiven.1 kept

times
some(saith
''Busbequius,
in Constantinople)
a Turkey boye that
orator
forbidden by their law; but
shell-fish,
a meat
he knew what he had done, he w as not only

vomit, but

much

very

troubled

in minde, would
himself for hisfoule

torment
weepand ''grievemanydayesafter,
Turke
Another
offence.
being to drink a cup of wine in his
and filthy
noise
his
made
a huge
faces, to team
cellar,first
boule (ashe said)that it should not he fjitilty
oj'that J mile fact
''

he

which

kept in

^Vith such

to commit.

was

and

awe,

cowed,

so

that

toyes

theydare

these,are men
or offend
resist,

as

not

of their law, for conscience

sake misled
humane
edict otherwise, no force of
no
w hich
superstition,

the least circumstance

by

In the last
whose

enforced.
place are Pseudo-Christians

have

could

arms

su|)erstitious
symptomes,

as

S'. Benedict
say that which
may
but ten in
divel in the market place,
deceive
lye,falsifie,
divel
houses

"
"

ne

once
a

in

saw

could
a

circumvent

thousand

fast

divels could

scarce

vision ; one
there

monastery, because

enough

thousand

of
describing

of the rest, I

mixture

cities,
work; in'populous
theywould

more

was

in

of

; but

tempt

and

swear

themselves,one

in their
one

religious
monke.
silly,

*" The
ambassador
German
^ Ut in
conflictandi
facit.
finem
aliquem angnlam
se
fieret ejus delecti quod ipse erat adniissiirns.

Quia nil volunt deinceps videre.

Nudum
reus

swear,
for-

in Turkey.
se

reciperet,

533
Melancholi/.
3.] Symptomes of Religious

I. Subs.

Mem.

divels I think
principal

x4Il the

Christians

busie themselves

Gentiles, and

Jewes,
of the fold,and need

in

subverting'

Mahometans

extra

are

they
make
resistance ; ^eos
no
pulsate neffl'igit^
quos quieto
tians
his
are
own
se sentit, they
already;but Chrisjure possidere
of the spirit
to resist,
hare that shield of faith,sword
before
deal
of
and must
have a great
come.
theycan be overbattery
caulam,

out

no

attendance

such

enim

divel is most busie amongst us that are of

heresies,
the true church, appears by those several oppositions,
he
raised
subvert
hath
it, and
to
schismes, which in all ages
Antichrist himself now
wherein
in that of Rome
especially,
the

That

began to
playeshis prize. This mystery of iniquity
hereand
Antichrists
time ; many
in the Apostles

sits and
work

even

abroad, many

were
ticjues

sprung

up since,many
mens
to dementate

present,

now

mindes, to
will be to the worlds end,
their soules.
Their syniptomes I know
seduce and captivate
better to express, then in that twofold division,of
not how
and

such

lead, and

as

led.

are

Such

lead

as

schisheretiques,

are

and their ministers : they

matickes, false prophets,
impostors,
have
common
some
;
peculiar.Common
symptomes, some

pride,insolency,arrogancy, singularity,
folly,
and contempt of all
obstinacy,impudence,scorn
peevishness,
madness,

as

other sects

Nullius

addict!

jurarein

magistri
;

verba

selves,
nought but what theyfirstinvent themno
good but v.hat their infallible spirit
interpretation
in tertiis,
shall be in secundis,
not
no
none
they are
dictates]
but
damned
they
onelywise, onelylearned in the truth ; all
ad materiam
and their followers;ccedem scripturarumfaciunt
of Scriptures,
saith Tertullian
they make a slaughter
suam,

They

will approve

of

and

must

it as a
the
in
mean

turn

of

nose

wax

to

their

time, that what

own

ends.

they have

once

So

gable,
irrefra-

said,they

maintain,
cations,
triplitomes, duplications,
what
veeld to death, so self-conceited,
you
say
P.
''Bernard
As
some
(erroneously
say)speaksof Aliardus,
in whole

will

and

never

can.

patres sic,atque ego sic. Though all the fathers,

councels, the whole world contradict it, they care
not, they
omnes

all

are

one

and

as

'^

Gregory well

notes

oj'such

as

are

tiginous^
ver-

theythink all turns round and moves, all err ; when

braines.
the
in their own
is ivholly
the errour
Magallianus
as
20.
6.
the
firstof
in
his
Comment
on
vers.
Jesuite
Timothy,cap.
and
more

de
Alj)honsus
eminent

notes, or

by,.(theymight
i"

Castro, lib. I. adversus

have

such men
to know
probableconjectures
the
when
themselves
taken
noses
by

190.
f-Epist.
Gregor. Horn.
moveri, omDia iisfalsa sunt,quiun

omnia

hcsreses,
givestwo

"^Orat. 8. Ut
error

videntur
vertigine
correptis

in ipsoram cerebro sit.

Melanchohj.
Religious

534

[Part.3.

Sec. 4.

novelties and toyes,and prefer

affect
tlieysaid it)"First theif
beforetruth. Secondlt/,they care not what iheif
falsehood
hath hrouf/ht
\ay ; that which rashness andj'ollif
out, pride
and
peevishness
afterwards,

contumacy shall maintain to the

paradoxes,
(/asp.^Peculiar symptomes are prodig-ious

last

and divers
doctrines, vain pbantasmes,Mliich are many
Nicholaites
of old "vould have Avives in
as
they themselves.
would
Montaaists
not
Tatians ;
at all,nor
common.
marry
all ilesh. Severians, wine.
Adamians
forbiddinggo naked,
did so in Paradise ; and some
barefoot all
''because Adam
new

'^

their lives, because

God, Exod. 3. and Joshua 5. bid
bid put off his shooes.
to
doe; and Isay20. was
so
hold that

chees

tobeasts.
made

"

The

ofsoules
Pythagoriantransmigration
Circumcellians

themselves, some

atcay

neckes, and seducingothers

they

did

not

with

(forthere

Austin,
times, besides

in

to doe

and

schismes

from

mad

men

cruelty

the like,threatning
some
read
: as
you
may

such

fourscore

were

Mani-

by fire,crater, breakingtheir

thousand

Africke,with

Moses

and

smaller

eleven

if
in

heresies in his

factions)Epiphanius,

Gab.

Of
Prateolus, "c.
Alphonsus de Castro, Danaeus,
and
enthusiasts
ecclesiastical
stories
o
ur
impostors,
prophets,
of
de
afford many
examples; Eliasand Christs,asour'^Eudo
in
Stellis,a lirittain
King Stephenstime, that went invisible,

translated himself from

nothing

common

so

impostorsset
the
he

as

madd
out

another

in the

in

fed sands
thoumoment,
wilderness,and many such ;
a

miracles, visions,revelations,prophesies.
broach, and
once
heretiques
foot, be it never
so
absurd, false and prodigious,
as

on

common

peoplewill

along like murrian

run

to

M'hat these brain-sick

Now

'

chear

good

with

one

in

folIo"' and

scab in
cattel,

scabiosior
Ha\(\,
superstitione

beleeve.

sheep,

JVulla

It will

scabies,

he that is bitten with a

doggbitesothers, and all in theend become mad. Either
: as

blinde zeal,hoj)eand
novelty,simplicity,
midtitude will embrace
out
it,and withgiddy-headed

of aftection of

feare, the

farther examination
Sed
our

Vetera

dayes we

approv(! it.
querimur,these are old, Jiccc priusfucre. In
of superstitious
have a new
scene
and
imposters

of actors, of Antichrists,that great

company
Antichrist himself: A rope of popes, that by their greatncf?sand
all before them: who from that time they
bear down
authority

a new
liercticiues,

al. RfS
id

novas

falsaveris pritferunt.
affcctniitetinutiles,
2. Quod tenieritaseffutierit,
^ See
tiiptiitiir
in Vincent.
it conttimacia,"c.
more

post mofliim
HUperbia

": Aust. (le ha'ri's.Ustis

niulieriim indifferens.
nudus erat
eAlii nndis pedibus semper
ambulant.
varias jjnefipitiorum,
feritate sibi mm
parcuiit,nam
pi-r mortis
aquarum,
min^ntes
seipso.itiecnnt, et in istum finorera alios cognnt, mortem
'' Niibrigensis,
lib.1. cap. J9.
h;eiet.ab orbe condilo.
K Eienth.
Dial.
Pont. AuL

Ijyrin.

Quod

ante

'^Insanft

Adam,
peccavit

et

igniurn,

ui laciant.
" Jovian.

Melanchohj.
Religious

536

(forfortyreveral
"churches, and

masses

all houres

at

bare-foot, "c.) how

come

dailysaid

are

they rise

[Part.3.
in

of the

Sec.

of their

some

nightto

masse,

they spend themselves, times,

o-oods,lives,fortunes, in such ridiculous observations;their

false miracles,buying and selling
of partalcs and figments,
dons,
on

set

for 40000
to come
veers
; their processions
indulgences
monkes, anchorites,frier
dayes,their strict fastings,

Their vigils
and
mendicants, Franciscans, Cartliusians,"c.
ceremonies
at
their
Christmas,Shrovetide,
fasts,
Candlemas,
S'.
S*.
their adorations,
Martin,
Blase,
Nicholas-day;
Palme-sunday.
all
will
think
those
exorcismes, "c
Grecian,Pagan,
and
idols,
Mahometan
ceremonies, the
gods,
superstitions,
haljit onelyaltered, to havedeuenerated
place,
Whilst
christians.
they prefertraditions before scriptures
and

time

name,

into

councels,poverty, obedience, vowes,

evangelical

those

before Gods
almes,fasting,
supererogations,
their
in

commandements;

of his pretepls, and keep them

they have brought the common

in stead

ordinances

own

ignorance,blindnesse;

peopleinto such a case, by their cunning conveiances, strict

and servile education, that upon painof damnation
discipline
tradition,edict: hold
they dare not break the least ceremony,
it a

greater sin

to

eat

bit ot

Lent, then kill a

terriKed, that

their consciences
are
so
if a small ceremony
own

in

meat

omitted

be

they

; and

are

father,mother,

spair
de-

will

and

neeresf
brother,sister,

ready

man

to

their
accuse
dearest friends

of heresie,if they doe not as they doe; will be their chief executioners,
and helpfirstto bringa fagot
to burn them.
What

enjoyned,theydare not but doe

in the mire amongst
it ; fumble
hogs,if they
be appointed;
go wollward, whip themselves, build hospitals,
Indies,kill a king,or
abbies, "c. go to the East or West
without any mutrun
upon a sword point they performe all,
mulct, vhat

is

soever
penance
ith S'. Francis

hesitation,beleeve

terring

or

bUt

pueriinfantes

Vivere, et
Vera
As
Doe

all.

credunt

homines,

esse

putant, credunt

signaomnia
et

aliena

sic isti omnia

signiscor

ficta

inesse ahenis.

children thinke their babies live to be,

they these

brazen

images they see.

headlongwith blinde
theirown
zeale,are soguiledand tortured by I heir superstitions,
rnd ignorance,
too credulous
theirEpicurean
simplicity
popes,
cardinai.s laughin their sleeves,and are merry
and hypocritical
ith their punkes ; they do indulgere
in their chambers
genio

Ar,(\ whilst the ruder

sort

are

so

carried

'

" As
at our
Ladies
falsa relig.

church

at

Bt^rgamo in Italy.

''

Lucilius,lib. 1. cap. 22. de

1. Subs.

Mem.

much

make

and

3.] Symptomes of Religious

Melancholy.537
of

for

The

themselves.

middle

sort,

some

of ecclesiasticall

exprivate
gain,hope
preferment,
((luis
base
and
s
uum
must
p
sittaco
x"'?0
pedivit
popularity, flattery,

will beleeve

all their

paradoxes and

absurd

tenents

maintain, and
obstinately
all their traditions and idolatrous ceremonies

in

exception
; and

as

put

without

practice,

(fortheir

relisfion

grolden

the death ; theywill defend all,the

it
all the lyesand tales in it: as that of St.
with
legend self,
George,S*. Christopher,S'. Winifred, S*. Denis, "c. It is a
wonder
how Nic. Harpsfield
to see
that pharisaical
impostor

is halfe

trade)to

the rest, Ecclesiast. hist. cap. 22. scec

prim. sex.
himself
vindicate
that
of
ridiculous
fai)le
S'. Ursula
to
puzzles

amongst
and

the

eleven

thousand

virgins;
they lived,how
as, when
Cullen, by whom
martyred,"c. though he can

to
they came
say nothingfor it,yet
(inquit)hoc scsculum

he

Ursula

ntinam

mihi

and

must

cum

expeditaet
certum
ac
expeditumest, earn esse
coelis vircfinem. They must
and
tarn

esset

will approve

it : nobilitavit

cnmitibus, cujus historia

eerta,
cum

will

quani in animo
sodalihus
heatam

(I say)

either

out

meo

in
of

blinde

zeal beleeve, vary their compass

with the rest, as the
varies ; applythemselves
to the times and
religion
and
and
for
feare
subscribe and
content
to
are
flattery
seasons,
doe all that in them lies to maintain and defend their present

latitude of

schoolmen, canonists,jegovernment, and slavish religious

who either for that
suites,friers,
orators,
priests,
sophisters,

they had nothingelse

how
then

had

to

not otherwise
doe, luxuriant wits knew
busie themselvesin
those idle times,(for
the church

few

or

no

to

open

better
or
adversaries)

to

defend

their

miracles, transubstantiations,
traditions,
lyes,fictions,
popes,
"c. with glorious
pardons,purgatories,
masses,
impossibilities,
wits have
shews, faire pretences, big words, and plausible
thousand
idle
nice
distinctions,
coyned a
subtleties,
questions,
obs and sols,
such tropological,
to salve
allegorical
expositions,
all appearances,
such quirksand (juiddities,
Quodobjections,
and
Bale
saith
of
libetaries,
as
Strode, instances,
Ferribrigge
that
in stead of sound
decrees,
canons
ampliations,
glosses,
;
in a company
of mad
are
commentaries, good preachers,
come
secnndo
secundarii, sectaries,canonists,Sorsophisters,
prima

bonists,Minorites,with a rabble of idle controversiesand

tions,
ques^
sit
?
Deus
An
an
Dens.,
an
Papa
quasi
participet
utrumgue Christi
God

to be

An. 441.

naturam

humble

''

Whether

bee, or

Hospinian.Osiander.

gourd,as

An

scarabacus,sit seqiie possibilis

Deus et homo?
ac
fundamentoet termino?
An levius sit homiuem
coDsuere

it be
a

man?

as

possiblefor
Whether

he

sit cucnrbita vel

Deus
propositio,
possitrespectuni producere sine
jugularequara die dominico calctum

hsc

An

ReligiousMelancholy.

538

[Part.3.

Sec. 4.

produce respectwithout a foundation or terme, make a

with
Avhore u virgin? fetch Trajanssoulefroni hell,and how?
about hell fire whether
it be a greater
a rabble of questions
clout
shooes
to
or
sin to kill a man,
upon a Sunday? Whether
can

God

another

make

can

Kemnisius,

like

himself?

Such, saith
of your schoolmen, (meer alchymists)
200
Peter Lambard; (Pitsius^
calul. scriptorum
unto

most

are

commentators

God

on

180

English commentators

alone,on the
of the sentences) Scotists,Thomists, Reals, Nominals,
matter
be verefied,
hi"c. and so perhapsthat of Saint ^Austin may

reckons
AiKjlic.

up

rap\untccelt'm,docti interim descendunt ad inj'ermim.

Thus
they continued in such errour, blindness,decrees,soidle ceremonies
and
traditions were
phismes,superstitions;
and
and by these
thesumof their new
religion,
coyned holiness
and
able
involve
to
knaveries
multitudes,
stratagems theywere
sanctified
and
if
the
it
deceive
most
soules,
were
to
possible,
docti

and

In the

elect.

the very

mixt,

water

time the

mean

lay hid and

obscure

church,

true

as

wine

speak of,tillLuthers

to

another
to defecate, and
a sudden
as
upon
those foggy mists of ssperstition,
to restore
sun, to drive away
church.
And
the
after
of
itto that purity
him, many
primitive
divine
have
done
their
vors,
endeaand
spirits,
godly men,
good

time, who

began

and

stilldoe.
^

And
Our

But
or

see

at rest

grow
mad

up

wiser

their
ages

ignoranceesteem'd
do

accompt

divel,thatwill

the
:

what

no

garden so

in it ;

no

giddy company
retiqueseven in our
vitant

Dum

much

wheat

as

holy,

folly.

suffer the church

never

Avell tilled but

but

so

it hath

some

to be

noxious

quiet

weedes

have a
tares; we
of precisians,
and some
heschismaticks,
own

bosomes

some

in another

stuiti vitia,in contraria

extream.

currunt

zeale in

humane
to Antichrist,
opposition
rites and superstitions,
those Romish
will quitedemolish
traditions,
admit
will
of
ceremonies
at
all,no fasting
no
all,they
in
at
no
cross
baj)tism,
kneeling communion, no church
dayes,
musick, "c. no bishopscourts, no church government, raile at
church
will not hold their tongues, and all
all our
discipline,
for the peace of thee, O sion.
as
No, not so much
degrees,

That out

some

of

too

of them

will

all humane
ing,
learntolerate,
or universities:
such
diaholi)hoods, habits,cap and surpless,

cloaca
('tis
as
are
ment,
thingsinditlVrent in themselves,and wholly for ornaand
distinction
snuff
or
abhor,
hate,
decency,
sake,they
he meets
horse when
matters
a bear : theymake
at, as a stone
of them, and Mill rather forsake their li\'ings
of conscience
^l)e doctChri.stian.

Daniel.

Mem.

3.] Symptomes ofReligious

Melancholy. 539

1. Subs.

They will admit of no holydayes,

or
of
honest recreations,
"c.
as
hawking,hunting-, no churches,
them:
of them, because papists
use
no
bels,some
no
discipline,
no
ceremonies, butwhat
theyinvent themselves : no interpretations
of fathers,no councels, but
of scriptures,
comments
no
such as their own
dictate,or recta ratio,as
phantastical
spirits
misled, many times they broach as
.Socinians,
by which spirit
themselves.
Some
of thera
prodigiousparadoxes as papists
will
of
have
be
turn
secret
revelations,
prophets,
privycouncel
all
with God
and
his
know
Per
himself,
secrets;
capiUos
then

to them:

subscribe

Spiritum Sanctum

ieiient, et omnia

ohstinatissimi.
them

upon

in

to define

how

sciunt,
of

company

giddy

shall be

sint asini

cum

heads

nium
om-

will take

saved, and

who

many
they shall sit in heaven,

ned
dam-

acoparish;where
interpret
cals
et vertiyinosos,
(commentatores
one
calypses,
prcccipites
and
hidden
he
tbose
well
them, as
to private
might)
mysteries
their
informs
as
own
times,
them,
places,
spirit
private
persons,
a

revelations

shall suggest

world

shall

come

Some

of them

to

and

preciselyset down
en"l,whatyeer, what moneth,

an

againhave

such

strong faith,

so

when

the

what

day.

presumptuous,

they will goe into infected houses, expeldivels.and fast forty

Some
call God
and his butes
attridayes,as Christ himself did.
into
civil
doe

Vorstius

question,as

and

Socinus;

princes,

some

and
magistrates,

all their

their authorities,as Anabaptists

; will
and nothingelse.
Browndictates,
private

own

and those Amsterdamian

sectesand
ists,Barrowists,Familists,
led
all
It
are
so
sectaries,
der
by
private
spirits. is a wonmany
to reveal

what

passages

Sleidan

relates in his Commentaries,

of Cretinke, Knipperdoling,and
their associates,
those
of
in
Munster
what
men
Germany;
strange enthusiasmes,

mad

sottish revelations

they had,

how

deluded

others ; and as
holds of the
disputations
doth

selves,
absurdlytheycarried themprophane Macbiavel in his political
christian religion,
in generalit

and
take away
debilitate,
mens
spirits
courage
reddit homines,breeds nothingso coufrom them, simpliciores

enervate,

sagioussouldiers
sects, their
and

may
not

judgement, and deprivesthem

For

of them

some

and
wits.
to

that Boman;
we
takes
religion
away
as

What

so

greater madness
him to be a God,

Elias,and

aAgrip. cp. 56.

spuhiDidecepit.

are

what

I'

not?

can
as

In

there
some

liar
pecu-

onely,but wit
spirits
their understanding.
their private
asmes
enthusi-

far gone with

revelations,that they are
quite mad,

take upon

Ghost,

of

say of these

be,

doe ?

out

then
to

be

of their

for

the

man

Holy

''Poland, 1518, in the reign

Alex. Guagiiin.2'2. Discipulis

ascitisniiiuin iu modum

Religious Melancholy.

540

king- Sig-ismund,

of

apostles,came

world, and

much

as

an

writes

upon

mucii

of

the
not

him

Bencdictus

as

4.

liini 12

got

took

followers.

15.

and

Sec.

strang-elydeluded
illiterate
painter,

in Holland,

many

consil.

Faventinus,

torinus

Cbrist,

was

George,

had

and

Messias,

the

"lid

since,

yeers

many
be

David

*One

commons.

the

judge

to

lie

said

one

[Part. 3.

to

VicHono-

one

not
onely inspired as a prophet, but
thought he was
and
himself,
had
familiar
he was
conference
with
a
god
Lavat.
de
his
and
c.2.
angels.
spect.
part. 8. iiath a
that thought he m as the prophet
of one
John
Sartorius,

rius, that

that
God

story

Elias, and

angels,
the

of
of

Father;

home

at

and

not

his

such

some

to

some

Daniel

the

the

to

and

meditation,
fastirjg,
errours

de

3.

have

and

with

Lamiis,

Christ;

was

fast

someforetel

7.

c.

God

was

held

as

familiar

amples
ex-

Coppinger

IJovatus

burned

out
together,withyeers
several
inspirations,

forty dayes

go

with

for
things, some
Great
precisians of mean
ditions
cona
by
zeale,
part
preposterous

melancholy,

inconveniences.

and

conference

we

Burchet

some

illiterate,most

very

he

said

for another.

thing, some

one

Jewes

den;

lions

abroad;

disciples:
are
never
likelyseven
prophets that have

new

convert

that

We

Norwich.

at

far

so

Ilacket

Arihington

rove

had

Groning that said he

Spanish prophet that

and

Italian

an

that

^Vierus, iih.

of

prophet

need

We

much.

others

saints, prophets

were

mention

makes

divers

of

1.

cap.

strange

brought

are

Of

those

into

men

those

gross
conclude

may

to be
discreet, and
seem
they may
generally, that howsoever
in
other
discourse
of understanding
well, Ifpsam
matters,
men
like
round
in all places,
hahentimaf/inatioyiem, they are
comets,
where
but
have
blaze,
ccptera
sani, they
they
only
nable
impreg-

wits

this

their

of

many
madness

and

infinitum ernmpit
if not

melancholy,
then
then

"

*"

many
those

Guicciard.

Hen.

et 285.

Nicholas

that

are

descrip.
at

Leiden

and

They

quite mad;
in

Belg.

discreet

follybreaks

stultitia.

that

man

them,

and

keej)s his

otherwise,

have
bed

in

beyond measure,
certainlyfar gone with
need
of physick
more

ifi

out
are

but

need

more

of hellebor

bedlam.

Plores

com.

1580, sucl"

one.

habuit

asseclas
"

See

ah

Camden's

iisdem

honoratas.

Annals, f. 242.

541
4.] Pro(^nosticks
oj'
Religious
Melancholy.

I. Subs.

Mem.

SUBSECT

JV.

Melancholy.
Prognosticks
of Religious
JL

OU

may

What

can

by tfie symptomes.
guess at the prog-nosticks,
foretel
otherwise
then folly,
these signes
dotage,

madness, gross io^norance,despair,

obstinacy,
areprobatesense,
end?

*abad
but

commit

else

land,

Jeremy

as

and
idolatry,

heresie produce,
superstition,

can

tunmlts, uproares,

wars,

desolate

What

after their

walk

v,'iththem

of soules, and

torture

teacheth
What

cap. "j
.

own

34.

wayes

despaire,

when

? how

they
should

ing,
theyexpect but blastall
the
of
and
Amos
plagues ^flgyptas
famine, dearth,
be led into captivity?If
10.
4.
9to
denounceth,
vers.
cap.
our
eat
hopes be frustrate,ice soice much and bringin little,
drink
and
and have not enough,
clothe and be
not filled,
are
look
much
1
6.
and it comes
cVc.
not
we
for
Haggai,
warme,
His home
ichence is it ?
to
was
little,
waste,
to
theycame
the heaven staid his dew,
their ow7i
houses, vers.
10. therefore
Because
the earth his truit.
we
are
superstitious,
irreligious,
God as we ought,all these plaguesand miseries
do uot serve
we

it be otherwise

can

come

us

upon

what

can

fearfull ends
slaughters,
damnation

What

we

in this

look for else

but mutual
a
nd
in
the
life to come
life,

is it that

hath

caused

wars,
nal
eter-

feral
many
much
christian blood shed, but
battles to be fought,
so
superstition
? That Spanishinquisition,
ments,
racks,wheels, toriures, tordo theyproceed? from superstition.
whence
Bodine the
hist, accounts
Frenchman
in his ^method,
rians,
Englishmen barbafor their civil
lian

wars

but let him

fields,foughtof late in France

'^

wherein, by their

but reade

so

those Pharsa-

for religion,
their massacres,
not how
years, 1 know
whole families and cities,

relations in 24

owu

millions have been consumed,

many
and he shall find ours
been but velitations to theirs.
to have
been the custome
of heretiquesand idolaters,
But it hath ever
when

they are
come

plagued for

their sins, and

Gods

just judgements

selves,
upon them, not to acknowledge any fault in themstill impute it unto others.
In Cyprianstime, it
controverted betwixt him and Demetrius, an idolater,

but
was

who

much

should

be the

cause

laid allthe fault

on

of those present calamities.

christians,
(andso theydid ever

trius
Demein the

Arins his bowels burst,Moatanus

Eudo de Stellis,
his disciples,
hanged himself,"c.
ad Aitam corrigi
ardere potiasquam
maluerunt ; tantavis infixiseiuel erroris,they
died blaspheming. Nubrigensis,c. 9. lib. 1. Jer. 7. 23. Amos, 5. 5.
b 5.
cap.
"^
hist.Rich. Dinoth.
Lerius,prsef.
Poplinerins
a

ReligiousMelancholy,

542

church,
primitive
^

there

that

were

in summer,

ripeningheat
tumnes,

old

so

seasonable

in the

that

of

ordinary shnwres

mines

mnrhle

no

such

not

the first book

by

appears

as

[Part.3^^

in

Sec. 4.

Arnobius)

winter, the

ausprings,fruitfull
less gold and

mounfaines,

husbandmen,

souldiers,all
seamen,
in
s
kill
descanted; justice,
friendship^
were
arts, all teas
caged, and tliatthrough cljristians default,and all their other
miseries from them, quod Dii nostri a vobis non
cause
colantur,be-

of

silver then

they did not worship their gods. But Cyprian retorts

him again,
all upon
'Tis
as
appears by his tract againsthim.
tormented
is
and
world
shaken
with
the
true
miserably
wars,
and
feral
eases
disdearth, faujine,fire,inundations,
plagues,
many
ista accidmii
rao-e
amongst us, sed noyi, ut tu quereris,
quod Dii vestri a nobis non colantur, sed quod a vobis non
timetur.
Not as
colatnr
nee
Devs, a quibus nee quisritur,
do not
that we
thou
worship your Gods, but
complainest.
because

you

Turkes

feare him

him, nor

seeke

much

as

idolaters,and do

are

to

and

us,

account

of both

esteem

as

as

something

all, and

us

Gods

deserve

I will say

rath, and

the

serve

true

ther
God, nei-

ought. Our papists

object
them
heretiques,Ave
; the

you
us

infidels,and

Pagans,Jewes againstall ; when

in

not

we

indeed

asa

there is a

company

of

generallfault

best, v/hich may

in the very

pullthese

them

justly

miseries

heads.
upon our
needless'
cares, torments,
We
pseudomartyrdome,"c.
pilgrimages,

nothing here

works, pennance,

of those vaine

observations; we
heap upon our selves unnecessary troubles,
punishour bodies, as in Turkic, (saithBusbequius,leg.Turcic.
icith musicke, and to
much
did, that was
affected
ep. 3.) one
heare bogessing,but verg superstitious
old sgbilcoming
; an
to his house
or
an
(as that placeyeeldsmany)
holg woman
"

for it,and told him, that in that other world

for it ; thereuponhe flunghis riche and costlg
suffer
all at once
instruments
which
he had
bedeckt
with Jeicels,
into the fire. He was
served in silver plate,and had goodly

took

him

don-ne

he should

houshold

e:
stuff

little after,another

man
religious
hended
repreand
he
him in like sort,
from thenceforth was served
earthen vessels.
Last of all, a decree came
forth because

in

Turkes

not

drink

wine

themselves,that neither J

gentes, lib.I. Postqaam in mnnrlo Christiana

ewe

nor

orbem
terrarum
gens coepit,
"*
nialis affectum esse
videnius.
Quod nee
genus humanuin
Kstate tanta iuibrium copia, nee
nee
frufnbus torrondis solita flap;rantia,
nee
nyeme,
minus
de
vernali temperie sata tani Iteta sint, nee
arboreis fictibus autuinni f(Tt;cundi,
*= Solitas erat
ohlectare se fidibus,
inontibus marmor
"c.
eruatur, minus aurum,
et voce
sublatum Sibylla;
miisi";u canentium
cujusdam iuterveutu, "c.
; sed hoc omne
Inde quicquid erat inslrumentonim
symphoniacoruin,auro gemmisqiie egregio opere
et in ignem injecit,
"e.
diatinctorum,
comininuit,
*

Advers.

miqht

et multis
periise,

Rclir/ioii^
Meltuirltohi.[Parf.3. Sec. 4.

544

tyrannizeover onr brothers sonle,lose

and
good gifts
; honest
sport.".
games
punishourselves without a cause, lose

bo killed ; we
of many
use
the rig^ht
to

tiirc

""

*'

pleasantrecreations,

and sometimes
liberties,

"uir

Germany,

(loburgein
and

but
for succour,
to
licohat opus vianuum
their sabbath, mm
hearingof it,the next day forbade him
was

Sunday

our

We

Munday.

before
kinde

good

In the

have

those

amongst

without

to be

time

mean

cause,

the

Mag--

day,
Satur-

exercere

called
it was

l)ishop

cause
out, bethe wretch dieil

pulled

myriades of examples in

Sabbatarians
ri^id
'^

*^

not

his fcllowes

it

1270, at

privyupon
possibly
g-etout; he
denied
it,because
they

couM
lieipe

without

Anno

fell into

Jewe

lives.

our

this

; and

therefore,not
perturhationem Seneca

intolerahUem

calls it,as well he might,an intolerable perturbation,

that
causeth such dire events, folly,
madness, sickness,despaire,
death of body and souie,and hell it self.

SUBSECT.

Cure

purge

quire some
CHRIST

or

Melanchohj,
of Rcli'jious

and superstition,
will re"
idolatry
monster
taming- Hercules, a uivine .Esculapius'
himselfe to come
in his owne
person, to raign
the

world

thousand

yeers on
will have him.

V.

of

earth

before the

end,

as

the

naries
mille-

selfso
They are generally
refractory,
in
conceited, obstinate,io firmelyaddicted to that religion
that
bred
have
been
and
which
no
brought up,
they
per-

swasion,

no

terrour,

consideration

no

of which,

can
persecution,

hath

induced

divert

The

commonwealths

many

enjoye their consciences

them.

selves
they will themof
is
of
Jewes
toleration
in
most
a
:
provinces Europe
Jn Asia theyhave their synagogues
SpaniardspermitMoors
Gentiles
them
the Mogullians,
the Turkes,
to live amongst
all religions.In Europe,Poland and Amsterdam
the comare
mon
that no man
Some
of opinion,
sanctuaries.
are
ought to
to

suffer them

to

as

"c. so preSome explodeall liiiinanpauthors,arts and sciences, poets, histories,

cise,
their wits ; and so stupid,they oppose all humane
their zeale overmns
learning,
because they are i^orant ihemselves and illiterate : nothin)^must he read but scriptures.
rather than confuted. Otliers are so strict,
deserve to be pittied,
But these men
creations
they will admit of no honest pame and pleasure: no dancing, singing,other playes,re",c. because
and ponies, hawkinir, huntin^j,
to see
cock-fiphtinp,
bear-baiting,
h Nuda
rebellion againstGod, "c.
beast kil' anotlier is the frnif of our
ac
one
c Mnnsi Candida jusseri. lo. Juvenalis, Sat. 6.
treraebunda crnentis Erepet genibiis
eximere ; implorat
ster Cosmog. lib..3.cap. 444. Incidit in cloacam, unde se rir"npossit
''
sed
illi
benefic
7.
"c.
1)3
2.
socioram,
uegant,
opem
"

Mem.

1. Subs.

compelledfor

be

of Religious
Melancholij.

Cure

5.]

conscience

he will, he may

be

be of what

sake, but let him

saved,

545

Cornelius

ligion
re-

formerly
If he be an honest
"c.
Jewe, Turke, Anabaptists,
accepted,
in his profession,
live soberlyand civilly
man,
(Volkelius,
Crellius,and the

Crakowe

about

and
opinion)

this

he

as

rest

was

selves
nestle themof the Socinians, that now
and Rakowe, in Poland, have renewed
his

serve

Sua

ought.

as

that fear and

god,with

own

cuiquscivitati

ence
rever-

sit,noS'
{Loeli)
religio

Tullythoughtfit every cityshould be free in this

their own
cusfodes et topicos
Deos, tutelar and
local gods,as Symmachus cals them.
mon
Isocrates advised Deto
to a strange citie,
icus,when he came
worship,by all
the
the
et
meanes,
topicnmDeuni
godsof
place, unumquemqne
sic coli oportere, quomodo ipseprceceperit
Cecilius in
: which
nobis

tra

"

behalfe, adore

''Minutius

labours, and would

Deos

have

every

nation,s"cro?'M"i

keep their own

gentiles
municipes,
ceremonies, worshiptheir peculiar
gods ; which Pomponius
of
Mela reports the Africans, Deos suospatrio
moreveneranitir;
their
tion.
ordinatheir
to
owne
owne
theyworship
godsaccording
For wby should
nation, as he there pleads,
any one
challengethat universalitie of God, Denm suuni quern nee asritus

habere, et

colere

indent,discurrentem

iendunt,nee

scilicet et

nbiqueprcesentem,

in omnium
mores,
Christians
^'c.as

actus, et occultas cogitationes

inquirentem,
do? Let every provinceenjoyetheir liberand are
tie in this behalfe. worshipone god,or all as theywill,
built altars Diis Asice,Europic,
LiThe Romans
informed.

Plinius
: others,otherwise, "c.
peregrinis
his
would
have
to
not
Secundus, as appears by
epistle Trajan,
and in some
the Christians so persecuted,
time of the raignof
find
it registred
lib. 9. cap, 9.
in Eusebius
Maximinus, as we
notis et

byce,Diis

there

was

ad hunc

decree

made

to this purpose,

vel ilium Deorum

nullus cogatur invitus

cultum ; and by Constantino
in the
Boranius informeth
alteri
us
; nemo

19 year of his raign,as

exhibeat
molestiam, quod
"=

new
transigat,

ceremonies,
as

gods, new
and

customes

cujusqueanimus vult, hoc quisque

will have new
new
lawgivers,
priests
to which
religions,
every wise man,

should
good formalist,

accommodate

"'Saturniisperiit,
et
perierunt
Sub

The
down

Jove

muiidus,

nunc

sua

himself.

jura;

jussasequare

said Constautine the

emperour,
and demolished all the heathen

as

Jovis.

Eusebius

writes,
flung

tues,
gods silver and goldsta-

tian
altars,
imagesand temples,and turned them all to Chrismonumentis
churches,injestus
gentilium
a

Nuraen

venerare

torn. 3. ad

annum

praesertimqiiodcivitas colit.
324. 1.

-^

ludibrio exposuit.

"" Oetavio

dial.

Ovid.

VOL,

II.

Aanal.

ReligiousMelancholy.

54C
The

Tnrke

The

like edict

4-.

meskites.
againto Mahometan
of
and
Arcadius
Honoraign
in his dayes,to procure a
neral!
ge-

forth in the

came

the
''Symniaclius

rius,
and

them

converts

now

[Part.3. Sec.

orator

toleration,used this argument, ^ because God is immense

and his nature
cannot
infinite^
lifbe knowne, it is
perfect

cojivenient he should

be

diversly
worshipped,as every man
It was
shall conceive or understand.
he thought,
impossible,
for one
be
universall
that
small proto
one
: you
see
religioti
vince
be
ruled
law
civil
can
one
or
hardly
hy
spiritual!
; and
how

shall

united

into

be infinite
there be

so
one

as

distinct and vast empiresof the world he

many
? It never
will be. Besides,ifthere
was, never

and
planetary

infinite

firmamentall

worlds,

will,

"^some

as

belongingto
g^enii commanding spirits
them
each of
so
: and
per consequens, (for they will be all
infinite
adored)
religions.And therefore,let every territory
keep their proper rites and ceremonies, as their Dii tutelares
will,so Tyriuscals them, and accordingto the quarter they
institutions,
orders,oracles,which
revelations,
hold,their own
nisters.
mior
they dictate to from time to time, or teach their priests
This tenent
maintained
in Turkic
Mas
not
stiftely
in
reade
the
thirde
of
long since, as you may
Epistle BusbethMt
should
all
those
quius,
participate
ofeternall
happiness,
that lived an holy and innocent life,
what religion
soever
they
professed:Rustan Bassa was a great patron of it; though
Mahomet
himself was
virtute gladii,
sent
to enforce all,as he
writes in his Alcoran, to follow him.
Some
againwill approve
or

'^

of this for

that
Jewes, Gentiles,Infidels,

out

are

of the

fold,theycan be content to give them all respect and favour,

but by no meanes
within the precincts
of our
to such as are
church, and called

own

Christians

; to no

schisheretiques,

that fourth
matickes,or the like ; let the Spanishinquisition,
of
civill
and
for
the
some
wars
Furie,speak
them,
massacres
in

France, our

the Jesuite,will
''Magallianus
admit of conference
with an
but severityand
not
hcre(ique,
illis
be
verba
sed
used, noyi
reddere,
Jurcas figere
rigourto
is
and
Theodosius
commended
in
Nicephorusiib.\2.
oportet ;
^ that
he put all heretiques
to silence. Bernard.
Epist.
rap. 15.
190. will have club law, fire and sword for heretiques,
^comtheir
mouthes
with
not
or
repell them, stop
disputaiions,

Jute
a

them

with

Marian

i.

cognoscinon
perfecte

quisquealiquidde Deo

but with

reasons,

In episi iSym.

natura

times.

Quia Deus

potest, {pqunm

and

fists
;

immensiim
ergo

percipitaut intellijpt.

est,

this is their ordi-

quiddam est,et infinitum,

ciijut
ut
c

diversa ratione colatur prout

Campanella Calcagninus,and

others.

dj^temae beatitiidinisconsortes fore,qui sancte innocenterqne hanc vitam

* Comment,
in C. Tim. 6.
illireligionemsequutisunt.
tradiixerint,
quamciinque
ver.

20 et '2\. Severitate

hcnreticisindixerit.

cum

aliter.
hapreticis agendum, et non
?Igne et fuste potiusagendum cum

alia loquens,
8cc.
os
diipiitatiouibu.9que

Quod silentium

hsereticis
quam

cum

J\Ieni.1 Subs.

ofReliyious
Melancholy.

Cure

5.]

547

practice.Another

companieare as milde on the other

and contentious
and
side; to avoid all heart-burning-,
wars
have a generaltoleration in every kinguprores, theywould
mulct
for religion
dome
conscience be
no
at
man
or
all,
; no
nary

to death

put

^Tiuianus

which

the French

"c.

longsince

not

in

Beza

in

Paul

Gal.
proscribes,

to

vours:
fa-

late Socinians defend;

againstCalvin
behalfeof
treatise
in
Servetus,vindicates;
Castalio,
large
Martin Bellius and his companionsmaintained
this opinion
our

in

historian much

Vaticanus

be

one

6. 1.

medmm

If a^iy

with the

is confuted

errour

is best, and
nian

by

that which

shall fallby occasion,

of meekness^by alljaire
spirit

take place,
; but if that will not
hcereiicam
admonitionem
devita,he must

yentleadmonitions

meanes,

post

The

just volume.
such

restore

France, whose

et alteram

unam

excommunicate,

did

Paul

as

delivered

reddendum
As
esse
est.
1
well
in physicke, may
say in divinitie ;
the
For
curat.
restrain
non
curantur, ignis
qucejerro
vulgar,
them by lawes, mulcts, burn their bookes, forbid their conventicles:

over

Immedicabile

by Hymenaeus;

to Satan.

vulniis

said
Hippocrates

for when
soon

Now

cease.

the

is taken

away, the effect will

for prophets,
dreamers,and such rude silly
cause

that throughfasting-,
too much
fellowes,

by melancholy

are

or

ness,

reduce

them

ad

sanam

meditation,
precise-

the
distempered,

meniem^

best

is to alter their

meanes

course

of

to

life,

and

with conference, threats,

to interpromises,perswasions,
had
Hercules
de
mixe
Saxonia
such
a
physicke.
prophet

chargein Venice, that thoughthe wasElias,

tast as he did : he dressed a fellow in angels
attire,
that said he came
from heaven to bringhim dirine food,and
staid his fast,
administred his physicke;so by
by that meanes
the mediation of this forgedangelhe was cured.
"^Khasisan
Arabian, cont. lib.1. cap, 9. speakesof a fellow that in like
case
complainedto him, and desired his helpe I asked him
I am
(saith
he) what the matter teas ; he replyed,
continually
I
ihinkes
heaven
and
and
and talk
hell,
me
see
meditating
of
and am so carried aumy
smell brimstone,^-c.
tcithferie
spirits,
with these conceits,
neither eat, nor
that I can
nor
sleep,
go
about my business : I cured him (saith
partly by p^rllhasis)
and so 1 have done by many others.
swasion, partlyby physicke,
We
have frequently
and dreamers
such prophets
amongst us,
whom
the most
with
and
I
thinke
fire
we
:
faggot
persecute
in Bedfor
been
lam.
of
them
h
ad
at least,
some
compendiouscure
committed

and

to his

would

Sed

de his satis,

''
Praefat. hist
Quidam conqaestusest mihi de hoc morbo, et deprecatusest
ilium curarem
ab eo quid sentiret ; respondit,
imaginoret
; "go quaesivi
semper
ut nee
"c. et itademersus sum
hac imaginatione,
edam, nee
cogitode Deo et angelis,
dormiam, nee negotiis.
See. Ego coravi medicina et yersuasione; et sic pUiresalios.

ut ego

nn2

Religious
Melancholy.

548

MEMB.

[Part.3.

SUBSECT.

II.

Sec. 4.

I.

are
Melancholyin defect; partiesaffected
epicures,
ReVufious
all
carnalists,
icorldly
atheists,
hypocrites,
impious
secure,
sinners,
Sj-c.
impenitent
persons,

In

that other extream,

or

defect of this love of

faith,feare,hope,"c.
ledg-e,
and

manners,

of

manner

such

are

erreboth

in doctrine

Sadduces, Herodians,Libertines,polititians;
all
that
in
infidels, are secure,
atheists,
a reepicures,
probate

sense,

fear not

God

at

all,and

timorous, as desperate
persons

full and

as

God, know-

Melancthon

such

are

be.

That

too

distrust-

grand

sin

cals it monstrosam

impiety,
memelancho'
melancholy; or venenatam
Ham, poysonedmelancholy.A company of Cyclopesorgiants,
with the gods, as the poets fained ; Antipodes to
that war
at God
Christians, that scoffe at all religion,
himself,deny
his
his
him and all
attributes, wisdome, power, providence,
and judgement.
his mercy

of atheisme

or

lancholiam,

monstrous

et subterranea
aliquos
manes,
regna,
in gurgitenigras,
et Stygioranas
tot millia cymba,
Atque una transire vadum
Nee puericredunt,nisi qui nondum
lavantur.
sere

Esse

Et centum,

That

there is either heaven

or

hell,resurrection

of the dead,
Judceus
Apella:

credat
to come,
or world
pain,happiness,
for their parts,theyesteem
them as so many
poets tales,bugbears.
Lucians
and Christ are
Alexander, Moses, Mahomet
all as one
in their creed.
When
those bloudy wars
in France
lently
vio(saith Richard Dinoth)were
religion,
so
there was
pursued betwixt Hugenotes and Papists,
a
fellowes
of
them
all
to
for
good
laughed
scorne,
company
being
such superstitious
fools,to loose their lives and fortunes,
acthe
of
countiiii;
faith,religion,
soule,
meer
immortality
ries
foppeand illusions. Such loose atheisticall spirits
too preare
dominant
ii)all kiiigdomes.Let them contend,
pray, tremble,
trouble themselves
that will,for their parts,they fear neither
God nor divel ; but with that Cyclopsin Euripides,

for matters

of

'^

"^

"" Li. 5. Gal. hist.

"De animac. de htinioribns.
'Jiivenal.
Quam.siilteuntes
plurimirepertisunt qui tot periciiia
irridebant;et qiuedefide,religione,"c.
"licebant, ludibrio habebant, nihil eonim
"'
admittentes de fiituravita.
bO^OOO

Atheists at this day in Paris, Marcennus

thinkes.

2. Subs.

Mem.

1.] Religious
Melancholyin Defect,

Haud
Sed

uUa

nuuiina

victimas

549

expavescunt CaelitAm,
maximo,

iini Deorum

Deos ignorantcaeteros.
ofFerunt,

Ventri

They fear

no

god but

one,

They sacrifice to none,

But belly,
and him adore,
For

Their

god

gods they know

is their

as
belly,

quibusin
The

more.

no

Paul

saith,Sancta

solo vivendi

saturilas ;

mater

palatoest.

causa

idol which theyworshipand adore, is their mistress,with

in Plautus ; mallem hcec mulier me
amet
Dii, they
quam
rather have her favour then the gods. Satan is their guide,

him
had

the flesh is their

their counsellour,
instructor,
hypocrisie
vanity
will
their
their
their
ambition
fellow-souldier,
law,
tain,
captheir rule,temerity,
custome
their
boldness,inipudence
damnation
their end.
All their enart, toyes their trading-,
deavours

their

their
satisfy

to

are

their genius,and

to be

lust and

so

condition

same

dieth the other

is

merry

and

of men

eat

drinke

and

built,and
planted,

are

we

knotvne

man

any

born

thoughwe

at

had

nostrils,
Sfc.and
let

of beasts

all

; as

the

dieth,

one

goes round

interire Lunse

of a

bury,bought,sold,
dious,
lifeis short and te-

old; marry,
still.

man

that hath

"^

Our

recovery, neither
returned from the grave: for
there is

adventure,and

ice

no

shall

be

as
hereafter

been ; for the breath is as smoke

the spirit
vanisheth as the softayr.

never

in
*^

our

Come

that are
chearfully
enjoyethe pleasures
ivith
selves
let
in
our
as
costly
youth, us fill
and ointments, let not the fowre of our life
by
us,
passe
selves tcith rose buds beforetheyare withered,
crown
our

present,let iis

us

the creatures

use

wine
let

of

will doe

and in the death

teas

voluptas.

truditur dies di

Novsequepergunt

"'theydid

nulla

Eccles. 3. 19. the world

a

please

to

for the present ;

Ede, lude,bibe,post mortem

The

how
appetite,

us

Lesbia,et amemus,
^-c. ' Come let us take
Si'c, Vivamus, mea
for this is our porour
Jillof love,and pleasurein dalliance,
^

"Hor.
?

1.2.od. 18.

Catullus.

b Luke
17.
fProv, 7. 18.

tWisd.

2.2.

a
.^

Vers. 6,7,

scncscimus
Temj^oralabuntur,tacitisque

the dreadful
vivo

fiat

day

of

judgement,that

let it come

in their

times:

immoderate

annis.

hell,let children and superstitious

it : for their parts,they

are

foolos beleeve

me

and

tlie^estof heavon

For

at

Sec. 4.

Religious
Melancliohj. [Part.S.

550

far from

so

they wish
so

in lust and

trembling
Avith

secure,

Nero,

rate,
despe-

so

pleasure, prone
revenge,
caitilfes in his time, in Rome,
execnti: itshall not be so wickedly
misi.fortiter
qnod necjviter
so

that

as

Paterculus

said of

to

so

some

desperately
performed,what ere they take
Were
it not for Gods
in hand.
restraininggrace, feare and
their
and
own
shame, temporallpunishment,
infamy,they
would
canibals
eat up, or
as
so
Lycaou-likeexenterate, many
attempted,but

Cadmus

as

souldievs,consume

another.

one

These

most

are

that never
the
use
atheists,
impious,and commonly professed
but to swear
word
that
else
of God
it
but
by :
expiesse naught
their
in
o
r
epicurisme
carriage, hypocrisie
; with Pentheus,
these rites and religious
ceremonies
they neglectand contemn
of the gods; they will be gods themselves, or at least socii

Deorum.
Divisum

Jove

imperium cum

Csesar

habet,

Aproyisan ^Egyptiantyrant,grew, saith ''Herodotus,to that

of pride,insolencie and
to that contempt of
lieight
impsefie,
and men,
that he held his kingdome so sure,
God
ut a nemine
sibi eripiposset, neither God nor men
Deorum
aut. hominum
could
''A certain blasphemous king of
take it from
him.
Lansius
made an edict,that no subjectof
Spaine (as
reports)
^

his ibrten

god.

any
that sacked

yeers space, should beleeve

And
'Movius
relates of
as
he so
Constantinople,

leeved neither Christ

that he

kepthis

Securi

adversus

Mahomet

nor

in,call

or

on,

Mahomet

the

worship
second,

behaved
;

and

that he hehimse/Je,
thence it came
to
passe,

then for his adpromisenoj'arther

to commit
to satisjie
vantat/e; neither did he care
anj/ offence
1 could say the like of many
his fust.
princes,
private
many
men
(our stories are full of them) in times past, this present
obey,and performall civil duties,
asthey
age, that love,feare,
shall finde them expedientor behoveful to their owne
ends.
opus, which

"

word

and

Dees,

Tacitus

securi

adversus

reportsof

])ray, feare,hope, for they are

and
from God
Bulco
men.

some
secure

hoinines,votis

Germans

to their

no7i

they need

est
not

both
thinking,

sometimes
Opiliensis',

duke

of

''M. Montan.
" Lib. 1.
f Oral. ront. Hispan.
lib. I. cap. 4.
Ne proximo
"^ Talem
flerennio Deum
adorarent, 8ic.
exhibuit,ut nee in Christum,nee
se
-Mfthometem
nisi qnatenu.s in saum
crederet,unde efllRctum ut promi.i.sa
commodum
cederent minimp servaret, ner
iilloscelere peccatum stataeret,ut suis desideriis satis^ Lib. de
Germ.
faceret.
raor.

ReligiousMelancholi/.

552

and

sectes,
relig-ious

many

so

all false?

be

not
tlicy

den^'edby
should

why

or

[Part.S. Sec. 4.

this

the

rest.

that be

or

"vhy may
preferred

and ainonirst
the rest ? Tbe scepticks
others,
urge this,
it is the conclusion of Sextus Empericus lib.8. advers- Mathrmaticos: after many
philosophical
arguments and reasons
pro
and con that there are gods,and again that there are no ""ods,

before

he

concludes, c?"w

so

potent esse

as

vera,

pur/neiit,6c.

se

Tully likewise

the
worshij)

theyalone

inter

tot

God

true

Una

tantitm

disputes Christians say,

all other sectes, lament
pitty

and

and Romans
that worshipped
case;
yet those old Greekes
do now,
the divel,as the Chinese
Deos tajiicos,
aut
Julian
the
"Cecilius
in IMinntius,
their own
gods; as
apostate,
Celsus and Porphyrinsthe philosopher
object: and as IMa-

their

had

souldiers,better

better
wealth, better cities,

better wits.
schollers,
did

gods;

our

noble, g-enerous, victorious,

more

commonflourishing

more

much

contends,were

chiavel

as

Their

miracles,Sec

many

came
gods often over"Saint Cyril,
Ar-

other ancients; of late Lessius,

nobius, Minutius, with many
de
verit.
de
Christinncc,Savanarola
Reli"j.
Morneus, Grotius

well defend; but Zanchius, ''CampafideiChristiancc,

all
nella,IMarinus Marcennus, Bozius, and Gentillettus answer

verit.

these athcisticallarguments
of old ; m icked
as
many

at

But this

large.

again troubles

generallythrive, professed

men

atheists thrive,
"^Nullos. esse

Deos, inane

Selius

Affirmat

Factum, dum

ccehim,

probatrjiie,
quod

negat hecc,videt

se

bcatum.

gods,heavens are toyes,

Selius in publique
;
justifies
that whil'st he thus denyes
Because
There

are

no

Their deities,he better thrives.

prime argument:

This is a

lionest,and
uj)riaht,
?iot to
nor

the

to

most

"^jiOdd

men

the battle

are

part your

most

(l(j)resscd
; The

sincere,
race

is

the strouf/: (tccles"). I I.)

riches to men
the wise,J'avovrnor
of nnder-

nor
sicij't.

yet bread

and

to

all. There
to
comes
was
a
standinff
; hut time and chance
libAthens
re!at(
in
'2.
in
whi(
h
s)
(asThiuy"lid{'s
great plagne
did
what
with
he list.
Ikentiousness,
man
at last,
great
every

aNonne
tros

Romani

sine Deo

tenont?
captives

copiosnsin

hoc

vestro

8cc. Miiiutius

subjprlo.

rpgnan*

f^

()" la^iano.

'Ecc"

pars

et Dpos
fruuntur orbe toto.e( vos
vesb Comment,
in (Jtnesin
\es(riim

ft

major

et inelior

fame
alirel,

vel invahin Minut. Dmn

tasso ;
est.
Ceciliiit.
rapiuntmala lata lioniis,ijinoscite
rins'vel iniquiis
Dii.s freloSj uiullos ditipi.
Vidi epo
Ovid.
Solliritor nnllos esse
potare Deos.
"
5.
Martial. 1.4. Epig. 21,
act. 2. seen.
Plaiitus C'l-sina

et Dens
laJjorat,

dissimniat. iion
patitnr,

vnit, lion

poUst,

et
siiis,
opituiari

2. Subs.

Mem.

caringat

not

in Defect.
Melancholy
1.] Religious

all for Gods

or

mens

lawes.

J^either

553

thefeareof

(saithhe) awed

the lawes

because
of men
any man;
and
thence
alike,
bad;
cluded
congood
they
plaguesxceptallaway
alike to worshipor not xvorship the Gods, since
it was
all alike. Some
cavi] and make
doubts of Scriptheyperished
ture

God

nor

the

self; it cannot stand with Gods mercy, that so many

should be damned; so many bad, so few good; such have and
all stifle on
their side, factious alike,
hold about
religions;
it

alike,and yet bitterly

persecutingand damning each
stand with Gods goodness,
It cannot
other.
and
protection
Saint
Chrysostome,in tlie dialect of such
providence(as
discontented persons) to see and sufferone
man
to be lar,ie,
another mad, a third poor and miserable all the dayes of his
with sickness and aches,
tormented
life,a fourth grievously
these
hour.
Are
his
and
workes of Gods provilast
to
signes
dence,
thrive

to let one

man

be

deafe,another

diimb ?

poor

honest

and want, wretched he is ; when as

wo
fellow lives in disgrace,
wicked
a
caitijfeaboundsinsuperfuitieofu'ealth,
keepswhores,
he
will
what
and
Audis,
himself
parasites,
Jupiter,hcec ?
Talia multa
connectentes, longmn reprehensionis
scrmonem
Thus
Dei
c
ontexunt.
providentiam
theymutter and oberga
(seethereste of their arguments in Marcennusiw Genesin,
jecte,
with many
such vaine
and in Campanella,amply confuted)
well
not
the
known,
cavils,
or
worthy
swering,
anrecapitulation
whatsoever
they pretend,theyare interim of littleor
no
religion.
Cosin-germanes to these men, are many of our great philosophers
and deists ; who
be
more
though they
temperate in
this life,give many
good moral precepts, honest, upright,
and sober in their conversation, yet in effect theyare the same,
a
good scholler that is not an atheist)
(accomptingno man
nimis altum
sapiunt,too much
learningmakes them mad
Whiles theyattribute all to naturall causes, ''contingence
of all
Melancthon
cals
hominum
as
them, pertinax
things,
genus,
and
a peevish
generationof men, that mis-led by philosophy,
divels
their
the
innate blindness,
own
suggestion,
denye God
the
hold
much
all
reste
as
as
a fiction,
;
religion
oppositeto
and philosophy,
saith
reason
though for feare of magistrates,
durst
not publikely
'Vaninus, they
it. Ask one of them
profess
he is,he scofiingly
of what religion
a
a
replies,
philosophei',
and with Rabelais a physician,
Galenist,an '^Averroist,
a Pedean
God
must
Epicure. In spiritual
ripatetick,
things,
Ser. 30. in 5 cap. ad Ephes. Hie fractisestpedibns; alter furit; aliusad extremam
vitam panpertate peragit; ille inorbis gravissimis: sunt
orauem
progressus,
b Omnia
htec providentiaj
opera? hie surdus, illeniutus,"e.
fieri
contingenter
volunt, Melancthou In praiceptum primutn.
" Dial. 1. lib.4. de adaiir. nat"
'' Aniaia
arcauis.
sit cum
mea
animis philosophorum.
a

senectam

Melanchohj.
Religious

554

3. Sec.
[Part.

4.

with them, or else seek

pawne
and tune,
other creditor. They will acknowledgenature
foryet not God : ihouoh in effect theygrant both : for as

some

leave

all to sense,

monstrate

Gods ordinarypower;
or as
Scaligerdefines,Nature signifies
and
Nature
Gods
is
so thingsextraorCalvin writes,
dinary
order,
may

and

we

so

be called unnaturall, Fortune his unrevealed

call thingschangeablethat are beside reason

expectation. To

this purpose
well discourseth M'ith

''Seneca

Thejfdoe

5, 6, 7.

hut God?

^Minutius

what

and

in

Octavio, and
them, lib. 4. de beneficiis
cap,

understand

not

call him

will;

tvhat

thou

the]/
ture
saj/ ; what is nawilt, Nature^ Jupiterhe
,

: it comes
offices
giverand
oj"all, thejirst
thej'onntain
all thingsdepend, a quo, et per quern

hath

as

"

Nam

God

is all

all to

as

names

many

one

preserver
omnia.

God

from

is

whom

quodcunquevides Deus est, quocunque moveris;

in every place, i^nd yet
in all,God is everywhere,
that could

this Seneca

confute

and

blame

them, is all

aud confuted himselfe, as

much
to be blamed
for he holds /r//?/m
Sto'icum, that inevitable
other

pass

extream,

againstwhom

those

as

the

Chaldean

ProphetJeremy so

as

himselfe;
necessityin the

of
astrologers
often

out

mad

old

did,

thunders; and those

mathematicians, NigidiusFigulus,magicians,and

heathen

S'. Austin

whom
Priscilianists,

Novem
questionaries,

Arabian

theus, "c. and

countryman

our

so

eagerlyconfutes

Judices, Albumazer,

Estuidus^; that

take

those
Doroupon

of stars,(with
great conjunctions
of all
Ptolomaeus)the periodsof kingdomes, or religions,
future accidents,-wars, plagues,
schismes,heresies,and what
not ? all from
stars, and such things,saith Maginus, quce

them

to

define

out

of those

hath
God
suis reservavit Deus, which
sihi et intelligentis
take
will
them
reserved to himself and his angels,
they
upon
of
to foretell ; as if stars were
immediate, inevitable causes
all future
randis

Caesar Vaninus, in his book

arcanis,dial. 52. de oraculis,is

accidents.

natura;

copiousand open in the

of
a

of this
explication

dc admi-

free,

more

astrologicall

tenent

Ptolomy,then any of our modern writers,Cardan expected;

of his master
true
Pomponatius : accordingto the
disciple
of

doctrine

he refers
Peripateticks,

all

prodigies,
apparitions,

kingdomes,
miracles,oracles,accidents,alterations ofreligions,
soundlylashed by Marinus Marcennus,
he will not
to natural causes
as
spirits
deserves)
; (for
acknowledge);to that light,motion, influences of heavens
"c.

(forwhich

he is

well he

""Non
te qaatn haec
intelligis
mnltis designantnominibus, "c.
Daus
aliiid
? "c. tot
enim
natnra
Dei
est
nomen
: quid
qaam
ipaain
"i
cAostin.
habet appellatioues
Ephemer.
Priocipio
quot munera.
*

Denm

nnnm

dicis,rantare te

MelancTwlyin Defect.
1.] Religious

Meiu. 2. Subs.

to the

and stars, and

that move
intellig-ences

the orbes.

555
Intel-

orbetn, mediante

coelo,Sfc. Intelligences
long discourse of miracles done of old,si
coelorum motrices?
non
kcec dcemones possint^cur
etintelligentice
And as these great conjunctions,
beginor
aspectes of planets
end, vary, are vertical and predominant,so have religions,
rites,ceremonies, and kingdomes their beginning,progress,
in particuac
religionibus,
periodsj in urhihus, regibiis,
fioecvera
larihns hominibns
ac
mamfesta sunt, 2it ^ristoteles
docet
innitere videtur, et quotidiana
nt historias
experientia^
olim
in
Gentili
Jove
videbit.
sanctius et
Quid
lege
perlegens
Ita ccelestia
illnstrius ? Quid nunc
vilemagiset execrandum?
mortalium
et cum
beneficioreligiones
cedijicant,
corpora pro
And
vessat
lex, 6fc.
because, accordingto
cessat
m/luxns,
fluences
their tenents, the world is eternal,intelligences
eternal, inalterations shall
of stars eternal,kingdomes,religions,
after
round
and
be likewise eternal,
run
Atque
many
ages.

ligentia

qucB movet

do all

iterum

and

after

Trojarnmagnus

ad

viittetur Achilles ; renascentur

humance in idem recident,
nihil

re-

res
et ceremonia;,
nunc
ligiones,
sceculorum
revobitiones
alias
et
est,
quod non olinij'uit,post
saith
individuo
idem
Plato
non
Vaninus,
Src.
quod
erit,
specie,
these are the decrees
mine ^author)
These (saith
signi/icavit:
which thoughI recite,in obsequiuni
Christianoe
of Peripateticks,

and
Peripateticks

Christian,I detest and hate. Thus

held informer
times; and to
astrologians

this effect of old

in

detestor,as
fidei,

am

saith

Rome,

DionysiusHalicarnassaeus,

and prodigies
those meteors
appearedin the ayr,
^
of Coriolanus, Men
loere
after the banishment
diversely
fected;
afGods
just judgementfor the
said, theg tcere
some
lib. 7- when

execution
causes

that

stars

to

some

good
;

referredall to naturall
by chance ;
thoughtthey came
some

man;
some

and could not be altered.

decreed ab initio,
by necessity
of chance and necessity,
two last opinions
were, it seems,

some

The
of

of

greater note
c

Sunt

then

qui in

Et mundum
Natura

the rest.
Fortunee
credunt

jam

casibus

nullo rectore

omnia

moveri

ponunt

volvente vices,"c.

the firstof chance, as ^Sallust likewise informeth us, those

received.
old Romans
They supposed
fortune alone
generally

For

'' Varic homines

* Vaninus
affecti; aliiDei judiciam
dial.52. de oraculis.
ad tarn piiexsilium ; aliiad naturatn referebant ; nee ab indipiatione Dei, sed hamanis
cJuv.Sat. 13.
adC.
caasis,"c. 12. natural, quxst. 33. 39.
dfipist.
olim putabant fortunam
et imperia dare : credebant antea
Caesar.
Romani
regna
solam opes et honores largiri,
mortales fortunam
idqne dnabns de causis ; primnm, quod
indignnsqaisqne dives, honoratus,potens ; alterum, vix qnisquam perpetao bonis iis
fraivisus.
Postea prudentiores
didicere fortunam suam
fingere.
quemque

Melancholy.
Religious

55fi

3.
[Part.

Sec, 4.

and empires,
wealth, ho7ionrs,
andthat
offices,
kiiigdomes
because
icicked,
base, unworthy
every
J'ortwo causes ; first,
wretch
riche,potent, ^c. Secondly,because
was
prej'crred,
so
though never
good, scarse
of their wicertainty,
any one
but
better
them
:
long
theybegun upon
advice,
enjoyed
aj'tcr,
his ownj'ortune.
made
man
to think otherwise ; that every
Senecas
last of necessity
that God
The
was
tenent,
was
second
causis
to
so
that
to
secundis,
tyed
alligatus
causes,
that he could alter nofhingofthat which
inexorable necessity,
it cannot
be altered;
semel
decreed, sic erat inj'atis,
was
once
vis
nulla
nuUce
rumpit,
jussit,semper paret Deus,
preces,
said
God
hath
and
it
for
once
nee
must
it,
ipsuniJ'ulmen;
stand good ; no
threats,nor
ever
nor
prayers, no
power,
and
thunder it selfe can alter it. Zeno, Chrysippus,
those
read in Tully2. de divinatione,
other Stoicks,as you
may

gave

maintained
Gellius,lib. G. cap. 2. Sf-c.
there have

been

deride

son\e

him

such,that either
; they could

much.

as

denye

God

made

have

in

In all ages,
all,or in part;

better

world, and

at
orderlythemselves; blaspheme him, derogate
""Platos
from
him.
'Twas
in
Sotne
so
time;
pleasure
say
be no gods ; others that they care
not J'ormen
middle
a
;

rule it more
their
there
sort

grant both.

wide

mala

si sit Deus,
sit Deus., unde bona
made
he not all
in
Tully,why
argues
'/

Si

non

So

Cotta
good ; or at least tenders not the welfare of such as are good?
told Alexander, if he be not at leisure to hear
As the woman
redress
and
them, why doth he raign? ''Sextus Emcauses,
hath
pericus
So

it will

many

such

be,

ever

Thus

arguments.

of all sorts,

some

perverse

men

cavil.

good, bad, indifierenJ,

tines,
lukewarm, liberfalse,zealous,ambodexters, neutralists,
will
these
"
c.
sectaries
see
atheists,
religious
They
before theyMill
be
reconciled
all,
themselves,
agree amongst
thinke
in the mean
beleeve
with, or
They
participate
any.
true,

tinie,(which
tee

^^

Celsus

Christians adore

objects,and
to

mIjoui
'^

Origen confut(;s)

death with

no
more
reason
person, put
the
Getes worshippedZamolvis,
Cilicians
a

then the barbarous

Mopsus, the Thebans

jihonius
; one
all for

Amphiaraus, and the

is as true as another ;
religion
human

respects; great

witted

Lcbadians
new

Tro-

fang led

vices,
de-

Aristotles works

subtle Senecas
authcntical to them as scriptures;
arc
as
Odes as good as
Saint Pauls ; Pindarus
as canonical
as
epistles
Enchiridion equivalent
the prophetDavids Psalms; Epictetus
nuich

to wise

Solomons

Proverbs.

"10de legib.Alii negant esse

'' L\h. H. ad
conceduot.
immerito nobiscurn conftrri fuse
Chriatura
ciainis,
(vila|)cregrini)

They

Deos; aliiDeos
niatht-ni.
derlarat.
vocat.

doe

curare

non

openly and

res

hnmanas

boldly

aliiutraqiie

contra Celsuin I. li. Hos

Orijrines
'' Crucifixnin Deum
ignomiuioscLn'

Melancholyin Defect.
I.] Religious

2. Subs.

Mem.

and

speake this
^

of

some

more,

557

Claudius the emperour

them, in all placesand companies.

tcith
because
was
heaven,
angry

"

Jupiterinto the field:ivith what

thunched,and challenged
he
madnesse ! saith Seneca :
thoughtJupitercouldnot hurt him,
but he could hurt Jupiter. Diagoras,Demonax,
Epicurus,
Lucretius,
Lucian,
Pliny,

it

contemptorque DeAm

Mezentius,

atheists all in their times: though not simpleatheists

professed

neither, as Cicogna proves, lib. 1. cap.

1.

they scoffed onely

base and fictitiousoffices,

at those Pagan gods,their plurality,
Gilbertus
Cognatus labours much, and so doth Erasmus, to
vindicate Lucian from scandall;and there be those that

logize
apo-

all in vain: Lucian

scoffes at all ;
Lucretius his scholler defends him
Epicurushe denysall;and

Epicurus; but

for

in it.
^

Humana

oculos fcede

ante

In terris oppressa

Quae caput

aspectu mortalibus

he

alone

kinds

humane

was

ghastlylookes

With

relligione,

coeli regionibus
ostendebat,

Horribili super
When

gravicum

vita jaceret,

cum

drencht

which
aloft,

in

instans,"c.

superstition,

mortall
frighted

men,

"c.

Hercules, did vindicate the world

another

from
lib.
that monster.
Pliny, 2. cap. 7. nat. hist, et lib. 7.
denies the immortality
of the soule.
in
5.
words,
expresse
cap.
'^
55. ad Lucilium
doth littleless,lib. 7- epist.
Seneca
; et lib.
as

Unkle

Some
Greek
Martiam, or rather more.
would
that
much
he
should
commentators
as
Job,
put
upon
whom
Pineda
confutes in
"c.
resurrection,
copiously
denye
de

consol.

ad

7. Job.
divines

9.

Aristotle is

hardlycensured

of some,
S*.
in
Justin
ParcBneticd
ad
philosophers.
adversus Eun. Theodoret.
gentes,Greg. Nazianzen, in disput.
cap.
both

vers.

and

affec. Origeu.lib. de principiis.

him in his tract (so stiled at least)
De
Pomponatiusjustifies
immortalitate animce, Scaliger,
(who would forswear himself
cap.

5. de

curat.

Grcec.

time, saith Patritius,in defence of his great master

and Dandinus, lib. 3. de animd, acknowledgeas
Aristotle)

at any

much.

Averroes

of late Brunus
CsBsar Vaninus

Aretine,hath

oppugnes

all spirits
and

supreame

powers

^rw^ws, ^Keplercals him) Machiavel,

{infoelix
burned
in France, and Pet.
at Tolouse
lately
maintained such atheistical paradoxes,
publikely

aDeiral6.
34. Iratiis coelo quod obstreperet,
ad pugnam
vocans
Jovem; quanta
^ Lib. I.1.
tamen
dementia ! putavitsibi nocere
Jovi
et
uon
nocere
se
posse.
posse,
c Idem
Idem
status post mortem, ac fuit anteqiiam nasceremur
: et Seneca
eritpost
;
^ Lucernse eadeni conditio
fuit
ac
me
quod ante me fuit.
quura exstinguitur
f Came Dissert.
antequam accenderetur ; ita et hominis.
cura^EUnc sider.
panellacap. 18. Atheism, triurophat.

Melanchohj.
Relt/jfiout

558'

inferthand

quo

c.r

an
Judfiica, Mahometana,
Marcennus
Sec. *3Ianiuis

other

some

to

tracts

qnatuor

Anno

contentum,

cusum", Sfc.

And

as

suspectes Cardan
Charons
of

savour

book
rest, that pestilent
sine Jtorrore (inquit)non

''

book

of

atheisme

do trihns mundi

for his subtleties

Wisdome,
but

records, licet

reportedto

there

have

been

impostoribus,
quem

in all ages such blasphemous

wantingtheir patrons,

et

Jllahomet,
him

dinar

mundo

srduxisse.

speak it;)Si

adhwrerenf, ego
or

said, Tres

uti

contemporanenm
beard

the emperour,
sit recitabile (I use

have

the

Icr/ns
Ci/mbahnn dialogis
; et mundi
anctore
1538,
Peresio,Parisiis ex-

Frederick
non

with

amono^st

there have not been

so
spirits,
and adherents.
Never so many
disciples
protectors,
in this age:
as
m
Italyand Germany, saith '^Colerus,
makes
in France, 50000
in
complaintMarcennus
citie of Paris.

Sec. 4.

internosci,
quce sit verior religioy
Christiana,
quoniam eadem sirfna^

posse

Campanella, and

3.
[Part.

as

the like
that

Matthew

his

atheists

own

one

Paris

words)

is

Moses, ChristuSf
prcestifjiatores,

dominarentur

totnm

popiilunisibi

(Henry the

Lansgraveof Hessen
principesimperiiinstitntioni mex

viulto meliorem

modum

credendi

et

vivendi

em.

To these

atheists we may well add that impiousand

professed
crew
impenitentsinners,thatgo
ofworldly-minded
men,
in
to hell in a letharg-y,
a
dream; who though they be proor
fessed
make
Christians,yet they will nvUd pallescere
a
culpa,
of nothingthey doe ; they have
conscience
cauterized
sciences,
conand are indeed in a reprobate
all
sense, past
J'eeling,
themselves over
have gii:en
all manner
to icantonness, to work
oj'
with greediness,
uncleanness even
Ephes. 4. 19. They doe know
there is a God, a day of judgement to come,
and yet for all
that,as Hugosaith,ita comeduntac
doimiunt,ac si diem judicii
carnal

evasissent

ita ludunt

they are as merry

dangers,and were

rident,ac in coeliscum Deo

ac
for all the sorrow, as iftheybad
in heaven already
:

-f raetus

omnes,

et inexorabile

fatum

Subjecitpedibus,
strepitumqueAcherontis
Those

rude

idiots and

regnarent;

escapedall

avari.

and conthat neglect

the meanes
of their sal vatione,may march on with these;
temne
above
all
those Herodian
but,
others,
statesmen,
temporizing
and
M
achiavelians
of
that
make
a shew
politick
hypocrites,

ignorantpersons,

*" So that a
'Comment, in Grenes. cap. 7.
in
man
may meet an atheist as soon
c Simonis
hia studyas in the street.
incerto auctore. Craconiae, edit 1588.
religio
Conclasio libriest,Ede itaqae,bibe,lade,"c.
^Lib.
Jam Deus figmentum est.
de immortal, animae.
e
Pag. 645. an. 1238. ad fiaem Henrici tertii.Idem
Pirtcriua pag. 743. in compilat.
8u4.
'Virg.

ReligiousMelancholy.

560
Fairo

and
witliout,

trUti

aimctu

foule within.

most

Lntet

horror

deformU
inourniniJ'weed lyeslust

laschia,

ef

[Parf.3. Sec. 4.

plerumqnesiih

viH

vesfe

tcrptnr;

it self,and horrible
oft-linies under a
But
who
under
examine
all those kindes
can
vices
a poor coat.
dive into their hearts? if we
of hypocrites,
or
may
guess at

the
me

so
by the fruit,never
honest
dealingtrue
a'plain

tree

timor oninis abcst.

such enormous
see

many

as

in these

man:

Et

pndnr, et probitas,et

dayes; shew

that shall but look into their

He

vices,men

immoderate

so

and
lives,
in lust,
unspeakable

and dissemblingmalice, furious in their rage, flattering

ends) will surelythink they are not truly
(allfor their own
in

but
religious,

of

obdurate

an

sense, as in this age.

the present,dissemble

shall be called

they pulla
iram

Dei.

to

But
as

heart, most
let them

theycan,

account,
and
curse
plague
an

Besides,all such

as

their

reprobate

they will for

when
they
melancholy is at hand,

heads, thesauri satit

pheme,
blascontumeliosi,
scotfe at him, as the poets
their

in Dcos

are

neglectGod,

contemne,

in

carry it as
time will come

upon

part

or

in derision imitate Jupiters

Salmoneus,
for his pains,Jupiterintomiit
thunder, he was
precipitated
it in the end, (^in se
shall they certainly
cSj-c.
so
rue
contra,
fain

that would

of

in ecchim spidt)
their doome's
at hand, and hell is
(jai
spuit,
ready to receive them.
that it is in vain to disputewith such
of opinion,
Some
are
atheistical spirits
in the mean
time; 'tisnot the best way to reclaime them.
Atheisme, idolatry,
heresie,hypocrisie,
though
to corrupt affection,
root, that is indulgence
theyhave one common
have
divers
their
is
they
yet
growth different;
symptomes,

occasions,and

have several

must

denye there

cures

and remedies.

'Tistrue,

God; some
confess,yet beleeve it not;
but
will
third
confess
and beleeve,
not live after his lawes,
sort
a
dinate,
worshipand obey him. Others allow God, and Gods suborbut not
one
God, no such generalGod, 7ion taleni

some

is any

Deinn, but several

not

to

topickgods for

persecute one

will,rather love and

To

describe

and

reasons,

and

elaborate

them

would

that expect

several

another for any

cherish.

places; and those,

Socinus
as
differences,

to producetheir arguments
particular,
fore,
a
require just volume; Irefer them theremore
ample satisfaction,to those subtile

in

devout
treatises,

and famoustracts

of our learned
and
the
(hat have
rest,
(schoolmen amongst
casuists)
of reasons
abundance
there is a God, the immortality
to prove
of the soule,"c. out of the strength
of wit and philosophy
bring
divines

irrefragable
arguments to
at the least,
answer
"

Hierom.

such

as

arc

all cavils

posed;
ingeniousand well disand objections
to confute

''Senec. codsoI. a"J Polyb.ca. 21

2. Subs.

Mem.
their

DespairsDefmition.

2.]

and madnesse, and

folly
mentern,
times.

sanam

to

better

to

reduce

them,

minde, though

561

si/i"ripossunt,ad
small

to

purpose

Amongst others,consult with Julius Csesar Lamany

in Rome, who hath written a
of philosophy
galla,
professour
largevolume of late,to confute atheists: of the immortality
de hnmortalitate anlmcE :
of the soule, Hierome
: Montanus
the
same
Lelius Vincentius of
and
subject: Thomas Giarainus,
Collins de Par/anorum animabus
Franciscus
post mortem, a
in Millain. Bishop
of the Aml3rosian
colledge
Doctor
Dove, Doctor Jackson,
Fotherby, in his Atheomastix,
of this subject
written
ell
have
w
in our
Abernethy,Corderoy,
famous

doctour

mother

tongue: In Latine,Colerus, Zanchius,Paleareus,Illy-

But mstar
Faber Faventinus, "c.
omnium,
ricus,'^Philippus,
of
is
confuter
Marinus
Marcennus
atheists,
the most
copious
in his Commentaries

on

Genesis, ^

with

Campanellas ^theof this

largethe causes

Triumphatus. He sets down at

I take it)answers
all
brutish passion(seventeen in number
which
he reduceth
to twenty
their arguments and sophismes,
assertion
There is a God,
six heads, provingwithall his own
35
and
sole
His Colophon
the
God, by
true
reasons.
sncJi a God,
and to that purpose
is how to resist and represse atheisme,
will
or
he adds four especialmeanes
so
wayes, which who
isynus

may

peruse.
profitably

n.

SUBSECT.

DESPAIR.

Dejinitioiis,
partiesand
DespaireSf^Equivocations,

parts

affected.

be many

HERE

holy,some

kindes of

unholy,

as

"^one

whereof some
be
desperation,
that
distinguisheth
;
unholy he

to be

animi sine ulld rerum

af/riiudinem
Tully,
meliore,a sickness of the soule without any hope
expectatione
which commonly succeeds fear;
of amendment:
or
expectation
we
fear; but when itis certain,we
for whilst evil is expected,
despair.According to Thomas 2. 2cb. distinct.40. art. 4. it is
desiderata,propter impossibilitatem
a re
existimatam,
recessus
for
the
from
desired,
restraint
some
thing
impossibility
a
posed.
supobtain
what
Because
cannot
would,
they
they
they
and many
times either yeeldto the passion
become
desperate,
defines out

of

atlver. atheos. Venetiis 1627. quarto.

Dispnt.4. philosophia;
=
fol. 1631.
Abernethy c. 24. of his physickof the soule.

Romse

VOL.

U.

''Edit.

Melancholy.
Religious

o()2

by

(loath it selfe;or

fonnoil
much

by

In

men.

else
some

Sec.

4.

not to
attempt impossibilities,
cases,

discommendetl,as

be

[Part.3.

in

be perthis desperate
humour is not
it is

a cause,
times,
many
1.
de
lib.
belloJud.
of extraordinary
valour;asJjseph.
cap. 14.
in Aphoris.pniit.
L. Danceus
politicians
par/. 22G. and many
orth
them
their
hold.
It makes
it selfe,
m
beyond
improve

and

to

of

forlorne

wars

become

impotentcompany

conquerors

in

moment.

salus

Una

In such

nullam
victis,

sperare saliitcm.

they see no remedy,but tliattheymust

and often times,
either kill or l)e killed, they take courage,
themselves.
all
vindicate
Fifteen
hope,
prceter spem, beyond
thousand
thousand
hundred
CrotoLocrenses
foughtag-alnsta
all dye,
must
no
nienses, and seeingnow
way but one, tliey
would
and
not departunrevenged,
thereupon
thoughtthey
Iheir
Nee
enemies.
a
n
assault,
givingdesperately
conquered
Justine mine authour)qnam
alia cnnm
victor icv (saitli
qnod
when

courses

desperarerant
.

M^illiam tlie Conquerour, when

he first landed

that his souldiers might have

England,sent back his ships,
*^Bodine excuseth
his countrymens
back.
no
hope of retyring
battel
that
famous
overthrow
at
at
Agencourt, in Henry the
Fifth his time, (cni simile,saith Frossard,^o^a historia prodnwhich no history
can
almost, wherein
cere
nan
parallel
possit,
men)
overthrew
handful
of Frenchof Englishmen
a royal army
one
sperate
^ew dewith this refugeof despair,
a
pauci desperati,
fellows being compassed in by their enemies, past all
liopeof life,
foughtlike so many divels;and givesa caution,
that no souldiers hereafter set upon desperate
persons, which
Guicciardine
and Vigetius,
likewise admoafter Frontinus
nisheth Hypomnes. part. 2. pag.
25. not
to stop an
enemy
such
of desperation,
kindes
there
that is going his way.
are
Many
when
men
are
past hope of obtaining
any suit,or in
facitmonackum, as the
despairof better fortune ; desperatio
causeth
death
and
How
it selfe.
desperation
sayingis,
many
in

"^

thousands,

in such

have made
distress,

others ! For he that cares

many
another mans
life. A Tuscan

themselves,and
away
is master
of
not for his owne,
'^Paterculus
tels
as
soothsayer,

perceivinghimself and Fulvius Flaccus his deare

friend,now both carryedto prisonby Opimius,and in despair
of pardon, seeing the yong
tri potiiis
/"oc,
man
r/wj;?
weep,
his
braines
I
doe
and
with
that
knockt
doe
out
as
inqnit,facis,
;

the story,

"

Omissa

mortem
conspirant,tantasque
gpe victoriae in destinatam
Justin. I.20.
se
pntarent,si non iniiltimorerentur.

cppit,ut victores
hist.cap. 5.
Tonm

"c.
Hosti abire volenti itpr ininiine interscindas,

ardor singiilos
^

Method,
''Poster.

Mem.

2. Sabs.

DespairsDejinklon.

2.]

563

ao-ainst the door cheek, as he was

into prison
entring; proi
lliso
carceris
in
cerebro
januam effuso
tinusque
explcapite
died.
But these are equivocall,
ravit,and so desperately
proper.
imsaith ^Zruicliie,
I speuke
speakof despair,
not
It
God.
of ever ij kinde, but of that alone which concerns
is oppositeto hope,and a most pernicious
sin,ivherewith the
When

divel

seeks

four kindes of
Muscnius
makes
entrap men.
or
selves,our neighbour,
desperation
; of God, our
any thingto be

done; but

to

be reduced
this division of his may
all
kindes
to
are
opposite hope,that sweet
;
of passions,
cals it; 1 do not mean
Simonides
as

easily

to the former

vain

fellows
hopewhich phantastical

accordinsfJo

Aristolle

anchor

scale
floating-

to a

temporalaffairs:,
hope revives

our

animateth; and
the

it not

were

miserable,as

most

which
themselves,

is insomnium

a
vigilantinm,
wakingproceedsfrom confidence,

dream; but this divine hope which

and is an

fein to

derator
mo-

that

Paul

for

; spes alit
us, but in

aaricofas,even

in

it farther
spiritual

hope, ice of

saith,in this life ;

all others
were

icere

it not

for

hope,the heart would breako ; for thoughtheghe punished,

sightof men, (\yisdom 3. 4.) yei la their hopefull
doth deject;
as
: yet doth it not so rearo,
of immortality
despair
is of all perturbations
this violent and sour
passionof despair,
divide it into finall
''Patritius
holds.
.Some
most
as
grievous,
and temporall;
'^finallis incurable,which befalleth reprobates;
of hope and comfort for a time, which
temporallis a rejection
befal
the
best
children ; and it commonly proceeds
of
Gods
may
^from weakness offaith,as in David, when he vvas oppressed
he cryed out, O Lord, thou hast forsaken me, but this for a
This ebbes and flowes M'ith hope and feare;it is a grietime.
vous
sin howsoever
kinde
of
be
some
not
despair
although
of
amiss, when, saith Zanchius, we despair our own
meanes,
and relywhollyupon God : but that species
is not here meant.
is the subject
This pernicious
kinde of desperation
of our discourse,
in the

homicida
terms

he

can

animce, the murderer

of the

soule,as Austin

the parly oppressed

wherein
thinks
it;a fearful passion,
resolved to offer
but by death, and is fully
get no ease

violence

unto

himself;so

of his cross,

death

burthen, and impatient

alone

be freed of
his calamity
with Job. 6".
a nd chuseth
(thoughitprove otherwise)
and die,then to be in his
8. 9. " 7. 15. rather to be strangled
^The part affected is the whole soule,and all the faculties
bonds.
of

that he

sensible of his

hopes by

to

of joye,hope, trust, confiit; there is a privation

*
et partibusejus. Non
loquor de omni deSuper prasceptumprimiim de Reli^;.
sed tantum de ea qua desperare
soIent homines de Deo ; opponiturspei,et
speratione,
^ Lib. 5. tit.21. de regis institut.
"c.
Omniam
est peccatum gravissirauiu,
"=
perturbationumdeterrima.
persistuut.
Reprobi usque ad fineni pertiuaciter
"* Vitium
"
Zanchius.
ab infidelitate
Abernethy.
proficiscens.
o
o 2

ReUyiousMelaneholy,

r)C)^

[Part.S.

Sec. 4.

dence, of presentand future good,and in their placesucceed

he. as in the syniptomes shall be shewed.
The
feare,sorrow,
the conscience wounded, the mind
heart is grieved,
eclypsed
from those ])erpetual
terrours'
with black fumes arising-

SUBSECT.

III.

meditation,distrust^
ofDespair.The divel,melanchoft/,
weakness offaith,rif/id
ministers,
misunderstandiuff
tures,
ScripS-c.
consciences,
guilt
jj

Causes

HE
divel

principal
agent

laves hold
of

worme

Sometimes

on.

sed

as

; but

David

he

it is indeed
at

Gods

and
last,

1 Thes. 5.2.
nifjht,

''

rebuke

This

just judgement,
setteth upon

them

temporary passion

in thine anger, neither

Lord,
in thine heavy displeasure
; for thine arrowes

crye out,

chasten

mischief,is the
sion
by his permis-

persecutesthem with that

Judas, Saul, and others. The

serio,he strikes home

thiefin the

made

he did

conscience,as

poets call it Nemesis

sero

procurer of this
forsakes,the divel

God

whom

; those

and

me

not

me

sound in my flesh,
lightupon mee, S-c. There is notliing
because of thine anger.
Again,/ roarefor the very griefof
Psalmc
2*2. My God, my God, u'hy hast thou
my heart ; and
and
art so far from my health,and the words
of
forsakenmee,
like
/
to
?
14.
bones
water
am
are
poured out, my
my crying
out of joynt, mine heart is like wa.ve, that is molten in the midst
of my bowels. SoPsal. 88. 15 and 16. vers, and Psal. 102. /
in miseryat the pointof death,from my youth I suffer
am
thy
have gone
terrours, doubtingfor my life
; thine indignations
and thy feare hath cut mee
over
off. Job doth often
mee,
complain in this kinde; and those God doth not assist,the
whom
he may
divel is ready to try and torment, still seeking
them
saith
Ifhefinde
he
devoure.
Gregory, tempts
merry,
dissolute
act
to
sperate
some
if
pensiveand sad, to a de;
forthwith
have

end.

Aut

suadendo

ant niinando terret, someblanditnr,

times
he
againby foule,as
perceives

sometimes

men

by faire meanes,
inclined.
severally

duceth
balneum

this

His

ordinaryenginby which he promelancholyhumour it self,which is

is the
efl'ect,
divels bath
the
diaboli,

; and

in

Saul, those

evil
and
take
in
it
of
Black
as
])Ossession us.
spirits
were,
get
choler is a shooing-horn,
much
that
a bait to allure them, in so
as

'

many

writers make
of

melancholyan ordinarycause,

for that such

despair,

and

a_sym-

(by reason
of their ill-disposed
to
distrust,
f
eare,
mistake,
temper)
griefe;
ptome

"lSam.
2. IG.
lib.1. cap. 16.

''Psal.3S.

men

are

"

most

Immiscent

apt

se

mali genii,Lem-

2. Subs.

Mem.

Despair his

3.]

565

Causes.

or falsely
whatsoeverthey
preposterously
conceive,
andamplifie
nascitur
vitio
Conscientia
ex
naturaliy
apprehend.
scrvpulosa
282.
melancholicd
(saithNavarrus cap. 27. num.
complexione
The body works upon the minde, by
Tom. 2. cas. conscieii.)
and
corruptedinstruments, which
obfuscatingthe spirits
that hath a bad
"'Perkins illustrates by simile of an artificer,
of ill
skill
is good,ability
correspondent;
toole,his
by reason
tooles his work must needs be lame and unperfect.
But melancholy
and despair
though often,doe not alwaies concur
; there
fears
without
this
difference ; melancholy
ismuch
a cause,
on
upcaused
and
is
feare
occasion
by
griefe,
; melancholy
great
but this torment
all
of
bitterness
them
extremity
;
procures
much
melancholyis without afflictionof conscience,as**Bright
and Perkins illustrate by foure reasons
; and
yet melancholy
alone againmay be sometimes
of this terrour
a sufficient cause

of conscience.
e

*^

Felix Plater

alii damnatos

melancholicis

so

found it in his observations,

se

putant, Deo

think

Sfc.
prcedestinati,

curce

suntf

7ion

They
they
predestinate^
forsakenthem ; and yet otherwise very zealous and
to be seen,
religious
melancholy
for feare
; and 'tis common
Gods
and
drives
hell
to
men
judgement
of
fire
desperation
;
feare and sorrow, if they he immoderate, end oftentvith it ;
Intolerable painand anguish,
longsickness,captivity,
misery,
loss of goods,loss of friends,
and those lesser griefs
do sometimes
nee

God

riot

are

hath

effect it,or such

tur, saith

dismal

accidents.

'^Marcennus, duhitaut

eased forthwith,they doubt

curse,

rave,

and

wicked
oppressed,
their

and
deserts,

affected.
prosper
wicked

are

non

statiin relevan-

Deus, if theybe

there be any God ;

mad, because good men
desperately

whether

not

they
are

flourish
; theyhave not as theythink to
throughimpatienceof calamities are so misput

videret successus,
men
prosper, and

himself, as

Si

men

Democritus

OS

an

sit

his eys, ne
he could
because

was

out

therefore

Agelliuswrites of him.

malorum
not

abide

ready to make
Felix Plater hath

civium
to

see

away
a

morable
me-

wife in Basil,
example in this kinde, of a painters
and
for
her
for
came
was
sons
death,
melancholy
melancholybeshe thoughtGod would not pardon her sins,
desperate,
^
and forfoure months, still raved, that she was
in hell fire,
is
damned.
When
humour
the
stirred
already
up, every
small objectaggravates and incenseth it,
adas the parties
are
that

b Tract
a Cases
c C. 3.
of conscience,1. 1.16.
33 et 34.
Melan.rcap.
de mentis alien. Deo minus se curaa
Ad deesse.
esse, nee ad sahitem prsedestinatos
ob supplicii
metnm
aetersperationemsdepe ducit hsec melancholia,et est frequentissima
"i Comet metus
in desperationemplerumqne desinnnt.
ment,
judicium; moeror
numque
in 1. cap. gen. artic. 3. Quia impii tiorent,boni opprimuntur,8ic. alius ex consideratione hujusseria desperabundus.
"Lib. 20. c. 27.
fDamnatam
se
et per quatuor menses
pntavit,
gehenna; pccnam sentire.

lieliyioua
Melancholy.

56G
(licfod.

"''

The

authour

same

hath

[Part.3.

example of

an

Sec.

4.

merchant

he had over
lon"r
thni tor the loss ofa littlewheat, which
troubled in conscience, for that he had not sold it
k' |)t,was
or
given it to the poor; yet a good scholler and a great
sooner,
nr.m,

divine

perswasionwould

no

danuied

for this fact he

was

and

discreet.

much
Solitariness,

and

of Gods
contemplations

this

melancholy,and

converse

occasion
stndki

Mith such
of trouble

to some

meditationes

et

; in other

matters

that

judicious

very

divine meditations,
fasting-,
most
judgements,
part accompany

main

are

kindes

the contrary, but

to

serve

causes,

^Navarrus

as

holds;

to

of persons so troubled,is sufficient

oh loncjas
NonnulU
men.
inedias,

de rehus
cfelestes,

sucris

et

religione

P. Forestus)throughlong",-c. Many (saith

agitant,
meditations
serious
of
heavenlythings,fall into such
fasting-,
and as Lemnius
litary
addes, lib. 4- cap. 21.
fits,
If theyhe soor
given,superstitious,
precise,
very devout: seldome
shall you Jlndea merchant, a souldier,
haicde,
an
a
inn-keeper,
niinde
cheverel
troubled
in
have
an
so
usurer
an
host,
; they

semper

"

consciences
kinde
and

or

less

that will

stretch,they

molested ; yony

and

men

seldome

are

middle

timorous

and

10. cap.

12. de

meditation

are

aye

more

in this

wild,

oldj'olkes,
part, such as are
yiven. Pet. Forestus observat. lib.
reliyiously

apprehensive
; hut

minister, that

moved

most

cerebri,hath a fearful example ofa

in Lent, and overmuch
throughprecisefastings
morbis

contracted

tliis mischief, and

in the end

became

chamber, and that he

he said,but fire and
could not be saved ; he smelled nothing,
as
and Mould ask them still,
in hell,
ifthey
brimstone, was already

thoughthe
desperate,

did

not

^sinel

as

laughedme

he

divels in his

saw

much.

to scorn,

I told him
and

he

melancholy;

was

that he
replied

saw

but

divels,talked

good earnest, would spitin my face, and ask

if 1 did not smel brimstone
me
by him
; but at last he was
Such another story 1 finde in Plater observat. lib. 1.
"'ured.

Avith tlieni in

had

^\ po(U- fellow

dayes would

eat

no

done
meat,

some

i'oule offence, and

in the end

became

for fourteen

desperate;the

tinual
Conhim, "^but so he died.
er:se
troubles many, 3/?////oA
meditations ofCjodsjudgenjents
saith Guatinerius, cap. r^. tract. J 5. el
timomnj'ulurijiididi,

divines ahout

him

could

not

desperahnndisunt:
snspicionem
Gods

David

himself

hissoule,Psal.
judgementsterrified

119.

complainsthat
part.15.

vers.

8.

":c.
diutiiisservjifum conscieDtiaestimtilisagitatiir,
"J.
J'Tom.
^Solitarios et snvigilia-,
jcjiinia.
scriipulosis,
consciintia, mm
exaijitat
uieicatores, lenonos, caiipones, ficrnp.
pleruiiiiiue
|iprstitiosos
conscipiitiani
hi nacti sunt coiiscit-nliam. Jtivenes pli-niiiuiiie
ralores, K:c. largioreiii
*
^ Aunoii
x'-iilig
inqiiit.
sulpliiir'!'
seiies
Des("t?aiitem,8tc.
ni-gligunt,
iniit^i*periit.
ttiliumliiK
"

c.

lafifi.Ohtriiicnm

27.

num.

'Js--'. Conversatiocuni

3.
[Part.

Reliffious
Melancholy.

5C8

Sec. 4.

themselvesaboxir those
wherein theytrouble ami piizle
licidide,
Gods secreis; (|jey
of j"race, free-vviil,
perscveraure,
"|uestioiis
in his word, iiumane
than is revealed by God
v"\\\ know
more
ignorance

or
capacity,

after
en({uiry
observation

that which

of

apprehend; and too importunate

is revealed ; mysteries,
ceremonies,

can

sabbaths, lawes, duties, "c. with many

such

schoolmeij

the casuists discuss, and

which
broach; which
to their
divers mistake, misconstrue, misapplyto tliemselves,
donht of their
and so fall into this gulfe. Tliey
own
undoing-,
ichat
And so Jar
how thenshall knoio it,by
eJecfioti,
aiynes.
and crucitorture
saith Luther, tcith such nice points^
J'orth,
jiethemselves,that they are almost mad ; and all they qet
by it is this, they lay open a yap to the divcl by desperutiott
the greatestharme of all proceeds
carry them to hell. But
from those thunderingministers; a most
frequentcause they
harme in the church
of this malady; "and do more
are
(saith
to

r/reatdanyer on both sides,the

Erasmus) then theythat/latter;
the other drives them
lulls them asleepin carnal security,
one
well adviseth, We should
''S'.Bernard
to despair. \yhereas
meddle

not

icith the

without

one

the

without

the

other, nor

alone

speake of
bringsdesperation,

judgement
mercy;
are
the other security.But these men
wholly for judgement
there
is
no
of a rigiddisposition
themselves,
mercy
one

with

them;

no

nobalsome
salvation,

for their diseased

soules;

hell fire,
and nation,
damreprobation,
they can
with
burdens
as
they did Luke 11. 46. lade men
touch
with a
themselves
not
which
they
grievousto be borne,
soules
finger. 'Tis familiar with our Papiststo terrific mens
the
to daunt even
M'ith purgatory, tales,
visions, apparitions,
Brentius
ns
re charity
to rerpii
observes,
most
,
spirits,

speak of

nothingbut

"^

generous

when
oj'others, bounty,meekness, love,patience,

selves
theythem-

They
nought but lust, envy, covetousness.
and
do
crucifie
teach others to fast,give aimes,
penance,
their minde
with sujjerstitious
observations,bread and water,
hair-clotlies,
whips,and the like,when they themselves have
all the dainties the world can
atiorde;lyeon a down bed with
lieu rjuantum patimurpro Christo!
a curtisan in their amies.
breath

as

''liesaid. What

cniel (yraniiyis this,so

terrificmenssoules!

Ourindiscreet

to insult over,

and

pastors,manyofthemcome

ab his
an
"Ecclesiast. I. I. Haud scio an ma jus discrimen ab his qui blandiiintur,
securitateui ducunt,nlii afllicticmum
: nlii ad
qui tcrrilant: iufcensutrinquepericiiliim
trahunt.
uientt-tn absorbent, "-t in deK|)erationem
iiiapiitudine

Bern.

sup. 16.

in desperant. 1.
proferrcnon cNpedit: recordatio solin--judicii
et ini.sericordia~
falinx o.stentatio pessiinam general securitateni.
r^tiiinitil praripitaf,
""In Luc.
h-iin. lO'i
cum
ipsinil spectent
Kiigunt ab aliiscarilnteni,be neficcntiani,
"' Leo deciniusi.
invidiam,avariliain.
in.
pra-terlil.inini

Altenini sine altero

2. Subs.

Mem.
not
so

Despairhis

3.]

Causes.

5G9

far beliind ; whilst in their ordinary

sermons
thoy speake
much
of election, predestination,
reprobationah ceterno,
of grace, praeterition,
"c.
voluntarypermission,
shall
discern and try themMiiat signes and tokens
selves
they
Gods
children
be
whether
true
elect,an suit rethey
;

subtraction

by

with

"c.
probi,priEdestinati,

still aggravate

sin, thunder

such

out

Gods

scrupulouspoints,
they
judgement without respect;

raile at and pronounce

them damned
in
intempestively
for givingso much
to sports and honest recreaail auditories,
tions;
fault
and
indifferent
small
irrean
thing
making every
and
wound
missible offence,theyso rent, tear
mens
consciences,
that they are almost mad, and at their wits ends.
These

hitter potions

(saith
^'Erasmus)are
horrour, and a mad

stillin their mouths

gall and
nojjse ; theymake
wounded
are
by this meanes,
desperate:
many
have
they commonly that are most devout and precise,
formerlypresumptuous, and certain of their salvation ;

nothim/

hut

all their auditors

and
been

they

that have

tender

consciences, that follow

sermons,

quent
fre-

lectures,that have indeed least cause, they are most apt

1 have heard some
fall into these miseries.
to mistake, and
other
books
and
of like nature
of
Parsons
Resolution,
complain
too much
dejecting
(good otherwise ;)they are too tragicall,
and
offences
much
cretion
discare
choyce,
aggravating
men,
; great
this
kinde.
is requiredin
of this malady, is our owne
The
last and greatest cause
of our
conscience, sense
sins,and Gods anger justlydeserved:
foule offence formerly
conscience for some
committed.
a guilty
''

Oreste,quidmorbi

miser

te

?
perdit

Or:
enira mihi conscius

Conscientia, sum

de malis

perpetratis.

ence
feast,but a galledconsciis as
can
as
possiblyhappen, a still
great a torment
it)
baking oven, (so Pierus in his Hieroglyph,compares
is a great ledgier
book,
another hell.
Our conscience,which
to laythem
written all our
wherein
are
offences,a register
their
in
those
pressed
Hieroglyphicksex/Egyptians
up, (which
the
for
the
for
well
as
continuance,
as
by a mill,
of
soules Avith the remembrance
of it) grindes our
torture
and
makes
reflect
demn
conus
some
precedentsins ;
upon, accuse
is

f/oodconscience

continual

"^

our

be many

other

selves.
causes

Sin

De

semper

there

lies at doore^ SjC. I know

assignedby Zanchius, Musculus,

futiirojudicio,de damnatione
horrenduui crepunt, et
habent, iit multos inde in desperationeai
cogant.
d Gen. 4.
t: 9 causes
Musculus makes.
Pierus.
"

ore
'"

own

amaras

and

in
illas potimies
''

Euripides.

Melunchobj.
Reliyious

570

[Pint.3.

Sec.

4.

infidelity,
presumption, ifrnorance,
incredulity,
those
five grand miseries
discontent;
])lin(lness,
ingratitude,
in y\ristotle,
ignominy, need, sickness,enmity, death, "c.
llie rost

as

l)ut this of

is the

conscience

This
Juf/iter
percellens.
cals it)which
Forestus
a

greatest, hist(ir ulcer is corpus

^

scrupulousconscience

(as ''Peter

that either out

many,
and
consideration
oftheirunworthiness,
deepapprehension
tortures

of

so

of

themselves

dissolute

and arfffravateevery
owne
W^e,accuse
when there is no such cause,
in the
small offence,
misdonhtinff
time Gods
mercies, theyfall into these inconveniences.
mean
their

poets call them

The
alone

which
*"

is

Nocte

''

Furies,Dirse,but

thousand

witnesses

diequesuura

it is the conscience

to accuse

us

gestant in pectore testem.

givein evidence, to empanel a juryto

us, to cry guilty
; a prosecutor with hue and cry to
to carry us, a
to summon
follow, an apparitor
us, a baylifFe
Serjeantto arrest, anattourney to pleadagainstus, a gaolerto
denouncing,
torment, a judge to condemn, still accusing,
And
the
of
in that
and
statue
as
Juno,
torturing molesting.
will
look stilltowards
holycityneer Euphratus in AssjTia,
she
full upon
her
will
in
where
stares
sit
temple,
you
you ;
if you go by, she followes Avith her eye ; in all sites,
you;
actions,our conscience will be stillready
places,conventicles,
tures,
After
to accuse
us.
dayesand fortunate advenpleasant
many
continual

testor

to

examine

'^

Well

tides,this conscience

merry
he may

avoid

last doth

arrest

temporalpunishment, bribe

escape

judge, and

at

the

of

censure

law,

and

us.

corrupt

flourish for

time ; for ^ who ever

saiv
(saith
Chrysostome)a covetous man
troubled in minde when he is telling
of his mony, an adulterer
his
then drunk
? we
with his mistress in
are
armes
mourn
irith

iiad

nothing: yet
pleasure,and perceive
daintyfare,sweet

but
entertainment,

Mormwood,

musick

at

as

first,
merry

cruel reckoningin the

fearful visitation

the

aggravates

most

on

irreniissible

bring them
and

to

jovial

company,

end,

as

followes.

commonly
a light
sin,or

bitter
And

as

the

sin at all,
the other side,and telleth thee, that it is a

divel that then told thee that it was

now

prodigalson

he did

offence, as

despair; every

contemned,

will

small
now

by

Cain

circumstance

no

and

Judas,

before

amplifieit self,rise

to

neglected
up in

^
Alios inisere castigat
plena scmpnlis ronscientia,niodum in
sp
orco
iibi nulla catisa
subest, niiserirordia; divinip diflideiites,
"i Juvenal.
iLiician. de Dea Syria.
rCoelius lib.6.
destinant.
f Prima
haec est ultio,
si transeas, visu te sequitur.
te aspicit;
Si adstiteris,
Gratia
lallacis
vicerit
absol
.ludice
pra-toris
qnamvis
noceus
vitur,
improba
nemo
se
"|Uod
\idit avaruni
ringi.duiii hirrun) adest?
c (^uisiinquam
Juvenal.
umam.
'
ebrii,
voiuptatesuinus
adulteruni, duni polilurvoto, Ingere in perpctrnndoscole re
a

Plubrch.

Nrirpocjuarunt,et

proiudcuun

"c.
scutiuiuS;

3Jcin 2. Subs.

judgement and

accuse;

Lucians

to

as

Causes.

Despairhis

3.]

the dust of their sliooes,dumb

tures,
crealectiis
et
{he
bed
candela,
and
tyrant,

caudle

did bear

past.

Tragicail
examplesin

witness, to

their soules fur tlseirsins

familiar and
too
are

tornient

this kincie

Adrian, Galba, Nero, Otho,

common:

571

Vilellius,Caracalla,
conmiitied,

fortheir offences
that they were
murders, rapes, extortions,
injuries,
their lives, and could get nobody to kill them.
insuch

Mere

of conscience

horrour

king-of Scotland, when

JMalcolme, King- Duiles
with

counterfeit

time,
long-

murdered

of

Kennetus,

his

nephewe
prince of Cumbeviand, and
dissembled
the matter
protestations,
son,

and

tears

had

he

weary
^

last his conscience

accused

him, his unquiet

soule could not rest day or night;he teas
terrified
withfearjul
tormented
nil
and
his life. It
dreams, visions,
so
miserably
a

is

at

strange to read what

11. that French

of

king; of
the

Naples,in

and
Sicily,

imapt

hath

^'Comineus

fury

Charles
of his

written

the S;

of

of Lewes

Alphonsus king-

passion,how

he

relates,how
lyes,
had

before

ghost (who

died

man

that Ferdinand

for

into

came

he plaid. Guicciardine,a
vt'hatprankes

to believe

the

most

his fathers

and

told him,
came
grief,)
he could not resist the French
king-,he thought every
cried France, France ; the reason
of it (saithComineus)

that
man

vile tyrant,a murderer, an oppressour

his subjects;
he bought up all commodities, and sold them
because

"was

his

owne

Ferdinand

he

was

price; sold abbies to Jewes and

and he himselfe,never
his father,

made

committed

Spartan tyrant, Nero, Otho, Galba,

in every house
had
committed

doth

**

; both
conscience

he, it was
Pausanias

possible
imthe

with spirits
persecuted
which they

so

for their murders

but

they came,
Why

at

falkoners

sin ; and to conclude, saith

then they did.
to do worse
Why was

of any

of

the

divel

haunt

mens
many
and take
houses after their deaths,appear to them living-,
possession
it
of
their
of their habitations,
but
as
were,
pallaces,
because
Richard
the 3
of their severall villanies ? why had

such

fearfid

murders

dreames, saith Polydor,but

Vr'hywas

he had made

Herod

Boethius
cap. '22.
Numi7ie
a

^c.

his wife.

^Vhy was Theodoiicus

and so affrighted
with a
sosuspitious,
murdered
had
but
that
he
alone,
Symmachus, and
those worthyRomans
? Caelius lib.27his son-in-!av"',
Mariamne

away
the king-of the Gothes
fish head

so

for his frequent

tortured in his minde ? because

in Plutarch, in his tract De his qui sero

puuiimtMr.-dnd in his book De tranquillitate
animi^

Yea,

See

more

and

sometimes

ki-.
pleuispertreinelactiis,
'2,

NVros

himselfe

hath

hand

in

conscientia sceieris im)uietu.s

visis horrore
soiuniiiu
"^
"De bello Neapol.
Tliyreiisde locis
motberwas
stillin his eys.

" Buchanan.
lib.6. Hist. Scot.
nulltim adraisitgaudiuin,
sea
semper

iafestispart.1. cap.

GOD
b

Animus

vexatiis noctii et interdin per

Melancholy.
RelUjious

572

[Part.3.

Sec. 4.

his poM'er, humiliate,

exercise,and to trye tlieirfaith,
Perkins
cals it,Cos. cons.
lib. 1. cap. 8.
(divinetemptation,
for their sins.
God the avenoer,
serf. 1.)to punishthem
as
it,tosliew

him, ultor a tcrr/oDeus, his wrath is apprehended

Saul
"vhich
and
the poets
of a guilty
Judas,
soule, as by
expressedby Adrasta, or Neniisis :

David

teriiies

"

servat,
Assequitur
Nemcsisquevirgin vestig-ia
Ne male quid facias
"

she is,as ^ Ammianus, lib. 14. describes her, the rpieen

the
she puis downe
now
of things,
of causes, and moderator
those that are good;
prond; now she reares and encoiirageth

And

he

Ub.
gives instance iu his Eusebius; Nicephorus,
and

cedes, hist, in Maximinus

in all histories ; of
rats

and

mice,

as

10. cap. 35.

examples of

and

to be found
are
vengeance,
that have been eaten to death with

justjudgement,wrath

Gods

Fearfull

Julian,

some

^Popeliusthe

second

king

of

Poland,

ann.
; the like story is of Hatto
Archbishop of Mentz, ann. 996, so devoured by these verrerum
niine,which howsoever Serrarius the Jesuite,
3Iofjunt.
lib. 4. cap. 5. impugne by 22 arguments; Tritemius,
*iMunster,

830.

his wife

and

children

others,relate for

Magdeburgenses,and many
another example I finde in

Geraldus

lib. 2. cap. 2. and where

not ?
And
yet for all these terrours

punishmentswhich
or

cause
no

reason

Cambrensis
of

notorious

whatsoever

frequent,or

for let him

villian,so

be

monstrous

Such

Itin. Cam.

conscience,affrig-hting-

aggravate this fearfull malady in other

at any time should
at all why a papist,

troubled for his sins

so

so

are

truth.

so

never
a

else may
I see
religions,
or
despair,

dissolute a

sinner,out

be

catiffe,
of that

Pope is dishave free pardon and plenaryremission

pensator, he may
be so many
There
of all his sins.
generalpardonsfor ages
40000
so
so
to come,
frequent
many jubilies,
yeers to come,
for
all
of
out
n
ow
or
living,
soules,
gaol-deliveries
purgatory
after dissolution of the body, so
masses
particular
many
altars
in
consecrated
said
to
severall
so
churches,
daily
many
of

treasure

indulgencesand

this purpose,
will take any
say
he

so

many

merits

of which

the

either mony
friends,or
or
to such an
altar, hear a mass,
paines to come
such
and such penance,
pater-nosters, undergo
that if

man

have

impossiblehis minde should be

Besides that
troubled,or he have any scrupleto molest him.
first
which
Taxa Camera; Apostoliccc^
was
publishedto get
cannot

iPsal. 44. 16.

"c,
oppriinit,
Pi Magde,

doe

amiss

it is

''Reginarausaiuni

et

arhitra rcruin,

"Aiex. Gaguinus catal. reg. Pol.

nunc

erertas

cervices

''Cosmog.Muuster.

Mem.

2. Subs.

mony

in the

4.]

dayes of

of Despair.
Si/mpiomes

573

Leo

and

decimus

that

sharking'
pope,

ends, sets down such easie rates

same
for
all
oifences,for perjury,
murder, incest,
dispensations
for
dollers
"
c.
so
adultery,
(ableto invite
many
grosses or

since

divulgedto

the

and

to sin, and provokehim to offend,me

thinks, that
any man
otherwise would
such
comfortable
remission,so gentle
not)

and

parablea pardon,so ready at hand,

with

smal cost
and suit obtained,that I cannot
how
he that hath any
see
friends amongst them (asI say)or mony
in his purse, or will
at least to ease
himselfe, can
miscarryor be misany way
how
affected,

he should

them

much

so

in dangerof damnation
desperate,
troubled in minde.
fathers can
Their ghostly
or
so
rejulily
and unstring',
winde
apply remedies, so cunninglystringand unwinde
their consciences
their devotions,play upon
with plausible
vantage
for their best adspeechesand terrible threats,
and deject,
settle and remove,
erect with such facility
let in and out, that I cannot
how
amongst
perceive
any man

should

miscarry. The

or

causes

therefore take hold

on

be

of this

often labour
named

above

disease,

must

or

finally

frequently

more

others.

SUBSECT.

IV.

horof Despair.Feare^sorrow, snspition,

Sijmptomes
anA^kiy,
dreames and visions.
roiir
oj'co7iscience,JearJ'ul

xVs

theybringhome shooes,stillcry,
choly
leather is dearer and dearer ; may I justly
say of those melanmost
are
violent,tragicall
symptomes: these of despair
and grievous,
far beyond the rest; not to be expressedbut
tobe endured;
of all happiness,not
itis privation
as
negatively,
it
?
What
ivho can
hear
Pro. 18. 14.
spirit
Jor a wounded
in
his
of
therefore
Timanthes
now
did,
picture Iphigenia,
when
he had paintedChalcas mourning,
ready to be sacrificed,
and
sorrowfull
shewed
Menelaus,
Ulyssessad, but most
he covered the
of
all his art in expressing
affections,
variety
maids father,Agamemnons head with a vaile,and left it to
shoemakers

doe

when

every
true
not

spectator to conceive

what

he would

himselfe

such
in snmmo
c/radu,
passionand sorrow
by any art be deciphred. What he did

as

; for that

his was, could

1
picture,

in his

the symptomes of despair.

Imaginewhat
describing
thou canst, feare,sorrow, furies,griefe,
pain,terrour, anger,
it
dismal, ghastly,
tedious,irksome, "c. it is not sufficient,

will do in

10. II. 35Consumptis affectibus,Agamemnonis capat velavit,ut

patre cogitarent.
possent,maximiira moeroremin virginis

aPiinius cap.
omnes,

quam

Melancholii.
Religious

571'

'Tis

o.

4.

tell,no heart conceive it.

totig-uecan
pound,
a comepitome of hell, an extract, a quintessence,
short ;

tar

oonios

[P:jrf. See.

an

of all ferall

mixture

and
piairucs

no

maladies, tyrannical
torture*,

There
perplexities.

is no

almost but

sickness

pliyv/ill
sore, chirurgery
provideth remedy
helpespoverty; hope of liberty
providea salve : friendship
suit and favour revoke banishment; aueasefh imprisonment;
thority
and time weare
but
what
t
physick,Avhi
away reproach:
what wealth, favour, authority
can
relieve,be-v.chiruroery,
out, a.-swage, or expel a troubled conscience ? A quietminde
comforte
cureth
all them, but all they cannot
a distresse"l
? Ail
soide
who can
put to silence the voyce of desperation
that is singlein other melancholy,
horribife,dintm^ pestilem^
in
this
it
tlien melancholyin
is more
atro.v, f'enim,concur
;
the highestdegree; a burningfeaver of the soule; so made,
and despairhe
said
Jacchinus, by this isiisery
; feare,sorrow
symptomes of melancholy.They are in great
puts for ordinary
full
pain and horrour of minde, distraction of soule,restless,
of continual feares,cares,
torments,
anxieties;theycan neither
eat, drinke, nor sleepfor them, take no rest.
sick

for it;to every

=^

''

nee
mensse
tempore ccssat,
Perpetuaitnpietas,
quies,somnique furentes.
Exagitatvesana

Neither
Will

at

bed, nor

at

takes away their content, and

alters their countenance,
marrow,

Feare
the

bord,

despairafforde.

rest

any

yet

dries the
even

still(saith Lem-

singhig,
dancing,dalliance,they are
nius)tortured
/

am

in their soules.

pelicanin the

like a.

temporallyafflicte"l)
an

Psal.

102,

vers.

10/. 18.

sleep is

and

Their

terrours.

oirle

upon

soule

abhors

Peter

them

consumes

because

mee,

all

have

thine

of

3Ig

55. 4.

oj'death

terronrs
come

(ifit be

'^

(saithDavid
irilderness,

9, 10, and Psal.

within mee, and the

and tremblingare
*'

It

blond, wasteth

lights-,
in thc'ivgreatest de-

of

any) unquiet,subjectto
in his

himselfe,

indignation,

heart

deaths

manner

nought;
t'rembleth

if/)on mee;J'eare

come

at
"^-c.

to

of

doore, Psal.

meats.

Their

fearful dreamcs

bonds, sleptsecure,

for he

knew

God

him; and Tully makes it an argument ofRosprotected

cius Amerinus
innocency,that he had not killed his father,
because he so securely
slept.Those martyres in the primitive

"

Cap. 15. in 0 Rliasis.

'"

Jiiv.Sat. 13.

""

timor hie ;
IMctitcni eripit

in symposiis,
etiain in deliciis,
in tripiuliis,
hnhituin iminiitat,
vultiim,totiiniquecdrporis
"' Non
in aniplexuconjiisis
sinit concarnificinainexercet. lib. 4. cap. 21.
scientia tales homines recta
verba proferre,atit rectis quenqiiain ornlis aspicere; ah
omni homiDura coetu cosdcinextermiuat,
Philost. lib.7. de.
et doriuientesperterrefant.
vita Apollonii.

576

Religious
Melancholi).

tliinke

tlicyhear

3.
[Part.

So.c. 4.

and

see
visions, out-crys,confer with divels,
torn:ented, possessed,and in hell fire,already

flniL they are

damned, quiteforsaken of God, theyhave

no

sense

or

feelin

""

of

of salvation ; their sentence

of condemnation
mercy, or grace,hope
isalreadypayt,and notto be revoked, the divel will certainly
Never was any living
Iiavethem.
in such torment
creature
fore,
bein such

miserable

estate, in such

hope, no faith, past cure,

make

tiiemsel

ves.

away
fire and brimstone,

distress of

minde,

no

reprobate,
conlinually
tempted to

talkes with them, tliey

Souiethiniispit

they cannot

but

blaspheme,they car.not
far carryed,7it
a good thought;so
repent, beleeve, or
etiam contra
said
coffantur ad impiacof/ifaudum
voluntatein,
''Felix Plater; ad hlasphemiamer(/a D;uim, admidta
horreuda
sihi
manusviolentes
and in their
perpetrauda^ad
hiferendas,S^-c.
distracted fitsand desperate
humors, to offer violence to others,
thinke

their familiar and

upon

every

dear friends sometimes, or to meer

small or no occasion: for he that cares

is niaster

of ano'lier

strangers,
not

for his

think evill

life.

mans
They
against
wils;that which theyabhor themselves,theymust needs
of his,
thinke, doe,and speake. He givesinstance in a patient
that when he would pray, had such evil! thoughtsstillsuggested
''meditations, x^notlier instance he hath,of a
to him, and wicked
that was
often temptedto curse
woman
God, to blasphemeand
kill her selfe. Sometimes
the divel (astheysay)stands without
and talks with them, sometimes
he is within them, as they
thinke,and there speakes and talkes to such as are possessed:

owne,

their

heart spakewithin him.

in Plutarch,thoughthis
Apollidorus,
There is a most memorable
vocate
example of ''Francis Spira,an adof Padua, anu.
1545, that being desperate,
by no
so

of learned

said)the

pains of hell in his

aright;but

men

be comforted

could

counsell

soule, in all other

in this most

he felt

(as he

coursed
thingshe dis-

Frismelica,Bullovat,

mad.

could neither make

him
physicians,
could
him.
Never
ease
eat, drinke,or sleep;no perswasiou
pleadedany man so well for himselfe,as this man did against
died.
himselfe,and so he desperately
Springera lawyerhath
died likewise so despewritten l)islife. Cardinal
Crescence
rate
him to
at Verona, still he thoughta black dog followed
Sleidan.oowj.
could (Irive the dog away.
hisdeath-bed, no man
and

some

other excellent

Whilst I
23. cap. lib. 3.
2.
de
mol. '' a
taltus,cap.
;

sJie is

writingthis treatise,saith

mtn

came

to

me

for

Mon-

helpe,we// for

conncicnceforfiveifeers last
/most mad, and ?iot ah/e to resist; t/iin/tess/ie

all ot/ter matters, hnt

past

v/as

tronb/ed

in

a Lili. 1. obser.
"'Goulart.
"JDiim
Deo.
h Afl inaledicendiim
cap. 3.
h;pc acribo,iinpleratopem
meanKmonuciia,iii relicinis
recta,per 5 annos
sana, etjiidicio
melancholica ; damuatam
conscientiic stimolis oppressa, See.
sc dicit,

2. Subs,

Mem.
hath

God,
offended

Imth

store

of

God,

church, or
imselfe,because
to

One

the

neer

then he

amongst the rest, fhat durst

was

Rhine, for feare

to

not

make

away
tempted.These
especially

most

like symptomes,
intended and remilted, as the
are
itsclfe is more
will hear good counsel,
or
less; some

such

malady
not

Felix Plater
damned.
certainly
themselves
as
damned,
thought

is

"c.

come

fo
some

and

of instances of such

^forsaken

and

577

of J)eipalr.
Prognostu/ues

5.]

will not;
be eased.

desire

some

SUBSECT.

will

rejectail,and

helpe,some

death,^-r.
atheism,hlr(sphpmy,vioIt;"t
PrognostiquesoJ'Despair,

ItJlOST part these kinde of persons ''make away themselves,

offer
are
mad, blaspheme,curse, deny God; but most
some
their

persons, and sometimes

ivho can
hear ? Prov. 18. 14.
tcoinided spirit,
violence

to

to

own

others.

As Cain,

Saul,

Judas, blasphemed and died. Bede snith,Pilate

Achitophel,
Felix Pfaler hath
died desperate
eightyeers after Christ.
^A
merchants
collected many
icifethat was long
examples.
fic;:; her bed,
in the nightrose
troubled with such temptations,
^

and out of the windowe

himselfe,desperate
as he

drowned
their

broke her neck

throats,
many

was,

hang-themselves.

into the street

in the

Rhine;

another

some

But this needs

no

cut

tration.
illus-

It is controverted

ingofferso
by some, whether a man
be
violence to himselfe,dyingr-;aved
desperate,
may
aye or
and suddenly,that theycanIf rheydye so obstinately
no?
not
wish
niMch
for
the
is
be
worst
to
as
so
suspected,
mercy,
because theydye impatient.'^Iftheir death had been a little
wherein
leasure in their
more
theymig-hthave some
ling-ring,
hearts to cry for mercy,
the
best; divers
charitymay judge
been

have

recovered

out

of (he very

act

of

and
hangiiig-

ing
drown-

themseives,and

so
nientim, they have
brought ad sanam
abhorred
much
their
forn.er
fes-ed
con
fact,
penitent,
very
in an instant,and cryed for
in
that they have re])ented
mercy
If a man
hands
their hearts.
put desperate
by
upon himselfe,
if he have ^iven testimony
occasion of madness
or melancholy,
in regardhe doth this iiot so much
before of bis regeneration,

been

Alios conquerentes audivi

'"*

aliaqueinfinltaqua? proferrenon

se

esse

ex

damnatorum

numero,

audebant, vel abhorrtbant.

ad vim sibi interend am cogithomines.

3 De
tritus,
"* Uxor
lib 1.
mercatons, diu vexationibus tentata "c.
,

VOL.

II.

Deo

noa

esse

cnite,

ParjAlHscuriis,
mentis aiienat obseiy,
i,

"

Abernety.
P

,.

^ji

\*-^*

Melancholif.
Ui'l'uj'wus

578
of liiswill, as

out

of
men

go

[Part.3.

Sec. 4.

ri morhu
make
iiuist
the best conwe
struction
Tnrkes doe, that tltinke all fooles and mad
heaven.

e.r

it,as

to
directly

SUBSECT.

VI.

good cotmsell,conifbrts,
of Despair by phjsicke,
^-c.

Cure

tencheth

XliXPERIENCE

that

nate,
though many dye obstiand wilfn! in this malady, yet multitudes againare able
seek for heipeand find comfort; are
to resist and
overcome,
of hell,and out of the
taken efuvcihnsErehi, from the cljops
divels pawes, thoughtheyhave by i^oblig-ation
giventhemselves
him.

to

Some

out

of their

he kill me
; tJioiff/h

strength,and
Jo?))yet irillltrnst
(saith

of

arnonke
asid

owne

they take

wrong

habit and

course

for the
course

Gods

ance
assist-

in him

; some

physicko.""Bellovacus cured

counsell,advice,nnd

good
his
by alteringBut
alone.
by physicke
out

us,

of life : Plater

they must

most

part

that

thinke

to

overcome

many

concur:

this

passionb}"solephysicke and they are much out, that

thinke to work this effect by good advice alone ; though both
be forcible in themselves, yet vis nmtafortior,they must
go
ferall

Iiand in hand

to

this disease

alterius sic altera

"

poscitopem.

is to be taken with this as in other

the like course
physicke,
melancholy:diet,ayr, exercise,all those passionsand perturbations
of the minde, "c. are to be rectified by the same
meanes.
left
be
to
must
or
not
themselves,
never
solitary
idle,
They
Counsel I,good comfort istc)be applyed,
out of company.
never
the parties
inclined
to the causes, whether
or
as theyshall see
such ferall accident,
itbe loss,feare,griefe,
discontent,or some
conscience, or otherwise by frequentmeditation,
a guilty
too
and
consideration
of
his
former
grievousan apprehension,
of
life: by hearing,
vice
reading scriptures,
good divines,good adword
and conference, applyingGods
to their distressed
and
lent
soiUes,it must be corrected
counter-poysed.
JManyexceldiscourses
this
extant
exhortations,paraenetical
are
to
pose,
pur-

For

for such

as

are

any way

troubled

in minde:

Perkins,Green-

HemAbernethy, liolton,Cu!mannus,
ham, Hayward,Bright,

'^Unsboqiiins.

f"John

rhirographum
postrestitatus.

vitispatrnm. Qiiidam tiepavitChrishini,

.Mr.jor
per
'Triucavelius

lib.3. consil. 46.

of Despair.

Cum

2. Siihs;.0'.]

Mem.

579

Nicholas Laurentius,are copious

mingius,Coelius SecuiKliis,
and such as
in this subject
: Azorius, Navarrus, Sayrus,"r.
have written
But

cases

of conscience

these

because

amongst

workes

mens

are

not

writers.
pontifical
at
parties hand,

our

to

all

at all times,1 will for the benefit and

parable

so

at the request of
afflicted,

are

'^

some

of such

ease

friends,recollect

few such comfortable

their vol uniinoasfreatisesjsonie

out

as

of

speeches,

and
exhortations, arguments, advice, tendingto this subject,
out

of Gods

word, knowing, as

occasion,^how
an

unavailable

saith upon the like

cowisells are to comfort

Culmannus

and vaine

mens

and he annexed,
conscience,except Gods icord concur
afflicted
ease,
posing
life,
repentance,^-r. Presupfrom which comes
firstthat which

Beza, Greenham, Perkins, Bolton, give

counsel I is given be sufficiently

to whom
charge,the parties
for their sins, fit for comfort, confessed,
prepared,humbled
how they stand
less afflicted,
or
tryed how they are more
affected,or capableof good advice, before any remedies be
applyed. To such therefore as are so thoroughlysearched
discourse.
I address this followingand examined
to
Two main antidotes, Henuningius observes, are opposite
be
Gods
is
to
embraced; perword,
good hope out of
verse
despair;
divels
from
the
and
are
treachery,
presumption,
security
in

"

ilia salus animfp, hac pesiis

; one
saves, the
dolli
saith
and
much
occidit
as
x4ustin,
other kils,
auimam,
^
reckons
itself. Navarrus, the casuist,
harm as despair
up ten
I. part. Tit. 3. cap. 10.
1. God.
out of Anton.
cures
be

to

rejectedj

special

such objectsas have caused it. 4.

Physicke. 3. ^Avoiding*
Submission of himselfe to other mens
judgements. 5. Answer
All v/hich CajeJan,
"c.
Gerson, lib. de vit.
of all objections,
141.
repeat and approve out
Sayrus,lib. cas. cons. cap.
spirit.
Greenham
52.
prescribes
of Emanuel
Roderiques,cap. 51 cj"even.
First,to acknowledge
six special
rules; Culmannus
of their pre2. That the cause
from God.
all helpeto come
sent
be
and
To
sin.
3.
is
heartily
repent,
sorry for
misery

2.

"

their sins.
5. To

o-ood
to

4. To

expect and
mens

advice.

eansestlyto

pray

the prayers
impl""re
6. Physicke. 7. To
his mercy:

God, and rely upon

to this effect. But

God

forasmuch

as

most

of the

brother George Burton

M.

.Tames

church, and

commend

others
men,

sicke,voi"lofreasonahno8t,overspiritually

aMy

be eased.

(luy may

themselves

otherwise,but all
in this
born

malady,are

by

their mise-

shire,
Whitehall, rectnr of Chef l.Iyin Stafford-

chamber
fellow,and late fellow student in CliristChurch, Oxen,
my quondam
sit et iuefficax humaiiorura
verboruui penes aiflictosconsolaiio,nisi
Scio quam
vana

*' Antid.
solatium,pcenitentia
verbum Dei adiatur,a quo vita,refrigeratio,
" Aversio
'' Tom.
cogitationis
2. c. 27. num.
'i82.
adversus desperationem.
contraventio scrupiilorum.
a
re scrupulosa,

Melancholy
ReUfjious

5S0

Sec. 4.

[Part.3.

deep an apprehensionof their sins,they cannot

apply themselves to g-oodconnsell,pray, beleeve,repent; we
and hc'petheir peculiar
firmities,
inmust, as liuuh as in us lies,occur

riep,and

too

accordino-

shall finde them

we

as

their severall

to

The

main

troubled

distressed and

niritfer which

in

and

causes

symptomes,

complain.

terrifus and

torments

that

most

are

of their c-HTences,
the intolerable
minde,
enorniity
I"urtlien oftheirsins,Go;!shenvyMrath and displeasure
is the

themselves
deeplyapprehended,that theyaccount
bates,
reproforsaken
of
God, alrendy
damned, past all hope of
quite
of sin,and
grace, uncapableof mercy, diaholi mnncipia,fi]nYes
their ofi'ences so great they cannot
be forgiven.But these
so

know

must

men

be

may
much

no

forgiven.

Where

Rom.

for

sin

no

in it selfe ;
more,

in his

there is

crime

5. 20.

hainous

so

so

great

but

Gods

the Lord

what

said

donable
parit
mercy
nhoundeth
Paul

unto

is sj'fficient
for thee,

My yrace
teeakness,concernes
perfectthrovffJi

is made

power
in like

by

is not

ahovrtdeth,f/race

sin
And

2 Cor. 12. 9.
extremity,

my

which

promisesare made indefinite

believers;
generally
spoken to all,touchingremission of
and desire
sins,that are trulypenitent,
grievedfor their ofi'ences,
m^n

every
to all

His

case.

to be reconciled

Matth.

9. 12. 13.

not to call the

came
sinners
hut
l"hat
such
to
is,
as
are
ri(}hteons,
truly
repentance^
touched
in conscience
for their sins.
Again, Matt. 11. 28.
ail ye that are
Come
heavie laden, a?id I will ease
nnto
me

Ezek.

18. ^7.
.^t ichat time
him of his sins,from the bottom

yon.

his

all

out

wickedness

Isay,43, 25.

Lord.
As

of

out

/, even

entertained,Luke
eys, anrl
The Lord

l.o. if

is full

heaven

so

not

shall

feare

saith

cry out

greater then

he

thy sins.
compassionon

remember

103.

so

Peccator
8.

for

He
ever.

much

with

in their

tears

aynoscat, Deus iynoscit.

slotre to anger, of
mercy,
will not uhcayes chide,
.9.

ved

sins from
our
in the anguish of' his soub-,
I

can

ro.n

bear, 'lis

the

thine iniquity

Jls

high

as

the earth, so great is his mercy towards

him.W.
the east is from the
As far as

hath

pent
re-

heart, I icillblot

is above

fur

Cain

will

of compassionand

great kindness,P.sal. 103.

neither
keepe his angpr

of kis

his remembrance,
he that put away

(hey shall

penitentheart.

sinner

IS) hath
compassion on them thatfeare
son
was
again as the prodigall

his children, so hath the Lord

him; and will receive fhem

thai

am

sake, and
for mine oum
father(saithDavid. Psal.

soever

not

so;

Thou

us.

12.

the
them
west,

Though

My punishment is
liest Cain

(.saith

Austin) ; C ids m"-rcy is greater then thy sins. His mercy is

aboip all his icorkes,Psal. 1 lo. f). a!)le to satisHe for all mens
is a panacea,
1 Tim. V. (i. His mercy
a balsins, ffn;i(u/ro7i,
some

for

an

afflicted
soale,a sovi-raign
medicine, an

aioxiphar-

9. Subs.

Mem.

for the

Solomon,
bid

us
pray
misericors
ipse

divel;his

be

thee.

to

so

For

infers)Deliver

(as Austin

was
great
offenders,and

mercy

to all

Peter, great

to

art, it may

thou

whosoever

God

Manasses,

to

581

of Despair
.

of all sin, a charm

macum

to

Cure

6.]

all

from

us

should

why

e)nl,

he did not intende to helpe

perseveraret,\i
that ''doubts of the remission of his sins,
He therefore
?
us
saith Austin. Yea,
denies Gods mercy, and doth him an injury,
I am
a notorious
but thou replyest,
sinner; mine offences are
nisi

not

so

great

he

qoodiiesscannot

by

overcome

invincible

Fulgentius,Gods

Hear

infinite.

as

sin

his

infinite
mercy

the multitude

cannot

is

his mercy

of
valent
equimalice
Chrysostome,Thy
but
Gods
be dejined
cannot
be
measured.,
; thy
mercy
mail
As
mercies
his
a drop of
malice is circumscribed,
infinite.
is to the sea, so are
water
thy misdeeds to his mercy ; nay,
there is no such proportion
to be given : for the sea
though
be

terminated

his

to

by any :
maynkude.

be

great, yet may

Hear

Gods

but

measured,

Whatsoever

"

thy

sins

be

then, in quantityor

multitude
or
magnitude, feare them
quality,
saith
I speak not this,
Chrysostome,to make

not, distrust not.

'^

Jnanis

for

to persevere

do evil

or

to

me

of my
of an

gone,

worse,

my

am

ana

sins, and
I

habit?

worde, and deed

;

repent

in sin, and to retran

swine to the mire :

out

wilfulness

; in

my bomis
fain from

yet

to

my

ever
as

end

not

mine

in

his
giveness
for-

again,to

thought,

weakness

owne

no

to

is it to ask

hourlyoffende

before,

dog

again and

dailyto sin

Genius, my

1 did

lusts

what

^to

relapseby
that

Jhen

worse

dailyar.d

and

good protectingangelis

I was,
then my

would

or

be, worse

and

beginning.Si quotidie
Ciirysostome,
poenUentiavi
age. If thou

latter end is worse

saith
quotidie,
dailyoffend, dailyrepent

peccas,

hundred

again,

culpa coinqiiinat
; 'tis to

setjvens

doe

and

securje

to

pcenitailia
qiiam.

purpose

vomit,

thee

cheer thee up.

Yea, but thou urgest
little comfort of this wiiich is said,it concerns
me

but
negligent,
I have

cumscribed.
be cir-

canrsot

mercy

thousand

times repent. As
sti!! meud
ysaire,
stil!reforme

thrice,
^ifticice,

times ; Innce,
they doe by an
some

part

or

thrice,an
old house

other;

so

an

hundred,

hundred

that is out
doe

an

thousand
of

re-

by thy soule,

;ine
vice, repairit by repen;ance ; call to him
thou shait have it ',for
ice are
freely
jusiifedby

for grace and

his grace, Horn.

3. "2-1.

If thine enemy

repent,

as

our

Saviour

bBonitas
injuriam Deo lacit,qui diffiditde ejus misericordia.
aMagnam
"^ Horn. 3. de poenifinitur.
iiivictinoil vincitur ; intiuitinrisericorrlianou
non
habet ; Dei aiifem misericordia mensiiram
tentia. Tua quideiumalitia meusuram
liabet
merjsurain
pelasus. etsi niagjuim,
inaiitia
Tua
babet.
est, "o.
circuuiscrijjta
'^ Koa
sed ut alacriores reddam.
ut desidioits vos
iiiciani,
Dei autein,"";.
'Si bis,si ter,si
de
iteiaie.
e Pro
nsala
veniani
et
novo
peccati.s
poscere,
centies,si centies millies,toties poenitentiamage.
,

ReUi/wusMelancholy.

582

fliink Co:l will not t'or"-ivethee?

God
of thy sins trouljle thee?
conscicnrr

Ml/
hut

thy mercy,

The

s^ods once

should

Why

doe

cm

the

enormity

it, he

will doe it.

that 1 deserve

(saith Anselni) dicfafes to me,

repentance will not snjpce for satisfaction
;
all my trausf/rcssions.
O Lord, quiteovercomes
(as the poets fain)with a g-oldchain would
"

flmnvntiov, my

Sec. 4.

77 tinT^s;and why shouUlst thou

forjyivehim

rnjoynodPctrr.

[Part.3.

could not stirr

of heaven, hut theyall together
him, and yet he could drawe and turne them as he would himselfe ; mau^^re all the force and furyof these infernal fiends
and cryingsins,his yr ace is sufficietit.
Confer the debt and
the payment;
sin and the cure
Christ and Adam;
of it; the
out
pullJupiter

disease

; confer

the medicine

and

the sicke

to

man

the

sician,
phy-

soon
perceivethat his power is infinitely
beyond it. God is better able,as '' Bernard informeth us, to
helpe,then sin to do us hurt ; Christ is better able to save,
then the divel to destroy. If he be a skilful physician,
as

and thou shalt

'

addes, he
Fulg-entius
iVow

est

all diseases ; ij'mercij'ul,

he icill.
malitia viticittir,
his
(judnon omnis

cure

can

perfectabonitas

if it be not able to overcome

goodnessis not absolute and perfect,
selfe
Saint
all malice.
Submit
unto
Austin
as
him,
thy
best what

adviseth, he knoweth
''

pleased when
thee

he is

he

sustains

he doth

thee,

and
omnipotent,

be riot so much
he corrects
all diseases ichen he sees

cure

can

and

patientwhen

as

He lookes down from heaven

time.
that
oicn
upon earth,
he may
and deliver the chit'
hear the mourning of prisoners,
dren of death, Psal. 102, 19, '20. and thoughour sins be a^
his

red

scarlet,he can make them

of this,or aske how
not

as

Doubt

that

sufHcient

as

it shall be

snoiv,

Isay?1.

done;

18.
he is all-

proniiseth;
quifecitmnndum

he that
Chryso.stome,
and

white

us

made

for his part

faire world

de immundo, saith
of nought,
do this
can

doe thou

onelybeleeve,trust in
him,
heartily
sorry for thy sins.
is a soveraignremedy for all sins, a spiritual!
Kepeulaiice
much

more

him, rely on

wing

to

amulet
draw
71US,

to

and
penitent

be

creare

us,

expell sins

charm

for

venorae,

our

and
unto
graces
mercy
made
medicinam
poenitentia
; sin

Gods

thine

helpe
e.iitur
sloath,obstinacy,
igiiorauce,

must

it; howsoever

miseries,a protecting
attractive

an

us.

the

offence
per

"

loadstone

Peccatum

to

vul-

breach, repentance
cauje

by

errour,
is

this
poenitentiam,

ad Ratisfactioiiem:
meruit rlamniitionetn,
siillicit
CoDBcientia meH
uon
pcciiltentiu
^ Miilto eflicaciorCbrLsti
uliensionem.
tua misericordia superatoiunem
Christus jxUentior
ad s;d\andnm,
in honuni, quani peccata noistra in m"ilum.
mors
"^ Perittismediciis
infirmitates
potestomnrs
ejuani d.x'mon ad perdeiidiim.
vidt.
medico nullus lanjjiior
iiisanabilis
d Omiiipotenfi
tanare
; si miscricors,
doceri te sine, innimni
occiirrit : tii fanfum
ejus ne repelle: novit "niid.ngat; non
bom. 3. de
tantiim
delecteris cnm
secat.
fovet,sed toleres cum
"-'Chry8,
a

ned

poenit.

Iicli(/ious
Melancholy.

584

Ms is I do

grievousca."o

yeeld,and yet

to be

not

Sec. 4.

[Part.3.

despairedof;

cals a!i to repentance, Rom.

2. 4.
of his;bounty and mercy
thon maist be called at length,
restored,taken to his grace as
the
the
last hour, as Mary Magdalen
tlio thiete upon
cross, at

Cod

and

other sinners have

many

beon, that

In sin.

buried

were

in the conversion of a
(saith rnlgcntins)is delif/htpd
Deo non prcejudicat,
sinner,nr" sets no time ; prolixitas
iemporis
of
time
or
ant f/nwitas
peccaii,deferring
grievousnessof sin
all
his grace; tilings
doe not prejudicate
are
past and to come

Cod

'

This
late to repent.
too
present, 'tisnever
all
still
sonles
is
distressed
heaven
of repentance
;
open for
thou
maist
in
and howsoever
as
no
signesappear,
yet
repent
him

to

one

good

at

Hear

time.

doe,how

thon shah
God

livimj; if

speechofS'. Austin;

comfortable

would

great

not

sinner

he
thee away
; but in spurinythy life,
thee
Howsoever
invites
to repentance^.
findest
no
no
fruit,
feeling,
perceivest

thou

soever,

helpethee,he

icould

givesthee

soever
What-

"^

art

leasnre, and
thou

yet, I say,

as

yet

surelytake

likelihood of it in

no

abide the Lords good leisure,

not,
despaire
thy selfe,patiently
he
call
sinners
to
to rethinke thou art a reprobate
pentance,
came
or
;
Luke
to

came

call

although as
thy faith be
divine

of which

5. 3y.

thee,and
thou

yet

cold and

in his time

will

art

; he

one

surelycall thee.

And

hast

inclination to pray, to repent,

no
from all
dead, and thon wholly averse

functions,
yet it may revive; as

spring:these

but flourish in the

thou

number

trees

are

virtues may

for the present,yet hereafter shew

ture
alreadybud, howsoever thou

dead in winter
lye hid in thee

themselves,and peradvendost not

perceiveit.

'Tis

policyto plead against,suppress and aggravate, to

Thou dost not beleeve
conceal those sparkesof faith in thee.
if thou couldst,'tisthy
thou saist,yet thou wouldst beleeve
Lord helpemy nnheliefe
desire to beleeve ; then pray,
; and
beleeve
dahitur
it
thou
shalt
hereatier
sitienti,
certainly

Satans

shall be

given to

hereafter

thy
conceive

may

in act;

canst

not

pent,
yet renubilates
yet ob-

at the

last,and be quitedissipated
of good cheer;a child is rationall in power,
art thou penitentin affection,
though not

rain-bow

and

Delectafm- l)f hs

Thou

shalt ; a blacke cloud of sin as

soule, terrifies thy conscience, but this cloud
Be
so

'Tis

yet in action.

"

that thirsteth.

thou

by repejitance.
not

him

"

ihy desire

ronversionc

to

pleaseGod,

peccatoris; onme

tempiis\

to be

iise conversioni

heartily

depnfatur;

''Austin. .Semperpo-nitani praettrita

lialjciifiir
"|iunn fiitnra.
pro praeseiitihus
"
f'eceris,
Qiii"(|iii(l
tentia portns opcrtns est lie flesperennis.
(|iiantuni"iiiiqne
lo nnllet DeuB, aiilf-rret; parce ndo
adliuc in vita c", iinde te omnino si saiinif
peccHverifl,
sJamat

ut

redeas,"e.

""Malth.

6. 2.3.

Rev. 22. 17.

2. Subs.

Mem.

time

585

overpast,'tis never

is

too

repent, is repentance it selfe,though not in

niinde is sufficient,
yet in Gods acceptance ; a v/iHiiig

A desire

nature,

Blessed

to

they that hmger

are

for it,shall have

hear the desire

of the

poor, that is, of such as are in distress

'Tis true thou canst not as yet grieve
hast no feeling
of faith,1 yeeld; yet canst

minde.

and

body
thy sin, thou
thou
thou grieve,

of

and

t!"irstafterrifjliteousness^
t^iat is destitute of Gods
grace, and v/isheth
it.
The Lord (saiJh
David, Psal. 10. 17) will

He

b. 6.

Mat.

of Despair.

thy seif,no

comfort

sorry
late.

Cure

6.]

for

dost not

grieve'?It troubles thee,lam

sure,

and hard, thou wouldst

thine heart should be so impenitent
liave it otherwise ; 'tis thy desire to grieve,
to repent and be-

time, hatest them

thy selfe

children

to
professor,

true

and

saints

in

the

mean

not, but rather wishest

they are, as thou thy selfe

not, persecutes! them

heretofore

hast been

Gods

lovest

Thou

leeve.

which

be

as

is

evident

an

thou

token

art

in

'Tis a good signeof thy conversion,

desperatecase.
l)e reconciled.
thou
are
art, or shalt surely
pardonable,
them
that are of a contrite heart, Luke
is neer
4.
Lord

such

no

thysins
The

^A

18.

selfe;

desire of mercy

true

it selfe ;

reconciled

be

to

of God,
it is not

For

and

con-^tant

of grace

desire

in

desire

earnest

God,

of mercy,
is mercy
of grace, is grace it
beleeve, repent,and to

in the want
the want

if it be in

to

touched

heart,is

reconciliation,faith and

thy faith

and

repentance,

as

an

tation
accep-

repentance it selfe.
^

Chrysostometruly

available,but Gods

that is annexed
to
mercy
the
deed
the
will
for
that
I
it ; he accepts
so
conclude, to
:
of grace, and to be grievedfor it,
the want
feel in ourselves
troubled
with feare my
sins are
is
it selfe. I am
not

teacheth, that

is

grace

careless
objects;but Bradford
they are;
answers,
forgiven,
t
hee
that
and
hath
God
heart,
a penitent
beleeving
r/iven
for

is,an

heart

is taken

one

which

of him

truly penitentand
All this is

true

desireth

to

repmt and beleeve

the iviUforthe
(he accepting
heart.
b'^lcevinq
but yet it concerns
thou repiyest,

such

J for

for
deed

not

thee;

sins, but thine

ordinaryoffenders, in common
Ghost
the
of an higherstrain,evesj
himselfe,
against
Holy
are
irremissible sins, sins of the first magnitude,written with a
with the pointof a diamond.
Thou
of iron, engraven
pen
for
thou
then a Pagan, Infidel,Jewe, or Turke,
art
art worse
thou
hast
and
nounced
an
blasphemed,revoluntarily
more,
apostate
then Judas himthou art worse
selfe,
God, and all religion,
or
theythat crucified Christ: for they did ofllende out of
ignorance,but thou hast thoughtin thine heart there is no God.
Thou bastgiven
thysoule to the dive!,as witches and conjurers

'tis verified in

""

Aberuethy, Perkins.

Non

est

sed Dei misericordia

poenitentia,

annrxa.

3.
[Part.

Melancholy.
Religious

586

Sec.

4,

and implicite,
by compact, bond, and obligation
expf'icite
tearful
to
to be
a
or
lust,
case) satisfy
thy
(a desperate,
to
revenged of thine enemies; tliou didst never
pray, come

doe,

votion,
any divine duties with any deand fashion sake, Avith a kinde of
but
for formality
to thee to performs
reluctancie;'twas troublesome and painful

churcli,hear, reade,

doe

or

thing,prcvter voliuitafem,againstthy will. Thou

lying,
swearing,bearingfalse
never
any conscienceof
kenness,
thefte,drunbribery,
witness, murder, adultery,
oppression,
any

such

mad'st

bast

but
idolatrie,

punishment,as they were

owne

ends, and

ever

done

all such

committed

all duties for feare of

and
advantageous,

most

notorious

to

thine

sins, with

an

hatingthat tbou shouldcst love,and

delight,
extraordinary
hate.
In stead of faith,feare and
shouldest
thou
lovingthat
love of God, repentance, "c. blasphemousthoughtshave been
harboured in his minde, even
ever
againstGod himselfe,the
the
blessed Trinitie :
false,rude, harsh, immetho^'"Scripture
dicall

credible,
toyes and fables,^ in-

heaven, bell,resurrection,meer

absurd, vaine, ill contrived ; religion,

impossible,
in obedience; or
and humane
invention,to keep men
policie,
and law-givers
invented by priests
to that purpose.
for profit,
If there be any such supream
power he takes no notice of our
doings,hears not our prayers, regardeththem not, will not,
an
cannot
excepter of persons,
helpe; or else he is partiall,
of sin, a cruell,a destructive
anthour
God, to create our

soules, and
worse

then

to eternall damnation

destinate them
our

dogs and

horses.

doth

Why

wicked

thingsbetter,protectgood men,
do they prosper and flourish? as she raved
cwlum
tenent, there they shine,
pellices
root

Suasque
where

is his

Perseus

providence?

Marmoreo

aureas

out

appears

it?

Licinus tumulo

jacet,at

Cato

make

us

not

govern
livers? why

in the

tragedy
"

Stellas habet.

how

Pomponius nullo

; to

he

quispuiet esse

Dcos

parvo,
?

Christians,the enemy
Why doth he suffer Turkes to overcome
in all places
his church,Paganismeto domineer
"o triumphover
enormities tobe committed,
it doth,heresies tomultipIy,such
as
such
and so many
bloudy wars, murders, massancs,
plagues,
ferall diseases? why doth he not make us all good,able,sound?
this
creatures, rocks, sands,deserts,
why makes he 'Wcnomous

et ineptasolatia a
ista 'fismentamale sanae
Omnia
religionis,
CiBciliiisMinutio.
"c.
"jThese
aliisob
ab
comnioduii),
mysferia,
vel
superstitiosa
inventa,
poetis
Christian warfare,
in John Downams
well answered
and objectionsare
tempt-itions
^ \ id. Campanella
frtc. 2. ad arguujentum
c Seneca.
caj). G. Atlieis. Trinoiphat.
12. ubi plara. Si Deiis bonus, unde colum, ".c.
"

Mem.

2. Subs.

4.]

Cure

earth it self the muckhill

correction

of Despair.

of the

587

"voiid,a prison,an

house

of

?
^Mentimur

regnare

Jovem,

Avifh many
such horrible and execrable
littered ; terribilia de fide,
horribiliade

"c.

conceits,not

fit to be

Divhiitate.

not,
They canvolentes
compelled
when
to blaspheme,especially
7iofentes,
to church
they come
and pray, reade, "c.
such fowl and prodigious
suggestions

sonieof

come

them, but tbinke evil;theyare

into their heartsThese are abominable,

and most
unspeakableoffences,
site
oppothis
to God, tentationesj'iedce
in
lie or
et impice;
case,
yet
{hat
shall
be
and
that
aliected, must know,
so
they
no
tempted
isfree from such thoughts
man
in part, or at some
livingtimes;
the most
divine spirits
have been so temptedin some
sort; evil
illcompany,
idleness,solicustome, omission ofhoiyexcercises,
devil is still
the
and
tariness,
melancholy,or depravednature,
ready to corrupt, trouble,and divert our souls; to suggestsucli
blasphemousthoughts into our pliantasies,
ungodly,profane,
and
wicked
If
conceits.
from Satan, they
monstrous
they come
cannot
avoid
more
are
speedy,fearfull and violent,the parties
them: theyare more
when they
frequent,I say, and monstrous
for
the
divel
he
and
and hath means
is a spirit,
come;
opportuand
nitie to mingle bimselfe with our
sometimes
more
spirits,
and
s
ometimes
to
more
slily,
openly, suggest such
abruptly
divelisb thoughtsinto our
hearts.
Be insults and domineers
and persons especially
in melancholydistempered
phantasies
;
divels
is
the
balneum
holds,
diaboli,
as
melancholy
Serapio

bath,andinviteshimtocometoit.

As asicke

man

frets,raves

his fits,
speakesand doth he knows not what, the divel
compelssuch crazed soules, to thinke such damned

in

violently
thoughts

but do it: sometimes

more
conagainsttheir wils ; theycannot
is less
the subject
he takes his advantage,
as
tinuate,or by fits,

able

to

senses,

aggravates,extenuates,affirmes,denies,da

he
resist;

confounds
and

the

troubles heart, braine, humors,

spirits,

wholly domineers

proceedfrom themselves,
moderate,not

so

in their

such

violent and

organs,
imaginations.If they

ihey are
thoughts,

monstrous,

not

so

remiss

and

frequent.The

commonly suggests thingsopposite nature, opposite

would
and his word, impious,absurd, such as a man
to God
strike
terrour
of bimselfe, or could not conceive, they
never
he
heart.
if
For
or
and horrour into the parties
owns
theybe
asked whether
they do approve of such like thoughtsor no,
soules truelydictate as much)
(and their owne
they answer
and
the
divel bimselfe,they Avould fain
theyabhor them as hell
divel

to

Liican.

58S

Melancholtf.
Reiigioui

thinke
and

so

otherwise

if

they roulcl

; he

hath

3.
[Part.

Sec. 4.

thouglit
otherwise,

nil ijissoule desires so to thinke ng^ain

sist,
; he doth rennd hafli some
g'oodmotions infermixt now ai5(ithen :
(hat such
are
blasphemous,impious,unclean tIioui"hts,

not

with

his

but the divels ;

theyproceednot
phantasie,
distemperedhumors,
his braine; "theyare tliy
crosses,

owne,

from

a crazed
\vhich ofiend

.-^ndhe shall

for them

answer

Avhich thou
althonoh

dost abhor, and

he hath sometimes

he doth enforce

didst

from

him, but

hlacke
the

divelssins,

thee

do that

to

giveconsent

never

fumes

to:

and

set
slily

upon thee,and so Onto such

prevailed,
sort, to assent
wicked
in them, yet they have not prothouohts, to delight
ceeded
from a confirmed
will in thee,but are of that nature
Tvhich thou dost afterv,-ards reject
and abhor.
Therefore be
as

to

make

so

thee, in

some

overmuch

troubled
and dismaid with tin'skinde of
gestions,
sugleast
if
at
not
are
theypleasethee not; because t'ley
for
which
thou
of
shalt
incur
the
wrath
sins,
thy personall
God, or his displeasure
: contemne,
neglectthem, let them go
strive
as
trouble thy selfe too
not too violently,
or
they come,
much, but as our Saviour said to Satan in like case, say thou,
not

A roidSatan^ 1 detest thee and them.

(saith
Austin)nostrvmnonconssntire:
so

must

we

sufficient: the

more

perplexed,the

more

strive

not

to

anxious

Satance

esl mala

labours

Satan

as

huferere^

give consent,

and

to suggest,
it will be

and

solicitous thou art, the more

thou shalt otherwise be troubled,and entangled.

Besides,they must

know

this,all so molest";d and

that althoughthese be most

execrable and griedistempered,
vous
sins,theyare pardonableyet, throughGods mercy and
goodness they may be forgiven,if they be penitentand

sorry for them.

He

did

not

the

Paul

good

himselfe
he

would

7. 19.
confesseth, Rom.
doe, hut the evil which he

would
doe ; 'tis not I, but sin that dwelleth in me.
not
'Tis not thou, but Satans suggestions,
his craft and subtilty,
his malice : comfort thy selfe then if thou be penitent
and
.

grieved,or desirous to be so, these hainous sins shall not be

laid to thycharge. Gods mercy is above all sins, which ifthou
doe not finally
without doubt thou shalt be saved.
centemne,
^ No
sins ar/ainst
the Hohj Ghost, hut he that tvilfulbj
man
and

rcnounceth
him and his
finallif
Christ, and contemneth
word
the last,without which there is no salvation ; from
to
irhich
Take
Gods

grievoussin, God oj'his infinite

mrrni
hold of this to be thy comfort, and meditate
word,labour to pray, to repent, to be renewed

keep thine

heart

with

all

Prov.
dilif/ence,

deliver
withal]
in

us.
on

minde,

4. 23. resist the

"'
"Perkins.
Heinminfiius. Nemo
pecrat in SpiritnmSancdim, nisi qui finaliteret voliintarierennnciat
Christo, (Hinqiie ct ejus vrrlnim c xtrenio coiiteiiuiit,
sine
Douninna Jpsus Chrisfus. Amen.
quo nulla salu8 ; a quo ppcoato liberet nos

2. Subs.

Mem.

divel and

of Despair.

589'

he will

fiyefrom thee, pour out thy soule

sorrowful Hannah, praji continualhi, as

with

Lord

Cure

G.]

joyus, and

David

did, Psal.

1. meditate

Ms

on

the

uuto

Paul

in-

dau and

law

night.
Yea, but this meditation

is (hnt that

all;and

mistake "
far
all
worse,
many
misconceiving* theyre ide or
overtlirow.
to their owne
The
more
tbey search and
divine
the more
or
treatises,
Scriptures,
they puzsfo

makes

mars

men

hear,
reade

themselves

bird in

net, the

and

they are
this
into
precipitated
pre[)osterousgulf. Mnny

hut

few

as

chosen, Mat.

are

20.

enta!ioIeJ

more

16. and

2?.

called,

are

14. with such

like

placesof

strike ihem with horrour ;

scripturemisinterpreted,
whether
they doubt presently
they be of this number or no.
Gods
etcrnall decree of predestination,
absolute reprobation,
and

such

fatall tables

pinge
ruine, and imthey form to their owne
be
slsaJi
How
assured
despair.
they
upon
tlieirsalvation,by whatsignes? If the riahteous scarcely

this rocke

of

of

be saved, inhere shall

sinners

ungodhj and

knowes, saith Solomon,

grindestheir sonles ; how shall

This
not

the

Who

4. IS.

reprobates?

the divel

From

are?

But

appear?

v/hetlier he

they

be

discern

1 Pet.

elect?

th.eyare

1 say

how shall theydiscern they

ag-ain,
be no certainly,
forLe is a lyarfrom

can

too frequently
as
beginning-If he suggest any such thing,
he doth, rejecthim as a deceiver,an enemy
of humane
kind;
with
not
refuse
him, give no credittohim. obstinately
dispute

the

the divel set

Anthony did in the vt^iliiernessjwhom
in^severall sliapes;
the collier did,
do thou by
or
as
upon
For when
the divel tempted him with the weakness
him.
of
his faith,and told him he could not be saved, at; beingignorant
in the princi["les
of religion
and
himnioreoverto
urged
;

him,

S'.

as

so

he beleeved, what
he thought of .such and
the
collier
und h'nv,,
he btileeved
mysteries:

what

know

pointsand
church

did;

beleeve?
leevest.^

as

what

I doe

as

the

divel

doth, "e. v.hen

he left him.
Christ:

If Satan

the divel could

sumnson

thee

to

get

no

ariswer,

he is

thy liberty,
thy protector against
is thyrighteousness,
life.
he
thou
art not
thy
Though
say,
forsaken of God, hold
elect,a reprobate,

that roaringlyon ; he
death, ragingsin.

thy saviour, and

of the number

thine

(saidthe

again) dotli the church

and wh;"t's thatlhou
be(saidthe collier)

the church

as

other answer,
send him to
cruell

but

.such

own

of the

still,
hie

Let this be

mums

aheneus

esto,

wall to defend thee, stay

thy selfe in that certaiutyof faith ; let that be thy comflDrt,
CHRIST
will protect thee, vindicate thee, thou art one
of
his

as

bulwark,

brazen

flocke,he will triumphover

the law,

vanquishdeath, over-

Malaiic/ioli/.
IteiKjioua

590

and
(lie (livel,

[Part.3.

Sec. 4.

destroyliell.

If he say thou art none

of the elect, no
heleever, rejecthim, defie him, thou hast
thoui"ht otherwise,and maist so he resolved ag^ain;
comforte
como

thy selfe:

this

less

ninch

perswasjoncannot
it be

can

M'hyshouldest

and

Paul,

grounded
thou

penitency

cruell

give

the

divel,and

thy selfe;men are

denying Peter, a

lyars,
cutingperse-

David, have been received;

njay be converted ;
testimonyof finall

apostate Solomon

an

distrust? A

adulterous

an

from

conie

from

sin

no

all but im-

at

reprobation.^Vhy
selfe,upon what
tliy
what
This
?
alone
of particularity
?
ground,
suspitio:i
opinion
the
of
and
for
election
and
salvation
that,
certainty
Against
on
the other side, see Gods
good will towards men ; hear how
generallyhis grace is proposed to him, and him, and thern,
and to all. I Tim. 3. 4. God tcillthat
each man
in particular,
can

shouldest

thou

all

saved,and

he

men

distrust,misdoubt

then

to the

come

knowledffeof the

truth. 'Tis

pronuse, God sent not hhs Son into the ivorld to

the icorld,b?ft that throughhim the ivorld miaht be
saved.
John. 3. 17. He then that acknowledgethhimselfe a
likewise acknowledge he is of that
in the world, must
nmn
universal]

an

condenine

that is to be saved

number

of

Ezek.

sinner,but that he repent and

therefore

he wills

not

sent me, that every man

John ().40.
ever
lasting
life,

all

come

sins
men.

2S.

every

how

repentance,

He

can

in him,

19.

creature, Mark
wills in Cod
this stand

hope mcH

/ will not

13.

1.5.

But

have

no

but
perish,

man

Besides

remission

of

fewe, but

to all
universally
nations,baptizinr/
them, ^-c.
world, and preach the Gospel

Now

there

be

cannot

tradictory
con-

; he will have all saved, and not all;

then, beleeve,trust
together? be secure

and

liov/ shall I beieeve

Pet. H. 9.

into all the

Goe

live

would

is to be preached,not to a
Goe therefore
and tell all

Matth.
to

to

o3. 11.

the death
thou art a sinner,
This is the trill oj'
him that
thy death.
that heleeveth in the Son, should have
:

be saved.

Yea

discern

that's the main

securityfrom

matter,
carnall presumption
those signes

or
my
faith is .veake and faint ; I want
and fruits ofsanctiHcation,''sorrow
for sin,thirsting
for grace,
of
the
love
of
Christians
ing
avoidas Christians,
spirit,
groanings
oinew
occasion of sin,endeavour
love
obedience, charity,

? my

of

God, perseverance.
thee,and not seated
lerriHed:

Though
in thine

these

heart,thou

dejectedor
yet so fullyfelt in tliee;conchule
or

doubt

ia
signesbe languishing
nuist

not

tin.'efi'ectsof the faith and

not

of thine election ; because

Ahernethy.

not
spiritare

therefore thou

art

probate,
re-

the elect themselves

witiiout them, before their conversion.

are
in the Lords good time be converted,
some
are
"

therefore be

Thou

called

inaist
at

the

Melancholy,
Religious

592
should

Why

'

we

Ood

to

pray

hhnj'or

his mercies and

that

[Part.3.

Sec. 4.

and
Gentiles,

are

that hath
benefits,

damned

thanke
all inno-

ns

one
mans
cnonsj'orAdams offence,
should
eatingof an apple; why

governoiir (hat

hath

soules,contemned
teach

us,

ns,

hath

he

as

small
one
offence,
offence,
we
acknowledgehim for our
the salvation of our
wholly neglected
and sent no prophetsor instructors to

done

apostate objects.

and

nrgeth) rejectus

the

to

Hebrewes

A*'hyshould

? So Julian the
Christians (Cajlius

these

appropriateGod

themselves

unto

Denni
ilium snum
unicnm, cV*". But to return
to our
fori^ed
Caelius.
At last he couics
to that,he wUI have those saved that
in Christ, ex pvris naturalihus,
heard of, or beleeved
never

Pelagians,and proves
They (saith Origen)that never
excused for their ignorance
: we
with

hard, angry,

dicta

cruell

that refuse

Many v/orthyGreekes
done

to

they
were

of

themselves,
that lived

were

may

to he

are

God

will he

as
to condemne
ininjtist
any man
in
the
tion
state of damna(heholdes)are

Nature,

did

others

to

are

as

Gods

sight,as

it is offered.
honest

men,

they would

as

saved,
certainly
before the law
uprightly

acceptablein

word,

think

and grace, when

mercy
and Romans, good moral

Christs

that kept the law

not

others.

or

They alone

causa.

Origen and

Gods

heard

"^

so

of

it out

the

he

be

concludes,as

of Moses.
They
tlie Magi, the
was,

Job

Darius

of Persia, Socrates,
Sheba,
Aristides,
Cato,
queene
and
other
Seneca,
Curius, TuUy,
philosophers,
many
right
upof v/hat religion,
matter
as
livers,no
Cornelius,out
of

of any nation, so that he live honestly,ca]l on

God, trust
This opinion was
in him, feare him, he shall be saved.
merly
formaintained
by the Yalentinian and Basiledian here-

tiques; revived
was

of late in

patron, defended
fathers ; aiid

by

'^^

Turkic,ofwhich
"^Galeatius

later times

Rustan

sect

Martins, and

favoured

by

Bassa

some

cient
an-

Erasmus,

by
fideiad, Regem Gallia^, whose tenet
Zuingliusin e.rposit.
and Gualter approves
in a justapology,
Bnllingervindicates,
Th.ere be many
Jesuites that follow
niany arguments.
Buchsius Mog*unthese Calvinisls in this behalfe ; Franciscus
Andradius
Consil.
Trident,
schoohnen
that out
tinus,
many

with

of the llom. 2. 14, 15. are

workes of the Gentiles did
vitam

wternam

sellius,and

verily
perswaded that those good
for please
so
God, that theymight

promereri,and
Bcnedictus

be

Justinianus

saved
in

in the

his Comment

end.

Seon

the

4. aJversiis Jnliariiiiii.
Qui potcrimusilligratias
Vide Cyrillunilib.
agere, qui nohis
et couternpsitbona aniinarum iiostrarum ?
l)Venia
niisitMosen et prophctas,
audiunt ob ipnorantiam. Non est tatii iniqmisjudex Deus, ut
danda est iisqui non
indictiicausa
damnare velit. II .solum damnantiir,qui oblataui Christ! giaquenquam
""
"!
1. I.'i.|
Busbeqnius Loniceriis Tur. hist.JTo.
tiam rejiciunt
Clem. Altx.
* Paulus
iilust |
Jovius elog.lii-.
a

non

2. Subs.

Mem.

6.J

Cure

of Despair.

593

firstof the

the polititian,
with
Romans, Mathias Ditmarsh
satutenon
be
others,liold a mediocrity,
indicpii,
theymay

many
but they will

absolutelydecree
of Helmstad,
and
professour

with

most

Franciscus

it.

not

of

church, and

our

Collins hath

Hofmannus,
of his

many

stiffe

papists

are

fullycensured

all

theran
Lu-

followers,

againstit.

opinionsin

his five

Books (lePagayiorvmanimabus
this

past mortem^ and amply dilated

But to return
will may peruse.
his conclusion
is,that not only wicked livers,

which
question,

author;

to my

who

so

blasphemers,reprobates,and such as
that the divels themselves shall be saved
since delivered in his workes; and our
Ostorodius,cap.
all and

for

rejectGods
at

grace, but

last,as ^Origenlong-

late

Socinians

41. i7istit7it.
Smaltius, c^c. Those

in

eternall,but

defend
of

termes

only denote

ever
not
are
scripture,
longer time, which by many examplesthey prove. The
end like a comoedy, and we
shall meet
worWshaU
at fast lii
else in conclusion,in
heaven,and live in bliss togetlier;
or

niliilevanescence.

For

how

that shall

he be merciful

can

;/

"

con-

demne

to eternall,
unspeakablepunishment,for
any creature
small temporary fault,
all posterity,
one
so
myriades,for
many
and another mans
one
oifence,qvklmernistis oves ? But these
absurde
paradoxes are exploded by our church ; vre teach

otherwise.

That

this vocation,

election,repropredestination,
bation,

massd, prcevisdfide,as our Arminians,

corruptd,
but
or
bur papists,
ex pravisis
"s
rion
ex prcEteritione,
operibus,
Gods
absolute decree^aute
mundum
of
our
creatttm, (asmany
church holde)was
from the beginning,
before the foundation
of the world was
laid,or homo conditits,
fall,
(orfrom Adams
others will,/to??iolapsusobjectume.^treprobatiojiis)
"with peras
non

ex

severantia

must
sanctorum, we
fall but not finally,
which

be certain of

our

Salvation;we

Arminians

will not admit.

decree
and counselL
eternall,
just

may

our

Accordingto his immutable,

and angels,God
cais all,and ^yould have all to
savingmen
V
be saved according
of vocation : all are invited,
to the efficacy
-^ \
but onelythe elect apprehended the rest that are unbeleeving,r -^i^***
";
in his justjudgement leaves to be
God
impenitent,whom
.'4,^^\
punishedfor their sins,are in a reprobatesense; yet Ave must -^^
f
of

*'

ri-

'

'

'"

'

not

determine

because
to

we

who
have

beleeve, and

an
we

are

such, condemne

universal
know

not

or

said
Imi^hthave

declaration

VOL.

II.

or

others, '^^^.^j**?
'

of this subject,

more

r:|^^*-^

'

^Mjj

and in the

preface '-^"^

church, printed1633,

aliqaandoservandi.

i-

to

Vid. Pelsii

iH

..i-^"^^^'

queslion
;

to the articles of the

a Non
homines sed et ipsidaenaones
Harmoniam
art. 22. p. 2.

selves

invitation ; all are commanded

how soon
late before our end
or

be received.
may
but forasmuch
it is a forbidden
as

v/e

our

,^.^

Melancholij. [Part.3.
Religious

594:

that
aroid factions and altercations,
we
all curious
prohibited

especially,
are

the article aside

(hate

or

pain oj'ecclesiasticall
with

universitie divines

searche,f.opriui
or preach,

and comments, upon

I will surcease,
and conclude

h\f our

sense

orcn

censure,

of such controversies

Erasmus,

are

Sec .4.

Puffuetquivolet

ego

obsersuscipiendas,religiose

legesmajorum
Deo profectas
esse
a
esse
tntum, nee
pinm,
; nee
sinistrani
concipereant severe suspicionem.
potestatepuhlicd
si (juidest tgrannidis,
non
rjuod tamen
cngat ad impietreverenter

censeo

et

vandas, velut
de
Et

satins

atem,

But
of

estferre,cpiam seditiose rehictari.

foruier taske.

to my

distressed

niinde,is

The

not

so

last main
much

trouble

and

torture

this doubte

of

election,

promises of g-race are smothered and extinct in

them, nay quiteblotted out, as they suppose, but withall Gods
of heartseizeth
heavy v,rath,a most intolerable painand griefe
and

that the

tbem.

on

siifTer
and

see

To

their

they are alreadydamned; they

thinking,
then possiblycan
the painesof hell,and more
be expressed;
with divels,
hear
theysmell brimstone,talk familiarly
uncouth
chimeras,
shapes,bears, owls,
prodigious,
doos, fiends,hideous

antique,black

outcries,fearfull noises,

shreeks, lamentable

they are possessed,and

complaintes,
and
howle, curse, blaspheme,
through ''impatience
theyronre
call
his
and
into
God,
abjure religion,
deny
question,
power
stillready to offer violence unto tiiemselves,by hanging,
are
Never
drowning,"c.
ning"
any miserable wretch from the beginof the
I oppose

world, was

mercy
counsell

injusta:his

secret

spares

and

heal

to

To such

case.

persons

Dei occulta,non
/^^rf/cia
justice;
and justjudgement,by which he

afflictsothers

soro

againinthislife : his judgement

by

or
quired
enat, not to be searched
he
hath
reserved
him
morfali men
to
reasons
;
cannot
apprehend. He may punishall
frailty

selfe,which our
if he Avill,
and that
is to make

wofull

adored, trembled

is to be

after

and his

Gods

some,

in such

way

them,

to

for siu;
justly,

in that he doth

it in some,
for his mercie that theyrepent and be saved ;
trye them, exercise their patience,and make

call upon him; to confess their sins and pray unto him,
David (lid,
Psal, 119- 137. Righteousart thou, O Lord and
as
Luke
18. 13.
just are thg judgements. As the poor publican,

them

Lord

have

mercy
and have

me
a
upon
assured
an

miseraule

hope

sinrier.

in him.

as

To

Job

fidence
put conIS, 15.

had

Ure, seca, occide, O

Though
cut in pieces,
Domiue, (saith
Austin) mado serves animam, kill,
burne my body (O Lord)to save
mysoule. A small sickness.
he kill me,

Epist Eras
sf-nsns
seq\iit!ir
'

I rcill trust

in him

''
conscientia
Vastata
ad lecforem.
colloquior.
irre flivinse,
(Heininjiim)fremitus cordis, ingens aniniie cruciatus,"c

mi de ntilitate

Mem.

one

2. Subs.

lash of

humiliate

Cure

6,]

595

of Despair.

little miserie, many

affliction,
a

times, will

him

home

more

know

bring
discourses, the whole
paraenetical
world of
theory of philosophy,
ora
luw, physicke,and divinity,
instances and examples. So that this,which
they take to be
such
an
insupportableplague, is an evident signe of Gods
mercie
and justice,of his love and goodness: periissent
nisi
h
ad
had
periissent,
they not thus been undone, they
finally
been
undone.
is
lulled
in
carnall
man
Many a
asleep perverse
foolish presumption,
in
securitie,
isstupified his sins,and hath
what
I have sinned (he saith) and
no
feelingat all of them,
a

man,

convert,

sooner

himselfe, then

all those

evill shall

unto

know

come

it?

And

Ecclus.

me,

5. 4. and

to

tush, hoic shall God

down
to hell.
reprobatesense
goes
But
here, Cfpithiusanrem
vellit,God pullsthem by the eare,
and happiness;
by affliction,he will bring-them to heaven
Blessed are theythat monrne,
Matth.
for theyshall be coniforted,
5, 4. a blessed
and an happy state, if considered
it is,
aright,
be
that
to
troubled.
It isgood for me
I have heenaffiicted^
so
Psal. 119. beforeI ivas afflicted
I ivent astray ; hit noiv
I keepe
word.
Tribulation
ivorkes
thy
patiencehope. Rom.
patience,
5. 4. and by such like crosses
and
calamities we
driven
are
the state

from

academy,

in

so

of securitie.

wherein

that affliction is

So

the best schollars

of the

Deity.

to the

prepared
though it be most

And

are

and

grievous for the time, yet know

permission and providence, he is

Gods

and
groanes
thy head are

still present with

teares,

numbred,

not

the express
will of God
he
:
he
corrects
tempted above measure,

etmensurd;

the bruised

breake
sed

God
for

with

Rom.

8.

receive
Whom

her

all tenderness

by us, not forsake

but
our
imperfections,
and

us:

us

with

he hath

miseries,

our

all

he

I walk
liciisad

of

heart,but

in the shadows

and

%yeak, not
and keepe it,so doth

observe

in

whom

child sicke

pietyand

loves

he

relinquish

or

compassion

loves

to

the

us

support
end.

elected,those he hath called,justijied,

sanctifedand ylorijied. Think not

that thou art forsaken
of God,
spirit,
heaviness

pondei'e,

numero

quench
smoaking flaxe, or
Austin) non ut obruat,
(saith
to be
temptetlfor thy good.

coronet, he suffers thee

mother
doth
handle
as
a

rejectit,but

ground

thee to be

Tentat

ut

And

hairs of

the

will not

reed.

all

us

suffer

thy

of

fail to the

can

by

comes

spectator

v.'illnot

without

the Lord

this, it

or

mencements
com-

some
trouble-

thee, the very

of them

one

school

as

of

but from
delicias,

David
death.
the

crosse

then
be

|hou
not

said,i xmll
We

must
to

hast

lost the
with

overcome

not

fecre thonyh

all go,

the crowne,

de-

non

by

hell

to

ReligiousMelanchol

596

[Part.3.

If.

beavi'ii, as the old Roiuans

put Vertiies
endure
must
we
that of Honour:
sorrow

Sec, 4.

the way
Xo
miserie in this

temple in
and

and dearest
this,Gods best servants
thiii^children have been so visited and tryed. Christ in the garden
his
me?
crvcd out, .1///
God, my God, ichy hast thoii.J'orsnken
'Tis

lite.

no

new

by nature, as thou art by adoption and grace. Job in his

in him,
anguish said, The arroves
of the Almir/htyGod were
His terroiirsfovfiht
dratike
Job. (j. 4.
him, the venome
ar/ainst
his enemie, writ
icns
cap. 13. 2(). He saith,God
vp his spirit,
him.
His heavy
hitter thinr/sar/ainsthim, (16. 9.) hated
son

rath had

eaten

were

as

came

seized

so

his soule.

on

His
complains,

David

e\j^s

up., sunk into his head, Ps. 0. 7. His moisture hethe drought in summer,
his fleshteas
consumed, his

hones vexed:

did finally
despair.
yet neither Job nor David
leave his hold, but sfill trust in hiu),acknowledging
not

would

Job

him

to

takes, blessed
David

his

he the

vile,I abhor

am

be

my

good

God.

The

the Lord, Job.

selfe,
repent in dust and

of

name

gives,the

Lord

Lord

Behold

1. 21.

ashes.Job.

40.4.

humbled

and upon his confession

himself, Psal. 31
received
mercie.
Faith, hope, repentance, are the soveraign
and remedies, the sole comforts in this case
cures
; confess,
is
htmjble
sutTicient.
non
Quod purpura
thy self, repent, it

Chrysostome the King-of Ninives

and ashes did that which his purplerobes and crowne
Turn
effect;Quod diadema non potJiit,
cinisperfecit
potest, saith

potest, saccus
sackcloth
could

not

to

of

him,
a

he

contrite

Avill turn

thee

to

heart,and

P.sal. 34. IB. He

Si cadeniem

came

will

The

save

Lord
such

is neer

as

the lost sheepof

to

those that

be afflicted in

Israel,Mat.

are

spirit,

15. 14.

he is at all
pratendit,
si
times ready to assist JWnrjuam spernitDeus poenitentiam,
sincere et simpliciter
ner,
sinhe never
rejectsa penitent
offeratur,
lowed
walhe
have
the
full
to
come
though
heightof iniquity,
and delighted
in sin; yet if he will forsake
his former
he will receive him.
huic
Parcam
Avayes, libentcr amplexatur,
sibi ipsinon
homini,sa\th Aust'iu,(expersona Dei) qiiia
pehim
I
will
cause
bepercit; igyioscam
quiapeccatum agnovit.
spare
he hath not sparedhimselfe ; 1 will pardon him, because
he doth acknowledge his offence;let itbe never
so
enormous
sin his grace is sufficient,
2 Cor.
12. 9.
a
Despairnot then,
faint not at all,be not dejected,
but relyon God, call on him in
thy trouble,and he will hear thee, he will assist,helpe,and

intnetur,clementire

vianum

"^

deliver thee

Psal. 5"2.
.Super.
suuni'pnnienduin.

Draw

neer

Convertar

to him,

he will draw

afJ libtrandiim eum,

quia

conversiis

neer

est ad

to

thee.

peccatiuu

2. Subs.

Mem.

Lazarus was
Jam. 4. S.
poor and full of
did hope
be relied upon God ; Abrabam
chiefe men,
Thou
exceptest, these were

chciri,beloved
and

divine

Deo
spirits,
1

am

temptible
con-

God, andleftto

wretch, forsakenof

foriorne
evil

boyles,and yetstiJI
beyond hope.

respected
especially
; but

God,

of

597

of Despair.

Cure

6.]

the

I cannot
spirits.

hope,pray, repent, "c.

performeall thes(" duties,
g-oodtime. A sicke man
streno'th and ability,
his disease prevaileth
loseih l}isappetite,
hand
and foot performe
faculties
that
all
his
are
so
far,
spent,
nottheir duties,hiseys
are
dimme, hearingdull,tongue distasts
of pleasant
lies hid,recovereth
relish,
again,
thing's
yet nature
and expelleth
all those foecu'ent matters
by vomit, sweat, or
Thou
such like evacuations.
art spiritually
some
sicke,thine
heart is heavy,thymi nde distressed,
thou maist happilyrecover
again,expellthose dismal! passionsof feare and griefe God
did not
suffer thee to be tempted above
he
measure
; whom
David
loves (I say) he loves to the end; hope the best.
in
he had forhis misery prayed to the Lord, remembring how
merly
fury of

merciless

Ho'vv often shall I say it! thou maist

and be restored in
christian offices,

with

dealt

him;

and

with

that meditation

of Gods

confirmed
his own
tumultuous
his faith, and pacified
mercy
O mjj soule,u-hj/
heart in his greatest agony.
thou so disquieted
art
within me^ Src.
Thy souie is eclipsedfor a time, I

yeeld,as the sun is shadowed by a cloude ; no doubt but those

beames
of Gods mercie will shine upon
thee again,
gratious
as
they have formerlydone ; those embers of faith,hope and
repenteuce,

not

are

buried in

now

fullyrevived.

ashes,Avillflame

of faith,no
fit directions ; we
Want

cast

to

for the present,

by faith, not by
forgrace we must

giace to wish
after Gods
man

heart,was

own

thou ?
iclijj
sleepest

so

O Lord, arise,

liidefi thou thj face,andforcjetoff';icherej'ore

and oppression?My soiileis hoiced doinie
affiiction

not

me

mine

test

afresh,and be

live

must

of
'tisthe beginning
feeling-;

expect and tany. David, a

troubled himselfe ; .^wake,

out

of grace
feeling'

the dust.

Arise, redeem

prayedlong before
much
/
plaines,

he

before

cVc

Psal. 44. 22, 23, 24.

heard, expcctans

was

he

ns,

was

relieved.

He

dured
expectavit
; en-

Psal. 69, 3. he

cora-

and my throat is dry,mine

iceary ofcryinrj,
fail,7vhilst Itcait on the Lord ; and yet he perseveres. Be
am

dismayed,thou
by contrarities
woundeth

sited,must
The
no

sins.

he

at
respected

first kills and

firstand then healeth

that he may

feel

shalt be

he

last.

God

then

makes

makes

man

eys
not

often workes
alive
sow

in

he

teares

He that is so vireap injoye; 'tisGods method.

with patienceendure,and rest satisfied for the present.

paschallamb

sweetness

was

of his

Thy painesare

eaten

with

bloud,tillwe

sowre

hearbs

; we

first feel the smart

shall
of

great, intolerable for the time ; thou

our

art

Melancholy.
Religions

598

tlofefituteof grace and

not (Isay) suffer thee

[VaH. 3.

Sec.

4.

he will
comfort; stay the Lords leasure,
to

that thou

above
temptefl

be

art able

10. 1;".but Avilloiveau issue to temptation.He

to bear, iCor.
that love God, Rom.
8. 28.
all for the best to them
works
decree : a
immutable
of thine election,it is an
Doubt
not
be defaced ; you have been otiierwise,
you may
and shall be again. And for your present affliction,
hopcthe
He is present with
his servants
in
end.
best,it will shortly
HKuk

to

never

Great
the troubles of the
Vs. 91. 15.
are
affliction^
31.19.
but the Lord delivereth them out oJ'all,Vsa].
rif/hteous,
which is but for a moment,
worketh
in us
(Jurlightajffliction
J^ot
2
Cor.
answerable
4.
17to
eternall
an
weightofglory
saith
in heaviness,
that qlorgichich is to come
; though now
shall
1 Pet. 1. G. you
rejoyce.
terrible
those externall impediments,
last
of
to
all,
Now,
Kx\^ objects,which theyhear and see many times, divels,
bugbears,
their

-'

and

mormeluches,

These

"c.
sniels,

as
come,
may
discourse
the
of
in my
precedent
inward
from
of
as
a concave
causes;
Melancholy,
Symptomes
of sleepe,
troubled
for
braine
Avant
solid
a
reflects
bodies,
glass

noysome

formerlydeclared

1 have

nutriment, and

by

of that

reason

of spirits
to which
agitation

attributes all symptomes almost, may reflect

and
vaine
feare
erased
our
as
shapes,
prodigious

de Saxonia

Hercules

and shew

shall suggest and fairs,

as
phantasie
and

times

such

terriculaments

all othersenses

this humour
the

may

is balneum

distemperof

diaboli, the divels bath,by

humours,

and

his power
is determined ; he may
God
hath given his a?igels
chargeover

but

people,Psal. 91. 11, 12.

physicin such cases; 'tisGods

about his

must

have

exhort, advit.

l^ymeditation

mixt remedies.

of

remedy

Many
causes,

reason

of

transform
for

time,

but not hurt.

he
is
wall round
a
us,
There be those that prescribe
us
terrify

and not unfit.

instrument
and
mixt ses
diseahumours,

Levinus

ep. instit. is very

that chiefe

of

infirm organs in us : he may so

us, as he did Saul and others,by

inwardlyto molest
possess
Gods
permission;he is princeof the ayr, and can
delude all our
himself into severall shapes,
senses

dive!workes

want

Besides,as I have said,

be deluded.

us

The

women

they see that they see not.

proceedfrom natural
may

suppose
repast and sleepe,
and

weake
silly

many

children in the dark, sicke folks,and frantick for

Lemnius

cap. 57

^'58.

copiousin this

of confidence

in

sides
subject,beGod, prayer, hearty

and instruction
for your comfort
repentance, "c. of which
reade Lavater dc spectris^
part 3. cup. 5. ^-6. Wierus deproilib. 5. to Philip
dmnonum
Melancthon, and others;and
stigiiK.
he sets downe
prescribes;
which
have marvelous
pretious
stones,
drive
divels
damonibus
to
veYtucti,a\\profigandis
away

that christian

armour

which

Paul

certain amulets,hearbs, and

[Part.3. Sec.

Melancholy.
liel'uj'ious

GOO

4.

Tertullian,
hodies, (as Ca?liiis Rhodiginus,Uh. 1. cap. 29.
if
stricken,
mid
hoide)
theyfeel paine.
Oriiien,Pscllas,
many

injoyneand applycrosses,
rnpisfsconiniouly

tified
holywater, sancfor
of
that
end
beads, amulets, nuisicke,ringing- bells, to
terfeit
councharacters,
they consecrated, and by them baptized,

are

jurations,
adoblations,
peregrinations,
masses,
many
Albertinus
PeAlexander
not?
a Rocha,
and what
with
other
and
Hieronymus ]Mengus,
many
Thyreus,
so
reliques,

trus

set down

and
writers,prescribe
pontificiall

exorcismes,
moniacal

well

as

to

houses

araof
persons; but I

**

of

dae-

divels,as to
miude, 'tisbut daui-

Lemnius

ameer
aut potms ludijicatio,
adjuratio,

nosa

to no purpose.
They are
absurde story is amongst the
seduced by a magitianin France,

charme,

as

severall formes

with
possessed

that

bv

Domphius,

and
3Iichaelis,

terfeit
mockage,a counand
fopperies fictions,
woman
rest, of a penitent

at S*. Bawne, exorcised

of

company

circumventing

If any
man
(saithLemnius) will attempt such a
without all those juglingcircumstances, astrologicall
thing-,

friers.

elections of time,

habits,fustian, big,
place,prodigious

words, spels,crosses,
(juipedal

characters,which

example
termes,
ambitiousswelling

let him

use,

follow

the

that without any

In the the name
Acts 3.
of'Christ Jesus
alone is the best and only charme
name

exorcists

of Peter
cured

and

a' lame

sesdinarily
or-

John,
man.

rise andwalke.

His

all such
against

dia-

bolicall illusions,
so
dothOrigen advise: and

Chrysostome.

so

Ilae erit tihi baculus,ha:c turrisinexpiiguabilisjiac

annatura.
saith
Nos quid ad hcec dicemus, pluresfortasseexpectahnut,
desire
counsell
will
and
S'. Austin; many
men
opinion
my
done

what's to be
tit

verdjidcj
qncB

in this

behalfe; I

can

say
operatur, ad

per dilectionem
flyeto God alone for

no

more,

qnam

DetanvnmnJ'u-

helpe. Athanasiusin
variis quccst.prescribes
De
a
as
his book
present charme
Ps.
of
the
68
Exsurqat Dens,
against divels,the beginning
best
But
Ac,
the
remedy is to flyeto
dissipentnrinimici,
God, to call on him, hope,pray, trust, relyeon him, to commit
Uhat
the practice
of the primitive
ourselves whollyto him.
i/iamus,let them

church

was

in this

read Vv'ierus

at

behalfe,et quisdicmonia

lib.5. de Cura.
large,

Lam.

modus,
ejiciendi
meles. cap. 3S.

et

deinceps.
this
know
certainly
meditation,
fasting-,
judgements,(forthe divel

Last of all : If the party affected shall

malady to have proceededfrom too much

of Gods
lile,contemplation
precise
he circumvents
such
meanes) in that other cxtream
many by
books, treatises,
melancholyit selfe,readingsome

deceives

dtsimt nostra actate sacrificnli,

aNon
qui talc tjiiid
attentant,seH a cacodaemone
''Done into Engllgh
irriiii
putloresuff.rli sunt,et re inftcta abiertinf.
by \V, B- lfil.3

Cure

6.]

Subs.

2.

Mera.

of Despair.
If he

perceive that it hath

great loss, grievous accident, disaster,

hearing-rigid preachers, "c.

first from

begun
seeing

speedily
^

some

in like

others

Navarrus

cause,

shall

such

any
wlucli

commends,

much

so

or

case,

the

remove

sou!e

friends.

of his

other

hear

subjects,

let him

and

all

by

meanes

advice

word

him

to

that

himselfe

such

more

avoid

tones,

is

"=

and

tracts

such

or

panies,
com-

himselfe

divines, which

of

to

is contra-

them

hear

''

minister

no

his

recreate

himselfe, submit

good physicians and

he cals it ;
ventio
scrupuloriim,as
hath
the Lord
given the tongue of
the

and

thoughts, by

fearful

open

him

of this disease

cure

refresh

reade

him

such

more

no

and

his

object, let

cogitationem arescruindustry,let him laxnre

avertat

divert

Let

terrible
the

to

art
pulosdi by all opposite meanes,
recreations,
animum,
by all honest

distressed

601

speake to whom
learned, to be able

the

whose

weary,
be

words

are

to
as

him
Let
not
obslinate, head-strong-,
flagons of wine.
(as in this malady they are)
peevish, wilful, self-conceited
and
but give ear
to
perswaded ; and
good advice, be ruled
but
such
doubt
to
as
no
good councel
may
prove
prosperous
the angel was
his soule, as
to
Peter, that
opened the iron
his bands,
of prison, and
dc'
out
broujjht him
gates, loosed
livered
from
his afflicted
him
ease
bodily thraldome
; they may

of

jawes

it selfe.

hell

such

to

I have

as

thou

as

soule,

can

any
way
said.

are

and

given

conclusion,

wounded

his

relieve

minde,

and

say no
distressed
take

Only

tenderest

thine

melancholy, thy good health

this short
precept, give not way

all other

Be

not

solitary, be

not
ATE

S PER
CAVETE

Vis

duhio

pcenitentiam

liberari
dum

sanus

es;

eo
quodpoenitentiamegisti

Tom.

2. cap.

27.

num.

him

give

or

more,

in this

this

of

better

kinde, then

for

of

body

and

to

solitariness

in

the
vice
ad-

what

corollary

welfare

own

out

and

this, and

minde,
and

serve
obness.
idle-

idle.
MISRRI,
FCELICiiS.

vis

take

incertum

quod

sic agens,

tempore

282.

quo

dico

evadere

est

tihi

Age

quod securnses,
peccarepotiiisti.Austin.

Navarrus.

Jg. 50.

4.

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TABLE.

A.
Angers

PACE.

Absence
Absence

of love melanch.

cure

long,

over

cause

Academicorum
errata
Abstinence
commended
Adversitie why better then
ritie

ii. 361
of lousy
jeaii.

434

i.
i,

204

358

prospe-

ii.
4g
i.
^Equivocations of melancholy
16
-ii. 423
jealousie
^Emulation, hatred, faction,desire
of revenge,
of mel. i. 149.
causes
their cure
ii,
63
Affections, whence
they arise,i. 34.
how they transform us, 7. of sleeping
........

"

"

"

"

"

"

Aurum

HO

Amorous

objects

causes

of love

melancholy
potabile censured,
of

.ii.

approved
ii.

and

Barrenness
Barren

grounds

cured

Baseness
Bathes

have

best

of love

of birth

rectified

"

i.

255

.ii.

437
395

.i.
ayrof melan"

"

melancholy,
ii.

"

277

controverted,approved ii, 133

symptome

choly, i. 279.
287.

of jealousie

cause

Bashfulness
160

00

effects,i. 254. his

antidote
ii.
51
Bald lascivious
ii. 440
Barrenness
what grievances it causeth
cure

139

lancholy
me-

ii.258,
Amulets

"

Banishments

,_

ii.

"

B.

500

loves object

"

described

46

ders
melancholy, i. 150, 164. hinand spoilsmany
matches, ii.
of heresie

22
395

ii. 545
ii, ]23

Averters

232
130

attractive

Arteries what
Artificial ayr againstmelan.
Artificial allurements of love
Arminian
tenents
Art of memory

247
354

Athiests

63

love
ii
Alkermes
good against melan. '-ii.
Aloes hJs vertues
ii.
Alteratives in physic to what
use,
ii.93. againstmelancholy ..126.
Ambition
defined,described,cause

melancholy

Amiableness

j.
i.
.-..i.

82

56

405.

99

2I0

223

of

i.
of
jL

cause

i.

i.
i.
in

parts

15i
34

ii.

ii.

"

divels

beautiful

"".-ii.
i.

Astrologicalsigns of love

58

All

melancholy

67

friends
ii.
Aire how it causeth melan.
i. 116.
rectified it cureth melanch.
how

.392,401. aire in love

love

45

33

Aereall
All are

Apology of

Appetite
Apples good or bad, how
Apparel and cloaths, a
love melancholy
Aqueducts of old

"

"

241
ii. 591
J. 427
Astrologicalaphorisms, how available,
of melansigns or causes
choly

waking
-i.
melancholy what
Against abuses, repulse, injuries,
contumely, disgraces,scoffes .-ii
Against envy livor,hatred,malice ii.
Against sorrow, vain fears,death of
in

"

and

Affection

description,effects,
how it
melancholy
j. 152
Antimony a purger of melan.
-ii. 108
Anthony inveigledby Cleopatra..ii 251
causeth

no

136

disparagement
ii. 212
i. 361

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PAGE.

Biwds

of love melanch.

canse

Kawm

good asrainstmelanch.

Heasts

and

J}eaf

"

"

"

-ii.

95

ii.

194

birds in love

ii. 282

of lovers

Bi-ef

ii. 284

melancholy

Keer

censured

Hest

site of

meat

house

an

i.

95

i.

101

i.

395

Beauties
definition, ii. 151. cure
238
of melanch.
described, 231.
attractive

317.

power,
how

melanch.

more

beholding
brittle and

then

to art

nature

beauty of God
Bezoars
choly
stone
good against melan43G.

Black

best

eys

spots in the

Black

man

pearl in

4S1

womens

Blow

the head

on

the mind
on
of all sorts

it works

Books

85

Cities
Civil

i.
115
"!. 262

265

282
424

Brow

and

fore-head

pleasing
Brute

"

beasts

Business

"

which

causes

Cloathes

cure

dice

censured,

233

nature

i.

413

i.

196

233

"

"

247

"

"

"

the

moon

i.

12:?

i.

381

alteratives censured, approved,

ii. 101.

compound

114.

compound

purgers
wines

Community

"

of

wves

Complement

mel.-;

and

"!!"

""""244,

of love melanch.

Confections

"

126
465

carriage

good

and

"

lousie
ofjea-

cure

245

again.st

conserves

;""

""""

ii.

of his griefto a friend,a

""""[.
of melanch'
principalcure
in his physician half a
Confidence

105

Confession
351

seven

spirit
ved
appro-

i.

347

204

"

"

ii.
Conscience

troubled

Conscience

what

413
97

440

ii.203,
Conjugal love best
Continual cogitationof his mistress
of love melancholy
symptome
a
67

122

"""

above

cure

i.

Carp fishes

"

"

101

15

i.

"

ii.

"

and

"

for melan

c.

Cards

"

-ii. 143
Clysters good for melancholy
"ii. 130
CotTa a Turky cordial drink
118
""""!.
Cold ayr cause
of melancholy

of melan.

lancholy
me-

ii.

father conjured up
Gardens
i. 59. had a
divels at once,
him
bound
to

"

""'""'"

of love melancholy,

causes

Compound

ii. 427
of love

286

i.

causes

ii.

jealous

the best

116

i.

lancholy
me-

100,

"

85

-i.

"

respect

Comets

most

are

"

particularplaces how
ii. 212
of love melancholy
of good
caust
mere
a

Combats

parts

i.

15-^
416

of melancholy,
ii.

290

of

of

causes

'"

and

Cloathes

26

bear, how

"

167

i.

recreations
lawyers miseries

Climes

anatomised
and

184

118^

104

Bread

294

ii.

235

bugloss,
ii. 94.
a"^ainst melanch.
their \vines and juyce most
cellent
ex-

his

ii-

438
Circirmstanceslncreasingjealousieii.

"

cause

sign

288

Charity described, ii. ISO. defects

ofit
-"""!.
of a covetous
man
Character
mad
Charls the sixth king of France

remedies
Chirurgical

hearbs

distempered how
melancholy, i. 160.

of

313

423,
soveraign

Brain

ii.

ii.

i.

and

Berage

philter

.587

i. 130. 259.

94

Choleric melancholy signs

sancti Viti a disease
Chorus
Chymical physickcensured

""i.
Body melancholy, his causes
of melancholy,
Bodily symptomes
i. 266. of love melancholy
""""ii.
Bodily exercises, i. 403. body how
"

474

""ii.

countenance,

Chiroraantical signs of melan.

ses
cau-

"

ii.
love

to

Chess-playcensured

cure

of mel.

"

enforced

the Great

435

ofjealousie;

love, 203.

130

pardonable """"ii.

cause

Causes
heroical

305

""

of

love, ii. 174

honest

237

eye

and how,
Blood-letting,when
of melancholy
Blood-lettingand purging, how
of melancholy

of

ii

of lovers

Blindness

symptomes

ii.

ii.234,

Blasphemy, how

for apger

nailes signs of
i.

melancholy
Black

105

i-

""""

ofjealousie

cause

ii.

melancholy

of

love tielancholy

uncertain, 373.

cerots

of diseases
immediate
Causes

baselyby
Change of

vous
grie-

155

choly
for melan-

Cause

Charls

irresistible, 230.

241.

censured, 375.

makes

249.

222.
wonnds

Cataplasmes

i.

"

againstjeulonsie
Centaury good against melas.

tives,
prerogait causeth

excellency,

"

and

Cautions

commendation,

parts, 2.32.

in

effects

Cares

it is

cause

305

of despair
ii.

569

i.

40

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TABLE.

PAGE.

brawling;, law-suits,

Contention,
effects

Continent

PAGE.

"

inward

or

lanclioly
Cookery taxed

257

i.

103

i. 365.

cure

to
"

ii.
some

"

"-

of

cause

i.
ii.

of accidents

82

in mel.

113
145

134

"ii.

expel windiness and

costiveness
ii. 145
helped
Cordials againstmelancholy
-ii. 126
Covetousness
defined, described,
how it causeth
melancholy """"!. 167
Counsel! againstmelancholy, i.435.
ii. 367. cure
of jealousie,462. of
578
despair
to

"

""

"

Cuclvolds

in all ages
recreations
common

Countrey
Crocodiles

-ii. 457

"

jealous

i.

411

ii.

427

Cupping glasses,cauteries how and

used to melancholy
-ii. 124
when
of diet, delightof appetite,
Custome
how to be kept and yeekled to- i. 108
"

Cure

of melanch.

unlawful

"

reiected,

from

140.
of love melancholy,
350. of jealousie,455. of

despair
of melancholy in himself,i.435

442

described, his effects

Curiosity

"

-i. 249

maskinjy,mumming, censured,
approved, ii. 276, 277.
their effects, how they cause
love
how

of mel.

of

and

particular
parts,causes
how

i.

of friends

ibid, feel

pain,

motion, mortal, 57.

cause

swift

"

-ii.
i.
of melanch.
effects, ibid.
death advantageous

cause

"

"

70

62

"

shall be

saved,

593

"

nations
Diet how rectified to

"

of their miseries
accidents causing mel."
and their kindes

troublesome, how

Earths

children

motion

.ii.
the

81

-i.

241

i.

33

198
"

to

be

i.
often mel.
"i.
i. 105.
"

main

causes

434
90
459

of
ii.
i.

254
11

u.

312

examined, i. 383.

center, "c,

compass,

386.

animata
of mel
Education
a cause
Effects of love
Election misconceived, cause
Element

578

i. 351. in
356

of love mel,

ii. 214.

sit

an

383
i.

Envie

and

malice

cause

354

215

ii.340.
344
of despair

of fire exploded

i.

592
380

choly,
of melan-

i. 14(5. their antidote

106
cure

quantity
cure

"

"

miseries, i. 197. with

amended
-Drunkards

as

ii.589.

5(j4. symptomes,
573. prognosticks, 577. cure
Diet what,and how
causeth melan.
i. 94. quantity,103. diet of divers

ders,
or-

"

cause

in

their

Gl. power,
73, how
they
religious
melancholy, ii.493.
despair,564. divels are often

how
in love, 196.
hold
some
Divine sentences

Dreams

59.

ii.561. causes
Despair.eqnivocations,

259

Divels how they cause

melancholy,
i. 56. their beginning, nature, conditions,

of

symptomes

misery
foretold by spirits
no

i. 241, 242, other

how
cured, ii. 53.

Diet

77
23

339

Deformity of body
Death
Death

321

of mel. i. 144, 252.

i.
qualifiedby counsell
Dissimilar parts of the body
i.

Distemper

grievous

Dotage what
Dotage of lovers

Dancing,

469

causes

cause

Drunkenness
taxed
Dowry and moticy
love melancholy

D.

274.

Disgiacea

Dreams

friends

melanch.
lovers

of the minde more

then those of the body

causes

578

miseries,

cares,

442, 443, ii.

Diseases
why inflicted upon us, i. 3.
Their number, definition,
division,
8. diseases of the head, 10, diseases

Divers

Cure

55

of unequal]matches,
ii.

melanch.
i. 154.
how
led
repeland cured by good counsell,

Divines

melancholy,

or

of

"

337. of headGod,
all the
melancholy, ii.117. over
body, 139. of hypochondriacal
i. 333

an.itomic, i. 19. ofdivels

Discontents,

lancholy
me-

helped

Correctors

of

and spirits
Discommodities

to

ibid.

Costiveness

Correctors

i.

me-

all,ii.30. whence

Contentions

Costiveness

252

"""

Content above
be had

"

of

causes

of discontents,
Digression againstall manner
ii. 1. digression of
ayr,

i.

Epicures vindicated
Epicures medicine for mel,

"

"

"ii

63

i.

435

i.

455

Epicures, atheists, hypocrites,how

ii. 548
mad and melancholy
ii. 420
Epithalaraium
Eunuchs
why kept, and where "ii. 450

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TAELE.

THE

PAGE

PAGE

they

mel. i.

Evacnations

how

Excentricks

and epicicles
exploded,

cause

i.

Exercise, if immoderate,

112

Gifts

381

Gods

strange simples

and

ii-

101
104

Extasis
Eys main instruments of love, ii.
217.
loves darts, ii. 236. seats,
torches, ibid.
orators, arrows,

52

427

i.

commended

Gold good againstmel. ii-99. a most

iL
beautiful object
choly,
to melanGood
counsell, a chann
i. 435.
good coimsell for

168

love-sick persoHfe, ii. 379. against

mel. it self, 81. for such as are

jealous

4r)5

""

part unhonest

most
Greatmen
Gristle what
Gats described

439

.-ii-

"

i.

22

i.

24

tive
attrac-

prerogative,a most

Faces

times
some-

cause

"

243

they pierce

how

278

lancholy,
me-

i- 421
Geography commended
arithnietick,
algebra,
Geometry,

sured,
cen-

ii.

of

cause

i. 3. sole

of

cause

ii.

amongst lovers
just judgement

nielancholy,i.121. before meales

wholsom, ibid, exercise rectified,
410.
401. several kindes, when fit,
419, 4"20
exercises of the minde
Exotick

promises of great force

and

part

"

H.

-ii. 232

"

of melancholy, i. 108.
Fasting
ol love mel. ii.3,52.abused,
cure
a
the divels instrument, .511,514.
cause

"''i"

elfectsofit

and paps how forcible inlo^re

Hand
melanch
ii 2-33,234
4S',i
of jealonsie ii.
Hard
usage a cause
151
of meli.
Hatred
cause
"_
.

Fayries

:"-i.
nf mel. his effects,1. 139.
Fear cause
fear of death, destinies fore-told,
of mel. 270. sign
247. a symptome
of love "nelanch.ii.300. antidote
tofear
'.:
Flaxen hair a great motive of love, ii.

^^

Hereditary

^-J

V
]"

Fierydivels
Fish, what melancholy
Fishgood

i-

by

beget wise

love become

-'^
195

n.

when

and

Fishing and fowling how

good exercise
Fools often

6.5

".!"3o5

in love

Fishes

Jl

."*'"
ii-

wise

Force of imagination
of melancholy
Friends a cure
Fruits causing mel. allowed

Fumitorj-purgethmelancholy

}"
--i.
"

"

"

"

"

"

i.
n.

cause

334

'"

lo

"

"

whence,
Gesture

cause

96

254

373
442

Heliebor white and black, pugers

of mel. ii. 110. black his vertues
"

i.

of mel.
of mel.
stoppedcause

Hemrods

""!.

111
112
112

i. 98.

causing mel.

curing

3.55. proper

mel.

laves

pedegree,power,

ex-

tentii. 190. definition,partaffect20O

ed, 199. tyranny
_"
ii. 4.34
Hippocrates jealonsie
559
ii
described
n

ypocrites

1^4

Honest

93

gins

ii. 244

cure

to

How
How

ii. 505
139

"-ii.

againstmel.

countrevs

apt and prone

lou.sie^-^^'
Horse

en-

entrap the world

Hops, good
Hot

in
20

ii. 173
ii. 56

objectsof love
of misery

Hope
Hope and fear, the divels main
a

true

of love mel

31
117

ibid
to most
diseases
ii.5.33.
conditions,
their
Hereticks
ibid
their symptomes

407
i.
for pleasure
toleration of religion,by
ii. 545
and why
whom
jjermiUed,
ii.13.
first,
it
whence
came
Gentrj-,
ibid, vices
base without means,

gentry
18. gentry commended

384

"

i.
of mel. "i.
immoderate
Heat
cause
i.
Health a pretiousthing
i.
Hell wheie
-i.
Help from friends againstmel.

Hearing, what

442
3^

Gardens
General

accompanying it,ibid,

117

Hearbs

wiiat
ii.

end

""""ii.

cure

!"'."

of melancholy, his

effects
of simples where,
Gardens

causes,

his

87

i- 261.

penetrably,i.382. infinitely

Heav ens
swift

HeroicaT

Gaming

294.

symptomes,

406

i.

and history
Hemorrogia cause

i.91.

men,

-i.

"

diseases

melancholies

Head
^3

hunting why good

and

Hauking

Flegmatick melancholy signs-"""!. -^

Fires rage

"

"

leeches

how

oft 'tis fit to eat

jeaii. 430

and

melancholy
to resist

to

in

passions

used
when
"""ii. 119, 1.39
i. .356
day
i. 437

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PAGE.

PAGE.

Many

i.

Moving facultydescribed

to divert lovers ii.357.

means

1307
tliem
of
Marriage, if unfortiHiate,cause
of love,
melanch. i.251. best cnre
ti) care

nielan. ii,39-2.marriagelielps,471.
mendation
miseries, 380. benefits and comii. 417

--i.
of melanch
IMothj-rhow cause
lancholy
Miisick a present remedy for mehiselfects,i. 449. a symof
ptome of lovers,ii 337. causes

34
89

276,277

love mel.

studies commended, i. 422

for melanch. ii.85.
againstwind and costiveness,J4'}.
355
for love melancholy

Mathematical

select

Medicines

melancholy
Melancholy in disposition,
tion,
equivocations,i.16. defini-

difference, 42. part

name,

Natural
'

melancholy

disease, 87.

"

"c.

of

it, 266.

they

Nemesis
after

punishment

or

what

Ne

most

of melancholy
286. mixed symptomes
289.
with other diseases
of jealonsie,
melancholy a cause
choly
melanii. 4.32. of despair, 664.

Non-necessary

why witty,i.
80
apt to laugh, weep,
blush, .309,why they see
men

hear

coucubitus

Memory
Men

i.
the

spiritsin

90
33

i.68, 69
i.
"

"

96
i.
Milk a melancholy meat
the body i. 127
how
it works
Minde
on
ii.
97
Minerals good againstmelanch.
Ministers how they cause
despair,ii. .'jfiS

mesentery, matrix,

154. mis

sorts,ii. 2.

no

man

i.'d. common
i'-'?

of

"

i,

of melancholy --L

301
213

Objects
causing melancholy to be
ii. 3.57
removed
Obstacles and hindrances of lovers,
ii. 393
to be avoided

Occasions

in love

lancholy
me-

/.ii3:^7
smell to formel. ii.
Odoramentsto
ii.
Old folks apt to be jealous
""ii.
taxed
Old Folks incontiuency
of mel. i. 86, old
Old age a cause
often melanch,
sons
mens
""""";
ii.
One love drives out another
concerning the
Opinions of, or
soule

!"

Oppressionseffects

mese-

raickveines causes
of melanch. i, 2.59
melanch. ii, 109
of
Mirabolanes
purgers
lent
excelMirth
and merry
company
againstmelanch. i.453 their
459
abu-ies
of man.
Miseries
i. 1. how
they
miseries.

38

Metoposcopy fore-shewing melauc.

melancholy,

"

311

-ii.
97
Metals, minerals for melancMeteors
strange, how caused, i.;5f9, 350

cause

cause

22

414
of melanc. i, 212
13
-ii.

o.

me-

causa

night
Metempsychosis

Mirach,

how

73

i.

causes

sweat,
visions,

j.

his seat
seduced
by

|.
welcome

Nobilitycensured
Nuns
melancholy
Nurse

comes

why

308

languages,prophesie,"c.
Menstruus
lanc

wes

taught
speak un-

strange noyses,

371

of
ii- 456

cures

-ii-

Nerves

277.

measure,

"

396

it enforceth,

what

jealousie

humours,
2/ 8. melancholy adust symptomes,
aViove

"

i. Ill, 2.37

passionate

are

to

Neglectand contempt, best

257.
antecedent
causes,
particularparts, 259. symptomes

93.

"

"

Necessity,

hereditary
causing it,

an

meats

"j. 283
ij- 290

signs

Narrow
streets
m.
where in use
of love
Nakedness
of parts a cause
mel. ii,246 a cure
of love mel.

and partiesafiVcted in melancholy

liis affection, 44.
matter, 47.
species,or kindes of melancholy.
49.

melanch.

signs of love mel.

Natural

132
432

469
90

365
35

i. 254

"

causes
Opportunity and importunity

i}- 257

:. of love 'mel

brganical
parts
Overmuch
causes

i-

joy, pride,praise,how
i.
of melancholy

Oyntraents for melancholy

riotouslyused
Ovutmenta

"

-i,

ii.

24

177
105

251

both

iree, miseries

effects in us, sent for our

good,
5, 6, miseries of students and
i. 18.5
scholars
Mitigations of melancholy """"{!. 81, 82
ii. 108, 169
Monies perogatives
Moon
inhabited, i. 385.
love

moon

in

and leanne.ss,
Paleness
.symptotnes
ii. 290
of love melancholy
Papistsreligious
symptomes, ii..534, 535

ii. 192

Paracelsus

defence

of minerals

"

-ii.

99

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TABLE.

FAGS.

how

Parents

they wrong

ii.405.

by
how

by

their children,

how

they cause
propagation,
and

reraisness

Power

and

want

i. 87.

their efi"ects

gence
indul-

no

216
Passions

of spirits

Poverty

lancholy
me-

of
perturbationscauses
melancholy, i. 130. how they work
the body, 132. their divisions,
on

such

"

i.
""""ii.

misery to be poor

Preparatives and

-i.

"

229
25

choly
for melan-

purgers

and

Predestination

73

of melan.

causes

misconstrued

ii.

119

ii.

589

cause

of despair
435

Priests how

i.

259

Princes'

ii.

4S6

Pride

of lovers
ii.2S9,
ii.
of misery
cure
Patient,his conditions that would be

300

and praise causes

Preventjeas
to the cure

of mel. ""i. 177

of jealousie,

Progress of love melan.

exemplif.fd,

139. how

rectified and

Particular

eased

"

"

"

melancholy
Parties afiected in religiousmel.
Passions

Patience

cause

lancholy

parts distempered, how

they cause

they

\aereligious
ii.501,

502

i.

161

discontents

71

ii.

ii.

cured, i. 346
"

patience,confidence
himnot to practiseon
liberality,
do
self,347, 348. what he must
himself,437. reveal his griefto a

friend
Pareenetical

discourse to such
in mind
Peniroyal good against mel.
Perswasion
to curelove
a means

as

are

other

ii. 367.

ii.
"

"

mel.

mel.

""

Profitable

Protestations
of lovers

of lovers

ii.

282

Phantasie

what

i.

33

Philippus

Bonus

used

he

country fellow

i.

"

Philosophers censured, i.

ii. 118. in head mel.

"""""i.
Phrensie's description
Physician's miseries, i. 196. his qualities
""

if he be good.

Physick censured,
89. when

"

"

"

"

""""i.

Poetry

symptome

""

Pulse

of mel. men,

Pulse

how

124
12

i.

mel.

Purging

ii.

simples upward,
of mel.

293

119

i,

116

i.

356

voyce

264
38.5

i.

ii
a

of lovers

Q.

cause

""'

Quantity

i- 103.

of diet cause,

of mel.

412
407

R.

of

R.\TI0N"AL

ii. 261
-i. 193
ii. 342

Reading
Scriptures good against
i. 427
melancholy
Recreations
choly
good against melan-

ii.
Polititians' pranks
i.
Pork a melancholy meat
-i.
his
Leo
Decimus
scofiing
Pope
of divels
i.
Possession
"

cure

170

i.

soule

"

II.

268

90

S4

-ii. 390
Poetical cures
of love melanch.
Poor
men's
miseries, i. 235. their
happiness, ii. 47. they are dear, to
29
God

VOL.

90

109

""

cause

533

ii. 106.

downward.

Purging how

282

'tisaffected,

ii.
sign of love mel.
Purgers and preparatives to head

i.

i.

objectsof love

and deceitful promises

ii.
Psendoprophets their pranks, ii.540.
their symptomes
of melancholy
Palse, pease, beans, cause

389

ii.

"").

palaces

Pleasing tone and

love melancholy
Poets why poor

"

i. 419.

Plague's effects
famous
Playes more
Pleasant
Pleasant

"

ii.SS.commended,

to be used

love mel.
inhabited

cause

"

objects of love

97

-i. 400
48
-ii.
ii. 167

i.

343

"

Physiognomical signs of mel.

Pictures good against mel.
Planets

418

179. their

ibid.
en-ors,
of love mel. ii. 284.
Philters cause
how they cure
melancholy
ofmel.i. llo- how
Phlebotomy cause
to be used, when, in melancholy,

ii.

Prospect good against mel.

of misery
Prosperity a cause

446

Perjury

how

i. 315
ibid, of nwlanch.
stirs
it
i. 150
what
causeth
Precedency
Pretious stones, metals,alteringmelancholy

579

-ii. 109

"

26S

Prognosticks or events of love mel.

ii. 345. of despair,453.
of jealousie,
441

troubled

465

499
95

223
15

Redness

of the

face helped

-i. 403,
ii. 136,

35

404
137

i. 24,
25
Regions of the belly
of love
Relation or hearing a cause
^^^
melancholy
'.""V;
Religions mel. a distinct species, ii.
of it,
479. his object,480. causes
514.
Prognoa493. symptomes,
R

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PAGE.

ticks, 541.

policy,by whom
Uepeiitance his cflectaand

Reteution

cure

Rich
i.

ii.

"

evacuatiou

"

"

"

"

"

583

of

causes

to the

.'""."""

'^^^

discontent^andmiseries,
irO. ii. 37. their prerogatives,
meu's

Rivals

and

Roots

corrivals

Ryot

in

i.

230

Small

42S

of love

niel.

bodies

have

i.

99

i.

429

Smelling what
Smiling a cause
Sodomy

of it a great
ii.251

261

Solitariness

promises

apparel, excess

cause

impulsive

of man's

cause

i.
2
misery
Single lite and virginitycommended
ii. 387. their prerogatives
388
ii. 320
Slavery of lovers
of melan.
Sleep and waking causes
". 129.
by what means
procured,
....ii.
136
helped

ii.427,

censured

Rosiecross-mens

the

Sin
499

"

i. 112. rectified
lanrholj',

iiif

PAGE.

religious

544.

cure,

Soldiers

greatest wits- 'ii.

of love mel.

of

cause

mel.

Sa^ts

aid

rejected in mel.

Sallets censured
Sanguine mel. signs
"""

Scilla

or

sea

ODyon,a

i.

340

i. 9S,

99

i.

2S5

"

"

"

purger

Scipio'scoutinency

ii.

106

ii.

360

Scoffes,calumnies, bitter jests, how

thev

mel. i. 222.

cause

Scholars

their antidote

miserieff

Scripture mi.scoastnied
mel.

81

189

of

cause

ii. j389.

ii.
i. 188,

i.

427

"

soule and

Senses

his parts
how
deluded

wiiyand

selected

Sentences

imprisonment eased
Seviial
men's
delitjhtsand
tutors

and

guardians

melancholy
and disgrace how
Shame
causes
melancholy, their effects
for oiur good
Sickness
Sighs and tears sympt. of love

Siim-

"

9.3.

9]

1.

tai-'i

.'wnv.

Uil.?, :ci;.-.

Similar

Singing
337.

cause

symptome

429

"!.
of

252

lancholy
me-

260

i.

ii.

81

like

birds,beasts,fishes,"c.
370

i.

why allowed

Strange

when

nurses

ii. 467
best

i.

214

of mel. i.
Study over-much
cause
183. why
and how, 184.290.
308.
study good against melancholv,

ii.

50

i.

399

Subterranean

215

of mel.
Supernatural causes
Suspition and jealousie, sympt.

419,

mel.

i.

ii.

divels

i. 275. how

420

i.

71

i.

52

of

caused

307

HI

Superstitiouseffects,syniptomes, ii.
521
how it domineers
489, 527

291

taxed i.
Surfeitinjrand drunkenness
Swallows, cuckows, 8cc. where
are

)44

lancholy
me-

'

they

in winter

and

'

i.

singing

103
369

of

ii. 217

Sweet

ii.

ii. 262
love melancholy
Syniptomes or signs of mel. in the
body, i. 206. minde, 269. from

174

ii.

p'lrging

.ird.pur-

boay

i.

of

lovers, ii.

of io" e me!.

33.5

causes

tunes

starres, members
109

the

61
389

lonsie

Stewes

"

of
pariti

21

i.
i.

sun

Step mother her mischiefes

Storaack
distempered cause

311

of

(jpi to mel.

100

"ii.
sympt. of lovers
or
signs of melan
of love mel. ii.209. of jea-

how

i. 81.

i.

i.

of linn' s* I.ve

Siiu).'

259

":c.

powers,

Stones

of love mel.

principalcause

36

-35,
misaffect-

of mel.

cause

Spotsinthe

30

ii.
a

fd

177

causes

of

Sight

hold

some

tions
recrea-

"

Severe

as

54

of melauch.
""i,
Spices how causes
i. 20,
Spiritsin the body what
Spiritsand divels their orders,kindes,

i.

of mel. i. 227. it and

cause

traduce

i.

humane

authors
Servitude

280
of

in mel.

of

out

12.5.

"

Sensible

"

mel.
273.
eased by counsell
ii.
Soule defined,his faculties,i. 28. ex

Stars

95
-ii.
good against mel.
-ii
97
Se^ sick, good physick for mel.
Self-love,cause
of mel, his effects,
Scorzonera

"

his effect,i. 140. a cause

141. a sympt. of mel.

Spniceness

ligious
re-

of mel.

cure

"

i.

24S
ii. 200
-ii. 435

good, 126.

Spleen his site,i. 24. how

of mel.

32

."""ii.

part lascivious

most

coact, voluntary,how
sign of mel.
Sorrow

11

""""i

21

custom,

time,

mixt

289.
2(32

294. of

with

Symptomes

282.

causes

from

continuance

other
of

cation,
eduof

diseases,
head

hypochondriacalmel.

mel.
296.

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PAGE.

wliole

of the

of

ptomes

immediate

of

causes

i. 18.

symptomes,

pleased,

lover

302.

by

jealousie, 446. of
573
5lo.
of despair
mel.
religious
40
i.
Synteresis
135
ii.
Syrnpes
"

"

"

"

-ii.

"

lancholy,
me-

of love

lancholy,
me-

of despair, 577.
defended, i. 321. how to

some

be censured

dejected,303.

of

symptomes

event

377, 378

"!.

"

ii.348.

of lo\e
j

"

"

Violent

305. symptomes
of these
mel. ii. 290. cause
of a
299.
symptomes
symptomes,

mel.

women

misery continues not

deatii prognostick of

Violent

widows,

maids,

nuns,

300.

mel.

PAGE.

Vices of

Sym-

body, 299.

by
Virginity

"

"

ii.

"

Virginity commended
Vitex OT Agnus custus

451

ii. 3Sf

good against

mel.

love

326

signs to be known,

what

ii.

354

T.

u.
of

Tale

ii.

prebend
stinging effects

Tarantula's

".""""

what

Taste

Temperament

of

cause

69

love

i.

256

i.

32

lancholy
me-

Unlawful

how

nous,

i.

of mel

cause

divels

Terrestrial

mel.

and
Terrors
affrights
cause
Theologasters censured
The

best

of

cure

have

them

fidigi-

and

dark

ayr,

"

their desire

120

i.

67

i.

218

ii.

'

censured

ii.

109

Torments

of love

ii.

300

i.

36

soules

melancholy

friends

Uncharitable

melancholy

cause

described

men

jected
re-

"

"

"

i.

333

i.

252

-ii.

185

Upstarts censured, their symptomes,

ii. 18. 31

of

Urine

melancholy persons

268

""""!.

Uxorii

ii.

433

322

Tobacco

Transmigrationof

of

cure

Unkind

i. 389, 390
mel. is to let

love

defined,divided i.
38
marriages' effects,i. 162.251

Unfortunate

210

ii.

Tempestuous

Understanding

w.

Travelling commended,

good against
lancholy,
melancholy, i. 398. for love me'ii. 361
especially
.i. 215
melancholy
Tutors cause
."...""

Walking,

shooting,swimming, Secgood against melancholy,i. 404. ii.355

^.Vant of sleep a sjTnptome of love
melancholy
ii. 293
of meL
i. 126. a symWaking
cause
ptome, 267.

V.

Wanton
of love

Vain

glorydescribed,a

Veines

described

Valour

and

of

cause

caused

courage

lancholy
me-

of the compass
where
and
dishes
Variety of meats

cure

of

and

"

objects

Venery

cause

divels

Water

if foul causeth

cause

ii.

melancholy

Waters,

censured, their effects

w hich good
in love

Waters

102
103

i. 354
ii. 224

232

Waters

366

Wearisomness

i.

357

of life a symptomeof
ii. 310
melancholy
What
physick fitin love melancholy

365

Who

ii.

a
are

Whores'

ayr,

"

67

i.

-.i.

i.

398

.i.

28

ii. 193
i.

mefancholy-.i.

28

ii.

363

113

often

Whv

good

Why

ii.
fools beget wise children,wise
fools
i.

men

Will

men

are

368

rejected,
68
90

defined, divided, his actions,

why over-ruled
Wine

352

apt to be jealous.'ii. 430

propertiesand conditions,
most

i. 376, "c.

242

i.

-i.

i.
of

Water

433

gesture

ii.

manners,

rectified
a

22

ii,

Variety of places, change of

good against melancholy
Vegetal soale and his faculties.
in love
Vegetal creatures
Vegetal soule and his parts
Venus

i.

cause

melancholy

Variety of weather, ayr,

countryes, whence

177

by love,

Variation

melancholy
Variety of mistresses

i.

cured

carriage and
melancholy

causeth

i.

""

mel.

i. 100.

176.

40

a
,

Virtue

and

vice

principalhabits

the will
Venison

me), meat""""...

good cordial

of
i.

42

i.

95

Windesin

ii. 128.

against mel.

forbid in love mel,

"

love"tt""n".t.."...ii.

253
223

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Wives

ii. 416.

commended,

Wittie devices

against mel.

448

Wormwood

commended

i.

ii. 334
Wit proved by love
the befjinnings,
a
principal!
Witlistand
of love mel.
ii. 357
cure
how they canse
lancholy,
meWitches power,
"

"

"

i. 17. their transforma-

caused, 79.
melancholy, 335.
cure
sought to for help, 336.

tions

how

they
not
nor

Widdowsmel.

Women

how

cause

of

418

good against mel.

taxed

Writers

of the

of mel.

cure

they

cozen

i.

333

de
of imagination, i 134.
consolatione, ii. 1. of melancholy,
of

love

melancholy, 342.
spair.
against de578

340

300

how
lettice,
ii.

354

mel. i, 176.

YoNG

man

in love

with

men,

FLUHNER

picture,
ii. '-m

249.

Youth

cause

of love melanch.' -ii.

END.

LONDON]:
BY

157

be

saints

THE

MllNTlrt)

91

i.

Writers

\ their vanity in apparell taxed, ii.

247. how

'-ii

against idolatrie,528.

i,

W^oodbine, ammi, rue,

good in love mel.

World

131.

can

to

by what art, 250. their counterfeit tears, 2S1. their vices, 37.S.

417
ii 363.

and
"

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sured
cen-

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