Parr. !.Seet. l, Difea(esoftheMinde. Memb.r.Subf.5 , in Germany will hire Muficians to pby to them, and fome luHy f!urdf corn- __,_r_ panions ro dance w1th them. ~h1s dtfeafe hath becne very common_m Germany as appears bythofe rdanons of' Sckenk;m,and farace!fm m h1s book 'Lib: •.rap.de ofM~dnef.fe, who brags how many feveral perfons be bath cured ofit.F .tlix Mam•· Plater~U de mentis alienat. caf. 3.reporrsota womanmBaftl whom hefaw, that danced awhole month together. The Arabians call it akinde of Paljie. z;odineinhis 5· Bookede Repub. cap. r. fpeakes ofthis infirmity; Monavim in his !aft Epi(Ue ro s coltizt114, and in another to Dudith111, where yo1m1ay reade more ofit. The !aftkinde of madndfe or melancholy, is that demoniacall (if I may [o call it) obfellion or po!feffion ofdevils, which Platerm and otherswould have to be praeternarurall: ftupend things are ~aid of them, their aetions, gefiures contortions, faftmg, prophefymg, fpeaktng languages they were never taugh~ &c.many f!range !tories are related ofthem,whichbecaufe Come wil not all~w, (for Deacon and Dattrel have written large volumes of this fubje& pro & con) I voluntarily omit. . . d Fu{chitu mftttut.ltb.3.fec1.r.cap. I r. Feltx Plater,' Laurentuts addeto d Cap.j.de thefe another Fury that proceeds from Love, and another from Study, ano- mentu alienar. ther divine or religio11s Fury;but thefe more properly belong to Mclancholy; ecap••.d, mel. ofall which I will [peak* apart, intending tO writeawhole book ofthem. . ~ I'AR. T . j . .su.-;:,. c. 5· Mef,mcholy in dijjofttion, improperly focalled, lEqnivocations, Elani:holy ,the f~bjeet ofour pref_~nt J?ifcourfe, is either in Difpo~ f7Je{uo homiC fition, orHablte. In D1fpofinon, IS that tranfitory Melancholy neftcur~.,,<k whichgoes and comes upon_every fmal occafionoffor~ow, need,~~~~~~~~ ficknefie, trouble, feare, gnefe, paffion, or perturbanon of thefeconvmit,in Minde, any m~nner ofcare, difcontenr, ort~ought, which caufeth anguilh, :;~~~~;:!",; dulnelfe, heavmeffe and vexanon of the fpmts, any wayes op~ofite tO' p~a-anirni. inveniet. fure, mirth,]oy,dehght, caufin&froward.ncffe m us, oradtllike. In whiCh :/ff,b"/(al.Bs JEquivocalland 1mprop~r fenfe, wecallh1mMelancholy, thatls dull, fad •Omni; • · fC>wre, lumpil11, ill difpofed, folitary, any way moved, ordifpleafed. And ~ocrarii :':J.:• from thefe Melancholy Difpofitions,fno man living is free, noStoick, none fi"ttj ·~Jerk fo wife,none fo happy, nonefo patient, fo generous ,fa godly, fo divine, that ,~j;~:;:;:,. : can vindicate himfelfe; [o well compofed, but more or le!fe, fome time or egmkrerur. . other, ~e feeles the fmarr of it. Melancholyin this fenfe is the charaCter of~~;~~;j;,~: Mortahty. * Manthatuborne_ofa woman, uoffhort contmuance, a11dfo!lofti1Jimatotif;< · trouble. zcno, Cato, Socrates lumfelfe, whomg JElian fi> highly commends :;.::~ifr,";.;:";. for amoderate temper, that nothtn$coulddifturhe htm, butgotngout, andco- rentib.., cor~oming in,ftill Socrates kept the famejerenity ofcountenallce,.what mifery (oever rir v im babuit heft!l bim,(ifwe may beleeverlato his Di!Ciple) was much tormented with ';;;';,:t/,:' it. 2.:_ Metell11s, in whom h Valemu gives inftance of all happineffe, themoft uxurem c~njp;_ jort,.nate man thenlzvmg, hornemthat moft jlourifhingcity ofRome, ofnoble ;:~~~f~ir::.7: parentage, aproper man ofper[on, wellqualified, healtbfoll, rich, honourable, confotare<kcrw; "Senat~ur, a Conful, happy in his wifo, happy in his childrcn,&c. yet this man flquentrftriwas notvoidof!ylelancholy, he had his fhareofforrow. ifolycrates Samius; f';,f;f;'.;,'f''' . n~ iliu
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