Part.I.SeCl.j. Ca11(es ofMelancholy, Memb.I.Subl.> 1 88 others can,timor hos,ptedor impedit illos ,timoroufnelfc and balhfulnetfe hin. ---- der their proceeding!,they are contented withtheir prefent efiate,unwilling to undertake any office,& therefore never likely to rife.For that caufethey feldome vifit their friends, except fome familiars: pauciloqtei, offew words • Confillt. >5·&oftemimes wholly filent. * Frambeforitu a Frenchman had twofuGh pa~ & 16 •11b·•· tiems, omni11o t aciturnos, their friends could not get them to [peak: Roderi. ctes aFon(ecacon[ult. Tom. z. 8). conjil.gives infiancein a young man,of 17 years ofage,that was frequent!yfilem,balhfull,moped,folitary,that would not eat his meat or fleepe,and yet againby fits, apt to bee angry, &c. mofr part they are, as Plater notes, dejides, taciturni,&gre imptetji,nec nifi coac1i procedtmt,&c. they will fcarce be compelled to do that which concernes them,though it be for their good,fo dillident,fo dul,offmall or no comple· mem,vnfociable,ha:d t~ be acquainted with, efpecially of.frrangers; they had rather wnte their mmdes ,then fpeake,and above all tlungs love Solit•- Soliurinel!'e, rinr!fe. ob voluptatem,an ob timorem foli font: Are they fo folitary for plea. . fure ( one askcs ) or paine ? for both: yeti ratherthink for feare and for. •vtrg. A En. 6·row, &c. i llinc metuunt, cupiuntqtu, dolent,jiegitmtque, nee a11ras · Rejpiciunt clateji tenebris ,er c.rce-re c.tco, Hence 'tis they grieve and feare,avoiding lighr, And thut themfelves in prifon darke from fight. k lli•J· l · AsBellerophonink 1l omer, .f2.!!:j mifer in fj /vis mamns errabat opacis, . lpfe (u11mcor edens,homimem v<jligia vitanr. That wandred in thewoods fad all alone, _ Forfakingmens fociety,makinggreat moanc. lheydelightinflouds &waters,defertplaces,to walke alone in orchards, . gardens,privatewalks,back-lanes1averfe from company,as Diogents in his ~JPe~~~~;~- tub,or TimonMifonthropus, 1 they abhorr~ all companions at lafi,even ~he1r mintt ,,;, ha- neerefi acquamtance,and moft famii1ar fnends, for they have a conce1pt(I hw, &(•Lit•-fay )everyman obferves them,will deride, laugh to [corn, or mifufe them, tt•petunr. confiningthemfdves therefore wholly ro their private houfes or chambers; m 'Democrit"'fogirmt fjomines jinecau(it(faith Rhajis) 6 odiohabent, cont. lib, I cap.9.they f'Let ndler & will diet themfdves, feed and live alone. It was one ofthe chiefefi reafons, :~~.£;:;,/,!;-why the Citizens of Abdera [u[pefredDemocrit~s~o bee melancholy and autem i11 (pe· mad; becaufe that asH ippocrates related in his EpllHe to Phtlopa>mems,m he L~ncu, (ub •- · for(ooke the City, lived 111 grovrs andhollow trees, upon a greene banke by a ;;:;::,~;;;:m brookeJidc,orconj!teence ofwaters all day long,&all night.~" qt~idcm(faith renebrir; & [:le)plurimum atra bile vexatis&melanchoticis eveniunt,defi:rtafrequent•nt, ~;~;,';t:;;:;~,; hominumq11e congref!i•m averfontur;" Which is an ?rdinary thing with mecrebra,& quic- !ancholymen. The lEgyptians therefore in thm llteroglyph. exprelfed •• t:~~:~·,~:: amelancholy man by an Hare fitting in her form, as bei.og a moll: timorous ~ ;, alilurtf. and fohtary creaiure,Purtus Hreroglyph.ltb. 12.But tl11S,and all precedent J;I,;. . . fymptomes,are more or letfe apparent;as the humour is intended or remitPf6>. ~g,l•- ted,hardly perceived in fome,or not atal,mofr manifeft in others.Childilh [:,.& !:,.:' in fome,terriblein others;tobe deridcdinone,pitied oradmiredinanother; nymcor<x in to himby fits,toafecondcominuate:andhowfoeverthefe fymptomesbee ;:;;o'/;!;;;r:r- common and inciden.t to all_perfons, yet they are the more. remarkable,fr~ ;, rrmpL•. quem, furious and vwle~t mmelancholy men.To fpcake ma word,ther~Is . . ~~ " .
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