Part.t.Secr-3- Symptomes ofMelancholy. Mcmb.1.Subr. 4 196 kill himfelfe. A fifth complaines in his youth, a fixth inhis middle aoc the laftin his old age. · . " ' fLc.inus Lem. Generally thus much we may conclude ofmel_ancholy: That it is r m oft nius,la[onPra- pleafant at firft,Ifay,mentis gr4tifsimllser~or,a moftdelightfome humor,to :~;~~:hland4ab walke alone,med1tate,lye mbed whole.da1es,dreammg awake as it were, & frame athoufand phantaft1ca!Jmagmauons untothemfelvcs.Theyare ne vet better pleafed then when they are fodoing,they are in Paradi(cforthetime and cannot well endure to be interrupt; with him in the Poet, < ' gHor. -s polmeoccldiftisamici,N.onflrv!ijfiJttit! ~ . you have undone him, hecomplaincs,ifyou trouble him: tell him what\n. convenience will follow,what will be the event, all , is one, canis ad 'llomi. t F•cilis dtf tum,t tis fo pleafanr,hecannot refraine.He may thus continue peradventure <enfus averni. many years by reafon of a ftrong temperature, or fome mixture ofbufi. nelfe,which may divm his cogitations :but at the !aft l.tfa lmaginatio, his phamafie is crafed,& now habituated to fuch toyes, cannot but worke flill like a fate,theSceane alters.upon a fudden,F~are and Sorrowfupplant thofe pleating thou,ghts,fufpicion, difcontent, and perpetuall anxiety fi1cceed in their places;lo by littleand little,by that !hoeing borne of idlenelfe, and h l'irg. volunraryfolitarineffe,melancholy this feral fiend isdrawnon,"&qttantllm i corpus cad4- vertice ad attras lEthereas, tantum radice in Tartara tendit, it was not ;{:~~:ariofo fo_delicious at firft,a.s now it is bitter an? hariJ:: a ca~kered foule ~acerare~ eft facies mea With cares &d1fcoments, J.edtttmvtt,r, 1mpat1ence, mconftancy, 1rrefoluu. P" ~gritudine on,precipitate them unto unfpca.kablemiferies.They cannot endurecompa• k~J.';. ~AI- ny,light,or life it felfc f01ue;unfit for acrion,and the like.; Their bodies are man[orem. lean and dried up,withered, ugly,their lMks harfh, very dull, and their },;.:• 11 "" ma- foules tormented,as they are more or lelfe .in.rangled, as the humour bath m.!ii.!!um ere beeneintended,oraccording to the continuance of time they have beene loquitur qu~ troubled. . · ;~:!'j:::f:'a; Todifcerneall whichfymptomesthebetter, k Rhafts the Arabian makes una re ad~liud three degrees ofthem. The firft is,fol(acogitatio, falfe conceipts and idle ~anfit,d,'~,;~- thoughts:tomifconfter and amplify,aggravating every thing they conceive 1';;~';ddittunc or feare : the fecond is,fol(o cogttataloqrei,to talk to themfelves,or to ufe in. ·~:~~;~';,at arcicul~te,_incondite voices, fpeeche_s,obfolete geftures, and plainely to ut- ~perari 1/.z,_ ter che1r nundes and conce1pts ofchelf hearts by cheu· words and al:hons, !1S quitur, in (um- to laugh,weepe,to be filent,noc to fleepe, eat the1r meat, &c. the third •s ~~f~:~.1.~- eo put in pracriferbatwhich theythinke orfpeak. Savanorola R11b.u.traa. tic} 8.cap.r.de.egritrtdine, confirmesas much, m when he begmnes to expre{fe Loquitur ftcum that in words,which he concei'lles in his heart,or talkes idly, or goes from one ~.~;~~(e;::,f. thing to another, which n Gordoniuscalles,nec caput habentia,nec caudam,~_e Aug. cap. 11.1. isinchcmlddJe way:• btttwhenhe begtnnes to afl tl {tkewifl,and .toput hts de cur~ pro (opperies inexemtion,he is then in the extent of melancholy or madne/feit ftlfe. ';;';~:f;"'"- This progre!fe ofmelancholy you fl1all eallly obferve in them that have o~umres ad beene fo affected they goe fmiling to themfelves at firfi, at length they '::,' 1u:~:~;;.~; laugh our; at fi1:ft folitary,ac !aft they can ,nd~re no company:or ifthey do, . e.perit,urepro- they are now d1zards,l:'aft fenfe and fhamc,qmte moped?chey care not what nat,atq. atta they fay ordoe,all then· al.hons,words,geftures,arc funous or nd1culous. f:~m;t:,{:~. , At firft his minde is troubled, he cloth not attend what is C1id,ifyo_u tell him meta;tcholia<fl· a tale,he cries at !all whatfaid you? but in the end hemutters to hunfelfe,ads ol
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