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Adagia adust Æsop Aëtius affected alii amongst animi Aristotle Avicenna beasts blood body brain Burton calls Cardan causa cause causeth cerebrum choly cities cold common consil Crato cure death Democritus Devils discontent diseases divine dizzards doth ejus enim Epist fear Felix Plater fools Galen grief Guianerius habent hæc hath heart Hippocrates Hist homines honour humours Idem idle inter kind labour Lactantius laugh Laurentius live liver malady malè meat melan melancholy Memb memoriter mind misery Montaltus morbi Nemo nihil nisi nunc omnes omnia Ovid Paracelsus passions Physicians Plato Plautus Plutarch Poet potest quæ quam quid quis quod quum reason rest Rhasis sæpe saith Saxonia Scholars sect Seneca sibi sick solitary sorrow soul spirits stomack sunt symptoms things thou Tract troubled unto Virg wise wits
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Page 13 - After a wandering life, he settled at Abdera, a town in Thrace, and was sent for thither to be their Lawmaker, Recorder, or Town-clerk, as some will; or as others, he was there bred and born. Howsoever it was, there he lived at last in a garden in the suburbs, wholly betaking himself to his studies and a private life, saving that sometimes he would walk down to the haven, and laugh heartily at such variety of ridiculous objects, which there he saw.
Page 9 - When, to myself I act and smile; With pleasing thoughts, the time beguile, By a brook side, or wood so green; Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness; All my joys besides, are folly; Nought so sweet as Melancholy!
Page 163 - Eximia veste et victu convivia, ludi, pocula crebra, unguenta coronae serta parantur, nequiquam, quoniam medio de fonte leporum surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat...
Page 9 - When I go musing all alone, Thinking of divers things foreknown, When I build castles in the air, Void of sorrow and void of fear, Pleasing myself with phantasms sweet, Methinks the time runs very fleet. All my joys to this are folly; Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Page 283 - ... devotion, consecrated to pious uses ; some monasteries and collegiate cells might have been well spared, and their revenues otherwise employed, here and there one, in good towns or cities at least for men and women of all sorts and conditions to live in, to sequester themselves from the cares and tumults of the world...
Page 9 - Fear and sorrow me surprise, Whether I tarry still or go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so sad as melancholy.
Page 332 - Cards, dice, hawks, and hounds,"- he observes, " are rocks upon which men lose themselves, when they are imprudently handled and beyond their fortunes. Hunting and hawking are honest recreations, and fit for some great men, but not for every base inferior person, who while they maintain their falconer, and dogs, and hunting nags, their wealth runs away with their hounds, and their fortunes fly away with their hawks.
Page 311 - From all blindness of heart, from pride, vainglory and hypocrisy, from envy, hatred and malice, and all uncharitableness, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 29 - So that as a river runs sometimes precipitate and swift, then dull and slow ; now direct, then per ambages ; now deep, then shallow ; now muddy, then clear ; now broad, then narrow ; doth my style flow : now serious, then light ; now comical, then satirical ; now more elaborate, then remiss; as the present subject required, or as at that time I was affected.
Page 355 - Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi ; sed omnes illacrimabiles Urgentur ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.