vegetal, sensible, and rational, that all sorts, sects, ages, conditions, are out of tune, as in Cebes’ table, omnes errorem bibunt, before they come into the world, they are intoxicated by error’s cup, from the highest to the lowest have need of physic, and those particular actions in [177]Seneca, where father and son prove one another mad, may be general; Porcius Latro shall plead against us all.  For indeed who is not a fool, melancholy, mad?—­[178] Qui nil molitur inepte, who is not brain-sick?  Folly, melancholy, madness, are but one disease, Delirium is a common name to all.  Alexander, Gordonius, Jason Pratensis, Savanarola, Guianerius, Montaltus, confound them as differing secundum magis et minus; so doth David, Psal. xxxvii. 5.  “I said unto the fools, deal not so madly,” and ’twas an old Stoical paradox, omnes stultos insanire, [179]all fools are mad, though some madder than others.  And who is not a fool, who is free from melancholy?  Who is not touched more or less in habit or disposition?  If in disposition, “ill dispositions beget habits, if they persevere,” saith [180]Plutarch, habits either are, or turn to diseases.  ’Tis the same which Tully maintains in the second of his Tusculans, omnium insipientum animi in morbo sunt, et perturbatorum, fools are sick, and all that are troubled in mind:  for what is sickness, but as [181]Gregory Tholosanus defines it, “A dissolution or perturbation of the bodily league, which health combines:”  and who is not sick, or ill-disposed? in whom doth not passion, anger, envy, discontent, fear and sorrow reign?  Who labours not of this disease?  Give me but a little leave, and you shall see by what testimonies, confessions, arguments, I will evince it, that most men are mad, that they had as much need to go a pilgrimage to the Anticyrae (as in [182]Strabo’s time they did) as in our days they run to Compostella, our Lady of Sichem, or Lauretta, to seek for help; that it is like to be as prosperous a voyage as that of Guiana, and that there is much more need of hellebore than of tobacco.

That men are so misaffected, melancholy, mad, giddy-headed, hear the testimony of Solomon, Eccl. ii. 12.  “And I turned to behold wisdom, madness and folly,” &c.  And ver. 23:  “All his days are sorrow, his travel grief, and his heart taketh no rest in the night.”  So that take melancholy in what sense you will, properly or improperly, in disposition or habit, for pleasure or for pain, dotage, discontent, fear, sorrow, madness, for part, or all, truly, or metaphorically, ’tis all one.  Laughter itself is madness according to Solomon, and as St. Paul hath it, “Worldly sorrow brings death.”  “The hearts of the sons of men are evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live,” Eccl. ix. 3.  “Wise men themselves are no better.”  Eccl. i. 18.  “In the multitude of wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow,” chap. ii. 17.  He hated life itself, nothing pleased