Love and love melancholy, Memb. 1 Sect. 1.
Preface or Introduction. Subsect. 1.
Love’s definition, pedigree, object,
fair, amiable, gracious, and
pleasant, from which comes beauty,
grace, which all desire and love,
parts affected.
Division or kinds, Subs. 2.
Natural, in things without life,
as love and hatred of elements; and
with life, as vegetable, vine and elm, sympathy,
antipathy, &c.
Sensible, as of beasts, for pleasure,
preservation of kind, mutual
agreement, custom, bringing up together, &c.
or Rational
Simple, which hath three
objects as M. 2.
Profitable, Subs. 1.
Health, wealth, honour, we love
our benefactors: nothing
so amiable as profit, or that
which hath a show of
commodity.
Pleasant, Subs. 2.
Things without life, made by art,
pictures, sports,
games, sensible objects, as hawks,
hounds, horses; Or
men themselves for similitude
of manners, natural
affection, as to friends, children,
kinsmen, &c., for
glory such as commend us.
Of women, as
Before marriage, as Heroical
Mel. Sect. 2. vide
[Symbol: Aries]
Or after marriage, as Jealousy,
Sect. 3. vide
[Symbol: Taurus]
Honest, Subs. 3.
Fucate in show, by some error or
hypocrisy; some seem and
are not; or truly for virtue,
honesty, good parts,
learning, eloquence, &c.
or Mixed of all three, which
extends to M. 3.
Common good, our neighbour, country,
friends, which is
charity; the defect of which is cause
of much discontent
and melancholy.
or God, Sect. 4.
In excess, vide [Symbol:
Gemini]
In defect, vide [Symbol:
Cancer]
[Symbol: Aries] Heroical or Love-Melancholy, in which consider,
Memb. 1. His pedigree, power,
extent to vegetables and sensible
creatures, as well as men, to spirits, devils,
&c.
His name, definition, object, part affected, tyranny. [Subs. 2.]
Causes, Memb. 2.
Stars, temperature,
full diet, place, country, clime, condition,
idleness,
S. 1.
Natural allurements,
and causes of love, as beauty, its praise, how
it
allureth.
Comeliness, grace,
resulting from the whole or some parts, as face,
eyes,
hair, hands, &c. Subs. 2.
Artificial allurements,
and provocations of lust and love, gestures,
apparel,
dowry, money, &c.
Quest.
Whether beauty owe more to Art or Nature? Subs.
3.
Opportunity of
time and place, conference, discourse, music, singing,
dancing,
amorous tales, lascivious objects, familiarity, gifts,
promises,
&c. Subs. 4.
Bawds and Philters,
Subs. 5.
Symptoms or signs, Memb. 3.