Of body
Dryness, paleness, leanness, waking, sighing,
&c.
Quest. An delur pulsus amatorius?
or Of mind.
Bad, as
Fear, sorrow, suspicion, anxiety, &c.
A hell, torment, fire, blindness, &c.
Dotage, slavery, neglect of business.
or Good, as
Spruceness, neatness, courage, aptness
to learn music,
singing, dancing, poetry, &c.
Prognostics; despair, madness, frenzy, death, Memb. 4.
Cures, Memb. 5.
By labour, diet, physic, abstinence, Subs.
1.
To withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions,
fair and foul means,
change of place, contrary passion, witty inventions,
discommend the
former, bring in another, Subs. 2.
By good counsel, persuasion, from future miseries,
inconveniences,
&c. S. 3.
By philters, magical, and poetical cures, Subs.
4.
To let them have their desire disputed pro and
con. Impediments
removed, reasons for it. Subs. 5.
[Symbol: Taurus] Jealousy, Sect. 3.
His name, definition, extent, power, tyranny, Memb. 1.
Division, Equivocations, kinds, Subs. 1.
Improper
To
many beasts; as swans, cocks, bulls.
To
kings and princes, of their subjects, successors.
To
friends, parents, tutors over their children, or otherwise.
or Proper
Before
marriage, corrivals, &c.
After,
as in this place our present subject.
Causes, Subs. 2.
In the parties themselves,
Idleness, impotency in one party, melancholy,
long absence.
They have been naught themselves. Hard
usage, unkindness,
wantonness, inequality of years, persons,
fortunes, &c.
or from others.
Outward enticements and provocations of
others.
Symptoms, Memb. 2.
Fear, sorrow, suspicion, anguish of mind, strange
actions, gestures,
looks, speeches, locking up, outrages, severe
laws, prodigious
trials, &c.
Prognostics, Memb. 3.
Despair, madness, to make away themselves, and
others.
Cures, Memb. 4.
By avoiding occasions,
always busy, never to be idle.
By good counsel,
advice of friends, to contemn or dissemble it.
Subs.
1.
By prevention
before marriage. Plato’s communion.
To marry such
as are equal in years, birth, fortunes, beauty, of
like
conditions,
&c.
Of a good family,
good education. To use them well. [Subs. 2.]
[Symbol: Gemini] Religious Melancholy, Sect. 4.
In excess of such as do that which is not required. Memb. 1.
A proof that there is such a
species of melancholy, name, object God,
what his beauty is, how it allureth, part
and parties affected,
superstitious, idolaters, prophets, heretics,
&c. Subs. 1.