[5823] “Hic se Deucalion Pyrrhae suecensus amore
        Mersit, et illaeso corpore pressit aquas. 
        Nec mora, fugit amor,” &c.------

       “Hither Deucalion came, when Pyrrha’s love
        Tormented him, and leapt down to the sea,
        And had no harm at all, but by and by
        His love was gone and chased quite away.”

This medicine Jos.  Scaliger speaks of, Ausoniarum lectionum lib. 18. Salmutz in Pancirol. de 7. mundi mirac. and other writers.  Pliny reports, that amongst the Cyzeni, there is a well consecrated to Cupid, of which if any lover taste, his passion is mitigated:  and Anthony Verdurius Imag. deorum de Cupid. saith, that amongst the ancients there was [5824]_Amor Lethes_, “he took burning torches, and extinguished them in the river; his statute was to be seen in the temple of Venus Eleusina,” of which Ovid makes mention, and saith “that all lovers of old went thither on pilgrimage, that would be rid of their love-pangs.”  Pausanias, in [5825] Phocicis, writes of a temple dedicated Veneri in spelunca, to Venus in the vault, at Naupactus in Achaia (now Lepanto) in which your widows that would have second husbands, made their supplications to the goddess; all manner of suits concerning lovers were commenced, and their grievances helped.  The same author, in Achaicis, tells as much of the river [5826] Senelus in Greece; if any lover washed himself in it, by a secret virtue of that water, (by reason of the extreme coldness belike) he was healed, of love’s torments, [5827]_Amoris vulnus idem qui sanat facit_; which if it be so, that water, as he holds, is omni auro pretiosior, better than any gold.  Where none of all these remedies will take place, I know no other but that all lovers must make a head and rebel, as they did in [5828]Ausonius, and crucify Cupid till he grant their request, or satisfy their desires.

SUBSECT.  V.—­The last and best Cure of Love-Melancholy, is to let them have their Desire.

The last refuge and surest remedy, to be put in practice in the utmost place, when no other means will take effect, is to let them go together, and enjoy one another:  potissima cura est ut heros amasia sua potiatur, saith Guianerius, cap. 15. tract. 15. Aesculapius himself, to this malady, cannot invent a better remedy, quam ut amanti cedat amatum, [5829](Jason Pratensis) than that a lover have his desire.

       “Et pariter torulo bini jungantur in uno,
        Et pulchro detur Aeneae Lavinia conjux.”

       “And let them both be joined in a bed,
        And let Aeneas fair Lavinia wed;”

’Tis the special cure, to let them bleed in vena Hymencaea, for love is a pleurisy, and if it be possible, so let it be,—­optataque gaudia carpant. [5830]Arculanus holds it the speediest and the best cure, ’tis Savanarola’s [5831]last precept, a principal infallible remedy, the last, sole, and safest refuge.