The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
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keep, disburse, or spend their moneys well.
I might say the like of angry, peevish, envious, ambitious; [759] _Anticyras melior sorbere meracas_; Epicures, Atheists, Schismatics, Heretics; _hi omnes habent imaginationem laesam_ (saith Nymannus) "and their madness shall be evident," 2 Tim. iii. 9. [760]Fabatus, an Italian, holds seafaring men all mad; "the ship is mad, for it never stands still; the mariners are mad, to expose themselves to such imminent dangers: the waters are raging mad, in perpetual motion: the winds are as mad as the rest, they know not whence they come, whither they would go: and those men are maddest of all that go to sea; for one fool at home, they find forty abroad." He was a madman that said it, and thou peradventure as mad to read it. [761] Felix Platerus is of opinion all alchemists are mad, out of their wits; [762]Atheneus saith as much of fiddlers, _et musarum luscinias_, [763] Musicians, _omnes tibicines insaniunt, ubi semel efflant, avolat illico mens_, in comes music at one ear, out goes wit at another. Proud and vainglorious persons are certainly mad; and so are [764]lascivious; I can feel their pulses beat hither; horn-mad some of them, to let others lie with their wives, and wink at it. To insist [765]in all particulars, were an Herculean task, to [766]reckon up [767]_insanas substructiones, insanos labores, insanum luxum_, mad labours, mad books, endeavours, carriages, gross ignorance, ridiculous actions, absurd gestures; _insanam gulam, insaniam villarum, insana jurgia_, as Tully terms them, madness of villages, stupend structures; as those Egyptian Pyramids, Labyrinths and Sphinxes, which a company of crowned asses, _ad ostentationem opum_, vainly built, when neither the architect nor king that made them, or to what use and purpose, are yet known: to insist in their hypocrisy, inconstancy, blindness, rashness, _dementem temeritatem_, fraud, cozenage, malice, anger, impudence, |
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