The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
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[791] "Quum furor haud dubius, quum sit manifesta phrenesis," "Since madness is indisputable, since frenzy is obvious." what remains then [792]but to send for Lorarios, those officers to carry them all together for company to Bedlam, and set Rabelais to be their physician. If any man shall ask in the meantime, who I am that so boldly censure others, _tu nullane habes vitia_? have I no faults? [793]Yes, more than thou hast, whatsoever thou art. _Nos numerus sumus_, I confess it again, I am as foolish, as mad as any one. [794] "Insanus vobis videor, non deprecor ipse, Quo minus insanus,"------ I do not deny it, _demens de populo dematur_. My comfort is, I have more fellows, and those of excellent note. And though I be not so right or so discreet as I should be, yet not so mad, so bad neither, as thou perhaps takest me to be. To conclude, this being granted, that all the world is melancholy, or mad, dotes, and every member of it, I have ended my task, and sufficiently illustrated that which I took upon me to demonstrate at first. At this present I have no more to say; _His sanam mentem Democritus_, I can but wish myself and them a good physician, and all of us a better mind. And although for the above-named reasons, I had a just cause to undertake this subject, to point at these particular species of dotage, that so men |
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