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The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
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or Mind

Common to all or most.
Fear and sorrow without a just cause, suspicion, jealousy,
discontent, solitariness, irksomeness, continual cogitations,
restless thoughts, vain imaginations, &c. _Subs. 2._

Or Particular to private persons, according to _Subs. 3. 4._
Celestial influences, as [Symbol: Saturn] [Symbol: Jupiter]
[Symbol: Mars], &c. parts of the body, heart, brain, liver,
spleen, stomach, &c.

Humours
Sanguine are merry still, laughing, pleasant, meditating
on plays, women, music, &c.
Phlegmatic, slothful, dull, heavy, &c.
Choleric, furious, impatient, subject to hear and see
strange apparitions, &c.
Black, solitary, sad; they think they are bewitched,
dead, &c.

Or mixed of these four humours adust, or not adust,
infinitely varied.

Their several customs, conditions, inclinations, discipline,
&c.

Ambitious, thinks himself a king, a lord; covetous, runs
on his money; lascivious on his mistress; religious, hath
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