walking in fair fields,
galleries, tennis, bar.
Of mind, as chess, cards, tables &c., to see plays, masks, &c.,
serious studies, business, all honest recreations.
_Memb. 5._ Rectification of waking and terrible dreams, &c.
_Memb. 6._ Rectification of passions and perturbations of the mind.
[Symbol: Libra]
_Memb. 6._ Passions and perturbations of the mind rectified.
From himself
_Subsect. 1._ By using all good means of help, confessing to a
friend, &c.
Avoiding all occasions of his infirmity.
Not giving way to passions, but resisting to his utmost.
or from his friends.
_Subsect. 2._ By fair and foul means, counsel, comfort, good
persuasion, witty devices, fictions, and, if it be possible, to
satisfy his mind.
_Subsect. 3._ Music of all sorts aptly applied.
_Subsect. 4._ Mirth and merry company.
_Sect. 3._ A consolatory digression, containing remedies to all
discontents and passions of the mind.
_Memb. 1._ General discontents and grievances satisfied.
_Memb. 2._ Particular discontents, as deformity of body,
sickness, baseness of birth, &c.
_Memb. 3._ Poverty and want, such calamites and adversities.
_Memb. 4._ Against servitude, loss of liberty, imprisonment,
banishment, &c.
_Memb. 5._ Against vain fears, sorrows for death of friends, or
otherwise.
_Memb. 6._ Against envy, livor, hatred, malice, emulation,
ambition, and self-love, &c.
_Memb. 7._ Against repulses, abuses, injuries, contempts,
disgraces, contumelies, slanders, and scoffs, &c.
_Memb. 8._ Against all other grievous and ordinary symptoms of
this disease of melancholy.
[Symbol: Taurus] _Sect. 4._ Pharmaceutics, or Physic which cureth with
medicines, with a digression of this kind of physic, is either _Memb. 1.
Subsect. 1._
General to all
Alterative
Simples altering melancholy, with a digression of exotic simples
_2. Subs._
Herbs. _3. Subs._
To the heart; borage, bugloss, scorzonera, &c.
To the head; balm, hops, nenuphar, &c.
Liver; eupatory, artemisia, &c.
Stomach; wormwood, centaury, pennyroyal.
Spleen; ceterache, ash, tamarisk.
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