ly, contemplation, solitariness.
How melancholy and despair differ. Distrust, weakness of
faith. Guilty conscience for offence committed,
misunderstanding, &c.

Symptoms, _Subs. 3._
Fear, sorrow, anguish of mind, extreme tortures and horror of
conscience, fearful dreams, conceits, visions, &c.

Prognostics; Blasphemy, violent death, _Subs. 4._

Cures, _Subs. 5._
Physic, as occasion serves, conference, not to be idle or
alone. Good counsel, good company, all comforts and
contents, &c. [_Subs. 6._]

THE THIRD PARTITION,
LOVE-MELANCHOLY.

THE FIRST SECTION, MEMBER, SUBSECTION.
_The Preface_.

There will not be wanting, I presume, one or other that will much
discommend some part of this treatise of love-melancholy, and object (which
[4414]Erasmus in his preface to Sir Thomas More suspects of his) "that it
is too light for a divine, too comical a subject to speak of love symptoms,
too fantastical, and fit alone for a wanton poet, a feeling young lovesick
gallant, an effeminate courtier, or some such idle person." And 'tis true
they say: for by the naughtiness of men it is so come to pass, as [4415]
Caussinus observes, _ut castis auribus vox amoris suspecta sit, et invisa_,
the very name of love is odious to chaster ears; and therefore some again,
out of an affected gravity, will dislike all for the name's sake before
they read a word; dissembling with him in [4416]Petronius, and seem to be
angry that their ears are violated with such obscene speeches, that so they
may be admired for grave philosophers and staid carriage. They cannot abide
to hear talk of love toys, or amorous discourses, _vultu, gestu, oculis_ in
their outward actions averse, and yet in their cogitations they are all out
as bad, if not worse than others.

[4417] "Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum
Sed coram Bruto, Brute recede, legit."

But let these cavillers and counterfeit Catos know, that as the Lord John
answered the Queen in that Italian [4418]Guazzo, an old, a grave discreet
man is fittest to discourse of love matters, because he hath likely more
experience, observed more, hath a more staid judgment, can better discern,
resolve, discuss, advise, give better cautions, and more solid precepts,
better inform his auditors in such a subject, and by reason of his riper
years soo