ae runinae est."

"The nearer he unto his mistress is,
The nearer he unto his ruin is."

So that to say truth, as [5362]Castilio describes it, "The beginning,
middle, end of love is nought else but sorrow, vexation, agony, torment,
irksomeness, wearisomeness; so that to be squalid, ugly, miserable,
solitary, discontent, dejected, to wish for death, to complain, rave, and
to be peevish, are the certain signs and ordinary actions of a lovesick
person." This continual pain and torture makes them forget themselves, if
they be far gone with it, in doubt, despair of obtaining, or eagerly bent,
to neglect all ordinary business.

[5363] ------"pendent opera interrupta, minaeque
Murorum ingentes, aequataque machina coelo."

Lovesick Dido left her work undone, so did [5364]Phaedra,

------"Palladis telae vacant
Et inter ipsus pensa labuntur manus."

Faustus, in [5365]Mantuan, took no pleasure in anything he did,

"Nulla quies mihi dulcis erat, nullus labor aegro
Pectore, sensus iners, et mens torpore sepulta,
Carminis occiderat studium."------

And 'tis the humour of them all, to be careless of their persons and their
estates, as the shepherd in [5366]Theocritus, _et haec barba inculta est,
squalidique capilli_, their beards flag, and they have no more care of
pranking themselves or of any business, they care not, as they say, which
end goes forward.

[5367] "Oblitusque greges, et rura domestica totus
[5368] Uritur, et noctes in luctum expendit amaras,

"Forgetting flocks of sheep and country farms,
The silly shepherd always mourns and burns."

Lovesick [5369]Chaerea, when he came from Pamphila's house, and had not so
good welcome as he did expect, was all amort, Parmeno meets him, _quid
tristis es_? Why art thou so sad man? _unde es_? whence comest, how doest?
but he sadly replies, _Ego hercle nescio neque unde eam, neque quorsum eam,
ita prorsus oblitus sum mei_, I have so forgotten myself, I neither know
where I am, nor whence I come, nor whether I will, what I do. P. [5370]"How
so?" Ch. "I am in love." _Prudens sciens._ [5371]--_vivus vidensque pereo,
nec quid agam scio._ [5372]"He that erst had his thoughts free" (as
Philostratus Lemnius, in an epistle of his, describes this fiery passion),
"and spent his time like a hard student, in those delightsome philosophical
precepts; he that with the sun and moon wandered all over the world, w