CONTENTS
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Author: Burton Robert
Year: 1621
"There came," saith he, "by chance into my company, a fellow not very spruce to look on, that I could perceive by that note alone he was a Scholar, whom commonly rich men hate. I asked him what he was; he answered, a Poet. I demanded again why he was so ragged; he told me this kind of learning never made any man rich.
(1.2.3.xv)
Naughty Love, to what dost thou not compel out mortal hearts? How it tickles the hearts of mortal men, I am almost afraid to relate, amazed and ashamed, it hath wrought such stupend and prodigious effects, such foul offences.
(3.2.1.ii)
Another tale is there, borrowed out of Aristophanes. In the beginning of the world, men had four arms, and four feet, but for their pride, because they compared themselves with the Gods, were parted into halves, and now peradventure by Love they hope to be united again and made one.
(3.2.1.i)
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