part i. sect. 2, memb. 1, subsect. 2._ Burton also quotes Anthony
Rusca in this connection, v. xviii.
[183-2] An honest man's the noblest work of God.--POPE: _Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 248._ BURNS: _The Cotter's Saturday Night._
[183-3] Weep no more, Lady! weep no more, Thy sorrow is in vain; For violets plucked, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.
PERCY: _Reliques. The Friar of Orders Gray._
[183-4] Let us do or die.--BURNS: _Bannockburn._ CAMPBELL: _Gertrude of Wyoming, part iii. stanza 37._
Scott says, "This expression is a kind of common property, being the motto, we believe, of a Scottish family."--_Review of Gertrude, Scott's Miscellanies, vol. i. p. 153._
[184-1] See Bacon, page 165.
[184-2] Naught so sweet as melancholy.--BURTON: _Anatomy of Melancholy. Author's Abstract._
[184-3] The following well-known catch, or glee, is formed on this song:--
He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October; But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.
[184-4] Three merry men be we.--PEELE: _Old Wives' Tale, 1595._ WEBSTER (quoted): _Westward Hoe, 1607._
[184-5] See Shakespeare, page 49.
[185-1] Deeds, not words.--BUTLER: _Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 867._
ROBERT BURTON. 1576-1640.
Naught so sweet as melancholy.[185-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy._[185-3] _The Author's Abstract._
I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.[185-4]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.[185-5]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
We can say nothing but what hath been said.[185-6] Our poets steal from Homer. . . . Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.[185-7]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
It is most true, _stylus virum arguit_,--our style bewrays us.[186-1]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones.[186-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
As that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
Like the watermen that row one way and look another.[186-3]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.[186-4]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.[186-5]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
Rob Peter, and pay Paul.[186-6]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
Penny wise, pound foolish.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
Women wear the breeches.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
Like AEsop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.[186-7]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter,--some of them in hell.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him.[186-8]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader._
Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 1, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5._
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.[187-1]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, _ministerio daemonum_, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3._
Can build castles in the air.[187-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3._
Joh. Mayor, in the first book of his "History of Scotland," contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread; it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base grain. . . . And yet Wecker out of Galen calls it horse-meat, and fitter juments than men to feed on.[187-3]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1._
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 2._
As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.[187-4]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 2._
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.[187-5]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3._
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 6._
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 2._
A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 6._
They do not live but linger.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 10._
[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies.[188-1]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 10._
[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 11._
[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12._
Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12._
Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12._
A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12._
I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.[188-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 13._
All our geese are swans.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 14._
Though they [philosophers] write _contemptu gloriae_, yet as Hieron observes, they will put their names to their books.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 14._
They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.[188-3]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 14._
We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars; kings can invest knights and barons, as Sigismund the emperor confessed.[189-1]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 15._
_Hinc quam sic calamus saevior ense, patet._ The pen worse than the sword.[189-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4._
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."[189-3]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 6._
See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.[189-4]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 7._
Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3._
Like him in AEsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 1, Memb. 2._
Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1._
Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2._
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards; their worthiest captains, best wits, greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been base [born].
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2._
As he said in Machiavel, _omnes eodem patre nati_, Adam's sons, conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked; let us wear theirs and they our clothes, and what is the difference?"
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2._
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.[190-1]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2._
Christ himself was poor. . . . And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor.[190-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
Who cannot give good counsel? 'T is cheap, it costs them nothing.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.[190-3]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
What can't be cured must be endured.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,--the one to be held by, the other not.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
All places are distant from heaven alike.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 4._
The commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 6._
"Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play."
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1._
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1._
Birds of a feather will gather together.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1._
And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.[191-1]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 3._
Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.[191-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 3._
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.[191-3]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3._
[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels."
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3._
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 4._
Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.[192-1]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5._
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5._
Though it rain daggers with their points downward.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
Going as if he trod upon eggs.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
I light my candle from their torches.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 5, Subsect. 1._
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.[192-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1._
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.[192-3]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1._
Make a virtue of necessity.[192-4]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1._
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.[192-5]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1._
If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.[193-1]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.[193-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
Out of too much learning become mad.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3._
Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 5._
When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.[193-3]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1._
One religion is as true as another.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1._
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3._
FOOTNOTES:
[185-2] See Fletcher, page 184.
There 's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.
HOOD: _Ode to Melancholy._
[185-3] Dr. Johnson said Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. And Byron said, "If the reader has patience to go through his volumes, he will be more improved for literary conversation than by the perusal of any twenty other works with which I am acquainted."--_Works, vol. i. p. 144._
[185-4] A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.--GARRICK: _Prologue on quitting the stage._
Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco (Being not unacquainted with woe, I learn to help the unfortunate).--VIRGIL: _AEneid, lib. i. 630._
[185-5] See Shakespeare, page 84.
[185-6] Nihil dictum quod non dictum prius (There is nothing said which has not been said before).--TERENCE: _Eunuchus. Prol. 10._
[185-7] A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two.--HERBERT: _Jacula Prudentum._
A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.--COLERIDGE: _The Friend, sect. i. essay viii._
Pigmaei gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident (Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves).--_Didacus Stella in Lucan, 10, tom. ii._
[186-1] Le style est l'homme meme (The style is the man himself).--BUFFON: _Discours de Reception_ (_Recueil de l'Academie_, 1750).
[186-2] Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are formed and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into form.--MONTAIGNE: _Apology for Raimond Sebond, book ii. chap. xii._
[186-3] Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.--PLUTARCH: _Whether 't was rightfully said, Live concealed._
Like rowers, who advance backward.--MONTAIGNE: _Of Profit and Honour, book iii. chap. i._
[186-4] See Shakespeare, page 132.
[186-5] See Heywood, page 15.
[186-6] See Heywood, page 14. RABELAIS: _book i. chap. xi._
[186-7] AESOP: _Fables, book v. fable v._
[186-8] He left a corsair's name to other times, Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes.
BYRON: _The Corsair, canto iii. stanza 24._
[187-1] See Fletcher, page 183.
[187-2] "Castles in the air,"--Montaigne, Sir Philip Sidney, Massinger, Sir Thomas Browne, Giles Fletcher, George Herbert, Dean Swift, Broome, Fielding, Cibber, Churchill, Shenstone, and Lloyd.
[187-3] Oats,--a grain which is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.--SAMUEL JOHNSON: _Dictionary of the English Language._
[187-4] Carpet knights are men who are by the prince's grace and favour made knights at home. . . . They are called carpet knights because they receive their honours in the court and upon carpets.--MARKHAM: _Booke of Honour_ (1625).
"Carpet knights,"--Du Bartas (ed. 1621), p. 311.
[187-5] The exception proves the rule.
[188-1] See Shakespeare, page 50.
[188-2] Qui vino indulget, quemque alea decoquit, ille In venerem putret
(He who is given to drink, and he whom the dice are despoiling, is the one who rots away in sexual vice).--PERSIUS: _Satires, satire v._
[188-3] His favourite sin Is pride that apes humility.
SOUTHEY: _The Devil's Walk._
[189-1] When Abraham Lincoln heard of the death of a private, he said he was sorry it was not a general: "I could make more of them."
[189-2] Tant la plume a eu sous le roi d'avantage sur l'epee (So far had the pen under the king the superiority over the sword).--SAINT SIMON: _Memoires, vol. iii. p. 517_ (1702), _ed. 1856._
The pen is mightier than the sword.--BULWER LYTTON: _Richelieu,