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← ExitThe Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2. Heroic or Love Melancholy, in Which Consider:

♈ Heroical or Love-Melancholy, in which consider,

Memb. 1. His pedegree, power, extent to vegetals and sensible creatures, as well as men, to spirits, divels, &c. His name, definition, object, part affected, tyranny.

Causes Mem. 2. Stars, temperature, full dyet, place, country, clime, condition, idleness. S. 1. Natural allurements, and causes of love, as beauty, its praise, how it allureth. Comeliness, grace, resulting from the whole, or some parts, as face, eyes, hair, hands, &c. Subs. 2.

Artificial allurements, and provocations of lust and love, gestures, apparel, dowry, mony, &c. Quæst. Whether beauty owe more to Art or Nature? Subs. 3. Opportunity of time and place, conference, discourse, musick, singing, dancing, amorous tales, lascivious objects, familiarity, gifts, promises, &c. Subs. 4. Bawds and Philters. Subs. 5.

Symptomes or signs Memb. 3. Of Body Dryness, paleness, leanness, waking, sighing, &c. Quæst. An detur pulsus amatorius? or Of mind Bad, as Fear, sorrow, suspition, anxiety, &c. An hell, torment, fire, blindness, &c. Dotage, slavery, neglect of business. or Good, as Spruceness, neatness, courage, aptness to learn musick, singing, dancing, poetry, &c.

Prognosticks: Despair, Madness, Phrensie, Death, Memb. 4.

Cures Mem. 5. By labour, diet, Physick, abstinence, Subs. 1. To withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, fair and foul means, change of place, contrary passion, witty inventions, discommend the former, bring in another, Subs. 2. By good counsel, perswasion, from future miseries, inconveniences, &c. S. 3. By Philters, magical, and poetical cures, S. 4. to let them have their desire disputed pro and con. Impedements removed, reasons for it. Subs. 5.

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