The Anatomy of Melancholy
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Fyfield Books
Published: February 26, 2004
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781857546507
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; English
First sentence: BECAUSE, in the precedent Section, I have made mention of good counsel, comfortable speeches, persuasion, how necessarily they are required to the cure of a discontented or troubled mind, how present a remedy they yield, and many times a sole sufficient cure of themselves; I have thought fit, in this following Section, a little to digress, (if at least it be to digress in this subject), to collect and glean a few remedies, and comfortable speeches out of our best Orators, Philosophers, Divines, and Fathers of the Church, tending to this purpose.