The Anatomy of Melancholy: Volume III

• The preface; loves beginning, object, definition, division; love of men, which varies as his objects, profitable, pleasant, honest; pleasant objects of love; honest objects of love; charity, composed of all three kindes, pleasant, profitable, honest; heroicall love causing melancholy; his pedegree, power, and extent; how love tyrannizeth over men; love or heroicall melancholy, his definition, part affected; causes of heroicall love, temperature, full diet, idlenesse, place, climat, etc; other causes of love melancholy, sight, beauty from the face, eyes, other parts, and how it pierceth; artificiall allurements of love, causes and provocations to lust. Gestures, cloathes, dowre, etc; importunity and opportunity of time, place, conference, discourse, singing, dancing, musicke, amorous tales, objects, kissing, familiarity, tokens, presents, bribes, promises, protestations, teares, etc; bawdes, philters, causes; symptomes or signes of love melancholy, in body, minde, good, bac, etc; prognosticks of love melancholy; cure of love melancholy, by labour, diet, physicke, fasting, etc; withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, change his place - faire and fowle means, contrary passions, with witty inventions - to bring in another, and discommend the former; by counsell and perswasion, fouleness of the fact, mens, womens faults, miseries of marriage, events of lust, etc; philters, magicall and poeticall cures; the last and best cure of love melancholy, is, to let them have their desire; JEALOUSY. jealousie, its aequivocations, amek definition, extent, severall kindes; of princes, parents, friends. In beasts, men, before marriage, as Corrivalls, or after, as in this place; causes of jealousie. Who are most apt. Idlenesse, melancholy, impotency, long absence, beauty, wantonnesse, naught themselves. Allurements, from time, place, persons, bad usage, causes; symptomes of jealousie, feare, sorrow, suspition, strange actions, gestures, outrages, locking up, oathes, trials, laws, etc; prognosticks of jealousie, despaire, madnesse, to make away themselves and others; cure of jealousie - by avoiding occasions, not to be idle - of good counsell - to contemne it, not to watch or locke them up - to dissemble it, etc; by prevention before, or after marriage, Plato's community, marry a curtisan, philters, stewes, to marry one equall in yeares, fortunes, of a good family, education, good place, to use them well, etc. (Part contents)

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