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* From himself
THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY
* Subsect. 1. By using all good means of help,
confessing to a friend, &c.
* Avoiding all occasions of his infirmity.
* Not giving way to passions, but resisting to his
utmost.
* or from his friends.
* Subsect. 2. By fair and foul means, counsel,
comfort, good persuasion, witty devices, fictions,
and, if it be possible, to satisfy his mind.
* Subsect. 3. Music of all sorts aptly applied.
* Subsect. 4. Mirth and merry company.
* Sect. 3. A consolatory digression, containing
remedies to all discontents and passions of the
mind.
* Memb. 1. General discontents and grievances
satisfied.
* Memb. 2. Particular discontents, as deformity of
body, sickness, baseness of birth, &c.
* Memb. 3. Poverty and want, such calamities and
adversities.
* Memb. 4. Against servitude, loss of liberty,
imprisonment, banishment, &c.
* Memb. 5. Against vain fears, sorrows for death of
friends, or otherwise.
* Memb. 6. Against envy, livor, hatred, malice,
emulation, ambition, and self-love, &c.
* Memb. 7. Against repulses, abuses, injuries,
contempts, disgraces, contumelies, slanders, and
scoffs, &c.
* Memb. 8. Against all other grievous and ordinary
symptoms of this disease of melancholy.
B. Sect. 4. Pharmaceutics, or Physic which cureth with
medicines, with a digression of this kind of physic, is
either Memb. 1. Subsect. 1.
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