The Anatomy of Melancholy

by Robert Burton

[5769]. Translated by my brother, Ralph Burton.

[5770]. Juvenal. “Who thrusts his foolish neck a second time into the halter.”

[5771]. Haec in speciem dicta cave ut credas.

[5772]. Bachelors always are the bravest men. Bacon. Seek eternity in memory, not in posterity, like Epaminondas, that instead of children, left two great victories behind him, which he called his two daughters.

[5773]. Ecclus. xxviii. 1.

[5774]. Euripides Andromach.

[5775]. Aelius Verus imperator. Spar. vit. ejus.

[5776]. Hor.

[5777]. Quod licet, ingratum est.

[5778]. For better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, &c.