The Anatomy of Melancholy

by Robert Burton

[6239]. Epist. 70.

[6240]. Ovid. “How badly steers of different ages are yoked to the plough.”

[6241]. Alciat. emb. 116.

[6242]. Deipnosoph. l. 3. cap. 12.

[6243]. Euripides.

[6244]. Pontanus hiarum lib. 1. “Maidens shun their embraces; Love, Venus, Hymen, all abhor them.”

[6245]. Offic. lib. Luxuria cum omni aetati turpis, tum senectuti foedissima.

[6246]. Ecclus. xxv. 2. “An old man that dotes,” &c.

[6247]. Hor. lib. 3. ode 26. “He was lately a match for a maid, and contended not ingloriously.”

[6248]. “Alecto herself holds the torch at such nuptials, and malicious Hymen sadly howls.”