THE SYNOPSIS OF THE THIRD PARTITION.
Love and love melancholy, Memb. 1 Sect. 1.
- Preface or Introduction. Subsect. 1.
- Love's definition, pedigree, object, fair, amiable, gracious, and pleasant, from which comes beauty, grace, which all desire and love, parts affected.
- Division or kinds, Subs. 2.
- Natural, in things without life, as love and hatred of elements; and with life, as vegetable, vine and elm, sympathy, antipathy, &c.
- Sensible, as of beasts, for pleasure, preservation of kind, mutual agreement, custom, bringing up together, &c.
- or Rational
- Simple, which hath three objects as M. 2.
- Profitable, Subs. 1.
- Health, wealth, honour, we love our benefactors: nothing so amiable as profit, or that which hath a show of commodity.
- Pleasant, Subs. 2.
- Things without life, made by art, pictures, sports, games, sensible objects, as hawks, hounds, horses; Or men themselves for similitude of manners, natural affection, as to friends, children, kinsmen, &c., for glory such as commend us.
- Of women, as
- Honest, Subs. 3.
- Fucate in show, by some error or hypocrisy; some seem and are not; or truly for virtue, honesty, good parts, learning, eloquence, &c.
- or Mixed of all three, which extends to M. 3.
- Common good, our neighbour, country, friends, which is charity; the defect of which is cause of much discontent and melancholy.
- or God, Sect. 4.
- In excess, vide ♊
- In defect, vide ♋
♈ Heroical or Love-Melancholy, in which consider,
- Memb. 1. His pedigree, power, extent to vegetables and sensible creatures, as well as men, to spirits, devils, &c.
- His name, definition, object, part affected, tyranny. [Subs. 2.]
- Causes, Memb. 2.
- Stars, temperature, full diet, place, country, clime, condition, idleness, S. 1.
- Natural allurements, and causes of love, as beauty, its praise, how it allureth.
- Comeliness, grace, resulting from the whole or some parts, as face, eyes, hair, hands, &c. Subs. 2.
- Artificial allurements, and provocations of lust and love, gestures, apparel, dowry, money, &c.
- Quest. Whether beauty owe more to Art or Nature? Subs. 3.
- Opportunity of time and place, conference, discourse, music, singing, dancing, amorous tales, lascivious objects, familiarity, gifts, promises, &c. Subs. 4.
- Bawds and Philters, Subs. 5.
- Symptoms or signs, Memb. 3.
- Of body
- Dryness, paleness, leanness, waking, sighing, &c.
- Quest. An delur pulsus amatorius?
- or Of mind.
- Bad, as
- Fear, sorrow, suspicion, anxiety, &c.
- A hell, torment, fire, blindness, &c.
- Dotage, slavery, neglect of business.
- or Good, as
- Spruceness, neatness, courage, aptness to learn music, singing, dancing, poetry, &c.
- Prognostics; despair, madness, frenzy, death, Memb. 4.
- Cures, Memb. 5.
- By labour, diet, physic, abstinence, Subs. 1.
- To withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, fair and foul means, change of place, contrary passion, witty inventions, discommend the former, bring in another, Subs. 2.
- By good counsel, persuasion, from future miseries, inconveniences, &c. S. 3.
- By philters, magical, and poetical cures, Subs. 4.
- To let them have their desire disputed pro and con. Impediments removed, reasons for it. Subs. 5.
♉ Jealousy,
Sect. 3.
- His name, definition, extent, power, tyranny, Memb. 1.
- Division, Equivocations, kinds, Subs. 1.
- Improper
- To many beasts; as swans, cocks, bulls.
- To kings and princes, of their subjects, successors.
- To friends, parents, tutors over their children, or otherwise.
- or Proper
- Before marriage, corrivals, &c.
- After, as in this place our present subject.
- Causes, Subs. 2.
- In the parties themselves,
- Idleness, impotency in one party, melancholy, long absence.
- They have been naught themselves. Hard usage, unkindness, wantonness, inequality of years, persons, fortunes, &c.
- or from others.
- Outward enticements and provocations of others.
- Symptoms, Memb. 2.
- Fear, sorrow, suspicion, anguish of mind, strange actions, gestures, looks, speeches, locking up, outrages, severe laws, prodigious trials, &c.
- Prognostics, Memb. 3.
- Despair, madness, to make away themselves, and others.
- Cures, Memb. 4.
- By avoiding occasions, always busy, never to be idle.
- By good counsel, advice of friends, to contemn or dissemble it. Subs. 1.
- By prevention before marriage. Plato's communion.
- To marry such as are equal in years, birth, fortunes, beauty, of like conditions, &c.
- Of a good family, good education. To use them well. [Subs. 2.]
♊ Religious Melancholy,
Sect. 4.
- In excess of such as do that which is not required. Memb. 1.
- A proof that there is such a species of melancholy, name, object God, what his beauty is, how it allureth, part and parties affected, superstitious, idolaters, prophets, heretics, &c. Subs. 1.
- Causes, Subs. 2.
- From others
- The devil's allurements, false miracles, priests for their gain. Politicians to keep men in obedience, bad instructors, blind guides.
- or from themselves.
- Simplicity, fear, ignorance, solitariness, melancholy, curiosity, pride, vainglory, decayed image of God.
- Symptoms, Subs. 3.
- General
- Zeal without knowledge, obstinacy, superstition, strange devotion, stupidity, confidence, stiff defence of their tenets, mutual love and hate of other sects, belief of incredibilities, impossibilities.
- or Particular.
- Of heretics, pride, contumacy, contempt of others, wilfulness, vainglory, singularity, prodigious paradoxes.
- In superstitious blind zeal, obedience, strange works, fasting, sacrifices, oblations, prayers, vows, pseudomartyrdom, mad and ridiculous customs, ceremonies, observations.
- In pseudoprophets, visions, revelations, dreams, prophecies, new doctrines, &c., of Jews, Gentiles, Mahometans, &c.
- Prognostics, Subs. 4.
- New doctrines, paradoxes, blasphemies, madness, stupidity, despair, damnation.
- Cures, Subs. 5.
- By physic, if need be, conference, good counsel, persuasion, compulsion, correction, punishment. Quaeritur an cogi debent? Affir.
- In defect, as Memb. 2.
- Secure, void of grace and fears.
- Epicures, atheists, magicians, hypocrites, such as have cauterised consciences, or else are in a reprobate sense, worldly-secure, some philosophers, impenitent sinners, Subs. 1.
- or Distrustful, or too timorous, as desperate. In despair consider,
- Causes, Subs. 2.
- The devil and his allurements, rigid preachers, that wound their consciences, melancholy, contemplation, solitariness.
- How melancholy and despair differ. Distrust, weakness of faith. Guilty conscience for offence committed, misunderstanding, &c.
- Symptoms, Subs. 3.
- Fear, sorrow, anguish of mind, extreme tortures and horror of conscience, fearful dreams, conceits, visions, &c.
- Prognostics; Blasphemy, violent death, Subs. 4.
- Cures, Subs. 5.
- Physic, as occasion serves, conference, not to be idle or alone. Good counsel, good company, all comforts and contents, &c. [Subs. 6.]