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Excerpt from Anatomy of Melancholy, Vol. 2: What It Is, With All the Kinds Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, and Several Cures of It
Words adde no courage (which bcatiline once said to his souldiers) a captains oration doth not make a coward a va liant man: and, as Job Cfeelingly said to his friends, you are but miserable comforters all._ l'is to no purpose, in that vul gar phrase, to use a company of obsolete sentences, and fami liar sayings: as dplinius Secundus, being new sorrowful and heavy for the departure of his dear friend Cornelius Rufus, a Roman senator, wrote to his fellow Trio in like case, aclhibe solatia, sed nova aliqna, sed fortia, qnce andierim nnnqnam, legerim nnnqnam nam qnae andici, qnce legi, onznia tanto dolore snp'ei'antnr either say somethingthat I never read nor heard ofbefore, or else hold thy peace. Most men will here exeept, trivial consolations, ordinary speeches, and known per swasions, in this behalf will be ofsmall force; what can any man say that hath not been said? To what end are such parac netical discourses? You may as soon remove mount Caucasus, as alter some mens affections. Yet sure I think they cannot choose but do some good, comfort and ease a little though it be' the same again, I will say it; and upon that hepe, I will adventure enon mens hie sermo, tis not my speech this, but of seneca, plutareh, Epictetus, Austin, Bernard, Christ, and his apostles. I make nothing, as fmontaigne said in like ease, l will mar nothing; 'tis not my doctrine but my study; I hope [shall do no body wrong to speak whati think, and de serve not blame in imparting my mind. If it be not for thy ease, it may be for my own: so Tully, Cardan, and Boethius wrote de consol. As well to help themselves, as others. Be it as it may, I will essay.
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