The Anatomy of Melancholy

ear cometh like sudden desolation, and destruction like a whirlwind, affliction and anguish,"

It is not curiosity alone, but those other crying sins of ours, which pull these several plagues and miseries upon our heads

"He must eat his meat in sorrow,"

Change of times, and the frivolity of fashion, suspended, in some degree, that fame which had lasted near a century; and the succeeding generation affected indifference towards an author, who at length was only looked into by the plunderers of literature,

and safe from the influence and blight of any future caprices of fashion

Man in honour that understandeth not, is like unto beasts that perish

Fools by reason of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

Omne tulit punctum, qui miscit utile dulce

Omne tulit punctum, qui miscit utile dulc