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II.—_Pleasant Objects of Love_. N TWO PLEASANT OBJECTS OF LOVE
ties, we are most impatient: fair becomes foul, the graces are turned to harpies, friendly salutations to bitter imprecations, mutual feastings to plotting villainies, minings and counterminings; good words to satires and invectives, we revile e contra, nought but his imperfections are in our eyes, he is a base knave, a devil, a monster, a caterpillar, a viper, a hog-rubber, &c. Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne;[4518] the scene is altered on a sudden, love is turned to hate, mirth to melancholy: so furiously are we most part bent, our affections fixed upon this object of commodity, and upon money, the desire of which in excess is covetousness: ambition tyranniseth over our souls, as [4519]I have shown, and in defect crucifies as much, as if a man by negligence, ill husbandry, improvidence, prodigality, waste and consume his goods and fortunes, beggary follows, and melancholy, he becomes an abject, [4520]odious and worse than an infidel, in not providing for his family. SUBSECT.  SECTION FOUR OF THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY VOLUME THREE THIS IS A LIBRY BOX RECORDING ALL LIBRY BOX RECORDINGS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER PLEASE VISIT LIBERY BOX DOT ORG THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY VOLUME THREE BY ROBERT BURTON SECTION FOUR PARTITION THREE SECTION ONE MEMBER TWO SUBSECTIONS TWO AND THREE SUBSECTIO
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