Evagatio vero mentis quae fit praeter propositum orationis fructum non tollat" (2.2.

Like that disappointing book in Patmos; or, like the comings on of melancholy, described by Burton, doth music make her first insinuating approaches:"Most pleasant it is to such as are melancholy given, to walk alone in some solitary grove, betwixt wood and water, by some brook side, and to meditate upon some delightsome and pleasant subject, which shall affect him most, amabilis insania, and mentis gratissimus error.

Musa sub Oebalij desueta cacumine mentis, Flebit inexhausto tarn longa silentia planctu, Lugebitque sacrum lacrymis Helicona tacentem.

'Tis amabilis insania, et mentis gratissimus error, so pleasing, so delicious, that he cannot leave it.

cedo quemvis arbitrum, are they sanae mentis, sober, wise, and discreet?

Felix Plateras de mentis alienat.

Democritus was blind, yet as Laertius writes of him, he saw more than all Greece besides, as [3608]Plato concludes, Tum sane mentis oculus acute incipit cernere, quum primum corporis oculus deflorescit, when our bodily eyes are at worst, generally the eyes of our soul see best.

[3700] "Non enim gazae, neque consularis Summovet lictor miseros tumultus Mentis, et curas laqueata circum Tecta volantes.

When Jupiter himself wept for Sarpedon, what else did the poet insinuate, but that some sorrow is good "Quis matrem nisi mentis inops in funere nati Flere vetat?" who can blame a tender mother if she weep for her children?

Platerus de mentis alienat.

3. de mentis alienat.

Refert Solomonem mentis morbos curasse, et daemones abegisse ipsos carminibus, quod et coram Vespasiano fecit Eleazar.

Bonaae mentis soror paupertas.

De mentis alienat.

Amictum Chlamyde et coronis, quum primum aspexit Cnemonem, ex potestate mentis excidit. 5023.

Idem, et quis sanae mentis sustinere queat, &c. 5795.

3. de mentis alien.

Should such a man, 'compos mentis', exist, (which I more than doubt,) what could a wise man do but stareand leave him?

Apposita est SARA, conjux, Antiqua FORDORUM gente oriunda; quam domi sedulam, foris paucis notam; nulli molestam, mentis acumine et judicii subtilitate praecellentem; aliis multum, sibi parum indulgentem: aeternitati semper attentam, omne fere virtutis nomen commendavit.

Nascuntur curis curae, vexatque dolorum Importuna cohors, vacuae mala somnia mentis.

Quicquid agam, quocunque ferar, conatibus obstat Res angusta domi, et macrae penuria mentis.

Tu, queis laborat sors hominum, mala Nec vincis acer, nee pateris pius; Te mille succorum potentem Destituit medicina mentis.

Hic, in se totum, longe per opaca futuri Temporis, Henricum rapuit vis vivida mentis: Hic pia Vindamius traxit suspiria, in ipsa Morte memor patriae; hic Marmonti pectore prima Coelestis fido caluerunt semina flammae.

mentis quoniam candore venustas Constat, et eximia simplicitate plucet.

Pol, me occidistis, amici, Non servastis, ait; cui sic extorta voluptas, Et demtus per vim mentis gratissimus error.