And well consydered that he shulde haue mysdone If he to deth had hym done in that madnesse Thus it apereth what great unhappynes And blyndnes cometh to many a creature By wyne or ale taken without measure.
And these passions be diuerse after the diuersity of the hurt of their workings; for by madnesse that is called Mania, principally the imagination is hurt; and in the other reson is hurted.
Madnesse is infection of the formost cel of the head, with priuation of imagination, lyke as melancholye is the infection of the middle cell of the head, with priuation of reason, as Constant.
Likewise there raigned a fit of madnesse in another Graecian city, which seized onely the young Maidens; and caused many of them to hang themselves.
But in both cases the Madnesseis of one and the same nature.
Again, that Madnesse is nothing else, but too much appearing Passion, may be gathered out of the effects of Wine, which are the same with those of the evill disposition of the organs.
And if this be Madnesse in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
For what argument of Madnesse can there be greater, than to clamour, strike, and throw stones at our best friends?
Rage Pride, subjecteth a man to Anger, the excesse whereof, is the Madnesse called RAGE, and FURY.
Or to the dreadfull Sonnet of the Cliffe, That beetles o're his base into the Sea, And there assumes some other horrible forme, Which might depriue your Soueraignty of Reason, And draw you into madnesse thinke of it?
It shall be so: Madnessein great Ones, must not vnwatch'd go.
It is not madnesse That I haue vttered; bring me to the Test And I the matter will re-word: which madnesse Would gamboll from.
Madame 'tis true: and wer't notmadnesse then, To make the Fox surueyor of the Fold?
Ho Guildenstern: Friends both go ioyne you with some further ayde: Hamlet in madnesse hath Polonius slaine, And from his Mother Clossets hath he drag'd him.
By Heauen, thy madnesseshall be payed by waight, Till our Scale turnes the beame.
By mine honesty If she be mad, as I beleeue no other, Her madnesse hath the oddest frame of sense, Such a dependancy of thing, on thing, As ere I heard in madnesse Isab.
If't be so, Hamlet is of the Faction that is wrong'd, His madnesse is poore Hamlets Enemy.
It greeues me to see so many dip there meate in one mans blood, and all the madnesse is, he cheeres them vp too.
Ho Guildenstern: Friends both go ioyne you with some further ayde: Hamlet in madnessehath Polonius slaine, And from his Mother Clossets hath he drag'd him.
If't be so, Hamlet is of the Faction that is wrong'd, His madnesse is poore Hamlets Enemy.
I like him not, nor stands it safe with vs, To let his madnesse range.
Lets to the king, thismadnesse may prooue, Though wilde a while, yet more true to thy loue.
By Heauen, thy madnesseshall be payed by waight, [Sidenote: with weight] Till our Scale turnes the beame.
The Indians laughed at his talke, and skorning at him, they returned to the Towne, to enforme their fellowes of the pride and madnesse that they thought they hadde hearde.
Though my sad soule did often say Twas death and madnesse so to stray.
Catholique faith is the foundation on which he erects Religion; knowing it a ruinous madnesse to build in the ayre of a private spirit, or on the sands of any new schisme.
They are madwomen, Like Madnesse is the glory of this life, As this pompe shewes to a little oyle and roote.
The same man affirmed, that in all the time of his madnesse he liued a verie pleasant life, vntill the Phisitian had cured him of his disease.
My passions fond with impudence rehearse, Immortalize my madnesse in a verse.
Thus haunted should I be with such feat fiends: A prettymadnesse were my portion due.
A happinesse, That often Madnesse hits on, Which Reason and Sanitie could not So prosperously be deliuer'd of.
To draw apart the body he hath kild, O're whom his very madnesse like some Oare Among a Minerall of Mettels base Shewes it selfe pure.
Nor do we finde him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty Madnesse keepes aloofe: When we would bring him on to some Confession Of his true state Qu.
Lets to the King, this madnessemay prooue, Though wilde a while, yet more true to thy loue.
It is not madnesse That I have uttered: bring me to the test And I the matter will re-word, which madnesse Would gambol from.
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