The Anatomy of Melancholia

• What fires, torments, cares, jealousies, suspicions, fears, griefs, anxieties, accompany such as are in love, I have sufficiently said : the next question is, what will be the event of such miseries, what they foretel. Some are of opinion that this love cannot be cured, Nullis amor est medicabilis herbis, it accompanies them to the last, Idem amor exilio est pecori pecorisque viagistro.

Burton's tome on human sadness can be downloaded here. http://ia600406.us.archive.org/34/items/anatomyofmelanch00burt/anatomyofmelanch00burt.pdf