The hospitall of incurable fooles: erected in English, as neer the first Italian modell and platforme, as the vnskilfull hand of an ignorant architect could deuise

Title

The hospitall of incurable fooles: erected in English, as neer the first Italian modell and platforme, as the vnskilfull hand of an ignorant architect could deuise

Author

Garzoni, Tomaso, 1549?-1589.

Publication

[London] :: Printed by Edm. Bollifant, for Edward Blount,

1600.

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Insanity -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• TO MY MOST NEERE and Capriccious Neighbor, ycle∣ped Iohn Hodgson, alias Iohn Hatter, or (as some will) Iohn of Paules Churchyard, (Cum multis alijs, quae nunc imprimere longum est:) Edward Blount; wisheth prosperous successe in his Monomachie, with the French and Spaniard.
• TO THE GOOD OLD Gentlewoman, and her special Be∣nefactresse, Madam Fortune, Dame Folly (Matron of the Hospitall) makes curtesie, and speakes as followeth.
• Prologue of the Author to the beholders.
• Not to the wise Reader.
• Of Follie in generall: the first discourse.
• Of Franticke and doting Fooles: the second discourse.
  • A praier to the goddesse Minerua for doting and franticke Fooles.
• Of solitarie and melancholike Fooles: the thirde dis∣course.
  • A petition to Iupiter for melancholike and sauage Fooles.
• Of idle and carelesse Fooles: the fourth discourse.
  • An orizon to Apollo for idle and carelesse Fooles.
• Of drunken Fooles: the fift discourse.
  • A petition to god Abstemius for drunken Fooles.
• Of harebraind and forgetfull Fooles: the sixt dis∣course.
  • A supplication vnto Caron for harebraind and forgetfull Fooles.
• Of stupide, forlorne, and extaticall Fooles: the seuenth dis∣course.
  • A petition to God Sentinus, for stu∣pide, forlorne, and extati∣call Fooles.
• Of notted, grosse, and Fooles of light carriage: the eight discourse.
  • A petition to the Aegyptians Oxe, for notted, grosse, and Fooles of light carriage.
• Of dottrels and shallow-pated Fooles: the ninth dis∣course.
  • A supplication to the Samian sheepe, for shallow-pated, and dot∣trell Fooles.
• Of senselesse and giddie-headed Fooles: the tenth discourse.
  • An Inuocation vpon the goddesse Bu∣bona, for senselesse and gid∣die-headed Fooles.
• Of plaine lourdish, and naturall Fooles: the eleuenth discourse.
  • An inuocation to God Fatuello, for lourdish and naturall Fooles.
• Of vicicious Fooles: the twelfth discourse.
  • A supplication to goddesse The∣mis for vicious Fooles.
• Of malicious and despightfull fooles: the thirteenth discourse.
  • A petition to goddesse Nemesis, for despitefull and malitious Fooles.
• Of ridiculous Fooles: the four∣teenth discourse.
  • A petition to god Risus for ridi∣culous Fooles.
• Of ostenting and vaine glorious Fooles: the fifteenth discourse.
  • A supplication to goddesse Iuno, for vaine-glorious Fooles.
• Of parasiticall or scoffing Fooles: the sixteenth discourse.
  • A supplication to god Mercurie, for parasiticall and counterfeit Fooles.
• Of lunaticall and Fooles by season: the seuenteenth discourse.
  • A petition to goddesse Hecate, for Fooles lunaticall or by season.
• Of carpet and amorous Fooles: the eighteene dis∣course.
  • An inuocation to god Cupid for amorous Fooles.
• Of desperate Fooles: the nine∣teenth discourse.
  • A supplication to goddesse Ve∣nilia for desperate Fooles.
• Of heteroclite, reuerse, thwart, and headstrong Fooles: the twen∣tith discourse.
  • A petition to god Vulcane for he∣teroclite, reuerse, thwart, and headstrong Fooles.
• Of scoffing Fooles: the one and twentith discourse.
  • A prayer to god Fabulanus, for scoffing Fooles.
• Of Iouiall, recreatiue, facete, and friendly Fooles: the two and twentith discourse.
  • A petition to god Bacchus for Ioui∣all, recreatiue, facete, and plea∣sant Fooles.
• Of testie and fustian Fooles: the three and twentith dis∣course.
  • A petition to Tesiphon, for te∣stie and fustian Fooles.
• Of outragious, fel, and Bedlem Fooles: the fower and twentith discourse.
  • A supplication to god Mars for outragious, brutish, and bedlem Fooles.
• Of grosse and three elbowed Fooles: the fiue and twentith discourse.
  • A supplication to goddesse Volup∣tina, for grosse and three∣elbowed Fooles.
• Of Fooles obstinate, like to an horse or mule: the sixe and twentith discourse.
  • An inuocation to god Minos, for Fooles obstinate like a mule.
• Of pildpated and odious Fooles: the seuen and twentith discourse.
  • A supplication to Rhadamantus for pildpated Fooles.
• Of irregular and vnbridled Fooles: the eight and twentith discourse.
  • A supplication to goddesse Hippona, for vnbridled fooles.
• Of extrauagant, extreme, and right Fooles indeed: the nine and twentith discourse.
  • A petition to god Hercules for extrauagant, extreme, and right Fooles indeed.
• Of mischieuous or diabolicall Fooles: the thirtith discourse.
  • An inuocation to Pluto for mischie∣uous and diabolicall Fooles.
• A discourse of the Author, to the behol∣ders concerning that part of the Ho∣spitall which appertaineth to Wo∣men, wherein he wittily setteth down all the former kindes of folly to be likewise resident in them.