The worlds olio written by the Right Honorable, the Lady Margaret Newcastle.

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Title: The worlds olio written by the Right Honorable, the Lady Margaret Newcastle.
Author: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
Publication: London :: Printed for J. Martin and J. Allestrye ...,; 1655.
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Of Melancholy. Essay 132.

MElancholy, of all other Humours is the Activest, busy∣ing the Mind of Man with vain Imaginations; shuffling the Thoughts, cutting the Passions, Cozening themselves, and losing the Judgement; this Humour proceeds from the ill∣affected Body, rather than from an ill-affected Mind; It only lives and is cherished in the Mind, but is bred by a weak Sto∣mach, and is born from an ill Spleen; but Grief, Sorrow, and Sadness are bred in the Mind, begot by an outward effect: So Melancholy Men may be said to be Idle, or Musing, but not Sorrowfull or Sad; for they take more pleasure in their Melan∣choly, than others in their Mirth; but those that are Melan∣choly are as great a Punishment to their Friends, as a sweet Hap∣piness to themselves.