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TO THE SAME LADY UPON MR. BURTON'S MELANCHOLY by HENRY KING (1592-1669)

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First Line: IF IN THIS GLASS OF HUMOURS YOU DO FIND
Last Line: BY OTHERS' MELANCHOLY, NOT YOUR OWN.
Subject(s): MELANCHOLY; DEJECTION;
IF in this Glass of Humours you do find
The passions or diseases of your mind,
Here without pain, you safely may endure,
Though not to suffer, yet to read your cure.
But if you nothing meet you can apply,
Then, ere you need, you have a remedy.
And I do wish you never may have cause
To be adjudg'd by these fantastic laws;
But that this book's example may be known,
By others' Melancholy, not your own.



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