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A20928 A discourse of the preseruation of the sight: of melancholike diseases; of rheumes, and of old age. Composed by M. Andreas Laurentius, ordinarie phisition to the King, and publike professor of phisicke in the Vniuersitie of Mompelier. Translated out of French into English, according to the last edition, by Richard Surphlet, practitioner in phisicke; Discours de la conservation de la veüe. English Du Laurens, André, 1558-1609.; Surflet, Richard, fl. 1600-1616. 1599 (1599) STC 7304; ESTC S110934 175,205 211

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do_v sufficient_o witness_v the_o same_o suspicious_a why_o they_o be_v suspicious_a the_o accident_n of_o suspicion_n follow_v the_o two_o former_a hard_a and_o close_o at_o the_o heel_n the_o melancholic_a party_n be_v evermore_o suspicious_a if_o he_o see_v three_o or_o four_o talk_v together_o he_o think_v that_o it_o be_v of_o he_o the_o cause_n of_o such_o suspicion_n rise_v of_o the_o former_a fear_n and_o of_o a_o corrupt_a kind_n of_o reason_v for_o be_v always_o in_o fear_n he_o think_v very_o that_o one_o or_o other_o do_v lie_v in_o wait_n for_o he_o and_o that_o some_o do_v purpose_n to_o slay_v he_o melancholic_a man_n say_v aristotle_n do_v deceive_v themselves_o common_o in_o matter_n which_o depend_v upon_o choice_n for_o that_o they_o oftentimes_o forget_v the_o general_a proposition_n wherein_o honesty_n consist_v and_o choose_v rather_o to_o follow_v the_o motion_n of_o their_o foolish_a imagination_n restlessness_n the_o cause_n of_o their_o restlessness_n they_o 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