La m\u00e9lan\u00adco\u00adlie aigu\u00eb affecte sou\u00advent celles qui ont p\u00e9n\u00e9\u00adtr\u00e9 fort avant en la Mati\u00e8re alors que glous\u00adse\u00adments espi\u00e8gles et humeur fol\u00e2tre semblent l\u2019apanage de celles qui en sont aux tout pre\u00admiers stades. Les jeunes Donzelles enamou\u00adr\u00e9es se dis\u00adtinguent par leur fai\u00adblesse de concen\u00adtra\u00adtion, leur manque de r\u00e9flexion, leur ten\u00addance \u00e0 gigo\u00adter, gam\u00adba\u00adder, gam\u00adbiller et poser un \u0153il bala\u00addeur sur toute belle br\u00fb\u00adlante du m\u00eame d\u00e9sir de batifoler.
\nSurviennent les fris\u00adsons, les fi\u00e8vres noc\u00adturnes, la mania\u00adcale et bizarre habi\u00adtude d\u2019inventorier des objets aus\u00adsi com\u00admuns que les pav\u00e9s, les bon\u00adnets de hus\u00adsards (lors qu\u2019elles habitent Londres), les fl\u00e8ches de clo\u00adcher, les pane\u00adr\u00e9es de m\u00fbres, les pattes de robes, les sabots de che\u00advaux et les \u00e9toiles des cieux.
\nDans les six \u00e0 huit semaines qui suivent, cet \u00e9tat fait place \u00e0 une grande sobri\u00e9\u00adt\u00e9 accom\u00adpa\u00adgn\u00e9e de pen\u00ads\u00e9es de trans\u00admi\u00adgra\u00adtion et l\u00e9vi\u00adta\u00adtion, de myo\u00adpie et br\u00fb\u00adlures. L\u2019\u0153il lar\u00admoie, le souffle se pr\u00e9\u00adci\u00adpite, la rate se dilate, l\u2019\u00e9piglotte va et vient, ava\u00adlant le c\u0153ur en un mou\u00adve\u00adment per\u00adp\u00e9\u00adtuel. Sur quoi l\u2019on voit les veines enfler, les nerfs se cris\u00adper, les paumes se cou\u00advrir de sueur, les pieds perdre leur agi\u00adli\u00adt\u00e9, les vis\u00adc\u00e8res se contrac\u00adter et, de m\u00eame que, dans l\u2019ancien temps, une per\u00adsonne atteinte d\u2019hydrophobie aigu\u00eb croyait en son urine voir flot\u00adter une por\u00adt\u00e9e de chiots, de m\u00eame dans les eaux de la Jouvencelle mor\u00adfon\u00addue peut-on voir se pro\u00adfi\u00adler, aus\u00adsi menue qu\u2019une graine de car\u00advi, la longue sil\u00adhouette dra\u00adp\u00e9e de V\u00e9nus, un tri\u00addent dans la main droite et une gu\u00eape chas\u00adse\u00adresse sur le poi\u00adgnet gauche.
\nOn a ou\u00ef dire que l\u2019une de ces mal\u00adheu\u00adreuses, \u00e0 l\u2019agonie, croi\u00adsa une enti\u00e8re aca\u00add\u00e9\u00admie de Tra\u00een\u00e9es cou\u00adch\u00e9es sur une conque marine, les\u00adquelles se mirent \u00e0 cra\u00adcher le feu et \u00e0 faire rage jusqu\u2019\u00e0 ce que le corps du fluide f\u00fbt \u00e0 ce point embra\u00ads\u00e9 dans le vase de nuit qu\u2019il res\u00adsem\u00adbl\u00e2t \u00e0 du bran\u00addy br\u00fb\u00adlant : il se r\u00e9pan\u00addit alors sur l\u2019Infortun\u00e9e, la p\u00e9n\u00e9\u00adtra dans un nuage de fum\u00e9e et, en moins d\u2019une seconde, ne lais\u00adsa plus d\u2019elle que des char\u00adbons ardents.
\nQuoi qu\u2019il en soit, d\u2019aucunes tiennent que la mala\u00addie et ses symp\u00adt\u00f4mes pr\u00e9\u00adsentent des formes trop vari\u00e9es pour auto\u00adri\u00adser la moindre clas\u00adsi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion : il fau\u00addrait minu\u00adtieu\u00adse\u00adment d\u00e9crire la tota\u00adli\u00adt\u00e9 de l\u2019Anatomie pour cer\u00adner ne f\u00fbt-ce que le plus petit cirre de l\u2019Affection, de l\u2019Affliction et de l\u2019Angoisse.
\nCertaines Damoiselles sont d\u2019une telle com\u00adplexion que rien, fors la vani\u00adt\u00e9 bles\u00ads\u00e9e, ne sau\u00adrait les d\u00e9con\u00adcer\u00adter. Tressant du lierre dans leur che\u00adve\u00adlure et rehaus\u00adsant leurs tempes d\u2019un brin de lau\u00adrier, elles fre\u00addonnent sans d\u00e9sem\u00adpa\u00adrer leur ren\u00adgaine favo\u00adrite \u00ab Moi je suis moi ! \u00bb sans dai\u00adgner s\u2019inqui\u00e9ter de rien sinon de la r\u00e9plique \u00ab Et apr\u00e8s ? \u00bb ques\u00adtion qui a l\u2019heure de les plon\u00adger dans une telle fureur qu\u2019elles seraient toutes pr\u00eates \u00e0 mettre en lam\u00adbeaux les toi\u00adlettes de leurs com\u00adpagnes : le visage sou\u00addain convul\u00ads\u00e9 d\u2019un si vain orgueil qu\u2019il ne laisse point d\u2019\u00e9voquer celui de la louve spo\u00adli\u00e9e de ses petits.
\nD\u2019aucunes, pour\u00adtant, sont d\u2019une autre trempe. Toujours tendres et c\u00e2lines, elles n\u2019ont point de plus grand plai\u00adsir que de se pro\u00addi\u00adguer en sacri\u00adfices et cadeaux, et de jon\u00adcher le sol de roses \u00e0 l\u2019approche de leur bien-aim\u00e9e. Elles ont l\u2019\u0153il lim\u00adpide, le coin des l\u00e8vres retrous\u00ads\u00e9, les che\u00adveux soyeux de l\u2019enfance, la bonne mine, le carac\u00adt\u00e8re \u00e9gal, le c\u0153ur fier et ce cou\u00adrage qui sou\u00advent passe pour folie. A toute heure on peut comp\u00adter sur elles et, mortes et enter\u00adr\u00e9es, elles gardent encore les traits r\u00e9gu\u00adliers de l\u2019horloge loyale qui, n\u2019ayant jamais avan\u00adc\u00e9 ni retar\u00add\u00e9, a son\u00adn\u00e9 l\u2019heure exacte tout au long du s\u00e9jour ter\u00adrestre. Et si, d\u00e9sor\u00admais condam\u00adn\u00e9es au silence, elles cessent de t\u00e9moi\u00adgner c\u2019est parce que le Seigneur, bran\u00addis\u00adsant ses ciseaux, a cou\u00adp\u00e9 les balanciers.<\/p>\n

Acute Melancholy is noti\u00adceable in those who have gone a long Way into this Matter, whe\u00adreas a light gig\u00adgling, dan\u00adcing Fancy seems to sup\u00adport those in the very first Stages ; brief of Thought ; cut of Concentration ; a Tendency to hop, skip and jump, and to mis\u00adplace the Eye at eve\u00adry single or seve\u00adral Manifestation of Girl in like Distemper.
\nChill suc\u00adceeds, and Restlesness at Night, or unac\u00adcoun\u00adtable Tabulation of unim\u00adpor\u00adtant Objects, such as FlagStones (Busbys an she be in London!) Steeples, Mulberries in Baskets, Tabs to Dresses, Hooves to Horses, and Stars in the Sky.
\nThis gives place, in from six to eight Weeks, to a Sobriety that includes thoughts of Transmigration, Levitation, Myopia and Blight. The Eye tri\u00adckles, the Breath is short, the Spleen is dis\u00adten\u00added, and the Epiglottis rises and falls like the conti\u00adnual swal\u00adlo\u00adwing of the Heart. Whereupon the Veins are seen to lift them\u00adselves, the Nerves twitch, the Palms become moist, the Feet lose their acti\u00advi\u00adty, the Bowels contract, and, as in the old Days when a Person in the last stages of Hydrophobia some\u00adtimes found small Whelps in the Urine, in the Waters of such is seen the ful\u00adly Robed on-mar\u00adching Figure of Venus no lar\u00adger than a Caraway Seed, a Trident in one Hand an d a Gos-Wasp on the left Fist.
\nOne such, in the Death Agony, is said to have pas\u00adsed a whole School of Trulls, cou\u00adched on a Conch Shell, which such, emit\u00adting Fire, raged until they had brought the Body of the Fluid to such Flame in its Night Vase, that it resem\u00adbled a bur\u00adning Brandy, and so ran upon the Sufferer that she was seen to be re-ente\u00adred in a burst of Smoke, and was thus, in less than a Second, a char\u00adred and glo\u00adwing Ember. Be this as it may, there have been some and seve\u00adral who hold the Sickness and the Signs of such are diverse to the Point where Classification becomes almost impos\u00adsible ; an whole Anatomy would needs be pen\u00adned to get at so much as the smal\u00adlest Tendril of the Malady, Grief and Agony.
\nOthers be of a Temper that nothing will dis\u00adcoun\u00adte\u00adnance them save Vanity. These are seen twi\u00adning Ivy in their Hair, or dashing a Sprig of Bay ath\u00adwart the Temples, while into\u00adning, \u201cI am I!\u201d nor dei\u00adgning to have Trouhle what\u00adsoe\u00adver, unless someone demand \u201cWhat of it?\u201d which does send them into such a Fury that the very Raiment of their Company is in Danger, and so dis\u00adtor\u00adted are their Faces by boot\u00adless Pride, that they resemhle, in no small degree, the Wolf des\u00adpoi\u00adled of her Litter.
\nStill others are of a dif\u00adferent Dye, and are sweet and ten\u00adder always, and find much Pleasure in making Sacrifices and Gifts, and in stre\u00adwing Roses before the onco\u00adming of their Adored. In such one sees the lim\u00adpid Eye, the upcur\u00adved Mouth, the sil\u00adken Child\u2019s Hair, the bonne mine<\/em>, the regnant Temper, the strong Heart and the Courage that goes for Folly. Such can be coun\u00adted on at all hours, and are buried when dead, with the look of the good Clock which has heen never slow or fast, but has tol\u00adled the exact hour for the dura\u00adtion of Mortality, and is silen\u00adced only and unre\u00adcor\u00adding, for that the Lord put forth his Shears and cut down the Weights.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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