Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson, New York Review of Books, 2001.
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…for a pint of honey thou shalt here likely find a gallon of gall, for a dram of pleasure a pound of pain, for inch of mirth an ell of moan; these miseries encompass our life…”
p. 144