Metellus, profperous but unhappy, 3; his nob faying, 4, Note.

Mind, how affected by melancholy, 19; how in jured by harsh treatment, 138.

Mirth and merry company antidotes to melan choly, 196, 198; bad when abufed, 199.

Mifery, the lot of man, 104; particularly of a di appointed lover, 287.

Misfortunes of a certain kind ought to be concealed

Mockery injurious to the mind, 146.

Monafteries, the useful purposes. to which they might have been converted, 69.

Money matches, their impropriety, 360.

Montaigne, his fenfibility on parting with hi friends, 162.

Mofchus, his defcription of the character of Cupid

Mufes, their origin, 197, 198.

Mufic a great relief to a melancholy mind, 193 inftances of its good effects, 194; when per nicious, 195; of the vocal kind a powerful promoter of the heroic paffion, 256; inftan

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Nature accommodates herself to the exigency of

the occafion, 54.

Neapolitan

Neapolitan Peafant, the conjugal affection of one,

373.

Neceffity reconciles hurtful food to the habit, 53. Non-Naturals, the abufe of the fix the principal caufes of melancholy, 32.

Novels, the reading of them inftigates the heroic paffion, 260; inftances of their bad confe. quences, 261.

Nuptial Love defcribed, 224.

Nurfing, when bad, inftils a melancholy difpofition, 136; inftances of it, 137.

Old Age a caufe of melancholy, 36; Milton's defcription of it, 39, Note; naturally jealous in the affairs of love, 310; generally avaricious, 360.

Painting, its origin, 305.

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Parental fondnefs, an extraordinary inftance of it,

273, 275.

Parents who are melancholy have melancholy children, 34; their confent neceffary to the marriage of their children, 358; but fuch confent muft not be refufed from avaricious or tyrannical motives, 359, 361.

Parthenis, the facrifices he made for Harpedona,

288.

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Paffions,

melancholy, 74; a defcription of those whic diftract the mind, 79; and affect the heart, 1c Pafquin, a ftory refpecting his ftatue at Rome, 14 Paffus's picture defcribed, 331.

Patient, how to conduct himself to obtain relie 176.

Perturbation, the rule of driving away a greater b a lefs, 340.

Phryne obtains the judgment of the Athenian cour by the disclosure of her beauties, 238.

Phyficians, thofe who have written on the difeaf

of melancholy, 15; fhould find out the cauf of melancholy before they attempt to adminifter relief, go; their duties in adminiftering to mind difeafed, 175.

Piety an effential ingredient in the attainment of happiness, 395.

Pifo's conduct refpecting a deferter, 98, Note. Plato, his obfervation on the danger of bad habits, 54.

Plays, their dangerous effects, 261.

Plutarch's condu&t to a difobedient flave, 95.

Poets an irritable race, 145; capable of giving fame to others, 145.

Poetry, a defcription of the effects which different fituations produce on a melancholy mind, 10 to 13; of improper joy, 6, Note; on the diftin&t offices of reafon and imagination, 20, Note; addrefs to a grafshopper, 21, Note; on old age, 39,

Note;

Note; an epitaph on the celebrated poet Aretine,
144; on intemperance, 180, 181; on the dan--
gerous effects of beauty, 227; an exhortation to
heroic lovers, 229; on the difference between
heroic and connubial love, 230; a defcription
of the person and character of Cupid, 232; on
virtue, 233; on the powers of beauty, 239;
on the offices of beauty, 240; by Anacreon to
his miftrefs, 296; an epitaph by Caleaginus on
Quincia, 297; an addiction to it a fymptom of
love, 302; inftances, 303; a ruftic love letter,
306; its powerful effects, 306.

Politeness gains more friends than wit, 152.
Polycrates, inftance of his impiety, 4.

Polypheme foftened by his fondness for Galatea,
297.

Population ought to be encouraged, 367,

Potions, formerly thought to be used to procure
love, 269.

Poverty, a condition universally dreaded, and not
eafily endured, 155; how treated, 158; its ef-
fects on weak minds, 159's how to be considered,
205; the happiness that attends it, 207, 208;
the companion of virtue, 2c9; no objection.
to marrying, 366, 368.

Praise, constantly used to excite the heroic paffion,
262.

Prayer, its importance in the cure of melancholy,

174.

Prefents are often used to aid a lover's tale, 265;
when improperly used, the cause of jealousy,314.

frequently prevents matrimonial connectio 355; defeats the end it is used to attain, 3 and obftructs happiness, 365.

Promifes, one of the arts of love, 262.

Proteftations ufed deceitfully by heroic lovers, 20 Prudery, the danger of it, 355.

Pulfe affords a certain means of difcovering hidd love, 277.

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Quincia, rediculous epitaph on her by her hero lover, 297.

Quintilian, his forrow on the lofs of his children 161.

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Raillery, a dangerous and mifchievous weapon, 143, 153.

Reading, the most agreeable of all amufements, 190. Reafon, how affected by melancholy, 18; the pilot of mind, 18.

Religion teaches refignation, 216; a ferious fenfe of it, the best basis of the nuptial union, 350; the true one defcribed, 376, 390; caufes of the falfe ones that have prevailed, 377, 394; how the true has been corrupted, 389; the practice of 7the true the only cure for defpair, 394, 395.

Remedy,