“Oh, a consumption is worse than a Capius ad Ligatum: to nothing can I compare it better than to a reprieve after a man is condemned, or to a boy with his hose about his heels ready to be whipped, to whom his master stands preaching a long time all law and no gospel ereContinue reading “RKS Literature: Death by Consumption (Thomas Nasche)”
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RKS Literature: Two Types of Melancholy (Thomas Nasche)
“Of this melancholy there be two sorts: one that, digested by our liver, swimmeth like oil above water and that is rightly termed women’s melancholy; which lasteth but for an hour and is, as it were, but a copy of their countenance; the other sinketh down to the bottom of the lees of the wine,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Two Types of Melancholy (Thomas Nasche)”
RKS Literature: What are Dreams? (Thomas Nasche)
“A dream is nothing else but a bubbling scum or froth of the fancy; which the day hath left undigested; or an after feast made of the fragments of an idle imagination. A dream is nothing but an echo of our conceits in the day. In them all states, all sexes, all places are confoundedContinue reading “RKS Literature: What are Dreams? (Thomas Nasche)”
RKS Literature: The Devil’s Reign is Nighttime (Thomas Nasche)
“It is not to be gainsaid but the devil can transform himself into an angel of light, appear in the day as well as in the night, but not in this subtle world of Christianity so usual as before. If he do it, it is when men’s minds are extraordinarily thrown down with discontent, orContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Devil’s Reign is Nighttime (Thomas Nasche)”
RKS Literature: The Night is the Devil’s Black Book (Thomas Nasche)
“As touching the terrors of the night, they are as many as our sins. The night is the Devil’s Black Book, wherein he recordeth all our transgressions. Even as, when a condemned man is put into a dark dungeon, secluded from all comfort of light or company, he doth nothing but despairfully call to hisContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Night is the Devil’s Black Book (Thomas Nasche)”
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