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Quotation from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
“All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy”
The Anatomy of Melancholy, The Author's Abstract of Melancholy (prefatory poem) (Project Gutenberg #10800 (modernized text checked against 1638))
The refrain of the opening stanzas, which alternate the pleasures of solitary musing with refrains of 'Naught so sad as melancholy'.
Citation: "All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy" — Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, The Author's Abstract of Melancholy (prefatory poem) (Project Gutenberg #10800 (modernized text checked against 1638)). (id the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q1)
Portrait: Robert Burton by Gilbert Jackson, Gilbert Jackson, Public domain.
