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Quotation from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
“Musica est mentis medicina moestae, a roaring-meg against melancholy, to rear and revive the languishing soul”
The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 2, Sect. 2, Memb. 6, Subs. 3 (Music a remedy) (Project Gutenberg #10800 (modernized text checked against 1638))
Burton's praise of music as a medicine of the sad mind; a 'roaring-meg' was a large cannon.
Citation: "Musica est mentis medicina moestae, a roaring-meg against melancholy, to rear and revive the languishing soul" — Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 2, Sect. 2, Memb. 6, Subs. 3 (Music a remedy) (Project Gutenberg #10800 (modernized text checked against 1638)). (id the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q10)
Portrait: Robert Burton by Gilbert Jackson, Gilbert Jackson, Public domain.
