Burton on Melancholy Mason and Humbert?

[davemarc]

"He makes observations, keeps times and seasons; and as Conradus the emperor
would not touch his new bride, till an astrologer had told him a masculine
hour, but with what success?  He travels into Europe, Africa, Asia,
searcheth every creek, sea, city, mountain, gulf, to what end?"

http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;sid=02375453
181a847a9418f7b026d75773;q1=Anatomy%20of%20Melancholy;idno=ACM8939.0001.001;
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"(A) staggering triumph of education and artistry, at once a treatise on the
medical, historical, philosophical and spiritual aspects of melancholy, a
pep talk for fellow sufferers and a meta-fictional challenge leagues more
daunting than any Melville or Thomas Pynchon crafted centuries
later." --Patrick Giles, The Los Angeles Times
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/divphil/burtonr.htm