M & D Deep Duck suspicion

[alice malice]

 Suspicion, and jealousy, are general symptoms: they are commonly
distrustful, apt to mistake, and amplify, facile irascibiles, testy,
pettish, peevish, and ready to snarl upon every [2509] small occasion,
cum amicissimis, and without a cause, datum vel non datum, it will be
scandalum acceptum. If they speak in jest, he takes it in good
earnest. If they be not saluted, invited, consulted with, called to
counsel, &c., or that any respect, small compliment, or ceremony be
omitted, they think themselves neglected, and contemned; for a time
that tortures them. If two talk together, discourse, whisper, jest, or
tell a tale in general, he thinks presently they mean him, applies all
to himself, de se putat omnia dici. Or if they talk with him, he is
ready to misconstrue every word they speak, and interpret it to the
worst; he cannot endure any man to look steadily on him, speak to him
almost, laugh, jest, or be familiar, or hem, or point, cough, or spit,
or make a noise sometimes, &c. [2510] He thinks they laugh or point at
him, or do it in disgrace of him, circumvent him, contemn him; every
man looks at him, he is pale, red, sweats for fear and anger, lest
somebody should observe him. He works upon it, and long after this
false conceit of an abuse troubles him. Montanus consil. 22. gives
instance in a melancholy Jew, that was Iracundior Adria, so waspish
and suspicious, tam facile iratus, that no man could tell how to carry
himself in his company.

They can take no rest in the night, nor sleep, or if they do slumber,
fearful dreams astonish them. In the daytime they are affrighted still
by some terrible object, and torn in pieces with suspicion, fear,
sorrow, discontents, cares, shame, anguish, &c.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anatomy_of_Melancholy

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> p. 16....Mason is 'ever inclined to suspicion' and sets Dixon up with
> a paranoid Wig- Not a Wig sally.
> Melancholy souls are suspicious souls; melancholy souls are paranoid
> souls; melancholy souls project unreal things? ---in jokes anyway.
>
> one of the Line fundamentals of the new America?
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