John Ford citations

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“Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Act III, sc. i.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)

“Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.”

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John Ford (dramatist)

Act I, sc. ii.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)

“Truth is child of time.”

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John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart

Act IV, sc. iii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)