“Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.”

—  Robert Burton , book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, Air rectified. With a digression of the Air.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

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