“All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Author's Abstract.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
“Hence, all you vain delights,
As short as are the nights
Wherein you spend your folly!
There's naught in this life sweet
But only melancholy;
O sweetest melancholy!”
The Nice Valor (1647), Melancholy. Compare: "Naught so sweet as melancholy", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy.
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