“Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.”

—  Robert Burton, book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 1, member 2, Lawful Cures, first from God.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II

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