There's a dark lantern of the spirit,
Which none see by but those who bear it,
That makes them in the dark see visions
And hag themselves with apparitions,
Find racks for their own minds, and vaunt
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Matthew. Oh! it's your only fine humour, sir. Your
true melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit, sir. I am
melancholy myself, divers times, sir; and then do I no
more but take pen and paper presently, and overflow
you half a score or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting.
Stephen. Truly, sir, and I love such things out of
measure.
Matthew. Why, I pray you, sir, make use of my
study: it’s at your service.
Stephen. I thank you, sir, I shall be bold, I warrant
you. Have you a stool there, to be melancholy upon?
BEN JONSON: Every Man in his Humour.
A. 3. S. 1.