'By nativitie they be
lunaticke
.
John Donne
l. 17. _great Lunatique_, i. e. probably 'great humourist', whose
moods and whims are governed by the changeful moon. See O. E. D. , which
quotes:
Ther (i. e. women's) hertys chaunge never . . .
Ther sect ys no thing lunatyke.
Lydgate.
'By nativitie they be lunaticke . . . as borne under the influence of
Luna, and therefore as firme . . . as melting waxe. ' Greene, _Mamillia_.
l. 22. _Munster. _ The _Cosmographia Universalis_ (1541) of Sebastian
Munster (1489-1552).
l. 22. _Gesner. _ The _Bibliotheca Universalis, siue Catalogus Omnium
Scriptorum in Linguis Latina, Graeca, et Hebraica_, 1545, by Conrad
von Gesner of Zurich (1516-1565).
