, is a disease of the mind, with a
continual madness or dotage, which hath an acute fever annexed, or
else an
inflammation
of the brain, or the membranes or kells of it,
with an acute fever, which causeth madness and dotage.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
Pluto
in Dekker's _If this be not a good Play_, _Wks._ 3. 268, says that
every devil should have 'a brace of whores to his breakfast.' Such
ideas seem to be descended from the mediaeval allegories of men like
Raoul de Houdanc, Ruteboeuf, etc.
=5. 8. 91, 2 Are you phrenticke, Sir, Or what graue dotage moues
you.= 'Dotage, fatuity, or folly, is a common name to all the
following species, as some will have it.... _Phrenitis_, which the
Greeks derive from the word ????
, is a disease of the mind, with a
continual madness or dotage, which hath an acute fever annexed, or
else an
inflammation
of the brain, or the membranes or kells of it,
with an acute fever, which causeth madness and dotage.
'--Burton,
_Anat. of Mel._, ed. Shilleto, 1. 159-60.
