If you're fretting, chafing, sighing, grieving, complaining, finding faults, repining, grudging, weeping, vexing, disquieted in mind, with restless, unquiet thoughts, then you've probably been eating cabbage, which as you should know by now, sends black vapours up into the brain, provoking melancholy. It's not the only cause, of course, and you should also avoid sorrow, fear, shame, disgrace and any other emotion, as well as too much exercise, too much study, poverty, scoffs, pleasures immoderate and werewolves.
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