Burton Played

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    All my joys to this are folly,
    Naught so sweet as melancholy.
    —Robert Burton (1577–1640)

    I seem, in most of these verses, to have but placed a harp in a window, and noted the contrasted airs which wayward winds have played upon the strings.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)