AUT DEUS AUT DAEMON
“The melancholick man is said of the wise to be ‘aut Deus aut Daemon,’ either angel of heaven or fiend of hell: for in whomsoever this humour hath dominion, the soule is either wrapt up into an Elysium and paradise of blesse by a heavenly contemplation, or into a direfull hellish purgatory by a cynicall meditation.”
T. Walkington (1607) The Optick Glasse of Humors, London.
