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Avant que clorre ce chapitre, je veux amener deux experiences de l'efficace de la Musique, que j'ay veu practiquer sur deux Damoiselles, l'une desquelles estoit de la Marche, près de Garet, jeune, vertueuse, & de passable beauté, qui tomba en telle furie, par un rapport qu'on luy avoit fait, que son…

The goddess Venus standing on a sphere crowns the head of those fallen at her feet once they had been hit by Cupid's arrows; following the path to Vanity (Cursus Vanitatis), Blindness (Caecitas) is driving a cart of fools, pulled by Folly (Stultitia) & Lust (Voluptas), and pursued by Derision (Derisio).

Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rate rises whenever he sees her. Engraving by P. Baquoy (1759-1829) after a drawing prepared A. Desenne (1785-1827) itself based on a painting by G. de Lairesse (1640-1711).