Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Amber and Spice
Anne Wilkinson (1910-1961), "Amber and Spice," from "Notes on Robert Burton's 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'," in The First Five Years: A Selection from The Tamarack Review, ed. Robert Weaver (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1962), pp. 58-62 (at 58):
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If the brain be cool and moist,A friend suggested to me that Wilkinson's notes could use their own notes. The source of this poem is Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. II, Sect. IV, Mem. I, Subs. IV:
Amber and spice, amber and spice.
But should the brain be hot and dry
Amber and spice will your wits away.
Amber and Spice will make a hot brain mad, good for cold and moist.
