A scholar's melancholy
How many poor scholars have lost their wits, or become dizzards, neglecting all worldly affairs and their own health, esse and bene esse [being and well-being], to gain knowledge for which, after all their pains, in this world's esteem they are accounted ridiculous and silly fools, idiots, asses, and (as oft they are) rejected, contemned, derided,
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Oxford English Dictionary: dizzard Obs. or arch.
Forms: 6 disarde, dysarde, diserde, dissarde, dyzerde, dyzert, 6-7 dizard(e, dissard(e, 6-8 (9 arch.) disard, dizzard. [First found c1520. Perh. a modification of earlier DISOUR, by assimilation to words in -ARD. See the intermediate forms in -er, -are, -ar in sense 1. In later use, esp. in sense 2, app. associated with DIZZY.]
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