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...and every time he gazed at her he fainted by reason of her passing charms.

Sir Richard Burton in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885). He adds the note that, 

According to the Hindus there are ten stages of love-sickness : (1) Love of the eyes ; (2) Attraction of the Manas or mind ; (3) Birth of desire ; (4) Loss of sleep ; (5) Loss of flesh ; (6) Indifference to objects of sense ; (7) Loss of shame ; (8) Distraction of thought ; (9) Loss of consciousness ; and (10) Death.