Volume 1
The anatomy of melancholy / edited by Rev. A.R. Shilleto.
- Burton, Robert
- Date:
- Reprint 1896 (3 vol set)
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The anatomy of melancholy / edited by Rev. A.R. Shilleto. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![quid forsan omissum, quod is animo conceperit, si qua dictio, <5rV. if ought be omitted, or added, which he likes, or dislikes, thou art mancipiutn paucce lectionis} an idiot, an ass, nulhcs es, or p/agi- arius,2 a trifler, a trivant, thou art an idle fellow; or else 'tis a thing of mere industry, a collection without wit or invention, a very toy. 3 Facilia sic putant omnes quce jam facta, nec de salebris cogitant, ubi via strata? so men are valued, their labours vilified, as things of nought, by fellows of no worth themselves, who could not have done as much. Unusquisque abundat sensu suo? every man abounds in his own sense; and whilst each particular party is so affected, how should one please all ? 6 Quid dem, quid non dem ? Renuis tu quod jubet ille. [What shall I give my guests ? For you refuse What he demands.] How shall I hope to express myself to each man's humour & conceit,7 or to give satisfaction to all? Some understand too little, some too much, qui similiter in legendos libros at que in salutandos homines irruunt, non cogitantes quales, sed quibus vestibus induti sint* as9 Austin observes, not regarding what, but who write,10 orexin habet auctoris celebritas?1 not valuing the metal but the stamp that is upon it, cantharum aspiciunt, non quid in eo.12 If he be not rich, in great place, polite and brave, a great doctor, or full-fraught with grand titles, though never so well qualified, he is a dunce, but as 13 jBaronius hath it of Cardinal Caraffds works, he is a mere hog that rejects any man for his poverty. Some are too partial, as friends, to overween, others come with a prejudice to carp, vilify, detract, and scoff • {qui de me forsan, quicquid est, omni con- temptu contemptius judicant)14 some as bees for honey, some as spiders to gather poison. What shall I do in this case? As a Dutch Host, if you come to an Inn in Germany, & dislike your fare, diet, lodging, &c. replies in a surly tone,15 aliud tibi quceras diversorium, if you like not this, get you to another Inn : I resolve, p A sorry fellow of little reading.] [2 Not worth reading, or a plagiarist.] 3 Lipsius. [4 All people think things so easy that are already done, nor do they think of the trouble the road has taken to make when it is made.] [5 Rom. xiv. 5. (Vulgate.)] 6 Hor. [Epist. ii. 2. 64.] 7 Fieri non potest, ut quod quisque cogitat, dicat unus. Muretus. [8 Who value books by the authors, as people judge of men by their clothes. ] 9 Lib. 1. deord., cap. 11. 10 Erasmus. [n The author's fame sells the book.] [12 They look at the tankard, and not the liquor in it.] 13 An- nal. Tom. 3. ad annum 360. Est porcus ille qui sacerdotem ex amplitudine redi- tuum sordide demetitur. [14 Who judge perhaps whatever I produce as unworthy of anything but contempt.] 15 Erasm. [Colloquia, Diversoria.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21270818_001_0070.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
