The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds auses, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it, in three partitions, with their severall sections, members, & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened & cut up / By Democritus Junior [i.e. Robert Burton]. With a satyricall preface conducing to the following discourse.

Robert Burton

Date:: 1676

Credit: The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds auses, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it, in three partitions, with their severall sections, members, & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened & cut up / By Democritus Junior [i.e. Robert Burton]. With a satyricall preface conducing to the following discourse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$fervice, no greater glory than to dye in the ^ Her dill field. So nAfricanus is extolled by Enni- endem pr^ and * Hercules^ and I know not \mpatTlt, many befides of old were deified , went qul mg- ’ way to Heaven, that were indeed bloody 71 a.rKgeneris Butchers, wicked deftroyers, and troublers of hmani. (jjg world, prodigious monfters, hell-hounds, ^dldlt^.^^^' , devourers, common executi- a vlrg.iA.’ oners of humane kind, as LaBmtms truly vMd, 7. proves, and Cyprian to Donat, fuch as were hHorfua- defperate in wars , and precipitately made coZlnZ themfelves ( like thofe Celtes in Da- finguUs inafeen^ with ridiculous valour, ut dedecoro- crlnm e[l, fum putarent muro rnenti fe fubdacere, a dif- qHumpnb- grace to runaway for a rotten wall, nowrea- tiirfZm -^y heads ) fuch as will not mcatur. rufil on a fwords point, or feek to fhun a Ca- cyprlaniis. nons fhot, are bafe cowards, and no vali- which means, <JMadet orbis dD^va- fangume ^ the earth wallows in her Tilt.[dent- ^wn blood, » Savit amor ferri ^ feelerati deprlnclp. infania belli ^ and for that , which if it be mhihtatk. done in private, a man fhall be rigoroufly ^SatZ'' which is no lefs than mar- f ?auf:i m- tisr it filfif the fame fabtbe done in pablick^in pit, quod wars, it is called manhood, and the party is ho- '^ri e^fcelix fcelas Sims ^irtHs vocatnr—^We meafure all asT/^rk/do, oinnlufhla- by the event, and moft part, as Cyprian notes, troes, as in all Ages, Countreys, Places, Demetnns tudo impmitatem Jcelcris acquirit, the foul- told VlTx- vindicates the offender. ‘=One ander in crowned for that which another is tor- Curtliis. mented; gNmaufi Jliecrucem fceleris precium tulit, hie diadema, SSkop. ^ ^ Earl, a great Duke, hi^po- ( ^<iAgrippa notes ) for which another him'& ■ fhould have hung in gibbets, as a terror to p!dtm,fi^ the reft, wultSbo ■ ^ ^ tamen alter, vosvirosln idem, caderet fab jhdice morum.,^ fervltutem A poor fheep-ftealer is hanged for ftealing of *abmtem, viftuals, compelled peradventure by neceffity taSmild ^- Intolerable cold , hunger, and thirft, eiconth- faye himfelf from ftarving ; hut a f great gataiireo- man in office, may fecurely rob whole. Pro- Tim nmilf v]hces,undo thoufands, pill and pole, opprefs 'SlmS tyrannize, e^ him- appendlces, hy fpoiTs of the Commons, be uiicontrol- addlta-^3.h\c in his afitipns, and after all, be recom- penfed with turgent titles, honoured for his End fault, or pL 8 mutter at It; \ Eorumq-, . Eiow w6u[^‘ qm 'DemocritHs have been af- detejiantur fefted, to fe^ a Wicked caitiff, o't ^ fool, a very, TnfaSm, a fitnge , a golden afs , a, monfler of qnl divlnos^^^^T havf.mknygood men, wife men, learn- hnnores Ik cd men to attend upon him with all fubmif- if'ptndm, fon, as an appendix to bis riches , for that' dtd& a-' r- becaufe he hath more wealth and VCLYOS 'Ctg* money, ’ arid to honour him with divine titles, nofcmt-; von ^tnd bumbdf Epithets, to fmother him with f loirjp^ fumes and eulogies, whom they know to be a rantS' ^ ^ covetous wretch, abeaft, eye, q.'i'am ^^t:h ? To fee fub exuviis leohis dlWfinu -'onagrum, a filthy loathfomecarkafs, zGorgons to//^v£vhead puffed up by parafites, affume this unto himfelf, glorious titles, in worth an infant, a Cuman afs, a painted fepulchre, an Egyptian temple ? To fee a withered face, a difeated, de¬ formed, cankered complexion,a rotten carkafs, a viperous mind, and Epicurean foul fet out with orient pearls, jewels^ diadems, perfumes, curious, elaborate works, as proud of his clothes, as a child of his new coats • and a goodly perfon, of an Angelick Divine counr tenance, a Saint, an humble mind, ameek fpi- rit clothed in rags, beg, and now ready to be ftarved > To fee a filly contemptible floven in apparel, ragged in his coat, polite in fpeech, of a divine fpirit, wife ? another neat in clothes, fpruce, full of courtefie, empty of grace, wit;, talk non-fenfe ? To fee fo many Lawyers, Advocates, fo ma¬ ny Tribunals, fo little, Jullice •, fo many Ma- giftrates, fo little care of common good; fo many laws, yet never more diforders • tri¬ bunal litium fegetem, the Tribunal a Laby¬ rinth, fo many thoufand Suits in one Court fometimes, fo violently followed ? To fee in- juflijfimum fape ]uri prafidentem, impium re- ligioni, imperitijfmum eruditioni, otiofijfmum . labori,monfirofurn humamtati ? To fee a Lamb VomSp. ^ executed, a Woolf pronounce fentence. La- m reus In¬ tro arraigned , and T/zr fit on the Bench, the noesnspere- Judge feverely punifii others, and do worfe himfelf, * eundem furtum facere punire, dmmt fci- rapinam pleUere , quum ft ipfe raptor P ras, quod . Laws altered, mif-conllrued, interpreted pro ope- and con, as the Judge is made by friends, . • bribed , or otherwife affeded as a nofe of wax, good to day, none to morrow ; or firm msdvla- in his opnion, caff in his ? Sentence prolong- 3* ed, changed, ad arbitrium judicis, ftill tke ftovif fame cafe, °one thrufi out of his inheritance, '^Sifmnh. another falfy put in by favour , falfe forged hllefinlH Deeds or Wills, Jncifje leges negliguntur, public a Laws are made and not kept; or if put in exe- cution, P they be fome filly ones that are pu-. hlluflrL nifiled. As put cafe it be fornication, the Tilt leges ' ther will dif-inherit or abdicate his child, >‘bl joIa quite cafhier him, ^ out villain begone, come no more in my fight) a poor man is miferably IfS' t^ormented withlofsof his eftate perhaps,goods, o ulc ay- fortunes, good name, for ever difgraced, for- centurh^e- faken, and muff do penance to theutmoft- 3, ttf^flbus mortal fin, and yet make the worff of it, nm- SatS quid aliud fecit, faith Tranio m the.q ?oet,bSsZle- nif quod fadunt futrnn'u nati generibushe nis,falfum hath done no more' than what Gentlemen ufu- ally do. ‘ tertejlA- , Jxeque novum, nequemirum,nequefecmquam'corrurnpit, alii folent^, idem. j For in a great perfon, right worihipful Sir, a P'?' iright honourable Grandee, ’tis not a venial ‘/T jlin, no not a ’lis no offence at all, qpS. ia common and ordinary thing, no man takes mftel. * notice of it ; he juftifies it in publick, and peradventure brags of it, f Juven. ^ Namquodiurpe bonis, Titio, Scioque, dec eh at Suod tot Crifpinum —-- fmfures * Many poor men, younger brothers, c^rc* by ^ biendl- n r r . . ^ jtratmmculpA fit, qul malos imltantur praceptores,qul dlfclpulos //- ' bentlus verberant quAM docent. 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