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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![meras fropemodumvidms haberemns^c^ cceltbes •uiros, we (hould have almoft no married cou¬ ples lefci Try therefore thofe former reme¬ dies : for as TenuUian reports of DemocritHS^ that put out his eyes, becaufe he could not look upon a woman without luft,and was much troubled to fee that which he might, not en- j’oy let him make himfelf blind , and fo he fhall avoid that care and moleftarion of watch¬ ing his wife. One other foveraign remedy I could repeat, an efpecial Antidote againftjea- loiifie, an excellentt cure, but I am not now difpofed to tell it, not that like a covetous clufion produce ftrange exfeds, the humour ,0, imprints fymptoms according to their feveral . inclinations and conditions, which makes Gid- ancrius Felix Flater, put too much de~ TraJut. votion, blind zeal , fear of eternal punifii- f/rilti ob ment, and that laft judgement, for a caufc ^d':oYent of thofe enihufiallicks and defperate per- w,£;f Ions; but fome do not obfcurely make a di- Kino' fpecies of it, dividing Love-Me!ancho!y moYm intothat whofe objed is women ^ and into the other whofe objed is God. Fiato in ah'LT vio^ makes mention of two didind furies; bled for and amongft our Neotericks , Hercules de their (ius. J r* ». 7 j - i.xv,aL Vi IL It you be very defirous to know it, when I ftind Species, e ^Melancholy meet you next, I will peradventure tell you' - '• <' ■ - - ■ ^ what it is In your ear. This is the bed counfei I can give; which he that hath need of, as oc- cafion ferves may apply unto himfelf, lii the mean time, ■--da talem t err is avertite pefiem^ as the proverb is, from Herefie, Jealoufie and Prenfie, good Lord deliver us. SECT. 4. MEMB. I. SUBSECT. I. 0 Religious tMelancholy, ids object God', What his beauty is • Hovo it allureth. The parts and parties aff’ebted. THat there is fuch a didind Species of Love-Melancholy, no man hath ever yet fuch di¬ vine ob¬ jects. Grotiui. X Lib. I. cap, 16, nonnuUi arbitran- tur. a Aliis videtur, _ •« I*./' • \ t* */-» ^ i-^ v-v/t V. 1 4 ^ X 2. 1*1 {/lllc ^ CiC liU- Empinck I conceal it for any gam, but fome i Saxonia lib, i. pralt. wed. cap. 16, cap other reafons, lamnot willing to publith it -' zMelanch. doth cxprelly treat of i*t inadi itvm, hi. Vfrv Hffivnn. ir ..,h,n T i ftinft Species. » Lovt ^dchmcholy ( faith he ) is twofold; the frji is that ( to which tica vet peradventure fome will not vouchfafe this fyechs of ^danchdy ) 4‘YHoi> of i thofe which put God for their ohjccl, and trim qu:e are altogether about pyaycr, fajting, Ike. the ab aliis other about women, Feter Forejius in his ob- fervations delivereth as much in the fame words; and Felix Flat er us de mentis alienat. X//!?, £> cap,^ 3. frecpucntiffima eft ejus fpecies , in ajj'cflio qua curanda fapijfime multum fui impedi- ffd tus', 'tis a frequent difeafe • and they have : a ground of what they fay , forth of Hre- D?m!% tens and Plato, ^ Areteus an old Author in idea nihil his third Book cap. 6, dotlf fo divide Love- I Melancholy, and derives this fecond from the j firft, which comes by infpiration or oiher-'S'p,- j wife, g Plato in his Fhsdrus hath thefe rm,jejitnia. j words, nApolio's Priefis in Delphos, and at Lidias:' ; Dodona, in their fury do many pretty feats, ' and benefit the Greeks , but never id their uu^rh right wits. He makes them all mad,'as well peYitur he might • and he that fhall but confidcr that fuperfticion of old, thofe prodigious ef- fefts of it C as in its place I will ffiew the 71, tZ feveral furies of our Fatidici dii, fPythonif^ rogantim, fas, Sibyls, Enthufiajls, Pfeudoprophets, He- 'otlafiatii retickj and SchiJmatickj in thefe our latter ages ; fhall inftantly confefs , that all the S/’' world again cannot afford fo much matter of gj^i in madnefs, fo many flupend fymptomsj as fu- cxlphUfus perfliiion, herefie, fchifm hath brought out that this Species alone may be parallel’d to all the former, hath a greater himAe., Dodona and more miraculous effet^fs • that it more fiieirdotss befots and infatuates men , than any other above named whaefoever, doth more harm, work more difquietnefs to mankind, wd cu'nda ‘ hath more crucified the fouls of mortal men Grads de- ( fuch hath been the Devils craft) than wars plagues, fickneffes, dearth, famine, and all the reft. Give me but a little leave, and I will fee before your eyes in brief a ftupend, vaft, infi- nite Ocean of incredible madnefs and folly ; a fea full of fhelves and rocks, fands, gulfs, Euripcs and contrary tides , full of fearful monfters, uncouth fhapes , roaring waves, tempefts, and Siren calms, Halcyonian feas' unfpcakable mifery , fuch Comedies and Tragedies , fuch abfurd and ridiculous, fe¬ ral and lamentable fits , that 1 K k k 2 y CalleA Religious, becaufe it isftill con-doubted • but whether this fubdivifion of atoiirRe ^ l^‘l‘gioiii Melancholy be warrantable, it may ligion and ^ controverted. ' ■ * Pergite Pierides, medio nec calle vagantem Linquite me^ qua nulla pedum vefiigia du- cunt. Nulla rota currm teflantur figna priores, I have no pattern to follow as in fome of the teft, no man to imitate. No Phyfiiian hath of 2sof the other- lint,&fu' acknowledge it a moft notable Symptom] tura fe ^ fome a caule, but few a fpecies or kind. pradiem ^ Aretens, Alexander, Rhafits, Avicenna, and moft of our late Writers, as Gordomus, Fuch- fius, Plater, Bruel, Adontaltu6,Gf c. repeat it as a Symptom. ^ Some feem to bcinfpired of quod flint the Holy ^hofi, fome takf upon them to be &^inf lra fome are addicted to new opinions, tia\pirituf°^'^ firange things, de ftatu mundi ‘ & & <^ntichrifii, fmhGordonius. Some will incipiiint prophefie of the -end of the world to a day prophetare, almoft, and the fall of the Antichrift, asthey htTa^ have been addifted or brought up -, for fo me- pr cedi amt. lancholy works with them, as ^ Laurent ius b cap.6. de holds. If they have been precifely given, all Aulanch. their meditations tend that way, and in con- gua ant nidi a i not](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30322066_0453.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
