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
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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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    Pa]:t. Se£t. 4- _ o o Dkjifiim imprmm cum ^ 3 ° ® The pacriarcbs and iheirfamilies, the a bandfil in refped, Chrifi and his Apoftles, and not all of them neither. Into what ftraigh« hath it been compingcd, a little hath fuperfti.ion on the other fide dilated her fell, errour, ignorance, barbarifm, folly, madnrfs, deceived, triumphed, over the moft wife, difcreetand underftanding men, Philofoph^rs, iDynafts, Monarchs, all were involved and over-lhaddowed m this mift, Aln.^b in more than Cymmrian^knds. Adeo AlexMb.6. i.„ara fnPerftmo mtntti hmintim depravat, cap. 26, ^ nonnmqmm f^pientum anmos trarijnjerjos ajnt. At this prefent, qwu pars. How fml z partis truly religious! How little in refpect I Divide the World into fix parts, and one or not fo much is Chriftians. Idolaters and Mahome^ r^^^pofrefsalmoftall^/?^, Amenca, Mmllanka. The Kings of great O^am, Siawy and Bornayey PegHy NMngay Japariy &c. are Gentiles, Idola-^ ters, and many other petty Princes in Af^ay Monomotopay Congo-^ and I know not how ma¬ ny Negro Princes in' Afrkk, all TerraAafira- lis incomitAy moft of America Vagansy dil-’ ferine all in their feveral fuperftitionsand yet all Idolaters. The zA^ahome(anstn^n^ themfelves over the great dominions in J^HropCy Afrkky Afiay wihQ Xeriffes'm Bar- haryy and his territories in Eez.j StUy Moroc¬ co, &c. The Tartary the great the Sophy oi Perfiay . with moft of their domini¬ ons and fubjeds, are at this day Mahometans. See how the Devil rageth ; Thofe at odds, or aP«rfM differing among themfelves, fome for > iAlh, i>llgrim. fome for Enbocary for Acmaty and Oz.tmeny lib. 1.0. thofe four Dodors, Mahomets fucceffors, and bUb. 3. arc fubdivided intoyz interior Seds, as Leo reports. The Jews as a company of va¬ gabonds are fcattered over all parts • whole ftory, prefent eftate, progrefs from time to 2 ^art time, is fully fet down by * Mr. Thomas Jack- Ptc.i.libA. foriy Dodor of Divinity, in his Comment on cap. & de- the Creed. A fifth part of the world,and hard- inceps. | jhar, now profetfeth CHRIST, but fo inlarded and interlaced with feveral fuperftiti¬ ons , that there is fcarce a found part to be founds or any agreement amongft them. Pref- byter phninAfrkk.y Lord of thok Amnes or (A^thiopianSy is by his profefflon a [/hrijti- an,' butfo different from us, with fuch new ab- , furdities and ceremonies, fuch liberty, fuch a mixture of Idolatry and Paganifm ;^that they Him, bv£- keep little more than a bare title of Chriftiani- dmbachi- They fuffer Polygamy, Circumcifion, M.Fr.Ahi- fallings, divorce as they will them- nkdt Selves-, &c. and as the Papiftscallon iherfr- Ahyftm. gin Mary, fo do they owThomas Didymm be- Po^chriji. d TheGVecior Eaftern Church lum vejcun- ^he Weft, and as they have four chief Patriarchs, fohavetheyfourfuh- divifions, befides thofe Nejiorians^ JacobineSy dn^miunty Syriansy Armenians, Georgiansy &c, fcattered ovit A(ia minor, Syria, Agyp^t Greece, Circajfia, BalgaryyBofniay Alba- a Meggm. nia, Illyriatm, Slavonia, (^roatia, I brace, Memb. ». Subl. Servia, Rafcia, and a fprinkling amongft the Tartars. The K nffians, Mafcovites, and moft of that great Dukes fubjeds, are part of the Gree\, Church, and ftill Chriftians : ® one faithj temporis fuccejfa malt as illi adds-c Sec Vaf^ dirmt fufcrfiitmti. In procefs have added fo many fuperftitions,they be Magin. d. femi-Chriftians, than otherwife. That which piitcher, remains, is the Weftern Church with us in Ea- Joviia, rope, but fo eclipfed with feveral Schifms, He- refies and Superftitions, that one knows not j whefre to find it. The Papifts have their er- Spain, Savoy, part of Germany, Erance, Po- rours. . land, and a fprinkling in the reft of Earope. In Amerlca tht^ hoid. all that which Spaniards m- habir,^ Hifpania nova, Cafla Aara, Tern, &c. In the Eaftthi Philippine, fome fraall holds about Malacha, Aelan, Or- musy &c. which he Portugal got not long lince, and thofe land-leaping jefuites have affayedin China., Japan., as appears by .their yearly Let¬ ters ^Jn Africk^xhey have Melinda, Q^iloa, Mombasce, &c. .apd fome few Towns, they drive- out onerfupef^fth'mn with another. Po- W is a receptacle of all Religions, where Sa- mofetans, Saeirfians, Thotinians (now pro- ■ teded in Tranfilisania and Poland ) Arrians, Anabaptifls are td be found,, as well as in fome German Qatiis, Scandia is Chriftiao, but as sf Damiantes A-Goes the Portugal Knight com- f plains, fomixtwitb Magick, Pagan Rues and ICeremoriies, they may be as well counted Ido- ^ laters : what Tacitw formerly faid of a hke I Nation, is verified in them, ^ A pepple xto fuperftition, Contrary to Religion. At obwxia, forne of them as about Lapland zndihtTila-rdiiloni.- plans, the Devils poffdfion to this day, Mifera bm adver- heegens ( faith mine * Author ) Satana hath- nm pofejjioy-& qaod maximemrandurn ,^^^/^^^^^ dolendum, and which is to be admired and i„trii pitied if any of them be baptized, which the ' Kings’of Swiden much laboured, they die with- f in 7 or s> dates after, and for that caufe they will hardly be brought to Chriftianity, but mtur. nine worffip ftill the Devil, who daily appears to fit, &e. them in their idolatrous courfes, Gaudenti- bus diis patriiSy qnos religioje colunt, See. are they very fuperftitious, like our wild Irifli: Though they of the better note, the Kings of Denmark^ and Sweden themfelves, that go¬ vern them, be Lutherans ■, The remnant are Calvinijis, Lutherans, in Germany equally mixt : And yet the Emperour bimfclf, Dukes of Lorain, Bavaria, and the Princes Eledors, are moft part profeffed P'apifts. And though fome part of prance diOd Ireland, Great I2r/- tain, half the Canto’s in Switz.erUnd, and tlfe Low Countries be (/ilvimjls, more defecate than the reft, yet at odds amongft themfelves, not free from fuperftition. And which * Bro-'^cap.de chard the Monk in his defeription of the Holy ter- Land, after he had cenfured the Greek Church, *'• and (hewed their errours, concluded at laft, Eqxit Deus ne Latinis mult a irrepferint fiul- titie. I fay God grant there be no topperies in , our Church. As a damm of water ftopt in one place breaks out into another, fo dQih.fijperfti- ^ rinn.