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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$cap. S») & fcientia, wife only by inheritance, and} in authority by birth*right, or for their wealth and titles • there muft needs be a fault, , X iniptritm * a great defeft : becaufe as an y old Philofo- jhapte jpofi^ pher affirms, fuch men are not alwayes fir. infinite mnther^ferv alone are Sena- ' efthofefew, fewer good^ and of that ]ix innu- fmall number of honeJl, good and noble meny meiabili- ^yg learnedj wife^ difcreet and faf- s7nJom difcharge fuch places, it muft imreno- needs turn to the confuTion of a State. biles, e For as the ^ Princes are, fo are the people • confulari- ^alis Rex, tails grex: Jlnd which * Antigo- b‘m{Tbo- Macedonia re- naadhuc g^tn eradit, omnes etiam fubditos erudit, he p^uci that teacheth the King of Maccdon, teacheth eriiditi. ai] fubjeds, is a tnie faying ftill. Princes are theglafs, thefchool, the book, coUclpiunt sphere fubjeSls eyes do learn, do read, do lookj, ipji princi- <• ■ --Velocim dr citimnos pes, fed Corrumpunt •vitiornm exempla domeflica, mag- fundmt in ^ . ; -r. ci-oitatem, Cumjabeant anims authonbm..- —* plufqueex- their examples are fooneft followed, vices en- emplo qium tertained, if they be prophane, irreligious, la- riotous. Epicures, fadiouSj covetous, ck\,de ambitious, illiterate^ fo will the commons moft hgibm. part be, idle, unthrifts, prone to luft, drunk- aEpift. ad arcfsj and therefore poor and needy ( w Tnvta Sat'^A^^' £) y^-K^^picLv, for poverty begets FoHpenas ftdition and villany ) upon all occafions ready feditionm to mutiny and rebel, difcontent ftill, com- I iignU& plaining, murmuring, grudging, apt to all out- ^Arii^pd^ rages, thefts, treafons, murders, innovations^ 2.r. *7. * debt, (hifters, cozeners, outlawsj Profligate hsalufl. famaacmti. It was an old ^ Politicians Semper in, phorifm. They that are poor and bad, envy ^^Hibm\pes men, abhor the prefent govern- nulUfmt tnent, vpijh for a new, and would have all bonis invi- turned topfie turvy. When Cataline rebelled dentyve- laRome, he got a company of fuch debauched ^nlvafxBp togetherj they were his familiars and Vant^Tdio coadjutors, and fuch have been your rebels moft■ fmrum part in all ages, Jdck^ (fade. Torn Straw, Kette, mum mu- ^nd his companions. Where they be generally riotous and con- ^ * tentious, where there be many difcords, ma¬ ny .Laws, many Law-fuits, many!’Lawyers, and many Phyficians, it is a roaniteft fign of a c Tie tegi- diftcmpered, melancholy ftate, as Plato long bus. profli- fince maintained : for where fuch kind of men gatis in fwarm, they will make more work for them- rpuh. di- politick difeafed, which inhTim othcrwife found. A general mifchief in juriiperito- ihefe our times, an unfenfible plague, and ne- rumnume- Vet fo many of them : vihich are now mul- rju, & me-f f^dth (^Mat, Geraldus, ^ B. Ldiwyer <opii^ himfelf, ) as fo many Locuftsi, not the Parents, d in prxf. but the plagues of the (ountrey, and for the ftud. juris. Mofi part a fuperciliofis, bad, covetous, litigious 2nultipli- generation of men*' ® Crumenimulga 'natio, drc,• Ttnmk7t A purfe-milking Nation, a clamorous compa- locuji^ non ny, gowned vultures, ^ ^ui ex injuria vivunt' patria pa- 0- fanguine clvium, thieves and Seminaries of rentes, fed pefies-, pefjtmi %omlnes, majore ex' parte fkpeyciliofi, contentioji &<:. licitum UtrtCi.iiiim exercent. c Voufd epid. loquieUia turba, vul¬ tures togati, {Sare.Argiu. difcord ; worfe than any polcrs, by the high way fide, auri accipitres, auri extere- br on ides, pecuniar urn hdmioU, e^nadrupU- tores. Curia harpagones, fori tinttnabiday monfira hominum, mangoncs, 0c, that take upon them to make peace^ but are indeed the very difturbersof our Peace, a company of ir¬ religious, Harpyes, feraping, griping carcll- poles ( 1 mean our common hungry Petty-fog- gers, rahulasfbrenfes, love and honour in the mean time, all good Laws, and worthy Law¬ yers, that are fo many ^ Grades and Pilot’s k ftr/s- of a well-governed Common-wealth.) With- out Art, without Judgement, tliat do harnfl, as ^ Livy faid, quam- bclla externa, fa- tatn. TuHji mes, morbive, than ficknefs, wars, hunger, di-1 Ub. 3. feafes; and caufe amofl incredible dejiruBion ^ of a Common-wealth, laith SefelUm, a famous di rsp'.Gal- Civilian fometimesin Paris, hs Ivy doth by an lorum, in- Oke, imbrace it fo long, until it hath got the heart out of it, fo do they by fuch places they inhabit • no counfel at all, nd juft ice, no fpeech punt. ^ to be had, nifl eum prsemulferis, he muft be n Volycrat, fed ftiU, orelfe he is as mute as a fifh, better open an Oyfter without a knife. Experto crede ( faith Sahsburienfis) in manus eorum ajfes millies incidi, & Charon immitis qui nulli pe- integros percit unquam, his longe ciementior eft , j{tbyrnulu- fpeak^out of experience, I have been a.thoii-^^fff^ P‘'' fand times amongfi them, and Charon himfelf >(■ . is more gentle than they ° he is contented with cipiuiit his fingle pay, but they multiply fliH, they are 'never fatisfied : befides, they have damntficas linguas, as he terms it, nififuAibus argenteis ^rotius vincias, they muft be fed to fay nothing, and injufiitia * gfet more to hold their peace, than we can t6 ^flia, ca- fay our befti ■ They will fpeak.their.Clients fair, and invite them to their Tables, but. as he qui follows it, P of all injufike, there is none fo cum maxi- pernicious as that of theirs, which when they medecioi- deceive moji, will feemto be honefimeni They take upon them to be peace-makers, 0 foveri honiliri caufas humilium,>to help them; to their right; efftvide- patroeinantur ajJUBis, ‘I but 1 all is for their ‘^atur. own good, ut locuks pleniorum exhauriant\^^^fff^‘^^‘^ they plead for poor m^wgratu, but they are fodo caufx but as a ftale tb<atch others,; If there be no pmedat, jar, >■ they can make a jar, out of the Law it felf b'oc fmptr find ftill fome-quirk or other, to fet them at odds, and continue caufes fo long, luflta ali- pantur, qnot, I know not how many years before the etfi avari- caufe is heard,: and when 'tis judged and de- tia rnguit termined, by reafon of forac tricks and errours; ' it is as frefti to begin, after twice feven ycar^ ttorjolky fometimes, as it Was at firll •, and’fo they pro- quifinihil long time, delay fuits till they have enriched ifl themfelves, and beggared their Clients; And as^Cato inveighed againft Jfocrates Scholars, tamen fe- ^ we may juftly tax our wrangling Lzwyevs^ nre caiieni. they do confenefeere in litibus, are fo litigious ^tlatarcU and bufie here on earth, that I think they will _ plead their Clients caufes hereafter, fome of mjeros ^ them in ,hell. * Simlerus complains amongft quas in. fuam fidem rtceperuvtipatrocinio fuotutbuntun tLib. 2. de Helvet. repub, ncut explkandesyfed molkndis conirovirfiis operam dant,itd utlitesinmul- tos annos extrahantur furnma cum molejiH ntrifque partu & dim in-’ ^ terea pdtrimonia exhauriuntur. 4$

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