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
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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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    / Parc, y Se^.4, naturm referebanti nec ab in- dignatione dei\fed hu- mmk cau- [ts-i &c. 12. Natu- limcs, and ro this efreft of old in Rome^ faith Dl- onyfms Hdicarndffns^ lib. 7. when thofe Mete¬ ors and Prodigies appeared in the Air, after the fMe ho. banifhment of Cor/'oW/, ^ Men were dwerjly jlniy alii fdd they were Gods juji judge- dei judici- for the execution of that good man^ fome urn ad tarn referred all to natural caufes^ fome to StarSy pa txHf fome thought they came by chance^ fome by ne- TatmlL imtiOydc could not be altered. The two laft Opinions of Neceffity and ChancCy were, it Teems, of greater note than the reft. * Sunt cjui inFortuna jam cafibus omnia ponunty Ft miindum credunt nullo rcSlore moveriy Natura volvoite viceSy c^c, ... For the hrft of Chance, as ^Salufl likewife in- ral.quxjt. formeth US, thofe old generally recei- *^7uv'sat fuppofedFortune alone gave King- 15. , Empires, Wealth, Honours, Offices, f Epi[t» ad ^^ut for two caufcs j firji, becaufe every c. Cxfar. wicked, bafeunworthy writch was preferred, ^l^buta y Secondly,becaufe of their un¬ bant fortu- ^Px^ugh never fogood, fcarce any one namngna tnjoyed them long : but after they begdn upon impiTia better advice to thtnk^otherwifey that every man ^bantan fortune. The laft of Necellity was tea mm- t^nent, that God was alligatus caufis hs fortu- ' ftcundisy fo tyed ro fecond caufes, to that inex- namfolam orable neceftity, that he could alter nothing of opes & ho- that which was once decrced,y7c erat in faWyk gtlidque heaheredyjemeljuffityfemper paret'De- duabiu de nulla vis rumpit, nulla preces, nec tpfumful- caufis-ypri^ men, God hath once faid it, and it muft for ever mum quod ftand good, no prayers, no threats, nor power, 'qjf'mdi. '['“‘i'-'-it felf can alter it. Zeno, Chryjipm,, ves,honora- thole other Stoicks,as you may read in xully tus,potens\ 2. de divinatione, Gellius, Ub. 6. cap. 2. c^c. maintained as much.In all Ages, there have been \mmpeY. Joch,that either deny God in all,or in part, fome petuo bonis ^^*^*de him, they could have made a better iis friil vi- world, and rule it more orderly themfelves //«. Podea blafpheme him, derogate at their pleafure from’ him. ’Twas fo in * Plato's time, Some fay there be no gods, otherrthat they care not for men, a middle fort grant both. Si non fit Deus, unde bona ? f ft Deus, unde mala ? So Cotta argues mTully, why made he nor all good, or at leaft tv^nders not the welfare of fuch as are good ? As the woman told Alexander, if he be not at lei- fure to hear Caufes, and redrefs them, why doth I>e reign ? * Sextus Emptricus haih many fuch Arguments. Thus perverfc men cavil. So it will ever be, fome of all forts, good,bad, indifferent, true, falfe, zealous, ambodexters, neutralifts, %eligtoui Melancholy in defeft. Memb. 2. Subf. prudeniio- res didi¬ cer t fortu- nam juam quemque fngere. * 10. de le- gib. Alii regant efj'e deos, alii decs non curare res humanas, alii utraq\ concedunt. mathern i^^^'T^rm, Libertines, atheifts, They will fee thefe religious Sedaries agree amongft t origenes themfelves, be reconciled all, before they will participate with, or believe any ; They think in hosimme- (which \ Celfus objeds, and Tito nobif- whom Origen confutes) we fhriflians adore a perfontut to * death with no more reafon than the barbarous Getes worfhippeU Zamolxis, the Cilicians Mopfus, the Ehebans Amphiaraus, Lebadians Trophonius ; one Religion ignominiofe is Untrue as another, new fanded devices, all I.ur.imtM r,,._ ...r^ n _ • . . .d S. Pauls, Pindarus Odes as good as the Prophet . - b pavtdsPfdms, Epifletus Enchiridion equiva- ^ ' lent to wife Solomons Proverbs.- They do openly and boldly fpeak this and more, fome of them, in all places and companies, Claudius n Deira the Emperourwas angry with Heaven, btcaUfe it thundred, and challenged Jupiter into the peld : with what madnejs, faith Seneca ? he pnet^ though Jupiter could not hurt him, but he could pugnamvo- hurt Jupiter, Diagoras, Demon ax, Epicurus, Jo- Pliny, Lucian, Lucretius, ——Deum Mez.cntius, profeffed Atheifts all in their times: though not tavit jibi limple Atheifts neither, as proves, lib. ^i^^P'^rion 1. cap. I. they fcoffed only at thofe Pagan oods* their p^rahty, bafe and fiditious Offices.''^./. Znjlvl bertm labours much, and fo doth E- pojje. rafmus, to vindicate Lucian^rom fcandal, and there be thofe that apologize for Epicurus ; but all in vain, Lucian feoffs at all, Epicurus he de¬ nies all, and Lucretius his Scholar defends him in it: ¥ ^ Humana anteoculos fosde cum vita jaceret, XLib.t. u In t err is oppreffa gravi cum rtligione, QuyZ caput a coeli regionibm oflendebat, Horribilifuper affieclu mortalibus inflans,(frc. When humane kind was drench’d in fuperfti- 4.,. . rion, ^ With gaftiy looks aloft, which frighted mor- mortem, ac tal men, d^c. jnit ante- He alone as another Hercules,6\d vindicate the world from that Monfter. V>,kle\Fliny, UhJsmZ?^ 2. cap. 7. nat.hif, Ub. j.cap. 55. in exprefs idem erit words denies the Immortality of the Soul, *Se- pofime »c«doih little lefs, adLuMium, tliT & hh. deconfol.aiMmUm, or rather mere. * lutnx Some Greek Commentators would put as much eadem con- upon Job, that he fliould deny refurredion &c. whom 7^/;?f^4 Copioufty confutes in cim ron- frri fffc declv'at. ^ CrH'ifir: u-n deum 7. Or.fioll. i's hardly'cenfur'edTf lomc, both Divines and Philofophers* S. Ju- accendere- fline in P'aranttica ad gentes, Greg. Naz.ian- z.en. indifput. adverfus Bun. Theodoret. Ub $■ de curat, grac. afeU. Origett. Uh.defrin- ImtT Cipits. ^dmponatius juftifies in his Trad (fo fydn-. ftiled at leaft ) De immortalitate Anima, Sea- liger, ( who would forfwear himfelf at any in defence of his great ifii. tfium maftel: zAnfiotle) and Dandinus, lib. 3. de phut, anima, acknowledge as much. Averroes oo- pugnes all fpiritsand fupream powers- oflare ^^i^xusy y Kep'lr calls fsodiata imj Machiavel, Cafar Eanninus hiely burn- man may ed at Tuoloufe in France, and Pet. <tAretine have publickly maintained fuch Atheiftica] ml with hiSfiJy'Lh cable of three Rings, ex qm infert baud chci'treec. pojje inter nofei, qua fitverior Reltgio, Judaic a Mahomet an a, an Chrifliana, quoniam eadem iffixa, djC, f Marinus Mercenus rufpeds Car- ^thm ‘^Cret¬ an or his ubtleties, Campanella, and Charrons covia ed,(i book of VVifdom, with fome other Trads to fa- ^538. con- vouroff Atheifm: but amongft ihe reft that pe- J^\^niP>ookdetribusmundi tmpofor thus, quen/junfe ' Lucianisi vita peyt' Jhmvocat. P‘Ures, fubtlc Seneca s Epiftles as Canonical as Iferefo, Panfis excufum*, d‘c'. 'And^'a7rhere merit um ejl,