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

  • Robert Burton
Date:
1628
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Credit: The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it in three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut up / By Democritus Junior [pseud.] With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Paa,5 •Se6t.5» Loue Melancholy, Memb. i.SubCi: 54<^ , and many noble Senators and foldiers ^ (AsPlmynox.cs) haue ^p<i34££>;rm-loit their honour 5 in being, fo fottillily oucrruled by their wines. Thefe offend in one extreame, but too hard and too feuere are far more of- fcnfiueon the other. As iuli a caufe may be long abfence of either party,when they muO: of neceffty bee much from home, as Lawyers, Phy{itians,Marri- ncrs,by their profeflions,or otherwifc makefriuolous,impertinent iourneys, tarry long abroad to no purpofe, lye out, and are gadding ttill, vpon fmall occalions, it mult needs yeeld matter of fufpition*, when they vfe their wlues vnkindly in the meane rime, and ncuer tarry at home, it cannot choofe but xF.th.caim, ingender fomeflich conceit. ^ q P^xor ficejfcts amdre te cogitat^ tete amari nut pot nr e, aut ammo ohfequi^ Et tibi be fie ejfefoU quttm fibijit male. If thou be abfent long, thy wife then diinkes, Th art drunke at eafe, or with fome pretty minkes, *T IS well with thee, or elfc beloued of fome, Whifft fliee poore foule doth fare full ill at home. obfervabii, vti HipPocrates the Phyfitian had a fmacke of this'difeafe, for when hee was to home as farre as ^bdera^And fome other remote citties of Greece^ ailivim cogi hc wr't to his friend Dionyjiusfi^AX leaf! chofe ‘^Epiflles be his)^/£? ouerfeeh'ts tet ant qHxiat. voife tu his abfence^ although [he Itued in his houfe with her father and mother^ knew would haue a care of her jet that would not (at is fie his iealou- qrtife pudica-n fie, ht would haue his ejpecia/l friend Diony fius,^^> dwell in his houfe wsth her, contimat fuap^ ^// oj peregrination, and to obferue her behauiour, how fhe carried h^rfelfe in her husbands abfence^ and that Jbee^ did not lufi after other men, toi habet. nucts r For a woman had need to haue an ouerfeer to keepe her honefi^ they are bad by 7rha lightly giuen all, and ifthey be not curbed in time^ as an vnproy^ reifhiiinmmit nedtrce, they willbefuUofwHdbranchcs^anddegenerateofafidden. Efpeci- 3l'y in their husbands abfence, though one Lucretia were trufly, and one VvxTcHvit;. P^^^kope ^ ycxClytemneflramAdcJgamemnona\cVo]id ^ and no queftion dam -^nb’iiiqm there be too many oF her conditions. If their husbands tarry too long abroad bufinefle, well they may fufped; orifthey runne one way, nis hh amadi thcir wiiics at home will fly out another, Qmd pro quo Or ifprefent,and mrnMnetet, gine them not that content which they ought,u Prirnum ingrataynoxinuifa fl^lTtribl' fimnum tranfiguntur, they cannot endure to lye alone, or to privib^noCil- fifl long, ^ Peter Godefridus inhisfecond hookeofloue and flxt chapter, ^Vumefvt ^ of life, of a Gentleman, who by that good 'mpetori- vvould not meddle with his wife in the pallion weeke, but for his bM fomnam, paines fhe let a paire of homes on his head. Siich another he hath out of hmtkZJT^. oneperfwaded a new married mAnJ to forbeare the threesfirfi * Totm nrSm hts^ and he^ootild all his life time after be fortunate in cattle f>\xx bis impa- not tarry fo long: well hee might fpeed in cattle, bur not in traL children. Such a tale hath Henfus ofan impotent and flacke fcholler.a meere fegiumay-e aute fludent and a friend ofhis, that feeing by chance a fine damiell flng & dance, tlfcimtcL- '^onld needs marry her, the match was foone made, for hcc was yoting and 7h(ihtf(ft: xieby genisgr atm,corporeglabelLus, arte mult ifius,^fort und opulent us fike, iaeX’ie audrffe {e dn bat cm date^ecakul) Colcre earn confli^an. Dnop/tecepta ittrii vna noCle expre0, nem'mm lafem & botiefle vixe~ ratfiedan(f{mcm^rtdd((iifefyqmipoterat,Mmis 0pim&TrebMmhos'fiegaJfmt, that Tijiueanate in- terprete. fDm redkro domum mtam hahiiahii, & cet cum parcnii- bui b. bitct, bac med peregma^ tii)'ae,ed xamen