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
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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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    / Parc,3*Se6l:.3, Loue Melancholy. Memb.4.SubPi.* 5^2 can.IdoenotexcLifeherinaccufingthee, but ifboth be naught, mend diy felfefirft. Yea but thou rcplieft, 'tisnotthe likcteafon betwixt man and woman, through her fault my children are baftards, I may not endure it. k sit amarn- lentaj fit impemfa,prodiga^clrc. Let her fcold,brawle and fpend I care not, * mo do fit cafta^ fo iLe be honeit, I could eafily beare it, but this I cannot.* And why not this? Euen this which thou ib much abhorreft, it may bee for thy 1 optimmk- progenies good,^ better be any mans fon but thine, to be begot of bafe poore or meane Meutm^ the lowne f\vine-heards, a fhepards fonne, & well is hee, that like Hercules he hath any two fathers, for thou thy felfe haft peraduenture more difeafes then an horfejinore infirmities ofbody & minde, a cankerd foule, crabbed conditions, make the worft of it, as it is vulnus in^* ftnabih^fic vulnm infenfibile^^s it is incurablc,fo it is infenfible.But art thou ' fure it is fo? It may be thou art ouer fufpitious, and without a caufe as fomc if it be o^imefir is partus^ borne at eight months, or like him & him Lemn'mlib.t^ yicai?.i$.deoc- citU. nenafcl. are. tnOvld. amot. ib ixkg. '4. n Lib.4.fl.72', o?olicratM,B>. c. II. Deamor. Eurial.&Lu- cret.qai vxores occludufHi meo iudkio minus vtiliter ftaunt^ they fondly fufped he got it; ifOie fpeake or laugh familiarly with fuchor flichmen, then prefently (lie is naught with them, fuch is their weaknefle: Whereas charity,or a well difpofed minde would interpret all vntq the belt. S‘Framishy chanct feeing a Fricj: familiarly killing another mans wife, was fo farre from mifconceauing it, that hee prefently kneeled downe and thanked god there was fo much charity left : but they on the other fide will afcribe nothing to naturall caufes, indulge nothing to familiarity, mutuall fociety,friendil]ip, but out ofa finifter fufpition, prefently iocke them dole, watch them, thinking by thofcmeancs to prevent all-fuch inconucniences, that’s the way to heipe it, whereas by fuch trickes they doe aggrauate the mifchiefe.’Tis but invaine to watch that which will away, Nec cuBodiri fivelitvdapoteBj ]Siec mentemferudrepotes^ licet omnia femes^ Omnibus exclufis, intm adulter erit^ None can be kept refiffing for her part. Though body be kept clofe, within her heart Aduoutrie lurkes, to exclude it ther s no art. ^rgm with an hundred eyes cannot kcepe her,cf hum vnusfzpe fefellit mor^^sin^ Ariofio, • ifaUour heart s were eyes ^yetfure theyfaid We husbands of our wines fbould be betraicC, Hierome holdes, •vxor impudica feruari nonpoteBy pudica non debet^ infida cuftos caftitatis efi necefistas, to what end is all your cuftody? A difhoneft woman cannot be kept, an honeft woman ought no to be kept, nccellicy is a keeper not to be trufted. Difficile cuBoditur^ quodplures amant>^ That which many couer can hardly bee preferued, as o Salisburienfis thinkes. I am of tineasSyluius minde, thofe lealous Italians dee very id tolocke^vp their wiuesfor women are ofthat dijpofition^they will mo ft couet that which is deniedmofi, and ofiendleaB when they haue free liberty to trefiajfe. It is in vaine to Iocke her vp if fhe be diflioneft;For when (he perceaues her husband obferues her and fufpeds, liberiuspeccatfiiv^ P Neuifanus^ ^ Toxica zeloty* po dedit vxor macha marito^fhe is exafperated, feekes by all meahes to vin¬ dicate her felfe, and will therefore offend, becaiife fhee is vniuftly fufpeded. The heft courfe then is to let them haue their owne wills, giue them free li¬ berty, without any keeping. ' /n