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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    p5rt.5.Sed.3. 7^ Loue Melancholjf* Meinb.4 vyubfia * HjrJil/,^,odc z6, adoptimam • ' No£iua, vt in turmlU^fHfer cadavers htiho, Talis apnd Sophoclem no fir a. puelldfedit^ Nighc-crowes on tombes, Owle fits on carcafie dead, ^ So lies 3 wench with in bed. t AciM m . Sophocles“ '^then£Ks deferibes him, was a very old man, and doted uvipnofo^Mb. Archippe a young Curteian,thcn which nothing can be more odious. ^ ^^nex mar if us vxori Juuem ingratm eH, an old man is a moft vnwcll- \?orttar!mbia‘ come gueft to a young wench. fmijb.h ] Ly^mplextfi ftios fugiuntpuelUf Omau horret aKor vemiJg^, liymen^,. *t<in turpis^ w therefore dilallowcs all fuch voleafonabie matches, habentenim ma* fmeftimfrdijjt-locum crehrsL nuptlz. And as trfarther iveighes, Uis vnjitfor Any^ * EcduCaj.z. but vgly &ndfilthy in old age^, Turpefenilis amOi\ one of the three things An old man ^ Qq j Xvitt^^plutAYch in his bookc contra Coletenydihi dovvneright at fuch that dotes,&C. are attempted by old men, andmakesaqueliion whether in fome cafes it be tollerable at leafifor fuch a man to marry, --qui veneremaffeclatjincvirtbus:, that is now pa(^ thofc venerous exercifes, as agelded man lies voith a virgin . andJigheSjFcclus.^o,20.mdnow complaines with him in Fetroniusyfunerx^ ta efl hac pars iam^ qua fait olim Achillea^ he is quite done, • , ^ V^ixit ptteUis nup'er tdoncus, Et militauit non fnegloria. But the qiieftion is whether he may delight himfclfc as thofe Priap'eian Popes, which in their vitammaxma decrepit age, lay comtTionly between two wenches euery night, contain firmofarsim^drcontrecJatione^nurnadhacgaudeatimdas many doting Syres inconfiderat^ Hill doe to tlicit owne Ihame, their childrens vndoing,& their families con- mbit idg, eaa- fu^oHjlie abhorres xxyanquam ab agrefi drfuriofo dominofugiendum^xi muft iLpta. be auoided as a mad bedlam matter, and not obeyed. fciiex adoiefcen- Alelio .. Ipfa faces prafert nubentibusydr mdmHymen £^t!esplu- Trifle vlulat,-^— the divell himfelfe riiakes peii&Cn ^ ttichmatches.’^iL^’^/^^Zlfpww/^reckonsvpthrecthings which generally di- yAbfoleto,in‘ fiurb the peace of marriage; the firtt IS when they marry intempcttiuc or vn- remdiofateZ fcalbnably, as many snort all men marry precipitately and imonjiderately^ fe utimordatia. when they are effeate ^ and old-^ Thefecond when they marry vnequatlyfir for* hpt£^rere‘ l^^nes and birth: the third, when a feke impotent per fin weddesonethatU credt &aduei~foand^ nova nuptafiesfiaflratur\ Many dittikes inttantly follow. Many do- fantenmrd ting dizards,it may notbe denied,as Plutarch con^cifhthyY recreat themfelues nem&^ene^ain ^ithfuch obfoleteyVnfeafinable and filthy remedies{{o\xtQdMs ihtm) with a exchaat, remembrance of their former pleafures y againfl nature they firre vp their deadflefh: but an old leacher is abominable,tertio nabensi^ Neaifanus p^eandtepro- holdSyprafimitur lubrica ^ inconflanSy a woman chat marries a third time, UifidexpUnda j^jay be prefumcd to be no honefter then flic (hoiild.Of them both,chus-^^ffli- fibi brofecorxdxxdts in his comment vpon Lukiy * they that are coupled togethery puiantur, nan not to get children but to (at is fe their lujlyare not husbands but fornicators^ confenCS: matrimony without hope ofchildren, non habeJur. matrimonium, fedcomubium diet debety is not a wedding' but a jumbling tiexpapwSffs or coupling together. In a word i^cxcept they wed for mutuall focicty,hcIpc tonxiauiLc.xi, and comfort oiieofanother, in which rafpe(5ls chough t Tiberius deny it, without