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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    Fart. 54. Caujes of religious melauchoij Mcmb.i .Subl:2,^ hauereOgned their intcixftjnnmcs aid offices to Saint .585 , t ^ Maxlme hehrum recior, Qttem nofir a mventm < Mt. umiA, ' ,. . r . 7 , Vali deSanSlo Pro MavortecQUt.-) - Gmm. Sf chrijiopher, and a companie of fiaitious Saints , remis to the Lady of Lauren A. And aschofe old Romanes had fcuerall dilhacl; gods, for diuerfe offices5perfons,pIaces,fo haue they Saints, as Lavater well obferues out of Laflantias^Mutato nomine tantum^ cis the (amc Diiieli that deludes them ftiL The manner hovv.as I fay,is by rewardes,promifes, terrors3affiighfs,pnniar mcntsjinawordfaireandfoulemeancs, H^p^and r<f4r^. How often hath Upiter.Apollo^Bacchm and the reft, lent plagues in s Greece and Italie, be caufe their lacrificcs were neglected, Dij rnnltaneoleBi dedtrunt! Hejperixma/a/ufiuc/e. toterrihethem, to rouse them vp,and the like: fee but Livy^ Dionyfim Ualkaxnajfxm^ Thu-. cidides,Pau[ani.^yPhilosiratusy&c. Oenem raigned in oEtolia^ and becaule hedidnorfacrificetoDi4^/J with.his other Gods,(he fent a wild bore, > IttA magnitudinisypui terras homines mifere depafeebatury to fpoile both r Oraia kge m men and country, which was afterwards killed by Mekagcr.\/V[ut prodigies and miracles,dreames,vifions,predi(ftion£,apparitions,oracIes,liaiie been of iTuiiydi nat^ old at Delphos^Dodonay what ftrange cures performed by o/p* md cdEf- edapim? lands Innuige,and that ofFortune fpake,^ Caftor and Pollux fought TtucrUiPallas in perlon for the Romanes againft Hannibals Army, as Pallas^Mars^Iuno^F?- iniquafuit, nm,(oiareekes3ndTro/Ms,Uc. AmongliourPleudocatholicks,nothing ^ fo familiar as fiicli miracles,how many cures done by our Lady of Lauretta: u rei.diivcrje at Skhem,o{ old at our S.jhemas Shrine,&c. yS.’Sadiae was fcenc to fight , for ^rMlphui Duke of 5po/ew,“ S.George fought in perfon for lohn the ba- ysfemipug. ftard of againft the Caflilians. In the battle of Bonnoxburm^ where otj, & adm. £dw^ra(thefccond, ourEnglifti kingwasfoyledby theicMf, S.PhiUxxs y ZZfZ.- atme was feene to fight (if'^ Hedior Boethius doth not impolc ; that was be- , ^ .jt^.LeculoS forenuicvDinafiluercapcarer Another time in the fame author, SMagnm tpemcayrnWc,, ^ f t. .r- t . ...V --I-- f_.&py0tlipu?r home read the ldekikvLm,Ribadeneira,Thur/elmm,..-Acop,Lifporstanu^^^ poiicy.hvL' A’a»fWer,/g»arwrliues,&c.and tell me what difference ^ ^ icd alone to His ordinary inftruments or fadors which he vfeth , as God himlelfe did keepemeniri good Kings,lawful Magiftrates,Patriarcf]s, Prophets, to the eftablilbing of his Church,/are PolicitianSjStateftncnjPrieftSjHcreticks^ blind guides, Im- aOmmreiiiid- poftors,Preudoprophets,to propagate his fuperftition* And firft to beginne withPolititians,it hath ciier beene a principall axiome with them, to ITiain - ZclcuchtU. taine religion or luperftition,they make Religion mecrc policy, a cloake, an humane ammos aefaperftino^ IncmXJimt gg t Tacitus and ® Tally hold, /^ajlin lib,^»de civitat.Uei cap,^. cenluics Sea- petfuafs effs , » 1 • - . - .1 .'.ij//J tr 1170 r nnvtfit tfTfi Ti nsgoodhoudbciiertokecpeitmlubieetion. la-uaK^riltotleit,. to inculcate in their Politicks,negleliedjirings flagues to theOtHe.^ mnsaiaotoallmuohtmffe. Tis that which all out late Politirians ingc->«4;»3. ^ • * Ffff inmate