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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    Parl:.5«Se(5t.4* ’Religions Melancholy, Memb.iAS'ubf:i ' 5i?c> /^^vpoiipaineofcleathnomannuiftdaretocontradidiCjCri?/^^;^?^ the Em- What clfe doe our Papifts , but by keeping the people in igno- rancCjVent and broacli all their new ceremonies and traditions, when they conceale the Scripturcs,read it in Latiiijand to fome few alone, feeding the people in the meaue time with talcs out of Legends, and fuch like fabulous narrations? Whom doe they begin with, but collapfed Ladies, Come fewc tradefinen/uperfliriousoidfblkesjiiiiteratc perfons^weake women, difeon- tcnt,rudc,filly companions, or fooncr circu.mvent ? So doc all our fehifma- ticks and hereticks. OVtarem and Vdentinim heretic ks in Irin&m^ fcduccd firfl I knowe not how many women,and made them beleeiie they were Pro- yaient'^hlief.9 ^ Cornelt^ts of Bort, reduced a company of filly women. What 1 Meteranm Ub are all otir <^n!ibaptifts,Brorvmfls^Barrovpijis,FamHiUs^ but a company of rude iIliterate,capritiousbafe fellowes? Wlwt are mob ofoi]rPapifls,biic flupid,ignorant,and blinde baiards,how fjould they otherwife bec,when as mSiDoSiom ^re brought vp and keptflill in darkncfle, ifthe/r Pajiors(faith U- fmm feciffent vatcr) had done their duties^and inBruFted theirflocke as they ought Jn the^ £‘^gdef'cm- ofchrillim Religion , or had not forbidden them tHereadingof miijhm ricte in- Scriptures yhey had not beene as they are. Bu t being fo mifled. all their hues fiimijjent,dedo^ in fuperftition,and carried hood«winked like bawkcs,how can they prone o- ^%ScT blinde Idiots,and fiiperhirious Affes,what fliall we expebi elfe- ficmrfipturis at their hands? Neither is it fuificient to keepc them bjinde, and in Cimmeria i^^f^f^ixiifentide ^^LvlcnefCe .hut whhall ^ asa Srhnolemaflpr r^nrhhxr hU hnxme tr, doe they collogue and fboth vp tlicir filly Auduors,and fb bring them into a foolesPatadiCc.Reps eris dmntfireclcfaciesgdo^ well,thou flialt be crowned; jbut.fbr the mofl part by threats,terrors,and affriglijts, they tyrannize and ter- rifie their diflrefled foulesrknowing that feare alone is the foie & only meaties tokeepemen in obedience, according to char hermUichium ofPetromusy Primus in or be deosfecit timorfhe feare of fome diuine and fiipreamc pow- crs,keepes men in obedience, makes the people doe their duties: they play vpon their confciences; « which was pradifed ofold in o&gypt^ by their Pricfts,when there was an Ecclipfe,thcy made the people beleeue God was ^‘’g^yagre^tmiferies were to come, they take all opportunities ofnaturall caufes,to delude the peoples fenfes,and with fearefull tales out of Purgato- ry,fained appantions,earth quakes in lapona or China, tragicall examples of am I mm. It— /!w* ■ J ■ I* * fl * m ^ divcIISjpofTeilionSjObfeflions/alfe miracIes,counterfcit vifions,&c.They doe o See more j„ fo infult ouer,and reftraine them,neuer Hobie fo dared a Larke,that they will SaZf-Tri the leaf! cradition,trcad,orfcarceIookeawrie.-D(?/^^^7;^<ffp La- Tent.^?urgL hoc commentumde Pur gat orio mifer'e afflixit i good tom. God, how many men haiie beene miferably afflided by this fi^ion of Pur- &il. ^ To thefe advantages of Hope & P^4r^,ignorance S: fimplicitie, he hath fe- vcrall engines,traps,deuiccs,ro batter and enthrall, omitting no opportimi- ties,according to mens feuerall incIina;:ions,habiIities, to circumventandhu- mour them,to mainec«iinehisfuperllition.’ fometimes to flupifie,befbt them lometime againe by oppofitions, fa£lions,to fee all at oddes, and in an vp- roare,{bn3stimes he infects one man,and makes him a principall agent/omc- times