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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    (aslfaidoffafting)aretobedircomtiicndeciof themfclues^butvcrv behoue- 55^3 full in fomc cafes and good: fobriety and contemplation ioinc our fbules to God, as that heathen ^ Porphyrie can tell vs,*^ Extafis is a tajic of future happ/- fteffCy by which wee are vnited vnto God, a divine melancholy^ a fpiritua^ wing^ Bonaucntiirc tearmes it, to lift vs vp to heauen: But as it is abiifed, a mcere dotage, madneife, a caufe and fymptomc of Religious melancholy, if & corninema. you fh/iU at any tme fee (ihith Guatinerius) a religious perfon oUerfuperUiti- ouSy toofo lit ary or muchgiuen to fallings that man will certainely bec^ me-'cExfafu nihil ianfholy y thou maiji boldly fay it yhewillbefo, P, Forejlus h^ih the fame words and ^ Cardan fnhtiLlib^\%, & cap,ep,lib. 8. de rerum varies ate ^ ZtIdiZ(E^ /olitarineSyfaliingy and that melancholy humor ^ are the catifes of all Hermites rafmuieiiijl.ad iHufans, Lavatur.deJfeU,cap,1^.part.i.andpart.i.cap.10. puts folicarineffe a maine caufe of fuclifpedrums and apparitions, nonCj faith he jfomelan- Imwindeum^ choly as Monkes and Hermitcs, the diuells bath melancholy/ none fofuhiecd ‘^.'^1 nlipooini to vifions and dotage in this kinde, asftch as Huefolitary liueSy they keare cf ^S^lbfeZan^ a6l(Irange things in their dotage. 8 Polidore Virgil, lib.s.de prodigijs,^^'/<ff audutler that thofeprophejies and Monkes revelations, Nunnes dreamesy which they fuppofecomefom Godydoeproceedwholydko inftindu d^emonum,^ meanesi andfo thofe EnthufiasiSy Anabaptijls^ pfeudo-Prophets from the fame caii/e. ^ Fracaflorius lib.2. de intelleH. will haue all your Pithonifes, ’^IZfnxils^ Sibylles and pfciido.Prophets to be meere melancho!y)lb doth WierUs prone tnm lib. i.cap.%. dr lib.3.cap. j. & ^rcttlanus inp.Rafsyihsit melancholy is a foie yc- caufCjand the Diuell together, with falling and folitarinesoffuch Sibylline pihuiy&humf prophefies, if there were cuer any liich, which with » and others I f»eimho!icu.s iuftly except at. But howfocuer there be ho Sibylles^ I am allured there be o- ^um'caffl^unt. ther Enthufajlsy Prophets,&c. ever haue beene in all ages, and Bill procce- isoiitudo if ding from thofe caufes.That which Matthew Paris relates of tbcMonke Evefbam, who faw heaven and hell in a vilion, of ^ Sir Owen that went nihui&hinc downc into Patricks Pugato.ry in King Stephens dayes, and law as much.* deiim magh Walfingham ofhim that was fhewed the like by S' lulian. Be da lib. cap.i ]. 14.120. reports of King Sebba lib.e^,cap.ii. ecclef hijl. that law Brange gw & enmo “ vilions, and Stimphius HelvetxCronk of a cobler oiBafily r 5 20.that beheld xaxt a^^pantxons at Amboroughm Germany y c^Llexander ab Alexandra gen: Ytim^meiinch<h ^/^r.//^‘^.r4p.2i.ofanEnthufiaBicallprifoner3 was Bill after much folitari- Cid obviam nelfc, faBing, or long licknelfe, when their braincs were addle, and their bel- lies as.empty ofmeate, as their heads of wit. Florilegm hath many fuch ex- propbt- ampks,fol.i9i,onco£SaintGultlakeoi' Crowlade that fought with diuells, but Bill after long faBing,ouermuch folitarinelfe, the Diiiels perfwade him IguntvZ^ therefore to fiB, as Mofis and Elias did, the better to delude him. ^ jo the fame Author is recorded Carolus magnus vifion An. 18 y or extafis; wherein he law heauen and hell after much fafling and meditation. So did the diuell fatidicttya mlo ofold with Apollds PrieBs, Amphiaraus and his fellowcs,thofe gewobabent,^ Bill enioine long faBing before he woud giue any oracles, triduum a cibo d d vino ahUinerent^ before they eaue any anfwcres, as Volateran lib. r ? xap. thufiaibe. , f. . . hSibf^yTithii^ &Frophet<equid}ukaYe fokntymmjdtr.mtk\fmtm(mtholUi. iExeYck.capa. k Poll.\{.DjcYumprcces& 'ttduma,mm- biletvidtbat vifhveu \Fiil i^.vhdStepbm<^ fol. itj. pofltriummenpum mdim&ldngmrmy'et 9. dies sibd comedens ambibens: m After contemplation man. Excafis, (oHkrmeyfa& whipped foi feaJing fee millions of exam¬ ples \no\xt f(ijx;i\z%y'BtdnyGfegfiry,U':obMdcy’ofagine,Lippommmy HkronymKSffohv Maior de vhisFatrmf&c,nFedi 199 poll abpnemk euros miras iSifmcsdsemanm oitMka, o Fol,x <;<i.pgf f(;mfftmedii<itiopem iis vigilid did domniceSiVSi Rmmhobuit de Furliztom,