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
Date:
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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    5 eon^piciuntur, mamw^aylig- nea,lutca^&c, Kkc'm, f Deum enlm placare non c(i 602 dere (faith f BAtletim) t Ant AmfuperBitionem, vel affirmAre, lez^ij^imam ■]L\b4.devjflk hdiic CAufAmtantareinjel magis ndicuUm ^ quumnon dubftcmrifumpotius P admirationem poster is excitatHrAm, The ftory was too ridiculous, he immmaidoto- was iilhamed to report it J^ecaufc he thought no body would beleeue it.It is rim monjira- {|,^,pencl lo relate what iirange effedis this Idolatry and fuperihtion liath brought forth of later ycarcs in the, and thole bordering parts; P in whatferall fhapcs the t Diuell is adored^ ne quid mAUintentet, as'they lay, how he terrifies thenghow they oficr men and women lacrifices vnto him, an hundred at once^as they did infints in Crete to Saturne of old, the fineii ojm,quumit- childrcnyHkc L^Amem^o/rsJpi?/g/nJA,c^eM^ CUex/eo^wbet'i tkc Span/ards Zm}[aifcX’ ouercame them/ lao\y they bury .their \yiue;swith, them., , p!acm,&c. t Nam certArnen hxbent l^thi quaviuafequatur Lodyerioimn- and burne them aliue, beft goods, horfes, leruants, when a great man dies, }m>navig.iib.6. { j 2000 at oncc amongft the Tart ats when a great cham departs; how they tyrloce^nUT diemfelueSjwhich abfiainc from all that haih life, as thofc old Pytha- tTropertm ^(jm^XjWithiitimoderafefafiings,ras.they of^cte.*,That for fuperlhiions - oeuer eat flefh nor fitli all their liueSjOeuer marry,but line in deferrs and Michau. V •by-places,and fome pray to their Idols 24 homes together,without any in- ‘ termifiio.njbitingofftheirtongues.^hentheyhauc'donejfordcuotionsfake. , Some againdar^ brot^ht to that madnelle by their fupcrfiirious Priefts- tEpB.iefuit, /:ihatieUthem.fi|chyainG>0o,riesofin3inprtaIitie,aSd theioyesofheauen in terk&[^§^^ .chatOther life)^ that mary thouf^ds-voluntarily breake their own necks*, st$ idetnq^Riciml Cleombrotm CyimhrociAt-as Auditpi:s,pfold,prcciprtate chem(e]ues,thac they participate ofthatynlpeakable happinelle in the other world; One pof- lons,anotherfir'angle5h,.hiiiifelfe,and the>J(ing0/chinah^d doneasrauch,de- resapud ludedAyiAthis vaineh.ppe,hadhe.n0t.beenedctained by his feruanr. But can Mdentlytelipftheir fjcuerall fuperfti'tions, vexations, follies,tor- ciiu4,akyeiy^ ments^. I may conclude vyith ^ PoJfevmHs^Religio fuit ajperos mites^ homi^ TliSk'cSn- fuperJlitiQ ex hominibusferas, Religion makes wild beafis ciuill, fc/, ftJperfiiiiiQn makes wife men bcafts and. fooles; and the difereeteft that arc, jf g-ed^mL^ they giueAvay to it,are r^o betteirtlien dizards, nay more, if that of Plotint^ uc!^>V religionis fcqpii6,'is.t ei que.m colimusftmilesJtAmm i that’s the ajpirqnt imm drift ofreligion to make vs like whom wee worllfip^ what fiiall bee the . . . ., perilous andd^ig^^userrom: Ofallotbers,as:y PlutmkhxMs, mbnknu. pafio.h- minemcmUernans^^^^dsxiX^ a-tfoublefime pafiic^n thatytteriy vndocth men. Vnhatipy Wiikhion,^ />%.callsit,;^5rr^ «0z*>//4»^r,v^ealh.takcsa- fi'fjet'y mjt dfer- 'vay life^but npt.Hipj^fiition.ImpiousandignorantiHrefar'morehappy then vofuijjetdem^ tliey fuperfi:kious,no torture like toit. noncfd conqiiuate fb een^ Tcmi,«u ^ , . iib.io,Bom»ide 7'lln thisjup.ermtioustovv , levies for antiquity, may dpne ,'what Idolatries tlscy:haue:coiwniM So'thdt « 0! w. ,7 grou« andjugh. places,what their Phitrifies,S4ddiites,Scrikt,Effei^ & fuch feilafies:h3iie,iaaintained,l willnotlpmuchasinention ‘forthe.prefent •• I ^ - V » ’ ■ ‘’r* ^ yiMeJupi^^ ^tiomimb'fii'm^WmQrsifionmmpuierpifm^^^ prefume