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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    P^rc*3.Se6t.4» Religious Melancholy. Mcmb.i.SubjC‘3. ^04 fuch. For foflfng,voweSjrcligious orders, peregrinations, they goe Eatre be- amo Ztnfm Papilts,^ chcy faft a month together many times, and mult not eat integrumieiu- f till ftinne be let. T. heir A blendersyDetutfes.^ Torlachcrs^^t, arc more nant interM, * abftcmioiis loine of them^then CarthufiAns.e ranctfeans^ Anchor its, for- mchihcniei,&c ^^^^^J^5^>^rolitary/arehard,goenaked5&:c. Their pilgrimages are as far i fo the riucr f Ga/^^es/whicb the Gentiles of thole Trads likewife doe ) to themfelues/or that riuer as they hold hath a foueraigne vertue to purge vefcuntur^Lco them of all linnes,and no man can be laued that hath not bcene waflacd in it. For \\ hich rcalon they come farreand necre from the Indies^ Adaximtss ffen- i!llp'i7A2 omnium confluxns eji^and infinite numbers ycarely refort to it. Others t GotardmAf- laric as Mechx to ^Aahomets tombe, which iournev is both miracu* ious.and meritorious. The ceremonies offiinging fioues to ibnethe Diidl, inmeftex^k- ^ Camcil at Cairo by the way; their faltings^thcir running till they tmmeffeGan- fweat,thcir long praycrs ^ Mahomet sTcmyAe:^ Tombe, and building ofir, SS ZT' ^ volumne to dilate: and for their paines taken in this holy peccato^nec fai. P^gtimagCjall their finnes are lorgiiienj and they reputed for lb rnany faints. vmfieri pole. And divcrlc ofthem with hot bricks.vvhen they returne^will put out their eies rl7”e abim] ‘ f after fee any yro^hane thing. They looke for th eir Pro- qu<m obcaufam phcc Mahomet as levoes doe for their Mefias, Read more oftheir cullomes t^ouindk, rites,ceremonies,in Uniterm Turcic, hifl, tom. i. from the tenter to the 24! 1 ^mnii ro. ^baptcr^Bredcnhachim cay,6.Leo Afer lib,i. Bmhecyums^ Sabellicus^ Pur- to chas lib.Bxap.-^.e^ 4.5.de.Many fooliljh ceremonies you lliall find in them, and which is molt to be lamented^ the people are generally fo curious in oh-' 0 feruing of them^that if the leaft circumfiaiice be omitted,they think they M ; ’ be damned/tis an irremilTible offence and can hardly be forgiuen, I kept in my houfeamdngfi my followers ( faiih Bmbequim {omtiiimstht Turkei OmotmConllanfinoyie)aTurkeyhoyxhat byd\av\cQ did tat ^ ^ \ meat forbidden by their law^but the next day when hee knewe whar bee had n. done, hee Wrls not only ficke to caft and vomit, but very much troubled in TmmZifil weepe,atidgrieue many daies aftcf,tormcnt himfelfe for his nemfecit. ottcncc. Another Turke being to drinke a cup of wine in his Ccltar xiiBt iy aliquem fi rlt made a huge noife ^nd filthie faces, to rvarne his foule, as he Raid that it 7pfre^ZeZS be gilty ofthatfovokfacl which he was to commit. With fuch toies tni eiiis deHUii. melc are men kept in awe,and fo cowed, that they dare not refill or of ‘heirlaw .. fl'uonjVvhrchnohiimaneedift othetwife, no force dfatincs could hauccn- : i 1 lorced. ; ; . te ar : > ■ InthelartpkceareP^^.c-J^^^/aw.-mdercritingofwhorefuperfliu^^ . , i,i.,0'isiym)!>tc(nm, asa mixture oftliereft, ImayfayilMtwhichS.Se»ei^.!?’ « , '■'Oncefawirtavifion.oneDiuellinthemarketpIacejbuttennemaMonaftery, becaufe there was more worke; in pbpiifaus citties,they would fwearc & for- lweate,!yc,&lfifie,deceaueanenoughof themfelucs. oneDiuellcouldcir- ^ . cumventathoufand but in their religious houfes a thoufandDiuells could carce tempt one filly Monke. All the principall Diuels I tlijnke bufic them- fcIues.nlub«emhg C^/4«:/^^^^ Gentiles, mAMdometansuK extra,. , cati/em,oat of the fold,and need lio fuch attendance, they make no refiftanc^ ! Grtg>r.bmU. ‘^‘»»nMfeMglig,t,qHOs qmetomre foRidereCefentiKxhex are his own already,but Chrijlians haue that Ihield offaith, fword of the fpirit to refift, and