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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    620 cMisrmg. ambmous,Iafciuious perfons as fome other are,no drunkards,fi/em vi. deaf ortmem,fol,r,j videntoccidextem, They rifefoberandsoefoberto bed,plame dcaling,vpright honcll men, they doe wrong to no man, andare lo reputed in the worlds eHecinc at leaft, very zealous in religion, very-chati- table,meekc,hiimblejpeacemakei-s,keepe all du^iesjvcry devout honeft well fpkcnof,bclouedof all men: but hee that knowes better how to iudee bee that examines the heart,he faith they are hypoaites. Cor dob plenum-fonwl ■vtPtumpercuffamdignh, they are not found within. As it is with writers i sropim. d ottemtnes.Plus/aalimonM in /Hello, qukm 1,belli authore more holinefle is m the booke then in the Author ofit .• So tis with them; many come to Church with great BibIes,whom Car dun faid he could not choofe but laneh at,and will now and then dare oper^m^uguS/na, lead <^oJ/in frequent ,f?’°?J?‘?^y®!P''°f'=®'^‘*Vfurers,meergripes,/a^^wr.«r4/ra£k»r^^ - ■ al^hcirlifeisEpiairi/mcandAtheifme,cometoChurcha!lday &lvewiih aCurtefanatnight. Q>ff curiosJimnlant c^SMchtmliiivivunt They haue Efiirvs hands and Jacobs voice. Yea and many of thole holy Friers (an- drilled mtn^Cai^pamfaiih Bkrom^c^ cilicium induunt-fed sntus Utronem te» They are woluesin flieepes cloathing, J^trorrumturpesJeciafipelUdccord, Faire without and mofi ^o'‘^p^K]un.cUtMpbr,m^(,Htr!ftiumia^ , ^deformls horror vsh vejletegitur. Oftentimes vnder a mourning weed lies lull it lelfc,8c hor¬ rible vices vnder a poore coat. But who can examine all thofe kindesofHy. poctjtesjor diue into their hearts ? If wee may guefle at the tree by the fruit Ft dales, (hew mee a plaine dealing true hOTell mana £tfudor,&prohttas,& utmr omnis abeji. Heethat (hall but looke into their ^es,and fee fuch morraous v.ces,men fo immoderate in luft, vnfpeakablc in maire.fmious in then rage,ftatteringanddilTemblingfa^^ willfurelythinketbeyarenottrulyreiigious.butofanobdutatheart, moll fhe Dieferr’^J^rr “y “ they will for to as they can,a time will come when they (hall be called their hand,they pull a plagueLd curfe vpon »e*9Ablafpheame,contemne,negleaGod,orfcoireathim , as the Poets pS« w'd f'’T'’**' thunder, hee was precipitated for his ipamts Jupiter intonuit contra Ac. fo fhall the v certain- “ leiie IS ready to receaue them, Soipe,^eofopinion, that it is invainetodifputewithftch Atheidicall Atheifme, dulgencc to corrupt a(feaion,yet their grouth is different, they haue dtueife fy'P^°'^Sj^O“afiotis,andmuft haue feuetall cures and remedies 'Tisirue tI. if hisWes,wor(bipandobcyhim. wou d requjre a lufl volijme,! referre them therefore that expcAa morcam- pie 6tisfaaion,to th^e fubnle and elaborate Trearifes, deuout and' faiiious ttadis ofqur lamed Diumesffchoolemen amongfl the tedjehsi haue abun- dance