Volume 1

The anatomy of melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symtomes, prognostics, and several cures of it. In three partitions. With their several sections, members, and subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened and cut up / By Democritus junior [pseud.] With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.

  • Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
Date:
1813
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Credit: The anatomy of melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symtomes, prognostics, and several cures of it. In three partitions. With their several sections, members, and subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened and cut up / By Democritus junior [pseud.] With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stupid, ignorant, incult: lapis super lapidem sedeat; and as the *apologist will, resp. tussi ef graveolentid laboret, mun- dus vitio: let them be barbarous as they are; let them >ty- rannize, epicurize, oppress, luxuriate, consume themselves with factions, superstitions, law-suits, wars and contentions, live in riot, poverty, want, misery; rebel, wallow as so many swine in their own dung, with Ulysses companions: stultos Jjubeo esse libenter. 1 will yet, to satisfie and please my self, make an Utopia of mine own, a new Atlantis, a poetical com- mon-wealth of mine own, in which I will freely domineer, build cities, make laws, statutes, as I list my self. And why may I not? | *pictoribus atque poétis, &c. You know what liberty poets ever had; and, besides, my pre- decessor Democritus was a politician, a recorder of Abdera, a law-maker, as some say; and why may not I presume so much as he did? Flowsoever I will adventure. For the site, if you will needs urge me to it,] am not fully resolved: it may be in Terra Australis Incognita; there is room enough (for, of my knowledge, neither that hungry Spaniard,* nor Mercurius Britannicus, have yet discovered half of it) or else one of those floting islands in Mare del Zur, which, like the Cy- anean isles in the Euxine sea, alter their place, and are ac- cessible only at set times, and to some few persons; or one of the Fortunate isles; for who knows yet where, or which they are? There is room enough in the inner parts of America, and northern coasts of Asia. But I will choose a site, whose latitude shall be 45 degrees (I respect not minutes), in the midst of the temperate zone, or perhaps under the sequator, that ‘paradise of the world, ubi semper virens laurusy &¢. where is a perpetual spring. The longitude, for some reasons, I will conceal, Yet be it known to all men. by these presents, that if any honest gentleman will send in so much money, as Cardan allows an astrologer for casting a nativity, he shall be a sharer: I will acquaint him with my project: or, if any wor- thy man will stand for any temporal or spiritual office or dig- nity, (for, as he said of his archbishoprick of Utopia, ’tis sanctus ambitus, and not amiss to be sought after) it shall be freely given, without all intercessions, bribes, letters, &c. his own worth shall be the best spokesman; and (because we shall admit of no deputies or advowsons) if he be sufficiently jualified, and as able as willing to execute the place himself, e shall have present possession. it shall be divided into * Velent, Andreze Apolog. manip. 604. » Qui sordidus' est, sordescat adhuc, *Hor 4 Ferdinando Quir. 1612. ¢ Vide Acosta et Laet.