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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    men fools; which Democritus well signified in an epistle of © his to Hippocrates: *the Abderites account vertug madness ; and so do most men living. Shall I tell you the reason of it? b Fortune and Veriue (Wisdom and Folly their seconds) upon a time contended in the Olympicks; every man thought that Fortune and Folly would have the worst, and pittied their cases, But it fell out otherwise. Fortwne was blind, and cared not where she stroke, nor whom, without laws, andabata- rum instar, &c. Folly, rash and inconsiderate, esteemed as little what she said or did. Vertue and Wisdom gave ‘place, were hissed out, and exploded by the common people-—Folly and Fortune admired; and so are all their followers ever since. Knaves and fools commonly fare and deserve best in world- lings eyes and opinions. Many good men have no better fate in their ages. Achish, 1 Sam. 21. 14, held David for a mad- man. ‘Elisha and the rest were no otherwise esteemed. Da- vid was derided of the common people, Psal. 9. 7. I am become a monster to many. And generally we are accounted fools for Christ, 1 Cor. 14. We fools thought his life mad- ness, and his end without honour, Wisd. 5. 4. Christ and his Apostles were censured in like sort, John 10, Mark 3. Acts 26. And so were all Christians in ¢ Pliny’s time: fuerunt et alii similis dementia, &c. and called not long after, ‘ ve- sania sectatores, eversores hominum, polluti novatores, fana- tici, canes, malefici, venefici, Galilei homunciones, &c. “Tis an ordinary thing with us to account honest, devout, ortho- dox, divine religious, plain-dealing men, ideots, asses, that cannot or will not lye and dissemble, shift, flatter, accommo- dare se ad eum locum ubi nati sunt, make good bargains, sup- plant, thrive, patronis inservire, solennes ascendendi modos apprehendere, leges, mores, consuetudines recte observare, candide laudare, fortiter defendere, sententias amplecti, dubi- tare de nullis, credere omnia, accipere omnia, nihil repre- hendere, ceteraque que promotionem ferunt et securitatem, que sine ambage felicem reddunt hominem, et vere sapientem apud nos—that cannot temporize as other men do, &hand and take bribes, &c.—but fear God, and make a conscience of their doings. But the holy Ghost, that knows better how to judge— he calls them fools. The fool hath said in his heart, Psal. 53. 1. And their wayes utter their folly, Psal. 49. 14. For what can be more mad, than, for a little worldly pleasure, to procure ® Apud quos virtus, insania et furor esse dicitur. b Calcagninus, Apol. Omnes mirabantur, putantes illisum iri Stultitiam. Sed praeter expectationem res evenit. Au- dax Stultitia in eam irruit, &c. illa cedit irrisa; et plures hinc habet sectatores Stul- titia, © Non est respondendum stulto secundum stultitiam. 49 Reg. 7. e Lib. 10. ep. 97. £ Aug. ep. 178. & Quis, nisi mentis inops, &c. e pase insanius quam pro momentaned felicitate eternis te mancipare suppli- ciis ? «