Volume 2

The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prgnostics, 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.

  • Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
Date:
1813
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Credit: The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prgnostics, 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Discontents and grievances are either generall or particular ' generall are wars, plagues, dearths, famine, fires, inundations? unseasonable wcatlier, epidemical diseases, which afflict whole kingdoms, territ(jries, cities : or peculiar to private men, *as cares, crosses, losses, death of friends, poverty, want, sickness, orbitics, injuries, aljuses, &c. generally all discontent: ^ homi- nes qnafimnr jortunce solo : no condition free: quisque subs ■pafimur manes. Even in the midst of our mirth and jollitj-, there is some grudging, some complaint; as'•'he saith, our whole life is a glucupicron, a bitter-sweet passion, hony and gall mixt together; we are all miserable and discontent; who can dejiy it ? If all, and that it be a common calamity, an in- evitable necessity, all distressed, then, as Cardan infers, ^who art thou, that hojjest to go free ? Why dost thou not grieve, thou art a mortall man, and not governor of the world ? Ferre, quam sortem patiuntur omnes, Nemo .recuset: *ifit be common to all, why shmdd one man be more disqui- eted then another ? If thou alone wert distressed, it were indeed more irksome, and less to be indured: but, when the calamity is common, comfort tJipclF with this, thou hast more fellows: Solamen noiseris socios liabuisse doloris : 'tis not thy sole case; and why shouldst thou be so impatient? ^ I, hut alas ive are more miserable then others : what shall we do ? Besides private miseries, we live in perpetuall fear, and danger of common enemies ; we have Bellona's whips, and pit- tifull out-cryes, for epithalandiims; for pleasant musick, that fearfull noise of ordnaiwe, drums, and warlike trumpets, still sounding in our eares; instead of nuptiall torches, we have firing of towns and cities; for triumplis, lamentations ; for joy, teares. ^ So it is, and so it loas, and ever will be. He that refuseth to see and hear, to suffer this, is not Jit to live in this world, and knoivs not the common condition of all men, to whom, so long as they live, with a redprocall course, j'oyes » Alium paupertas, alium orbitas, hunc morbi, Ulum timor, alium injuria?, hunc insidlae, ilium uxor, filii, distrahunt. Cardan. b Bofethius, 1. i. met. 5 <= Apulcius, 4. florid. Nihil homini tam prospere datum divinitus, quiii ei admixt'um' sit ahquid difficultatis; in arajjlissimfiL quique la^titia subest quoedam querimonia con- jugat.one quidam raellis ct fellis. a Si omnes premantur, quis tu es, qui solus evadere cupis ab ci lege qua nemincm prceterit? Cur te non immor- talem factum, et universi orliis regem fieri, non doles } « Puteanus, cp. 75 Neque cuiquam praecipue dolendum eo quod accidit universis. fLorchan' Gallobelgicus, lib. 3, Anno 1S98, de Belgis. Sed eheu! inquis; euge' quid ace' mus? ubi pro epithalamio Bellonse flagellum, pro musicSl Imrnionii terribilium lituorum ct tubarum audias clangorera, pro tsedis nuptiaiibus, villarum, pagoruni wbium videas mcendia; ubi pro jubilo lamenta, pro risu fletus, aerem comulent' » Ita est profeoto ; et quis(|Uis hicc videre abnuis, liuic seculo parum aptus es • aut poiius nostrorum omnium conditionom ignoras, quibus reciproco quodam iiexu'lseta tristiDus, tnstia Isetii, invicem »ucc«duBt. B 2