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.

  • Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
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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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    I am therefore in this point a profefled Difciple of ^Afolhnim^^ Scholler ® oi^HTAtes^ I negle6t phrafes, and labour wholly to informe my Readers NegU^eblt ' vnderftanding, not to pleafe his care; 'tis not my ftudy or intent to com- pofc neatly, which an Orator requires, but to exprelTe my fclfe readily and plainly,as it happens. So that as a Riuer runs fbmetimes precipitate ”pf^^eff[reT^d and fwift, then dull and flow • now dired, then^er'Ambages 5 now deepc, irnguam then fliallow *, now muddy, then cleare 5 now broad, then narrow 5 doth mv ftile flow: now ferious, then lights now Comicall,then Satyricall; derenttrudi- now more elaborate,then remifle,as the prefent fubied required,or as at that time I was affeded. And if thou vouchfafe to read this Trcatife, it fhall feeme no otherwife to thec,thcn the way to an ordinarie Traueller, fometimes faire,fomc-times foule 5here champion,there inclofed 5 barren . . in one place, better foyle in another; by Woods, Groiies, Hills, Dales, Plaines,&c. I fliall lead thee ferardua mdnmm^(^ lubrica vadiumj^ rofei- dacejfttum^fy glebe/a CAmporum,thio\x^ varietie of obieds, that which thou fhalt like and furely diflike. For the matter it fclfe or method, if it bee faultie, conrtder I pray you that of C0lumell.ij NihilferfeBum^aut a finguUri confummatum indusirid^ no man can obferue all, much is defect iue no doubt, may bee iuflly taxed, altered,and auoided inGalen^AriH0tle,xho(e^ve^iit Mafters. Bom Tjenatoris ( P one holds ) plures feras cafere^ non omneS’^ Hee is a good Huntflnan can catch fome,not all: 1 hauedone mine endeauour. Bdides,! dwell not in this Hxxdy^Non hie fulcos ducimus^on hocpuluere defudamus^ am but a fmat- tercf, I confefle,a ftranger,*! here and there I pull a flower, I doe eafily grant, if a rigid cenfurer fliould criticize on this which lhaue writ, hee fhouldnot find three foie faults,as Scaliger in r<f/'W<f,but 300, fo many as he hath done in Cardans fubtiltics,as many notable errors as GuiLaurem- bergius^z. late Profeffor of RoHocke^dKcow^ts in that Anatomic of Laurtn- lambeZ. tim^ or Barocim the Venetian in S&cro-bofctes, And although this be a third Edition, in which I fhould haue been more accurate, correded all thofe err ores Lah- former ercapes,yet it was magni labor is difficult and tedious,that Carpenters doe find out of experience ,'tis much better build a new Ibm- ^ times,then repaire anoldhoufe 51 could as foone write as much more, as alter that which is written. If ought therefore be amifle (as 1 grant there is)I require a friendly admonition,no bitter inuediue^ WsU de con, ^ Sint Mufis [ocijChariteSj Furia omnis abelio^ Otherwife as in ordinarie Controuerfies,y»A»^/w contentionis neblamus^fed ctti hone f Wee may contend, and likely mifufe each other, but to what purpole? Wee are both Schollers,fay^ ‘-Arcades ambo, t virgi Et cant are pares t ^ rejpondcre par ati. If we doe wrangle,what fhall we get by it ? Trouble & wrong oiir felues, make fport of others.If I be conuid of an error,I will yeeld,rwill amend. Si quid bonis moribfosji quid verstati diffentaneumjn facris vel humanis Uteris a mediFtufn fit^d nec diblum eflodn the meane time I require a fauourable cenfure of all faults omitted3harfl:icompofitions,pleonafmcs of words, Tautologicall repetitions, perturbations of Tenfes, Numbers, Printers faults,6cc. My tranflations are fometimes rather Paraphrafes, then inters pretations.