The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptons, prognostics, and several cures of it : in three partitions with their several sections, members, and subsections, philosophically, medically, historically opened and cut up / by Democritus Junior.

  • Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
Date:
1868
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Credit: The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptons, prognostics, and several cures of it : in three partitions with their several sections, members, and subsections, philosophically, medically, historically opened and cut up / by Democritus Junior. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \rum cognnt eos, ef, ipsos tanquam canes ad mensas stias enutriunt, eorumque Impudenles ! Ventres huquaram canarum reJiquiis diffcrtiunt, iisdem pro arhilro abutenles: Rich men keep these lecturers, and fawning parasites, like so many dogs at their tables, and filling their hungry guts with the ofials of their meat, they abuse them at their pleasure, and make them say what they propose. ^^ As children do by a bird or a I butterfly in a string, pull in and let him out as they list, do they by their trencher , chaplains, prescribe, command their wits, let in and out as to them it seems best. If ; the patron be precise, so must his chaplain be; if he be papistical, his clerk must be .so too, or else be turned out. These are those clerks which serve the turn, whom \hey commonly entertain, and present to church livings, whilst in the meantime we that are University men, like so many hide-bound calves in a pasture, tarry out our time, wither away as a flower ungathered in a garden, and are never used; or as so many ccaidles, illuminate ourselves alone, obscuring one another's light, and are not discerned here at all, the least of which, translated to a dark room, or to some coun- try benefice, where it might shine apart, would give a fair light, and be seen over all. Whilst we lie wailing here as those sick men did at the Pool of ^^ Bethesda, till the Angel stirred the water, expecting a good hour, they step between, and beguile us of our preferment. I have not yet said, if after long expectation, much expense, travel, earnest suit of ourselves and friends, we obtain a small benefice at last; our misery begins afresh, we are suddenly encountered with the flesh, world, and devil, with a new onset; we change a quiet life for an ocean of troubles, we come to a ruinous house, which before it be habitable, must be necessarily to our great damage repaired ; we are compelled to sue for dilapidations, or else sued ourselves, and scarce yet settled, we are called upon for our predecessor's arrearages; first-fruits, tenths, subsidies, are instantly to be paid, benevolence, procurations, Stc, and which is most to be feared, we light upon a cracked title, as it befel Clenard of Brabant, for his rec- tory, and charge of his Begintz; he was no sooner inducted, but instantly sued, cepi- musque ^^(saith he) strenue lliigare, et implacahiU hello conjligere: at length after tea years' suit, as long as Troy's siege, when he had tired himself, and spent his money, he was fain to leave all for quietness' sake, and give it up to his adversary. Or else we are insulted over, and trampled on by domineering officers, fleeced by those greedy harpies to get more fees; we stand in fear of some precedent lapse; we fall amongst refractory, seditious sectaries, peevish puritans, perverse papists, a lascivious rout of atheistical Epicures, that will not be reformed, or some litigious people (those wild beasts of Ephesus must be fought with) that will not pay their dues without much repining, or compelled by long suit; Laid clericis oppido infesti, an old axiom, all they think well gotten that is had from the church, and by such uncivil, harsh deal- ings, they make their poor minister weary of his place, if not his life; and put case they be quiet honest men, make the best of it, as often it falls out, from a polite and terse academic, he must turn rustic, rude, melancholise alone, learn to forget, or else, as many do, become maltsters, graziers, chapmen, &.c. (now banished from the academy, all commerce of the muses, and confined to a country village, as Ovid was from Rome to Pontus), and daily converse with a company of idiots and clowns. Nos interim quod, attinet {nee enim immunes ah hac noxa surnus) idem rcatus rnanet, idem nobis, et si non multo gravius, crimen ohjici potest: nostra enim culpa sit, nostra incuria, nostra, avaritiCi, quod tarn frcquentes, foedceque Jiant in Ecclesid nundinationes, (templum est vaenale, deusque) tot sordes invehantur, tanta grasse- tur impietas, tanta ncquiiia, tarn insanus miseriarum Ein-ipus, et turharum csstua- rium, nostro inquam, omnium {Academicorum imprimis) vitio sit. Quod tot Resp. mails afficiatur, a nobis seminariiim; ultro malum hoc accersimus, et qudvis contU' melid, qudvis interim miseria digni, qui pro virili non occurrimus. Quid enimjicri posse sperainus, quum tot indies sine delectu pauperes alumni, terrcB Jilii, et cujus' cunque ordinis homunciones ad gradus certatim admittantur? qui si dejinitionem, distinctioncmque unam at/t alteram memoriter edidicerint, et pro more tot annos in dialcctica posuerint, non refert quo profectu, quales demum sint, idiotcc, nugatores_ etiatores, aleafores, compotores, indigni, libidinis voluptatumque adndnistri, Sponsi f* PraBPcrihuiit, iriiperant, in nrdinem cognnt, inge- I Cfinsenlef. Hi'insiiis. Joli 5. es E|)jst. lib. 5 niiini nos-lruiii prniit ipiiis vulehitiir, nstrintiniu (;t re- I Jam siiiroctiis in locum flemortin, protiniis exnrliis es laxant iil piipili-'u;m pupri ant briiclmin lilo demit- artversarius, &r.. post multos labixres, suiiiptus, ic »iiai aut utual Jilt, nos a libidine sua pendere a;quum |