Anatomy of Melancholy by Democritus Junior
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THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY WHAT IT IS WITH ALL THE KINDS, CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, 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 [ROBERT BURTON] WITH A SATIRICAL PREFACE, CONDUCING TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSE PART 3 – Love-Melancholy and Religious Melancholy Published by the Ex-classics Project, 2009 http://www.exclassics.com Public Domain ROBERT BURTON CONTENTS The Preface ....................................................................................................................8 Love's Beginning, Object, Definition, Division ..........................................................28 Love of Men, which varies as his Objects, Profitable, Pleasant, Honest.....................33 Love of Men, which varies as his Objects, Profitable, Pleasant, Honest.....................33 Pleasant Objects of Love .............................................................................................36 Pleasant Objects of Love .............................................................................................36 Honest Objects of Love ...............................................................................................38 Honest Objects of Love ...............................................................................................38 Charity composed of all three Kinds, Pleasant, Profitable, Honest .............................42 Charity composed of all three Kinds, Pleasant, Profitable, Honest .............................42 Heroical love causeth Melancholy. His Pedigree, Power, and Extent.........................49 Heroical love causeth Melancholy. His Pedigree, Power, and Extent.........................49 How Love tyranniseth over men. Love, or Heroical Melancholy, his definition, part affected.........................................................................................................................56 How Love tyranniseth over men. Love, or Heroical Melancholy, his definition, part affected.........................................................................................................................56 Causes of Heroical Love, Temperature, full Diet, Idleness, Place, Climate, &c.........63 Causes of Heroical Love, Temperature, full Diet, Idleness, Place, Climate, &c.........63 Other causes of Love-Melancholy, Sight, Being from the Face, Eyes, other parts, and how it pierceth..............................................................................................................68 Other causes of Love-Melancholy, Sight, Being from the Face, Eyes, other parts, and how it pierceth..............................................................................................................68 Artificial allurements of Love, Causes and Provocations to Lust; Gestures, Clothes, Dower, &c....................................................................................................................85 Artificial allurements of Love, Causes and Provocations to Lust; Gestures, Clothes, Dower, &c....................................................................................................................85 Importunity and Opportunity of Time, Place, Conference, Discourse, Singing, Dancing, Music, Amorous Tales, Objects, Kissing, Familiarity, Tokens, Presents, Bribes, Promises, Protestations, Tears, &c. .................................................................96 Importunity and Opportunity of Time, Place, Conference, Discourse, Singing, Dancing, Music, Amorous Tales, Objects, Kissing, Familiarity, Tokens, Presents, Bribes, Promises, Protestations, Tears, &c. .................................................................96 Bawds, Philters, Causes .............................................................................................114 Bawds, Philters, Causes .............................................................................................114 Symptoms or signs of Love Melancholy, in Body, Mind, good, bad, &c. ................119 Symptoms or signs of Love Melancholy, in Body, Mind, good, bad, &c. ................119 Prognostics of Love-Melancholy...............................................................................158 Prognostics of Love-Melancholy...............................................................................158 Cure of Love-Melancholy, by Labour, Diet, Physic, Fasting, &c. ............................162 Cure of Love-Melancholy, by Labour, Diet, Physic, Fasting, &c. ............................162 Withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, change his place: fair and foul means, contrary passions, with witty inventions: to bring in another, and discommend the former.........................................................................................................................167 Withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, change his place: fair and foul means, contrary passions, with witty inventions: to bring in another, and discommend the former.........................................................................................................................167 By counsel and persuasion, foulness of the fact, men's, women's faults, miseries of marriage, events of lust, &c. ......................................................................................174 -2- THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY Philters, Magical and Pœtical Cures ..........................................................................190 Philters, Magical and Pœtical Cures ..........................................................................190 The last and best Cure of Love-Melancholy, is to let them have their Desire...........192 Jealousy, its Equivocations, Name, Definition, Extent, several kinds; of Princes, Parents, Friends. In Beasts, Men: before marriage, as Co-rivals; or after, as in this place ...........................................................................................................................213 Jealousy, its Equivocations, Name, Definition, Extent, several kinds; of Princes, Parents, Friends. In Beasts, Men: before marriage, as Co-rivals; or after, as in this place ...........................................................................................................................213 Causes of Jealousy. Who are most apt. Idleness, melancholy, impotency, long absence, beauty, wantonness, naught themselves. Allurements, from time, place, persons, bad usage, causes .........................................................................................218 Causes of Jealousy. Who are most apt. Idleness, melancholy, impotency, long absence, beauty, wantonness, naught themselves. Allurements, from time, place, persons, bad usage, causes .........................................................................................218 Symptoms of Jealousy, Fear, Sorrow, Suspicion, strange Actions, Gestures, Outrages, Locking up, Oaths, Trials, Laws, &c. ........................................................................230 Symptoms of Jealousy, Fear, Sorrow, Suspicion, strange Actions, Gestures, Outrages, Locking up, Oaths, Trials, Laws, &c. ........................................................................230 Prognostics of Jealousy. Despair, Madness, to make away themselves and others...235 Prognostics of Jealousy. Despair, Madness, to make away themselves and others...235 Cure of Jealousy; by avoiding occasions, not to be idle: of good counsel; to contemn it, not to watch or lock them up: to dissemble it, &c. ................................................237 By prevention before, or after Marriage, Plato's Community, marry a Courtesan, Philters, Stews, to marry one equal in years, fortunes, of a good family, education, good place, to use them well, &c...............................................................................244 By prevention before, or after Marriage, Plato's Community, marry a Courtesan, Philters, Stews, to marry one equal in years, fortunes, of a good family, education, good place, to use them well, &c...............................................................................244 Religious Melancholy. Its object God; what his beauty is; How it allures. The parts and parties affected ....................................................................................................254 Religious Melancholy. Its object God; what his beauty is; How it allures. The parts and parties affected ....................................................................................................254 Symptoms general, love to their own sect, hate of all other religions, obstinacy, peevishness, ready to undergo any danger or cross for it; Martyrs, blind zeal, blind obedience, fastings, vows, belief of incredibilities, impossibilities: Particular of Gentiles, Mahometans, Jews, Christians; and in them, heretics old, and new, schismatics, schoolmen, prophets, enthusiasts, &c....................................................276 Prognostics of Religious Melancholy ........................................................................293 Prognostics of Religious Melancholy ........................................................................293 Cure of Religious Melancholy...................................................................................295 Cure of Religious Melancholy...................................................................................295 Religious Melancholy in defect; parties affected, Epicures, Atheists,