The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton V.3
THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY
BY
Thomas Burton ("Democritus junior")
PART 3
LOVE-MELANCHOLY AND RELIGIOUS MELANCHOLY
THE THIRD PARTITION
THE SYNOPSIS OF THE THIRD PARTITION
Love and love melancholy, Memb. 1 Sect. 1.
* Preface or Introduction. Subsect. 1.
* Love's definition, pedigree, object, fair, amiable, gracious,
and pleasant, from which comes beauty, grace, which all
desire and love, parts affected.
* Division or kinds, Subs. 2.
* Natural, in things without life, as love and hatred of
elements; and with life, as vegetable, vine and elm,
sympathy, antipathy, &c.
* Sensible, as of beasts, for pleasure, preservation of
kind, mutual agreement, custom, bringing up together, &c.
* or Rational
* Simple, which hath three objects as M. 2.
* Profitable, Subs. 1.
* Health, wealth, honour, we love our benefactors:
nothing so amiable as profit, or that which hath
a show of commodity.
* Pleasant, Subs. 2.
* Things without life, made by art, pictures,
sports, games, sensible objects, as hawks,
hounds, horses; Or men themselves for similitude
of manners, natural affection, as to friends,
children, kinsmen, &c., for glory such as
commend us.
* Of women, as
* Before marriage, as Heroical Mel. Sect. 2.
vide A.
* Or after marriage, as Jealousy, Sect. 3. vide B.
* Honest, Subs. 3.
* Fucate in show, by some error or hypocrisy; some
seem and are not; or truly for virtue, honesty,
good parts, learning, eloquence, &c.
* or Mixed of all three, which extends to M. 3.
* Common good, our neighbour, country, friends, which
is charity; the defect of which is cause of much
discontent and melancholy.
* or God, Sect. 4.
* In excess, vide C.
* In defect, vide D.
A. Heroical or Love-Melancholy, in which consider,
* Memb. 1. His pedigree, power, extent to vegetables and
sensible creatures, as well as men, to spirits, devils, &c.
* His name, definition, object, part affected, tyranny. [Subs. 2.]
* Causes, Memb. 2.
* Stars, temperature, full diet, place, country, clime,
condition, idleness, S. 1.
* Natural allurements, and causes of love, as beauty, its
praise, how it allureth.
* Comeliness, grace, resulting from the whole or some parts,
as face, eyes, hair, hands, &c. Subs. 2.
* Artificial allurements, and provocations of lust and love,
gestures, apparel, dowry, money, &c.
* Quest. Whether beauty owe more to Art or Nature? Subs. 3.
* Opportunity of time and place, conference, discourse,
music, singing, dancing, amorous tales, lascivious
objects, familiarity, gifts, promises, &c. Subs. 4.
* Bawds and Philters, Subs. 5.
* Symptoms or signs, Memb. 3.
* Of body
* Dryness, paleness, leanness, waking, sighing, &c.
* Quest. An detur pulsus amatorius?
* or Of mind.
* Bad, as
* Fear, sorrow, suspicion, anxiety, &c.
* A hell, torment, fire, blindness, &c.
* Dotage, slavery, neglect of business.
* or Good, as
* Spruceness, neatness, courage, aptness to learn
music, singing, dancing, poetry, &c.
* Prognostics; despair, madness, frenzy, death, Memb. 4.
* Cures, Memb. 5.
* By labour, diet, physic, abstinence, Subs. 1.
* To withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, fair and
foul means, change of place, contrary passion, witty
inventions, discommend the former, bring in another, Subs. 2.
* By good counsel, persuasion, from future miseries,
inconveniences, &c. S. 3.
* By philters, magical, and poetical cures, Subs. 4.
* To let them have their desire disputed pro and con. Impediments removed, reasons for it. Subs. 5.
B. Jealousy, Sect. 3.
* His name, definition, extent, power, tyranny, Memb. 1.
* Division, Equivocations, kinds, Subs. 1.
* Improper
* To many beasts; as swans, cocks, bulls.
BY
Thomas Burton ("Democritus junior")
PART 3
LOVE-MELANCHOLY AND RELIGIOUS MELANCHOLY
THE THIRD PARTITION
THE SYNOPSIS OF THE THIRD PARTITION
Love and love melancholy, Memb. 1 Sect. 1.
* Preface or Introduction. Subsect. 1.
* Love's definition, pedigree, object, fair, amiable, gracious,
and pleasant, from which comes beauty, grace, which all
desire and love, parts affected.
* Division or kinds, Subs. 2.
* Natural, in things without life, as love and hatred of
elements; and with life, as vegetable, vine and elm,
sympathy, antipathy, &c.
* Sensible, as of beasts, for pleasure, preservation of
kind, mutual agreement, custom, bringing up together, &c.
* or Rational
* Simple, which hath three objects as M. 2.
* Profitable, Subs. 1.
* Health, wealth, honour, we love our benefactors:
nothing so amiable as profit, or that which hath
a show of commodity.
* Pleasant, Subs. 2.
* Things without life, made by art, pictures,
sports, games, sensible objects, as hawks,
hounds, horses; Or men themselves for similitude
of manners, natural affection, as to friends,
children, kinsmen, &c., for glory such as
commend us.
* Of women, as
* Before marriage, as Heroical Mel. Sect. 2.
vide A.
* Or after marriage, as Jealousy, Sect. 3. vide B.
* Honest, Subs. 3.
* Fucate in show, by some error or hypocrisy; some
seem and are not; or truly for virtue, honesty,
good parts, learning, eloquence, &c.
* or Mixed of all three, which extends to M. 3.
* Common good, our neighbour, country, friends, which
is charity; the defect of which is cause of much
discontent and melancholy.
* or God, Sect. 4.
* In excess, vide C.
* In defect, vide D.
A. Heroical or Love-Melancholy, in which consider,
* Memb. 1. His pedigree, power, extent to vegetables and
sensible creatures, as well as men, to spirits, devils, &c.
* His name, definition, object, part affected, tyranny. [Subs. 2.]
* Causes, Memb. 2.
* Stars, temperature, full diet, place, country, clime,
condition, idleness, S. 1.
* Natural allurements, and causes of love, as beauty, its
praise, how it allureth.
* Comeliness, grace, resulting from the whole or some parts,
as face, eyes, hair, hands, &c. Subs. 2.
* Artificial allurements, and provocations of lust and love,
gestures, apparel, dowry, money, &c.
* Quest. Whether beauty owe more to Art or Nature? Subs. 3.
* Opportunity of time and place, conference, discourse,
music, singing, dancing, amorous tales, lascivious
objects, familiarity, gifts, promises, &c. Subs. 4.
* Bawds and Philters, Subs. 5.
* Symptoms or signs, Memb. 3.
* Of body
* Dryness, paleness, leanness, waking, sighing, &c.
* Quest. An detur pulsus amatorius?
* or Of mind.
* Bad, as
* Fear, sorrow, suspicion, anxiety, &c.
* A hell, torment, fire, blindness, &c.
* Dotage, slavery, neglect of business.
* or Good, as
* Spruceness, neatness, courage, aptness to learn
music, singing, dancing, poetry, &c.
* Prognostics; despair, madness, frenzy, death, Memb. 4.
* Cures, Memb. 5.
* By labour, diet, physic, abstinence, Subs. 1.
* To withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, fair and
foul means, change of place, contrary passion, witty
inventions, discommend the former, bring in another, Subs. 2.
* By good counsel, persuasion, from future miseries,
inconveniences, &c. S. 3.
* By philters, magical, and poetical cures, Subs. 4.
* To let them have their desire disputed pro and con. Impediments removed, reasons for it. Subs. 5.
B. Jealousy, Sect. 3.
* His name, definition, extent, power, tyranny, Memb. 1.
* Division, Equivocations, kinds, Subs. 1.
* Improper
* To many beasts; as swans, cocks, bulls.
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