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The places. Fear concerns a future evil within the classification of affections. (p. 25; DJR-025-28.)
In this edition. “or future, as Fear” → “Or they concern some future evil, as fear does” (DJR-025-28). The modern sentence supplies the repeated subject and object needed to make Burton’s compressed contrast clear. It preserves the opposition between present sorrow and anticipated fear.
See also. Passion; Jealousy; Shame.
Feral
The word. Feral can mean savage or brutal; ferall can also mean deadly or fatal. The spelling alone does not decide between these senses.
In Burton. The comparison with Hercules describes vices as savage monsters of the mind, to be fought by moral reform. In the account of persistent melancholy, a ferall plague is a deadly affliction that follows the sufferer everywhere, like an arrow lodged in a wounded deer.
The places. Feral describes the vices opposed by Crates. (p. 59; DJR-015-28.) Ferall describes an inescapable affliction. (p. 184; DJR-059-06.)
In this edition. “feral vices” → “savage vices” (DJR-015-28); “ferall plague” → “deadly affliction” (DJR-059-06). Savage preserves the monstrous moral imagery; deadly gives the second passage its fatal force. Plague there names an affliction rather than establishing a specific infectious disease.
See also. Calenture and ague; Desperate.
Flux and lask
The word. Flux names a flow or discharge; in the cited illness account, fluxes are bowel discharges, commonly diarrhoea or dysentery. A lask is diarrhoea or looseness of the bowels.
In Burton. Travellers’ fluxes appear beside burning fevers in the warning about unfamiliar foods. The minister’s sudden lask forces an embarrassing retreat; Burton uses the reported incident to illustrate the power of shame. The bodily event and the emotional consequence occupy different roles in the story.
The places. Fluxes afflict travellers in the account of unfamiliar diets. (p. 77; DJR-035-52.) A sudden lask begins the minister’s story of shame. (p. 99–100 [supplied; scan p. 200]; DJR-040-34.)
In this edition. “Calentures, Fluxes” → “burning fevers and diarrhoea” (DJR-035-52); “suddenly taken with a lask or looseness” → “suddenly seized with diarrhoea” (DJR-040-34). Diarrhoea makes the bowel sense explicit in both passages. It does not carry over every possible meaning of flux into these contexts.
See also. Purging.
Fond
The word. Fond here means foolish or deluded. It does not express affection, attachment or liking.
In Burton. Burton begins with people laughing at an old man described as a little fond, then extends the charge of folly to the whole town and eventually to everyone. The passage turns a familiar insult about age into a universal accusation; its argument depends on that widening movement.
The places. The old man’s supposed foolishness becomes an example of general folly. (p. 22; DJR-008-02.)
In this edition. “by reason of his age was a little fond” → “whose age had made him a little foolish” (DJR-008-02). Foolish gives the immediate sense. The successive quotations and English restatements remain, allowing the expansion from one person to everyone to be followed.
See also. Conceit.
Form
The word. Form has several unrelated contextual uses here: a hare’s shallow resting place, a bench, and the philosophical form that gives determination or fulfilment to matter. A hare’s form is not a burrow.
In Burton. The fearful hare supplies a reported emblem of melancholy. A woman falling from a form begins an anecdote about uncontrollable laughter. In praise of marriage, the Latin comparison of matter desiring form applies Aristotelian language to the relation between woman and man. The shared spelling must not collapse these different objects and concepts.
The places. A hare sits in its resting place. (p. 188–190; DJR-059-49.) A woman falls from a bench. (p. 192; DJR-060-21.) Matter and form provide a comparison for marriage. (p. 443; DJR-115-06.)
In this edition. “an Hare sitting in her form” → “a hare sitting in its form” (DJR-059-49); “fall off from a form” → “fall off a bench” (DJR-060-21); “ut materia appetit formam” → “As matter desires form” (DJR-115-06). Form is retained for the animal’s named resting place and for the philosophical concept, with explanation. Bench removes ambiguity in the anecdote.
See also. Matter.
Friction and embrocation
Source forms: frictions; embrocations
The word. Frictions are rubbings of the body. Embrocations are applications of liquid remedies. Both name physical procedures in the historical bathing regimen.
In Burton. The first recommendation follows bathing with rubbing all over the body. The next joins baths to head washes, anointing and applications of liquid preparations. These are successive kinds of bodily treatment; the vocabulary should not reduce them all to bathing or confuse the application of a remedy with swallowing it.
The places. Frictions follow the prescribed baths. (p. 238; DJR-071-35.) Embrocations accompany anointing and head washes. (p. 238; DJR-071-36.)
In this edition. “frictions all over the body” → “rubbing all over the body” (DJR-071-35); “embrocations” → “applications of liquid remedies” (DJR-071-36). The English phrases identify the actions directly while preserving the order in which the sources recommend them.
See also. Chirurgery.
Fulsome
Source forms: fulsome; fulsomeness
The word. Fulsome can mean foul, offensive or disgusting. Fulsomeness names the corresponding offensiveness or foulness. These senses do not imply abundance or lavish praise.
In Burton. The reported vomiting case describes fulsome stuffe, emphasizing the repulsiveness of the expelled matter. The discussion of public baths speaks of the fulsomeness of sweat and suggests washing it away. The second account marks its explanation as conjectural through belike.
The places. Fulsome describes the matter in a reported vomiting case. (p. 53–54; DJR-031-25.) Fulsomeness describes offensive sweat in the discussion of baths. (p. 238; DJR-071-39.)
In this edition. “fulsome stuffe” → “foul matter” (DJR-031-25); “that fulsomeness of sweat” → “the offensive sweat” (DJR-071-39). Foul and offensive make the unfavourable sensory meaning clear. Presumably elsewhere in the bath sentence retains the qualification of Burton’s proposed explanation.
Fustian and bombast
Source forms: bumbast; fustian
The word. Bombast, printed bumbast, evokes stuffing or padding and can describe inflated pretension. Fustian here names grandiose, empty language. The terms connect verbal display with exaggerated social importance.
In Burton. Competitive households spend beyond their means to win bumbast titles. The attack on patrons who profit from church property turns padding into a verb: they bumbast themselves. The supposedly accomplished gentleman talks big fustian, one more showy qualification offered in place of governing ability.
The places. Bumbast titles reward ruinous competition. (p. 102–103; DJR-041-17.) Church spoils are said to pad out patrons’ greatness. (p. 137; DJR-048-23.) Fustian forms part of the gentleman’s empty display. (p. 315–316; DJR-088-33.)