The Anatomy of Melancholy

The places. Rivalry occurs among familiar companions. (p. 102; DJR-041-16.) A woman quarrels with a female friend. (p. 169–170; DJR-056-10.)

In this edition. “amongst Gossips” → “among familiar companions” (DJR-041-16); “one of her Gossips” → “one of her female friends” (DJR-056-10). Companions and female friends preserve the social sense. The public reproach is narrated separately rather than built into the meaning of gossip.

See also. Conversation; Familiar; Jealousy.

Grace

Source forms: grace

The word. Grace in the religious discussion concerns God’s mercy and help in salvation. Burton distinguishes its presence from a person’s immediate feeling of it, and contrasts it with reliance on unaided natural powers.

In Burton. The consolation argues that the longing to repent may be accepted by God even when the sufferer feels deficient. Burton then calls grief over the lack of grace itself grace. Later, he surveys disputed accounts of universal grace and attacks a position he attributes to the author called Caelius. These passages combine pastoral reassurance with contested theological description.

The places. A lack of felt signs is answered with patience. (p. 709; DJR-167-05.) The desire to repent is distinguished from repentance in its nature. (p. 710; DJR-167-09.) Grief over a lack of grace is itself called grace. (p. 710; DJR-167-13.) Universal grace appears in a survey of disputed teachings. (p. 715; DJR-168-02.) Unaided natural powers are contrasted with grace. (p. 715; DJR-168-09.)

In this edition. “Gods Grace” → “God’s grace” (DJR-167-09); “to feel in our selves the want of grace” → “to feel the lack of grace within ourselves” (DJR-167-13); “grace is common to all that will beleeve” → “grace is available to all who will believe” (DJR-168-02); “ex puris naturalibus” → “by their unaided natural powers” (DJR-168-09). Grace is retained. The distinction between repentance in its nature and in God’s acceptance remains explicit; removing it would turn a qualified reassurance into a simple identity.

See also. Despair.

Green sickness

Source forms: green sickness

The word. Green sickness is the historical diagnosis also called chlorosis. Burton associates it here with young women who grow weak and thin. The name belongs to the older account of nourishment and blood-making, and is retained as a historical term.

In Burton. In the account of love’s bodily effects, the liver is said to fail to turn food into blood because the spirits are distracted. Burton sets green sickness in young women beside cachexia, a poor bodily condition, in men. His garden plants withering for lack of rain make the supposed failure of nourishment visible.

The places. Green sickness follows the account of wasting and insufficient nourishment. (p. 503; DJR-126-30.)

In this edition. “green sickness” → “green sickness” (DJR-126-30). The retained name is explained by the local note. Cachexia and poor bodily condition preserve the accompanying comparison without collapsing the two historical labels.

See also. Matrix and mother; Humoral qualities; Heroical love.

Habit and disposition

Source forms: habit; in disposition; disposition; ill habit; habit of Melancholy; habitual melancholy; habituated; intellectual habits

The word. Habit can mean an established condition, a bodily constitution, an acquired intellectual capacity, or outward dress and appearance. Disposition commonly names a less settled tendency or state. Habitual and habituated describe the establishment of a condition, rather than merely frequent behaviour.