The Anatomy of Melancholy

In this edition. “intended or remitted in particular men” → “its severity generally varies from person to person” (DJR-022-18); “intended or remitted” → “heightened or relaxed” (DJR-039-34); “intended or remitted” → “intensified or diminished” (DJR-062-30); “intention proceeds from perturbations” → “tension proceeds from disturbances” (DJR-064-11); “intentive operations” → “operations requiring concentration” (DJR-064-11); “most secure, gentle, and remiss” → “safest, mildest and least severe” (DJR-065-06); “to intend hearing” → “to strengthen hearing” (DJR-082-05); “do not intend her more then the rest” → “pay her no more attention than the rest” (DJR-135-05); “are intended and remitted” → “intensify or lessen” (DJR-165-46). The varied equivalents preserve changes of degree and direction of attention. They avoid reading modern purpose into every occurrence of intention or intend.

See also. Remedy by diversion; Confer and conference; Waking.

Issue

Source forms: issue; issues

The word. Issue can mean a discharge or an outlet through which it escapes. In historical surgery it is an artificially made sore kept open to discharge. In the religious consolation it means a way out or deliverance.

In Burton. The discussion of bodily retention warns against stopping an accustomed discharge. The surgical synopsis and treatment section describe intentionally maintained openings. The later promise of an issue to temptation uses the broader sense of escape from a trial, with no surgical implication.

The places. Issue names an accustomed bodily discharge. (p. 79; DJR-036-10.) The surgical synopsis lists deliberately made open sores. (scan p. 325; DJR-067-20.) Issues are to be kept open. (p. 383; DJR-103-10.) An issue to temptation is promised. (p. 720; DJR-168-50.)

In this edition. “such an issue” → “such a discharge” (DJR-036-10); “Issues to severall parts, and upon severall occasions” → “Open sores made in different parts for different purposes” (DJR-067-20); “Issues” → “Issues” (DJR-103-10); “give an issue to temptation” → “provide a way out of the trial” (DJR-168-50). Discharge and open sores clarify the bodily senses; the retained surgical term is locally explained. Way out gives the distinct force of the scriptural promise.

See also. Chirurgery; Strangury; Voluntary.

Jealousy

Source forms: Jealousie

The word. Jealousy is defined here as suspicion that the beloved may love someone else, or a desire to possess that person exclusively. Fear of another person’s participation in the relationship is central to the definition.

In Burton. Burton treats jealousy separately as an irregular offshoot of love melancholy, commonly following marriage as heroic love precedes it. His symptom account piles up images of fire, bitterness and lost peace. Riches and distinguished family connections cannot compensate for the disturbance he describes.

The places. Jealousy is assigned its separate place after love melancholy. (p. 591; DJR-144-07.) The symptoms are described through bitterness and loss of peace. (p. 608; DJR-147-04.) The definition joins suspicion, exclusive desire and fear. (p. 591; DJR-144-09.)

In this edition. “a bastard-branch or kinde of Love Melancholy” → “an illegitimate offshoot or kind of love melancholy” (DJR-144-07); “a pernicious curiosity” → “a destructive inquisitiveness” (DJR-147-04); “Jealousie” → “Jealousy” (DJR-144-09). Jealousy remains the familiar name. Destructive inquisitiveness makes the harmful prying explicit, while the offshoot metaphor preserves the structure of Burton’s classification.

See also. Love; Emulation; Epichairekakia; Fear; Corrosive; Wittal and cuckold.

Jovial and martial

Source forms: Jovial; Martial

The word. Jovial and martial here mean belonging to Jupiter and Mars. They classify spirits by planetary association, rather than describing cheerful or warlike temperaments.