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English Introduction · Branch 1216 of 1495
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Source Record
p. 1216Scan 438; printed 330; sequence 338; image block91-source-438.png. Complete body and all eight margins: asterisk Chrysostom, dagger Chytraeus meal poem, t Cardano, dagger Martial, u Augustine, x Augustine, y Horace, dagger Horace Epistles 1. Final Latin angulus verse is followed by its English gloss on 439; catchword O that excluded. Enlarged Martial margin confirms read it cut thy self; retained with explanation.
Scan 439; printed 331; sequence 339; image block91-source-439.png. Body from O that through for thou art not poor indeed but in opinion. All six margins on this page belong to 091: z full Cardano 8.40, dagger Plutarch, asterisk Censorinus, asterisk Stobaeus, asterisk Chrysostom, a Seneca. Following paragraph Yea, but this is very good counsell begins 092 and is excluded. Footer Tt3 and catchword that excluded.
Opening words: What they are now, thou mayst shortly be;
Closing words: for thou art not poor indeed but in opinion.
Passages DJR-092-01 to DJR-092-60
Source page labels: 331–336 (sequence 339–344). Scan pages: 439, 440, 441, 442, 443, 444.
Scan 439; printed 331; sequence 339; image block91-source-439.png. Body begins Yea, but this is very good counsell, immediately after the end of 091. All six margins on this page belong to 091 and are excluded. Continue the objection from actual deprivation through According to; catchword that excluded, while actual body that of Thales begins 440. Signature Tt3 excluded.
Scan 440; printed 332; sequence 340; image block91-source-440.png. Complete body and all eight marginal containers: asterisk Vopiscus, b Seneca rich, dagger Bernard, asterisk Nemo paupertatem, dagger Petronius, asterisk Ovid, dagger Ovid, asterisk Plutarch Crassus. Last body devil joins himself on 441; catchword him- excluded. The contradiction declame against fasting versus laudat jejunia is retained and explained.
Scan 441; printed 333; sequence 341; image block92-source-441.png. Complete body and all ten margins: asterisk Lucan, dagger Job, asterisk Hæc videntes, asterisk 1 Samuel, c James, d Afflictio compound, e Quam sordet, asterisk Seneca Providence, dagger Homer, dagger Chrysostom Hom. 9. Body so can joins he thee on 442; catchword he excluded.
Scan 442; printed 334; sequence 342; image block92-source-442.png. Complete body and all twelve marginal containers: f Psalm 113, g Micah, h Lipsius/Pindar, i Augustine and constancy exempla compound, dagger Horace, dagger Chrysostom Hom. 5, dagger Leonides, asterisk Modo in pressura, k Virgil, l Seneca, m Nemo desperet, dagger Theocritus. Poorly printed Greek checked in a high-resolution crop; reading is expressly provisional. Leonides attachment is uncertain and recorded at the next marked dagger without silently moving it. French couplet ends the body; catchword hope excluded.
Scan 443; printed 335; sequence 343; image block92-source-443.png. Complete body and all nine margins: asterisk Ovid (actually Horace), dagger Ovid, n Thales, o Machiavelli, p Camden, q Seneca, r Seneca compound, dagger Horace, s Zeno. Last body de- joins fiance on 444; catchword fiance and signature Vu excluded.
Scan 444; printed 336; sequence 344; image block92-source-444.png. Body from fiance through (Hor. Od. 11. lib. 2.). First three marginal containers belong to 092: dagger Sallust Cotta, asterisk Seneca superlunar image, t Valerius compound. Following paragraph Hope and Patience are two soveraigne remedies for all begins 093 and is excluded. Remaining margins beginning u Hor. belong to 093. Whole page read for boundary context.
Opening words: Yea, but this is very good counsell,
Closing words: (Hor. Od. 11. lib. 2.)
Passages DJR-093-01 to DJR-093-46
Source page labels: 336–339, 327 [misprint for 340] (sequence 344–348). Scan pages: 444, 445, 446, 447, 448.
Scan 444; printed 336; sequence 344; image block92-source-444.png. Body begins Hope and Patience are two soveraigne remedies for all, immediately after 092 ends (Hor. Od. 11. lib. 2.). Preceding body and first three margins belong to 092. All eight remaining margins belong to 093: u Hor., x Aequam, dagger Epictetus, y Terence, asterisk two handles, z Terence, asterisk Epictetus feast, a Theodoret. The Theodoret margin runs across the footer and is read in an enlarged crop. Last body his joins gifts on 445; catchword gifts excluded.
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Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.About This Reading Edition
Robert Burton’s Anatomy ranges across medicine, philosophy, poetry, religion, and everyday life in its inquiry into melancholy. This complete parallel edition pairs the 1651 English text with a close modern English rendering, preserving the three Partitions, Democritus Junior’s address to the reader, verse, and the historical index.
Historical Text and Translation
The historical text follows the sixth edition, printed at Oxford for Henry Cripps in 1651, using the McGill University Library copy. The supplied edition documents missing printed pages 98–99 supplied from another 1651 copy at the Bavarian State Library. Historical folio labels and their irregularities remain visible; web reader numbers identify reflowed passages and do not claim to reproduce PDF pagination.
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