The Anatomy of Melancholy

Scan 576; printed 468; sequence 476; image block120-source-576.png. Complete body and six margins i,k,dagger,l,m,n. Preserve Marrhusian and Lycias in the original, explain Myrrhinusian and Lysias in the modern text. Retain Burton’s reversal of the final Ficino comparison and the distinction between fairies and demons in the hermit story. Catchword Memb.2 omitted and its discrepancy with the following heading recorded.

Scan 577; printed 469; sequence 477; image block120-source-577.png. Complete body and three margins o,dagger,p. Preserve printed MEMB.3.SUBSECT.3 and annotate numbering. Martial Latin and Burton’s English verse remain separate. Léry’s argument compared with the French chapter8. Omit running head, signature and catchword.

Scan 578; printed 470; sequence 478; image block120-source-578.png. Complete body and nine margins q,r,s,dagger,dagger,t,u,x,dagger. Enlarged eye of the countenance clause confirms eye, not cyse. Modern text supplies the elliptical repeated sense, with an explicit note. Daniel quotation compared with1592 text. Omit catchword.

Scan 579; printed 471; sequence 479; image block120-source-579.png. Complete body and eight margins y,z,a,b,c,dagger,dagger,dagger. Ovid,Persius,Horace,Petronius and Mantuan parallels checked. Preserve Burton’s separate Latin and English renderings and prose glosses. Omit catchword.

Scan 580; printed 472; sequence 480; image block120-source-580.png. Complete body and ten margins d,e,dagger,asterisk,y,e,f,g,asterisk,dagger. Preserve repeated marginal e and Burton’s Ausonius variant. Enlarged bottom margin reads in ipsis complexibus. Keep the displaced Epist.7.lib.2 dagger before Antoninus while noting its likely backward reference. Caracalla paragraph continues581; omit catchword.

Scan 581; printed 473; sequence 481; image block120-source-581.png. Only opening continuation through unseemly,undecent carriage of it and marginal h Spartian. Historia Augusta anecdote retained but its fabricated marriage and stepmother relationship explained. Following When you have all done paragraph and all remaining margins, beginning asterisk Sidneys Arcadia, reserved for121.

Opening words: Now last of all, I will shew you by what means beauty doth fascinate, bewitch, as some hold, and work upon the soul of a man by the eye.

Closing words: unseemly, undecent carriage of it.

Passages DJR-121-01 to DJR-121-46

Source page labels: 473–478 (sequence 481–486). Scan pages: 581, 582, 583, 584, 585, 586.

Scan 581; printed 473; sequence 481; image block121-source-581.png. Begin When you have all done after120 ends unseemly,undecent carriage of it. Include remaining body and six margins:asterisk Sidney,i Bossus,dagger Matenesius,k Petronius,l Terence,asterisk Aretino. Top h Spartian belongs to120. Omit catchword; Philocharus paragraph continues582.

Scan 582; printed 474; sequence 482; image block121-source-582.png. Complete body and nine margins:dagger Aristaenetus,m Lucian,dagger Seneca,n Castiglione,dagger Ovid,o Bossus,dagger Scribanius,dagger Terence,asterisk Stroza. Enlarged anchors confirm m before Lucian,n before Because,dagger Ovid before Sanguine. Enlarged parvamque exortamque is retained and annotated against Juvenal. Defuit checked in Castiglione margin. Glycere Latin and English remain separate. Omit catchword.

Scan 583; printed 475; sequence 483; image block121-source-583.png. Complete body and six margins:p Ovid,dagger Daniel,q Philo,r Basil,s Homeric hymn,t Apollonius. Enlarged Basil marginal word transcribed tentatively as pornœium; uncertainty recorded. Separate original Latin and Burton English verses preserved. Apollonius introduction continues584; omit catchword.

Scan 584; printed 476; sequence 484; image block121-source-584.png. Complete body and eleven margins:asterisk Plutarch,u Plutarch,y Heliodorus,x Cardan,z Ruth,a Judith,b Juvenal,c Horace,d Suetonius,e Seneca,f Seneca. Source y before x retained. Altered and erroneous references recorded. Heliogabalus paragraph continues585; omit catchword.

Scan 585; printed 477; sequence 485; image block121-source-585.png. Complete body and seven margins:g Livy,h Bossus,i Bernard,k Cyprian/Clement,l Tertullian,m Bossus/Plautus,n Seneca. Bottom continuation of m and n directly read in enlarged crop. Printed Venus and Titus retained on the left with explanatory notes. Lucian gold maxim continues586; omit catchword.