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English Introduction · Branch 1234 of 1495
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Source Record
p. 1234Scan 602; printed 494; sequence 502; image block125-source-602.png. Begin If these allurements do not take place after the Block 124 endpoint. Include seven remaining margins: asterisk Camden, dagger Ovid, asterisk Erasmus, asterisk Virgil, dagger Lecheus, a Lucian and b dowry. Earlier body and first six margins belong to 124.
Scan 603; printed 495; sequence 503; image block125-source-603.png. Complete body and six margins. Jupiter and Juno; age and wealth deception; Jonson verse. Preserve cernere, operosa and the printed thirty-two next December; explain checked differences.
Scan 604; printed 496; sequence 504; image block125-source-604.png. Complete body and eleven margins. Catullus Latin and Burton English triplets kept separately, oaths and gifts, three Lucretia suitors, Chaucer and Pontano. All foreign-language material translated.
Scan 605; printed 497; sequence 505; image block125-source-605.png. Complete body and eight margins. Pontano English quatrain, tears, Castiglione, Celestina, Apuleius, Seneca and Lucian. The printed Pythius retained; dialogue’s Lysias and Pythias identified in note.
Scan 606; printed 498; sequence 506; image block125-source-606.png. Complete body, subsection heading and nine independent marginal entries. Preserve printed turgeri, with transparent modern interpretation tergeri. Marginal d has no clear body anchor and is attached to the tears passage. Unmarked Tritemius is a separate citation from Plautus. New Subsection 5 starts on its own body page.
Scan 607; printed 499; sequence 507; image block125-source-607.png. Complete body and seven margins. Philippa, Myrrha, Celestina, Aelred misattributed to Augustine, Petronius and Plautus, Maserius. Include the entire Maserius continuation across the page foot.
Scan 608; printed 500; sequence 508; image block125-source-608.png. Opening body through But I spare these men for the present and all eight marginal entries. The next paragraph, The last battering engins, belongs to 126 and has no additional marginal note on this page.
Opening words: If these allurements do not take place, for Simierus, that great master of dalliance shall not behave himself better, the more effectually to move others, and satisfie their lust, they will swear and lye, promise, protest, forge, counterfeit, brag, bribe, flatter and dissemble of all sides.
Closing words: Howsoever in publike they pretend much zeal, seem to be very holy men, and bitterly preach against adultery, fornication, there are no verier Bawds or whoremasters in a country, Whose soul they should gain to God, they sacrifice to the Divel. But I spare these men for the present.
Passages DJR-126-01 to DJR-126-58
Source page labels: 500–506 (sequence 508–514). Scan pages: 608, 609, 610, 611, 612, 613, 614.
Scan 608; printed 500; sequence 508; image block126-source-608.png. Begin The last battering engins immediately after the Block 125 endpoint. Include the remaining body and continue its sentence onto PDF 609. All eight margins on PDF 608 belong to 125.
Scan 609; printed 501; sequence 509; image block126-source-609.png. Complete body and eight independently anchored marginal entries. Separate the Aix place-name gloss from the following unmarked Temple gloss. Retain the isolated I. in the Barth quotation as an unresolved printed reading.
Scan 610; printed 502; sequence 510; image block126-source-610.png. Complete body and eight margins, including the parenthesis-like mark on the mandrake note. Translate all magical and botanical terminology with explicitly recorded uncertainties. Preserve the Aachen verse as six lines.
Scan 611; printed 503; sequence 511; image block126-source-611.png. Complete body, Member 4/Subsection 1 heading and nine margins. Preserve the printed zeriscæ in the Pratensis margin; interpret in context with a note. The modern Avicenna title is On Love. Keep the Seneca extracts and their introductions together.
Scan 612; printed 504; sequence 512; image block126-source-612.png. Complete body and six independent marginal entries, including the unmarked Chaucer citation. Preserve separate Latin and Burton English versions of Theocritus and Virgil. Retain the printed amorem in Virgil and explain its divergence from noctem.
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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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Diotimos Editions prepared the close modern English rendering and editorial matter. All 8,755 original and modern passage pairs remain aligned, with verse breaks, italics, continuations, and linked annotations preserved. Burton’s 6,781 historical notes retain their attribution; 6,895 editorial notes remain distinct. The introduction, Note on the Text, contextual lexicon, indexes, source documentation, and bibliography are included. The engraved frontispiece remains available in the original downloads.
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