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English Introduction · Branch 1237 of 1495
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Source Record
p. 1237Scan 632; printed 524; sequence 532; image block130-source-632.png. Complete body and both margins e and dagger Plutarch. Preserve Pears, sprucely and Troilus on his Cresseid. Latin hunting and travel lines translated; Phaedra Ovid quotation differs from consulted Heroides.
Scan 633; printed 525; sequence 533; image block130-source-633.png. Complete body and all eight margins, including extended c at page foot. Restore printed she in Galeatus sentence; retain aprone and submisse. Preserve the Xenophon male beloved and record Burton’s rearrangement of Critobulus’s boast.
Scan 634; printed 526; sequence 534; image block130-source-634.png. Complete body and all nine margins. Preserve Latin and separate Burton English verses. Retain paratus and Te tunc jubere in altered Seneca quotation. Explain changed gender and circumstances in Amores and the source context of the adapted Medea lines.
Scan 635; printed 527; sequence 535; image block130-source-635.png. Complete body and all nine margins. Preserve Burton’s abridged Chaucer, Harington and Spenser verse. Enlarged crop confirms riveld wreak; marginal Faerie Queene locator repeats canto 3 book 4. Modern rendering follows the evident sense while noting the difficult reading.
Scan 636; printed 528; sequence 536; image block130-source-636.png. Opening body through and drink he will where she drank, if it be possible, in that very place, &c. Include first eight margins s, t, dagger Lucretius, m, n, o, p, q. Preserve elliptical love and admire a servant and explain interpretation. Block 131 begins If absent; next margin r Buchanan. Sylva.
Opening words: They are commonly slaves, captives, voluntary servants, Amator amicæ mancipium, as Castilio terms him
Closing words: and drink he will where she drank, if it be possible, in that very place, &c.
Passages DJR-131-01 to DJR-131-67
Source page labels: 528–534 (sequence 536–542). Scan pages: 636, 637, 638, 639, 640, 641, 642.
Scan 636; printed 528; sequence 536; image block131-source-636.png. Begin If absent immediately after 130. Remaining body and last marginal entry r Buchanan. Sylva. Preserve quotes; Latin door and wind verses translated.
Scan 637; printed 529; sequence 537; image block131-source-637.png. Complete body and all eight margins. Preserve o/p order by body anchor. Translate Anacreontic Latin across page boundary; retain teipsum and marginal evanescis with explanation.
Scan 638; printed 530; sequence 538; image block131-source-638.png. Complete body and all eight margins including unmarked Holyday credit. Enlarged crop confirms fructu sponsi. Preserve Xenophon/Lucian anchor positions. Latin and independent English versions remain separate.
Scan 639; printed 531; sequence 539; image block131-source-639.png. Complete body and all five margins. Preserve get privileg’d, obii, gender shifts, future erit, and the Latin quatrain attributed to Petrarch. Record altered classical contexts.
Scan 640; printed 532; sequence 540; image block131-source-640.png. Complete body and all nine margins. Love’s beneficial transformations and courage. Enlarged crop confirms each other slew in altered Spenser. Record source comparison and contextual rendering.
Scan 641; printed 533; sequence 541; image block131-source-641.png. Complete body and all ten margins. Retain adjacent Hyginus and Aratus margins in printed order. Explain Nemesis/Leda difference and sleeping woman, and the dog/hare conflation. Begin Cymon story.
Scan 642; printed 534; sequence 542; image block131-source-642.png. Opening three lines through and all for the love of Mistress Iphigenia. No margins belong to 131. Next begins In a word, I may say thus much of them all, let them be never so clownish; first margin dagger Plautus Casina act 2 scene 4.
Opening words: If absent, he will walk in the walk, sit under that tree where she did use to sit
Closing words: and all for the love of Mistress Iphigenia.
Passages DJR-132-01 to DJR-132-53
Source page labels: 534–539 (sequence 542–547). Scan pages: 642, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647.
Scan 642; printed 534; sequence 542; image block132-source-642.png. Begin In a word immediately after Cymon and Iphigenia. All remaining body and six margins. Translate Latin and retain separate English versions. h Plautus anchor inferred from adjacent elegance quotation.
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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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Burton’s historical text is in the public domain. The modern English rendering, introduction, notes, and editorial matter are © 2026 Diotimos Editions and appear with the site owner’s permission. The complete supplied PDF, EPUB, Word, and Markdown files remain available unchanged. The PDF and Word edition preserve the original parallel page layout.
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