Inseparable and individual

Use in the book

The inherited saints comparison makes the older sense of individual unmistakable. Sorrow accompanies melancholy as closely as Saints Cosmas and Damian, the paired physician saints; the faithful Achates supplies another image of attachment. Individual here does not mean separate or independent. Yet the claim must not be isolated from Burton’s discussion. Earlier he calls fear and sorrow companions of most melancholy, “not all”. When the symptoms section repeats an apparently universal aphorism, the next paragraph challenges it, enumerates exceptions and concludes that sufferers are usually rather than always sad and fearful. The ensuing description of sorrow also admits laughter and alternating moods. These are tensions and qualifications within historical categories, not a basis for a present-day diagnosis.

The companion figure carries different arguments elsewhere. In the opening attack on freedom from passion, sorrow is an unseparable companion of melancholy. In the causes section it is both mother and daughter, cause and symptom, of that condition, a reciprocal model elaborated around the cited aphorism. For scholars, melancholy is “almost in some measure” an inseparable companion: both limiting expressions matter. Poetry and beggary become inseparable twins in the neighboring mythic account of scholarly poverty. Lovers’ blindness is another figurative companion, an ordinary sign of infatuation and distorted judgment, not literal loss of sight.

Some uses instead assert connections within Burton’s account of natural faculties or bodily conditions. Appetite is inseparable from sensation because pleasure and pain accompany sensation. Natural melancholy is almost inseparable from old age, but a later Rhazes attribution calls it a necessary, inseparable condition. The stronger claim should remain attributed rather than silently replacing the earlier almost. The cold and moist brain is called an unseparable companion of impaired understanding in another historical physiological distinction; the Latin margin mentions coldness alone, while Burton’s English adds moisture. These passages belong to humoral and faculty theories, with differing scopes, not modern accounts of ageing or cognition.

The shadow comparison serves a further purpose. Burton challenges people who ridicule sufferers as though they could simply choose to stop being afraid. When an imagined objector insists that ordinary fear has a real external cause, he replies that melancholy has internal causes carried with the sufferer, as inseparable as a shadow from the body. His list of humours and bodily organs remains historical. The argument is that a command to stop feeling cannot replace attention to the causes of suffering; the word does not promise that suffering can never change.

Social inseparability can be desirable or hostile. Similarity of character and interests ties most people in an inseparable link, but Burton immediately adds other bonds capable of joining people whose characters differ, including marriage kinship. A jealous woman’s hatred, by contrast, is called inseparable from its suspected objects. That gendered claim is attributed to Tacitus, although the margin turns a particular princely case into a general maxim and the body broadens the princess to a woman. Religious fellowship provides an expressly normative use: Christians are, “or should be at least”, inseparably allied. Burton immediately contrasts that desired unity with actual discord; the ideal is not a factual claim that all Christians remain united.

The second inherited example concerns identity rather than attachment. We may swim in the same place in a river without swimming in the same numericall water. Faces can have likeness amid difference, and one instrument can produce different tunes; these comparisons help Burton order the diversity of symptoms without resolving all their contradictions. The Latin individuum in the astrological causes discussion is the particular being supposedly affected, distinct from universal causes. In the religious controversy, Vanini’s reported cycles return the same kinds, not necessarily the identical individuals. Burton presents this as the doctrines under discussion and then gives Vanini’s stated Christian rejection; the text does not establish the sincerity of that disclaimer. Neither passage licenses substituting the inseparable sense for every member of the individual family.

The earth would appear as an indivisible point to an eye placed in the firmament, according to the argument reported in the astronomical digression. That is a conditional statement about apparent size and motion, not a claim that the earth is literally indivisible. Burton reports objections to the enlarged distances required by the theory and then provisionally grants the earth’s motion for the next argument. The wording belongs to this exchange of hypotheses and objections; the precise historical sources remain to be collated.

Related entries

Sorrow: Sorrow and its disputed relation to melancholy.

Accident: Accident as an accompanying condition rather than a mishap.

Genus and species: The distinction between same kind and same particular instance.

Friendship: Close social bonds and their causes.

Affinity and consanguinity: Marriage connections as one among several sources of attachment.

Action: The inherited Actuality: supplementary note discussion also relates to Soul.

Places to read

1. Democritus Junior to the Reader · paragraphs 13–15the broad argument against freedom from passions and sorrow as an unseparable companion.
2. Subsection 8. The Moving Faculty · paragraphs 25–27appetite, sensation, pleasure and pain within the historical account of faculties.
3. Member 3 Subsection 1. The Definition of Melancholy Its Name and Distinctions · paragraphs 11–12; Subsection 2. The Part Affected The Faculty Affected and the People Affected · paragraph 13fear and sorrow as companions of most, not all, melancholy, with the stated exceptions.
4. Subsection 2. The Part Affected The Faculty Affected and the People Affected · paragraphs 25–27natural and acquired melancholy, old age and the explicit almost.
5. Subsection 4. The Stars as a Cause. Signs From Physiognomy, Metoposcopy and Chiromancy · paragraphs 13–15every particular individuum in the attributed astrological account of universal and particular causes.
6. Subsection 5. Old Age as a Cause · paragraphs 27–29the stronger Rhazes claim about old age, inseparabile in note 2257, the compressed Psalm reference and abrupt retirement from activity.
7. Subsection 4. Sorrow as a Cause of Melancholy · paragraphs 6–8sorrow’s reciprocal cause-and-symptom relation and the mother/daughter metaphor, not a literal Hippocratic quotation.
8. Subsection 15 Love of Learning or Excessive Study With a Digression on the Misery of Scholars and Why the Muses Are Melancholy · paragraphs 16–18scholarly susceptibility qualified by almost and in some measure.
9. Subsection 15 Love of Learning or Excessive Study With a Digression on the Misery of Scholars and Why the Muses Are Melancholy · paragraphs 22–24the literary and mythic pairing of poetry and poverty.
10. Subsection 3. Causes of Head Melancholy · paragraphs 18–20natural versus acquired conditions, the unseparable bodily accompaniment and the difference between Latin coldness and English coldness plus moisture in note 4263.
11. Subsection 2. Symptoms or Signs in the Mind · paragraphs 22–27the universal symptom claim, immediate objection, enumerated exceptions and Burton’s usually rather than always conclusion.
12. Subsection 2. Symptoms or Signs in the Mind · paragraphs 50–51, 1–3the transition from fear to sorrow, individuall and the paired saints, Achates, and changing moods.
13. Subsection 2. Symptoms or Signs in the Mind · paragraphs 51–53; Subsection 3 Particular Symptoms From the Influence of Stars, Parts of the Body and Humours · paragraphs 1–2diverse symptoms, the river’s negated numerical identity, and transition to particular forms.
14. Member 3 Immediate Cause of the Preceding Symptoms · paragraphs 24–26, 1objection and reply about causes of fear, the inseparable shadow analogy and the limit of mere commands.
15. Member 3. Air Corrected. With a Digression on Air · paragraphs 14–16the conditional indivisible point in the astronomical exchange, the marginal qualification of apparently empty space and the next provisional grant of the earth’s motion.
16. Subsection 2 Pleasant Objects of Love · paragraphs 9–12social bonds through shared character, then alternative circumstantial ties, including marriage connection.
17. Member 4 Subsection 1 Symptoms or Signs of Love Melancholy in Body and Mind Good and Bad Signs and So Forth · paragraphs 27–29figurative blindness as an inseparable accompaniment of infatuation and the surrounding deceptive-appearance imagery.
18. Symptoms of Jealousy: Fear, Sorrow, Suspicion, Strange Actions, Gestures, Outrages, Confinement, Oaths, Trials, Laws, and So On · paragraphs 22–25the conditional move from violence to enduring hatred, with the princely case generalized in note 11637.
19. General Symptoms: Love of Their Own Sect; Hatred of All Other Religions; Obstinacy and Ill Temper; Readiness to Undergo Any Danger or Adversity for It; Martyrs; Blind Zeal and Blind Obedience; Fasts and Vows; Belief in Incredible and Impossible Things. Particular Symptoms Among Pagans, Muslims, Jews and Christians; and Among Christians, Heretics Old and New, Schismatics, Scholastic Theologians, Prophets, Enthusiasts and So On · paragraphs 3–6desired Christian unity, the explicit should qualification and the contradiction of actual religious conflict.
20. Member 2 Subsection 1 Religious Melancholy From Deficiency: Those Affected—Epicures, Atheists, Hypocrites, the Worldly and Complacent, Carnalists, All Impious People, Impenitent Sinners, and Others · paragraphs 21–32the reported naturalistic cycles, sameness of kind rather than individual identity, Vanini’s stated rejection and the wider polemical discussion.

In this edition

The inherited pair “as individuall as Saint Cosmus and Damian” → “as inseparable as Saints Cosmas and Damian” preserves the close-companion sense while regularizing the names. “The same numericall water” → “the very same water” states particular identity in ordinary language; the surrounding though not is essential, since Burton denies that the water remains selfsame. The retained river comparison therefore distinguishes identical location from identical material.

“Every particular individuum” → “every single individual” names the particular being, while “non individuo” → “not in the individual” preserves the negative contrast with sameness in kind. The adverbial rendering also needs scope: “ties most men in an inseparable link” becomes “binds most people inseparably”, absorbing the link into the verbal construction. In the shadow sentence, the original adjective under is becomes an adverb under clings; this is a recast predicate, not an exact word-for-word finite-clause alignment.

The Latin note “odium inseparabile” becomes “an enduring hatred”, with an supplied. In the brain note, from belongs to the preposition, coldness to its noun, and inseparable to the adjective; English supplies is. None of these alignments erases the neighboring restrictions or turns an attributed historical claim into an unqualified fact. The supplementary discussion of Actuality relates to Action and Soul.

individual

Printed “individuall” (English; lemma).

Indivisible or inseparable; not parted from a companion.

Here: Individuall describes sorrow’s attachment to melancholy by comparison with the paired physician saints. It does not mean separate or independent. The modern regularizes the saints’ names and number in the same comparison.

Context: Burton’s strong language of continual sorrow must be read with the preceding explicit exceptions and the next paragraph’s alternation of laughter and sadness; no modern diagnosis is inferred.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: as individuall as Saint Cosmus and Damian

Modern rendering: as inseparable as Saints Cosmas and Damian

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

individuum

Printed “individuum” (Latin noun in English syntax; lemma).

An individual being or particular instance: Latin individuum used as a noun in an English sentence.

Here: Individuum names the particular affected being; every particular becomes every single. Unlike individuall in the saints comparison, it does distinguish individual instances.

Context: Burton attributes the claim of stellar causes reaching each individual to Porta, after distinguishing universal astral causes from parental and lifestyle causes. These are historical astrological claims.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: every particular individuum

Modern rendering: every single individual

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

individuum · individuo

Printed “individuo” (Latin; lemma).

In the individual or particular instance: ablative singular of Latin individuum.

Here: Non supplies not. The contrast is with idem specie, the same in kind: recurrence of forms does not require return of the identical persons. English supplies in the to express the contrast’s construction.

Context: Burton reports the cyclic theory as their doctrines and attributes the distinction to Vanini, then reproduces Vanini’s stated Christian rejection. The sincerity of that disclaimer is not settled by the passage.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: non individuo

Modern rendering: not in the individual

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: Non supplies not; the ablative individuo is rendered in the individual. The corresponding same-in-kind clause is context, not part of this shorter exact alignment.

indivisibilis

Printed “indivisibile” (Latin; lemma).

Indivisible: not capable of being divided; Latin neuter singular adjective agreeing with punctum, point.

Here: The phrase names the apparently undivided point to which the earth would shrink when seen from the firmament in the reported astronomical argument. Punctum supplies point, indivisibile indivisible; English supplies an.

Context: Burton reports the moving-earth theory and its opponents’ objections. The claim is conditional on the distant viewpoint, not a statement that the earth is physically indivisible. The next paragraph grants the doctrine provisionally; exact historical interlocutor wording remains uncollated.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: punctum indivisibile

Modern rendering: an indivisible point

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The Latin noun-adjective phrase is rendered as an adjective-noun phrase with supplied an. The surrounding would still appear is essential to the claim’s conditional, visual scope.

inseparable · local use 1

Printed “inseparable” (English; lemma).

Not separable or normally found apart from the thing accompanied.

Here: The adjective describes fear and sorrow as companions of melancholy, but most and not all expressly limit the claim. The modern supplies though to make the exception’s relation explicit.

Context: Burton accepts Hercules de Saxonia’s exception: some cases are pleasant, laughing or bold and without fear or grief. These are his historical categories.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: inseparable companions of most Melancholy, not all

Modern rendering: inseparable companions of most melancholy, though not all

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The whole qualified phrase is aligned; though is supplied before the retained not all. Inseparable does not cancel that restriction.

Further local use

Printed “unseparable” (English; family).

Citation key: inseparable / unseparable.

Here: Unseparable is the alternative negative-prefix form, here attaching sorrow to melancholy. The original indefinite article is omitted in the modern possessive construction melancholy’s inseparable companion.

Context: Burton’s broad attack on the possibility of freedom from passion precedes the later medical exceptions. It is an argumentative generalization, not an exceptionless diagnostic law.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: an unseparable companion

Modern rendering: inseparable companion

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: An unseparable companion is recast inside melancholy’s inseparable companion; the original indefinite article is not separately retained.

Further local use

Printed “inseparable” (English; lemma).

Citation key: inseparable.

Here: Sorrow accompanies melancholy as both cause and symptom; the following mother-and-daughter image makes the relation reciprocal.

Context: Burton elaborates the circular model around a prolonged-fear/sorrow aphorism; the elaborate metaphor is his exposition, not a verbatim Hippocratic statement.

Source: original body

Source and modern wording: An inseparable companion

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “inseparable” (English; lemma).

Citation key: inseparable.

Here: Inseparable expresses close accompaniment, qualified twice by almost and in some measure. The modern reorders those qualifications without deleting them.

Context: The claim concerns scholars in a historical medical account of continual study and night work, with Lemnius, Rhazes and Ficino cited; it is not a universal modern claim about students.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: almost in some measure an inseparable companion

Modern rendering: to some degree, almost an inseparable companion

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “inseparable” (English; lemma).

Citation key: inseparable.

Here: Poetry and beggary are imagined as inseparable companions or twins. Their association is a literary image of scholarly poverty.

Context: Burton moves through astrological and mythological explanations to a Marlowe couplet; this does not establish that every scholar is poor.

Source: original body

Source and modern wording: inseparable companions

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “inseparable” (English; lemma).

Citation key: inseparable.

Here: Fear and sorrow are described as constant signs if they persist long, but this paragraph’s universal claim is challenged in the next one.

Context: Burton first reports the inherited medical aphorism, then endorses exceptions and concludes usually rather than always. The speaker/argument changes must remain visible.

Source: original body

Source and modern wording: inseparable companions

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “inseparable” (English; lemma).

Citation key: inseparable.

Here: The English adjective introduces the same sorrow-and-melancholy relation elaborated by individuall and the saints comparison.

Context: Burton’s broad description remains in tension with the earlier exceptions and the subsequent changing moods; it is not flattened into an exceptionless rule.

Source: original body

Source and modern wording: inseparable companion

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “inseparable” (English; lemma).

Citation key: inseparable.

Here: Blindness of judgment accompanies erotic infatuation; this is a figurative sign, not a claim that lovers lose physical sight.

Context: Burton’s proverbial Cupid imagery and false-mirror margin describe distorted evaluation. The neighboring frog/Diana proverb reinforces exaggeration.

Source: original body

Source and modern wording: an inseparable companion

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

inseparable · local use 2

Printed “inseparable” (English; lemma).

Unable to be separated from something with which it necessarily occurs.

Here: The power of appetite is connected to sensation: where sensation exists, Burton says, pleasure and pain also exist. Sense here is sensation, not good judgment.

Context: The statement belongs to Burton’s historical account of faculties, immediately distinguishing kinds of appetite; it is not a modern experimental conclusion.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: inseparable from sense

Modern rendering: inseparable from sensation

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

inseparable · local use 3

Printed “inseparable” (English; lemma).

Not separable or readily found apart from an accompanying condition.

Here: Inseparable modifies accident, here accompaniment rather than mishap. Almost limits the connection between old age and natural melancholy.

Context: Burton contrasts a natural humoral disposition with acquired disease and reports differing age ranges; these are historical medical classifications, not a modern account of ageing.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: almost an inseparable accident

Modern rendering: an almost inseparable accompaniment

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “inseparable” (English; lemma).

Citation key: inseparable.

Here: Inseparable means not detachable from the condition described; necessary is a separate reinforcing modifier, and accident means condition rather than mishap.

Context: Burton attributes the stronger universal assertion about old age to Rhazes, with a compressed Psalm reference; the following example concerns an abrupt change from active employment.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: a necessary and inseparable accident

Modern rendering: a necessary and inseparable condition

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “inseparabile” (Latin; lemma).

Citation key: inseparabilis.

Here: Inseparabile is a neuter singular adjective agreeing with accidens, condition; necessarium necessary, decrepitis for the old or frail. The note supplies the English article and recasts the dative as of.

Context: The marginal Latin states the attributed Rhazes claim; its generalization is kept historical, alongside the less absolute almost.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording and original alignment: Necessarium accidens decrepitis, et inseparabile

Modern rendering: A necessary and inseparable condition of the decrepit

Alignment scope: Original marginal Latin aligned with its supplied editorial note translation

Word and construction: The complete marginal construction is aligned; inseparabile supplies inseparable only, not the separate necessity or age qualification.

Modern container: note

inseparable · local use 4

Printed “inseparable” (English; lemma).

Unable to be detached or separated.

Here: The adjective in is as inseparable is recast as an adverb modifying clings in the modern sentence. The shadow analogy represents an internal cause carried with the sufferer.

Context: Burton answers an objection that fear needs a real cause, argues that the sufferer has an internal one, and says commands to stop are inadequate without addressing causes. His humoral account remains historical.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: sticks as close, and is as inseparable as a shadow to a bodie

Modern rendering: clings as closely and inseparably as a shadow to a body

Alignment scope: Equal-scope coordinated predicate, with adjective-to-adverb recasting

Word and construction: Sticks as close, and is as inseparable becomes clings as closely and inseparably: the separate adjectival predicate is recast as an adverb coordinated under clings; the shadow comparison is retained.

Alignment qualification: The entire coordinated predicate is aligned; the indexed adjective does not by itself supply clings or the distinct closely comparison.

inseparable · local use 5

Printed “inseparable” (English; lemma).

Not readily parted; forming a close bond.

Here: Inseparable qualifies the link formed by shared character or interests. The modern condenses the noun phrase into the adverb inseparably; most remains most.

Context: Burton first explains attachment through similarity, then adds circumstantial ties that can unite people with different characters, including marriage connection. The initial account is not exhaustive.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: ties most men in an inseparable link

Modern rendering: binds most people inseparably

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: Ties... in an inseparable link becomes binds... inseparably; the link noun is absorbed into the verbal/adverbial construction.

inseparable · local use 6

Printed “inseparable” (English; lemma).

Continuing or remaining attached to its object; enduring.

Here: Inseparable describes the persistence of hatred against suspected rivals. Never leaves supplies that predicate rather than calling the people themselves inseparable.

Context: Burton’s gendered generalization is conditional on inability or unwillingness to carry out violence. The Tacitus margin generalizes a particular princely case and is not a verbatim sentence from Annals 12.22.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: The hatred of a jealous woman is inseparable against such as she suspects

Modern rendering: A jealous woman’s hatred never leaves those she suspects

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The complete English sentence is recast, with is inseparable against becoming never leaves; the possessive and relative constructions are also reorganized.

Further local use

Printed “inseparabile” (Latin; lemma).

Citation key: inseparabilis.

Here: Odium means hatred, inseparabile enduring or inseparable, a neuter singular adjective; English supplies an.

Context: The marginal formulation concerns a jealous princess and suspected women, whereas the body generalizes to a jealous woman. The Tacitean comparison does not establish the maxim as a literal quotation.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording and original alignment: odium inseparabile

Modern rendering: an enduring hatred

Alignment scope: Original marginal Latin aligned with its supplied editorial note translation

Word and construction: The noun-adjective phrase becomes an adjective-noun phrase with supplied indefinite article.

Modern container: note

inseparable / unseparable

Printed “unseparable” (English; family).

Not found apart from an accompanying condition.

Here: Unseparable links the cold and moist brain to folly, Burton’s historical category of impaired understanding. It does not describe social companions.

Context: Burton distinguishes what he takes to be natural melancholy from the acquired condition discussed next. The body adds moisture to a Latin margin that mentions coldness alone.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: an unseparable companion of folly

Modern rendering: an inseparable companion of folly

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

Further local use

Printed “inseparabilis” (Latin; lemma).

Citation key: inseparabilis.

Here: Inseparabilis means inseparable, agreeing with frigiditas, coldness; cerebri of the brain, a from, fatuitate intellectual incapacity. English supplies is.

Context: Burton’s marginal Latin accompanies his attribution to Galen and Avicenna; it mentions coldness but not the moisture added in his English body.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording and original alignment: A fatuitate inseparabilis cerebri frigiditas

Modern rendering: Coldness of the brain is inseparable from intellectual incapacity

Alignment scope: Original marginal Latin aligned with its supplied editorial note translation

Word and construction: The complete verbless Latin statement is recast with English is; from belongs to A, not to inseparabilis.

Modern container: note

inseparably

Printed “inseparably” (English; lemma).

In a way that cannot be divided or severed.

Here: The adverb strengthens the union of Christian brethren; allied means joined in fellowship here, not specifically marriage kinship.

Context: Burton says are or should be at least, marking an ethical ideal, then immediately contrasts actual religious discord. His historical biblical/persecution examples retain their stated limits.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: inseparably allied

Modern rendering: inseparably joined

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The indexed form contributes the defined sense to this complete aligned unit.

numerical

Printed “numericall” (English; lemma).

Numerically identical: the selfsame particular thing, not merely something of the same kind.

Here: Numericall sharpens same into particular identity. The phrase is explicitly negated in the larger construction: the place in a river may be the same, though the water is not the very same water.

Context: Burton uses faces, river and musical instrument analogies to organize differing symptoms without pretending that the contradictions disappear.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: the same numericall water

Modern rendering: the very same water

Alignment scope: Equal-scope phrase/construction in the paired body texts

Word and construction: The same numericall becomes the very same; water is retained. The surrounding though not remains outside this selected noun phrase but is essential to the local argument.