This is the third and final text volume of the Clarendon edition of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. It contains `The Third Partition', `The Table', edited from 1624-1651 editions, and their textual apparatus, and an Index of Persons. Also included are three appendices: `The Conclusion of the Author to the Reader', which occurs only in the 1621 edition, a list of stop-press corrections to the 1632 edition, and the edited Synoptic Tables. The Third Partition is made up of two grand digressions which conclude Burton's earlier arguments on the causes and cures of melancholy. In the first digression he anatomizes love melancholy, its kinds, causes and symptom, and cures. No one up to his time had dealt more elaborately, or more thoroughly, with the components of love. Certain sections, `Beauty a Cause', of `Jealousie, his Ęquivocations, Name, Definition, Extent ...' are no less engaging today than when they were first written. In the second, religious melancholy, he surveys the aberrations from true religious commitment which are the cause of this melancholy. To Burton the divine, no other manifestation of melancholy was as serious as this, and his words of comfort, consolation, and encouragement, are a fitting end to his dissection of a disease that all are heir to.
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The preface; loves beginning, object, definition, division; love of men,
which varies as his objects, profitable, pleasant, honest; pleasant objects
of love; honest objects of love; charity, composed of all three kindes,
pleasant, profitable, honest; heroicall love causing melancholy; his
pedegree, power, and extent; how love tyrannizeth over men; love or heroicall
melancholy, his definition, part affected; causes of heroicall love,
temperature, full diet, idlenesse, place, climat, etc; other causes of love
melancholy, sight, beauty from the face, eyes, other parts, and how it
pierceth; artificiall allurements of love, causes and provocations to lust.
Gestures, cloathes, dowre, etc; importunity and opportunity of time, place,
conference, discourse, singing, dancing, musicke, amorous tales, objects,
kissing, familiarity, tokens, presents, bribes, promises, protestations,
teares, etc; bawdes, philters, causes; symptomes or signes of love
melancholy, in body, minde, good, bac, etc; prognosticks of love melancholy;
cure of love melancholy, by labour, diet, physicke, fasting, etc; withstand
the beginnings, avoid occasions, change his place - faire and fowle means,
contrary passions, with witty inventions - to bring in another, and
discommend the former; by counsell and perswasion, fouleness of the fact,
mens, womens faults, miseries of marriage, events of lust, etc; philters,
magicall and poeticall cures; the last and best cure of love melancholy, is,
to let them have their desire; JEALOUSY. jealousie, its aequivocations, amek
definition, extent, severall kindes; of princes, parents, friends. In beasts,
men, before marriage, as Corrivalls, or after, as in this place; causes of
jealousie. Who are most apt. Idlenesse, melancholy, impotency, long absence,
beauty, wantonnesse, naught themselves. Allurements, from time, place,
persons, bad usage, causes; symptomes of jealousie, feare, sorrow, suspition,
strange actions, gestures, outrages, locking up, oathes, trials, laws, etc;
prognosticks of jealousie, despaire, madnesse, to make away themselves and
others; cure of jealousie - by avoiding occasions, not to be idle - of good
counsell - to contemne it, not to watch or locke them up - to dissemble it,
etc; by prevention before, or after marriage, Plato's community, marry a
curtisan, philters, stewes, to marry one equall in yeares, fortunes, of a
good family, education, good place, to use them well, etc. (Part contents)
