“Settle thine imagination, thou art well” - extract from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Channel: English Readings
Date: 2018-09-23

This extract is taken from Volume 2 (or The Second Partition, as it is called in the book) of Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1651-2), section 6.

The Anatomy is a great disquisition on melancholy, which, in its more extreme forms, today we would term depression. In this brief extract Burton is examining how we can use reason to combat its effects.

Further information at Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anatomy_of_Melancholy
Image is in the public domain, from the British Library https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/burtons-anatomy-of-melancholy-1628
Text for this extract: Everyman’s Library 887, Dent, London, 1968, ed. Holbrook Jackson.

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