编辑“憂鬱的解剖”（章节）

== 內容簡介 ==
伯頓定義他的主題如下： 

<blockquote>''Melancholy'', the subject of our present discourse, is either in disposition or in [[Habit (psychology)|habit]].  In disposition, is that transitory ''Melancholy'' which goes and comes upon every small occasion of sorrow, need, sickness, trouble, fear, grief, passion, or perturbation of the mind, any manner of care, discontent, or thought, which causes anguish, dulness, heaviness and vexation of spirit, any ways opposite to pleasure, mirth, joy, delight, causing frowardness in us, or a dislike.  In which equivocal and improper sense, we call him melancholy, that is dull, sad, sour, lumpish, ill-disposed, solitary, any way moved, or displeased.  And from these melancholy dispositions no man living is free, no Stoick, none so wise, none so happy, none so patient, so generous, so godly, so divine, that can vindicate himself; so well-composed, but more or less, some time or other, he feels the smart of it.  Melancholy in this sense is the character of Mortality. . . . This ''Melancholy'' of which we are to treat, is a habit, a serious ailment, a settled [[The four humours|humour]], as Aurelianus and others call it, not errant, but fixed: and as it was long increasing, so, now being (pleasant or painful) grown to a habit, it will hardly be removed.</blockquote>

《憂鬱的解剖》是一個特別[[長]]的[[書]]，第一版是[[四開]]量近[[900]][[頁]]，後來的版本甚至更長。該文本共分為三個主要部分，另外還有ㄧ序言，序言整個寫出伯頓的廣闊的風格。