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This final volume of of Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy", contains commentary on the Third Partition, in which Burton considers two especial forms of the disease, Love and Religious Melancholy. Burton had fewer precedents than in previous sections, but drew largely on his classical knowledge.

The fourth volume of the Clarendon edition of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the first of three volumes of Commentary. In his study Burton cites many other writers and this edition identifies these and verifies his quotations, with explanatory notes and translations of passages in Latin and an attempt to locate all Burton's sources.

This, the fifth volume of Robert Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" concludes Burton's account of the causes, the symptoms, and the prognosis of melancholy, and his examination of the remedies for the disease both spiritual and medical. The commentary aids readers' understanding of Burton's meaning.