This concluding volume contains commentary on the Third Partition, which considers Love and Religious Melancholy. As before, the aim is to give as much help as possible to the modern reader, including translations of all Latin quotations. A 'Biobibliographical' index to the whole Anatomy is provided, giving brief details of the lives and works of the 1550 writers cited by Burton, together with an index of the major topics discussed.

This volume contains commentary on the text from Partition 1, Section 2, Member 4, Subsection 1 to the end of the second Partition. It thus concludes Burton's account of the causes, symptoms, and prognosis of melancholy, and his examination of remedies, spiritual and medical. As before, the commentary elucidates Burton's meaning (as well as translating all passages in Latin) and identifies the sources of his many quotations from and references to other authors.

This is the fourth volume of the Clarendon edition of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the first of three volumes of Commentary. It contains commentary on the text up to p. 327 of volume one - i.e. The Argument of the Frontispeice, Democritus to the Reader, and Partition 1 as far as the end of Section 2, Member 3, Subsection 15: 'Misery of Schollers'. In his study of morbid psychology as it was understood in his day, Burton cites many other writers. No previous edition has identified all of these or verified all his quotations. In addition to explanatory notes and translations of all the passages in Latin, this edition attempts to locate all Burton's sources in the actual books he himself owned or to which he probably had access.