62 NATURAL HISTORY. 



lent : for it is many times reciprocal, and as it were 

 with consent. Of the cause of this, and to what 

 axiom it may be referred, consider attentively : for as 

 for the pretty assertion, that matter is like a common 

 strumpet that desireth all forms, it is but a. wandering 

 notion. Only flame doth not content itself to take 

 in any other body ; but either to overcome and turn 

 another body into itself, as by victory ; or itself to 

 die, and go out. 



