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besides those two manifest ones, of heat and light. But 



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these we will handle, where we handle the celestial 

 bodies and motions. 



910. 1 The seventh is the operations of sympathy ; 

 which the writers of natural magic have brought into 

 an art or precept : and it is this ; that if you desire to 

 super-induce any virtue or disposition upon a person, 

 yon should take the living creature in which that vir 

 tue is most eminent and in perfection : of that creature 

 you must take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is 

 collocate : again, you must take those parts in the time 

 and act when that virtue is most in exercise : and then 

 you must apply it to that part of man wherein that 

 virtue chiefly consisteth. As if you would super 

 induce courage and fortitude, take a lion or a cock : 

 and take the heart, tooth, or paw of the lion ; or the 

 heart or spur of the cock : take those parts immediately 

 after the lion or the cock have been in fight : and let 



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them be worn on a man s heart or wrist. Of these 

 and such like sympathies, we shall speak under this 

 present title. 



911. The eighth and last is an emission of immate- 

 riate virtues ; such as we are a little doubtful to pro 

 pound, it is so prodigious, but that it is so constantly- 

 avouched by many : and we have set it down as a law 

 to ourselves, to examine things to the bottom ; and not 

 to receive upon credit, or reject upon improbabilities, 

 until there hath passed a due examination. This is, 

 the sympathy of individuals ; for as there is a sym 

 pathy of species, so (it may be) there is a sympathy 

 of individuals : that is, that in things, or the parts 

 of things, that have been once contiguous or entire, 



1 Compare Porta, Nat. Mag. i. 12. 



