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&quot; hood : then she nailed the piece of lard, with the 

 &quot; fat towards the sun, upon a post of her chamber 

 &quot; window, which was to the south. The success 

 &quot; was, that within five weeks space all the warts 

 cf went quite away : and that wart which I had so 

 &quot; long endured for company. But at the rest I did 

 &quot; little marvel, because they came in a short time, 

 &quot; and might go away in a short time again : but 

 &quot; the going away of that which had stayed so long 

 &quot; doth yet stick with me.&quot; 



Again,* &quot;The relations touching the force of 

 &quot; imagination, and the secret instincts of nature, are 

 &quot; so uncertain, as they require a great deal of exami- 

 &quot; nation ere we conclude upon them. I would have 

 &quot; it first thoroughly inquired, whether there be any 

 tf secret passages of sympathy between persons of 

 &quot; near blood, as parents, children, brothers, sisters, 

 tf nurse-children, husbands, wives. &c. There be 

 &quot; many reports in history, that upon the death of 

 &quot; persons of such nearness, men have had an inward 

 &quot; feeling of it. I myself remember, that being in 

 &quot;Paris, and my father dying in London, two or 

 &quot; three days before my father s death, I had a dream, 

 &quot; which I told to divers English gentlemen, that 

 &quot; my father s house in the country was plastered all 

 &quot; over with black mortar. There is an opinion 

 &quot; abroad, whether idle or no I cannot say, that 

 &quot; loving and kind husbands have a sense of their 



*Art. 986, page 525. 



