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all the organs of the senses qualify the motions of the 

 spirits, and make so many several species of motions, 

 and pleasures or displeasures thereupon, as there he 

 diversities of organs. The instruments of sight, hear 

 ing, taste, and smell, are of several frame, and so are 

 the parts for generation. Therefore Scaliger doth 

 well to make the pleasure of generation a sixth 

 sense ; and if there were any other differing organs, 

 and qualified perforations for the spirits to pass, 

 there would be more than the five senses : neither 

 do we well know whether some beasts and birds 

 have not senses that we know not ; and the very 

 scent of dogs is almost a sense by itself. Secondly, 

 the pleasures of the touch are greater and deeper 

 than those of the other senses ; as we see in warm 

 ing upon cold ; or refrigeration upon heat : for as 

 the pains of the touch are greater than the offences of 

 other senses ; so likewise are the pleasures. It is true, 

 that the affecting of the spirits immediately, and, as 

 it were, without an organ, is of the greatest plea 

 sure, which is but in two things ; sweet smells and 

 wine, and the like sweet vapours, For smells, we 

 see their great and sudden effect in fetching men 

 again when they swoon : for drink, it is certain that 

 the pleasure of drunkenness is next the pleasure of 

 Venus ; and great joys, likewise, make the spirits 

 move and touch themselves : and the pleasure of 

 Venus is somewhat of the same kind. 



695. It hath been always observed that men are 

 more inclined to Venus in the winter, and women in 

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