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fineness, it doth easily exhale. In Italy, and the 

 hotter countries, there is a fly they call lucciole, 

 that shineth as the glow-worm doth ; and it may be 

 is the flying glow-worm. But that fly is chiefly 

 upon fens and marshes. But yet the two former 

 observations hold ; for they are not seen but in the 

 heat of summer ; and sedge, or other green of the 

 fens, give as good shade as bushes. It may be the 

 glow-worms of the cold countries ripen not so far as 

 to be winged. 



Experiments in consort touching the impressions which 



the passions of the mind make upon the body. 

 713. The passions of the mind work upon the 

 body the impressions following. Fear causeth pale 

 ness, trembling, the standing of the hair upright, 

 starting, and shrieking. The paleness is caused, for 

 that the blood runneth inward to succour the heart. 

 The trembling is caused, for that through the flight 

 of the spirits inward, the outward parts are desti 

 tuted, and not sustained. Standing upright of the 

 hair is caused, for that by the shutting of the pores 

 of the skin, the hair that lieth aslope must needs rise. 

 Starting is both an apprehension of the thing feared, 

 and in that kind it is a motion of shrinking, and 

 likewise an inquisition in the beginning, what the 

 matter should be, and in that kind it is a motion of 

 erection, and therefore when a man would listen sud 

 denly to any thing, he starteth ; for the starting is 

 an erection of the spirits to attend. Skreeching is an 

 appetite of expelling that which suddenly striketh 



