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a liquefaction or boiling of the humours thereupon. 

 Foaming at the mouth is from the same cause, 

 being an ebullition. Stamping, and bending of the 

 fist, are caused by an imagination of the act of re 

 venge. 



717. Light displeasure or dislike causeth shaking 

 of the head, frowning and knitting of the brows. 

 These effects arise from the same causes that trem 

 bling and horror do ; namely, from the retiring of the 

 spirits, but in a less degree. For the shaking of the 

 head is but a slow and definite trembling ; and is a 

 gesture of slight refusal ; and we see also, that a dis 

 like causeth, often, that gesture of the hand, which 

 we use when we refuse a thing, or warn it away. The 

 frowning and knitting of the brows is a gathering, or 

 serring of the spirits, to resist in some measure. And 

 we seenlso this knitting of the brows will follow upon 

 earnest studying, or cogitation of any thing, though 

 it be without dislike. 



718. Shame causeth blushing, and casting down 

 of the eyes. Blushing is the resort of blood to the 

 face ; which in the passion of shame is the part that 

 laboureth most. And although the blushing will be 

 seen in the whole breast if it be naked, yet that is 

 but in passage to the face. As for the casting down 

 of the eyes, it proceedeth of the reverence a man 

 beareth to other men ; whereby, when he is ashamed, 

 he cannot endure to look firmly upon others : and we 

 see, that blushing, and the casting down of the eyes 

 both, are more when we come before many ; &quot; ore 

 Pompeii quid mollius ? nunquam non coram pluribus 



