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whether it will fester, or keep from healing, the part 

 which remaineth. 



. 996. It is received, that it helpeth to continue 

 love, if one wear a ring, or a bracelet, of the hair of 

 the party beloved. But that may be by the exciting 

 of the imagination : and perhaps a glove, or other 

 like favour, may as well do it. 



997. The sympathy of individuals, that have been 

 entire, or have touched, is of all others the most in 

 credible ; yet according unto our faithful manner of 

 examination of nature, we will make some little men 

 tion of it. The taking away of warts, by rubbing 

 them with somewhat that afterwards is put to waste 

 and consume, is a common experiment ; and I do 

 apprehend it the rather because of my own experi 

 ence. I had from my childhood a wart upon one of 

 my fingers : afterwards, when I was about sixteen 

 years old, being then at Paris, there grew upon both 

 my hands a number of warts, at the least an hundred, 

 in a month s space. The English ambassador s lady, 

 who was a woman far from superstition, told me 

 one day, she would help me away with my warts : 

 whereupon she got a piece of lard with the skin on, 

 and rubbed the warts all over with fat side ; and 

 amongst the rest, that wart which I had had from my 

 childhood : then she nailed the piece of lard, with 

 the fat towards the sun, upon a post of her chamber 

 window, which was to the south. The success was, 

 that within five weeks space all the warts went quite 

 away : and that wart which I had so long endured, 

 for company. But at the rest I did little marvel, 



