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fame things, according as they are conformable or difagreeing 

 to their naruresrand accordingly they give them different names. 

 As when the fame liquour is fwect to fome mens taft, which to 

 anothers appcareth bitter : one man taketh that for a perfume, 

 which to another is an offenfive fme/1 : in the Turkifh bathj; 

 ( where there are many degrees ofheat in divers roomSsthrougU 

 all which the fame perfon ufeth to pafle, and to ftay a while in 

 every one of them, both at his entrance and going out, to (eafon 

 his body by degrees> for the contrary excefle he is going unto ) 

 that fcemeth chilly cold at his return; which appeared melting 

 hot at his going in; as I my (elf have often made experience in 

 thofc countreys. Beauty and lovelinefle will fhineto one man 

 in the fame face s that will give averfioii i^4nother. All which 

 proclaimed, that the fennble qualities of bodies are not any 

 pofitive reall thing,confifting in an indivifible^nd diftincl: from 

 the body it feif j but arc merely the very body , as it aflfecleth 

 our fcnfes : which to difcover how they do it, rnuft be our la- 

 bour here. 



Let.us therefore begin with considering the difference that 

 is between fenfible & infcnfible creatures. Thcfe latter do lie ex- 

 pofed to the mercy of all outward agents that from time-to time 

 (by the continuall motion which all things arc in) do come 

 within diftance of working upon them: and they have no power 

 to remove themfelves from what is avcrfe to their nature; nor to 

 approch nearer unto what comforteth it. But the others having 

 within themfclves a principle of motion C asvve have already 

 declared ) whenfocver fuch effects are wrought upon them, as 

 upon the others; they arc able upon their own account and by 

 their own a&ion., to remove themfelves from what beginneth to 

 annoy them, and to come nearer unto what they find a begin- 

 ning of good by. 



Thefc imprcflions are made upon thole parts of us, which we 

 call the organs of our {enfes; and by them do give us fcafonablc 

 advertifements and knowledges whereby YVC may govern and 

 order to the beft advantage, eur little charge of a body, accor- 

 ding to the tune or warnings of change in the great circumftant 

 body of the world, as far as it may concern ours. Which how 

 it is done, and by what fieps it proceeded^ #>*!! be in die fol- 

 io wing difcourfe laid open. V Of 



