Trctitfe of B O D I ES. Chap. 27. 



root of a plant ) and particularly in the finevvs of it; muft of 

 necefsity affe-.fl thofe little fenfiblc firings with the qualities 

 which thefe petty bodies, mixed every where with the moifture, 

 arc thcmfelvcs imbued withall. 



And ifyou ask what motions or qualities thefe be : Phyfici- 

 ans ( unco whom it bclongeth moft particularly to look into 

 them ) will tell you, that fome dilate the tongue more,and fomc 

 leflc; as if fbrr.c of thefe little bodies had an aercall, and others a 

 watry difpofition: and thefe two they exprefle by the names of 

 fweet and fatty. That fome do contrail and draw the tongue 

 together, as choaky and rough things do moftjand next to them 

 crabby and immature fharpncfTe. That fome do corrode and 

 pierce the tongue, as fait and fowre things. That bitter things 

 do fearch the CHitfide of it, as if they fwept it : and that other 

 things do as it were prick it, as fpices and hot drinks. Now all 

 thefe are fenfible materiall things, which admit to be explicated 

 clearly, by the varieties ofrarity and dcnfity concurring to their 

 compofuionsjand arcfo proportionable to fuch materiall inftru- 

 mcnts as we cannot doubt but that they may be throughly de- 

 clared by our former principles. 



.~ The next element above water ij aire, which our noftrills, 



That thefmei being our inftrurnent to fuck in, we cannot doubt but whaqaf- 

 ^ c ^ et ^ a man ty nis no ^ e ' mu ^ come unto ^ im in ^ reatn or 



aire. And as humidity receiveth groffer ami weightier parts, fb 

 thole which are more fubtile and light, do rife up into the aire: 

 and thcfc we know attain unto this lightnefle by the comrnixti- 

 on of Fre, which is hot and dry. And therefore we cannot 

 doubt, bin that the nature of fmell is more or Icfle tending to 

 heat and drought: which is the caufe that their commixtiop 

 with the brain, proveth comfortable unto it ; becaufe of its 

 own difpofition it is ufually fubjcft to be too moift and too 

 cold. 



Whether there be any immediate inftrumentof this fenfe, to 

 receive the paflion or effeft, which by it other bodies make up- 

 on us; or whether the fenfe it felf be nothing but a paffage qf 

 thcfeexhwlations and little bodies unto the brain , fitly accomr 

 modated to difccrn what is good or hurtfoll for it, and accor- 

 dingly to move the body to admic or rcj<ft them , ' imparerth 



not 



