OF BODIES. Ghap.XXVIH. 



Though all this he very ttrange, yet me thinks his difcerning 

 of light is beyond it all. He would feele in his body, and chiefly 

 in his braine (as he hath often toldme> certain effect by which 

 he did know when the Sunnc was up; and would di/cern exactly 

 acleare from a cloudy day. This I have known him frequently 

 doe without milling, when for triall lake he hath been lodged in 

 a cloie chamber, whereunto the deare light or Sunne could not 

 arrive to give him any notice by its aduall warmth ; nor any 

 body could come to him, to give him private warnings of the 

 changes of the weather. 



But this is not the relation I intended , when I mentioned of OJ 

 one that could heare by his e\ es; (if that expreflionmay be per- cou \^ dif cernr 

 tnitted me) I then reflected upon a Noble man of great quality founds of 

 that I knew in Spaine, the younger brother of the Conftableof words with 

 Caftile. But the reflexion of his feeing of words , called into *"* e 7 ef 

 my remembrance the other that felt light : in whom I have of- 

 ten remarked fo many ftrange pafiages , with amazement and 

 delight ; that I have adventured upon the Reader^jBtience to 

 record Ibme of them , conceiving they may be of fome ufe in 

 our courfe of doctrine. But the Spanish Lord was born deafe ; 

 fo deafe, that if a Gun were fhot off clofeby his eare , he conld 

 not heare it : and confequently.,he was dumbe/or not being able 

 to heare the found ofwords, he could never imitate nor under- 

 ftand them. The loveliaefTe of his face.,and elpecially the excee- 

 ding life and fpiritfulnefie of hi j eyes,and the comelineffe of his 

 pcrfon and whole compofureof his body throughout, were preg- 

 nant fignes of a well tempered inind within. And therefore aft 

 that knew him, lamented much the want of meanes to cultivate 

 it, and to imbrue it with the notions which it feemed to be ca- 

 pable of in regard of its felfe ; had it aot been fo crofled by this 

 unhappy accident. Which to remedy Phyfitians and Chirurgi- 

 ans had long imployed their skill ; but all in vaine. At the laft, 

 there was a Prieft who undertooke the teaching him to under- 

 ftand others when theyfpokc, and to/peakehimfelfethato- 

 thers might under/land him. What at the firft he was laught at 

 for, made him after fome* yeeres be looked upon as if he had 

 wrought a miracle . In a word ; after ttrange patienee,conn\uicy 

 andpaines, he brought the young Lord to fpeake as diftiacl^ 

 as any man whofoever j and to undetftand Ib pcrfe^Jy what 



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