A TREATISE 



upon, you (hall meete with many more of one forr, then of the 

 other. 



Now, as fbone as the braine hath lighted on any of tho/e it 

 feeketh fbr.it puttcth as it were a flop upon the motion of that ; 

 or at the leaft, it moveth it fo, that it goeth not far away, and 

 is revocable at will : and feenrieth like a baite to draw into the 

 fantafie others belonging unto the fame thing , either through 

 fimilitude of nature , or by their connexion in the impre/Hon : 

 and by this rrt-anes hindereth other objects,, not pertinent to 

 the wo k the fanfie hath in hand, from offering t hemfel ves un- 

 feafbnably in the mu.ii udes that othcrw *x r ,r vvould do. But 

 ifthe fanfie mould have miftaken one object for an other , by 

 reafbn of fome relemblance they have between themlelves ; 

 then it fhaketh againe the liquid medium they all floate in, and 

 roofeth every fpccics lurking in remote/1 Corners., and runneth 

 over the whole beadroulc of them : and continueth thisin- 

 quifition and motion, till either it be fatisfyed with retrivin<* 

 at length what it required , or that it be grownc weary with 

 tofling about the multitude of little inhabitants in its numerous 

 empire, and fo giveth over the learch , unwillingly and di 

 pleafedly. 



3 ; Now, that thefe things be as we have declared, willappeare 



A Confirma- out of the following confiderac ions , firft, we fee that things of 



ttoaofthefor- quite different natures, if they come in together, areremem- 



met doftrine. jj^j together : upon which principle the whole art of memory 



dependcth :/iich things cannot any way be compriled under 



certainc heads , nor be linked together by order andcon/e- 



qucnce, or by any refemblance to one an other : and therefore 



all their connexion mutt be, that as they came in together into 



the fantafic, fo they remaine together in the fame place in the 



memory : and their iirft coupling muft proceed from the action 



that bound them together,in driving them in together. 



Next, we may obler ve , that when a man feeketh and turn- 

 bleth in his memory for any thing he would retrive, he hath 

 firftfbme common and confiifcd notion of it : and fbmetimes 

 behathakihdofflaskiflgorfadinglikenefle of it : much what, 

 as when in ftriving to remember a Name, men ufe to lay, it is 

 at their tongues end : and this meweth,that he attracteth rho/e 

 things he defirctb, and hath uleo bythclikeDefleoflbme- 



