OF BODIES. XXXII. 359 



i n moyiture; whereas co-Id and.dry things, doe contraft the bo- 

 dies they vvorke upon : and fuch are enemies to the nature of 

 men and beafts: and accordingly experience, aswelJ as reafbn, 

 t eachethus,that all obje&s, which be naturally good, are fuch 

 as be hot and moyft in the due proportion to the cieaturc that 

 is affected and pleafed with them. 



Now,the living creature being compofed of the fame prin- 

 ciples as the world round about him is j and the heart being an 

 abridgement of the whole fcnfible creature; and being more- 

 over full of blood, and that very hot; it commeth topafle,thatif 

 any of thefe lit tie extra&s of the outward world, doe arrive to 

 the hot blood about the heart, it workcth in thi* blood fuch like 

 an efFeft, as we fee a drop of water falling into a glaffe of wine, 

 which is prefently difperfed into a competent compafle of the 

 wine : id that any little object mail needs make a notable mo- 

 tion in the blood about the heart. 



This motion, according to the nature of the obj'eft , will be 

 either conformable or contraryjunlefTe it be fo little a one , >as 

 noeffect will follow of it ; and then, it is of that kinde , which 

 above we called indifferent. If the enfuing eftecl: be conna- 

 turall to the heart, there rifeth a motion ofa certaine fume a- 

 bout the heart j which motion we call flc*frc* t and it never fay- 

 leth of accompanying all thofe motions which are good , as //, 

 L*ve 9 Hffft and the like : but if the motion be di/pleafing 5 there 

 is Ukewiiea common ienfe ofa heavinefle about the heart^ which 

 weeall^rt//*:anditisccmmonto/frrjr,/r^/, katt, and the 

 like. ^* 



Now it is manifeft by experience , that thefe motions are all 

 of them diiferent ones , an i doe ftrike againft divers of thofe 

 parts of our body which encompafTe the heart : out of which 

 Jftriking fblloweth that the ipirits fent from the heart , doe a- 

 fe& the iMraiae diverfly ; and are by it it, conveyed into di- 

 vers nerves : and fb doe fet divers members in action. Whence 

 fblloweth , that certaine members are generally moved up- 

 on the motion of fiich a paifion in the heart, especially 

 in beajftes , who have a more determinate courfe of wor- 

 king , then man hath : and if fometimes wee (ee variety, 

 even in beartes , upon knowledge of the circumftances , wee 

 nuycafily gueffcat the aufes of thai variety ; che particula- 



