OF BOD I E S. XXXI I. 363 



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condition, quality and appearance. Sixtly, it is feared in the ve- 

 ry hollow of the brainej vyhich of nece/Tity muft be the place and 

 receptacle where the /peciefei and fimilitud^s of things doc re- 

 {ideiand where they are moved and tumbled up and do.vn^when 

 we think ofmany things. Aadla/IIy, the fituation wee put cur 

 head in, when we think earneftly ofany thing, fa voureth this opi- 

 nion : for then we hang our head forwards^* it were forcing the 

 (pccieies to fettle towards ouf forehead, that from thence they 

 may rebound, and worke upon this diaphanous fubttance. 



This then fuppofed.let us confider.that the atomes-or likeneA , 

 fcs of bodies, having given their touch upon this S<f turn orSpe- W htc oiufecli 

 <*/tav,doe thence retire back into the concavitics,and doe fticke as to remem- 

 (as by chance it happeneth)in Come of the inequalities they en- ternot only 

 Counter wfch there.But iffome winde or forcible ftearne,rfuould '? i^ c *i? 

 breake into theie caves.and as it were brufli and f, veepc them o- J[' ^"Sve 

 f erjit muft follow,that thele little bodies wii loofen themfelves^ thought of it 

 and begin to play in the vapour which fiileth this hollow place * before, 

 tnd fo floting up and down, come anew to ftrike and worke up- 

 on the Spfctt/ttm or ^ntafy:which being alib a foluble body'ma- 

 ny times thefe atomes ftriking upon it.do carry.lbme little cor- 

 porcaUlubftance from it flicking upon them : whence enfueth., 

 that they returning again with thole tinftures or partkipations- 

 of the very (ubitance of the fintafyido make us remember, not 

 only the objects themielves , but alfb that wee have thought of 

 them before. 



Further we are to know,that all the nerves of the braine.have ^ 

 their beginnings not farre from thi$Jpec*litm: of which we /hall How the mo- 

 take 2 more particular confideration oftwo.,that are called the J. ions f ^ c 

 fixt paire or couple:which pair hath his fingularity. that it be^in- T n . ta f are , 



r . t- i I i i r I ccnvedtotnC 



neth in a great many little branches , that prefently grow toge- heart. 

 ther^and make two great ones contained witfiin one skin. Now 

 this being the property ofa fen/e(\vhich requiretfi to have many 

 fibers init , to the end that it may be eajily and vigoroufly 

 flruckcn, by many parts of the object lighting upon many 

 parts ofthofe little fibers ) it givethus to under/land, that this 

 iixt couple hath a particular nature, conformable to the nature 

 of an externe fenfe, and that the Architect who placed it there, 

 intended by the icverall conduits of it, to give notice unto (bme 

 part they goe tinto, of what pafTeth in the braine : and accor- 

 dingly 



