OF BO DIES, Chap. XXX V. 3 6 7 



tome men likewife, have by Height oppc fit ions, iterated fpee- 

 dily uponthem,before their fpints cou.'d rvJent their vehement 

 motion (and therefore, mufUtiil encrcaf. it ) been an^red in- 

 to t tavern. 



This paflion of anger, fbemeth a'moft to be foiirary on the 

 fide ofexceUe beyond joy : which is, as it were the ffandardaud 

 perfection of all pallions; as light or whitenefle, is ofalJ co- 

 lours : but on the other fide, of deficiency , there are feverall 

 middle paflions.which participate more or lefle of joy and grief; 

 as particularly thole two famous ones , which governe mans 

 life, H^randF^irf. Concerning which, Phyfitianstelf us,that 

 the pulle or Ideating offeare, is quick, hard, and unequal! : un.o 

 which I conceive we may fafely adde, that it muf* a.'fb be fma/1 

 and feeble; the perfection of joy, decreafing in it on one /ide y to 

 wit from greatnefTe and largeneflc; but not intirely; i'o that a 

 kind of quicknefle fiipplyeth in part the other defect. Hope on 

 the other fide, is in fuch fort defecii vc from ;oy, that neverthe- 

 leife it hath a kind of conftancy,and moderate quantitie.and re- 

 gularity in its motionrand therefore is accounted to be the Jcaft 

 rmrtfullofallthepafliom , and that which moft prolongeth 

 mans life. And thus you fee ho\v thofe motions, which wee 

 call pafTrons.are engendered in the heart and what they are. 



Let us then in the next place confider, what will follow in the 7. 

 reft of the bod^out of thefe varieties of paiTions, once rayfed in Of fcvcrall o r - 

 the heart, and fent into the braine. It is evident , that accor- j!jj e |f* as 

 ding tothe nature and quality of thefe motions, the heart muft tura i| y ^" 

 needs.in every one of them, voyde out of if felf into the arteries, the body by 

 a greater or leffer quantity of blood.and that in divers fafluons: 

 and the arteries which lie fitreft to receive thefe fudden egefti- 

 ons of blood are thofe which goe into the braine : whofe courfe 

 being drre&ly upwards, we cannbt doubt, but that it is the hot- 

 tert and fubtiteft part of the blOdd and the fulleft offpirits, that 

 flyeth that way. Thefc fpirits then running a long and perp.'ex- 

 cd journey up and down in rhe braine, by various meanders 

 2nd anfraduofities, are there mingledwitli the humid?' ftearn^ 

 of the braine ir felfe, and are therewith coo.'ed ; and doe come 

 at the Jaft, to fmoa^'e at liberty in the hollow ventri$e$ of the 

 braine, by reeking out cf the little arteriall branches , that doe 

 \ye.ivc the pkxn c hirtMtt , orntt wefpokeofere;vhilc r and 



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