OF BODIES. XXXVI. 379 



fomctiines making doubts, and treading the fame path over 

 and over j and fomctimes leaping with #reat jumpes hither 

 and thither , before they betake themleJves to their rdt ; that 

 fc thecominuatenefTe of the lent may not kad dogge$ to their 

 forme. 



Now to penetrate into the cau/cs of theie and of fiich like < 

 actions; we may remcmbe^how we fhewed in the Jaft Chapter, 

 tiiat the beating of the heart worketh two things : the one is, 

 that it turneth about the fpcciefcs , < r little co-poreities (mrec- their rooft, md 

 ming frorooutwardobjeds) which remaire in the memory : by gazing upon 

 the ether is , that itisalwaies p:ef]ing On to fcnie motion cr th m . 

 other : out of which it hapreth, that when the ordinary waies of 

 yetting vi&uals,or of efcaping from enemies, doe faile a crea- 

 ture whofe conflitution is a^ive,- it Jighteth fometimesCihouc h 

 peradventure very ieldome ) upon doing iomething 3 out of 

 which the defired cffe& foJloweth ; a? it cannot choofe but fall 

 out now and then, although chance onely doe governe their 

 actions : and when their adion proveth fuccesfuJJ,it leaveth fuch 

 an impreflion in the memory^that whenfoever the like occaficn 

 occurreth , that animal will fbUow the iame method ; for the 

 lame fpeciefes doe come together from the memory into the 

 fantafie. But the many attempts that milcarry, and the ineffe- 

 c^uall motions whicfe ftraights doe catt beaffsupoh, are never 

 obferved , nor are there any iior.es recorded of them : no 

 more then in the Temp'e of Neptune, were kept upon the rc- 

 gifiers , the relations ofthoie unfortunate wretches , who ma- 

 king v owes unto that God in their dilhrelfe, wereneverthelefle 

 drowned. 



Thus peradventure, when the fox feeth his labour in chacing 

 the hens, to be to no purpofe ; and that by hispurfute of them, 

 he dnveth them Hirther out of his reach j he layech himlelfc 

 downe to reft , with a warchfall eye , and perceiving thofe filly 

 animals to grow bolder and bolder, by their not feeing him ftir, 

 he continueth his lying ftill, untill fbme one of them commeth 

 within his reach, and then on a fudden, he ipringeth up and cat- 

 cheth her-' or peradventure fbme poultry might have ftraycd 

 within his reach whiles, he was afleepe, and have then wakened 

 him with fbme noife they made : and fb he hapned to feile upon 

 one of them , without cither defigne or paines taking before- 

 hand:. 



