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halfe the paines, chat their fire or dam was, if they were chofen 

 out of a race of fpaniels not trained to letting. Ail which effects 

 can proceed from no other caufe, but (as we have touched a!- 

 ready) that the fantafie of the parent, altereth the temper and 

 the difpofitionof his body and feed, according as it lelfeis 

 tempered and diipofed : and confequently, iuch a creature mutt 

 be made of it, as retained) the fame qualities : in fuch lort as it 

 is faid that fulHcient tartar put at the root of a tree, will make 

 the fruit have a winy carte. 



But nothing dorh confinne this ib much, as certain notable 

 accidents, whereof though every one in particular would fceme H OW the pa- 

 incredible, yet the number of them, and the weight of the re- rents fantafie 

 porters, who are the witneffes, cannot choofe but purchafe a doth often- 

 generall credit to the kinde of them. Thcfe accidents are, that Jimts works 

 out of fbme fhong imagination of the parents, but efpecially 

 of the mother , in the time of conception, the children draw 

 fwcK maine differences, as were incredible., if the testifying au- 

 thority were not Co great : bui L -^gtrue, they convince be- 

 yond all queftion the trurh wee have propofed, of the parents 

 imagination working upon ana making an imprefsion in the 

 feed, wiiercof children or "ourig ones of their kinde are made. 

 Sojne children of whit j parents are reported to have been black 

 upon occafion of a Macke moores picture too much in the mo- 

 thers eye. Others are faid to have been born with their skins 

 all hairy, out of the fight of St. loha Btftifts picture as hee was 

 in the defart, or of (bme other hairy image. Another childe is 

 famed to have been borne deformed, infachfbrr asDivelsare 

 painted, becaufe the father was in a Divels habit when hee got 

 the childe. 



There was a Lady a kinfwoman of mine, who ufed much to 

 weare black patches upon her face (as was the fafliion among 

 young women ) which I to put her from, ufed to tell her in 

 j'eh\ that the next chilcfe me mould goe with, whiles the fbllici- 

 tude and care of thofc patches was fb ftrong in her fantafie, 

 would come into the world with a great black fpor in the mid/I 

 of its fore-head : and this apprehenfion was ib lively in her 

 imagination at the time ftie proved with childe, that her daugh- 

 ter was borne marked ;utt as the mother had fanfied, which 



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