OF BODIES, Ghap.XXXVlII. 40* 



and not onely to beafts of that fame kinde ; but (for the fame 

 reafon ) even to others likewifc, that have a correfpondcnce 

 and agreement of temper andconftitution with that kinde of 

 beaft, wHofe hurt is the originall caufe of this averfion. Which 

 beifig aflemed unto, the fame reafon holdeth to make thofe crea- 

 tures, whofe eonftitutions and tempers doe confi/t of things 

 repugnant and odious to one another, be at perpetuall enmity, 

 and flye from one another at the firft fight, or at the Jeaft, the 

 furferer from the more ad^ive creature : as we fee among thole 

 men , whofe unhappy trade and continuall exerafes it is to 

 empty jakefes, fiich horrid ftinkes are by time growne fb con- 

 formable to their nature, as a ftrong perliime will as much of- 

 fend them, and make them as ficke, as fiich ftinkes would doe 

 another man bred up among perfumes : and a cordiall to theiir 

 fpirits, is fbnne noyfbme Imell, that would almoftpoyfbn ano- 

 ther man. And tfius, if in the breath of the Wolfe., or in the 

 fteame comtning from his body, be any quality oflfenfive to rhe 

 Lambe (as it may very well be, where there is fo great a con- 

 trariety of natures) |t is net ftrange, that at the firft fight and 

 approach of him, he fliould bed! tempered and flye from him ; 

 as one fighting cocke will doe from another, that hath eaten 

 garJike : and the fame happeneth between the weafell and the 

 toad, the lyon and the cocke, the toade and the fpider, 

 and feverall other creatures., of whom like enmities are re- 

 ported. 



All which are caufedin them, not by fecret rnftincls, and 

 antipathies, and fympathies, whereof we can give no account ; 

 (with the bare found of which words, molt men doe pay them- 

 ielves, without examining what they meane;) but by dovvne- 

 rightmateriall qualities, that are of contrary natures, (as fire 

 and water are ) and are either begotten in them in their ori- 

 ginall con/tttution , or are implanted in them afterwards by 

 Bieir continuall food, which noari/riing thern, changeth their 

 confiitution to its complexion. And I am perfwaded this 

 would goc fb farre, that if one man- were nouriflied continually 

 with fuchmeate (and greedily affected it) which another bact 

 averfionfrom, there would naturally follow much diflike b- 

 cwccnc themj'imleifefeme iupcriouc regard ihould m after 



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