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him fettled in them , when they never faw him othervyife then 

 angry, and working milchiefe to them. And fiiicetheirbrcod 

 do receive from their parents, a nature ealily moved unto fcare 

 or anger.by the fight of what moved them.,it is not ttrange^thac 

 at the firft fight they fhould tremble or fwell, according as the 

 inward motion of the ipirits afforderh. 



Now if this hadi renJered the Birds in the wiide Iflandes af- 

 fraideofmen, who othervviie would be indifferent to them, it 

 isnomarvailetofeemoreviolentetfeds intheLambes aver- 

 fion from ttie Wolfe, or in the Larkes from the Hobbey ; fince 

 they peradvemure have over and above the hurt they ufe to do 

 them , a diifbrmity in their confutations : and therefore, 

 though a Larke will flic as well from a man as from a Hobbey, 

 yet becauie there is one caufe more for hisdiflikeagaintt the 

 Hobbey ,then again fi the man (namely the dirfbrmity of their 

 constitutions ) hee will flic into the mans hand, to avoid the 

 Hawkes talons. 



Unto fome of thefe caufes all antipathies may be reduced:and $ 

 the like reafon may be given for thefympathieswefeebetween OfSympi* 

 fome creatures. The little corporeities which iflue from the thic5 ' 

 one, have fuch a comformity with the temper of the other^that 

 it is thereby moved to joyn it ielfe unto the body from whence 

 they flow,and affe&eth unionwith it in that way, as it receiveth 

 the imprelfion. Ifthefmell dopleafeit, the beaft will aiwayes 

 be fmelling at it : if the taft,nothing (hall hinder it from feeding 

 upon it when it can reach it. The fifhermen upon the banke 

 over a<*ainft Newfound Land, do report that there flocked] a- 

 bout them a kind ot Bird , fo greedy of the fillies li vcrs which 

 they take there , as that to come at them and iced upon them; 

 they will fuffer the men to take them in their hands; and will 

 not flie away, as long as anyoftheirdefiredmeateis in their 

 eye : whence the French men that fifh there , do call them 

 Htfft Fejtt* The like power, a certain^ Wormehath with 

 Nightingales. 



And thus, you fee,how they are ftrong impreffions upon fen/e, 

 andnot any difcourle of reafon , that do governe bearts in their 

 aftions : for if their avoydin** men , did proceed from any faga- 

 cityia their nature , furely they would exerciic it , when imf _ 



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