OF BODIES.Chap.XXXVII. 4,15 



of trembling in one body, being to produce a like motion or a 

 trembling in another, ( as wee Ice in that ordinary example of 

 tuned firings, whereof the one is moved at the finking of the 

 other, by rcafbn of the firoake given to the ayre, which rinding 

 amovcableeafiiy moved with a mdtion of the fame tenour, 

 communicateth motion unto it) it followeththat the famafie 

 of the childe , being as it were well tuned to the fantafie of the 

 mother, and the mothers fantafie making a Ipeciall and a very 

 quicke motion in her owne whole body, (as wee fee that fud- 

 den paflions doe) this motion or trembling of the inother,muft 

 needs caufe the like motion and trembling in the childe, even 

 to the very fwiftneHe of the mothers motion. Now as we fee 

 when one blufheth, the blood cometh into his face, fb the blood 

 runneth in the mother to a certaine place, where flie is ftrucken 

 by the thing longed for : and the like happening to the childe, 

 the violence of that fudden motion, dyeth the marke or print of 

 the thing in the tender skin of it : the blood in fome mea- 

 fure pierting the skin, and not returning wholly into irs natu- 

 rallcourle: which effect is not permanent in the mother, be- 

 caule her skinne being harder , doth not receive the blood into 

 it, but icndeth it backe againe , without receiving a tindure 

 from it. 



Farre more eafie is it, to difcover the fecret caufe of many g t 



antipathies or f) mpathies, which are ften in children } and en- wiiy divers 

 dure with them the- greateft part, if not the whole terme of men lute fomc 

 their life, without any apparent ground for them : as fome doe Circamc t$ 

 not love cheefe, others garlike, others ducks, others divers o- "' 



ther khides of meate, wiiich their parents loved welJ j and yet 

 in token that this averhon is naturall unto them, and not ari- 

 fiag from ibmedinike accidentally taken and imprinted in their 

 fanrafie, they will be much harmed if they chance to eate any 

 fuch meate ; though by the much dilouifmg it, they neither 

 kno.v, nor fb much as fufpecl they have doue fb. The flory of 

 the lady HtH*age (who was of the bed-chamber to the late 

 Qneene Elintbetio) that had her cheeke biiftered by iaying a 

 rofe upon it wliiles fliee was afleepe, to try if her antipathy a- 

 gainft that flower, were fb great as ilieu led to pretend, is fa- 

 mous in the Court of England. A Kiniman of mine, whiles 



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