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Concerning, 

 the ptovidcoct 

 of Aunts ta 

 laying up in 

 ftorc fat trip* 



ten 



obligetii tne parents to change the Nurfe, though peradven- 

 ture they know nothing of the true reafon that makcth her 

 milke unnatural!) he hathadiflikeofCheefe (which is ftrong 

 curdled milk)ever after fetrled in him ; as people that have orcc 

 fur felted violently ofanymeate, IcJdomc arrive to brookeic 

 againe. 



Now, as concerning thofe Animals who Jay up in Hore for 

 wimer,and Teem therein tc exercilc a rational! providence jwho 

 teeth not_, that it is the lame humour, which mcveth rich mifers 

 to heap wp wealth,even at their Jaft Jafp^when they have no child 

 nor friend to give it to, nor think or making any body tbeir 

 heires ? Which actions becaufe they have no reafbn in them, are 

 to be imputed to the paflion or motion of the material! appe- 

 tite. In the doing of them , thefe fteppes may be observed ; 

 firtt theobjed: preienring it f^Ife to the Eye.provoketh !oveand 

 dehre of it 5 efpecially if it be joyned with the memory of for- 

 mer want : then this defire fljrreth up the animall (after he hath 

 fedhimfeJfe) to gather into the place of his chief residence, as 

 irrachofthatdefiredohjeclashemeetcth withall ; and when- 

 foever his hunger returning, bringeth back into his fantafy the 

 memory of his meate, it being joyned with the memory of that 

 place (if he be abient from it ) heprefently repaireth thither, 

 for relief of what prefleth him : (and thus D os when they are 

 Imngry, do rake for bones they had hidden when tbeir bellies 

 wer.2 full. ) Now if this food., gathered by fuch providence 

 (which is nothing cl/e, but the conformity of it, working upon 

 him by his lenfe ) and layedupintheplace, where the owner 

 of it refideth, (as the corne is,which die Aunts gather in dim- 

 mer ) be eafily portable, lie will carry it abroad with him the 

 firtt time he fHrreth after a long keeping in ; for then nothing 

 worketh fb powerfully in his fantafy, as hisftore;and he will 

 not eafily part from it , though other circumftance* invite him 

 abroad. From hence it proceedeth, that when a faire day com- 

 meth after long fowlc weather, the Aunts, wlio all that while 

 kept clo/e in their denncs with their corne lying by them, do 

 then conoe abroad in the Sun, and do carry their ^graine along 

 with t 'lerri : or perad v enture k happeneth, becauie the prece- 

 dent wet weather, bath made it grow hot, otmufty,orother- 



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