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motion to that must as naturally imply dislike, or 

 dissent, or resentment.'' 



"And who, I pray you, that is well versed in 

 Philosophy, does affect to behold the cold effects of 

 common Actions, without a Discourse of their causes 

 and intrinsicall Agents, the Soule and the Muscles ? 

 Since that is familiar to Sense, and so by con- 

 sequence to Beasts. But this is subjected to the 

 Intellect, to-wit, the Internall Principal of man, 

 wherefore we will think it a thing worthy to be 

 corrected with the whip of Ignorance, if any rashly 

 plunge himself into the Muscular Sea of Corporal 

 Anatomy, or of the outward man, without any 

 mention of the Internall man, since the Soule only is 

 the Opifex of all the movings of the Muscles, whose 

 invisible Acts are made manifest by their operations 

 in those parts into which they are inserted. Not 

 that any perfection or exact knowledge of this 

 nature can be acquired ; since the wisdome of the 

 Creator in the fearefull and wonderfull structure of 

 the Head is not yet fully found out, although it has 

 beene sought after by illustrious men, with much 

 Piety and Deligence" (Introductory chapter, p. 10). 



" Of the Muscles serving to the generall expres- 

 sions, or most important motions of the Face or 

 Countenance. 



" Many are the affections of the Mind that appeare 

 in the significant motions of the Face, even when 

 the Bones are at rest ; for whereas some parts of 

 our skin are altogether immovable and pertinacious 

 in their circumduction over the subjacent parts ; 

 other parts thereof versatile indeed, but they are 



