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kinde of juggler that had a paire of cards, and would 

 tell a man what card he thought. This pretended 

 learned man told mee, it was a mistaking in mee, for 

 (said hee) it was not the knowledge of the man's thought 

 for that is proper to God, but it was the inforcing of a 

 thought upon him, and binding his imagination by a 

 stronger, that hee could thinke no other card. And 

 thereupon hee asked me a question or two which I 

 thought hee did but cunningly, knowing before what used 

 to be the feats of the juggler. Sir (said hee), doe you 

 remember whether hee told the card the man thought 

 himselfe, or bade another to tell it ? I answered (as was 

 true) that hee bade another tell it. Whereunto, hee said, 

 so I thought, for (said hee) himselfe could not have put 

 on so strong an imagination ; but by telling the other 

 the card (who beleaved that the j uggler was some strange 

 man and could doe strange things) that other man 

 caught a strong imagination. I hearkened unto him, 

 thinking for a vanitie hee spoke prettily. . Then hee asked 

 me another question : saithe hee, doe you remember 

 whether hee bade the man thinke the card first, and after- 

 wards told the other man in his eare what hee should 

 thinke, or else that hee did whisper first in the man's eare 

 that should tell the card, telling that such a man should 

 thinke such a card, and after bade the man thinke a 

 card ? I told him, as was true, that hee did first whisper 

 the man in the eare, that such a man should thinke such 

 a card. Upon this the learned man did much exult, 

 and please himselfe, saying, loe you may see that my 

 opinion is right : for if the man had thought first, his 

 thought had been fixed ; but the other imagining first, 

 bound his thoughts. Which, though it did somewhat 

 sinke with me, yet I made it lighter than I thought, and 

 said, I thought it was a confederacie between the juggler 



