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should thinJce such a Card, and after hade the Man 

 thinke a Card ? I told him, as was true ; That he did 

 first whisper the Man in the Bare that such a Man 

 should thinke such a Card : Upon this the Learned 

 Man did much Exult and Please himself, 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, hound his Thought. 

 Which though it did somewhat sinke with me, yet I 

 made it Lighter than I thought, and said; / thought 

 it was Confederacie, hetween the Juggler and the two 

 Servants: Though (indeed) I had no Reason so to 

 thinke: For they were both my Father^ s Servants: 

 And hee had never plaid in the House before. The 

 Juggler also did cause a Garter to be held up : And 

 tooke upon him to know that such an One should 

 pointe in such a Place of the Garter ; As it should be 

 neare so many Inches to the Longer End, and so 

 many to the Shorter ; And still he did it, by First 

 Telling the Imaginer, and after Bidding the Actour 

 thinke." 



We cannot doubt that a weak and uncertain person 

 may receive some of the energy in which he is deficient 

 from one who is firmer than himself; and it is not less 

 true that a man may acquire both resolution and 

 imaginative power from the confidence of others; 

 and therefore it is not impossible for the juggler to 

 have received an increase of power sufficient to com- 



