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bottle from Sir George Hafting* to 

 Sir Henry Wotton (they were both 

 chimical men^ as a great prefent; 

 but upon enquiry, I found it did not 

 anfwer the expectation of Sir Henry r , 

 which with the help of other cir- 

 cumftances, makes me have little 

 belief in fuch things as many men 

 talk of; not but that I think fifties 

 both fmell and hear (as I have ex- 

 preft in my former difcourfe) but 

 there is a myfterious knack, which 

 (though it be much eafier then the 

 Philofophers-Stone, yet) is not a- 

 tainable by common capacities, or 

 elfe lies locked up in the braine or 

 breft of fome chimical men, that, 

 like the Roft-crutions, yet will not re- 

 veal it. But I ftepped by chance in- 

 to this difcourfe of Giles, and fifties 

 fmelling; and though there might 

 be more faid, both of it, and of baits 

 for Roch and Dace, and other flote 

 fifti, yet I will forbear it at this time, 

 and tell you in the next place how 

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