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afflict it, as good ones help it. Indeed the 

 Moon rules the bulk of it, as also the sensi- 

 tive part of it : Mercury the rational part : 



So that it is one of the surest rules to 

 know a man's own complexion, by hia 

 dreams, I mean a n an void of distractions, 



and that's the reason, if in a nativity the j or deep studies : (this most assuredly shews 

 Moon be stronger than Mercury, sense many \ Mercury to dispose of the Imagination, as 

 times over-powers reason; but if Mercury \ also because it is mutable, applying itself to 

 be strong, and the Moon weak, reason will j any object, as Mercury's nature is to do;) for 

 be master ordinarily in despite of sense. j then the imagination will follow its old bent; 



It is divided into Intellective, and Sen- j for if a man be bent upon a business, his 

 sitive. : apprehension will work as much when he is 



1. Intellective.'] The Intellectual resides j asleep, and find out as many truths by study, 

 in the brain, within the Pia mater, is govern- | as when the man is awake; and perhaps 

 ed generally by Mercury. \ more too, because then it is not hindered 



It is divided into Imagination, Judgment, j by ocular objects, 

 and Memory. And thus much for imagination, which is 



Imagination is seated in the forepart of 

 the brain ; it is hot and dry in quality, 



governed by Mercury, and fortified by his 

 influence ; and is also strong or weak in 



quick, active, always working ; it receives \ man, according as Mercury is strong or 

 vapours from the heart, and coins them into i weak in the nativity. 



thoughts : it never sleeps, but always is 



Judgment is seated in the midst of th 



working, both when the man is sleeping and i! brain, to shew that it ought to bear rule ovei 

 waking; only when Judgment is awake it jail the other faculties: it is the judge of the 

 regulates the Imagination, which runs at { little world, to approve of what is good, 

 random when Judgment is asleep, and forms | and reject what is bad; it is the seat of 

 any thought according to the nature of the j reason, and the guide of actions; so that all 

 vapour sent up to it. Mercury is out of; failings are committed through its infirmity, 

 question the disposer of it. j it not rightly judging between a real and 



A man may easily perceive his Judg-jan apparent good. It is hot and moist 

 ment asleep before himself many times, and Jin quality, and under the influence of 

 then he shall perceive his thoughts run all Jupiter. 



Memory is seated in the hinder cell of the 

 brain, it is the great register to the little 



random. 



Judgment always sleeps when men do, i 



Imagination never sleeps; Memory some- j world ; and its office is to record things 

 times sleeps when men sleep, and sometimes j either done and past, or to be done, 

 it doth not: so then when memory is awake, i It is in quality cold and dry, melancholic, 

 and the man asleep, then memory remem- 1 and therefore generally melancholic men 

 bers what apprehension coins, and that is a i have best memories, and most cenacious 

 dream: The thoughts would have been the! every way. It is under the dominion of 

 same, if memory had not been awake to re-i Saturn, and is fortified by his influence, but 

 member it. | purged by the luminaries. 



These thoughts are commonly (I mean in | 2. Sensitive.'] The second part of the ani- 

 sleep, when they are purely natural,) framed 1 mal virtue, is sensitive, and it is divided into 

 according to the nature of the humour, t two parts, common and particular, 

 called complexion, which is predominate in j Common sense is an imaginary term, 

 the body; and if the humour be peccant it j and that which gives virtue to all the par- 



jticular senses, and knits and unites them 



