Century X. 
remote places from Rome. Howloever, the conceit of a predominance or 
maftering Spirit of onc Man overanother is ancient, and received ftill, even 
in vulgar opinion. 
' "There are conceits, that fome Men that are of an ill and melanckolly 
nature, do incline the company into which they come; to be fad and ill dif- 
| pofed; andcontrariwife, that others that are of a jovial nature do difpof: 
the companyto be merry and chearful : And again, that {ome Menarc lucky 
to be kept company with,and employed, and others unlucky, Certainly it 
qromreeronaties tot Studd wepietadt® site 
Spirit to Spirit when Men ‘are in ptefence one with another, as well as from 
| Body to Body. : | 
It hath been obferved, that old Men have loved young company, and 
(as it feemeth) being recreated by fuch company. Such were the Ancient 
| Sophiftsand Rhetoricians, which ever had yourg Auditors and Dilciple: 5 
| as Gorgias, Protagoras, Yfocrates, @c. who lived till they were an hundred years 
old; and fo likewife did many of the Grammiarians and S chool-maffers : Such as 
was Orbiliu, &c. ; 
Audacity and confidence doth, in civil bufineffes, fogreat effcét:; as a 
Man may (reafonably) doubr, that befides the very daring, and carneftnc{s, 
and perfifting, and importunity, there fhould be fome {ceret binding and 
ftooping of other Mens {pirits tofuchperfons.. | Be 
The Affeations (no doubt) do make the Spirits more powerful and ative; 
| Platonifts ((ome of them) go fo far, as to hoid, That the Spirit of the Lover 
doth pals into the Spirits of the perfon loved, which caufeth the defice of 
petite of contrac and conjunétion which isin Lovers. And this is obferved 
hkewife, that the Afpe&s that procure Love, are not gazings, but fudden 
‘glances and dartings of the Eye. As for Envy, that emiteeth fome malign 
and poifonous Spirits, which take hold of the Spiritof anothers and is like- 
Wile of greateft force, whenthe Caft ofthe Eyeis oblique. Ithath been no. 
ted alfo, That it is mot dangerous, where the envious Eyeiscaft upon per- 
fons in glory, and triumph, and joy. The reafon whereof is, for thatat fuch 
times the Spirits come forth moft intothe outward parts, and fo tn 
percuffion of the envious eye more at hand; and therefore it hath been no- 
ted, Thatafter great triumphs, Men have been ill difpofed for fome days 
following. We fee the opinion of Fafcination is ancient for both effects, of 
procuring Love, andficknefs caufed by Envy; and Fafcination is ever by 
the Eye. Butyet if there be any fuch infection from Spiritro Spirit, there 
is no doubr, but that it worketh by prefence, and not by the Eye alone, yet 
moft forcibly by the Eye. 
Fear and Shame are likewife infe@tive: For we feethat the ftarting ofone, 
will make anotherready toftart, and when one man is out of countenance 
in acompany, others dolikewife bluth in his behalf, | 
_ Now we will fpeak of the Force of Imagination upon other Bodies, and 
of the meanstoexalrandftrengthenit. Imagination, in this place, Tunder. 
ftand tobe the reprefentation of an Individual Thought. Imagination is of 
three Rindes ; the fir. joyned with Belief of that whichisto come; the fe- 
| cond, joyned with Memory of that which is paft; and the thicdis, of Things 
| prefent, or as if they were prefent: For I comprehend inthis, Imagination 
ee ___ feigned, 
is agreeable to reafon, that there are at the leaft fome light efflixions from - 
‘| beenconverfant continually with them, have beenoflonglife ; their Spirits 
| and cfpccially thofe AffeGions which draw the Spirits into the Eyes; which — 
atetwo, Loveand Envy, which is called Oculus Malus. As for Love, the |. 
return into the Body whence it was emitted, whereupon followeth that ap. 
eet the. 
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