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_ |Oyntment, fach Ingredients as do make the Spirits d little more grofs or | 
~ |mnuddy, whereby the Imagination will fix rhe better. 
. The Body Paffive, andto be wrought upon, (L mein notof the Ima-| 955. 
 |gimant) is better wrought upon (as hath been partly touched) at fome times 
~ |ehen at others; Asif you fhould prefcribe a fervant about a fick perfon, 
(whom you have poffeifed char his Matter fhallrecover) when his Matter is 
‘|fafkafleep, toute fuch a Root, or fuch a Roor.. For Imagination is like to | 
work betrer upon {leeping men; then men awake; as we fhall fhew when we | 
handle Dreams. | | | 
. “Wefindeinthe Art of Memory, that Images vifible work better then other! 956, 
conceits; Asif you would remember the word Philofophy, you fhall more ; 
furely do it by imagining that fuch a Min (for Men are beft places) is read- 
ing upon Arifferles Phyficks, then if you fhould imaginehim to fay, 7 wil 
go ftudy Philofophy. And therefore this obfervation would be tranflaced to the | 
{ubjeG& we now (peak of ; for the moreluftrousthe Imaginatiov is, it fillech 
and fixeththe betcer. And therefore! conceive, tharyou fhallin that Experi- | 
ment (whereof we {pake before) of binding of thoughts, lefs fail, if you tell 
one that fuch an one fhall name one of twenty men, then if it were one of | 
twenty Cards. The Experiment of binding of thoughts would be diverfified | 
andtried tothe full: And youare co note, whetherir hit for themoft part; | 
_| though not always. Sid henioios ww Hess) || 
tis good toconfider upon what things Imagination hath moft force : |, 
And the rule (as I conceive) is, that ic hath rhoft force upon thingsthat have | 
thelighteft and eafieft motions ; and therefore: above all uponthe Spirits of | 
Men, and in them upon fuch affections:as move lighteft:' As upon procuriog | 
of Love, binding of Lu, ‘which is’ ever with Imagination upoa Men-ia), 
| fear, or Men in ircefolution, and the like r~Whacfoever ‘is ofthis -kinde | 
| would be throughly enquired. Tryalslikewile wouldsbemade upon Piants,)} 
| and char diligently: Asif you fhould tell a man chat fuch a Tree would die | | 
-| this year, andwillhim atthefe and thefetimes ro go unto it, tolfee haw it 
. thrivech, As for inanimate things, itis true, that ‘the motionsiof {huffing 
of Cirds, ot calting of Dice, are very: light motions: and there is 1a folly’ 
| very ufeful, That Game(ters imagine, thac fome that ftand by them) ‘bring 
them ill luck. There would be’ tryal alfomade; ‘of holding a Ringby:a J. 
| thred in a GlaG, and telling him that holdeth it before; that it fhall ftrike for} | 
many times againtt the fide of the Glalsy and'no more;::or of holdinga Key} 
| between two-Mens fingers *witlhout acharms and to telkthofechat hold it, | | 
| that at fuch aname it fhall go off their fingers. For thefe two are extream | 
|light.motions, , And howfoever, I have no opinionof thele'things, .yet fo} 
much Iconceive tobe true; That {trong Imaginationhath more foreeupon’ 
| things living, or that have beenliving, ‘then things meerly inanimate; : and“ 
| more force likewife upon light and fubril motions, theriupon motions vehe~ 
mentor ponderous. 6 225.5 8S i: bioteinest bh yanisqo 704 
_ «> cis anufual obfervation, Thatif the Body of onemurthered be brought’| 
before the Murtherer, the wounds will bleed afreth. -Some‘do affirmy:. That 
_|the dead Body, upon the prefence of the Murtheree hath openedithé eyes 5 
_\ and that there have beenfuch like motions as well where the partyimurthered 
_j hath been ftrangled or drowned, as where they have been killed by wounds. 
-\Ic-may be thar, chis participareth of a ‘niiracle, by Gods.juft judgment, -who’ 
_\ufually brings murthers to@light, Bucifinbe Natural,’ itmatt be referred to 
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