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but do further disclose the present humour and state of the 

 mind and will. For as your Majesty saith most aptly and 

 elegantly, 'As the tongue speaketh to the ear, so the 

 gesture speaketh to the eye/ And therefore a number of 

 subtle persons, whose eyes do dwell upon the faces and 

 fashions of men, do well know the advantage of this 

 observation, as being most part of their ability; neither 

 can it be denied but that it is a great discovery of dissimu- 

 lations, and a great direction in business. 



The latter branch, touching Impression, hath not been 

 collected into art, but hath been handled dispersedly ; and 

 it hath the same relation or antistrophe that the former 

 hath. For the consideration is double : Either how, and 

 how far the humours and affects of the body do alter or 

 work upon the mind; or again, how and how far the 

 passions or apprehensions of the mind do alter or work 

 upon the body. The former of these hath been inquired 

 and considered as a part and appendix of Medicine, but 

 much more as a part of Religion or Superstition. For the 

 physician prescribeth cures of the mind in phrensies and 

 melancholy passions; and pretendeth also to exhibit 

 medicines to exhilarate the mind, to confirm the courage, 

 to clarify the wits, to corroborate the memory, and the 

 like ; but the scruples and superstitions of diet and other 

 regiment of the body in the sect of the Pythagoreans, in 

 the heresy of the Manicheans, and in the law of Mahomet, 

 do exceed. So likewise the ordinances in the Ceremonial 

 Law, interdicting the eating of the blood and the fat, 

 distinguishing between beasts clean and unclean for meat, 

 are many and strict. Nay the faith itself being clear and 

 serene from all clouds of Ceremony, yet retaineth the use 

 of fastings, abstinences, and other macerations and humilia- 

 tions of the body, as things real, and not figurative. The 

 root and life of all which prescripts is, (besides the 

 ceremony,) the consideration of that dependency which 

 the affections of the mind are submitted unto upon the 

 state and disposition of the body. And if any man of 

 weak judgment do conceive that this suffering of the mind 

 from the body doth either question the immortality or 



