Qentury X. 



ration , or 'Binding, or Changing the Spirit of J notber \ And ffi this it 

 is hard (as we began to fay ) co make any New Experiment ; for I 

 cannot command my felf toBekeve what I will, andfonoTraJ 

 can be made: Nay it is worfe » Forwhatfoever a Man Imagined 

 doubt'mgly, or with F<? dr, muft needs doe hurt, if Imagination have a- 

 ny Tower at all: for a Mi« reprefenteth that oftn e r,that he fea rcth, 

 than the contrary. 



The' help therefore is, for a Man to work by Another, in 

 whom he may Create Belief, and not by Himfelf j until! Hiw/elf 

 have found by Experience, that Imagination doth prevail : for then 

 Experience worketh in Himjelf Belief tfthe Belief, that fuch a Ti/wg 

 (hall be, be joy ned with a Belief that his Imagination may pro- 

 cure it. 



For example, 1 related one time to a that was Curious and Vain 

 enough in thefe Things, I faw a kind of Jugler, that had a Pair of Cards, 

 and would tell a Man what Card he thought. 1 'his Pretended learned Man told 

 me , It was a miftaking in me ; For (laid he) |> was not the Knowledge of the 

 Mans Thought(for that is proper to God) but it aw/fo Inferring of a Thought 

 uponhim, and Bindi ng his Imagination by a Stronger , that he could Think no 

 other Card . And thcrupon he asked me a Queftion or two, which I thought 

 he did but cunningly, knowing before what ufed to be thef^of the 

 Jugler. Sir ({aid he ) do you remember whether he told the Card, the Man thought, 

 Himfelf , or bade Another to tell it ? I anfwered (as was true ) That he bade 

 Another tell it. Wnereunto he faid, So I thought : For (/ aid he) Himfelf could 

 not haye put onfoftrongan Imagination ; But by telling the other the Card ( who 

 beleeved that the Jugler was fome Strange hAa.n,and could do ftrange Things) that 

 other Man caught a strong Imagination. I hearkened unto him , thinking for 

 a Vanitie he fpake prettily. Then he a^ked me another Jjhteflion: Saith he, 

 Do you remember , whether he bade the Man think the Card firfl , and afterwards 

 told the other Man in his Ear what he jjjould think ; Or elf e that he did whifper firft 

 in the Wians Ear, that ftjould tell the Card, telling that fuch a Man fhould think 

 fuch a Card , and after bade the Man think a Card ? I told him (as was true,) 

 That he did firfi whifper the Man in the Ear, that fuch a Man fhould think fuch a 

 Card: Upon this the Learned Mandid much Expand Pleafe himfelf,fay- 

 idg ; Lo i you may fee that my Opinion is right : For if the Man had thought firfi, 

 his Thought had been fixed : But the other Imagining fi 'rebound his Thought, 

 Which though', it did fomewhat fink with me, yet I made it Lighter man 

 I thought, and faid / thought it was Confederacie between the Jugler , and 

 thetwo Servants : Though (indeed ) I had no Rea fon fo to think : For 

 they were both my Fathers fervants ; And he had never plaid in the Houfe 

 before. The Jugler alfo did caufc a Garter to be held up ; And took upon 

 him, to know, that fuch an One, fhould point in fuch a Place of the Garter ; 

 As it fhould be near fo many Inches to the Longer end, and fo many to the 

 Shorter-^ And ft ill he did it 3 by Firfi T elling the lmagincr , and after Bidding 

 the AHour Think. 



Having told this (Relation, not for the Weight thereof , but bc- 

 caufe it doth handfbmly open thcNatnre of the Queflion,! return to 

 I T 2 that 



