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V different. plaps,' tod thofe often diftant from one another, abow e 
^all hundred ^nd twenty Leagues, do aH ki 
And, as to the bilious ^plm ■ 
" vene :^ith the JelloV/ liquor and render it veno^^^ helaith, That : 
^ th^'^is nothing but the angred Spirits under a dirguife; 
Now towhing the enraged Spirits of Vipers , our Author, , 
though he cans thenr Spiritual, or not Material, and maketh their 
Venom not vifible nor palpable, yet certainly he will beunder- 
ftoodtofpeakfoin coniparifoii to the Jellow liquor, which is a 
wfibLe body ; for, 'tis beyond ^11 doubt, that thofe irritated Spi- 
rits are corpufcles, though not fnch as may be feea and handled 
like the faid liquor, nor fuch as you may affign a particular place 
toin the body of the Viper, where they lodge ; though it may be ^ 
iaid, tliat. being raifed and fevered either f om the mafs of the 
b-oud, at rather from the whole habit of the body, they rende- 
VGuzeinrhe head, being ftir red up by the concuffion and great 
commotion, which the Viper feels in her whole body when vexed; 
thereupon follov/s an eagernefs of being revenged for the ill 
done them, and thenaquickandfery aflion of the Spirits thus : 
enraged.. Nor can he mean , that thefe Spirits have neither place 
nor extenfion ; for, how cQuld they part from the' Viper without 
havjngbeen in her body ; and,how could they enter into the bod^ 
of the Animal bitteawithoutbelngtheree. 
Further, to illuftratehis notion of the Idea of the Viper for 
"Revenge,, he alledgeth the imagination df terrourby a Toad im- 
prefTed iaa Ferret, which having feea and been feen by that ugly 
, Animal at a certain feafon of the year, and that alwaies in Summer^,; , 
cannot avoid running round about it , cry ing out ''aloiid is if it- r 
caird for fuccour, whilft the Toad remains unfnov'd with its 
throat opeuj and being at length,, by that imagination, forced to 
fi^rrendej it felf into that throat as he affirms to. haVe fteh him- 
felf, and to have even kili'd the Toad at that very inftant, dad fo 
^ faved the Ferret, which ran away .He alledget h likewife a Mad Dog 
Who can communicate his malignity to alLforts of Animals, none 
excepted: And why not then Vipers, conveigh their angry Spi- 
rits into fuch Animals as they meet with/ and by them kill thofe 
they have bitten ? Which, he faith, they execute by the perturba- 
f ionand corruption, they introduce in the whole mafs of blqud^ 
f jrafmuch as they obftru^t the circulation and coiamunication of 
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