I £cntury. X. 
Fora Atoreprelcnceththac ofener, that he fcarech, than the 
contrary. 
The Hclpe therefore is, for a Man to workc by Another , in 
whom hce may Create Bdeefe , and not by Himjelfe *, Vntill 
Himjelfe haue found by Experience , that Imagination doth 
preuaile; For then Experience workethin Himjelfe Beleefe ; if 
the Beleefe i that fucha T/6/’a^ (hall be, be ioyned with a Beleefe t 
that his Imagination may procure it. 
For Example • I related one time to a Man , that was Curious, and 
Vaine enough in thtfe Things; Thatlfiwa Kinde of lugler, tbathada 
Paire ofC ards * and would tell a Man what Card he thought. This Preten¬ 
ded Learned Man told me; It was a Miftaking in Me; For (f aid he ) it 
was not the Knowledge of the Mans Thought, (for that is proper to God,) 
but it was the Inforcing of a Thought vpon him s and Binding his Imagi¬ 
nation by a Stronger, tLw he could, Thinke no other Card. And thereup¬ 
on he asked me a QjeJlion, or two,which I thought he did but cunning¬ 
ly,knowing before what vfed to be the Feats of the lugler.Sir , ( (aid he ,) 
doe you remember whether he told the Cardie Man thought or 
bade Another to tell it. I anfwered (as was true; ) That he bade Another 
tellit. Whereuntohe faid; So 1 thought: For(faidhe ) Himftlfe could not 
haue put on fojlrong ^Imagination^#* by telling the other theG&xd^who 
bcleeued that the Ingler was fome Strange Man, and could doe Strange 
Things,) that other Man caught aJlrong Imagination. 1 harkened vnto 
him,thinking for aVanity he fpoke prettily. Then he asked me another 
Sluefion: Saith he, Doe you remember whether he bade the Man thinke the 
Card firjl,and afterwards told the other Man in bis E are, what hee fhoutd 
thinke , O r elfe that he did whi (per firjl in the Mans Eare^ that jhould tell the 
Card, telling that fucha b\ m Jhould thinke fucha Card, and after bade the 
Man thinke a Card ? I told him, as was true ; That he did firjl whifper the 
Man in the Eareyhat fuch a Man jhould thinkefuch a Card; Vpon this the 
Learned Man did much Exult, andPleafe himfelfe, faying; Loe % you 
mayfee that wyOpinion is right:For if the Man had thought firjl ,hisT bought 
had beene Fixsd-fut the other I magining fir Unbound his Thought. Which 
though it did fomewhacTinke with mee, yet I made Lighter than I 
thought, and faid •, I thought it was Confederate, betweene the Iugler, 
and the two Sernants: Though (Indeed ) I had no Reafon fo to thinke; 
For they were both my F^tW/Seruants; And he hadneuer plaid in the I 
Houfe before. The luglera.\i'o did cau!ca Garter to be held vp . And 
tooke vpon him, to know,that fuch a 0«e,fhould point in fuch a fW, 
of the Garter • As it fhould be neare fomany Inches to the Longer End % 
and f© many to the shorter •, And ftill he did it, by Firjl Ttiling the Ima- 
giner , and after Bidding the Ad or Thinke. 
I Hauing told this Relation , not for the Weight thereof* but 
! becauie > 
