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Perfons of neare Bloud • As Parents, Children, Brothers, sijters , NjtrCe- 
Children, Husbands , Wiues,&cc. There be many Reports in Hijlory , chat 
vpon the Dwfl) of Perfons of fuch Nearene fie,haul had an inward 
Feeling of it. I my Selfe remember, that being in and my Father 
dying in London , two or three dayes before my Fathers death, I had a 
Dreame. which Itoldtodiuers Englijh Gentlemen • That my Fathers 
Houfe in the Co untrey , was plajlere'd all oner with Blache Mortar. There 
is an Opinion abroad, (whether Idle or no I cannot fay,) That louing 
and kinde Husbands, haue a Senfe of their wines Breeding childejby fome 
Occident in their owne Bodie. 
Next to thofe that are Neare in Bloud , there may be the like Pa If age, 
and InflinBs of Ah?r#r£,betweene great Friends ^ndEnemies:!\n.d{'ome~ 
times the Renealing is vnto Another Perfon, and nor to the Party Him- 
felfe. I remember Philippus Commineus , (agraue Writer,) reported^ 
That the Arch-Bifhop of Vienna, (a ReuerendPrelate,)fc\k\(ono day)after 
fldaffe, to King Lewis the eleuenth of France • SiryourMortallEnemieis 
dead • VVhat time Duke Charles of Burgundy was S!uine,at the Batted of 
Granfon,again{ftheSwitzers. Some triallalfo would be made,whether 
PaB or Agreement doe any thing • As if two Friends fhouid agree, that 
filch a Day in euery weeke, they being in farre DiJlantPlaces,\hould Pray 
one for Another ; Or fhouid put on a Ring, or Tablet , one for another: 
Sake ; Whether if one of them fhouid breake their and Ppmifi. 
the other fhould'haiie any Feeling of it, in Abfence. 
If there be any Force in Imaginations and AjfeRions of singular Per 4 
fins- It is Probable the Force is much more in the Ioynt Imaginations and! 
Affections of Multitudes : As ifariBory fhouid be won, or loi\,in Remote 
Parts , whether is there not fome Senfe thereof, in the People whom it 
concerncth; Becaufe of the great Joy or Griefe, that many Men are pof- 
feft with,at once? PiusSfuintus, at the very time, when that Memora¬ 
ble ViBory was won, by the chrijlians, again# the Turkes , at the Nauallj 
BattedoiLepanto, being then hearing of Caufes in Confijlory, brake off 
fiiddenly,and faid to thofe about him; It is now more time,we fhouidgiue 
thankes to God for the greatViBory he hathgraunted vsagainji theTurkes.fi 
is true, that ViBory had a Sympathy with nis spirit , For it was meerely 
his Worke, to conclude that League At may be, that Reflation was Di- 
uine ; But what {hall wc fay then, to a Number , of Examples, among# 
the Grecians , and Romans ? Where the People,being in Theaters at Plaies 
haue had Newes of Victories , and Ouerthrowes, fome few dayes, before 
any Mejfenger could come. 
Ids true, chat chat may hold in thefe Things, which h 
the general! Rootot Superflition: Namely, that Men obferue 
when Things Hit 3 and not when they Mijfe: And commit 
to Memory the one, And forget and pafTe ouer the other. 
But touching Diumtion , and the Mifgiumg of Mindes , wee 
fhall 
