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fell fpeakc more, when we handle in general], the Nature 
Minds,and Soules,and Spirits. 
We hauc giuen formerly fonte Rules of Imagination ; And couching 
the Fortifying of the Same. We haue fee downe alfo fome few Inflames, 
and Directions, of the Force of Imagination, vpon Beafts, Birds , &c. vpon 
Plants, Andvpon Inanimate Bodies : Wherein you mud dill obferue, 
that youxTrmlsbc \ponsubtillandLigbtMotions,md not the contrary; 
For you will iboncr,bylmagination,bmdc aBird fromS/«g/A£,than from. 
Eating. \ or Flying , And I leaue it toeuery Man, to choole Experiments, 
whicn himlelfe thinkethmod Commodious; Giuing now but a few 
Examples ofeuery of the Three Kindes. 
Vfcfome Imaginant, (obferuing the Rules formerly prelcribed,) for 
Binding ofa Bird from Binging ; And the like of a Dog from Barking.Ttie 
alfo die Imagination of fome,whom you fhal accommodate with things 
to forcifie it, in Cockc-fights, to make one Cocke more Hardy ,and the o- 
ther more Cowardly, ft would be tried alfo in Plying of Hawkes ^ Or in 
Courfing of a Deere, ox Hare, with Grey-Hounds ; Or in Horfe-Races", And 
the like Comparatiue Motions :For you may fooner by Imagination , quic¬ 
ken or flacke a Motim, than raife or ceafcit •, As it is ealier to make a 
Dog goe (lower, than to make him (land (till that he may not runne. 
in plants alfo,;you may trie the Force of Imagination^ vpon the Lighter 
• Sort of Motions : As vpon the Sudden Fading , or L iuely Comming vp of 
Herbs ; Or vpon their Bending one way, or other ; Of vpon their c/o- 
fing, and Opening • &c. 
Pox Inanimate Things, you may trie the Force of Imagination, vpon 
Staying the Working of Beere, when the Barme is put in •, Or vpon the 
Comming of Butter , or Cheefr , after the Cher ming, or the Rennet bee 
putin. 
It is anAncientT radition,c uery where alleaged,for Example o£Secret 
Proprieties and influxes,that the Torpedo Marina,it it be touched with a 
long Sticke,doth ftupefiethe/iWofhim that toucheth it.lt is one de¬ 
gree of working at Dijlancc, to worke by the Continuance of a F ItMedi- 
! urn ; As Sound, will bcconueyed to the Eare, by ftriking vpon a Bow- 
String, if the Horne of the Bow be held to the Eare . 
T h c writers of Naturall Magi eke, doc attribute much to the Venues, 
that come from the Parts of Lining Creatures ; So as they be taken from 
them, the Creatures remaining dill aliue ; As if the Creature dill liuing 
did infufe foxncImmateriateVertue,*nd Vigour, into the Part Seuered.S o 
much may be true •, that any Part, taken from a Lining Creature, newly 
sUine, may be of greater force, than if it were taken from the like Crea¬ 
ture, dyin<r ofit Selfe , becaufe itis fuller of spirit s 
Trial! would be made, of the like Parts of Indiuidualls, in Plants, and 
Liuing Creatures ; As to cut off a Stocke of a Tree ; And to lay that,which 
you cut off, to Putrifte, to fee whether it will Decay the Red of the 
\ Stocke: Or ifyoufhouldcutoffpartof the Taile^ or Legge of tcDogge, 
