Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            right, Starting, and Scrieching. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6447" xml:space="preserve">The Paleneſs is cauſed, for that the Blood
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            runneth in ward to ſuccor the Heart. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6448" xml:space="preserve">The Trembling is cauſed, for that
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            through the flight of the Spirits in ward, the out ward parts are deſtituted, and
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            not ſuſtained. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6449" xml:space="preserve">Standing upright of the Hair is cauſed, for that by ſhutting
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            of the Pores of the Skin, the Hair that lyeth aſloap muſt needs riſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6450" xml:space="preserve">Starting
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            is both an apprehenſion of the thing feared, (and in that kinde it is a motion
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            of ſhrinking;) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6451" xml:space="preserve">and likewiſe an Inquiſition in the beginning what the matter
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            ſhould be, (and in that kinde it is a motion of Erection;) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6452" xml:space="preserve">and therefore
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            when a Man would liſten ſuddenly to any thing, he ſtarteth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6453" xml:space="preserve">for the ſtart-
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            ing is an Erection of the Spirits to attend. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6454" xml:space="preserve">Scrieching is an appetite of ex-
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            pelling that which ſuddenly ſtriketh the Spirits. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6455" xml:space="preserve">For it muſt be noted, that
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            many Motions, though they be unprofitable to expel that which hurteth,
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            yet they are Offers of Nature, and cauſe Motions by Conſent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6456" xml:space="preserve">as in Groan-
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            ing, or Crying upon Pain.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6458" xml:space="preserve">Grief and Pain, cauſe Sighing, Sobbing, Groaning, Screaming, and Roar-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0184-01" xlink:href="note-0184-01a" xml:space="preserve">714.</note>
            ing, Tears, Diſtorting of the Face, Grinding of the Teeth, Sweating. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6459" xml:space="preserve">Sighing
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            is cauſed by the drawing in of a greater quantity of Breath to reſreſh the
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            Heart that laboreth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6460" xml:space="preserve">like a great draught when one is thirſty. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6461" xml:space="preserve">Sobbing is
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            the ſame thing ſtronger. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6462" xml:space="preserve">Groaning, and Screaming, and Roaring, are cauſed
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            by an appetite of Expulſion, as hath been ſaid; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6463" xml:space="preserve">for when the Spirits cannot
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            expel the thing that hurteth in their ſtrife to do it, by Motion of Conſent
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            they expel the Voice. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6464" xml:space="preserve">And this is when the Spirits yield, and give over to
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            reſiſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6465" xml:space="preserve">for if one do conſtantly reſiſt Pain, he will not groan. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6466" xml:space="preserve">Tears are cauſed
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            by a Contraction of the Spirits of the Brain; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6467" xml:space="preserve">which Contraction by conſe-
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            quence aſtringeth the Moiſture of the Brain, and thereby ſendeth Tears into
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            the Eyes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6468" xml:space="preserve">And this Contraction or Compreſſion cauſeth alſo Wringing of
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            the Hands; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6469" xml:space="preserve">for Wringing is a Geſture of Expreſſion of Moiſture. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6470" xml:space="preserve">The Diſ-
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            torting of the Face is cauſed by a Contention, firſt, to bear and reſiſt, and then
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            to expel; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6471" xml:space="preserve">which maketh the Parts knit firſt, and after wards open. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6472" xml:space="preserve">Grinding
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            of the Teeth is cauſed (likewife) by a Gathering and Serring of the Spirits
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            together to reſiſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6473" xml:space="preserve">which maketh the Teeth alſo to ſet hard one againſt an-
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            other, Sweating is alſo a Compound Motion by the Labor of the Spirits, firſt
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            to reſiſt, and then to expel.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6475" xml:space="preserve">Joy cauſeth a Chearſulneſs and Vigor in the Eyes, Singing, Leaping, Dan-
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            cing, and ſometimes Tears. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6476" xml:space="preserve">All theſe are the effects of the Dilatation and
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            coming forth of the Spirits into the outward parts, which maketh them
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            more lively and ſtirring. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6477" xml:space="preserve">We know it hath been ſeen, that Exceſſive ſud-
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            den Joy hath cauſed preſent Death, while the Spirits did ſpred ſo much as
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            they could not retire again. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6478" xml:space="preserve">As for Tears, they are the effects of Compreſ-
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            ſion of the Moiſture of the Brain, upon Dilatation of the Spirits. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6479" xml:space="preserve">For Com-
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            preſſion of the Spirits worketh an Expreſſion of the Moiſture of the Brain by
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            conſent, as hath been ſaid in Grief: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6480" xml:space="preserve">But then in Joy it worketh it diverſly,
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            viz. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6481" xml:space="preserve">By Propulſion of the Moiſture, when the Spirits dilate, and occupy more
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            room.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6483" xml:space="preserve">Anger cauſeth Paleneſs in ſome, and the going and coming of the colour
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0184-03" xlink:href="note-0184-03a" xml:space="preserve">716.</note>
            in others; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6484" xml:space="preserve">alſo Trembling in ſome, Swelling, Foaming at the Mouth, Stamp-
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            ing, Bending of the Fiſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6485" xml:space="preserve">Palenels, and Going, and Coming of the Colour,
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            are cauſed by the Burning of the Spirits about the Heart; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6486" xml:space="preserve">which to reſreſh
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            themſelves, call in more Spirits from the out ward parts. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6487" xml:space="preserve">And if the Paleneſs
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            be alone, without ſending forth the colour again, it is commonly joyned
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            with ſome fear: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6488" xml:space="preserve">But in many there is no Paleneſs at all, but contrariwiſe
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            Redneſs about the Cheeks and Gils; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6489" xml:space="preserve">which is by the ſending forth of </s>
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