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

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            Fourthly, That the object of it is Deformity, Abſurdity, Shrewd turns, and the like.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6539" xml:space="preserve">Now to ſpeak of the cauſes of the effects before mentioned, whereun to theſe
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            general Notes give ſome light. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6540" xml:space="preserve">For the Dilatation of the Mouth and Lips,
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            continued Expulſion of the Breath and Voice, and Shaking of the Breſts and
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            Sides, they proceed (all) from the Dilatation of the Spirits, eſpecially being
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            ſudden. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6541" xml:space="preserve">So likewiſe the Running of the Eyes with Water, (as hath been for-
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            merly touched, where we ſpake of the Tears of Joy and Grief) is an offect of
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            Dilatation of the Spirits. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6542" xml:space="preserve">And for Suddenneß, it is a great part of the Matter: </s>
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            For we ſee that any Shrewd turn that lighteth upon another, or any Deformity,
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            &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6544" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6545" xml:space="preserve">moveth Laughter in the inſtant, which after a little time it doth not. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6546" xml:space="preserve">So
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            we cannot Laugh at any thing after it is ſtale, but whileſt it is new. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6547" xml:space="preserve">And even
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            in Tickling, if you tickle the ſides, and give watning, or give a hard or con-
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            tinued touch, it doth not move Laughter ſo much.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6549" xml:space="preserve">Luſt cauſeth a Flagrancy in the Eys, and Priapiſm. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6550" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of both
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0186-01" xlink:href="note-0186-01a" xml:space="preserve">722.</note>
            theſe is, for that in Luſt the Sight and the Touch, are the things defired; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6551" xml:space="preserve">and
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            therefore the Spirits reſort to thoſe parts which are moſt affected. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6552" xml:space="preserve">And note
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            well in general, (for that great uſe may be made of the obſervation) that
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            (evermore) the Spirits in all Paßions reſort moſt to the parts that labor moſt, or
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            are moſt affected. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6553" xml:space="preserve">As in the laſt, which hath been mentioned, they reſort to
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            the Eyes and Venereous parts; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6554" xml:space="preserve">in Fear and Anger to the Heart; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6555" xml:space="preserve">in Shame to the
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            Face; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6556" xml:space="preserve">and in Light diſlikes to the Head.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6558" xml:space="preserve">IT hath been obſerved by the Ancients, and is yet believed, That the Sperm
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            of Drunken-men is unfruitful. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6559" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that it is over-moiſtned, and
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0186-03" xlink:href="note-0186-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching
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              Drunkenneß.</note>
            wanteth Spiſſitude. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6560" xml:space="preserve">And we have a merry ſaying, That they that go drunk to Bed,
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            get Daughters.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6562" xml:space="preserve">Drunken-men are taken with a plain Deſect or Deſtitution in Voluntary
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0186-04" xlink:href="note-0186-04a" xml:space="preserve">724.</note>
            Motion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6563" xml:space="preserve">they reel, they tremble, they cannot ſtand, nor ſpeak ſtrongly. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6564" xml:space="preserve">The
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            cauſe is, for that the Spirits of the Wine oppreſs the Spirits Animal, and oc-
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            cupate part of the place where they are, and ſo make them weak to move;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6565" xml:space="preserve">and therefore Drunken-men are apt to fall aſleep. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6566" xml:space="preserve">And Opiates and Stupefactives
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            (as Poppy, Henbane, Hemlock, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6567" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6568" xml:space="preserve">induce a kinde of Drunkenneß by the groſsneſs
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            of their Vapor, as Wine doth by the quantity of the Vapor. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6569" xml:space="preserve">Beſides, they rob
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            the Spirits Animal of their Matter where by they are nouriſhed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6570" xml:space="preserve">for the Spirits
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            of the Wine, prey upon it as well as they, and ſo they make the Spirits leſs
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            ſupple and apt to move.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6572" xml:space="preserve">Drunken-men imagine every thing turneth round; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6573" xml:space="preserve">they imagine alſo,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0186-05" xlink:href="note-0186-05a" xml:space="preserve">725.</note>
            that things come upon them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6574" xml:space="preserve">they ſee not well things afar off; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6575" xml:space="preserve">thoſe things
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            that they ſee near hand, they ſee out of their place; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6576" xml:space="preserve">and (ſometimes) they
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            ſee things double. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6577" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of the imagination that things turn round is,
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            for that the Spirits them ſelves turn, being compreſſed by the Vapor of the
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            Wine; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6578" xml:space="preserve">(for any Liquid Body upon Compreſſion turneth, as we ſee in Water:)
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6579" xml:space="preserve">And it is all one to the ſight, whether the Viſual Spirits move, or the Object
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            moveth, or the Medium moveth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6580" xml:space="preserve">and we ſee, that long turning round breed-
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            eth the ſame imagination. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6581" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe of the imagination that things come
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            upon them is, for that the Spirits Viſual themſelves draw back, which maketh
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            the Object ſeem to come on; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6582" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, when they ſee things turn
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            round and move, Fear maketh them think they come upon them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6583" xml:space="preserve">The
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            cauſe that they cannot ſee things afar off, is the weakneſs of the Spirits; </s>
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            in every Megrim or Vertigo, there is an Obtenebration joyned with a ſem-
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            blance of Turning round, which we ſee alſo in the lighter ſort of Swoonings.</s>
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