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

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            Oyntment, ſuch Ingredients as do make the Spirits a little more groſs or
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            muddy, whereby the Imagination will fix the better.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8738" xml:space="preserve">The Body Paſſive, and to be wrought upon, (I mean not of the Ima-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0241-01" xlink:href="note-0241-01a" xml:space="preserve">955.</note>
            ginant) is better wrought upon (as hath been partly touched) at ſome times
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            then at others; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8739" xml:space="preserve">As if you ſhould preſcribe a ſervant about a ſick perſon,
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            (whom you have poſſeſſed that his Maſter ſhall recover) when his Maſter is
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            faſt afleep, to uſe ſuch a Root, or ſuch a Root. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8740" xml:space="preserve">For Imagination is like to
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            work better upon fleeping men, then men awake; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8741" xml:space="preserve">as we ſhall ſhew when we
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            handle Dreams.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8743" xml:space="preserve">We finde in the Art of Memory, that Images viſible work better then other
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0241-02" xlink:href="note-0241-02a" xml:space="preserve">956.</note>
            conceits; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8744" xml:space="preserve">As if you would remember the word Philoſophy, you ſhall more
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            ſurely do it by imagining that ſuch a Ma
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            n (for Men are beſt places) is read-
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            ing upon Ariſtotles Phyſicks, then if you ſhould imagine him to ſay, I w
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            ill
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            go ſtudy Philoſophy. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8745" xml:space="preserve">And therefore this obſervation would be tranſlated to the
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            ſubject we now ſpeak of; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8746" xml:space="preserve">for the more luſtrous the Imagination is, it filleth
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            and fixeth the better. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8747" xml:space="preserve">And therefore I conceive, that you ſhall in that Experi-
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            ment (whereof we ſpake before) of binding of thoughts, leſs fail, if you tell
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            one that ſuch an one ſhall name one of twenty men, then if it were one of
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            twenty Cards. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8748" xml:space="preserve">The Experiment of binding of thoughts would be diverfified
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            and tried to the full: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8749" xml:space="preserve">And you are to note, whether it hit for the moſt part,
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            though not always.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8751" xml:space="preserve">It is good to conſider upon what things Imagination hath moſt force:
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0241-03" xlink:href="note-0241-03a" xml:space="preserve">957.</note>
            And the rule (as I conceive) is, that it hath moſt force upon things that have
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            the lighteſt and eaſieſt motions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8753" xml:space="preserve">and therefore above all upon the Spirits of
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            Men, and in them upon ſuch affections as move lighteſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8754" xml:space="preserve">As upon procuring
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            of Love, binding of Luſt, which is ever with Imagination upon Men in
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            fear, or Men in irreſolution, and the like: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8755" xml:space="preserve">Whatſoever is of this kinde
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            would be throughly enquired. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8756" xml:space="preserve">Tryals like wiſe would be made upon Plants,
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            and that diligently: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8757" xml:space="preserve">As if you ſhould tell a man that ſuch a Tree would die
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            this year, and will him at theſe and theſe times to go unto it, to ſee how it
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            thriveth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8758" xml:space="preserve">As for inanimate things, it is true, that the motions of ſhuffling
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            of Cards, or caſting of Dice, are very light motions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8759" xml:space="preserve">and there is a folly
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            very uſeſul, That Gameſters imagine, that ſome that ſtand by them, bring
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            them ill luck. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8760" xml:space="preserve">There would be tryal alſo made, of holding a Ring by a
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            thred in a Glaſs, and telling him that holdeth it before, that it ſhall ſtrike ſo
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            many times againſt the ſide of the Glaſs, and no more; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8761" xml:space="preserve">or of holding a Key
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            between two Mens fingers without a charm; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8762" xml:space="preserve">and to tell thoſe that hold it,
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            that at ſuch a name it ſhall go off their fingers. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8763" xml:space="preserve">For theſe two are extream
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            light motions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8764" xml:space="preserve">And how ſoever, I have no opinion of theſe things, yet ſo
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            much I conceive to be true, That ſtrong Imagination hath more force upon
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            things living, or that have been living, then things meerly inanimate; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8765" xml:space="preserve">and
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            more force like wiſe upon light and ſubtil motions, then upon motions vehe-
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            ment or ponderous.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8767" xml:space="preserve">It is an uſual obſervation, That if the Body of one murthered be brought
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            before the Murtherer, the wounds will bleed afreſh. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8768" xml:space="preserve">Some do affirm, That
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            the dead Body, upon the preſence of the Murtherer hath opened the eyes;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8769" xml:space="preserve">and that there have been ſuch like motions as well where the party murthered
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            hath been ſtrangled or drowned, as where they have been killed by wounds. </s>
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            It may be that this participateth of a miracle, by Gods juſt judgment, who
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            uſually brings murthers to light. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8771" xml:space="preserve">But if it be Natural, it muſt be referred to
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            Imagination.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8773" xml:space="preserve">The tying of the point upon the day of Marriage, to make Men impo-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0241-05" xlink:href="note-0241-05a" xml:space="preserve">959.</note>
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