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

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            ſhould pray one for another, or ſhould put on a Ring or Tablet one for an-
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            others ſake; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8958" xml:space="preserve">whether, if one of them ſhould break their Vow and Promiſe,
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            the other ſhould have any feeling of it in abſence.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8960" xml:space="preserve">If there be any force in Imaginations and Affections of ſingular Per-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0246-01" xlink:href="note-0246-01a" xml:space="preserve">988.</note>
            ſons, it is probable the force is much more in the Joynt-Imaginations and
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            Affections of Multitudes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8961" xml:space="preserve">as if a victory ſhould be won or loſt in remote
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            parts, Whether is there not ſome ſenſe thereof in the people whom it con-
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            cerneth, becauſe of the great joy or grief that many men are poſſeſſed with
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            at once? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8962" xml:space="preserve">Pius Quintus, at the very time when that memorable victory was
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            won by the Chriſtians againſt the Turks, at the Naval Battel of Lepanto, being
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            then hearing of Cauſes in the Conſiſtory, brake off ſuddenly, and ſaid to
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            thoſe about him, It is now more then time we ſhould give thanks to God for the great
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            Victory he hath granted us againſt the Turks. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8963" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that Victory had a Sympa-
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            thy with his Spirit, for it was meerly his work to conclude the League: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8964" xml:space="preserve">It
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            may be that Revelation was Divine. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8965" xml:space="preserve">But what ſhall we ſay then to a number
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            of Examples amongſt the Grecians and Romans, where the People being in
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            Theatres at Plays, have had news of Victories and Overthrows ſome few
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            days, before any Meſſenger could come?</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8967" xml:space="preserve">It is true, that that may hold in theſe things which is the general Root
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            of Superſtition; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8968" xml:space="preserve">namely, that men obſerve when things hit, and not when
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            they miſs, and commit to Memory the one, and forget and paſs over the
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            other. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8969" xml:space="preserve">But touching Divination and the miſgiving of Mindes, we ſhall
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            ſpeak more when we handle in general the Nature of Mindes, and Souls, and
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            Spirits.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8971" xml:space="preserve">We having given formerly ſome Rules of Imagination, and touching
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0246-02" xlink:href="note-0246-02a" xml:space="preserve">989.</note>
            the fortifying of the ſame; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8972" xml:space="preserve">we have ſet down alſo ſome few Inſtances and
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            Directions of the force of Imagination upon Beaſts, Birds, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8973" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8974" xml:space="preserve">upon plants,
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            and upon Inanimate Bodies: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8975" xml:space="preserve">Wherein you muſt ſtill obſerve, that your Tryals
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            be upon Subtil and Light Motions, and not the contrary; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8976" xml:space="preserve">for you will
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            ſoonerby Imagination bind a Bird from Singing then from Eating or Flying;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8977" xml:space="preserve">and I leave it to every man to chuſe Experiments which himſelf thinketh
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            moſt commodious, giving now but a few Examples of every of the three
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            kindes.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8979" xml:space="preserve">Uſe ſome Imaginant (obſerving the Rules formerly preſcribed). </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8980" xml:space="preserve">for
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0246-03" xlink:href="note-0246-03a" xml:space="preserve">990.</note>
            binding of a Bird from ſinging, and the like of a Dog from barking. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8981" xml:space="preserve">Try
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            alſo the Imagination of ſome, whom you ſhall accommodate with things to
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            fortifie it in Cock-fights, to make one Cock more hardy, and the other
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            more cowardly. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8982" xml:space="preserve">It would be tried alſo in flying of Hawks, or in courſing
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            of a Deer or Hart with Grey-hounds, or in Horſe-races, and the like com-
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            parative Motions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8983" xml:space="preserve">for you may ſooner by Imagination, quicken or ſlack a
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            motion, then raiſe or ceaſe it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8984" xml:space="preserve">as it is eaſier to make a Dog go ſlower, then
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            to make him ſtand ſtill, that he may notrun.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8986" xml:space="preserve">In Plants alſo you may try the force of Imagination upon the lighter
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0246-04" xlink:href="note-0246-04a" xml:space="preserve">991.</note>
            ſort of Motions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8987" xml:space="preserve">as upon the ſudden fading or lively coming up of Herbs;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8988" xml:space="preserve">or upon their bending one way or other, or upon their cloſing and open-
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            ing, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8989" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8991" xml:space="preserve">For Inanimate things, you may try the force of Imagination upon ſtay-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0246-05" xlink:href="note-0246-05a" xml:space="preserve">992.</note>
            ing the working of Beer, when the Barm is put in; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8992" xml:space="preserve">or upon the coming of
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            Butter or Cheeſe, after the Churning, or the Rennet be put in.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s8994" xml:space="preserve">It is an ancient Tradition, every where alleaged, for example of ſecret
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0246-06" xlink:href="note-0246-06a" xml:space="preserve">993.</note>
            Proprieties and Influxes, That the Torpedo Marina, if it be touched with a
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            long ſtick, doth ſtupefie the hand of him that touchethit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8995" xml:space="preserve">It is one degree </s>
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