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            Motion doth manifeſtly attenuate and inſlame them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10792" xml:space="preserve">This bridling is done by three
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            means: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10793" xml:space="preserve">by Sleep; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10794" xml:space="preserve">by avoiding of vehement Labours, immoderate Exerciſe, and in a word,
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            all Laſſitude; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10795" xml:space="preserve">and by refraining irk ſome Affections. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10796" xml:space="preserve">And firſt, touching Sleep.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10798" xml:space="preserve">The Fable tells us, that Epimenides ſlept many years together in a Cave, and all that
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            time needed no meat, becauſe the Spirits waſte not much in ſleep.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10800" xml:space="preserve">Experience teacheth us that certaϊn Creatures, as Dormice and Bats, ſleep in ſome
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            cloſe places an whole Winter together; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10801" xml:space="preserve">ſuch is the force of ſleep to reſtrain all vital
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            Conſumption. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10802" xml:space="preserve">That which Bees and Drones are alſo thought to do, though ſometimes
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            deſtitute of Honey; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10803" xml:space="preserve">and likewiſe Butter-flies, and other Flies.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10805" xml:space="preserve">Sleep after Dinner (the ſtomach ſending up no unpleaſing Vapours to the head, as
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            being the firſt Dews of our Meat) is good for the ſpirits, but derogatory and hurtſul
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            to all other points of health. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10806" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtanding in extream old age there is the ſame
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            reaſon of Meat and Sleep, for both our meals and our ſleeps ſhould be then frequent,
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            but ſhort and little; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10807" xml:space="preserve">nay, and towards the laſt period of old age, a mere Reſt, and, as
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            it were, a perpetual Repoſing doth beſt, eſpecially in Winter-time.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10809" xml:space="preserve">But as moderate ſleep conſerreth to long life, ſo much more if it be quiet and not
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-04" xlink:href="note-0311-04a" xml:space="preserve">77.</note>
            diſturbed.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10811" xml:space="preserve">Theſe procure quiet ſleep, Violets, Lettuce, eſpecially boiled, Sirrup of dried Roſes,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-05" xlink:href="note-0311-05a" xml:space="preserve">78.</note>
            Saffron, Balm, Apples, at our going to bed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10812" xml:space="preserve">a ſop of Bread in Malmſey, eſpecially
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            where Musk-Roſes have been firſt infuſed: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10813" xml:space="preserve">therefore it would not be amiſs to make
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            ſome Pill, or a ſmall Draught of theſe things, and to uſe it familiarly. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10814" xml:space="preserve">Alſo thoſe
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            things which ſhut the mouth of the ſtomach cloſe, as Coriander-ſeed prepared, Quinces
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            and Wardens roaſted, do induce ſound ſleep; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10815" xml:space="preserve">but above all things in youth, and for
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            thoſe that have ſufficient ſtrong ſtomacks, it will be beſt to take a good draught of clear
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            cold Water when they go to bed.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10817" xml:space="preserve">To ching voluntary and procured Trances, as alſo fixed and proſound Thoughts, ſo
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            as they be without irksomneſs, I have nothing certain: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10818" xml:space="preserve">no doubt they make to this Intenſion,
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            and condenſe the Spirits, and that more potently than Sleep, ſeeing they lay aſleep, and
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            ſuſpend the ſenſes as much or more. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10819" xml:space="preserve">Touching them, let further inquiry be made. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10820" xml:space="preserve">so far
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            touching Sleep.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10822" xml:space="preserve">As for Motion and Exerciſe, Laſſitude hurteth, and ſo doth all Motion and Exer-
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            ciſe which is too nimble and ſwift; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10823" xml:space="preserve">as Running, Tennis, Fencing, and the like; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10824" xml:space="preserve">and
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            again, when our ſtrength is extended and ſtrained to the uttermoſt, as Dancing, Wreſt-
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            ling, and ſuch like: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10825" xml:space="preserve">for it is certain, that the ſpirits being driven into ſtreights, either by
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            the ſwiftneſs of the motion, or by the ſtraining of the forces, do afterward become
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            more eager and predatory. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10826" xml:space="preserve">On the other ſide, Exerciſes which ſtir up a good ſtrong
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            motion, but not over-ſwift, or to our utmoſt ſtrength, (ſuch as are Leaping, Shooting,
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            Riding, Bowling, and the like) do not hurt, but rather benefit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10828" xml:space="preserve">We muſt come now to the Affections and Paſſions of the Mind, and ſee which of them
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            are hurtful to long life, which profitable.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10830" xml:space="preserve">Great Joys attenuate and diffuſe the ſpirits, and ſhorten life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10831" xml:space="preserve">familiar Chearfulneſs
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-07" xlink:href="note-0311-07a" xml:space="preserve">80.</note>
            ſtrengthens the ſpirits, by calling them forth, and yet not reſolving them.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10833" xml:space="preserve">Impreſſions of Joy in the ſenſe are naught; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10834" xml:space="preserve">ruminations of Joy in the memory, or
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            apprehenſions of them in hope or fancy, are good.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10836" xml:space="preserve">Joy ſuppreſſed, or communicated ſparingly, doth more comfort the ſpirits than Joy
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            poured forth and publiſhed.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10838" xml:space="preserve">Grief and Sadneſs, if it be void of Fear, and afflict not too much, doth rather pro-
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            longlife; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10839" xml:space="preserve">for it contracteth the ſpirits, and is a kind of condenſation.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10841" xml:space="preserve">Great Fears ſhorten the life: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10842" xml:space="preserve">for though Grief and Fear do both ſtreighten the ſpirit,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-11" xlink:href="note-0311-11a" xml:space="preserve">84.</note>
            yet in Grief there is a ſimple contraction; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10843" xml:space="preserve">but in Fear, by reaſon of the cares taken
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            for the remedy, and hopes intermixed, there is a turmoil and vexing of the ſpirits.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10845" xml:space="preserve">Anger ſuppreſſed is alſo a kind of vexation, and cauſeth the ſpirit to feed upon the
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-12" xlink:href="note-0311-12a" xml:space="preserve">85.</note>
            juices of the body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10846" xml:space="preserve">but let looſe and breaking forth, it helpeth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10847" xml:space="preserve">as thoſe Medicines do
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            which induce a robuſt heat.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10849" xml:space="preserve">Envy is the worſt of all Paſſions, and fecdeth upon the ſpirits, and they again
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-13" xlink:href="note-0311-13a" xml:space="preserve">86.</note>
            uponthe body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10850" xml:space="preserve">and ſo much the more becauſe it is perpetual, and, as it is ſaid, keepeth
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            no holidays.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10852" xml:space="preserve">Pity of another man’s misfortune, which is not likely to befall our ſelves, is good.
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            </s>
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0311-14" xlink:href="note-0311-14a" xml:space="preserve">87.</note>
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