1 Immagination. & Phantasie & invention

We can fancie y^e thing wee see in a right posture w^th y^e
heeles upward. Phantasie is helped by good aire fasting mo-
derate wine.

but spoiled by [illeg] drunkenesse, Gluttony, too much study,
(whence & from extreame passion cometh madnesse), dizzinesse
commotions of y^e spirits

Meditation heates a [sic] y| ^e | oung brain in some to distraction in
others to an akeing & dizzinesse

The boyling blood of youth puts y^e spirits upon too much motion
or else causet [sic] too many spirits. but could age make y^e brain
either two [sic] dry to move roundly through or else is defective
of Spirits yet theire memory is bad.

A man by heitning his fansie & immagination may bind
anothers to thinke what hee thinks as in y^e story of y^e Oxford
scollar in Glanvill Van of Dogmatizing.

When I had looked upon y^e Sun I shut my eyes
& there appeared nothing untill I strongly fancied y^e ☉
to be befo all light couloured bodys appeared red &
darke coloured bodys appeared red blew. ² If I looked
on white paper w^th my bare eye it looked red, but
if I looked on it [ w^th ] through a very little hole
so y^t but a little light could come to my eye from
y^e paper it looked greene .hence I guess y^t

|3| after y^e motion of y^e spirits in my eye were
almost decayed \that I could see all thing w^th theire natū colours/ I shut it & could see noe colour
or image till I heightned my fantasie of seeing ☉
& yⁿ began to appeare a blew spot w^ch grew ligter
by degress in y^e midst untill it \was/ white & bright in y^e
midst next to w^ch were cicles [sic] of red, yellow, grene, blew
purle, all w^ch were sometimes encompassed w^th a
darke greene or red. Sometimes y^e whole spot would
turne very blew sometimes most of it red. After I
opened my eye againe, white bodys looked red & darke ones
blew as if I was had newly looked on y^e Sunne whence