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LII. These foundations being laid,comes to the solution of dreaming, whichnow an easy affair: for these speSires and/*mulacra of corporeal things, constantly enU t 'ted from them, and floating up and down 111the air, come and assault the foul in steep { c )'And as for chimeras , and other monstrouspresentations, these he had prepared befo^hand, {ver, 130. & feq.) All this is W e "enough, if he had but taken care to tellhow these simulacra, such slender pellicleget in whole and entire to the breast, or heafl’which he makes the feat of the foul, as ha^before been observed; for he allows they ^shattered, when they fall upon any rugg e ^uneven surface: and in giving the differedbetween sounds and images, he fays, thougha found may get whole and entire throughany chink, or cranny, yet an image orlacrum cannot; but must be ruined andbro^'en, if it hath not room to enter all ^

(c) Nuncage-, qua mavent animum res, accipe & A 1Shia veniunt, veniant in mensem, percipe pauc ,s -Prineipio hoc dico, rerumsimulacra vagariMulta modis rnultis — - ..

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