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Mystical bedlam, or the world of mad-men. By ThoMystical bedlam, or the vvorld of mad-men. By Tho
Mystical bedlam, or the world of mad-men. By Tho: AdamsMystical bedlam, or the vvorld of mad-men. By Tho: Adams
London: printed by George Purslowe for Clement Knight, 1615
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. There are some mad, that can rightly judge of the things they see, as touching imagination & fantasy: but for cogitation and reason, they swerve from natural judgement.
1. There are some mad, that can rightly iudge of the things they see, as touching imagination & phantasie: but for cogitation and reason, they swarue from naturall iudgement.
2. Some being mad, are not deceived so much in common cogitation and reason; but they err in Fantasy and Imagination.
2. Some being madde, are not deceiu'd so much in common cogitation and reason; but they erre in Phantasie and Imagination.
3 There are some, that be hurt in both imagination and reason, and they necessarily therewithal do lose their memories. That whereas in perfect, sober, and well composed men, Imagination first conceives the forms of things, and presents them to the reason to judge; and reason discerning them, commits them to Memory to retain: in mad-men nothing is conceived aright, therefore nothing derived, nothing retained.
3 There are some, that be hurt in both imagination and reason, and they necessarily therewithall doe lose their memories. That whereas in perfect, sober, and well composed men, Imagination first conceiues the formes of things, and presents them to the reason to iudge; and reason discerning them, commits them to Memorie to retaine: in mad-men nothing is conceiu'd aright, therefore nothing deriu'd, nothing retayn'd.