Nay, thou shouldst say rather, I have seen divers, who have seemed to have lost their right wits, have recovered them again by good diet and medicinable drinks, but had they been utterly lost and gone; no physic could have restored them again; therefore of necessity the soul was as sound as before: it was but like an eclipse of the Sun, it seems be dimmed; but it is but by the coming of the Moon between him and us, in his light there is no abatement at all, but only quoad nos, likewise our eye conceiveth things according to the spectacles through which it looketh upon them: take away the Moon or clouds and the Sun shineth clear: take away the impediments, the eye seeth clear, purge away the humours, our imaginations shall be pure, and our understanding as bright as ever, it fareth not with our souls, as it doth with our bodies, which after a long sickness retain still, either a hardness of the spleen, or a shortness of the breath, weakness of body, or a falling down of Rheum upon the lungs; nor as a wound that retaineth a scar which cannot be worn out, for neither in their understanding, nor in their wills do our souls feel any abatement: and this appeareth in lunatic folks, and others, who have their wits troubled at times, and by fits, for they be not vexed but at the stirring of their humour, being at other times sober and well enough staid in their wits: the like is seen in them that ⟨p. 42⟩have the falling sickness, their understanding seems only to be eclipsed, during the time of their fits, but afterward they be as discreet as though they ailed nothing, you shall never see any body out of his wits, in whom the Physician may not manifestly perceive, either some default of the instruments, or some overflowing of some melancholy humour, that troubled and marred his body, before it troubled or impaired his mind. To be short, whosoever saith, that mans soul perisheth with the body, because it is troubled by the distemperature, or indisposition of the body, may as well uphold and maintain, that the Child in his mothers womb dieth with his mother, because he moveth with her, and is partaker with her in her harms, and throws, by reason of the straight conjunction that is between them, and yet we see many children have lived safe and sound, notwithstanding their mothers have died:
Nay, thou shouldst say rather, I have seen divers, who have seemed to have lost their right wits, have recovered them againe by good diet and medicinable drinks, but had they beene utterly lost and gone; no physick could have restored them againe; therefore of necessity the soule was as sound as before: it was but like an ecclypse of the Sunne, it seems be dimmed; but it is but by the comming of the Moone betweene him and us, in his light there is no abatement at all, but only quoad nos, likewise our eye conceiveth things according to the spectacles through which it looketh upon them: take away the Moon or clouds and the Sun shineth cleare: take away the impediments, the eye seeth clear, purge away the humours, our imaginations shall be pure, and our understanding as bright as ever, it fareth not with our soules, as it doth with our bodies, which after a long sicknesse retaine still, either a hardnesse of the spleene, or a shortnesse of the breath, weaknesse of body, or a falling downe of Rheume upon the lungs; nor as a wound that retaineth a scarre which cannot be worne out, for neither in their understanding, nor in their wils doe our soules feele any abatement: and this appeareth in lunatick folks, and others, who have their wits troubled at times, and by fits, for they be not vexed but at the stirring of their humour, being at other times sober and well enough staid in their wits: the like is seen in them that ⟨p. 42⟩have the falling sicknesse, their understanding seemes only to be ecclipsed, during the time of their fits, but afterward they be as discreet as though they ayled nothing, you shall never see any body out of his wits, in whom the Physician may not manifestly perceive, either some default of tht instruments, or some overflowing of some melancholly humour, that troubled and marred his body, before it troubled or impaired his mind. To be short, whosoever saith, that mans soul perisheth with the body, because it is troubled by the distemperature, or indisposition of the body, may as well uphold and maintaine, that the Child in his mothers wombe dieth with his mother, because he moveth with her, and is partaker with her in her harmes, and throws, by reason of the straight conjunction that is between them, and yet we see many children have lived safe and sound, notwithstanding their mothers have died:
