Note 13 — SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES.
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Ben Jonson, in his play of the Alchemist, has the following lines:—
"But when you see th' effects of the Great Medium, Of which one part projected on a hundred Of Mercury, or Venus, or the Moon, Shall turn it to as many of the Sun; Nay to a thousand, so ad infinitum, You will believe me."