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[Sidenote: His manner[1] of thinking]
He sayd that he sometimes would sett his thoughts upon researching and contemplating, always with this Rule[2], that he very much & deeply considered one thing at a time. Sc. a weeke, or sometimes a fortnight.
[Footnote 1: 'manner' above 'way'.]
[Footnote 2: 'Rule: Observation' above 'proviso'.]
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[Sidenote: Head]
In his old age he was very bald[1], which claymed a veneration; yet within dore he used to study, and sitt bare-headed: and sayd he never tooke cold in his head but that the greatest trouble was to keepe-off the Flies from pitching on the baldnes: his Head was … inches (I have the measure) in compasse, and of a mallet forme, approved by the Physiologers.
[Footnote 1: 'recalvus' above 'very bald'.]
[Sidenote: Eie]