there are three
ventricles or chambers,

the _foremost_ being
the "cell fantastike" of
the "Knight's Tale,"

the second the logistic,

and the third
the chamber of memory,
where "memory,
the warder of the brain,"
keeps watch over the passage
of the spirit into the
"sinews" of moving.

Into the foremost cell come all
the perceptions of sight, hearing, etc.,
and thus we have the opportunity
for "Fantasy, That plays upon our eyesight,"

to freak it on us.

The pedant, Holofernes,
in _Love's Labour's Lost,_
characteristically puts
the origin of his good things
in the ventricle of memory.

from
Mediaeval Lore From Bartholomaeus Anglicus,
by Bartholomaeus
Anglicus

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