For I know a Lady of unquestionable Veracity, who having lately, by a
desperate fall, receiv'd several hurts, and particularly a considerable one
upon a part of her face near her Eye, had her sight so troubl'd and
disorder'd, that, as she hath more than once related to me, not only when
the next morning one of her servants came to her bed side, to ask how she
did, his cloaths appear'd adorn'd with such variety of dazling Colours,
that she was fain presently to command him to withdraw, but the Images in
her Hangings, did, for many daies after, appear to her, if the Room were
not extraordinarily darken'd, embellish'd with several offensively vivid
Colours, which no body else could see in them; And when I enquir'd whether
or no White Objects did not appear to her adorn'd with more luminous
Colours than others, and whether she saw not some which she could not now
well describe to any, whose eyes had never been distemper'd, she answer'd
mee, that sometimes she thought she saw Colours so new and glorious, that
they were of a peculiar kind, and such as she could not describe by their
likeness to any she had beheld either before or since, and that White
Objects did so much disorder her sight, that if several daies after her
fall, she look'd upon the inside of a Book, she fanci'd she saw there
Colours like those of the Rain-bow, and even when she thought her self
pretty well recover'd, and made bold to leave her Chamber, the coming into
a place where the Walls and Ceeling were whited over, made those Objects
appear to her cloath'd with such glorious and dazling Colours, as much
offended her sight, and made her repent her venturousness, and she added,
that this Distemper of her Eyes lasted no less than five or six weeks,
though, since that, she hath been able to read and write much without
finding the least Inconvenience in doing so. I would gladly have known,
whether if she had shut the Injur'd Eye, the _Phaenomena_ would have been
the same, when she employ'd only the other, but I heard not of this
accident early enough to satisfie that Enquiry.

9 Wherefore, I shall now add, that some years before, a person exceedingly
eminent for his profound Skil in almost all kinds of Philological Learning,
coming to advise with mee about a Distemper in his Eyes, told me, among
other Circumstances of it, that, having upon a time looked too fixedly upon
the Sun, thorow a Telescope, without any coloured Glass, to take off from
the dazling sple