What Atoms Make a Palsy or Apoplexy

When dull flat atoms do together¹ join,
And with each other in a heap combine,
This body thick doth stop all passage so,
Keeps motion out, and makes² the body grow
Numbed. For sharp atoms,³ in which heat doth live,      5
Being close and smothered up⁴ no heat can give,
But if these⁵ atoms flat meet in the brain,
The spirits are choked and can⁶ no heat obtain.  

1. When dull flat atoms do together] Dull Atomes flat, when they together 1653
2. and makes] so num’d 1653
3. Numbed. For sharp atoms,] Atomes that are sharpe, 1653
4. Being close and smothered up] Being smothered close, 1653
5. these] those 1653
6. The spirits are choked and can] They choake the Spirits, can 1653