Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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          <p>
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            the changes of Motions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1656" xml:space="preserve">as when Galliard time, and Meaſure time, are in
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            the Medly of one Dance.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1658" xml:space="preserve">It hath been anciently held, and obſerved, That the Senſe of Hearing, and
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0066-01" xlink:href="note-0066-01a" xml:space="preserve">114.</note>
            the Kindes of Muſick, have moſt operation upon Manners; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1659" xml:space="preserve">as to incourage
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            Men, and make them warlike; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1660" xml:space="preserve">to make them ſoft and effeminate; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1661" xml:space="preserve">to make
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            them grave; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1662" xml:space="preserve">to make them light; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1663" xml:space="preserve">to make them gentle and inclined to
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            pity, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1664" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1665" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the Senſe of Hearing ſtriketh the Spirits
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            more immediately, than the other Senjes, and more incorporeally than
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            the Smelling: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1666" xml:space="preserve">For the Sight, Taſte, and Feeling, have their Organs, not of ſo
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            preſent and immediate acceſs to the Spirits, as the Hearing hath. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1667" xml:space="preserve">And
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            as for the Smelling (which indeed worketh alſo immediately upon the Spi-
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            rits, and is forcible while the object remaineth) it is with a communica-
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            tion of the Breath or Vapor of the object oderate: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1668" xml:space="preserve">But Harmony entring
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            eaſily, and mingling not at all, and coming with a manifeſt motion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1669" xml:space="preserve">doth
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            by cuſtom of often affecting the Spirits, and putting them into one kinde
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            of poſture, alter not a little the nature of the Spirits, even when the ob-
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            ject is removed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1670" xml:space="preserve">And therefore we ſee, that Tunes and Airs, even in their
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            own nature, have in themſelves ſome affinity with the Affections: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1671" xml:space="preserve">As
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            there be Merry Tunes, Doleful Tunes, Solemn Tunes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1672" xml:space="preserve">Tunesinclining
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            Mens mindes to Pity, Warlike Tunes
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            , &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1673" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1674" xml:space="preserve">So as it is no marvel, if they
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            alter the Spirits, conſidering that Tunes have a prediſpoſition to the Moti-
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            on of the Spirits in themſelves. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1675" xml:space="preserve">But yet it hath been noted, that though
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            this variety of Tunes, doth diſpoſe the Spirits to variety of Paſſions, con-
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            form unto them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1676" xml:space="preserve">yetgenerally, Muſick feedeth that diſpoſition of the Spi-
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            rits which it findeth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1677" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that ſeveral Airs and Tunes, do pleaſe
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            ſeveral Nations, and Perſons according to the ſympathy they have with their
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            Spirits.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1679" xml:space="preserve">PErſpective hath been with ſome diligence inquired; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1680" xml:space="preserve">and ſo hath the Na-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0066-02" xlink:href="note-0066-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching
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              Sounds; and
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              firſt touching
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              the Nullity,
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              and Entity of
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              Sounds.</note>
            ture of Sounds, in ſome ſort, as far as concerneth Muſick, but the Na-
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            ture of Sounds in general, hath been ſuperficially obſerved. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1681" xml:space="preserve">It is one of
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            the ſubtilleſt pieces of Nature. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1682" xml:space="preserve">And beſides, I practiſe, as I do adviſe:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1683" xml:space="preserve">Which is after long inquiry of things, immerſe in matter, to enterpoſe ſome
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            ſubject which is immateriate or leſs materiate; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1684" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as this of Sounds: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1685" xml:space="preserve">To
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0066-03" xlink:href="note-0066-03a" xml:space="preserve">115.</note>
            the end, that the intellect may be rectified, and become not partial.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1687" xml:space="preserve">It is firſt to be conſidered, what great motions there are in Nature
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            which paſs withoutſound or noiſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1688" xml:space="preserve">The Heavens turn about in a moſt rapide
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            motion, without noiſe to us perceived, though in ſome dreams they have
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            been ſaid to make an excellent Muſick. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1689" xml:space="preserve">So the motions of the Comets, and
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            Fiery Meteors as Stella Cadens, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1690" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1691" xml:space="preserve">yield no noiſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1692" xml:space="preserve">And if it be thought, that
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            it is the greatneſs of diſtance from us, whereby the ſound cannot, be heard;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1693" xml:space="preserve">we ſee that Lightnings and Coruſcations, which are near at hand, yield no
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            ſound neither; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1694" xml:space="preserve">and yet in all theſe, there is a percuſſion and diviſsion of the
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            Air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1695" xml:space="preserve">The Winds in the Upper Region (which move the Clouds above
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            (which we call the Rack) and are not perceived below paſs without noiſe. </s>
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            The lower Winds in a Plain, except they be ſtrong, make no noiſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1697" xml:space="preserve">but a-
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            mongſt Trees, the noiſe of ſuch Winds will be perceived. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1698" xml:space="preserve">And the Winds
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            (generally) when they make a noiſe, do ever make it unequally, riſing and fall-
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            ing, and ſometimes (when they are vehement) trembling at the height of
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            their blaſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1699" xml:space="preserve">Rain or Hail falling, though vehemently
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            , yieldeth no noiſe, in
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            paſsing through the Air, till it fall upon the Ground, Water, Houſes, or the
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            like. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1700" xml:space="preserve">Water in a River (though a ſwift ſtream, is not heard in the </s>
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