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

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            with his head ſo ſar under Water, as he may put his head into the Pail, and
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            there will come as much Air bubbling forth, as will make room for his
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            head. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1978" xml:space="preserve">Then let him ſpeak, and any that ſhall ſtand without, ſhall hear his
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            voice plainly, but yet made extream ſharp and exile, like the voice of
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            Puppets: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1979" xml:space="preserve">But yet the Articulate Sounds of the words will not be confound-
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            ed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1980" xml:space="preserve">Note, that it may be much more handſomly done, if the Pail be put
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            over the Mans head above Water, and then he cowre down, and the
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            Pail be preſſed down with him. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1981" xml:space="preserve">Note, that a man muſt kneel or ſit, that
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            he may be lower than the Water. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1982" xml:space="preserve">A man would think, that the Sici-
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            lian Poet had knowledge of this Experiment; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1983" xml:space="preserve">for he ſaith, that Hercules’s
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            Page Hylas went with a Water-pot, to fill it at a pleaſant Fountain that was
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            near the ſhore, and that the Nymphs of the Fountain fell in love with the
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            Boy, and pulled him under the Water, keeping him alive; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1984" xml:space="preserve">and that Her-
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            cules miſſing his Page, called him by his name aloud, that all the ſhore rang
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            of it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1985" xml:space="preserve">and that Hylas from within the Water anſwered his Maſter; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1986" xml:space="preserve">but (that
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            which is to the preſent purpoſe) with ſo ſmall and exile a voice, as Hercules
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            thought he had been three miles off, when the Fountain (indeed) was
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            faſt by.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1987" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1988" xml:space="preserve">In Lutes and Inſtruments of Strings, if you ſtop a ſtring high, where-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0074-01" xlink:href="note-0074-01a" xml:space="preserve">156.</note>
            by it hath leſs ſcope to tremble, the Sound is more Trebble, but yet more
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            dead.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1989" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1990" xml:space="preserve">Take two Sawcers, and ſtrike the edge of the one againſt the bottom
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0074-02" xlink:href="note-0074-02a" xml:space="preserve">157.</note>
            of the other, within a Pail of Water, and you ſhall finde that as you put
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            the Sawcers lower and lower, the Sound groweth more flat, even while
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            part of the Sawcer is above the Water; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1991" xml:space="preserve">but that flatneſs of Sound is joyned
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            with a harſhneſs of Sound, which, no doubt, is cauſed by the inequality of
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            the Sound, which cometh from the part of the Sawcer under the Water, and
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            from the part above. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1992" xml:space="preserve">But when the Sawcer is wholly under the Water, the
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            ſound becometh more clear, but far more low, and as if the ſound came
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            from a far off.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1994" xml:space="preserve">A ſoft body dampeth the ſound, much more than a hard; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1995" xml:space="preserve">and if a Bell
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0074-03" xlink:href="note-0074-03a" xml:space="preserve">158.</note>
            hath cloth or ſilk wrapped about it, it deadeth the ſound more than if it were
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            Wood. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1996" xml:space="preserve">And therefore in Clericals, the Keyes are lined, and in Colledges they
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            uſe to line the Table-men.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1997" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1998" xml:space="preserve">Tryal was made in a Recorder after theſe ſeveral manners. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1999" xml:space="preserve">The bottom
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            of it was ſet againſt the Palm of the Hand, ſtopped with Wax round about,
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            ſet againſt a Damask Cuſhion, thruſt into Sand, into Aſhes, into Water,
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            (half an inch under the Water) cloſe to the bottom of a Silver Baſin,
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            and ſtill the Tone remained: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2000" xml:space="preserve">But the bottom of it was ſet againſt
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            a Woollen Carpet, a Lining of Pluſh, a Lock of Wool, (though looſly
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            put in;) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2001" xml:space="preserve">againſt Snow, and the ſound of it was quite deaded, and but
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            breath.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2003" xml:space="preserve">Iron hot produceth not ſo full a ſound, as when it is cold; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2004" xml:space="preserve">for while it is
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0074-05" xlink:href="note-0074-05a" xml:space="preserve">160.</note>
            hot, it appeareth to be more ſoft, and leſs reſounding. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2005" xml:space="preserve">So likewiſe warm Wa-
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            ter, when it faileth maketh not ſo full a ſound as cold; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2006" xml:space="preserve">and I conceive it is
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            ſofter, and nearer the nature of Oyl; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2007" xml:space="preserve">for it is more ſlippery, as may be per-
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            ceived, in that it ſco wreth better.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2009" xml:space="preserve">Let there be a Recorder made with two Fipples at each end one; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2010" xml:space="preserve">the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0074-06" xlink:href="note-0074-06a" xml:space="preserve">161.</note>
            Trunck of it of the length of two Recorders, and the holes anſwerable to-
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            wards each end, and let two play the ſame Le
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            ſſon upon it, at an Uniſon;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2011" xml:space="preserve">and let it be noted, whether the ſound be confounded, or amplified, or
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            dulled. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2012" xml:space="preserve">So likewiſe let a Croſs be made of two Truncks </s>
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