Bacon, Francis
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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. </
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voice plainly, but yet made extream ſharp and exile, like the voice of
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Puppets: </
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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. </
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he may be lower than the Water. </
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lian Poet had knowledge of this Experiment; </
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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; </
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cules miſſing his Page, called him by his name aloud, that all the ſhore rang
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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.</
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by it hath leſs ſcope to tremble, the Sound is more Trebble, but yet more
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dead.</
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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; </
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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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ſound becometh more clear, but far more low, and as if the ſound came
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hath cloth or ſilk wrapped about it, it deadeth the ſound more than if it were
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Wood. </
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uſe to line the Table-men.</
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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: </
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a Woollen Carpet, a Lining of Pluſh, a Lock of Wool, (though looſly
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put in;) </
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breath.</
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hot, it appeareth to be more ſoft, and leſs reſounding. </
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ter, when it faileth maketh not ſo full a ſound as cold; </
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ſofter, and nearer the nature of Oyl; </
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ceived, in that it ſco wreth better.</
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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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dulled. </
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