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

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            with Cloth or Silk, it will give a diverſe Sound from that it would do of it
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            ſelf; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2061" xml:space="preserve">ſo if the Pipe be a little wet on the inſide, it will make a differing
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            Sound, from the ſame Pipedry.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2063" xml:space="preserve">That Sound made within Water, doth communicate better with a hard
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-01" xlink:href="note-0076-01a" xml:space="preserve">168.</note>
            Body thorow Water, than made in Air, it doth with Air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2064" xml:space="preserve">Vide Experimentum,
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            134.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2066" xml:space="preserve">WE have ſpoken before (in the Inquiſition touching Muſick) of Mu-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-02" xlink:href="note-0076-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching
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              Equality and
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              In’quality of
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              Sounds.</note>
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            ſical Sounds, whereunto there may be a Concord or Diſcord in two
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            Parts; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2067" xml:space="preserve">which Sounds we call Tones, and likewiſe of Immuſical Sounds; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2068" xml:space="preserve">and
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            have given the cauſe, that the Tone proceedeth of Equality, and the other
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            of Inequality. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2069" xml:space="preserve">And we have alſo expreſſed there, what are the Equal
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            Bodies that give Tones, and what are the Unequal that give none. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2070" xml:space="preserve">Butnow
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            we ſhall ſpeak of ſuch Incquality of Sounds, as proceedeth not from the
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            Nature of the Bodies themſelves, but is accidental, Either from the Rough-
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            neſs or Obliquity of the Paſſage, or from the Doubling of the Percuticnt,
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            or from the Trepidation of the Motion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2072" xml:space="preserve">A Bell if it have a Rift in it, whereby the ſound hath not a clear paſſage,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-03" xlink:href="note-0076-03a" xml:space="preserve">169.</note>
            giveth a hoarſe and jarring ſound; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2073" xml:space="preserve">ſo the Voice of Man, when by cold
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            taken, the Weſil groweth rugged, and (as we call it) furred, becometh
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            hoarſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2074" xml:space="preserve">And in theſe two inſtances, the Sounds are ingrate, becauſe they
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            are meerly unequal; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2075" xml:space="preserve">but if they be unequal in equality, then the Sound is
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            Grateful, but Purling.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2077" xml:space="preserve">All Inſtruments that have either Returns, as Trumpets; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2078" xml:space="preserve">or Flexions, as
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-04" xlink:href="note-0076-04a" xml:space="preserve">170.</note>
            Cornets; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2079" xml:space="preserve">or are drawn up, and putfrom, as Sackbuts, have a Purling Sound;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2080" xml:space="preserve">But the Recorder or Flute that have none of theſe Inequalities, give a clear
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            Sound. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2081" xml:space="preserve">Nevertheleſs, the Recorderit ſelf or Pipe, moiſtened a little in the
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            inſide, ſoundethmore ſolemnly, and with a little Purling or Hiſſing. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2082" xml:space="preserve">Again,
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            a Wreathed String, ſuch as are in the Baſe Strings of Bandoraes, giveth alſo
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            a Purling Sound.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2084" xml:space="preserve">Lut a Lute-ſtring, if it be meerly unequal in his parts, giveth a harſh
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-05" xlink:href="note-0076-05a" xml:space="preserve">171.</note>
            and untuneable Sound, which ſtrings we call falſe, being bigger in one
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            place, than in another; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2085" xml:space="preserve">and therefore Wire-ſtrings are never falſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2086" xml:space="preserve">Weſee
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            alſo, that when we try a falſe Lute-ſtring, we uſe to extend it hard between
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            the Fingers, and to fillip it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2087" xml:space="preserve">and if it giveth a double ſpecies, it is true; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2088" xml:space="preserve">but
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            if it giveth a trebble or more, it is falſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2090" xml:space="preserve">Waters, in the noiſe they make as they run, repreſent to the Ear a
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-06" xlink:href="note-0076-06a" xml:space="preserve">172.</note>
            trembling noiſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2091" xml:space="preserve">and in Regals (where they have a Pipe, they call the
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            Nightingale-Pipe, which containeth Water) the Sound hath a continual
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            trembling. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2092" xml:space="preserve">And Children have alſo little things they call Cocks, which
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            have water in them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2093" xml:space="preserve">and when they blow, or whiſtle in them, they yield
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            a trembling noiſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2094" xml:space="preserve">which Trembling of Water, hath an affinity with the
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            Letter L. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2095" xml:space="preserve">All which Inequalities of Irepidation, are rather pleaſant, than
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            other wiſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2097" xml:space="preserve">All Baſe Notes, or very Trebble Notes, give an Aſper Sound; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2098" xml:space="preserve">for that
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-07" xlink:href="note-0076-07a" xml:space="preserve">173.</note>
            the Baſe ſtriketh more Air, than it can well ſtrike equally; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2099" xml:space="preserve">and the Trebble
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            cutteth the Air ſo ſharp, as it returneth too ſwift, to make the Sound equal;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2100" xml:space="preserve">and therefore a Mean or Tenor is the ſweeteſt part.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2102" xml:space="preserve">We know nothing, that can at pleaſure make a Muſical or Immuſical
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0076-08" xlink:href="note-0076-08a" xml:space="preserve">174.</note>
            Sound by voluntary Motion, butthe Voice of Man and Birds. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2103" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is
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            (no doubt) in the Weſil or Wind-Pipe, (which we call Aſperia </s>
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