The Chaos.

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To draw his stttggist and yielding thoughts from Battle to Banquets,

and so carried him which way he pleased, which could not be done, but by Vine-wood, or Wood-Laurel. The Instrument of the Harper, who when Jgamemmn wentfrom Greece to Troy, did keep flilemnestra chaste by, his Mustek was made of Wil-low, called Agnus Castm z for the women in the Feasts of C ere h amongst the Atheni-ans, put Willow-Patk-lcaves under them, to keep them chaste when they lay in bed,for so they extinguished the desire of venery. The Pythagoreans used some Tunes

For steep and waking ;

For when they would by sleep overcome divers cares, they play’d certain Tunes,that caste and quiet sleep might come upon them; and wherPrhey arose, sosoonasthey went out os their Chambers, with some Mustek they would dispel ail confusionand dulness of sleep, that they might set to their work. It is said that the ÆolianMustek doth still the tempests of theminde, and rocks men a st *ep: they provokedmen to sleep with Altnond-tree, or Vine-tree-wood, and they drove sleep off wichHellebore. Takc this experiment that is common,

A Harp that is plafd on , will move another Harpstrung to the fame height.

Let the strings be stretched alike, that both may come to the fame melody perfectly ;if you shall strike one of the bale strings, the other will answer it, and so it is in thetrebles, yet they must be at a moderate distance; and if this be not very clear, laystraw upon ir, and you shall see it move. But Suetonius TranquiBas, in his Book, DeLudicra Historia faith, That in Winter some strings are struck, and others found. Thusany ignorant man may tunea Hrrp, if one Harp be rightly tuned for Mustek, and lyestill, he by stretching the strings of the other, and by slackning them, and striking asthe string of the Harp that lyes still guides him ; so of the rest, But if you will

That a deaf person may hear the found of the Harp ,or else stop your ears with your hands, that you may not hear the sound. Then takefast hold of the Instrument by the handle with your teeth , and let another strike onit, and it will make a Musical noise in the brain, and may be a sweeter noise. Andnot onely taking hold of the bandle with your teeth, but the long neck, neertheHarp, and by that you shall heat the sound perfectly, that you may say that you didnot heat the Mustek, but taste it. Now remains what I think is very pleasant

To make a Harp or other Instrument be plafd on by the winde ,

Do thus: When the windes are very tempestuous set your Instruments just against it,as Harps, Flutes, Dulcimers, Pipes the wind will run violently into them, and playlow upon them, and will run into the holes of the reeds; whence if you stand neerand listen, you will hear most pleasant Mustek by consent of them all, and will rejoyce.

Chap. VIII.

To discover Frauds whereby Impostors working by Hatural means, pretend that they

do them by conjuration.

N Ow will I open Cheats and Impostors , whereby Jugglers and Impostors, whofain themselves to beCujurcrs, and thereby delude fools, knaves, and simplewomen. I, to cast down their fraud, by admonishing simple people not to be decei-ved by them, shall open the causes thereof. And first,

By what means they fain , that they can discover Treasures,

The greater part of Corners, when they are themselves very poor and most misera-ble of all men, they profess themselves able to finde our Treasures, and they promiseto other men what they want themselves $ and they use four Rods that are doubleforked, the tops whereof sticking close together croffways, they hold the lower parts