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times, and as it were tossing it: and some that give back the voice 

 louder than it came ; some shriller, and some deeper ; yea, some render- 

 ing the voice differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they 

 receive. We have also means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in 

 strange lines and distances. 



We have also perfume-houses; wherewith we join also practices of 

 taste. We multiply smells, which may seem strange. We imitate 

 smells, making all smells to breathe out of other mixtures than those 

 that give them. We make divers imitations of taste likewise, so that 

 they will deceive any man's taste. And in this house we contain also 

 a confiture-house; where we make all sweet-meats, dry and moist, and 

 divers pleasant wines, milks, broths, and sallets, far in greater variety 

 than you have. 



We have also engine-houses, where are prepared engines and instru- 

 ments for all sorts of motions. There we imitate and practise to make 

 swifter motions than any you have, either out of your muskets or any 

 engine that you have; and to make them and multiply them more 

 easily, and with small force, by wheels and other means : and to make 

 them stronger, and more violent than yours are ; exceeding your great- 

 est cannons and basilisks. We represent also ordnance and instru- 

 ments of war, and engines of all kinds: and likewise new mixtures 

 and compositions of gun-powder, wildfires burning in water, and un- 

 quenchable. Also fire-works of all variety both for pleasure and use. 

 We imitate also nights of birds ; we have some degrees of flying in the 

 air; we have ships and boats for going under water, and brooking of 

 seas; also swimming-girdles and supporters. We have divers curious 

 clocks, and other like motions of return, and some perpetual motions. 

 We imitate also motions of living creatures, by images of men, beasts, 

 birds, fishes, and serpents. We have also a great number of other 

 various motions, strange for equality, fineness, and subtilty. 



We have also a mathematical house, where are represented all 

 instruments, as well of geometry as astronomy, exquisitely made. 



We have also houses of deceits of the senses ; where we represent all 

 manner of feats of juggling, false apparitions, impostures, and illu- 

 sions; and their fallacies. And surely you will easily believe that we 

 that have so many things truly natural which induce admiration, could 

 in a world of particulars deceive the senses, if we would disguise those 

 things and labour to make them seem more miraculous. But we do 

 hate all impostures and lies: insomuch as we have severely forbidden 

 it to all our fellows, under pain of ignominy and fines, that they do 

 not shew any natural work or thing, adorned or swelling; but only 

 pure as it is, and without all affectation or strangeness. 



These are (my son) the riches of Salomon's House. 



