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that do keep time, some going with plummets, and 

 some with springs, as those small clocks that be used 

 in tablets to hang about men s necks. And as the 

 brazen head, that seemed for to speak, might be made 

 by such wheel work, to go either by plummets or by 

 springs, and might have time given unto it, that at so 

 many hours end, then the wheels and other engines 

 should be set to work : and the voice that they did hear 

 may go with bellows in some trunk of brass or other 

 metal, with stops to alter the sound, may be made to 

 seem to speak some words, according unto the fancy of 

 the inventor, so that the simple people will marvel at 

 it. And for to make a bird or fowl, made of wood or 

 metal, with other things made by art, to fly, it is to be 

 done to go with springs, and so to beat the air with the 

 wings, as other birds or fowls do, being of a reasonable 

 lightness, it may fly : and also to make birds of metal 

 to sing very sweetly, and good music, it may be done 

 with wheels, to go at any hour or time appointed by 

 plummets, and then to have pipes of tin or other fine 

 metal, to go with bellows, and the pipes to have stops, 

 and to go with a barrel, or other such like device, and 

 may be made to play or sing what note that the inventor 

 shall think good when he doth make it ; and also there 

 may be divers helps to make it to seem pleasant unto 

 the ears of the hearers, by letting the sound or wind of 

 the pipes pass through or into water, for that will make 

 a quavering as birds do, &c. And also you may make 

 a small puppet, either like a man or woman, to seem 

 to go by wheels and springs, and shall turn and go 

 circular, according unto the setting of the wheels and 

 springs, and also the birds made to fly by art, to fly 

 circularly, as it shall please the inventor, by the placing 

 of the wheels and springs, and such other like inven 

 tions, which the common people would marvel at, 



