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harmony. And therefore we see in garden-knots, 

 and the frets of houses, and all equal and well 

 answering figures, as globes, pyramids, cones, cylin 

 ders, &c. how they please ; whereas unequal figures 

 are but deformities. And both these pleasures, that 

 of the eye, and that of the ear, are but the effects of 

 equality, good proportion, or correspondence : so 

 that, out of question, equality and correspondence 

 are the causes of harmony. But to find the propor 

 tion of that correspondence, is more abstruse ; whereof 

 notwithstanding we shall speak somewhat, when we 

 handle tones, in the general enquiry of sounds. 



112. Tones are not so apt altogether to procure 

 sleep as some other sounds ; as the wind, the purling 

 of water, humming of bees, a sweet voice of one that 

 readeth, &c. The cause whereof is, for that tones, 

 because they are equal and slide not, do more strike 

 and erect the sense than the other. And overmuch 

 attention hindereth sleep. 



1 13. There be in music certain figures or tropes, 

 almost agreeing with the figures of rhetoric, and 

 with the affections of the mind, and other senses. 

 First, the division and quavering, which please so 

 much in music, have an agreement with the glitter 

 ing of light ; as the moon-beams playing upon a 

 wave. Again, the falling from a discord to a con 

 cord, which maketh great sweetness in music, hath 

 an agreement with the affections, which are reinte 

 grated to the better, after some dislikes ; it agree th 

 also with the taste, which is soon glutted with that 

 which is sweet alone. The sliding from the close or 



