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cadence, hath an agreement with the figure in rheto 

 ric, which they call &quot; praeter expectatum ;&quot; for there 

 is a pleasure even in being deceived. The reports, 

 and fuges, have an agreement with the figures in 

 rhetoric, of repetition and traduction. The triplas, 

 and changing of times, have an agreement with the 

 changes of motions ; as when galliard time, and 

 measure time, are in the medley of one dance. 



114. It hath been anciently held and observed, 

 that the sense of hearing, and the kinds of music, 

 have most operation upon manners ; as, to en 

 courage men, and make them warlike; to make 

 them soft and effeminate ; to make them grave ; 

 to make them light; to make them gentle and 

 inclined to pity, &c. The cause is, for that the 

 sense of hearing striketh the spirits more immedi 

 ately than the other senses ; and more incorporeally 

 than the smelling ; for the sight, taste, and feeling, 

 have their organs not of so present and immediate 

 access to the spirits, as the hearing hath. And as 

 for the smelling, which indeed worketh also imme 

 diately upon the spirits, and is forcible while the 

 object remaineth, it is with a communication of the 

 breath or vapour of the object odorate ; but 

 harmony entering easily, and mingling not at all, 

 and coming with a manifest motion, doth by custom 

 of often affecting the spirits, and putting them into 

 one kind of posture, alter not a little the nature of 

 the spirits, even when the object is removed. And 

 therefore we see, that tunes and airs, even in their 

 own nature, have in themselves some affinity with 



