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TREATISE 



Of divers arts 

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 which confirm 

 that found is 

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Jileo hath delivered us the conibnances of Mulicke towards the 

 enc j of his firft Dialogue ofmotion ; from the 95 page forward 

 oiv . pndhorc hq ha^ ftevve.4 thatintf t<tf cteecely unto the fight 

 (& making the eye,as \veJI as the eare judge ofit) in motions of 

 the vva^.r, up plants hangingloGJe in the ayre, ami in perma- 

 nent notes or races madeupon ietton.To the moderation ofthe 



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Neither can I iljp <?ve vvich<)u menfjoning the two curious 

 a:rs of Echoing and of VVhii-psring.Tiiefirft of which, teachet-h 

 (oitvrac voyccs (e^rail times; aiiiis ^quenrly put inprac^ifit 

 by dWe. thgt are de..igfece4 with rtftfbflbW theijr gartlens. Anxi 

 ihe o^ier, ihe\veJi !io\v to gather into a narrow roomc the mo- 

 tipm of ^ ay re , that are dirtuied in a great extent ; whereby, 

 one that inall put-ius care to that place , where all the feverail 

 motiorn ^pe n.iect b iJiali beare wfeflf is fppken fo. low, as no body 

 fa^cweejnbim^a&te he fj)ea,ker, can dui:srne any found ac all. Of 

 which kin^ , ft^rfe-*?e very fiae curiofities in fome Churches of 

 England : and my ielfe have feen , in an upper room of a capa- 

 qious round Tower vauted overhead., the walls fo contrived (by 

 chance I belfeve)thac two men ftandbg at die utmoll oppofite 

 points of the Diameter of it , could talke very currently and 

 qleerely with one and other; and yet none that itoodin the 

 middle could heare a iyJiable. And if he turned his face to the 

 wall and /poke againft that (though never fo loftly) the others 

 eare, at the pppo/ite point, would dilcerne every word. Which 

 putteth mg ip mind of a note made by one that was no rriend to 

 auricular confetficn ; upon his occasion of his being with me in 

 % Chprch that had been of a Monaltery ; where, in one corner 

 of it , one might fit and heare almott all that was whifpered 

 through the whole extent ofthe Church : who would not be 

 pcrfwa&d but that ic : was on punpofe contrived fb by the fubtil- 

 ty ofthe Friars ; to the end that the Prior or forae one of them, 

 might fit there and heare what/oever the ieverall Penitents ac- 

 cufed them/elves of to their ghoftly fathers ; Co to maJccadvan- 

 ug^ by this artifice, ofwhatthcconfeflforsdurft not of them- 

 ifelvej iromediat^Iy revealed 



lie ajJovv^J better of the ufe in Rome of makiag voyces re- 



bound 



