OF BODIES. Gfaap.XXVIII. 303 



bound from the cop of" the cupuJa of St. Peters in die Vaticaa, 

 dovrn to the floore of the Church j when on great daies they 

 make a Quire of M ufike goe up to the very higheft part of the 

 arch, which is,iuto the Lanthorne: from whence while they fing, 

 the people below jtift under it are furpri/cd with the /mart found 

 of their voices, as though they flood clofe by them, and yet can 

 fee no body from whom thole notes fliould proceed. And in 

 the fame cupu Ja,if two men ftand upon the large cornifh or bord, 

 which circleth the bottom of it.they may obfer ve the like effect, 

 as that which I fpoke of above in the round Tower. 



In the like manner , tliey that are called ventrilocjiii., do per- 

 fwade ignorant people, that the divel fpeakcth from within them 

 (deep in their belly ) by their fucking their breath inwards in a 

 certaine manner whiles they fpeakc : whence it followeth that 

 their voice feeuieth tecome.not from them.but from fomewhat 

 elfe hidden within them ; if (attheleatt) you perceive it com - 

 meth out of them : butifyoudonoc, thenitfeemethtocome 

 from a good way off. 



To this art belongeth the making of Sarabatanes ; or Trunks, 

 to helpe the hearing ; and of Echo glafles,that multiply founds, 

 as burning-glafTes do light. All which arts , and the rules of 

 them, do follow the laws of motion; and every effect of them is 

 to be demon/bated by the principles and proportions of mo- 

 tion : and therefore, we cannot with reafon imagine them to be 

 any thing die. 



We fee likcwife^that great noifes,not onJy offend the hearing, ? 

 but even (Lake houfes and Towers. I have been told by inhabi- The fame is 

 rants of Dover , that when the Arch-Duke Albertus made his confirmed by 

 great battery againfl Calaisf which for the time rras a very furi- ff<fts cau " 

 ous one/or he endeavored all he coald to take theTown before 

 it could be relieved^) the very houfts were fliaker^and the glafle- 

 windows were fluvered^with the report of his Artillery. And I 

 have been told by one that was in Sevill, when the gunpowder, 

 houfeof thattowne (which was fome two miles diftant from 

 that jx'ace where he lived j was blown up, that it made the wood- 

 den fhntters of the windows in his honfe , beat and clapagainft 

 the walls with great violence , and did fpfit the very waJJs of a 

 fuire Church , that ftinding next it ( though at a good di- 

 ll ance) had no otlio: building bctwecne tofneJter it from the 



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