A TREATISE 



quid element, being fluide and getting into the earc, maketh 

 vitiations upon the drum of it like unto thofe of ayre. 

 7> But all this is nc thing in refpe& of what I miht in fome fort 



Howonefenfc fay, and yet fpeake truth. Which is,that I have feerae one , . who 

 may fupply the cou ld difcerne founds with his eyes. It is admirable , bow one 

 fenfe will oftentimes fupply the want of an other: whereof I 

 have feene an other ftrange example in a different ttraine from 

 this $ of a man that by his grofler fenfes had his want of fight 

 wonderfully made up. He was fb throughly blind , that his eyes 

 could not inform* him when the Sunne. mined ; for ail the 

 cryttalline humour was out in both his^yes: yet his other ienfes 

 intfrufted him > eflficacioufly in what vyas their office to have 

 done 5 as what he wanted in them , feemed to be overpayed in 

 jother abilities. To lay that he would piay-at cards and tables as 

 well as moft men} is rather a commendation of his memory and 

 fanfie, then of any of his outward ienfes. Buttliatbefhould 

 play well at boules and flioveibord , and other games of ay me, 

 which iijftther men doe require cleare fight, and an exaefc level! 

 of the hand according to the qualities of die earth or table, and 

 to the fituation anddiftance of the place he was to throw- at, 

 feemeth to exceed poffibiiity : and yet he did all this. 



He would vvalke in a chamber or long alley in a garden(after 

 he had been a while uled to them; as ftraight , and turne as ^fl- 

 at the ends, as any feeing man could doe. . He would goe up and 

 downe everywhere fb confidently, and demeane himfelfett 

 table fb regularly ..as Grangers have fittcn by him feverall meaies 

 and have feen him waike about t he houfe, without everobfer- 

 ving any want of feeing in him ' which he endeavoured what 

 he could to hide , by wearing his hat low upon his browes. He 

 ' vvould , at the firft abord of a /traager , as foone as he fpoke to 

 him,frame a right apprehenfion of his ttature,bulke and manner 

 of making. And which is more, when he taught hi? Thallers to 

 decIarneCfbr he was fchoolmafter to my Conne*, and lived iniy 

 hou/e) or to Mprefent fbme of Seneca's Tragedies, or the Jike, 

 hevirould by their voyce know their gefiure, and the fituation 

 they put their bodies in : fo that he would be able, asfbonas 

 they fpokejto judge whether they ttood or fate , or ui what po- 

 iJurc they were j which made them derneane thcmfelves as cfe- 

 ccutly before him whilcs.they ipofce , asif he hod &cn them per- 

 fcftly. Though 



