3 o8 A TREATISE 



others laid that he would not lofe a word in a whole daies con- 

 verfation. 



They who have a curiofity to fee by what Reps the mafter 

 proceeded in teaching him , may iatisfie it by a booke which he 

 him (elf hath writ in Spanish upon that fubje<ft,to inftrucl others 

 how to teach deafe and dumbe perfbns to fpeake. Which when 

 he /hall have looked heedfully over ; and fliall have confidered 

 what a great diftance there is betweene the Simplicity andna- 

 kednetfe of his firft principles ; and the ftrange readinefTe and 

 vaft extent of Jpeech refiilting inprocefleof time out of them; 

 he will forbeare pronouncing an impoflibility in their pedegree, 

 whiles he wondrerhat the numerous effects refulring in bodies 

 out of rarity and denfity y ingenioufly mingled together by an 

 aJl knowing Architect, for the production of various qualities 

 among mixrs, of ftrange motions in particular bodies , and of 

 admirable operations of life and fen/e among vegetables and 

 animals* All which are ib many feverall words of the myfHcall 

 languai^which the great mafter hath taught his otherwifc 

 dumbe ichoUers (the creatures) to proc:aime his infinite art 

 wifdome,perfec}ions,and excellency in. 



The Prieft who by his booke and art. occafioned this dif- 

 courfe,! am told is ft ill alive, and in the ferviceof the Prince of 

 Carignan , where he continueth ( with fbme that have need of 

 his paines) the iame imploy ment as he did with the Con/tables 

 brother : with whem I hav c often difcoiurfed , whiles I waited 

 upon the Prince of Wales- (now our gracious Soveraigne) in 

 Spaine. And I doubt not but His Majefty remembrcth ail I have 

 /aid of him and much more : for His Majefty was very curious 

 t^oblerve and enquire into theutmoft ofir.lt is true, one great 

 misbecomingneife he was apt to fall into, whiles he /poke: which 

 was an uncertainty in the tone of his voyce j for not hearing the 

 found he made when he fpoke, he could not fteddily governethe 

 pitch of his voyce; but it would be /bmetimes higher, Ibmetimes 

 lower ; though for the moft part 1 , what he delivered together, 

 he ended in the fame key as he begun it. But when he had once 

 fiifferedthe paflage of his voice toclofe, at the opening them 

 againe , chance , or the meafure of his earneftne/Te to fpeake or 

 to reply, gave him his tone : which he was not capable of mode- 

 sating by fach an artifice , as is recorded Cams Oracchosufed, 



