OF BODIES,Ghap.XXVIII. 



when paffion,in his orations to the people, drove out his voyce 

 with too great a vehemence or mrilnefle. 



He couJd difcerne in an other, whether he /poke fh rill or low : 

 and he would rcpeate after any body, any hard word whatfb- 

 cvcr. Which the Prince tryed often ; not onely in Engjim, but 

 by making fomeWekhmenthat fervedhis Highneffe, /peake 

 words of their language. Which he fb perfectly ecchoed, that I 

 confeffe I wondered more at that, then at all the reft. And his 

 Matter himfelfe would acknowledge, that the rules of his art 

 reached not to produce that effect with any certainty. And 

 therefore concluded, this in him muttfpring from ether rules 

 he had framed unto himfelfe, out of his cwn attentive obferva- 

 tion : which, the advantage that nature had juftly given him in 

 the fharpenefle of his other fenfes, to fupply the want of this ; 

 endowed him with an ability andfagacity to do, beyond any o^ 

 ther man that had his hearing. He expreffed it (furely)in a high 

 meafure, by his fb exact imitation of the Welch pronunciation: 

 for that tongue ( like the Hebrew ) empJoyethmncfi the gut- 

 tural! letters ' and the motions-of that part which frameth 

 them, cannot be feenenor judged by the eye , otherwife then 

 by the effect they may happily make by confent in the other 

 parts of the mouth, expcfed to view : for the knowledge hee 

 had of what they faid, fprungfrom his cblerving the motions- 

 they made ; fb that hee could converfe currently in the light, 

 though they he talked with,whifpered never fo fo/tly . And I fiave 

 feene him at the diftance of a large chambers breadth, fay words- 

 after one , that I ftanding clofe by the fpeaker could not heare a 

 fy liable of. But if he were in the darke, or if one turned his face 

 Out of his fight,he was capable of nothing one faid. 



Butitistimethatwereturue to our theame, fromwhence ? 



my blind Schoolemafter, and this deafe Prince ( whole defeds DfVcrs r'cafont 

 were overpayed an other way) have carried us with fo long a to prove found 

 digrelfion. Which yet will not be altogether ufelelfe (no more r j b , e nothing 

 then the former, of the wild man of Liege) ifweemakedue 'on o/f mC " 

 refleilions upon them : forwhenwefhallconfider, that odors reallbo<ty. 

 may be tafted ; that therelifh of meates may be fmelled ; that 

 magnitude and figure may be heard j that light may be felt j and 

 that founds may be feen ; ( all which is true in fbme &nfe ) we 

 may hy this changing the offices of the fenfes , and by looking 



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