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the eare, feemeth to lead us : for had there been nothing .necef- 

 farybefides motion, die very ftriking of the outward ayre a- 

 gainft the tympanum, would have been fufficient without any 

 other particular and extraordinary organization, to have pro- 

 duced Ibundes , and to have carried their motions up to the 

 braine : as wee fee the head of a drumme bringeth the motions 

 of the earth unto our eare, when we lay it thereunto, as we have 

 formerly delivered. But Anatomies find other tooles-and in* 

 flruments;, that feetn fit to worke and forge bodies withall ; 

 which we cannot imagine nature made in vaine. There is a 

 hammer and an an viJe whereof the hammer, ftriking upon 

 theanvi-Ie, muftofnecelTity beateoff fiich little parts of the 

 brainy frames, as flying about, doe lightand flick upon the top 

 oftheanvile:thefebythe trembling of the ayre following its 

 courfe, cannot mifle of being carried up to that part of the 

 braine, whereunto the ayre within the eare is driven by the im- 

 pulie ofthe found : and as foonas they have given their knocke, 

 they rebound back againe into thecells cf the braine, fitted for 

 harbours to fuch winged meffengers : where they remaine 

 lodged with quietneffe, till they be called for againe , to renew 

 the effect which the found did make at the fir/I : and the various 

 blovves which thehammer ttrikcth, according to the various vi- 

 brations of the tympanum (unto which the hammer is fatte- 

 ned ; and therefore is governed by its motions ) mult needs 

 make great difference of bigneffes, and caufe great variety of 

 fmartflefles of motion, in the little bodies which they forge. 



The laft fcnfe is of feeing ; whofe action wee cannot doubt^ 

 How colours is performed by the reflection of Jight unto our eye , from the 

 are conveyed bodies which we fee : and this light commeth impregnated with 

 a tincture drawne from the fuperficies ofthe obj'eit it is refleit- 

 ec ^ ^ rom > that is-,- it bringeth along with it, feverall ofthe little 

 afomes, which of themielves doe ftreame, and it -cutteth from 

 rhebody it flruck upon, and-reboundeth from; and they, ming- 

 ling themfelves with the light, doe in company of it get into 

 the eye; whofe fabrick, is fit to gather and unite thofe fpecies, 

 as you may fee by the anatomy of it : and from the eye , their 

 journey is but a iliort one to. the braine : in which , wee cannot 

 fdpect that they fhould lofe their force 5 confidering, how 

 other* thu cpme from organei further pflF^oeconferve ihcirs: 



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