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A TREATISE 



This is evidentjthac an animals lungs andcheftjying Co nccre 

 as they doe unto his heart ; and all voyce being made by the 

 breathes commingout of his mouth,and through his windpipe ; 

 ipmult nece$arily follow , that by the divers ordering of thefe. 

 inftruments , his voyce will become divei* ; and thefc inftru- 

 taents will be diver fly ordered in him , according to the divers 

 motions ofhis heart : that is, by divers pailiom in him ( for fb 

 we may oblerve in our lelves / that our breath is much changed 

 by our being in patfion;) and confequently, as a betft is agitated 

 by various palliom, he muft needs utter variety of vovces,which 

 cannotchoofe, but make divers impreffions in other beatts, that 

 ha v,e commerce with him; whether theybe of the Tame kind'as he 

 is, or of a different : and ib we lee , that if a dog fetteth upon a 

 hog, the bitten hogs crymaketh an impreffion in the other 

 hogs, to come to their feJIows refcue, and in other dogs to runne 

 after the crying hog : in like manner, anger in a dog makcth 

 fnarling or barking i paine, whining; defire, another kind of 

 barking; and his ;oy of feeing a perfbnthatheufeth to receive 

 good by,willbreakeout in another kind of whining. So in a 

 henne, her divers pafsions worke divers kinds of clocking ; as 

 whenmefeeth a kite, /he hath one voyce , when /he meeteth' 

 with meate, another ; when fhe defireth to gather her chickens 

 under her wings, a third : and ib, upon divers occafions , a di- 

 vers found} according to the divers ordering of her vocall in - 

 ftruments.by the paffion which prefleth her heart. So that who 

 would looke curioufly into the motions of the difpofitions of a 

 beafts vocall inftruments , and into the motions of the fpirits 

 about his heart (which motion we have (hewed is paffion) 

 would be able to give account , why every voyce of that beait 

 was fuch a one , and what motion about the heart it were that 

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And as much may be obferved in men , who in paines and 

 griefes,and other paflions, doe ufe to breake out into thofe voy- 

 ccs , which we call interjections . and ^which fi^nifie nothing in 

 the under/tending of them that forme them , but to the hearer 

 arefigns ofthepaffion from whence they proceed: which if a man 

 dee heedfally markem himfelfc, he will perceive, that they are 

 nothing elfe, but the fudden eruptions of a great deale of breath 

 .together, caiifed by fome^ompre/lion made within him, by the 



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