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paine he is in. Which is the reafon that the Driving aijim ft 

 groanings in certaine occasions, doth ficke per/bus much harm ; 

 for it diibrdereth the natural! motions of fbme principall parts 

 within him , that are already too muc'i agitated ; and the 

 counter-morion by which they are checked , putteth them fur- 

 ther into a more violent agitation. In the obfervation of thcfe 

 naturall eruptions of mens breath _, cauledby pa'lion, our fore- 

 fathers of old were fo induftrious , as to transferre the imita- 

 tion of nature in this particular intoMuficke, fo that their 

 kinds of Muficke were diftin^uifhed according to the divihon 

 of mens palfions ; and by fimilitude would -raife them in the 

 hearers. 



Out of this difcourfe alfo reifon may be given, why birds are 

 more muficall then other creatures , to wit, beeaufc they are of 

 a hotter complexion 5 and therefore, to their bigneffe, doe re- 

 quire more breath and ayrc to coole them $ and confequently 

 doe make more noife^nd more variety of it. Likewiie,among 

 beafts,,dogs are the molt vocal of any that converfe with us; who 

 by their ready anger appeare to be the hotteft. Among men, 

 thole that arc merry, or (bone become heated with a little wine, 

 are given to talking or finging : and fo are children^and women 

 Jikcwifc $ not fo much through aboundaace of htatc, as becaufe 

 f heir heat doth-eafily vent. 



And thus it is evident , that there is no true language among 

 beafts: their voices not being tokens of divers things or concep- 

 tions, but meerely the effecU of divers breathings, caufed by di- 

 vers paflions. Wherefore, lince both breathing and paflion.,are 

 eafily reduced to the common principles of rarity and denfity ; 

 we need not trouble our felves any further,to fceke into the ori- 

 gineofthis vocall faculty of bcarts. 



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