ATREATISE 



eare to their wholefomedocTrine; and what men fwallow with 

 delight , is converted into pun.iftiment fothat, ifthcir drift were 

 to fettle in mens minds a due valuation of vertue, and a deteftati- 

 on of vice, no art would doe it more univerfally, nor more eflkctu- 

 ally:and by it,mens hearts would be fet on fire to the purfuit of the 

 one, and be (hrunk up withdiflike and horrour againft the other. 

 But unto fuch a Poet as would ay me at thofe noble effcds, no 

 knowledge of Morality , nor the nature and courfe of humane 

 actions and accidents muft be wanting : he mud be well verfed 

 in Hiftery ; he muft be acquainted with the progrefle of na- 

 ture, in what (he bringeth to pafle ; he muft be deficient in no 

 . part of Logicke t Rhetoricke t or Grammar : in a word , he muft be 

 confumtnateinallartsandfciences,if he will be excellent in his 

 way. 



*' But whiles we thus entet tain our fclves with thofe arts, which 



Of the power f erv eusindifcour(ing with others, it were a great overfight to 

 " ng * forget that faculty , which is the bafis and ground-work of all 

 thofe : and that is, tl e power of fpeech , which nature hath be- 

 ftowcd upon us. It confifttth in t wo actions : the one outward, 

 the other inward : the outward, is the giving of various founds to 

 our breath, as it paifcth through our mouth, by divers conjuncti- 

 ons of our tongue, teuh, and lips, to themfelves, or to divers 

 parts of our mouth, orby their feparations from them : in which, 

 we fee that birds arc able to imitate us, and I am perfwaded , the 

 like might befK ctcd by infenfible creatures, if a dexterous man 

 would employ his time, in cornving and making aninftrument 

 to eyprefle thofe different founds; which, not having more then 

 ftven fubftantiall differences btiides the vowels (as fomewho 

 have carefully noted them , doe arh'rme) it would perad venture 

 be no hard matter to compofe fuch an engine. 



The in ward action cf locution, is the framing of convenient 

 anfwers to what is asked j of fit reply es to what is faid ; and in 

 a word,tofpeak appofitcly, and to the purpofe : whereunto, nei- 

 ther beaft nor dead inftrument can be brought , unlcfle the artifi- 

 cier be able to endue it with undei Handing. 



All other arts, inftrucT: us how-to work orderly upon beafts 

 >farts do* b an< ^ i n ^ en ^ eD0 ^ es ' ^ ^ ome of them, we cultivateliving crea- 

 tures J as when husband-men nouriQi (beep, oxen, foule, and 

 ^ like, for flaughter : by others, we difciplinc thcm,as when we 



teach 



