dyj^but alfo thelateot fcofes and any motions of the Miod may 
befo lively reprefentcd, that there (hall bealmoft nothing in 
thingSj that may not becxhibited by well cocDpoftd Songs and 
Numbers, 
;2,The Nature of the K/l^/s^^which he defines to be a Syftem 
or Aggregate jofFectjthe Times of which have a certain pro- 
portion to one another v which proportion -when 'tis apt , 
the Verfes or Songs are faid to ht^%y^\f.n , if nor, af^y'^<«a/^ 
Wherefore for the coiicinnity of the Ry thm^ care muft be had 
above all things^not to couple together fuch feet as differ in 
their times^ 
5. The aptnefs of the variety of the Rythm for ex- 
prefling either Majefty^or Effeminacy, or Vehemency of Paffi. 
ons , as Angers Griefy Love, &c. 
4, The caufe of the joint Lofe of Mupk, and Poetrj in Greece^ 
where they had their Birth together, which he efteems 
to have been the Change of that Tongue and the Profody 
thereof^ which I's the tenor of the voice according to which 
the Verfe or Song is framed. The fame Caufe he affigos for 
the Lofs of the Latin Poefy , and that chiefly upon the in- 
vafioa of the Roman Empire by the barbarous Nati- 
ons^ ■ , 
5. The Prefent Cpnftitution of Poetry,wh5ch he faith is fo or- 
dered that the CjIc Endiogs^together with a certain and deter- 
minate number of Syllables , doc ia a manner all that is done; 
without any careaiPfc what nature and quantity thofe Syllables 
bej and confcquently without Rythm, or obfervation of Me- 
tricai/etr, _ 
d.ThcExcellency of the true Greel^ tongue above all thofe of 
which there remains any knowlcdg amongft us,and the culture 
pf that tongue, lenditingitmoft apt not only for cxpreffiog 
things^ bm alio fbr framing Songs and Verfes. Where the 
Author takes occafion of difcourfing of divers Tongues and 
their Pecukamies, after he had firfi: treated of the two things 
th^t are to be qonfider'd io all tongues, the Smnd and Atcent^ 
and enlarged upp# the power and efficacy of the Letters both 
Vowels atid Cpnibmnts, that form the Sound. Here he cxa- 
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