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Roome for his Head. Then let him Ipeak*, 8c any that lhall Hand with • 
outjfhall hearehisTtf/Ve plainly s but yet made extreme fharp and exile, 
like the Voice of Puppet s:but yet the Articulate Sounds of the words will 
not be confounded. Mote that it may be ranch morehandfomly done, 
if the Paile be put ouer the Mans head aboue water, and then he cowre 
downe,and the Pailebe preiled downe with him.Note that a man mull 
kneele or fit,that he may be lower than the water. A man would think 
that the Sicilian Toet had knowledge of this Experiment - For he faith * 
That Hercules Pape Hylus went with a Waterpot,to fill it at a pleafanr 
Fountaine , that was neere the Shore, and that the Nymphs ohhv Foun¬ 
taine fell m loue with the Boy,& pulled him vnder water, keeping him 
aliue ; And that Hercules milling his Page, called him by his Name, 
aloud,that all the ihore rang of it. and that Hylas from within the Wa¬ 
ter, anfwered his Mailer j But (that which is to the prefent purpofe) 
with fo fmall and exile a Voice , as Hercules thought he had beene three 
miles off, (indeed) was fall by. 
In Lutes and Jnjlruments of Strings , ifyou Hop a Stringhi^n (where¬ 
by it hath lelTe fcope to tremble)the Sound is more Treble, but yet more 
dead. 
Take two Sawcers,and ftrike the edge of the one againft the bottom 
of the other, within a Paile of water ; And you fhall findc, that as you 
put the Sawcers lower and lower, the Sound groweth more flat ; euen 
while Part of the Sawcer is aboue the Water ; But that Flatnefle of 
Sound is ioyned with a Harfhnefle of Sound *, which (no doubt) is can- 
led by the inequality of the Sound, which commeth from the part of the 
Sawcer vnder the water, and from the Part aboue. But when the Sawcer 
is wholly vnder the water,the Soknd becommeth more cleare,but farre 
more low 5 And as if the Sound came from a farre off. 
A Soft Body dampeththe Sound, much more than a Hard- As if a Bell 
hath Cloth,or Silk wrapped about it,it deadeth th t Sound more, than 
ifit were Wood. And therefore in Clericals, the Keyes are lined^ And 
inColIeges they vfe to line the Tablemen. 
Triall was made in a Recorder, after thefe feuerall manners.Thc Bot- 
tomeofirwas fetagainft the Palme ofthe Hand flopped with Wax 
round about *, fee againft a Damaske Cufhion -Thruft into Sand - 3 Into 
Afhes^Into Water(halfean inch vnder the Water*,) CloletotheBot- 
| tome of a Siluer Balin • And ftill the Tone remained : but theBottome 
' ofit was fetagainft a Woollen Carpet • A Lining ofPlufh • A Lock 
of Wooll,(though loofely put in 5 ) Againft Snow* And the Sound ofit 1 
was quite deaded, and but Breath. 
Iron Hot,produceth not fo full a Sound,as when it is Cold-Forwhile 
it is hoc,it appeareth to be more foft,and leffc refounding. So likewile 
warm water , when it falleth, maketh not fo full a Sound, as Cold: And 
I conceiue it is fofter,and neerer the Nature of Oile*For it is more flip- 
pery y As may be perceiued, in that it fcowrech better. 
Let there be a Recorder made,with two Tipples, at each end one *, The 
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