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] we, but fuch as appertained! to their proper Obieds, and Senfes, and are 
■otherwife Barren. 
| But Both of them in their owne proper Adion, doe worke threemani 
| feft E [feels . The hrft, in that the Stronger Species drowneth the Lejfcr 5 As 
! the Light of the STmnc,the Light of a Glow-wormejthe Report of an Ord¬ 
inance, the Voice : The Second, in that an, ObieB ef Surcharge orExceJfe 
deftroyeth the Senfe ; As the Light of the Slinnc the Eye, a violent Sound 
| (neerc the Bare) the Hearing: The Thirds in that both If them will be reuer- 
j beratey As in Mirrours » And in Eechos. 
Neither of them doth defray or hinder the Species of thither, although 
they encounter in the fame Medium - 3 As Light or Colour hinder not Sound s 
Nor e contra. 
Both of the maffitt the fenfe in Lining Creatures^ and yecld ObieBi of 
Pleafure and f) i ji t he: Yet neuerfhelcffe, the Obieffsof them doe alfo (ifit 
be wel l obferued) affed and worke .vpon dead Things ; Namely, fuch as 
hatie fomc Conformity with the Organs of the two Senfes . As yifibles 
worke vpon a Looking-hUffe, whiduis like the Pupillof the Eye ; And 
Audibles vpon the Places of Eccbo, which refemble infomefort, the Ca- 
uerneand ltrudire of the Eare. 
Bothot them doe dtncrfly mrhe^ as they hone their Medium dinerfy dif- 
pofed. So a Trembling Medium (as Srrioake)maketh the Obied feeme to 
tremble - and a Riling or Falling Medium (as Winds) maketh the Sounds 
torife,orfall. 
To Both , the Medium , which is the moll Propitious and Conducible, 
is Aire • For G lalTe or Water, See. ate not comparable. 
In Both of them, where the ObieB is Fine and Accurate, it conduceth 
much to hauc the senfe int entitle, undEreB • In {branch as you contrad 
yonr Eye, when you would fecfharply • Andered your Eare, when you 
would hcare attentiueiy; which in Bealls that haue Earcs moueable, is 
moft manifeft. 
The semes of Light, when they are multiplied and conglomerate, gene¬ 
rate Heat • which isa different Adion,from the Adion of And the 
Multiplication and Conglomeration of Sounds doth generate an extreme Ra¬ 
refaction of the Aire *, which is an Adion materiate, differing from the 
Adion of Sound 5 I fit bee true (which is anciently reported) that Birds, 
with great limits 5 haue falle n downe; 
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