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Its Divine and Civil USES.
The Art of Heaven , the Order of this Frame,
Is only Muftcf^ in another Name.
And as fome King , Conqu'r ing what was his own ,
Hath choice of feveral Titles to his Crown ;
So Harmony on this fcore now , that then ,
Yet ftill is all that takes and Governs Men.
Beauty is but Compofure, and we find
Content is but the Concord of the Mind ;
FrienAjhip the Vnifon of well-tun'd Hearts;
Honour's the Cbortu of the Nobleil Parts :
And all the World , on which we can reflect ,
Mufick to the Ear, or to the Intellect.
Nor hath there yet been any Reafon given ofthatjym-
pathy in Sounds, that the Strings of a Viol being flruck^.,
and another Viol laid at a diflance, and timed in Concor-
dance to it, the fame Strings thereof jhould found and move
in afympathy with the other , though not touch' d : Nor
that the found of a Sackbut or Trumpet, jhould by a
fironger Emiffion of Breath , skip from Concord to Con-
cord, before you can force it into any Gradation of Tones
or Notes . Ath . Kercherus, a learned Writer , report s,
that in Calabria, and other Farts of Italy , there is a
poyfonous Spider, called the Tarantula, by which fuch as
Are bitten fall into a Frenfie of madnefs and laughter ; to
•allay the immoderate paffion thereof, Mufick is the fpeedy
Remedy and Cure, for which they have folemn Songs and
Tunes.
The firfi and chief Vfe of Mufick is for the Service
and Praife of God, whofegtft it is. Thefecond Vfe is
for the Solace of Men, which as it is agreeable unto Na-
ture, fo it is allowed by God , as a temporal blejfing to re-
create and cheer men after longfludy and weary labour in
their Vocations. Ecclef. 40. zo. Wine and Mufick re-
j joyceth the Heart, as the Philofopher advifeth, Mufica
Medicina ell -moleftije illius per labores fufcipitur.
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