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A55564	Humane industry, or, A history of most manual arts deducing the original, progress, and improvement of them : furnished with variety of instances and examples, shewing forth the excellency of humane wit.	Powell, Thomas, 1608-1660.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3072; ESTC R8532	67,823	206

tyranny of diseases Corporibus vires subtrahit ipse timor Fear and sadness betrayeth the succours that nature hath provided for her own defence and doth expose our bodies naked to the malignity of the air and invasion of any malady Hereof you may finde more in the writings of Physitians and particularly Langius in the 3. d book of Medicinal Epistles tells us of Xenocrates that he used to cure Phrenetick persons with songs and musick and of Theophrastus who by his own experience found that the pains of the Sciatica is much asswaged by Music. They say in France that Musick doth not cure the Tooth-ach but yet some aches are cured by it for Macrobius to the other vertues of Musick adds this Corporis morbis medetur But there are two diseases that are proper in a manner to Germany and Italy which are cured by no other means than Musick In Italy they that are bitten with that venemous Spider called the Tarantula become Phrenetick and the only way to cure them is to play upon Instruments unto them at the sound whereof they fall a dancing and bestir themselves so long untill they are quite tired and have sweated out the venom that was shot in by that Insect In Germany also that disease which they call Chorus S ti Viti or St Vitus his dance is cured with Musick It is a kinde of a Phrensie too and when the Patients hear any Minstrel play saltant ad lassitudinem simul sanitatem as Shenkius saith they dance presently and never give over till they are both tired and cured And these are sufficient proofs to shew the power and efficacy of Musick both over man and beast and in man both over his body and minde The truth is we may observe that soluta Oratio plain prose without harmony or meter hath a great sway over mens mindes if it be gracefully and pathetically delivered The Orators among the Grecians had the power of fire and water to enflame and to extinguish to make peace or warr such was Demosthenes in Athens Quem mirabantur Athenae Torrentem pleni moderantem fraena Theatri That ruled and managed the people with his eloquent and voluble tongue as a rider doth his horse with the reins Eloquence is flexamina 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is some sorcery and enchantment in a well-composed Oration Hierom. Savanorola that pious man and eloquent preacher of Florence did manage that Common-wealth with his tongue M. Antonius milites armatos facundiâ suâ exarmavit Vell. Paterc l. 2. cap. 20. And when Ferdinand the Second besieged Rome one Ugolin a Friar by a Sermon he made at the Vatican did move all his Audience to weep and did so enflame their courage withall that they took arms unanimously to beat off the enemy from the walls and they sallyed out with so good success that they raised the seige If a plain Speech delivered with gravity gracefulness hath such force how much more moving are words joyned with Harmony and Numbers All the powers and vertues of Musick which we have here at large exemplified are briefly comprised by the Noble Salust in these following verses Sweet Musick makes the sternest men at arms Let fall at once their anger and their arms It chears sad souls and charms the frantick fits Of Lunaticks that are bereft their wits It kills the flame and curbs the fond desire Of him that burns in Beauties blazing fire It cureth Serpents banefull bite whose anguish In deadly torments makes them madly languish The Swan is rapt the Hinde deceiv'd withall And Birds beguil'd with a melodious call The Harp leads the Dolphin and the busie swarm Of buzzing Bees the tinckling brass does charm O! what is it Musick cannot do Sith th'al inspiring spirits it conquers too And makes the same down the Empyreal Pole Descend to earth into a Prophets soul. Baptista Porta doth ascribe the wonderfull effects of Musick to the several sorts of trees that the instruments are made of whether the Vine or the Elder the Poplar Laurel or the like which saith he have a secret property to cure diseases more then the sounds that are made by them but he is mistaken herein for we know what power inartificial sounds and bare words without Musick added have over mens mindes and spirits Scaliger argues the case thus The Vibration or trembling of the air caused by vocal or instrumental Musick doth move and affect the spirits in mans body which are subtile vapours of the blood and the instruments of the soul in all her operations which spirits affect the soul as well as body so that apt concordan● sounds carried in the curled air to the inward spirits cause there a ●itillation or pleasure and sometimes other affections or passions according to ●he stre●s of the Musick and according to the complexion of the hearer The Ancient Sages as Aristotle reports affirmed the Soul it self to be Harmony or harmoniously composed so that there is a sort of affinity between ●t and Musick and every man is natural●y delighted therewith so he in the 8th of his P●liticks Macrobius cometh very near to this of the Philosopher Jure ●apitur Musicâ omne quod vivit saith he 〈◊〉 coelest is Anima quâ animatur uni●ersitas originem sumpsit ex Musica That it is no wonder that every creature that hath a living soul is taken with Musick since the soul of the Universe whereof every particular soul is a part or parcel is made of Harmony Pericles liberis Athenarum cervicibus jugum imposuit Eloquentia he held captive the free born Athenians by his Eloquence Eamque urbem egit versavit arbitrio suo steered and winded that people which way he listed himself V. Max. l. 8. c. 9. Hegesias a Philosopher of the Cyrenaic sect did so pathetically set forth the evils and discommodities of this life that divers of his Auditors did take a resolution to make themselves away so that the Philosopher was commanded by King Ptolomy to spend his Eloquence upon some other subject Cic. Tuscul. Quaest. lib. 1. CAP. IX 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Touching the Invention of Glass and Glass-works GLass is made of bright shining sand and the ashes of a weed called Cazal and Zuhit and the Ferne called by the Arabians Kali Alkali that is Glass-wort The invention was casual and hinted thus Certain glebes or large pieces of Nitre being brought out of a ship upon the shore and taking fire by accident melted the sand round about so that it ●an in a liquid transparent stream as Pli●y relates l. 36. Nat. Hist. and Josephus●1 ●1 de bello Judaico and the Sidonians ●vere the first that took the hint or document therefrom Sidon artifex vitri Plin. ●5 This noble liquor as Pliny calls it ● so obsequious and pliant while it is hot that it may be spun into thred and wrought into any form that a man can fancy nay Art doth here imitate the Creation for as

at Venice with a woman of Cyprus and calls it Secretum optimum perpulchrum perutile a very useful and profitable secret Nat. Magia l. 4. c. 25. As stones and trees have been spun and weaved into cloth so some mettals may be wrought to that use Attalic garments were weav'd all of gold thread which sort of Vesture the Italians call Veste di Brocato dioro Such a garment Mary the wife of the Emperour Honorius was buried in for her Marble Coffin being digged up at Rome in the year 1544. where the foundation of St Peters Church was laid all her body was found consumed save the Teeth and a few bones but her golden apparel was fresh out of which being melted was extracted 36 pounds weight of pure gold as Aldourand relates in the first book of his Musaeum Metallicum The Sidonians made the like kinde of garments as appears by these verses in Virg. Aen. xi Tum geminas vestes ostroque auroque rigentes Extulit Aeneas quas ill● laeta laborum Ipsa suis quondam manibus Sidonia Dido Fecerat tenui telas discreverat auro St Hierom in one of his Epistle● and and Paulus Diaconus do make mention of a sort of wool that was rained down in the year 1119 in the Reign of Valentinian and Valens which fell most about Atrebatum or the Province of Artois in Flanders which was spun into cloth and did much enrich the Country thereabouts The heavens rained down meat once for the people of Israel now it rains down clothing as there was coelum escatile as Salvian speaks of the admirable Manna when men did eat Angels food so here was coelum textile as I may so term it the sky affords both food and ●ayment Some of this wool in memorial of the miracle is preserved to this day in the chief Church of Arras to wit St Maries Church there De Plumificiis An Appendix of the Plumary Art IN Florida and other places of the West Indies the Inhabitants make garments of Feathers with marvellous Art and Curiosity as also rare and exquisite pictures for in those Countries there are Birds of rare plumage of very gay and gaudy colours that have a gloss like silk and put down the pride of the Peacock some are of orient green and some of excellent carnation and scarlet more especially in their Phenicopters Parrots and Tomincios Their manner is to strip the Feathers from the Q●ills with neat pincers and then to joyn them together with paste mingling variety of colours in such a rare medley that they make a very glorious shew Ferdinando Cortes the Spaniard found abundance of these curious works in the Palace of Motez●m● the wealthy Emperor of the Mexicans which were such and so excellent that none could make in silk wax or of needle-work any things comparable to them so he speaks in his second narration and in his third he adds this that they were so artificial and neat that they cannot b● described in writing or presented to the imagination except a man sees them Cardinal Paleottus had the picture of St Hierom kneeling before a Crucifix made of this Workmanship which was sent him from Spain some Fryers that had resided in those Countries of America had learn'd the Art it seems from the Natives These pictures are made so accurately that it would pose a judicious eye to discern or distinguish them from those that are made with the pencil or the art of the painter This art was not unknown to the Ancients in this Hemisphere of the world St Hierom makes mention of operis Plumarii this plumary workmanship in his Commentary upon Exod. l. 26. 1. and on chap. 39. of Exod. v. 29. Seneca makes mention of it in his Ep. 90. Non avium plumae in usum vestis conservantur c. So also Julius Fermicus l. 3. Astronom c. 13. Prudent in Ha●martig Hunc videas lascivas praepete cursu Venantem tunicas avium quoque versiculorum Indumenta novis Texentem plumea telis If this art be lost in the old world as indeed we can no where finde it on this side the Globe it is preserved it seems in the new and that in the highest perfection insomuch that it puts down not only the admired pieces of Zeuxes and Apelles of old but also those of Michael Angelo and Raphael Urbin of later times and the plumes of those birds seem to surpass all their colours not only for luster and beauty but also for duration and lasting See more of this Art in the learned Fuller his Miscellanea sacra l. 4. c. 20. in Jos. Acostal 4. La Gerda his Adversaria sacra Pancirol de novo Orbe tit 1. CAP. VIII 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR Of the Art of Musick with sundry Instruments thereunto belonging THere is Musick in heaven and Musick on the way thither in the sphears as the Pythagoreans affirm and therefore the soul of man being descended from heaven passing through those harmonious sphears doth naturally delight in Harmony Anima in corpus defert memoriam Musicae cujus in coelo conscia fuit saith Macrob. l. 2. in somn Scipionis Nay God made the body of man wherein this musical soul is to sojourn a kinde of a living Organ or Musical instrument Life is an harmonious Lesson as one saith which the soul playes upon the Organs of the body There is but one pipe to this Organ to wit the Weasand the Lungs are the bellows to make winde and to inspire this pipe yet with this one pipe being variously stopt we can express a thousand sorts of notes and tunes and make most ravishing musick for there is no Harmony that is so delightfull and pleasing to man as vocal or the musick of man's voice In imitation of this musical pipe in the throat of man men devised to make musick with a Syringe or Reed which being bored with holes and stopt with the fingers and inspired with mans breath was made to yield various and delightfull sounds This was Pastoral Musick or Shepherds Delight and was the invention of Pan the God of Shepherds and of the Arcadian plains in those golden dayes Pan primus calamos cerâ conjungere plures Instituit Virg. Ecl. 2. Whence the Poets have feigned Pan to be in love wit a Syrinx a Nymph of that name but in the moral in love with that Pastoral musick of the Reed then in use Lucretius doth ascribe the first hint of this Pastoral musick to the whistling of the winds among the reeds in his 5th book Et Zephyri cava per calamorum sibila primùm Agrestes docuere cavas inflare cicutas Inde minutatim dulces didicere querelas Tibia quas fundit digitis pulsata Canentûm Avia per nemora ad sylvas saltusque reperta Per loca Pastorum deserta atque otia Dia. By murmuring of winde-shaken reeds rude Swaines Learnt first of all to blow on hollow Canes Then pipes of pieces framed whence Musick

meat from the hand of Tiberius he mentions elsewhere repentes inter pocula sinusque innoxi●olapsu Dracones l. 2. de Ira. Dragons that crept upon mens tables among their cups and harmlesly along their bosomes and the four-legged Serpents in Cairo were tame and harmless that wee spake of before in the Chapter of Musick 3. For Birds and wilde Fowle we may instance in the Estridges that were put to draw a Coach in Eagles that are trained in Turky like Hawks to fly at any fowl in the Crow that Scaliger saw in the French Kings Court that was taught to flye at Partridges or any other fowl from the Falconers fist and lastly in Wilde Ducks that are tamed and made Decoyes to intice and betray their fellows which is commonly known 4. Then fourthly for things in the Sea that have been tamed we may instance in a fish called the Manati or Sea-Cow well known about Hispaniola and other places of the West-Indies it hath the form of a Cow and hath four feet and comes often to land to eat grass Peter Martyr in his Decads speaks of an Indian Cacique or Lord of the Countrey that had one of these tame Cows that would eat meat out of his hands and was as sportfull as an Ape would carry his sons and servants sometimes ten of them at a time on his back and waft them over a great Lake from one shore to another We may instance also in the Sea-Horse that hath been tamed and made tractable to carry men on his back as Leo Afer reports of one he had seen in his History of Africa and in the Fish called Reversus by whose help and admirable industry the Indians used to catch Fish in the Sea as Bodin relates in the third book of his Theatrum Naturae He is let loose at the prey as the Greyhound from the slip as Purchas saith and Peter Martyr hath the like story of it in his Decads Pliny speaks the same of Dolphins which he had seen in some places to be used for to catch Fish and to bring them to shore and upon receiving some part of the prey to go their ways and if they failed in some point of service they suffered themselves patiently to be corrected as Setting-Dogs and Qua-Ducks or Decoy Ducks as we commonly call them use to be This same is affirmed of the Dolphins by Oppianus a learned Writer in his Halieuticks Otters have been tamed and taught to drive Fish into the Net as Dogs use to drive cattle into the Fold as Cardan relates But this is not all wilde beasts and birds have been tamed not only for the service but also for the pleasure and pastime of man As man hath learn'd some Arts from them so they have learn'd some from man Camels have been taught to dance as the African Leo hath seen in his Country Elephants have also been taught the same and not only on the earth but also in the air ambulare per funem to dance upon the Ropes Seneca is my Author for it Epist. 85. The manner of teaching them to dance is thus They bring some young Elephant or Camel upon a floor of earth that hath been heated underneath and they play on a Cittern or Tabor while the poor beast lifts up his stumps from the hot floor very often more by reason of the heat then any lust to dance and this they practise so often until the beast hath got such a habit of it that when ever he hears any Musique he falls a dancing Bubsequius saw a dancing Elephant in Constantinople and the same Elephant playing at ball tossing it to another man with his Trunk and receiving it back again Michael Neander saw in Germany a bear brought from Poland that would play upon the Tabor and dance some measures yea dance within the compass of a round Cap which he would afterwards hold up in his paw to the Spectators to receive money or some other boon for his pains There was a dance of Horses presented at the marriage of the Duke of Florence which Sir Kenelm Digby mentions An Asse hath not so dull a soul as some suppose for Leo Afer saw one in Africa that could vie feats with Bankes his Horse that rare Master of the Caballistick Art whose memory is not forgotten in England The Sybarites a people of Italy being given to delicacies had taught some Horses to dance The Crotonians hearing thereof and preparing War against them for some former quarrel brought with them some Flutes and Flutinists to the War who had direction to pipe it as loud as they could when the Sybarites were ready to charge with their Horse whereupon the Sybarites Horses instead of rushing upon the Enemy fell a dancing and so gave the victory to the Enemies thereby as three grave Authors have recorded Diod. Sic. l. 12. Ael l. 16. c. 23. Plin. l. 8. C. 42. A Baboon was seen to play upon the Guitta● and a Monky in the King of Spain's Court was very skilful at Chess-play Some birds have been taught to speak mans language and to utter whole sentences of Greek and Latine articulately There were seen in Rome Stares Pyes and Crows that could do this to the admiration of all men Cardinal Ascanio had a Parrot that could repeat the Apostles Creed verbatim in Latine and in the Court of Spain there was one that could sing the Gam● ut perfectly and if he was out he would say No va bueno That is not well but when he was right he would say Bueno va Now it is well as John Barnes an English Frier relates in a most learned Book of his De Aequivocatione What witty feats and tricks Dogs have been taught to do are so well known that I may spare instances of this kind Many of these examples that I have produced to make good the Title of this Chapter and the Apostles saying above-mentioned are briefly sum'd up by Martial in his Book of Shows the 105th Epigr. which I have here annexed with the Translation of M. Hen. Vaughan Silurist whose excellent Poems are publique Picto quod juga delicata collo Pardus sustinet improbaeque Tygres Indulgent patientiam flagello Mordent aurea quod lupata Cervi Quod Fr●nis Lybici domantur Ursi Et quantum Caledon tulisse fertur Paret purpureis Aper Capistris Turpes essed a quod trahunt Bisontes Et molles dare jussa quod choreas Nigro Bellua nil negat Magistro Quis spectacula non putet Deorum Haec transit tamen ut minora quisquis Venatus humiles videt Leonum c. That the fierce Pard doth at a beck Yield to the Yoke his spotted neck And the untoward Tyger bear The whip with a submissive fear That Stags do foam with golden bits And the rough Lybic bear submits Unto the Ring that a wild Boar Like that which Caledon of Yore Brought forth doth mildly put his head In purple Muzzles to