Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.

Musicke.

—Thou sweet Musicke, dauncings only life, The eares sole happinesse, the aires best speech: Load-stone of fellowship, charming rod of strife, The soft minds paradize, the sicke mans leech. With their own tongue that trees & stones canst teach. That when the aire doth daunce her finest measure, Then art thou borne, the gods and mens sweet plea∣sure. I. Dauies.

As without breath no pipe doth moue, No Musicke kindly without loue. S. Phil. Sidney.

Esclepiad did cure with Trompets sound, Such men as first had lost their hearing quite: And many such as in their drinke lay drownd, Damon reuiu'd with tunes of graue delight. And Theophrast when ought his mind opprest, Vsde Musicke sound to bring himselfe to rest. With sound of Harpe Thales did make recure Of such as laie with pestilence forlorne: With Organ pipes Xenocrates made pure Their wittes, whose minds long lunacy had worne. Th. ƲƲatson.

Some that report great Alexanders life, They say that harmony so mou'd his minde: That oft he rose from meate to warlike strife, At sound of Trompe, or noyse of battell kinde. And then that Musicks force of softer vaine, Caus'd him returne from strokes to meate againe. Idem.