And slow soft notes, onely on the tenors, are a sad relation, sorrowful laments, mournful complaints, pleadings, petitioning, acknowledging faults, begging pardon, imploring mercy, which moves the minde to a tender pitty and compassion, and a chari∣table love, from whence proceeds a listning ear, a helping hand, a serious countenance, a sad eye, with a favouring cast therefrom.
High, hard, sharp, notes or straines, on the basse or tenor, is like exclaiming, incouraging, or animating, extolling, promi∣sing; which moves the minde to pride, ambition, vain-glory, desire, hope, which makes the body active, the actions adven∣trous, bold, the eyes darting and quick.
Low, sharp straines, and cross notes, and unequal times, move the minde to murmur words, choler, hate, revenge, fury, despair, the cursing, their hands tearing, the legs stamping, their bodies turning several wayes, their countenance maskerd and gastly, and the eyes staring.
But quick sharp straines in tenor notes, and soft slow strains on treble notes, are as perswading, flattering, insinuating, pro∣fessing, inviting, alluring, this moves the minde to love, the thoughts to be amorous; this makes their actions affective, kis∣sing their hands, making of leggs, mending their garments, of∣fering their service, their words complemental, their counte∣nance smiling, and their eyes glancing.
And quick sharp strains, on the tenor, and treble notes, produce a cheerful minde, it makes the thoughts lively, the countenance pleasant, their eyes quick, their discourse wanton, and jesting, their actions laughing, singing, playing, and dancing.
But slow low flats strike on the basses, and tenor notes moves the minde to a dull stupidity, wherein the thoughts lie as dead, this makes the body appear like sensless statues of stone, without motion, the head bending down, the eyes fixt to the ground.
But Cramatick musick is like Schools disputation, and discord in musick, is like quarrelling, these are the grounds of musical discourses, or discourses in musick.
Musick hath a sympathie to the rational motions, because the rational spirits move in number and measure, as musical instru∣ments do.
Thus as notes are set, the thoughts are placed, and as the notes change in several tunes, so the thoughts move in several passions, and as notes are composed, so are thoughts, as sem∣brim of thoughts, a full note is a fixt thought.
Thus according as the notes and thoughts agree, the minde, and musick makes a harmony, if I have not matched my strains 〈◊〉〈◊〉 notes, with words and thoughts properly, let those that un∣derstand musick, and Rhetorick mend it, for I understand neither, having neither fed at the full table, nor drank at the full head of learning, but lived alwayes upon scattered crums,