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IT stands with reason that the hottest and coldest Clymats, being the driest,should produce the best and clearest voices, for moisture breeds flegme, and flegme obstructs the chest; be∣sides the moisture falling into the winde-pipe hinders the pas∣sage of the voice, and clogs the lungs, for winde and water
makes a storm; which destroys a harmony, and instead of sing∣ing makes a roaring, like the seas; or drownes the fraight, which are notes, because art which is the steers-man, hath not room to turn and winde to fil his sailes; but are beaten down with the rain roghnes, and stopt with the mud of flegme, so of necessity he must be lost; fat doth also hinder the voice, for you shall seldome hear any that is fat sing well because the fat hath straightned their passages, so to the making of a good voice, there must be a wide throat, and clear winde pipes, and strong lungs.