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A Whalebone Instrument, wch may be made from two foot in length or more, to a yard long, after this form, to be used for all Ages, ac∣cording to the stature of their bodies. It may be made after the form of a long Feather out of a Goose wing, with a small Button of fine Linnen, or Silk, to the bignesse of a Cherry-stone, fastened at the one end, which goeth into the body, and with a string fastened at the other end, that a man may use it, and draw it out at pleasure. These are com∣monly