to our * Spirituall part appropriate. As in _Ptolomaus_ third boke, in the fourth and sixth Chapters may appeare. * [6.] And what is the cause of the apt bonde, and frendly felowship, of the Intellectuall and Mentall part of vs, with our grosse & corruptible body: but a certaine Meane, and _Harmonious Spiritualitie, with both participatyng, & of both (in a maner) resultynge In [7.] the * Tune of Mans voyce, and also [8.] * the sound of Instrument_, what might be sayd, of _Harmonie_: No common Musicien would lightly beleue. [I. D. Read in Aristotle his 8. booke of Politikes: the 5, 6, and 7. chapters. Where you shall haue some occasion farder to thinke of Musike, than commonly is thought.] But of the sundry Mixture (as I may terme it) and concurse, diuerse collation, and Application of these _Harmonies_: as of thre, foure, fiue, or mo: Maruailous haue the effectes ben: and yet may be founde, and produced the like: with some proportionall consideration for our time, and being: in respect of the State, of the thinges then: in which, and by which, the wondrous effectes were wrought. _Democritus_ and _Theophrastus_ affirmed, that, by _Musike_, griefes and diseases of the Minde, and body might be cured, or inferred. And we finde in Recorde, that _Terpander_, _Arion_, _Ismenias_, _Orpheus_, _Amphion_, _Dauid_, _Pythagoras_, _Empedocles_, _Asclepiades_ and _Timotheus_, by _Harmonicall_ Consonãcy, haue done, and brought to pas, thinges, more then meruailous, to here of. Of them then, making no farder discourse, in this place: Sure I am, that Common _Musike_, commonly vsed, is found to the _Musiciens_ and Hearers, to be so Commodious and pleasant, That if I would say and dispute, but thus much: That it were to be otherwise vsed, then it is, I should finde more repreeuers, then I could finde priuy, or skilfull of my meaning. In thinges therfore euident, and better knowen, then I can expresse: and so allowed and liked of, (as I would wish, some other thinges, had the like hap) I will spare to enlarge my lines any farder, but consequently follow my purpose.