Latin language -- Readers; Natural history -- Juvenile literature; Picture books for children
_Rhetorick_, 5.
doth as it were paint, 6.
a rude form, 7.
of Speech
_Rhetorica_, 5.
pingit, 6.
quasi rudem _formam_, 7.
Sermonis
with _Oratory Flourishes_, 8.
such as are _Figures_,
_Elegancies_,
_Adagies_,
_Oratoriis Pigmentis_, 8.
ut sunt _Figuræ_,
_Elegantiæ_,
_Adagia_ (proverbia)
_Apothegms_,
_Sentences_,
_Similies_,
_Hierogylphicks, &c._
_Apothegmata_,
_Sententiæ_ (Gnomæ)
_Similia_,
_Hieroglyphica, &c._
_Poetry_, 9.
gathereth these _Flowers_
_of Speech_, 10.
_Poesis_, 9.
colligit hos _Flores_
_Orationis_, 10.
and tieth them as it were
into a little _Garland_, 11.
and so making of _Prose_
a _Poem_,
& colligat quasi
in _Corallam_, 11.
atque ita, faciens è _prosa_
_ligatam orationem_,
it maketh several sorts
of _Verses_ and _Odes_,
and is therefore crowned
with a _Laurel_, 12.
componit varia
_Carmina_ & _Hymnos_ (_Odas_)
ac propterea coronatur
_Lauru_, 12.
_Musick_, 13.
setteth _Tunes_, 14.
with _pricks_,
_Musica_, 13.
componit _Melodias_, 14.
_Notis_,
to which it setteth words,
and so singeth alone,
or in _Consort_,
or by Voice,
or Musical Instruments, 15.
quibus aptat verba,
atque ita cantat sola
vel _Concentu_ (_Symphonia_),
aut voce
aut Instrumentis Musicis, 15.
CI.
Musical Instruments.
Instrumenta musica.
[Illustration]
_Musical Instruments_ are
those which make a sound:
_Musica instrumenta_ sunt
quæ edunt vocem:
First,
when they are beaten upon,
as a _Cymbal_, 1. with a _Pestil_,
Primò,
cum pulsantur,
ut _Cymbalum_, 1. _Pistillo_,
a _little Bell_, 2.
with an _Iron pellet_ within;
or _Rattle_, 3.
by tossing it about:
_Tintinnabulum_, 2.
intus _Globulo ferreo_,
_Crepitaculum_, 3.
circumversando;
a _Jews-Trump_, 4.
being put to the mouth,
with the fingers;
a _Drum_, 5.
and a _Kettle_, 6.
with a _Drum-stick_, 7.
_Crembalum_, 4.
ori admotum,
Digito;
_Tympanum_, 5.
& _Ahenum_, 6.
_Claviculâ_, 7.
as also the _Dulcimer_, 8.
with the _Shepherds-harp_, 9.
and the _Tymbrel_, 10.
ut & _Sambuca_, 8.
cum _Organo pastoritio_, 9.
& _Sistrum_ (Crotalum), 10.
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