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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15048	A commendation of musicke and a confutation of them which disprayse it.	Whight, Nicholas.	1563 (1563)	STC 25350; ESTC S121859	1,637	1

A commendation of Musicke And a confutation of them which disprayse it WHen first within the corps of man dame Nature built her bower She saw what troubles eke thral was bent them to deuower To whome she gaue as in reward a pleasaunt note or sound Their carkes and cares to dryue away wherby much ease was found Whereof in children proofe is had whome nurses haue in charge How soone they stop and stay their cry when she doeth sound at large The Plowman eke and Carter both with ease doeth passe away In singyng of some mery note their tranayle all the day Wherefore to Lady Nature I doe render prayse and wyll By whome not onely man alone but byrdes in song hath skyll The Poetes fayne that Amphion who buylded Thebes towne Did fyrst inuent the pleasaunt note whereby he got renowne To Dionisius some the name and some contrary wyse To Zephus who Eusebius sayth the same dyd first deuyse Solinus sayth that men of Crete by ryng and sound of brasse By Thacbadianes doeth Polibius say inuented first it was In déede I thinke soone after that dame Nature made the sound That Reason did the measure make the concord and the ground And then in Mercury first it wrought as auctour of the same The which euen hée as worthy prayse did publish and proclame Then Reason as one not full suffysde did seeke for to deuyse Some instrument to geue a sound by whome there did aryse A foreward wit in Mercury for to inuent the same Who made a Harpe of fyshes bone a Tortes cald by name Which hée by Nilus ryuer found the fysh was dryde away And nothyng but thrée sinowes left whereon he sought to play But when they gaue a sound agayne thus doe the Poetes fayne He made a Harpe much lyke that bone by thinuent of his brayne Thrée strynges to it did he apply a Treble Base and Meane The which he made for to accord in Musickes pleasaunt vayne Then he it to Apollo gaue as gyft of wonderous weyght And he the same to Orpheus handes made redeliuery streyght Some thinke Amphion first it found and some to that say no And some in Tuball thinke the lyke but that can not be so Then Pan the Pype Apollo eke the Shalme he did inuent Then Dauid Regalles sought to make by Reasones whole consent And Orphen first with Linus nexte and Arion als by name Timarias and Trezenius both thereby did purchase same Nor Cibell yet with Pises too their labour ought did cease But in the same did sore apply their cunnyng too encrease Thus haue we proued by Poetes lore how auncient Musicke is And now I meane by Scripture playne to proue the lykeiwis We read how Dauid daunct and soung before the Arke of God And how his wyfe which flowted him was by the Lorde forbode For hauyng chyldren any more but barren should she be Whereby I proue that God is pleasde with such lyke armony When MirIam with the Israelites the red sea déepe had past And Pharaos hoste were drowned all who did pursue them fast Then tooke they Timbrelles in their handes and to y e Lord sang prayse For that he was their ayde and shyeld to passe the daungerouse seas The Shepherdes eke and Angelles both we read how they reioyst When they once heard and vnderstoode the byrth of Iesus Christ We sée by this what Musicke is we néede no better proofe The Scripture is a buckeler good in Musickes right behoofe In Fucsius and in Galen both who lyst to looke shall fynd How much that Musicke doeth appease the dolours of the mynd You know what tauntes Themistocles in banket did sustayne When he good musicke did disprayse accoumptyng it but vayne They iudged his learnyng much the worse because he did defye That which all men did much estéeme regard and eke set bye I pray you was not Socrates whome crooked age had caught With Musickes skyll and armony as one with Cupid fraught And sayd that concord was the ground and eke the sure stay Without the which nothing is good this could that wyse man say And measure is a mery meane and meane who doeth embrace Of euery vertue hath the ground which bryngeth man to grace This haue I doen in Musickes cause my pen now wyll I rest Syth that I haue that worthy science as famouse once profest And who that séekes the losse of it néedes must I speake my mynd A great disprayse is to his wit his wordes are coumpted wynd ¶ FINIS ꝙ Nicholas Whight ¶ Imprinted at London in Aldersgate strete by Alexander Lacy dwellyng besyde the Well