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A08534	Andreas Ornithoparcus his Micrologus, or Introduction: containing the art of singing Digested into foure bookes. Not onely profitable, but also necessary for all that are studious of musicke. Also the dimension and perfect vse of the monochord, according to Guido Aretinus. By Iohn Douland lutenist, lute-player, and Bachelor of Musicke in both the Vniuersities. 1609.; Musice actiue micrologus. English	Ornithoparchus, Andreas, 16th cent.; Dowland, John, 1563?-1626.; Guido, d'Arezzo.	1609 (1609)	STC 18853; ESTC S115197	65,261	101

ANDREAS ORNITHOPARCVS HIS MICROLOGVS OR INTRODVCTION Containing the Art of Singing Digested into Foure Bookes NOT ONELY PROFITABLE BVT also necessary for all that are studious of Musicke ALSO THE DIMENSION AND PERfect Vse of the MONOCHORD according to Guido Aretinus BY IOHN DOVLAND LVTENIST Lute-player and Bachelor of Musicke in both the Uniuersities 1609 LONDON Printed for Thomas Adams dwelling in Paules Church-yard at the Signe of the white Lion TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE ROBERT EARLE OF Salisbury Viscount Cranborne Baron of Essingdon Lord High Treasurer of England Principall Secretarie to the Kings most excellent Maiestie Maister of the Courts of Wards and Liueries Chancellor of the most famous Vniuersitie of Cambridge Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of his Maiesties most honourable Priuic Counsell YOur high Place your princely Honours and Vertues the hereditary vigilance and wisedome wherwith Hercules like you assist the protection of the whole State Though these most honoured Lord are powerfull encitements to draw all sorts to the desire of your most Noble protection Yet besides all these in more particular by your Lordships speciall Fauors and Graces am I emboldened to present this Father of Musicke Ornithoparchus to your worthyest Patronage whose approoued Workes in my trauailes for the common good of our Musitians I haue reduced into our English Language Beseeching your Lordship as a chiefe Author of all our good graciously to receiue this poore presentment whereby your Lordship shall encourage me to a future taske more new in subiect and as memorable in worth Euery Plant brings forth his like and of Musitians Musicke is the fruit Moreouer such is your diuine Disposition that both you excellently vnderstand and royally entertaine the Exercise of Musicke which mind-tempering Art the graue Luther was not affraid to place in the next seat to Diuinity My daily prayers which are a poore mans best wealth shall humbly sollicite the Author of all Harmonie for a continuall encrease of your Honors present happinesse with long life and a successiue blessing to your generous posteritie Your Lordships humbly deuoted Iohn Douland To the Reader EXcellent men haue at all times in all Arts deliuered to Posteritie their obseruations thereby bringing Arts to a certainty and perfection Among which there is no Writer more worthy in the Art of Musicke than this Author Ornithoparcus whose Worke as I haue made it familiar to all that speake our Language so I could wish that the rest in this kinde were by the like meanes drawne into our knowledge since I am assured that there is nothing can more aduance the apprehension of Musicke than the reading of such Writers as haue both skilfully and diligently set downe the precepts thereof My industry and on-set herein if you friendly accept being now returned home to remaine shall encourage me shortly to diuulge a more peculiar worke of mine owne namely My Obseruations and Directions concerning the Art of Lute-playing which Instrument as of all that are portable is and euer hath been most in request so is it the hardest to mannage with cunning and order with the true nature of fingering which skill hath as yet by no Writer been rightly expressed what by my endeuours may therein be attained I leaue to your future Iudgement when time shall produce that which is already almost ready for the Haruest Vale From my house in Fetter-lane this tenth of Aprill 1609. Your Friend Iohn Douland TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE WORTHY AND WISE GOVERNOVRS OF THE STATE OF LVNENBVRG ANDREAS ORNITHOP ARCHVS OF MEYNING MAISTER OF THE LIBERALL SCIENCES WE read that Socrates hee that was by Apollos Oracle famoused for the wisest man in the world was wont to say That it had been fit mens hearts should haue windowes that so the thoghts might be discerned This power if we now had honourable Lords beleeue it you should discern my loue towards you and yours But because speech is the mindes interpretour and you cannot know men and their thoughts but by their words or writing I am to intreat that you would take in as good part these words which in my absence I vtter as if I had in presence deliuered them It is not out of any humor of arrogancy or vain ostentation that I do this but that vpright gentle and religious fashion of yours wherin you excell more than any Easterlings that border these Baltick coasts these make me assay the art of Harmony which the Grecians call Musicke Musicke the nurse of Christian Religion and mother of good fashions of honesty of Common-wealths if in any thing we may giue credite to the ancients These made me commit my sayles to the furious windes these made me giue Zoiles and Thersites power to rage ouer me these made me trauell many Countreys not without endamaging my estate to search out the Art these made me many a time to sustaine wearinesse when I might haue been at rest greefe when I might haue solaced my selfe disgrace when I might haue liued in good reputation pouertie when I might haue liued in plenty But also these things right Worthies seemed to me not worthy the regarding when I sought how I might whilest others slept whom your state doth nourish before all others profite your youth and so consequently the youth of all Germany drawing them to good fashions recalling them by the honest delights of Musicke from vnlawfull attempts and so by little and little stirre them vp to vertuous actions For Socrates and Plato and all the Pythagoreans did generally enact that young men and maides should be trayned vp in Musicke not to the end their mindes might be incited to wantonnesse by those bawbles which make Art to be so vilely reputed of but that the motions of the minde might be ruled and gouerned by law and reason For seeing the nature of young men is vnquiet and in all things desiring delights therfore refuseth seuerer arts it is by the honest delights of Musick brought to those recreations which may also solace honest old age Among those things wherwith the mind of man is wont to be delighted I can finde nothing that is more great more healthfull more honest than Musicke The power whereof is so great that it refuseth neither any sexe nor any age and as Macrobius a man of most hidden profound learning saith there is no brest so sauage and cruell which is not moued with the touch of this delight For it doth driue away cares perswade men to gentlenesse represseth and stirreth anger nourisheth arts encreaseth concord inflameth heroicall minds to gallant attempts curbeth vice breedeth vertues and nurseth them when they are borne composeth men to good fashion For among all those things which doe admit sence that onely worketh vpon the manners of men which toucheth his eares as Aristotle in his musicall problemes doth more at large discourse Hence was it that Agamemnon being to goe Generall for the Troian warres as Philelphus reports left a Musitian at his house