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A15775	The passions of the minde in generall. Corrected, enlarged, and with sundry new discourses augmented. By Thomas Wright. With a treatise thereto adioyning of the clymatericall yeare, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth	Wright, Thomas, d. 1624.; Wright, Thomas, d. 1624. Succinct philosophicall declaration of the nature of clymactericall yeeres, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth. aut	1604 (1604)	STC 26040; ESTC S121118	206,045	400

how it commeth to passe that out of the same mouth should issue a cold wind to coole the hot pottage and a hot breath to warme the cold hands But musicke is much more miraculous for it moueth a man to mirth and pleasure and affecteth him with sorow and sadnesse it inciteth to deuotion and inticeth to dissolution it stirreth vp souldiers to warre and allureth citizens to peace Take away musicke from marriages and halfe the mirth Musick causeth mirth is mard depriue great bankets of musicke and the feast is not intire there is but sorrie dauncing where musicke is wanting dispoile tradesmen and labourers of naturall musicke and take from them a soueraigne preseruatiue Musicke causeth melancholy from paine Musicke therefore mooueth men to mirth and abateth the heauie humour of melancholie But how causeth musicke sorow and sadnesse What are Hieremies lamentable threens but a sorowfull song breathed ouer the citie of Hierusalem What are Dauids penitentiall Psalmes but monefull anthemes inclining the soule to sorow for sinne What are funebriall accents but ruthful lamentations for our friends eclipsed What else are those dolefull tunes which issue from languishing louers but offsprings of pensiue furies and origens of more vehement melancholie fits All poeticall fained fables or sophisticated histories are loaden with these wailing verses and swanlike or rather swinelike voices occasioned by mournfull despaire and feeding the same A sword serueth to defend right and is also an instrument Musicke stirreth vp deuotion to worke wrongs musicke in like manner eleuateth the mind to deuotion and pietie and abaseth the soule with effusion leuitie Elizeus as aboue I insinuated prepared 4. ●eg 3. his spirit to receiue the influence of prophesie by the meanes of musicke Dauid in penning Psalmes ordaining instruments prouiding musitians for the seruise of God by word and deed taught vs by the vertue of musicke to stirre men vp to deuotion and therefore registred that solemne sentence beseeming all Christians but specially musitians and worthy to be engrauen in their brests for eternall memorie Laudate Dominum in sono Psal 848. tubae laudate eum in psalterio cithera laudate eum in timpano choro laudate eum in chordis organo laudate eum in symbalis bene sonantibus laudate eum in cymbalis iubilationis omnis spiritus laudet dominum And for this cause it hath bene vsual among them in the old testament after any great grace or fauour shewed them by God to rouse vp their soules with musicall songs and instruments to giue him thankes and praise his name for the bestowing of such benefits imparting to them such great good or deliuering them from such euils When Israel had passed the read sea and therein beheld Pharoe and his host buried in the bottome of those wallowing waues Moyses with the men and Marie sister to Aaron Exod. 15. Iudith 16. Iud. 5. with the women sung panigeries of praises vnto God with hymnes and instruments the like we read of Iudith after she had vanquished Holophernes of Delbora c. And the Church for this same effect vseth the consorts of musical instruments and the harmonie of voices the which Saint Augustine greatly commendeth and Augustinus lib. 10. confess ca. 33 reporteth of himselfe what exceeding spirituall comfort he reaped thereby at the beginning of his conuersion what teares he shed and how he was internally moued For musicke hath a certaine secret passage into mens soules and worketh so diuinely in the mind that it eleuateth the heart miraculously and resembleth in a certaine manner the voices and hermonie of heauen and questionlesse there is nothing in this life which so sensibly discouereth vnto vs the pleasures of Paradice as a sweet consort of musicke True it is that this sensuall delight appertaineth more to yonglings in deuotion than graue perfit and mortified men for it serueth them as a sensuall obiect to ascend to God in spirit to contemplate his sweetnesse blessednesse and eternall felicitie and thereby contemne this world so full of vanitie and miserie but these who are more eleuated to God by reason than by sence ascend to him by serious meditations deepe considerations and exact penetrations of his word his maiestie attributes and perfections Wherefore Saint Augustine thought he offended when he was more moued with the melodie of the song than with the sence of the Psalme and for the same effect he highly commendeth Idem Ibidem Athanas Saint Athanasius Qui tam modico flexu vocis faciebat sonare lectorem psalmi vt pronuntianti vicinior esset quam canenti Who caused the reader of the psalme to sing with such a small inflexion of voyce that he seemed rather to say than to sing But yet for all this euen graue and most deuout men benefit their soules and not onely the simpler sort with the sweetnesse of musicke for although they lift vp their hearts to God persuaded rather by reason than induced by sence yet they cannot euer attend vnto such serious cogitations but now and then intermingle their deuotions with this sacred sensualitie and pleasant path which leadeth to the fountaine of spirituall comfort and consolation Musicke causeth wantennesse Aristotle in his common-wealth forbiddeth a certaine sort of lasciuious musicke and alloweth the Doricall which is of another kind for as in some mens gestures wordes and manner of deliuerie we discouer a certaine light wantonnesse so in some musick there is to be noted a manifest loose effeminatenesse and the experience is so sensible that it were superfluous to proceed any farther in proofe Alexander the great hearing Antigenida a most excellent Musick moueth ●●e trumpeter sound his trumpet to battell was stirred vp in such sort to fight that his very friends were not secure from blowes which stood next him Saint Basil recounteth Basil in hom de legen lib. Gent. that one Timothie did so excell in musicke that if he vsed a sharpe and seuere harmonie he stirred men vp to anger and presently by chaunging his note into a more sweet and softer tune he moued them to mildnesse and peace and at a banket caused both these effects in Alexander the great The Na●●ans in the east India to stirre themselues vp to battel hang at the pommels of their swordes certaine plates to make a noise thinking or proouing belike thereby how their hearts are incensed to warre In Europe we neuer see souldiors almost sight but first prouoked to warres with trumpets and drummes Tacitus reporteth that the Germanes inanimated themselues to the warres with singing the worthy wonders and heroicall exploits of Hercules And finally experience teacheth that not only men but also warlike horses with drummes and trumpets are inflamed to sight This effect of sounds and instruments cannot proceed but from the passion of ire which is raised vp and ruleth the soule occasioned or rather caused by them As musicke and instruments in one kind causeth souldiers Musicke

vehemently the passion than the imagination or conceit thereof in the absence for the imagination in absence representeth the pleasure as farre off and not prepared but the thing being present nothing seemeth to want but execution And therfore we see beasts in the presence of the sensual obiects scarce possibly to be with held from them How Passions are mooued with musicke and instrumeuts §. 2. HOw musicke songs and sounds stirre vp passions we may discouer in little sucklings who with their nurses songs are brought to rest the mules without belles will scarcely trauell the carman with whistling causeth his sturdie iades to walke more merily The Arcadian signorie considering that in regard of the situation of their countrey the inhabitants for most part were barbarous sauage and wild to molifie more their minds to render them more mild gentle humane iudged no means more effectuall than to introduct musicke among them For in very deed a certaine kind of tickling symphonie maketh men effeminat and delicat The Spaniards play their Zarabanda vpon the Gittern which moueth them as I heare reported to daunce and doe worse Pithagoras once chaunced to fall into the Basil hom de legen lib. Gen. tilium company of drunkards where a musitian ruled their lasciuious banket he presently commanded him to change his harmonie and sing a Dorion and so with this maner of melodie brought them to sobrietie and casting their garlands from their heads were ashamed of all they had done Saul being possessed or at least much vexed with 1. Reg. 16. the deuil Dauid played vpon his Citheran and hee was comforted and the euill spirit departed The deuill being a spirit cannot be expelled from a bodie naturally by the vertue of musicke but as we may conceiue and inferre out of the scriptures either Saul was really possessed by the deuill and then not the naturall forces of Dauids songs and sounds but the assistance of God and his help expelled the deuill at what time Dauid sung his sacred hymnes Or the deuill was not really in Saul but onely molested him with the vehemencie of some melancholy humour as the falling sicknesse or some other sort of melancholy madnesse and then as this peruerse malignant humour causeth feares sadnesse and such like melancholy passions so musicke causeth mirth ioy and delight the which abate expell and quite destroy their contrary affections and withall rectifie the blood and spirits and consequently disgest melancholy and bring the body into a good temper Whether of these two was in Saul Diuines doubt and Physitians are not able to resolue Reasons may bee brought for both parts some Diuines attribute it to God some Physitians ascribe the cure to the naturall vertue of musicke The reason for the Physitians is grounded vpon the text for it seemeth that the disease or wicked spirit that possessed Saul was a thing vsuall in the countrey because his seruants councelled him to procure a musitian to the intent that when his maladie molested him the musicke might comfort him It neuer was vsuall in any countrey nor in all the scripture practised to cast out deuils by the playing vpon instruments therefore it was a melancholie humour by the deuill introducted and by musicke causing mirth expelled The Diuines haue a more solid argument for their opinion because the scriptures ought to be vnderstood in their proper sence as the words sound when no absurditie necessarily thereupon ensueth as in this exposion is euident for ascribing it to God what absurditie can follow now the scripture euermore calleth this affection of Saul the spirit and the wicked spirit vers 14. Spiritus autē Domini rec●ssit à Saul exagitabat eum spiritus nequam à Domino The spirit of our Lord departed from Saul and the wicked spirit from God that is by Gods permission vexed him The same wee haue in the verse 16. 17. and twise in the 23. Againe I would gladly know when these Physitians euer see with a fit of mirth either these melancholy madnesses notoriously remitted or when the paroxime was vpon them quite taken away let it bee either Lycanthropia that is a woolfish madnesse or Epilepsia the falling sicknesse if they could shew me such a minstrell I doubt not but in short time he would be able to buy all the Physitians that dwell within an hundred miles of him For the scripture saith expresly Dauid tollebat percutiebat manu sua refocillabatur Saul leuius habebat recedebat enim ab eo spiritus malus If the deuill personally had not afflicted him the humour had ceased from molestation but not departed away and the scripture yeeldeth a reason as appeareth by the word enim why he was comforted because the deuill was gone away The argument which I obiected in fauour of the Physitians may bee answered two wayes first that the seruants of Saul no otherwise intended to cure his disease by musicke than commonly in the maladies or vexation of great personages their friends procure musick to recreate them whence from soeuer the maladies proceed they neither know nor generally regard Secondly it might be that God extraordinarily was accustomed to 4. Reg. 3. worke in those dayes wonders by the means of musicke as afterwards wee read of Elizeus who desiring to prophetise called for a musitian at whose song the spirit of God fell vpon him And it is a thing vsuall with God to worke miraculous effects by creatures which haue either no vertue at all to worke such an effect or onely a weake resemblance What naturall vertue had the dirt Ioh. 9. Iud. 16. and spit of Christ to cure the blind borne begger What vertue had Samsons haires to afford him such strength and forces What naturall vertue lurked in the asses Iud. 16. iaw to yeeld him water vnto satietie What vertue had Exod. 14. Act. 5. Moses rod to diuide the red sea What naturall vertues lay hid in St Peters shadow St Pauls handkirchifes and Act. 19. girdles to cure so many and maruailously tormenting diseases The water of Iordan had vertue to wash but 4. Reg. 5. 4. Reg. 20. not to wash away the leprosie of Naaman Sirus the cataplasme of Esay had some naturall proportion to cure an aposteme but not such a desperate mortall maladie as that of Ezekias The gall of the fish which Tobie caught Tob. 6. in the riuer Tigris had vertue to cure the eyes but who can denie but miraculously by Gods speciall prouidence layd vpon Tobie starke blind it was augmented So I say musicke naturally expelleth melancholie and God either miraculously by Dauids musicke or at his musicke deliuered Saul from the deuill who afflicted him in a melancholy manner For that musicke causeth mirth besides the dayly experience which prooueth it we haue Gods word to confirme it Vinum musica laetisicant Eccles 40. 20. cor Wine and musicke maketh merie the heart Some men wonder and not without reason