The New Atlantis

Lyrics

We also have sound-houses Where we practice and demonstrate all sounds in their generation We have harmonies which you have not Of quarter-sounds and lesser slides of sounds Divers instruments of music likewise to you unknown Some sweeter than any you have Together with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet We represent small sounds as well as great and deep Likewise great sound Extenuate and sharp We make divers tremblings and warblings of sounds Which in their original are entire We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters and the voices and notes of beasts and birds We have certain helps Which set to the ear do further the hearing greatly We also have strange and artificial echoes Reflecting the voice many times And as if it were tossing it And some that give back the voice louder than it came Some shriller, some deeper Yea Some rendering the voice Differing in the letters or articulate sound From that they receive We have also means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes In strange lines And distances