Section I.
Man naturally desireth Knowledge and vnderstanding, but is not able to attaine the perfection thereof: because they are not gotten without great travell of the body and minde neither of which can long hold out, without recreation, which is the repairer of both: Therefore it is that the Wise man Eccles: 1. 18. tell vs, that in the multitude of wisedome is much griefe, and he that increaseth Knowledge increaseth sorrow. Therefore giues he great students this causion (vnder the notion of his son) that to make many bookes there is noe end, and much study is a wearinesse of the flesh. Cha. 12. 12.
Now recreation (which is the phisick for this desease of an ouer toiled body minde and spirit) is of seuerall natures (which are in them selues Innocent, and harmlesse; but by excesse, then ceases to be good, and becomes vaine and sinfull). They are these, Musick, Tables, Chests, for the recreating of the inward faculties : and The Tenice, Pilyard, Bowles, Hunting, Hawking, Fishing, Shooting, for the action of the body. The Instruments of all which sports, or recreations, are oft to be scene in coats of Armes; those which I haue found borne, you may be please to take in these few examples. I shall begin first with those of the minde, the principle whereof is Musick as being one of the seaven liberall Arts or sciences.
Musical instruments Book III, Chapter 16, Section 1a
Musicall Instruments are of three sorts, the first is wind Instruments as Organ, Sackbut, Psalter, Howboy, Cornet, Flute, Trumpet, Clarion, Whistle, Pipe, Fife, Gingras, Bagpipes, Shalme or Shawme.
The second are stringed Instruments and consists in skilfull fingering them, as Fidle, Harpe, Viol, Treble Viol, Base Viol, Virginall, Harpsicalls, Claricord. Bandore, Alpharion, Citterne, Gitterne, Theorbo, and Trumpet Marine, Psaltery, Cymball, Lute.
The third sort consist in striking, as Tabor, Timbrell, Drume, Kettle drume, Dulcimer, Bell, Cymball, Round Ball, Jews Harp, or Trump, Rattle, Tamber Base.
Organ
1. He beareth a paire of
Organs, with foulding Lids or doores
opened.
Related text(s) Organ parts
Organ pipes
2. He beareth a set of Organ
pipes: set in the conveyance.
Some terme the conveyance by the name of suffue, or clarion, or Organ rest, of all which termes you may be further satisfied in numb. 60 of the 17 chapter following.
Organ pipe
3. He beareth an Organ pipe.
This is of some termed an Organ pipe in pale; which needs not seing the Organ pipe euer stands vpright: and these pipes in Organs if made of mettle are round; but if on wood they are euer square be they neuer so little, onely the nose is round because of it closse seting in the conveyance.
Related text(s) Organ pipe parts
Organ pipes
4. He beareth two Organ pipes
in salter.
Psalter
5. He beareth a psalter.
This may also be termed, a Recorder, or a Shawm, or a Wyate, for they are Instruments all like one to the other, onely they differ in bignesse, one being bigger then an other.
[The second image is not on the plate but is labelled Waytte.]
Oboe
He beareth an Howboye.
This is a winde Instrument fixed on the sinister side of this quarter; which is in all respects answerable to the psalter saue it hath not the round or square riseing in the midle of it.
Related text(s) Psalter parts
Curtale
6. He beareth a curtale. It
is an Instrument of Musick that is a
kind of deep Base, to all sorts of wind
musick and is played on with Brasse
Keys fixed to the sides of it, as the
figure sheweth; haueing a long crooked
pipe of mettle through which the wind
is conveyed to the Instrument. A
double curtale, is double the bignesse
of the other, and in play is 8 notes
deeper, then the single one.
Flagelot
Image from proof plate[He beareth a cheueron betweene three Flaguletts. ]
These are the Instruments whose figure I haue set on the dexter side of this quarter; it is also termed a Whissle, or whisell, or a pipe, but the pipe belonging to the Taber is much longer then the whisell, or Flajalett. The pipes, or whisselling windy Instruments, haue foure holes on the top side of the pipe, and two vnder, or in the lower side, se numb: 25.
Bandore
7. He beareth a Bandore
garnished, fetted, and the Bow
ouercrosse the midle of the stopps.
Related text(s) Bandore parts
Viol
8. He beareth a Viole, or a
Treble Viole:
This is an Instrument to be played
vpon with a Bow, which the Vulgar
generally call by the name of a Fiddle
stick; the Instrument, a Fiddle; and
the player vpon it a Fiddler.
Related text(s) Types of viol Viol parts
Lute
9. He beareth a Lute [with]
stopps and back.
The Lute is strung with Bowell strings containeing ... in number, and the strings are touched in their playing vpon them with the fingers, or with a Quile: the Back is generally round and diuided into ribbs by two kind of coloured wood.
Theorbo lute
The Theorbo Lute, is the other
lute, it hath ... strings more then
the common Lute and the neck part
where the peggs are, it hath one part,
or halfe of it, standing streight out, and
the other halfe turning backwards, as in
this Lute. Some terme this the French
Lute. It hath 8 pegs in that part as
turneth backwards.
[Not drawn on plate but included in draft drawings.]
Related text(s) Poliphant Lute parts
Virginals
Image from proof plate10. He beareth a paire of Virginalls with the couer open, strung, and adorned with veriatie of painting.
Harpsichord
The Harpsicalls.
This is a kinde of Virginall, and is to be played vpon, as vpon the verginalls: the case if after the forme of an Harpe and from thence I suppose, it tooke the name. As the virginalls open, and are played vpon in the side; the Harpsicall is played vpon at the end.
[Draft drawing not included on the plate.]
Related text(s) Virginal parts Clavicord
Simball
11. He beareth a Siball, or
a Loud Cimball stringed.
This is an Instrument not played vpon with a bow, or the strings touched with the hand to make them sound: but they are made to sound by the turneing of a wheele which is within the belly of it, and brought into tune, by the persons skill in the fingering of the stops. Some terme this an Harpe with a wheele.
Dulcimer
12. He beareth a Dulcimer,
[with] two Dulcimer sticks.
Related text(s) Dulcimer parts
Virginal wrest
13. He beareth a Virginall
Wrest.
This is noe other then a little Hammer vsed by the maisters of the Virginalls to fasten the pinns, or turne them about, either to lower or heighten the strings: for which end it hath a square hole at the end of it to put vpon the square head of the pinns, and the other end hath an hooke to turne the ends of the wyers, into a kinde of an eye, to be held vpon a pin head, or such kind of thing, to draw it out to its height for Musick.
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