m, that could _saxa movere sono testudinis_, &c. make stocks
and stones, as well as beasts and other animals, dance after their pipes:
the dog and hare, wolf and lamb; _vicinumque lupo praebuit agna latus;
clamosus graculus, stridula cornix, et Jovis aquila_, as Philostratus
describes it in his images, stood all gaping upon Orpheus; and [3478]trees
pulled up by the roots came to hear him, _Et comitem quercum pinus amica
trahit_.

Arion made fishes follow him, which, as common experience evinceth, [3479]
are much affected with music. All singing birds are much pleased with it,
especially nightingales, if we may believe Calcagninus; and bees amongst
the rest, though they be flying away, when they hear any tingling sound,
will tarry behind. [3480]"Harts, hinds, horses, dogs, bears, are
exceedingly delighted with it." Scal, _exerc. 302._ Elephants, Agrippa
adds, _lib. 2. cap. 24._ and in Lydia in the midst of a lake there be
certain floating islands (if ye will believe it), that after music will
dance.

But to leave all declamatory speeches in praise [3481]of divine music, I
will confine myself to my proper subject: besides that excellent power it
hath to expel many other diseases, it is a sovereign remedy against [3482]
despair and melancholy, and will drive away the devil himself. Canus, a
Rhodian fiddler, in [3483]Philostratus, when Apollonius was inquisitive to
know what he could do with his pipe, told him, "That he would make a
melancholy man merry, and him that was merry much merrier than before, a
lover more enamoured, a religious man more devout." Ismenias the Theban,
[3484]Chiron the centaur, is said to have cured this and many other
diseases by music alone: as now they do those, saith [3485]Bodine, that are
troubled with St. Vitus's Bedlam dance. [3486]Timotheus, the musician,
compelled Alexander to skip up and down, and leave his dinner (like the
tale of the Friar and the Boy), whom Austin, _de civ. Dei, lib. 17. cap.
14._ so much commends for it. Who hath not heard how David's harmony drove
away the evil spirits from king Saul, 1 Sam. xvi. and Elisha when he was
much troubled by importunate kings, called for a minstrel, "and when he
played, the hand of the Lord came upon him," 2 Kings iii. Censorinus _de
natali, cap. 12._ reports how Asclepiades the physician helped many frantic
persons by this means, _phreneticorum mentes morbo turbatas_--Jason
Pratensis, _cap. de Mania_, hath many examples, how Clinias and Emp