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1Sa_16:17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring [him] to me.
Ver. 17. Provide me now a man.] Not a wise man, as they call wizards, or a white witch, - Saul, as bad as he was, was yet an utter enemy to such, {1Sa_28:9} - but a man that can play well. Musica maestae medicina mentis, {a} Pythagoras cured a frantic young man by music, saith Seneca. {b} And Xenocrates lymphatos carminum modulis a dementia liberavit, saith another, {c} Elisha called for a musician to settle his distempers. {2Ki_3:15} And what strange alterations that excellent minstrel Timotheus could work in great Alexander, either to enrage or appease him, is well known out of historians. {d}
{a} Movit Amphion lapides canendo.
{b} Lib. iii. De Ira., cap. 9.
{c} Martianus Capella.
{d} Alex., Ab Alex. Genial., lib. ii. cap. 17.