<s>SALV. </s><s>I would an&longs;wer for my &longs;elf in general terms, that if <lb/>
it were appointed by the will of God, that the Earth &longs;hould cea&longs;e <lb/>
from its diurnal revolution, tho&longs;e birds would do what ever &longs;hould <lb/>
plea&longs;e the &longs;ame Divine will. </s><s>But if this Author de&longs;ire a more <lb/>
particular an&longs;wer, I &longs;hould tell him, that they would do quite con <lb/>
trary to what they do now, if whil&longs;t they, being &longs;eparated from <lb/>
the Earth, do bear them&longs;elves up in the air, the Terre&longs;trial Globe <lb/>
by the will of God, &longs;hould all on a &longs;udden be put upon a precipi <lb/>
tate motion; it concerneth this Author now to a&longs;certain us what <lb/>
would in this ca&longs;e &longs;ucceed.</s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>I pray you, <emph type="italics"/>Salviatus,<emph.end type="italics"/> at my reque&longs;t to grant to this <lb/>
Author, that the Earth &longs;tanding &longs;till by the will of God, the other <lb/>
things, &longs;eparated from it, would continue to turn round of their <lb/>
own natural motion, and let us hear what impo&longs;&longs;ibilities or incon <lb/>
veniences would follow: for I, as to my own particular, do not <lb/>
&longs;ee how there can be greater di&longs;orders, than the&longs;e produced by the <lb/>
Author him&longs;elf, that is, that Larks, though they &longs;hould flie, could <lb/>
not be able to hover over their ne&longs;ts, nor Crows over &longs;nails, or <lb/>
rocks: from whence would follow, that Crows mu&longs;t &longs;uffer for <lb/>
want of &longs;nails, and young Larks mu&longs;t die of hunger, and cold, not <lb/>
being able to be fed or &longs;heltered by the wings of the old ones. <lb/>
</s><s>This is all the ruine that I can conceive would follow, &longs;uppo&longs;ing <lb/>
the Authors &longs;peech to be true. </s><s>Do you &longs;ee, <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius,<emph.end type="italics"/> if grea <lb/>
ter inconveniences would happen?</s>

<s>SIMP. </s><s>I know not how to di&longs;cover greater; but it is very cre <lb/>
dible, that the Author be&longs;ides the&longs;e, di&longs;covered other di&longs;orders in <lb/>
Nature, which perhaps in reverend re&longs;pect of her, he was not will <lb/>
ing to in&longs;tance in. </s><s>Therefore let us proceed to the third Obje <lb/>
ction. <emph type="italics"/>In&longs;uper quî fit, ut istæ res tam variæ tantùm moveantur <lb/>
ab Occa&longs;u in Ortum, parallelæ ad Æquatorem? </s><s>ut &longs;emper movean <lb/>
tur, nunquam quie&longs;cant? [which &longs;peaks to this &longs;en&longs;e:]<emph.end type="italics"/> Moreover, <lb/>
how comes it to pa&longs;s that the&longs;e things, &longs;o diver&longs;e, are onely moved <lb/>
from the We&longs;t towards the Ea&longs;t, parallel to the Æquinoctial? <lb/>
</s><s>that they always move, and never re&longs;t?</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>They move from We&longs;t to Ea&longs;t parallel to the Æqui <lb/>
noctial without cea&longs;ing, in the &longs;ame manner as you believe the <lb/>
fixed &longs;tars to move from Ea&longs;t to We&longs;t, parallel to the Æquinocti <lb/>
al, without ever re&longs;ting.</s>

<s>SIMP. <emph type="italics"/>Quarè, quò &longs;unt altiores, celeriùs; quò humiliores, tar <lb/>
diùs? (i. </s><s>e.)<emph.end type="italics"/> Why are the higher the &longs;wifter, and the lower the <lb/>
&longs;lower?</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>Becau&longs;e that in a Sphere or circle, that turns about up <lb/>
on its own centre, the remoter parts de&longs;cribe greater circuits, and <lb/>
the parts nearer at hand de&longs;cribe le&longs;&longs;er in the &longs;ame time.</s>

<s>SIMP. <emph type="italics"/>Quare, quæ Æquinoctiali propriores, in majori; quæ<emph.end type="italics"/>