An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

¹Bones are for strength and sinews for motion, bones being firm and stiff in themselves are moveable by the sinews. There are other parts of the body which concur to the making up of this armour, gristles, muscles, ligaments, membranes, all which serve for motion, fastening and defence, as well as bones and sinews: but these being the principal and most known are here expressed for all the rest.

¹Bones are for strength and sinews for motion, bones being firm and stiff in themselves are moveable by the sinews. There are other parts of the body which concur to the making up of this armour, gristles, muscles, ligaments, membranes, all which serve for motion, fastning and defence, as well as bones and sinews: but these being the principall and most known are here expressed for all the rest.

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] Ossa à robore & firmitate dicta.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Ossa à robore & firmitate dicta.

¹Bones give the body stability, straitness and form. They are as the carcass of a ship, whereto the rest of the parts are fastened, and by which they are sustained. They are as the posts, pillars, beams and rafters of a house, by whose knittings and contignations the whole building is both proportioned and supported. And though the bones are for number very many, and in their forms exceeding various, some thick, some thin, some plain, some hollow, some of a greater, others of a lesser bore, yet are they so connected and fitted together by articulation or by coalition, by contiguity or continuity (as the Anatomists speak) that they all appear as one bone, or pack of bones,

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