So _Grandsire_ bids you All adieu.

R.R.




THE ART OF RINGING.




Of the Beginning of _Changes_.


It is an ancient _Proverb_ with us in _England_ (That _Rome_
was not built in a day) by which expression is declared, That
difficult things are not immediately done, or in a short time
accomplished: But for the _Art of Ringing_, it is admirable
to conceive in how short a time it hath increased, that the
very depth of its intricacy is found out; for within these
Fifty or Sixty years last past, _Changes_ were not known,
or thought possible to be _Rang_: Then were invented the
_Sixes_, being the very ground of a _Six score_: Then the
_Twenty_, and _Twenty-four_, with several other _Changes_.
But _Cambridge Forty-eight_, for many years, was the greatest
_Peal_ that was _Rang_ or invented; but now, neither _Forty-eight_,
nor a _Hundred_, nor _Seven-hundred and twenty_, nor any Number
can confine us; for we can _Ring Changes_, _Ad infinitum_.
Although _Philosophers_ say, _No Number is infinite, because