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THe Nightingales are sweet and excellent singers, tuning their notes with infinite quaverings,* 1.1 and diversities of sounds, so prettily and sweetly, that humane industry can scarce equal the sweetness thereof, by so many musical Instruments; so that we say, he sings like a Nightingale,
who varies his voyce with much variety. In which thing Birds much excel men, because they have that admirable sweetness of singing from Nature it self without any labour of learning; which men can scarce attain to in any Shool of Musick, by having their ears a thousand times pluckt by the hand of a curst Master.
To sing like a Nightingale.