THE BEE, 



LITERARY WEEKLT INTELLIGENCER, 



WEDNESDAY, October 5, 1791. 



HISTORY OF THE NIGHTINGALE, 

 [With a PtATE.] 



To ilse Editor of the Bee. 

 Sir, 



IJEING compleatly tired, as I imagine all Europe will 

 be very foon, of impertinent, coxcombical, mounte- 

 bank human orators, I beg leave, in profecution of my 

 noble and ufeful dcfign of defcribing the Art of Idle- 

 nefs, to prefent your readers with my lucubrations con- 

 cerning the Nightingale ; an orator of greater emi- 

 nence, fame, and aniiquity, than Demoflhenes, and who 

 will continue to charm the wprld after all our prefent 

 nonfenfc with tlie Millenium, the Crufades, the Pope, 

 the Devil, and the Pretender, fhall become topics for 

 the refearches of antiquarians. 



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