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leajl once in a century, to luh'ip forth the buyers and feller t 

 of filly hypothefes out of the temple of Apollo. O ! for a 

 thong, and an arm ft to ufe it, that I might drive them to 

 their cloyflers, and teach them to remember that they are 

 but fchool-boys ! 



The plan I would venture to recommend for the in- 

 troduction of Nightingales into any country, is to re- 

 move a large quantity of the eggs, keeping them mBalneo 

 mario, or by artificial regulated heat, according to the 

 meafure neceflary for bringing forward the procels of in- 

 cubation, and placing them in the neft of the Red-ftart, 

 and other congeners of the Nightingale ; bringing down 

 a competent number of the fineft caged Nightingales 

 to place in the fields where the eggs are to be 

 hatched, together with a number of Canary birds that 

 fing the fined; round of the Nightingales fong with fuch 

 agreeable intermixture of other notes as may be rr^ofl 

 agreeable to the undertaker. 



Then, not to depend upon this arrangement alone, let 

 a number of neftling Nightingales be brought aboard a 

 fliip from London, under the care of hen fky-larks as 

 nurfes -, the moft ready and tender for this purpofe, with 

 plenty of Nightingale meat, to be made daily by an atten- 

 tive hand that is hearty in wifhing fuccefs to the under- 

 taking ; and taking care to have two or three capital 

 cock Nightingales from Covent Garden market, or 

 from the bird-men in Holborn and elfewhere in Lon- 

 don, from which the neftlings might receive the pro- 

 per inflrudlions. I have not the lead doubt, Mr Editor, 

 that the delightful Philomela might be brought to 

 abound in every part of Europe where food, ihelter, 

 and climate admitted of their exiitence. What a proud 

 circumftance it would be for the teacher of the noble 

 Art of Idlenfs, could he have the pleafure to hear the 

 melodious Nightingale in his native country, brought 

 thither by his invitation, and applauded by all the dy- 

 ing fwains, and love fick maidens of the Land of Cakes ! 

 Haw much more dc-licrhtful would it be to hear ouv 



