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ftillj almoft at hand, tho in the diilant 

 wood. 



Among the birds of harmony, there are two, 

 which I fhall find it difficult perhaps to ef- 

 tablifh in that clafs the jay, and the wood- 

 pecker. Their fcreams, however difcordant 

 in themfelves, or when out of place, accord 

 admirably with the foreft j and produce that 

 kind of local harmony, which one of our 

 old poets * afcribes to the found of a drum : 

 it may be diflbnant in pne place, tho mufical 

 in another. 



What found is that, whofe concord makes ajar ? 

 3 Tis noife in peacf ; tho harmony in war .- 

 The drum, whofe doubtful mufic doth delight 

 The willing ear, and the unwilling fright. 



rrllVWe take mufic however here (according 

 to a very good definition of it) in the large, 

 and proper fenfe of the word as the art of 

 varioufly affecting the mind by the power of 

 founds f." 



* Davenant. \ Gregory's comparative view. 



But 



