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by their melting drops : Nay, the rocks them- 

 selves are heard to murmur, and the very winds 

 to whisper rebellion. This is the place of those 

 harmonious descants, which I fancy musical, and 

 syrenical charming notes betwixt Neptune and 

 ^Eolus. So that I'm of opinion waters make 

 musick ; and he that doubts it, let him angle 

 for anchovies. 



Theoph. Surely you fetch'd this notion a great 

 way from home. 



Am. It's no matter where I fetch'd it, it's 

 here now. This natural precipice shall evidence 

 for me, at the sun's declination, when he shades 

 his beams in Thetis lap, and the purple pavilion 

 of night overspreads the creation ; then you may 

 see a chequered rocky pavement emboss'd like 

 the firmament, with spangled stars ; where those 

 elevated waters (emblems of clouds) no sooner 

 approach this natural precipice, but Boreas bus- 

 tles to curl the softned streams, with such surly 

 salutes as force a separation, so makes obvious 

 discoveries of nature's artifice, so naturally deli- 

 neated, that the more ingenious observer would 

 conclude it artificial. Over which precipice the 

 waters pass with a swift, but silent motion, to a 

 cristalme fountain guarded with the rocks, and 

 the ornament of trees ; at whose descent runs a 

 rivulet, that divides a medow worthy a descrip- 



