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have called to my memory what Mr. Edmund Waller^ a 

 lover of the angle, 2 says of love and music. 



Whilst I listen to thy voice, 



Chloris, I feel my heart decay ; 

 That powerful voice 



Calls my fleeting soul away : 

 Oh ! suppress that magic sound, 

 Which destroys without a wound. 



Peace, Chloris, peace ; or singing die, 

 That together you and I 



To heaven may go : 



For all we know 

 Of what the blessed do above 

 Is, that they sing, and that they love. 



Pise. Well remembered, brother Peter ; these verses came 



" Introduction to Practical Music," fol. Lond. 1597, thus complains ; [at the 

 banquet of master Sophobulus] "Supper being ended; and music-books, 

 according to custom, being brought to table, the mistress of the house pre- 

 sented me with a part, earnestly requesting me to sing. But when, after 

 many excuses, I protested unfeignedly, that I could not, every one began 

 to wonder ; yea, some whispered to others, demanding how I was brought 

 up. So that, upon shame of mine ignorance, I go, now, to seek out mine 

 old friend, master Grnorimus, to make myself his scholar." At that 

 period a lute was considered a necessary part of the furniture of a barber's 

 shop, and answered the end of a newspaper, the now common amusement 

 of waiting customers. 



In an old comedy of Dekker's, entitled, " The second part of the honest 

 Whore," Matheo, speaking of his wife, terms her 'a barber's citteme for 

 every serving-man to play upon.' H. 



1 Edmund Waller was born in 1605, at Coleshill, in Buckinghamshire, 

 and received his education at Eton, and King's College, Cambridge. At the 

 age of eighteen he was in parliament, and took part against the king : in 

 1643, however, he was sentenced to be hanged for a plot on his behalf ; but 

 saved himself by submission to the ruling power, and the weighty influence 

 of the pocket. He afterwards wrote an elegant panegyric in favour of 

 Cromwell, and subsequently another, on the Icing, at his Restoration ! He 

 died in 1687, and was buried at Beaconsfield. His poems are easy, smooth, 

 and generally elegant. JOHNSON. 



2 As the author's concern for the honour of angling induced him to 

 enumerate such persons of note as were lovers of that recreation, the 

 reader will allow me to add Mr. JOHN GAY to the number. Any one who 

 reads the first canto of his Georgic, entitled " Kural Sports," and observes 

 how beautifully and accurately he treats the subject of fly-fishing, would 

 conclude the author a proficient : but that it was his chief amusement, I 



