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flill i almofl: at hand, tho in the diftant 

 wood. 



Among the h'rJs of harmony ^ there are two, 

 which I ihall find it difficult perhaps to ef- 

 tabhih 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 difTonant in one place, tho mufical 

 in another. 



What found is that, whofe concord makes a jar ? 

 'Tis no'ife in peace ; tho harmony in nuctr : 

 The dnim, whofe doubtful mufic doth delight 

 The ^willing ear, and the un'willing fright. 



" We take mtific however here (according 

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

 and proper fenfe of the word — as the art of 

 varioufly affeding the mind by the power of 

 founds, "-f- 



Davenant. f Gregory's comparative view. 



But 



