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Jpkafant Story cf the PIVjd-Lark and 

 J^ighlingak, 



% Y felf and a Gentleman going to 

 catch Nightingales near Shooters- 

 hilL, hard by a Coppice or Wood-Side, 

 heard a Nightingale fing fo iVeet'lV;, as to 

 my thinking, I never heard the like in ail 

 my Life, although I have heard many in 

 mjv Timie, for the Place being in a Valley, 

 and the Coppice on the Sicie of it, made 

 all the Notes of the Nightingale feim dou- 

 ble with the Eccho v v/e had not fraid there 

 long, but comes a Wood-Lark, a-nd lights 

 upon the Twig of an Oak, and there they 

 fong, each ftriving to ouiwy the other •, in 

 a lliort fpace more, about an hundred Fa- 

 ces off lights another Wood-Lark, did ant 

 from the firif ; and under him as near as 

 we could judge, was another Nightingale ; 

 thefe four hirds fang with fo melodious 

 Harmony, Vv^arbiing out their pleafant 

 Notes for above an whole Flour, that never 

 any Mufick came in Comparifon with it, 

 to the pieafmg of our Ears •, as foon as the 

 Wood-Lark^ were gone, the Nightingales, 

 we fuppofed, went a little to refreili Na- 

 ture, having played their Parts fo well, 

 that every Bird m the higheft Degree flrove 

 for Mafkry;, My Friend and 1 having 



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