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To chufe a Bird for Song. 



IF you hear him Sing before you buy 

 him, then you are fure you have not 

 bought a Hen for a Cock. As to the 

 Song, I count it good, when it is begun 

 fomething like theSky-Lark, then running 

 on the Notes of the Nightingale, which if- 

 he begins well, and holds it long, nothing 

 in my Mind can be Sweeter ; but as the 

 Fancies ofMen are as different as either the 

 Colours or Songs of the Birds, fo their Eyes 

 and Ears are the bed Judges for their Fan- 

 cies, yet I fhall not fail to give my Opinion 

 and Judgment to thofe who have not had 

 Experience in this delightful and innocent 

 Amufernent. 



The next Obfervation is, A Bird that; 

 begins with the Sweet of the Nightingale, 

 gradually four or five Times falling into fe- 

 veral other fwelling Notes of the above- 

 mentioned Bird^ and ending with the Song 

 of the Tit-Lark : I fay, a Bird that hath 

 a fuificient Share of each of thefe Birda 

 Songs, is both harmonious, fprightly, and 

 very deliehtful to the Ear. 



Thef-j Notes are diilingufli in this. 

 Manner, viz. the Swet Jiig^ followed by a 

 Swelhng Slur, vv^ith the Water-Bubble, and 

 then the fprightly Song ^of the Tit-Lark, 

 chewing and whifking feveral Times in a 



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