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The Nightingale is very common in England, except in the 
northern parts, where it is never feen. It comes in the beginning 
of April, and leaves us in Auguft. It is found in Sweden, Germany, 
France, Italy, Greece, China, and Japan. ‘Uhe female makes. her 
neft in a low coppice or quickfet hedge, that is thickly cloathed with 
foliage. It is compofed of hay, and reeds, intermingled with oak 
leaves, &c. She lays four or five eggs of a greenifh brown colour. 
The male fcarcely differs from the female. 
In the evening the Nightingale begins a fong that continues till 
morning. Concealed in fome thicket, this charming fong{ter pours 
forth thofe melodious ftrains, whofe harmony, fweetnefs and variety, 
combine to fill the mind with foft emotions of fenfibility, and 
endear folitude to the contemplative man. The Nightingale is 
the favourite of every rural poet, and the loftieft genius has conftantly 
noticed it in his folemn defcriptions of evening, or of night. 
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