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never had the happinefs to fee fuch Rarities, tho I have 
been admitted to the fight of fome of the bcft Pieces of 
the moft Celebrated Matters. 
to the Pairiters Pairiting a Living or Moving thing, 
fo that one dial i almofl: ^^//ter;/ the Motion, and fee the 
Bird Flyuig^ the Horfe or Hound Runnings d^c* that is 
more eafie, efpccially when afiifted with the friendly and 
pregnant iancy of the Charm'd Speftator. In the Still life 
indeed, the Eye is quickly deceived, and tho there are, I 
believe, feveral Mafters now living more Excellent at it 
than ever Zeuxis and Parrhajins were 5 yet ftill, with all 
their Art, 'tis very difficult to impofe upon a man fb, as 
to make him believe 'tis not a P/^//re, but the very Lifi 
that he fees before him. 
Mujicians feem to be under the fame Predicament with 
Painters, fince they are obferv'd to live Faji, as alfo the 
Poets. Tis by the Pradtice of many years that they attain 
to a juft Knowledge and Maftery in their refpeaive Arts ^ 
and as their firft Compofitions are little and light, ftiitable 
to the Mercurial temper of heedlefs and inconllant Youth 5 
So, in time, this wears off, and as their Experience and 
Judgment encreafes, their Compofitions grow more foHd 
and found, A Young Man may make a better Minuet or 
jjigg., but the Elder a more found Service or Anthem, The 
Mufic of the former ('with other Accomplifhments ) may 
go a great way towards the enticing a foolifh Girl to Love 5 
but that of the latter Excites the Devotion, moves the Af- 
fedions, and raifes the Paffions of thofe truly Religious 
Soub, who take pleafure in finging praifes to the Honour 
and Glory of his name, who lives for ever and ever. 
If your Grace (hall fay, that the very he/i Painter s^ ilf -^- 
Jicians and Poets dyed youngs \ or at leaJi before they attai? I 
to an advancd Age^ when they -would have faiVd or gron t 
duU^ a^ others did : I muft beg leave to fay tb:^i Old Mr 
are of two forts, either thofe who ^re mufh ujfe&cd mu. 
their Age and weakned, or thofe who are not. 
