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Cuch Effeds, had never heard before : and />» fuch^ alittfe 
Mufick will do great Feats. As we find at this Day, 
a Fiddle or a Bag-pipe, among a Company of Country 
Fellows and Wenches (who never knew better) or at a 
Country Morr ice- Dance, will make them skip and ftake 
their Heels notably. (And the like heretofore, to a 
Sheperd's Reed or Oaten-Pipe) And when fome fuch 
thing happened amongft thofe Rufticks of OW, Thar, 
with fomewhat of Hyperlole , would make a great 
Noife. 
3. We are to confider that fheir Mufick (even after it 
came to fome good Degree of Perfedion) was much 
more plain and fimple than ours now a-days. They had 
not Conforts of Two, Three, Four or more Parts or 
Voices : But one fingle Voice or fingle Inftrument, a-part; 
which, to a rude Ear, is much more taking than more 
compounded Mufick. And we find that a fimple Jig. 
fung or play'd on a Fiddle or Bag Pipe, doth more affe^ 
a company of Rufticks, than a (et of Vials and Voices. 
For that is at a Pitch not above their Capacity 5 where- 
as this other confounds it, with a great Noife, but no- 
thing diftinguiftiable to their Capacity, Like fome deli- 
cate Sauce made up of a Mixture of many Ingredients ; 
which may yield an agreeable Tafte, but not fo as to di- 
ftinguifti the particular Relifti of any one : But Honey or 
Sugar by itfelG they could underftand and Reliife with a 
more particular Guflo. 
4. We are to confider, That Mufick with the Ancients 
was of a larger extent than what we call Mufick now 
a-days : For Toetry and Danchg (or comely Motion) 
were then accounted parts of Mufick, when Mufick arri«- 
ved to fome Perfeftion. Now we know that Ferfe of it 
(elf, if in good Meafures and AfFeftionate Langusge, and 
this fet to a Mufical Tune, and fung by a decent Voice, 
and accompanied but v/ith foft Mufick (inftrumental) if 
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