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It is common to commend a Man, my Lord, for an Ear to Music, and a Taste of Painting, which are nothing but a just Discernment of what is excellent and most perfect in them: The ﬁrst dependeth entirely on the Ear; a Man can never expect to be a Master, that hath not an Ear tuned and set to Music: And You can no more sing an Ode Rh