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 Music more lofty swells In speeches nobly placed; BEAUTY as far excels In actions aptly graced. A friend each party draws To countenance his cause.

LOVE more affected seems BEAUTY'S lovely light; And WONDER more esteems Of MUSIC's wondrous might: But both to both so bent As both in both are spent.

Music doth witness call The ear, his truth to try; BEAUTY brings to the hall The judgment of the eye: Both in their objects such, As no exceptions touch.

The common SENSE which might Be arbiter of this; To be forsooth upright, To both sides partial is: He lays on this side chief praise; Chief praise on that he lays.

Then REASON, Princess high! Whose throne is in the mind; Which music can in sky, And hidden beauties find. Say! whether thou wilt crown With limitless renown?