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22 appear obscure, there is no reason why these passages should not be understood by all in a much fuller light.

The following lines, though not in a play, are so full of musical similes that it may be useful to take them at once.

Lucrece, line 1124.

(Then to the nightingale)—

Here Lucrece tells the birds to cease their joyous notes, and calls on the nightingale to sing the song