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Rh And so the cicada too—

Nay the very frogs will croak like nightingales—

But what is still more extraordinary, the same nightingale in Aristophanes a little after begins to chant a lesson of anapæsts—

So that by Mr B.'s powerful argument, both, and , and , may be all used in the same signification. And if Mr B. had but produced some anapæsts of nightingales to confute my observation about the measures of that verse, they might have done him perhaps much better service than those of Æschylus and Seneca.

I had declared, that I suspected all to be a cheat, about the friendship between Phalaris and Stesichorus; because the poet himself never mentioned it, nor any other writer; though several, had it been true, had fair