ABSTRACT

Musick warms the passions, and unlocks the Fancy, and makes it open to Pleasure like a Flower to the sun. It helps a Luscious Sentence to slide, drowns the Discords of Atheism, and keeps off the Aversions of Conscience. It throws a Man off his Guard, makes way for an ill Impression, and is most Commodiously planted to do Mischief. …