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Hark, how the banging marrow-bones,

Make clanging cleavers ring;

With a ding dong, ding dong,

Ding dong, ding dong,

Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding. Raife your uplifted arms on high;

In long-prolonged tones

Let cleavers found

A merry merry round'

By banging marrow-bones.

RECIT. Accompanied.

Ceafe, lighter numbers: Hither bring
The undulating ftring.

Stretch'd out, and to the tumid bladder
In amity harmonious bound;

Then deeper fwell the notes and fadder,
And let the hoarfe bafe flowly folemn found.
AIR

With dead, dull, doleful, heavy hums,
With mournful moans,

And grievous groans,
The fober hurdy-gurdy thrums.

PART II.

RECIT. Accompanied.

WITH magic founds, like thefe, did Orpheus' lyre
Motion, fenfe, and life infpire;

When, as he play'd, the lift'ning flood
Still'd its loquacious waves, and filent ftood;
The trees fwift-bounding danc'd with loofen'd ftumps,
And fluggish ftones caper'd in active jumps.
AIR.

Each ruddy-breafted robin
The concert bore a bob in,
And ev'ry hooting owl around;
The croaking frogs,
The grunting hogs,

All, all confpir'd to raise th' enliv'ning found.

RECITATIVE.

Now to Cæcilia, heav'nly maid,

Your loud united voices raife,

With folemn hymns to celebrate her praise,
Each inftrument shall lend its aid.

• This inftrument, by the learned, is fometimes called a hum ftrum.

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The falt-box with clattering and clapping fhall found,
The iron lyre

Buzzing twang with wav'ring wire,
With heavy hum

The fober hurdy-gurdy thrum,
And the merry merry marrow-bones ring round.
LAST GRAND CHORUS.
Such matchlefs ftrains Cæcilia knew,
When audience from their heav'nly sphere,
By harmony's ftrong pow'r, fhe drew,
Whilft lift'ning angels gladly ftoop'd to hear.

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BOOKS published in the Year 1763.

The antiquities of Athens measured and delineated, by James Stuart, F. R. S. and F. S. A. and Nicholas Revett, Architects and Painters. V. i.

TH

HERE is fcarcely any object, which operates more powerfully on that curiofity, which is the great incitement to knowledge, than antiquities of every fpecies. If fome perfons have followed this tudy with too much minutenefs, or, by an enthufiafm naturally, and fomewhat excufeably, growing out of a favourite purfuit, have rated antiquities above their juft value, their weakness cannot attaint the good fenfe of others, nor derogate from the advantage of rational and liberal enquiries. By the ftudy of antiquities, history is frequently explained and confirmed, and fometimes corrected. Facts and manners are rendered more diftinct, and their impreffion becomes infinitely stronger, and more lafting. This ftudy becomes ftill more important, if the antiquities, which are the object of it, relate to a nation not only diftinguished for its power and policy, but eminent for its cultivation of the rational powers, and its refinement on the

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pleafures of the imagination. fuch a cafe, monuments of antiquity not only illuftrate hiftory, but regulate tafte; and are capable of affording the most effential helps in the improvement of architecture, painting, fculpture, and all the arts which embellish life.

Advantages of this kind were naturally expected from a work on the antiquities of Athens; and, perhaps, no book, which had excited fo much of the public expectation, has difappointed it fo little. Monfieur le Roy's performance, though it preceded this work, did not at all pre-occupy its place. The work of meffieurs Stuart and Revett is, in every refpect, as original and informing, as if no other on the fubject had gone before it. Indeed, that which has preceded it rather afforded new and powerful reafons for the publication of this. The numerous and important mistakes, with which that book is filled, both in the difquifitions and defigns, had rendered more exact enquiries, and more accurate drawings, abfolutely neceffary. Becaufe the name of Athens would have been impofing; and its monuments, thus reprefented, would have vitiated, instead of correct

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Tranflation of the Motto.

Yield, yield ye fidlers, French, Italians,
Yield, yield, I fay again-Rafcalions.
One, two, three times I fay, fidlers give o'er;
Yield ye,. I now fay, times 1, 2, 3, 4.

PART I..
OVERTURE,

RECITATIVE Accompanied,
E dumb, be dumb, ye inharmonious

BAnd mufic, that the aftonith'd car with difcord wounds:

No more let common rhymes prophane the day.
GRAND CHORUS.

Grac'd with divine Cæcilia's name;
Let folemn hymns this aweful feaft proclaim,
And heavenly notes confpire to raise the heav'nly lay.
RECIT. Accompanied.

The meaner melody we fcorn,

Which vulgar inftruments afford;
Shrill flute, sharp fiddle, bellowing horn,
Rumbling baffoon, or tinkling harpsichord.
AIR.

In ftrains more exalted the falt-box shall join,
And clattering, and battering, and clapping combine:
With a rap and a tap while the hollow fide founds,
Up and down leaps the flap, and with rattling rebounds..
RECITATIVE.

Strike, ftrike the foft Judaic harp,
Soft and sharp,

By teeth coercive in firm durance kept,
And lightly by the volant finger fwept.

AIR.

Buzzing twangs the iron lyre,.

Shrilly thrilling,

Trembling, trilling.

Whizzing with the wav'ring wire.

A GRAND SYMPHONY,

Accompanied with marrow-bones and cleavers..
AIR.

Hark, how the banging marrow-bones

Make clanging cleavers ring,

With a ding dong, ding dong,.

Ding dong, ding dong,

Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding,

Raife your uplifted arms on high;

In long-prolonged tones

Let cleavers found

A merry merry round By banging marrow-bones.

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Hark, how the banging marrow-bones,

Make clanging cleavers ring;
With a ding dong, ding dong,

Ding dong, ding dong,

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Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding,
Raife your uplifted arms on high;

In long-prolonged tones
Let cleavers found

A merry merry round"

By banging marrow-bones.

RECIT. Accompanied.

Ceafe, lighter numbers: Hither bring
The undulating ftring

Stretch'd out, and to the tumid bladder
In amity harmonious bound;

Then deeper fwell the notes and fadder,
And let the hoarfe bafe flowly folemn found.
AIR

With dead, dull, doleful, heavy hums,
With mournful moans,

And grievous groans,

*

The fober hurdy-gurdy thrums.

PART II.

RECIT. Accompanied.

WITH magic founds, like these, did Orpheus' lyre
Motion, fenfe, and life infpire;

When, as he play'd, the lift'ning flood
Still'd its loquacious waves, and filent stood;
The trees fwift-bounding danc'd with loofen'd ftumps,
And fluggish ftones caper'd in active jumps.

AIR.

Each ruddy-breafted robin

The concert bore a bob in,
And ev'ry hooting owl around;
The croaking frogs,

The grunting hogs,

All, all confpir'd to raise th' enliv'ning found.
RECITATIVE.

Now to Cæcilia, heav'nly maid,

Your loud united voices raife,

With folemn hymns to celebrate her praise,

Each inftrument shall lend its aid.

This inftrument, by the learned, is fometimes called a hum ftrum.

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