the Notes of Interrogation, or Admiration, in the

Italian

Musick (if one may so call them) which resemble their Accents in Discourse on such Occasions, are not unlike the ordinary Tones of an

English

Voice when we are angry; insomuch that I have often seen our Audiences extreamly mistaken as to what has been doing upon the Stage, and expecting to see the Hero knock down his Messenger, when he has been

asking

[2]

him a Question, or fancying that he quarrels with his Friend, when he only bids him Good-morrow.

[For]

this Reason the