3. It doth strengthen all parts of the breast, and doth open the pipes.
4. It is a singularly good remedy for a stuttering and stammering in the speech.
5. It is the best means to procure a perfect pronunciation and to make a good orator.
6. It is the only way to know where nature has bestowed a good voice ... and in many that excellent gift is lost because they want art to express nature.
7. There is not any music of instruments whatsoever comparable to that which is made of the voices of men, where the voices are good, and the same well sorted and ordered.
8. The better the voice is, the meeter it is to honour and serve God therewith; and the voice of man is chiefly to be employed to that end.
“Since singing is so good a thing,
I wish all men would learn to sing.”
An Antipathy to Cats.—People who have a strong antipathy to cats detect their presence by the odour, in circumstances which would be thought impossible. A lady in my study, one day, suddenly remarked, “There is a cat in the room.” On my assuring her there was none, she replied, “Then there is one in the passage.” I went out, to satisfy her. There was no cat in the passage, but on the first landing, looking through the railings, there, sure enough, was the cat.—G. H. Lewes.