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Song: Of all the instruments that are, none with the...

by Henry Purcell . A Catch for Three voices , in C major
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Of all the instruments that are,
none with the viol can compare,
mark how the strings their order keep,
with a “whet” and a “sweep”,
but above all this still abounds,
with a “zingle zing” and a “zit zan zounds”.

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