I'm not so old; yet grave, and much acute; My name was the French lute. Then from thence along the sides, from one knot to the other, thus, But since we are thus joined both in one, Henceforth our name shall be the Lute Dyphone. Then again cross-wise under the Theorboe-knot, thus, Lo here a perfect emblem seen in me, Of England and of France, their unity; Likewise that year they did each other aid, I was contrived, and thus compleatly made. viz. When they united both against the Dutch and beat them soundly, A.D. 1672. “Then lastly, under the French Lute knot, thus, Long have we been divided, now made one, We sang in sevenths; now in full unison. In this firm union, long may we agree, No unison is like Lute's harmony. Thus in its body, tis trim, spruce and fine But in its sp'rit, tis like a thing divine.” Poor Mace formed the plan of a Music-room, and hoped to have erected it himself; “but it pleased God,” says he, “to disappoint and discourage me several ways, for such a work; as chiefly by the loss of my hearing, and by that means the emptiness of my purse, (my meaning may easily be guessed at,) I only wanted money enough but no good will thereunto.” However he engraved his plan, and annexed a description of it, “in hopes that at one time or other, there might arise some honourable and truly nobly-spirited person, or persons, who may consider the great good use and benefit of such a necessary convenience, and also find in his heart to become a benefactor to such an eminent good work,—for the promotion of the art and encouragement of the true lovers of it; there being great need of such a thing, in reference to the compleating and illustrating of the University Schools.”