Living
Upon Comely a good speaker but an ill singer, Epig.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
COmely Acts well; and when he speaks his part,
He doth it with the sweetest tones of Art:
But when he sings a Psalme, ther's none can be
More curst for singing out of tune then he.
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