'Tis natures voice a song set by Mr. Henry Purcell, and sung by himself at St. Cæcelia's feast ; and exactly engrav'd by Tho. Cross. Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A29167 of text W9461 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B4185). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 1 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A29167 Wing B4185 16959301 ocm 16959301 105468 2240886583

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A29167) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 105468) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1610:6) 'Tis natures voice a song set by Mr. Henry Purcell, and sung by himself at St. Cæcelia's feast ; and exactly engrav'd by Tho. Cross. Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Cross, T. (Thomas) Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726. 1 score (1 sheet) Tho. Cross, [London : 1693?] Words attributed to Nicholas Brady by Wing. Statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Songs, English. eebo 'Tis natures voice a song set by Mr. Henry Purcell, and sung by himself at St. Cæcelia's feast ; and exactly engrav'd by Tho. Cross. Purcell, Henry, 1693 1 198 0 0 0 100 0 0 50505.05 F The rate of 50505.05 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-12 Sampled and proofread 2008-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Song Set by Mr. Henry Purcell . and Sung by himself at St Caecelia's Feast . and exactly engrav'd by Tho: Cross . —

'T is Natures Voice , 't is Natures Voice , by all the move—ing

Wood of Creatues un — derstood : The universal Tongue , the universal

Tongue , to none of all her num'rous Race — unknown : From her , from her it learnt the

mighty the migh — ty , the migh — ty Art to court — the Ear : or strike or strike —

The Heart : at once the Passions to express and move — at once the passions to express ,

to express & move — We hear , and strait we Grieve — or Hate ; —

& strait we Grieve — or Hate ; Rejoice —

or — Love : In unseen Chains , it does the Fancy

bind . — it does it does the Fan — cy bind : At once it

charms — the Sence and cap — tivates the Mind : at once it charms — the Sence . and cap — tivates the Mind .