young musician has began a tune, she finds herself inclined to continue it;
and that even when she is carelessly singing alone without attending to her
own song; according with the third preceding article.

4. At the same time that our young performer continues to play with great
exactness this accustomed tune, she can bend her mind, and that intensely,
on some other object, according with the fourth article of the preceding
proportions.

The manuscript copy of this work was lent to many of my friends at
different times for the purpose of gaining their opinions and criticisms on
many parts of it, and I found the following anecdote written with a pencil
opposite to this page, but am not certain by whom. "I remember seeing the
pretty young actress, who succeeded Mrs. Arne in the performance of the
celebrated Padlock, rehearse the musical parts at her harpsichord under the
eye of her master with great taste and accuracy; though I observed her
countenance full of emotion, which I could not account for; at last she
suddenly burst into tears; for she had all this time been eyeing a beloved
canary bird, suffering great agonies, which at that instant fell dead from
its perch."

5. At the same time many other catenated circles of action are going on in
the person of our fair musician, as well as the motions of her fingers,
such as the vital motions, respiration, the movements of her eyes and
eyelids, and of the intricate muscles of vocality, according with the fifth
preceding article.

6. If by any strong impression on the mind of our fair musician she should
be interrupted for a very inconsiderable time, she can still continue her
performance, according to the sixth article.