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TEACHING A CroUD. 45
the Vulgar will readily follow their Example;
and you muil be much more anxious about
their Attendance than the better Sorr, as
they are only to be depended on for a good
Performance at Church : For, exclufive of
their being more numerous, they are very
fond of being of Confequence, and fmg with
Spirit, with a View to keep all around right;
whereas if a poor Man ling a little out of
Tune or Time, all the Gentry next him are
immediately filenced.
Your next Difficulty will be to perfuade
the better Sort to meet with the Commons ;
but a little Reafoning will convince them,
that it is as reafonable to meet together to
learn to praife God in a decent and proper
Manner, as it is to meet to perform that
office.
Having fucceeded fo far, let it next be
fuppofed that you meet with your Pupils at
Church, or fome large Room that will con-
tain them eafily-, and having feated them all
with their Books in their Hands, delire them
to look at the Scale, where they will fee two
Staves, each containing five Lines, the up-
per comprehending the treble Notes, and
the