, you do not deserve
from Justice. And in return you laugh at your Admirers, tho' they have
not Hands, Feet, nor Voice enough to applaud you. Is this Justice? Is
this Gratitude?----Oh! if they ever should find you out! My beloved
Singers, tho' the Abuses of your _Cadences_ are of use to you, they are
much more prejudicial to the Profession, and are the greatest Faults you
can commit; because at the same time you know yourselves to be in the
Wrong. For your own Sakes undeceive the World, and employ the rare
Talent you are endowed with on Things that are worthy of you. In the
mean while I will return with more Courage to my Opinions.

Sec. 7. I should be very desirous to[83] know, on what Foundation certain
_Moderns_ of Reputation, and great Name, do on the superior _Cadences_
always make the _Shake_ on the third in _Alt_ to the final Note; since
the _Shake_ (which ought to be resolved) cannot be so in this Case, by
reason of that very third, which being the sixth of the Bass hinders it,
and the _Cadence_ remains without a Resolution. If they should go so far
as to imagine, that the best Rules depended on the _Mode_, I should
notwithstanding think, they might sometimes appeal to the Ear, to know
if That was satisfied with a _Shake_ beaten with the seventh and the
sixth on a Bass which makes the _Cadence_; and I am sure it would
answer. No. From the Rules of the _Ancients_ we learn, that the _Shake_
is to be prepared on the sixth of the Bass, that after it the fifth may
be heard, for that is its proper Place.

Sec. 8. Some others of the same Rank make their _Cadences_ in the Manner of
the Basses, which is, in falling a fifth, with a Passage of Swift Notes
descending gradually, supposing that by this Means they cover the
_Octaves_, which, tho' disguised, will still appear.

Sec. 9. I hold it also for certain, that no Professor of the first Rank, in
any _Cadence_ whatsoever, can be allowed to make _Shakes_, or
_Divisions_, on the last Syllables but one of these
Words,--_Confondero_--_Amero_, &c. for they are Ornaments that do not
suit on those Syllables which are short, but do well on the
Antecedent.[84]

Sec. 10. Very many of the second Class end the inferior _Cadences_ in the
_French_ Manner without a _Shake_[85], either for want of Ability to
make one, or from its being easy to copy them, or from their Desire of
finding out something that may in Appearance support the name of
_Modern_. But in Fact they are mistaken; f