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be totally unlike it But by a most extraordi-nary coincidence at folio 98 he lighted upon the Galliard already discussed, which bore a slight likeness to the melody. Clark, however, not content with this discovery, must needs be putting in some sharps to make the resem-blance more striking and perhaps convincing. He also tried to make out that the " ayre" at folio 96 was a second part or continuation of the one called " God Save the King" at folio 56. Clark's misdirected efforts were soon detected, and Dr. Bull's mutilated melody ceased to be seriously taken into account as providing even the basis of " God Save the King" except by one or two credulous writers. The matter was hotly discussed in " The Times" so far back as February, 1827, when the partisans of Clark's claim for Dr. Bull brought much influence to bear in his favour. Dr. Pepusch, who pretended to have a great liking for Dr. Bull's music, col-lected over two hundred of his compositions, but Dr. Burney says that Dr. Pepusch's fancy for Bull's works rather proved that the doctor's taste was bad than that Bull's compositions were good. And he adds, " they may be heard by a lover of music with as little emotion as the clapper of a mill or the rumbling of a post chaise." There is no likelihood of Carey's
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