First, it is a knowledge easily taught, and quickly learned, 
where there is a good master, and an apt scholar.
2   The exercise of singing is delightful to Nature, 
and good to preserve the health of man.
3 It doth strengthen all parts of the breast, 
and doth open the pipes.
4 It is a singularly good remedy for 
stuttering and stammering in the speech.
5 It is the best means to procure a perfect pronunciation, 
and to make a good Orator.
6 It is the only way to know where Nature has 
bestowed the benefit of a good voice: which gift is so 
rare, as there is not one among a thousand that has it: 
and, in many that excellent gift is lost, because they want 
art to express Nature.
7 There is not any Music of Instruments whatsoever, 
comparable to that which is made of the voices of 
men, where the voices are good, and the same well sorted 
and ordered.
8 The better the voice is, the meeter it is to honour 
and serve God therewith: and the voice of man is chiefly 
to be employed to that end.

Omnis spiritus laudet Dominum.

Since singing is so good a thing,
I wish all men would learn to sing'