A “voice ever soft, gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman.” (Shakespeare: King Lear, v. 3.)
“It is her voice that he hears prevailing over the those [sic] of the rest of the company, … for she has not Cordelia’s gift.”—Miss Broughton: Dr. Cupid.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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