sake, _to make no more noise with it_.

_1 Mus._ Well, sir, we will not.

_Clo._ If you have _any music that may not be heard_, to't
again; but, as they say, to _hear_ music the general does
not greatly care.

_1 Mus._ _We have none such_, sir.

_Clo._ Then _put up your pipes in your bag_, for I'll away.
Go; vanish into air, away!

Pandarus appears to be a capital musician. In the following we find
him questioning a musical servant of Priam's palace about some
instrumental music which is going on within, 'at the request of
Paris.' The servant amuses himself by giving 'cross' answers to
Pandarus' crooked questions, and in the process gets out two or three
musical jokes--_e.g._, '_partly_ know,' 'music _in parts_,' '_wholly_,
sir.' Further on, Paris also plays on the term 'broken' music.

_Troilus and Cressida_ III, i, 19.

_Pandarus._ What music is this?

_Servant._ I do but _partly_ know, sir; it is _music in
parts_.

_Pandarus._ Know you the _musicians_?

_Serv._ _Wholly_, sir.

_Pan._ Who play they to?

_Serv._ To the hearers, sir.

_Pan._ At whose pleasure, friend?

_Serv._ At mine, sir, and _theirs that love music_.

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L. 52.

_Pan._ Fair prince, here is _good broken music_.

_Paris._ _You_ have _broke_ it, cousin; and, by my life, you
shall make it whole again: you shall _piece_ it out with a
_piece_ of your performance. [To _Helen_] Nell, he
[_Pandarus_] is _full of harmony_.

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L. 95.

_Pan._ ... Come, _give me an instrument_. [And at Helen's
request, Pandarus sings, 'Love, love, nothing but love.']

The custom of having instrumental music in taverns has already been
referred to in the Introduction, near the end, where we learn that the
charge for playing before the guests was twenty shillings for two
hours in Shakespeare's time; also that a man could hardly go into a
public house of entertainment without being followed by two or three
itinerant musicians, who would either sing or play for his pleasure,
while he was at dinner. Accordingly, we find Sir John Falstaff
enjoying such a performance at the Boar's Head, Eastcheap.

_H. 4. B._ II, iv, 10.

_1 Drawer._ Why then, cover, and set them down: and see if
thou canst find out _Sneak's noise_; Mistress Tearsheet