agger on
your pate. I will carry no _crotchets_: I'll _re_ you, I'll
_fa_ you. Do you _note_ me?

_1. Mus._ An you _re_ us, and _fa_ us, you _note_ US.

_2. Mus._ Pray you, put up your dagger, and put out your
wit.

_Peter._ Then have at you with my wit.... Answer me like
men:

_When griping grief the heart doth wound,
And_ DOLEFUL DUMPS _the mind oppress,
Then music with her silver sound--_

Why "silver sound"? why "music with her _silver_ sound"?
what say you, Simon _Catling_?

_1 Mus._ Marry, sir, because silver hath a _sweet sound_.

_Peter._ Pretty!--what say _you_, Hugh _Rebeck_?

_2 Mus._ I say--"silver sound" because musicians _sound for
silver_.

_Peter._ Pretty too!--what say _you_, James _Soundpost_?

_3 Mus._ 'Faith, I know not what to _say_.

_Peter._ O! I cry you mercy; you are the _singer_: I will
_say_ for you. It is--"music with her silver sound," because
musicians have no _gold_ for sounding:--

Then music with her _silver sound_
With speedy help doth lend redress.

[_Exit._

_1 Mus._ What a pestilent knave is this same!

_2 Mus._ Hang him, Jack! [Peter's names evidently all
wrong.] Come, we'll in here; tarry for the mourners, _and
stay dinner_.

[_Exeunt._]

The Hay, Hey, or Raye, seems to be mentioned only once--viz., in
_Love's Labour's Lost_, in the account of the preparations for the
Pageant of the Worthies. Constable Dull proposes to accompany the
dancing of the hay with a tabor, which may be taken as the common
practice. Holofernes says Dull's idea is 'most dull,' like himself.
The Hay was a Round country-dance--_i.e._, the performers stood in a
circle to begin with, and then (in the words of an old direction
quoted in Stainer and Barrett's Dict.) 'wind round _handing_ in
passing until you come to your places.' See the note on Arbeau's
Orchesographie for the steps and tune of the Haye.

Hawkins says (Hist. 705) that in an old comedy called the Rehearsal,
the Earth, the Sun, and Moon are made to dance the Hey to the tune of
Trenchmore, which is referred to in the above-quoted passage from
Selden, as a lively and even boisterous dance.

_L.L.L._ V, i, 148. Schoolmaster Holofernes & Co. arranging the
Pageant of the Nine Worthies.

_Dull._ I'll make one in a _dance_, or so; or I will _play_