uke, disguised as a friar
(after Song).

_Mariana._ I cry you mercy, sir; and well could wish
You had not found me here _so musical_:
Let me excuse me, and believe me so,
My _mirth it much displeased_, but _pleas'd my woe_.

_Duke._ 'Tis good: though _music oft hath such a charm,
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm_.

_Merchant_ V, i, 66. Enter musicians.

_Lor._ Come ho! and wake Diana with a _hymn_:
With sweetest _touches_ pierce your mistress' ear,
And draw her home _with music_.

[Music.

_Jessica._ I am _never merry when I hear sweet music_.

_Lor._ The reason is, _your spirits are attentive_.
For ... _colts_,

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_If they but hear_ perchance _a trumpet_ sound,
Or any _air of music touch their ears_,
You shall perceive them make a _mutual stand_,
Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze.
_By the sweet power of music_: therefore, the poet
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods:
Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage,
But _music for the time doth change his nature.
The man that hath no music in himself_,
Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
_Let no such man be trusted._--Mark the music.

L. 97. Portia and Nerissa.

_Por._ ... _Music! hark!_

_Ner._ It is your music, madam, _of the house._

_Por._ Nothing is good, I see, without respect.
Methinks, _it sounds much sweeter than by day_.

_Ner._ _Silence_ bestows that virtue on it, madam.

_Por._ The _crow_ doth sing as sweetly as the _lark,
When neither is attended_; and I think,
The _nightingale_, if she should sing _by day_,
When every goose is cackling, _would be thought
No better a musician than the wren_.
How many things _by season_ season'd are
To their right praise, and true perfection.

Here is an example of a superstitious meaning attaching to supposed
mysterious music.

There are very few cases of this kind in Shakespeare--_i.e._, where
the music of the stage is an integral part of the drama.

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