Also _Id._ III, ii, 119.
Stephano, like most of the scamps in Shakespeare, is a good musician.
He leads the catch, appreciates Ariel's tabor playing (l. 152), and is
overjoyed to think that he will have all his music 'for nothing' (l.
145) in the magical isle.
Finally, in the _Taming of the Shrew_, we have the title of another
old catch, of which the music has survived--viz., 'Jack, boy.'
_Shrew_ IV, i, 42.
_Curtis._ Therefore, good Grumio, the _news_.
_Grumio._ Why, "_Jack, boy! ho, boy!_" and as much _news_ as
thou wilt.
The words of this catch, which takes four voices, are--
'Jack, boy, ho! boy, news;
The cat is in the well,
Let us ring now for her knell,
Ding, dong, ding, dong, bell.'
The music [see Appendix], like that of so many other catches, is
anonymous, and is of some date long before Shakespeare.
_As You_ V, iii, 7.
_Touchstone._ By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and a
_song_.
_2 Page._ We are for you; sit i' the middle.
_1 Page._ Shall we _clap into 't roundly, without hawking,
or spitting_, or _saying we are hoarse_, which are the _only
prologues to a bad voice_?
_2 Page._ I' faith, i' faith; and _both in a tune_, like two
gipsies on a horse.
[Song follows, 'It was a lover.' Could be sung as a _two_-part
madrigal quite easily. See Bridge's 'Shakespeare Songs,' for Morley's
original setting.
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