[The musicians perform 'Hark! hark! the lark.']
So, get you gone. If this penetrate, I will consider your
_music the better_; if it do not, it is a vice in _her
ears_, which _horse-hairs_, and _calves'-guts_, ... can
never amend.
In l. 14, 'fingering' and 'tongue' correspond to 'playing' and
'singing.' The first is to be a 'Fancy' for viols, 'a very excellent
good-conceited thing'; the second is the 'wonderful sweet air,' Hark!
hark! the lark.
'Good-conceited' means having many 'conceits.' These 'fancies' were
always contrapuntal, and the various artificial contrivances,
answering of points, imitations, and what not, are referred to under
this title. The mention of 'horse-hairs and calves'-guts' makes it
clear that the instruments in this 'morning music' were Viols.
Another 'evening music' is provided by Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
_Pericles_ II, v, 24. Pericles, a musician [his education had been 'in
_arts_ and arms,' see II, iii, 82].
_Per._ All fortune to the good Simonides!
_Sim._ To you as much, sir! _I am beholding to you
For your sweet music this last night_: I do
Protest, my ears were never better fed
With such _delightful pleasing harmony_.
_Per._ It is your grace's pleasure to commend,
Not my desert.
_Sim._ Sir, _you are music's master_.
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