...account I well may give, And in the Stocks avouch it. William Shakefpeare ORPHEUS WITH HIS LUTE ORPHEUS with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that...care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die. William ShakeSpeare HARK, HARK! THE LARK HARK, hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus...

...of the Psalms to Protestant poets in England. 10 Conclusion: The Tempered Music of Orpheus Orpheus with his lute made trees. And the mountain tops that...care and grief of heart. Fall asleep, or hearing die. — King Henry VIII (3.1.3-14) We are now finally ready to answer Samuel Johnson's complaint about...

...music, plants and flowers Ever sprung, as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Everything that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea,...care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die. SHAKESPEARE Hymen had been called to bless with his presence the nuptials of Orpheus with Eurydice;...

...Blake had "written out, as prose, the six lines of Shakespearean rhymed verse which begin, 'Orpheus with his lute made trees' ['/ And the mountain tops...sun and showers / There had made a lasting spring.' (Henry VII Ill.i)]" (Rossetti 123). This manuscript offers further evidence of an extraordinary concern...

...music, plants and flowers Ever sprung, as0 sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Everything that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea,...care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die. O14 Francis Bacon, from The Wisdom of the Ancients, 1609. Trans, from Latin by Sir Arthur Gorges, 16190...

...plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Da dum de de dum. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows...care and grief of heart Fall asleep or, hearing, die. Da dum de de dum."4 (The bugle, snare drum and french horn take over, reaching a crescendo as the lights...

...recognize still more Monteverdi's remarkable achievement as a man of the theatre. 5 Orfeo (1607) Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that...care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die. (Shakespeare, Henry Vili, III.1) Treating Monteverdi's operas and related works as being of and for...

...Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again. Caliban — Tempest IIIM Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that...of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In such sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die. Women —...

...Orpheus and the power of his art to order a disorderly world, to stop time and remake nature : Orpheus with his lute made trees. And the mountain tops that...as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. (3,1.3-8) This is an art that coerces reality, changing it virtually by force: the art of Peele when...

...music won response from 'trees', and was like 'sun and showers' to make 'a lasting spring' : Everything that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea,...care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die. (HI. i. 9) A clear sea-grief association; and a vivid music-tragedy contrast. Queen Katharine speaks...