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plnter Ilusicians . ) Come , ho , and wake Diana with a hymn , With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear , And draw her home with music . Again , we have the serenade in " Oymbeline " ( act ii ., scene 3 ) , where

Cloten makes love to Imogen : — I would this music would come : I am advis'd to give her music o' mornings ; they say it will penetrate . ( Enter Musicians . ) Come on ; time : If you can penetrate her ivith you fingering , so , we'll try with tongue too . If none will do , let her remain ; but I'll never give o ' er . First , a very excellent , good , conceited , tiling ; after , a wonderful sweet air , with admirable rich words to it—and then let her consider .

Soxo . Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven ' s gate sings , And Phoebus 'gins arise , His steeds to ivater at those springs On chalic'd flowers that lies . And -winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes , With everything that pretty bin : My lady sweet , arise ; Arise , arise .

So , get you gone : if this penetrate I will consider your music the better . He afterwards says in answer to the King , her father : ¦—I have assailed her with music , but she vonchaafes no notice . The play of "Romeo ancl Juliet" is a musical love poem from beginning to end , where : Silver siveet sound lover ' s tongues bniht

y g , Like softest music to attending ears . ancl they constantly : let rich music ' s tongue Unfold the imagined happiness that both Eeceive in either , by their " dear encounters . "

Ophelia too , in her bewailing soliloquy in "Hamlet" ( act iii ., scene 1 ) , expresses the same thought when she confesses herself of ladies most deject and wretched , That suck'd the honey of his music vows . These extracts are only a tithe from the rich stores of the poets who prove the sweet bond of sympathbetween music ancl love . After our somewhat

y lengthy dissertation , however , or rather digression , it is almost time to exclaim Revenons a nos moutons , or the reader will be getting impatient . But " gentle reader , " remember what original Lawrence Sterne says , which may even apply to our pages : " Digressions are incontestably the sunshine , they are the life , the soul of reading . " After that we will resume . But this , like the last , is essentially a musical chapter , though of a somewhat different cast .

As we have already noticed , Arthur Humberton had much " music in himself , " and , therefore , " the motions of his spirit" were not quite as " dull as night , " nor "his affections dark as Erebus , " for he loved a fair-haired , innocent beauty , and was trusted in return . He often had sweet communion with his church organ , ancl rolled forth its harmonies into the noble building , whose Gothic arches trembled with their sweetness , ancl echoed in unison ; anon the music swelled out in fascinating fugues , rapidly interweaving , entwining , ancl repeating ; intoxicating in their delicious melody ; saturating the atmo-