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Blood hath been shed ere now i' the olden time,
Ere humane statute purg'd the gentle weal;
Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd
Too terrible for the ear: the time has been,
That, when the brains were out, the man would
die,

And there an end; but now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
And push us from our stools: this is more strange
Than such a murder is.

Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 76.

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Music tells no truths.

BAILEY-Festus. Sc. A Village Feast.

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Rugged the breast that music cannot tame. J. C. BAMPFYLDE-Sonnet.

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(See also BRAMSTON)

If music and sweet poetry agree. BARNFIELD

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Sonnet.

Gayly the troubadour Touched his guitar.

THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY-Welcome Me Home.

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I'm saddest when I sing.

THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY-You think I have a merry heart.

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(See also ARTEMUS WARD)

God is its author, and not man; he laid
The key-note of all harmonies; he planned
All perfect combinations, and he made
Us so that we could hear and understand.
J. G. BRAINARD-Music.

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The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh

That filters through the forest, or the gush
That swells and sinks amid the branches high,—
'Tis all the music of the wind, and we

Let fancy float on this æolian breath.
J. G. BRAINARD-Music.

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"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast. JAMES BRAMSTON-Man of Taste. First line quoted from PRIOR.

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(See also BAMPFYLDE, CONGREVE, PRIOR)

And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE-Religio Medici. Pt. II. Sec. IX. Use of the phrase "Music of the Spheres" given by BISHOP MARTIN FOTHERBY-Athconastrix. P. 315. (Ed.

1622) Said by BISHOP JOHN WILKINSDiscovery of a New World. I. 42. (Ed. 1694) (See also BUTLER, BYRON, COWLEY, JOB, MILTON, MONTAIGNE, MOORE)

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Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
Making a poet out of a man.
The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-
For the reed that grows never more again
As a reed with the reeds of the river.

E. B. BROWNING-A Musical Instrument.

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Her voice, the music of the spheres,
So loud, it deafens mortals' ears;
As wise philosophers have thought,
And that's the cause we hear it not.
BUTLER-Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto I. L. 617.
(See also BROWNE)

1

MOUTH

Some asked me where the rubies grew,

And nothing I did say,

But with my finger pointed to

The lips of Julia.

10

for Magistrates. (1587) MALONE suggests that the Latin words appeared in the old Latin play by RICHARD EEDES-Epilogus Cæsaris Interfecti, given at Christ Church Oxford. (1582)

HERRICK-The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies.

of Pearls.

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The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.

GEO. CHAPMAN-The Widow's Tears. Act V. Sc. IV.

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Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.

CHAUCER Canterbury Tales. The Nonnes Preestes Tale. L. 15,058.

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Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime. DRYDEN-The Cock and the Fox. L. 285.

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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

GEORGE HENRY LEWES-Physiology of Common Life. Ch. XII.

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Absolutism tempered by assassination.

COUNT MÜNSTER, Hanoverian envoy at St. Petersburg, writing of the Russian Consti tution.

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Neque enim lex est æquior ulla,

Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

ÖVID-Ars Amatoria. I. 655.

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One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.-Princes were privileg'd To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Ah! why will kings forget that they are men, And men that they are brethren?

BISHOP PORTEUS-Death. L. 154. (See also YOUNG)

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Murder most foul, as in the best it is;

But this most foul, strange and unnatural. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 27.

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For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 622.

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He took my father grossly, full of bread;
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;
And how his audit stands who knows save

heaven?

Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 80.

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No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize. Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 7. L. 128.

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O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy.

Julius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 254.

1

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather

The multitudinous seas incardine,
Making the green one red.

Macbeth. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 60.

2

Blood hath been shed ere now i' the olden time,
Ere humane statute purg'd the gentle weal;
Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd
Too terrible for the ear: the time has been,
That, when the brains were out, the man would
die,

And there an end; but now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
And push us from our stools: this is more strange
Than such a murder is.

Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 76.

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(See also ARTEMUS WARD)

God is its author, and not man; he laid
The key-note of all harmonies; he planned
All perfect combinations, and he made
Us so that we could hear and understand.
J. G. BRAINARD Music.

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The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush
When wandering breezes touch them, and the
sigh

That filters through the forest, or the gush
That swells and sinks amid the branches high,—
"Tis all the music of the wind, and we
Let fancy float on this æolian breath.
J. G. BRAINARD-Music.

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"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast. JAMES BRAMSTON-Man of Taste. First line quoted from PRIOR.

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(See also BAMPFYLDE, CONGREVE, PRIOR)

And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE-Religio Medici. Pt. II. Sec. IX. Use of the phrase "Music of the Spheres" given by BISHOP MARTIN FOTHERBY-Athconastrix. P. 315. (Ed. 1622) Said by BISHOP JOHN WILKINS— Discovery of a New World. I. 42. (Ed. 1694) (See also BUTLER, BYRON, COWLEY, JOB, MILTON, MONTAIGNE, MOORE)

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Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
Making a poet out of a man.
The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain—
For the reed that grows never more again

As a reed with the reeds of the river.

E. B. BROWNING A Musical Instrument.

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Her voice, the music of the spheres,
So loud, it deafens mortals' ears;
As wise philosophers have thought,
And that's the cause we hear it not.
BUTLER-Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto I. L. 617.
(See also BROWNE)

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Water and air He for the Tenor chose,

Earth made the Base, the Treble Flame arose,
To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave,
To Saturn's string a touch more soft and grave.
The motions strait, and round, and swift, and
slow,

And short and long, were mixt and woven so,
Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall,
As made this decent measur'd Dance of all.
And this is Musick.

COWLEY-Davideis. Bk. I. P. 13. (1668)
(See also BROWNE)

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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

LAMB-A Chapter on Ears.

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A velvet flute-note fell down pleasantly,
Upon the bosom of that harmony,
And sailed and sailed incessantly,
As if a petal from a wild-rose blown
Had fluttered down upon that pool of tone,
And boatwise dropped o' the convex side
And floated down the glassy tide

And clarified and glorified

The solemn spaces where the shadows bide.
From the warm concave of that fluted note
Somewhat, half song, half odour forth did float
As if a rose might somehow be a throat.
SIDNEY LANIER-The Symphony.
(See also SHERMAN)

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Who, through long days of labor,
And nights devoid of ease,
Still heard in his soul the music
Of wonderful melodics.

LONGFELLOW-The Day is Done. St. 8.

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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. MILTON-Arcades. L. 68.

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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers? MILTON-Areopagitica.

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Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? MILTON-Comus. L. 244.

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