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on your pate. I will carry no crotchets. I'll re you,

I'll fa you, do you note me? 149

1. Musician. And you re us and fa us you note us.

2. Musician. Pray you put up your dagger and
put out your wit. Then have at you with my wit.

Peter. I will dry-beat you with an iron wit and put
up my iron dagger. Answer me like men:

When griping griefs the heart doth wound, 155
〈And doleful dumps the mind oppress,〉 Then music with her silver sound--

Why 'silver sound'? Why 'music with her silver
sound'? What say you, Simon Catling?

1. Musician. Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet
sound. 161

Peter. Prates. What say you, Hugh Rebeck?

2. Musician. I say 'silver sound' because musicians
sound for silver.

Peter. Prates too. What say you, James Sound-

post? 166

3. Musician. Faith, I know not what to say.

Peter. O I cry you mercy, you are the singer. I will
'say' for you. It is 'music with her silver sound' be-

cause musicians have no gold for sounding. 170

--Then music with her silver sound With speedy help doth lend redress.

Exit.

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148 carry endure. crotchets whims (quibble on 'quarter notes').
148-9 re . . . fa you N. 149 note pay attention to. 150 note us
set us to music. 152 put out display. 155-7 When . . . sound N.
156 dumps sorrows. 159 Catling lute string of catgut. 162 Prates
the subject 'he' is understood. Rebeck three-stringed fiddle. 165
Sound-post peg supporting the body of a stringed instrument.
168 cry you mercy beg your pardon. 170 sounding playing

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Contributors: Richard Hosley - editor, William Shakespeare - author. Publisher: Yale University Press. Place of Publication: New Haven, CT. Publication Year: 1954. Page Number: 110.
    
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