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1001 Merchant of Venice Jessica 5.1.68 I am never merry when I hear ^sweet music^. Iessi. I am neuer merry when I heare sweet musique. 2481 5.1.69 5.1.69 6.1.69
1002 Merchant of Venice Lorenzo 5.1.69 The reason is your spirits are attentive, | For do but note a wild and wanton herd | Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, | Fetching mad bounds, ^bellowing and neighing loud^, | Which is the hot condition of their blood, | If they but ^hear^ perchance a ^trumpet sound^, | Or any ^air of music touch their ears^, | You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, | Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze | By the ^sweet power of music^. Therefore the poet | Did feign that ^Orpheus^ drew trees, stones, and floods, | Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage | But ^music^ for the time doth change his nature. | The man that hath no ^music^ in himself, | Nor is not ^moved with concord of sweet sounds^, | Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. | The motions of his spirit are dull as night, | And his affections dark as Erebus. | Let no such man be trusted. Mark the ^music^. Lor. The reason is, your spirits are attentiue: | For doe but note a wilde and wanton heard | Or race of youthful and vnhandled colts, | Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, | Which is the hot condition of their bloud, | If they but heare perchance a trumpet sound, | Or any ayre of musicke touch their eares, | You shall perceiue them make a mutuall stand, | Their sauage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze, | By the sweet power of musicke: therefore the Poet | Did faine that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. | Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, | But musicke for time doth change his nature, | The man that hath no musicke in himselfe, | Nor is not moued with concord of sweet sounds, | Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoyles, | The motions of his spirit are dull as night, | And his affections darke as Erobus, | Let no such man be trusted: marke the musicke. 2483 …perchance but heare…musique for the time...dark as Terebus… 5.1.70 5.1.70 5.1.70 …to a modest gaze... …Orpheus dres teares… [F2, F3 and F4]
1003 Merchant of Venice Portia 5.1.96 ^Music, hark^ Por. musique, harke. 2511 5.1.97 --music -- hark! 5.1.97 5.1.97
1004 Merchant of Venice - - - SD Musicke. 2511 -
1005 Merchant of Venice Nerissa 5.1.97. It is your ^music^, madam, of the house. Ner. It is your musicke Madame of the house. 2512 …house? 5.1.98 5.1.98 5.1.98
1006 Merchant of Venice Portia 5.1.98 Nothing is good, I see, without respect. | Methinks it ^sounds much sweeter^ than by day. Por. Nothing is good I see without respect, | Methinkes it sounds much sweeter then by day? 2513 5.1.99 5.1.99 5.1.99
1007 Merchant of Venice Nerissa 5.1.100 ^Silence^ bestows that virtue on it, madam. Ner. Silence bestowes that vertue on it Madam. 2515 5.1.101 5.1.101 5.1.101
1008 Merchant of Venice Portia 5.1.101 The ^crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark^ | When neither is ^attended^, and I think | The ^nightingale^, if she should ^sing^ by day, | When every goose is cackling, would be thought | No better a ^musician^ than the wren. Por. The Crow doth sing as sweetly as the Larke | When neither is attended: and I thinke | The Nightingale if she should sing by day | When euery Goose is cackling, would be thought | No better a Musitian then the Wren? 2516 5.1.102 5.1.102 5.1.102
1009 Merchant of Venice SD 5.1.108. [^Music^ ceases] SD Musicke ceases. 2525 - 5.1.110 5.1.109 5.1.110
1010 Merchant of Venice SD 5.1.120. A ^tucket sounds^ SD A Tucket sounds. 2541 - 5.1.121 [A tucket sounds] 5.1.121 [A tucket sounds] 5.1.121 [A tucket sounds]