io has 'a sonnet that
will serve the turn,' so they sing 'Who is Silvia.'

Here is the passage, which is full of quibbles on musical terms.

_Two Gent._ IV, ii, 16.

_Proteus._ ... 'Now must we to her window,
And give _some evening music to her ear_.'

L. 24.

_Thu._ ... Now, gentlemen,
_Let's tune._

L. 28.

_Host_ (to Julia, in boy's clothes). I'll bring you where
you shall _hear music_, and see the gentleman that you ask'd
for.

_Jul._ But shall I _hear him speak_?

_Host._ Ay, that you shall.

_Jul._ _That will be music._

L. 54.

_Host._ How do you, man? (_i.e._, Julia) the _music likes
you not_.

_Jul._ You mistake: the _musician_ (_i.e._, Proteus) _likes
me not_.

_Host._ Why, my pretty youth?

_Jul._ He _plays false_, father.

_Host._ How? _out of tune on the strings_?

_Jul._ Not so; but yet _so false_, that he grieves my very
_heart-strings_.

_Host._ You have a _quick ear_.

_Jul._ Ay; I would I were deaf! it makes me have a _slow
heart_.

_Host._ I perceive, _you delight not in music_.

_Jul._ Not a whit, when it _jars_ so.

_Host._ Hark! what fine _change_ is in the music.

_Jul._ Ay, that _change_ (Proteus' unfaithfulness) is the
spite.

_Host_ (misunderstanding again). You would have them
_always_ play but _one thing_?

_Jul._ I would always have _one_ (Proteus) play but one
thing.

L. 85.

_Silvia_ (from window). 'I thank you for your music,
gentlemen.'

The next passage is of a serenade in the early morning. Cloten
arranges for the musicians (who seem in this case to be professional
players) to give two pieces, one instrumental, followed by a song.

_Cymbeline_ II, iii, 11. Cloten serenades Imogen.

_Cloten._ I would this _music would come_. I am advised to
give her _music o' mornings_; they say, it will penetrate.

_Enter Musicians._

Come on: _tune_. If you can penetrate her with your
_fingering_, so; we'll try with _tongue_ too: ... _First_, a
very excellent good-conceited thing; _after_, a wonderful
sweet air, with admirable rich words to it,--_and then_ let
her consider.

[The musicians perform 'Hark! hark! the lark.']

So, get you gone. If this penetrate, I will consider your
_music the better_; if it