Ermillo.
Già trafitto ha il mesto seno,
chi soccorso, o ciel, mi da?
In the second Sonate à Programme of Kuhnau this phrase must impress one with the depth of Saul's melancholy:[91]
Purcell,[92] in the "Orpheus brittanicus" (London, 1706) gives us still further examples of this character. Among others, "O let me weep" (Book I, p. 171),
