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 do not, it is a vice in her ears, which horse-hairs, and calves'-guts, ... can never amend.