Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] / Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age

by Nathan Drake

Nothing, indeed, can be more appropriately wild than the imagery of the ensuing song, which arrests the ear of Ferdinand whilst he is uttering his astonishment at the previous melody:—

"Where should this musick be? i' the air, or the earth?

It sounds no more:——Sitting on a bank,

Weeping again the king my father's wreck,

This musick crept by me upon the waters;

Allaying both their fury, and my passion,

With it's sweet air: thence I have follow'd it,

Or it hath drawn me rather:—But 'tis gone.

No, it begins again."

"Full fathom five thy father lies;