And his own natural impulse, urged him to it.

They have been wandering half-a-dozen years.

FIRST MUSICIAN.

And yet old men are jealous.

FERGUS [coming from door].

Sing the more sweetly

Because, though age is arid as a bone,

This man has flowered. I’ve need of music, too;

If this gray head would suffer no reproach,

I’d dance and sing—and dance till the hour ran out,