By such a dazzle of old fabulous tales

That common things are lost, and all that’s strange

Is true because ’twere pity if it were not.

[Going to the door again.

Quick! quick! your instruments! they are coming now.

I hear the hoofs a-clatter. Begin that song;

But what is it to be? I’d have them hear

A music foaming up out of the house

Like wine out of a cup. Come now, a verse

Of some old time not worth remembering,