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Orpheus with his lute. Roffe gives it sixteen settings, and _A List of all the Songs, etc._, twenty-two; the latter boldly states,
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By John Fletcher. Act iii., Scene 1 is part of the Fletcher portion of _Henry VIII_.
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Shakespeare wrote only 1168-½ of the 2822 lines of the play; the rest are Fletcher's.
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Come live with me (_Merry Wives_) has been set, according to Roffe, sixteen times, and according to the
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List eighteen--the words being quoted from Kit Marlowe.
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The Willow song from _Othello_ (Roffe six and the
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List
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List, and think it only fair to give an account of it. It was published for
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The New Shakespeare Society, and compiled by J. Greenhill, the {166} Rev. W. A. Harrison, and F. J. Furnivall; but unfortunately it was published in 1884, and has not been brought up to date. Here one may find that composers were not content with juggling and altering Shakespeare's perfect lyrics, but chose chunks of blank verse and snippets of sonnets to set, for no earthly purpose that I can see. Some of the composers' selections are quite incomprehensible. Why +R. J. Stevens+ should have chosen Prospero's magnificent lines, beginning
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The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces,
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Oh, never say that I was false of heart (lines 1-4 and 13-14), or Sonnet 29,
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When in disgrace with fortune