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SHAKESPEARE AND MUSIC
| Pan. | Who play they to? |
| Serv. | To the hearers, sir. |
| Pan. | At whose pleasure, friend? |
| Serv. | At mine, sir, and theirs that love music. ••••••• |
L. 52.
| Pan. | Fair prince, here is good broken music. |
| Paris. | You have broke it, cousin; and, by my life, you shall make it whole again: you shall piece it out with a piece of your performance. [To Helen] Nell, he [Pandarus] is full of harmony. ••••••• |
L. 95.
| Pan. | … Come, give me an instrument. [And at Helen's request, Pandarus sings, 'Love, love, nothing but love.'] |
The custom of having instrumental music in taverns has already been referred to in the Introduction, near the end, where we learn that the charge for playing before the guests was twenty shillings for two hours in Shakespeare's time; also that a man could hardly go into a public house of entertainment without being followed by two or three itinerant musicians, who would either sing or play for his pleasure, while he was at dinner. Accordingly, we find Sir John Falstaff enjoying such a performance at the Boar's Head, Eastcheap.
