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TECHNICAL TERMS
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Talbot (of Salisbury dying).
'He beckons with his hand, and smiles on me,
As who should say, "When I am dead and gone,
Remember to avenge me on the French,"—
Plantagenet, I will; and like thee, Nero,
Play on the lute,
beholding the towns burn.'

Hen. 4. A. 3/1, 206, Mortimer to Lady Mortimer.

Mort. … for thy tongue
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
With ravishing division, to her lute.

For 'ravishing division,' see the remarks on the third of the foregoing passages, the speech of Juliet about the lark's song [ p. 28].

The Lute leads us quite easily from Musical Instruments and Technical Terms to the second division.