THE FOOD OF LOVE seconda serie,

titolo Date WrittenDate RangeFirst Published (conjectures of the best editors) (composition/performance) Love's Labor's Lost1593? Two Gentlemen of Verona 1593? A Midsummer Night's Dream Romeo and Juliet1595? ottobre 2011

HERMIA a LYSANDER (3.2, ) the eye The ear more quick of apprehension makes It pays the hearing double recompense Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes; Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense, It pays the hearing double recompense. Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found; Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound But why unkindly didst thou leave me so? TITANIA (4.1,27-29) some music What, wilt thou hear some music, my sweet love? BOTTOM a reasonable good ear in music the tongs and the bones I have a reasonable good ear in music. Let's have the tongs and the bones. da confrontare con THESEUS (4.1, 106 e segg.) the music of my hounds My love shall hear the music of my hounds

musica Tradurre la musica di MND 1) HELENA a HERMIA (1.1, ) sweet air tuneable My ear should catch your voice your tongue's sweet melody Your eyes are lode-stars; and your tongue's sweet air More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear, When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear. Sickness is catching: O, were favour so, Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go; My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye, My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody. 2) HELENA a HERMIA (3.2, ) Both warbling of one song, both in one key We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds, Had been incorporate.

The Fairies sing (2.2, 8-23) FIRST FAIRY You spotted snakes with double tongue, Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong, Come not near our fairy queen. CHORUS Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby: Never harm, Nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So, good night, with lullaby. FIRST FAIRY Weaving spiders, come not here; Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence! Beetles black, approach not near; Worm nor snail, do no offence. CHORUS Philomel, with melody, & c.