If music be the food of love, play on.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.

Simple is the language of truth.

Simple is the language of truth.

Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple.

Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple.

That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

Behold of what delusive worth
The bubbles we pursue on earth,
The shapes we chase.

Behold of what delusive worth
The bubbles we pursue on earth,
The shapes we chase.

What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell.

What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell.

In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.

In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.

For washing his hands, none sels his lands.

For washing his hands, none sels his lands.