...Let her play or sing with feeling, and the heart of the listener would respond. " Nought so stockist, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath not music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems,...

...the illustrations of this most beautiful scene. Lorenzo has observed — Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature, and this might open the whole question of the effect of musick on irrational animals, and the margins...

...Therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods, Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change its nature. The man that hath no music in himself, JVor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds,...

...therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods, Since naught so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. (5.1. 79ff.) What is suggestive about Lorenzo's otherwise unsurprising allusion is 142 the quasi-philosophical...

...order and the equable balance of human temperament, as in Merchant 5.1.81-8 - 'naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage ! But music for the time doth change his nature. I The man that hath no music in himself, I Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, I Is fit...

...therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. [Vi71-82] "But O ere long," the Spirit says, Too well I did perceive it was the voice Of my most honour'd...

...Therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since naught so stockish, hard and full of rage But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils,...

...therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, strategems, and spoils;...

...therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods; Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;...

...power of music. Orpheus could even get "trees, stones and floods" dancing, Since naught so stockish, hard and full of rage But music for the time doth change his nature. Since even brute nature succumbs to the divine order made explicit in music, the only thing that can...