| Clo.
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Are these, I pray you, called wind-instruments?
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| 1 Mus.
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Ay, marry, are they, sir.
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*******
| Clo.
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… masters, here's money for you; and the
general so likes your music, that he desires you, for love's
sake, to make no more noise with it.
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| 1 Mus.
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Well, sir, we will not.
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| Clo.
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If you have any music that may not be heard, to 't
again; but, as they say, to hear music the general does
not greatly care.
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| 1 Mus.
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We have none such, sir.
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| Clo.
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Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll
away. Go; vanish into air, away!
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Pandarus appears to be a capital musician. In the following we find him questioning a musical servant of Priam's palace about some instrumental music which is going on within, 'at the request of Paris.' The servant amuses himself by giving 'cross' answers to Pandarus' crooked questions, and in the process gets out two or three musical jokes—e.g., 'partly know,' 'music in parts,' 'wholly, sir.' Further on, Paris also plays on the term 'broken' music.
Troilus and Cressida 3/1, 19.
| Pandarus.
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What music is this?
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| Servant.
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I do but partly know, sir; it is music in parts.
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| Pandarus.
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Know you the musicians?
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