60
SHAKESPEARE AND MUSIC
| Hor. | You'll leave his lecture, when I am in tune? |
| Luc. | That will be never: tune your instrument. |
Lucentio now goes on with his 'classics'; further on—
| Hor. | [Returning]. Madam, my instrument's in tune. |
| Bianca. | Let's hear. [Hor. plays.] O fie! the treble jars. |
| Luc. | Spit in the hole, man, and tune again. ••••••• |
| Hor. | Madam, 'tis now in tune. |
| Luc. | All but the base. |
| Hor. | The base is right; 'tis the base knave that jars. |
Hortensio now takes his place, and addresses the classical Lucentio—
L. 58.
| Hor. | You may go walk, and give me leave awhile: My lessons make no music in three parts. ••••••• |
L. 63.
| Hor. | Madam, before you touch the instrument, To learn the order of my fingering, I must begin with rudiments of art; To teach you gamut in a briefer sort. ••••••• |
| Bianca. | Why, I am past my gamut long ago. |
| Hor. | Yet read the gamut of Hortensio. |
The first of these three passages will be quite clear to the reader in the light of the remarks on the lute
