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Thread #22036   Message #237174
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
01-Jun-00 - 09:27 PM
Thread Name: Thought for the Day - June 1
Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - June 1
I've always taken "sweet airs" as, in the first place, about referring to music. An elaboration of the noises of which the isle is full.

Of course Shakespeare loved puns and wordplay, so he'd have had nothing against the phrase having a double meaning, I imagine.