The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #80962   Message #1480122
Posted By: Bill D
07-May-05 - 02:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: How musicians do it
Subject: RE: BS: How musicians do it
from:Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy IV, 94: 'The Wanton Trick'.        
Author:        Thomas D'Urfey

"The string of his viol
She put to the trial,
Till she had the full length of the stick;
Her white bellied lute
She set to his flute,
Oh, 'tis but a wanton trick.

Thus she with her lute
And he with his flute,
Held every crotchet and prick;
She learnéd at leisure
Yet payed for the pleasure,
Oh, 'tis but a wanton trick.

............

You maids that make trial
Of a lute or a viol,
Take care how you handle the stick,
If you like not this order,
Come try my recorder,
Oh, 'tis but a wanton trick."