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Show WHEN ENGLAND WAS ""MERRY ENGLAND." (Maurice Francis Egan in the Catholic University Bulletin.) Shakespeare's time was the most musical mu-sical that England ever knew. The lute and the spinnet were everywhere; the madrigal and the o-w c .. , o.v.v. v lunimun mat at any moment in the day voices were ready to join in them, "it was the P.. man." George Brandes says "who Sr Jand. Spinnets stood in the harheX tefr USe 0f tomers waking their turn." Music trieri t,-. 1,1, with the Restoration! we fel iJn aPn?pnate devotion of both Ev lyn and Pepys, to the partsongs but It had gone out of the everv dav e.,,ui " or a people who. after a while heard safari' an exotic in a ebenfre the, formation and for the EUzaStkn" En,and Eng. All the lvrie han dramatists break into the lyric strain, with more or less uc. teeLlVnTtlS t0 the eness of their nd their ear' 7ohn Addington "Sadedn8 that the lvric e'emen" EzraVbaethdanaIagPeCi .f nteddeadnnotVetoSCk01 serl and othr ia2 t know the melodies of ands- Every nouse had its lute cnlnded ,0n the Parlor wall. In every company o men and women part-songs exprVsseTo are. th? foremost ric ftt Is time- was tne most iy- ncal-the most songful-of all its writ- the 0ld days at Stratford, in the homely country lanes and fields he had fS?,erThP,f ie matrial for 'h' t hi ,. The folk-sons heard at twilight the glimpse of the spot in the chalice dyinga7ofiPthike VrP,0f Wood. tS herdf win tl - madrlaI as the shep-thl shep-thl Li f nt..their way to the shearing -all of tuZTt8' yet most WW" an of thes had become parts of his theTh Iife',and about them wSndid dances f the.S,ees.and rustic |