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Piping: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most excellent music.— H. iii. 2.

Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass: and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played upon than a pipe?— H. iii. 2.