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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2020
Most of us have had occasion to lament the indifference and self-satisfied ignorance of literary authors when writing of Music in their novels, or poetry, as the case may be. It is pleasant to turn away from the many glaring examples of this sort of thing which are to be found in the works of the xxth, xixth and xviiith centuries, and enjoy the contrast with the treatment of Music by some of the xviith century writers.
1 In the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, an old metal crucifix shows Christ's outstretched arms as the string of a Crossbow.Google Scholar
2 In illustration of George Herbert's rhyme of ‘key’ with ‘day’ the following may be of interest:
(1) Rev. W. Kingsley, of South Kilvington, Yorks, who died, aged 101, in 1916, always (in church) said grease' for ‘grace,’ but not so at home. See “Humphrey Clinker,” Smollett (d. 1771), in Win Jenkins’ letter about her conversion.
(2) Rev. Dr. Whiteside, of Scarborough (d. 1864), used to call his verger, Kay, quite distinctly ‘Key.’
(3) Also ‘quay’ is pronounced ‘Key’ to this day.
3 Robert Herrick makes the same rhyme in “His Prayer to Ben Jonson”: “When I, thy Herrick,…‥ offer my lyric.”Google Scholar