Robert Johnson II: Where the bee sucks
(The Tempest)
(Music in Shakespeare's time, Track 5)
Where the bee sucks there suck I:
In a cow-slip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On a bat's back I do fly
after summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
In a cow-slip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On a bat's back I do fly
after summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
background:Martin Droeshout, copper-engraving, Title-page of the 'First Folio' (1623).
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