Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
 William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609). copy citation

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Author William Shakespeare
Source Shakespeare's Sonnets
Topic music
Date 1609
Language English
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“Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day, The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are From his low tract, and look another way: So thou, thyself outgoing in thy noon: Unlook'd, on diest unless thou get a son. VIII Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly, Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy? If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear,” source

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