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The Fool’s song which forms the Epilogue to Twelfth Night is still sung on the stage to this tune. It has no other authority than theatrical tradition. A song of the same description, and with the same burden, is sung by the Fool in King Lear, act iii., sc. 2—

The following is the song in Twelfth Night:—