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L. 152.

Also Id. $3⁄2, 119$.

Stephano, like most of the scamps in Shakespeare, is a good musician. He leads the catch, appreciates Ariel's tabor playing (l. 152), and is overjoyed to think that he will have all his music 'for nothing' (l. 145) in the magical isle.

Finally, in the Taming of the Shrew, we have the title of another old catch, of which the music has survived—viz., 'Jack, boy.'

Shrew $4⁄1, 42$.

The words of this catch, which takes four voices, are—

The music [see ../Appendix/], like that of so many