Page:Shakespeare and Music.djvu/124

110 they had not used it since their mother died. The song, or more properly, duet, which they sing directly after, in memory of Imogen, may be taken in this connection. Unfortunately there seems to be no musical setting of 'Fear no more the heat o' the sun' any older than 1740.

In the following quotation 'dirges' are mentioned by name.

Rom. $4⁄4, 21$.

Sc. v. 84.

In close connection with these funeral songs is the passage in ''Hen. VIII.'' $4⁄2, 77$, where Queen Katherine, sick, requests her gentleman-usher to get the musicians to play a favourite piece of this class—