Give me some music. Now good morrow, friends.
Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,
That old and [antic]1 song we heard last night.
Me thought it did relieve my passion much,
More than light airs and recollected terms
Of these most brisk and giddy-pacèd times.
Come, but one verse.

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¹ Fortner uses the modern spelling "antique"

Authorship:

• by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Twelfth Night: or, What You Will, Act II, Scene 4 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Wolfgang Fortner (1907 - 1987), "Motto", 1946, published 1947 [voice and piano], from Songs nach Texten von William Shakespeare mit Klavierbegleitung , no. 1, also set in German (Deutsch) [ sung text checked 1 time]

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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation possibly by Karl Georg Mantey FRE ; composed by Wolfgang Fortner.
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