Tell me where is fancy bred (Frederick St. John Lacy)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-06). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 372 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Tell me where is fancy bred
Composer: Frederick St. John Lacy
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1891 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: Six Part-songs, Op. 7 No. 3
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Original text and translations
English text
Tell me where is Fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?
How begot, how nourishèd?
Reply, reply.
It is engender’d in the eyes,
With gazing fed; and Fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.
Let us all ring Fancy’s knell:
I’ll begin it,
Ding, dong, bell.
Merchant of Venice
Act 3, Scene 2