Tell me where is fancy bred (Frederick St. John Lacy)

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• (Posted 2023-11-06)  CPDL #77020:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-06).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 372 kB   Copyright: Personal

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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

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