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Excerpt from Middlesex Hertfordshire Notes and Queries, Vol. 2 Amphitryon, by Dryden, who says in the introduction, We have at length found an Englishman equal with the best abroad, and wrote for Purcell in the following year what proved to be his dramatic masterpiece, King Arthur, which contains, besides other still well-known airs, the spirited tenor song and chorus, Come if you dare. In 1692 Purcell produced music to eight or nine plays, including The Indian Queen, with the recitative Ye twice ten hundred deities, described by Burney as perhaps the best piece of recitative in our language, and the beautiful rondo, I attempt from love's sickness to fly. Among other compositions of this year was Sir Charles Sedley's Ode for the Queen's Birthday, beginning Love's goddess, in which Purcell introduces the air of the popular but not very proper song. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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