Midweek music spot: Arne's "Where the Bee Sucks, There Lurk I"

Puck's song from Shakespeare's "The Tempest" set to music by Thomas Arne and sung by Emma Kirkby. Three great artists with two centuries between each.

Where the bee sucks, there lurk I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back do I fly
After sunset merrily.

Merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.




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