On Nov 8, 2011, at 12:34 PM, [email protected] wrote: > But isn't it really just a pun by Purcell on "Apollo's lyre"?
Yes (and now that you mention it, I wonder if "lyre" and "lore" would have sounded more alike to Londoners in 1685 than they do to us), but a pun needs two expressions that each mean something. This doesn't mean that "Apollo's lore" had to be a common expression, but I think Philips would have expected her readers to understand what she meant by it. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
