• Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?

    William Shakespeare: Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?
    1593 Lucentio to Hortensio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 3, sc.1, l.9-12.