Epigraph

for ‘Echoes by Two Writers’

THE DUKE.  A new song, sirrah!

FIRST MINSTREL.  New as is new bread,

Baked with the corn of yester-year, my lord:

 These fledglings of the nest will try their pipes,

And shrill it boldly in the same old tune

You hear on every woodland bough.

                                                    OLD SONG