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  • As arts and sciences, so physic is still perfected amongst the rest; Horae musarum nutrices, and experience teacheth us every day [4180] many things which our predecessors knew not of.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [761] Felix Platerus is of opinion all alchemists are mad, out of their wits; [762] Atheneus saith as much of fiddlers, et musarum luscinias, [763] Musicians, omnes tibicines insaniunt, ubi semel efflant, avolat illico mens, in comes music at one ear, out goes wit at another.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • _Musarum Lachrymæ_ with _Flebo amorem meum etiam musarum lachrymis_; which, to give it his due, was a more collachrymate wretched Treatise than my _Piers Penniless_, being the pitifulest pangs that ever any man's Muse breathed forth.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • There, all men who, like us, are fond of the same pursuits, the same studies, deliciae musarum, hum! hum!

    Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • &c. soli musarum mystae tam negligentes sunt, ut instrumentum illud quo mundum universum metiri solent, spiritum scilicet, penitus negligere videantur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Sed nolo diutius hanc movere sentinam, hinc illae lachrymae, lugubris musarum habitus, [2101] hinc ipsa religio (quod cum

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • "Marlovius (Christopherus), quondam in academia Cantabrigiensi musarum alumnus; postea actor scenicus; deinde poeta dramaticus tragicus, paucis inferior

    The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage Christopher Marlowe 1578

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