On Sun, 4 May 2008, Greg Silverman wrote: > Dear all, > My wife has a recital coming up early next month. For one of her selections > is Jacob van Eyck's setting of > "Philis schoone Harderinne." She was able to get that Phyllis is a beautiful > something or other. Does anyone know what a > Harderinne is? (She thinks it may be a shepherdess, but has been unable to
Herderin in modern Dutch is indeed shepherdes. The "ne" at the end is an old form of the same; the "a" at the beginning I cannot place. A typo perhaps? Peter. > verify this.) > > Please to help! > > Thanks very much in advance! > > Greg-- > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > the next auto-quote is: In the last analysis, there are only atoms. There's just one science, Physics; everything else is social work. (James Watson) /\/\ Peter Nightingale Telephone (401) 874-5882 Department of Physics, East Hall Fax (401) 874-2380 University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881
