Note to A Midsummer's Night Dream, 5.1.52-53: "The thrice three Muses mourning for the death / Of Learning, late deceased in beggary."


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The thrice three Muses mourning for the death / Of Learning, late deceased in beggary: Perhaps a topical allusion to Spenser's Tears of the Muses, 1591, a lament about the low estate of learning and the creative arts, but such laments were commonplace at the time.