'Where the Bee Sucks'

ARIEL (Ellen Hargis):
Where the bee sucks, there suck I.
In a cowslip’s bell I lie.
There I couch when owls do cry.
On a bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now.
Under the blossom that hangs on the bow.
—Act V, scene i

Ellen Hargis, soprano
Scott Reiss, recorder
Robert Eisenstein, viol
Christopher Kendall, lute

Recorded at the Hirschhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, by Curt Wittig with the assistance of Antonino d’Urzo.

From The Tempest, Folger Consort, © 2000 Bard Records