Much Ado About Nothing, etc.

I've just finished reading Much Ado (how wonderful is it, by the way), and came across an interesting fact about the title while I was reading some of the notes: apparently "nothing" and "noting" (which means gossip or rumour) sounded the same in Early Modern English, so there's three puns in the title alone -- "nothing" as in no thing, "nothing" as in the Renaissance meaning of the word, and "noting", which most of the play revolves around.

And here are some songs from the Early Modern era, just because I felt like it, basically:

Pastime With Good Company: (Written by King Henry VIII himself, no less)

Now is the Month of Maying: (This song is surprisingly "inappropriate" if you pay attention to the lyrics, and "fa la la la" is apparently what songwriters used to put into the lyrics in those days if they were too liable to be censored, so those parts are left to one's imagination I suppose! Was there ever anything written in the Renaissance that wasn't laden with double entendres, I wonder.)

Enjoy!

-- Idil