Richard John Samuel Stevens
(1757 - 1837)

Tell me where is fancy bred
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Published in Stevens' collection of glees, Op. 3.
Lyrics: William Shakespeare

Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?
How begot, how nourished?

It is engender'd in the eyes
With gazing fed; and fancy dies
In the cradle, where it lies.

Let us all sing fancy's knell:
I'll begin it - ding, dong, bell.