indite

"Now will I pray meekly every discreet person that readeth or heareth this little treatise, to have my rude inditing for excused, and my superfluity of words, for two causes.

Those he wrote about Gerakov: 'Lectures for the corps inditing'...

She can have no longer any doubt about the letter; of that I am certain; for I told her my son Nightingale was ready to take his oath, if she pleased, that it was all his own invention, and the letter of his inditing. I told her the very reason of sending the letter ought to recommend you to her the more, as it was all upon her account, and a plain proof that you was resolved to quit all your profligacy for the future; that you had never been guilty of a single instance of infidelity to her since your seeing her in town: I am afraid I went too far there; but Heaven forgive me!

"He starved us when he had the sole superintendence of the provision department, before the committee was appointed; and he bored us with long lectures once a week, and with evening readings from books of his own inditing, about sudden deaths and judgments, which made us afraid to go to bed."

'If your more important avocations should admit of your ever tracing these imperfect characters thus far - which may be, or may not be, as circumstances arise - you will naturally inquire by what object am I influenced, then, in inditing the present missive?

One morning, about the beginning of November, while I was inditing some business letters, shortly after breakfast, Eliza Millward came to call upon my sister.

But my conscience smote me for having uttered a truth, even to aid a friend, and hastening back to Athens, I arrived behind the philosopher's chair as he was inditing the 'aulos.'"

None of them, I presume, had ever read a page of my inditing, or would have cared a fig the more for me if they had read them all; nor would it have mended the matter, in the least, had those same unprofitable pages been written with a pen like that of Burns or of Chaucer, each of whom was a Custom-House officer in his day, as well as I.

The concert will include favourite pieces from over the years, including Handel's 'My Heart is Inditing', Charpentier's 'Te Deum' and various well known opera arias and choruses.

The anthems will be The King Shall Rejoice, Zadok the Priest, Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened, and My Heart Is Inditing. Registration is at 10am with a performance from 5.30pm.

But worse, he realizes that not one of these men, among them "merchants and sea-captains"--members of that group to which his father had belonged--"ever read a page of my inditing, or would have cared a fig the more for me, if they had read them all." Abandoning the autobiographical first person, Nathaniel creates a third person narrator who judges his work to be "utterly devoid of significance," as is all that "he achieves, and all he aims at" (1:10, 26-27).

The choir and musicians will join forces again for Monteverdi's Beatus Vir and Purcell's opulent My Heart is Inditing, written for the coronation of James II in 1685.