<P> In 1942, Gerald Finzi set the songs "O Mistress Mine" (Act II, Scene 3) and "Come Away, Come Away, Death" (Act II, Scene 4) to music as part of his song cycle on Shakespearean texts Let Us Garlands Bring . </P> <P> Roger Quilter set "O Mistress Mine" and "Come Away, Come Away, Death" in his Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6 . </P> <P> Swedish composer Sven - Eric Johanson's song cycle for mixed chorus and piano "Fancies I" includes a setting in waltz time of "O Mistress Mine" (1974). </P> <P> The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard opens his book Philosophical Fragments with the quote "Better well hanged than ill wed" which is a paraphrase of Feste's comment to Maria in Act 1, Scene 5: "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage". Nietzsche also refers passingly to Twelfth Night (specifically, to Sir Andrew Aguecheek's suspicion, expressed in Act 1, Scene 3, that his excessive intake of beef is having an inverse effect on his wit) in the third essay of his Genealogy of Morality . </P>

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