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<p style="color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The theme is drawn from <em>The Catch Club or Merry Companions being a Choice Collection of the most Diverting Catches for three and Four voices Compos'd by the late Mr. Henry Purcell, Dr. Blow &amp; c. </em>The text for this round <a name="1" href="http://www.bachlund.org/Fancy_on_a_Catch_of_Henry_Purcell.htm#1a">[ 1 ]</a> reads: "When <em>V</em> and <em>I</em>together meet we make up <em>6</em> in House or Street yet<em> I</em> and <em>V</em> may met once more and then we <em>2</em> can make but <em>4</em> but when that <em>V</em> from <em>I</em> am gone alas poor<em> I</em> can make but one."</span></p>
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<p style="color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The catch is highly decorated, with additional rests inserted to make short phrases from the longer lined theme. An introduction hints at one possible meaning of the text with its mixture of Roman and Arabic numerals alongside the final, written-out "one." The catch though disguised by ornamentation is stated in its complete form before breaking from it. A final stirring cadence ends with the Tierce de Picardy, distinguishing <em>I</em> from "one."</span></p>
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