If either of you both love Katharina […] / Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.

Their mynisters, be false bretherne or false sustern, stales of the deuyll.

Regardless of what one thinks of that Hollywoodish distortion of her life story, it did stimulate an interest in the late Lady Day, though one might speculate as to whether the effect would have been the same had the film starred someone other than Diana Ross, a reigning queen of pop culture.

Soldiers, break camp! We strike the city of Sardis at dawn!