My Fair Lady (film) at Higgins' home, seeking lessons. Pickering is intrigued and offers to cover all the attendant expenses if Higgins succeeds. Higgins agrees, and describes how women ruin lives ("I'm an Ordinary Man"). Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle (Stanley Holloway), a dustman, learns of his daughter's new residence ("With a Little Bit of Luck"). He shows up at Higgins' house three days later, ostensibly to protect his daughter's virtue, but in reality simply to extract some money from Higgins, and is bought off with £5. Higgins is impressed by the man's honesty, his natural gift for language, and especially his brazen lack
I Saw My Lady Weepe I Saw My Lady Weepe "I Saw My Lady Weepe" is a lute song from "The Second Book of Songs" by Renaissance lutenist and composer John Dowland. It is the first song in the "Second Book" and is dedicated to Anthony Holborne. It is an example of Dowland's use of chromaticism. While composing "I Saw My Lady Weepe" , Dowland was influenced by what has been referred to as the "Elizabethan Melancholy" or "Cult of Darkness." Flow my tears, the song that follows it, and other songs in the "Second Booke" also show this influence. Robin Headlam Wells stated that