Shakespeare often made reference to the ears in his works.
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!”. – Julius Caesar
“But words are words; I never yet did hear, That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.” – Othello
http://journals.lww.com/thehearingjournal/Fulltext/2013/02001/Hear_and_There___On_Shakespeare,_Earworms,_and.3.aspx