John Dowland Quotes

John Dowland was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep", "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and with the 20th century's early music revival, has been a continuing source of repertoire for lutenists and classical guitarists. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. January 1563 – 1626
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Famous John Dowland Quotes

“My favourite musician happens to be the same as Shakespeare's: John Dowland. His songs are sorrowful but heal the soul by their sweetness and courage.”

Robert Graves, letter to Idries Shah, September 6, 1968; published in Between Moon and Moon: Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1946-1972, (1984), p. 272.
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“Always Dowland, always sorrowful.”
Semper Dowland semper dolens.

Title of a pavan in Lachrimae, or Seven Tears (1604).

“He was the rarest musician that his age did behold; having travelled beyond the seas, and compounded English with foreign skill in that faculty.”

Thomas Fuller The History of the Worthies of England ([1662] 1840), vol. 2, p. 426.
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“True love cannot be changed,
Though delight from desert
Be estranged.
Farewell, farewell
But yet or ere I part (O cruel),
Kiss me sweet, kiss me sweet my jewel.”

"Wilt thou unkind thus reave me of my heart", line 25, The First Book of Songs (1597).

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