Thomas Campion Quotes

Thomas Campion was an English composer, poet, and physician. He wrote over a hundred lute songs, masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. February 1567 – 1. March 1620
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Famous Thomas Campion Quotes

“Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee,
When the ev'ning beams are set?”

Shall I Come, Sweet Love, to Thee?

“I care not for these ladies,
That must be wooed and prayed;
Give me kind Amaryllis,
The wanton country maid.
Nature art disdaineth;
Her beauty is her own.”

I Care Not for These Ladies (1601), reported in Arthur Henry Bullen, More lyrics from the song-books of the Elizabethan Age (1888), p. 48.

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