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'D . Poulton. John Dowland (London, 1972; rev. 2/1982). pp.19 ,44,75 . 78
2T. Fuller, T he History of the Worthies of England (London, 1662),p. 244
3The 14 songs of darkness are in the following collections.The Firste Booke ofSonges or Ayres offoure Panes w ith Tableturefor the
Lute (London, 1597/^1968 ) : no . 14 , All ye whom love or fortune hathbetrayed no. 16. Would my conceit that first enforced my w oe; n o . 2 0 .Com e heavy sleep
The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres of 2 . 4 and 5 parts: with Tableture for
the Lute or Orpherian, with the Violl de Gamba (Lond on, 1600/J? 1970):no .2 , Flow my tears; n o . 3 , Sorrow stay lend true repentant tears; n o . 4 ,Die not before thy day; no. 5. Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fledno. 1 1, If floods of tears could cleanse my follies past n o . 2 0 , Toss notmy soul
The Third and L ast Booke of Songs or Aires Newly Com posed to Sing to theLute. Orpharion or Viols (London, 1603/S1970) : no .8 , Flow not so fastye fountains; n o . 11 , Lend your ears to my sorrow, good people
R. Dowland, A Musicall Banquet (London, 1610): In darkness let medwell
A Pilgrimes Solace (London, 1612/^1970) : no .9 . G o nightly cares, theenemy to rest no. 10, From silent night true register of m oans' D e d i c a t i o n t o Lachrymae or Seaven Teares figured in Seaven
Passionate Pavans (London, 1604/S1974)5
T. Wa t s o n , The First Sett of Italian Ma drigalls En glished ( L o n d o n ,1590), no.7'Pontus de Tyard, Discours philosophique (Paris, 1587). The English
translations used here are from Yates, The French Academies of theSixteenth Century.
7T. Nabbes, Microcosmus. a Morall Masque (London, 1637). p.Bl E. Panofsky and F. Saxl, Durers Melencolia I: eine Q uellen- und
Typengeschichtliche Untersuchung, Studien der Bibliothek Warburg, 2(Leipzig, 1923)
'See 'Harrington (Russell), Lucy', Dictionary o f National Biography.10Ben Jonson, The Complete Poems (Penguin Books: Harmondsworrh,
1966). Epigram XCIV A distilling apparatus—the reference is therefore alchemical.12The dates given here are those on which St Lucy's and St
Thomas's feasts are now ke pt In the 17th century St Lucy's Day wascelebrated on 12 December (OS.: 22 December N.S.). the day of thewinter solstice.
William W igthorp's collection of consort songs, which includeshis arrangement for voice and viols of Dowland's Sorrow stay is in aset of partbooks, London, British Library, Add. 17786 91 (partbooks1-4 and 6, f.9; partbook 5, f.4v).
M A.-J. Festugiere. La revelation d'Hermes Trismegiste. 4 vols. (Paris.1950-54), 1, p.84; 2, pp.x-xi
I5C. Marlowe, Faustus Act 1 Scene 3, 1.76 The Corpus Hermeticum is a collection of 15 dialogues, attributed
to Hermes Trismagistus. supposedly an Egyptian priest who lived inremote antiquity. Marsilio Ficino's translations of these writingswere made at the end of the 15lli century. See F. A. Yates, GiordanoBruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Lond on, 1 964).
W. Prynne, Histrio mastix (London, 1633)
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