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Thomas Campion

 By David Lindley

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Limited preview - 1986 - 242 pages - Biography & Autobiography


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Thomas Campion ( b London, bap. 12 Feb 1567; d there, bur. 1 March 1620). English composer and poet. A lawyer's son, he attended Peterhouse,
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Campion, Thomas (1567-1620), English poet and musician, born in London. A successful London physician, Campion was also a writer and a lutenist and a..
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Born on 12 February 1567, Thomas Campion was the second child of John and Lucy Campion; a sister, Rose, preceded him by two years. His early family life was ...
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O let thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint. If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss, O Lord, who may abide it ? For there is mercy with thee ; therefore shalt thou be feared. O Israel, trust in the Lord : For with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.Page 31
Soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.Page 38
Then bloody swords and armour should not be ; No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move, Unless alarm came from the camp of love : But fools do live, and waste their little light, And seek with pain their ever-during night. When timely death my life and fortune ends, Let not my hearse be...Page 38
Israel, trust in the LORD ; for with the LORD there is mercy : and with Him is plenteous redemption. And He shall redeem Israel : from all his sins.Page 31
OUT of the deep have I called unto thee, O LORD ; LORD, hear my voice. 0 let thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint. If thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss; O LORD, who may abide it ? For there is mercy with thee: therefore shalt thou be feared.Page 31
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... night. If all would lead their lives in love like me, Then bloody swords and armour should not be ; No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move, Unless alarm came from the camp of love : But fools do live, and waste their little light, And seek with pain their ever-during night.Page 142
Some eares accustomed altogether to the fatnes of rime may perhaps except against the cadences of these numbers; but let any man judicially examine them, and he shall finde they close of themselves so perfectly that the help of rime were not only in them superfluous, but also absurd.Page 161
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