. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature. Ilk John Dowland, Bachelor of Music,The First Book of Songs or ^Airs, 1597. 1^. To THE Right HonourableSir GEORGE CAREY, OF THE NOBLE OrDER OF THE GaRTER, KnIGHT, Baron of Hunsdon, Captain of Her Majestys Gentlemen Pensioners, Governor of the Isle of Wight. Lieutenant of the County of Southampton, Lord Chamberlain of Her Majestys most royal House; and of Her Highnesss most honourable Privy Council. llAT harmony, Right Honourable! which isskilfully expressed by instruments: albeit, byreason of the variety of number and propor-ti
. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature. Ilk John Dowland, Bachelor of Music,The First Book of Songs or ^Airs, 1597. 1^. To THE Right HonourableSir GEORGE CAREY, OF THE NOBLE OrDER OF THE GaRTER, KnIGHT, Baron of Hunsdon, Captain of Her Majestys Gentlemen Pensioners, Governor of the Isle of Wight. Lieutenant of the County of Southampton, Lord Chamberlain of Her Majestys most royal House; and of Her Highnesss most honourable Privy Council. llAT harmony, Right Honourable! which isskilfully expressed by instruments: albeit, byreason of the variety of number and propor-tion of itself, it easily stirs up the minds of thehearers to admiration and delight; yet forhigher authority and power, hath been everworthily attributed to that kind of music whichto the sweetness of [the] instrument applies the lively voice of man,expressing some worthy sentence, or excellent poem. Hence, as allmtiquity can witness, first grew the heavenly Art of Music : forLinus, Orpheus, and the rest, according to the mimber andime of their Poems, first framed the numbers and times of )0 that Plato defines Melody to consist of H
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