John Dowland Quotes

• Who loves not music and the heavenly muse, That man God hates.

  John Dowland

  Hate, Men, Muse

  1614 Commendatory poem to William Leighton's Teares or Lamentations of a Sorrowfull Soule.

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• Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common friend and uniter of them both.

  John Dowland

  Plato, Numbers, Ornaments

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• Semper Dowland semper dolens.

  John Dowland

  "Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares". 1604.

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