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- The Passionate Pilgrim is a collection of fourteen lyrical General
pieces, with an appendix of six pieces of identical character \^^l^^ ^^'
which are introduced by the separate title : *■SONNETS To
sundry notes of Musicke.' * The twenty pieces are of varied
poetic merit.* Many have a touch of that < happy valiancy '
of rhythm and sentiment which is characteristic of the
Elizabethan temper, but very {q'w betray that union of
simple feeling with verbal melody which is essential to lyrical
perfection. Several are little more than pleasant jingles
describing phases of the tender passion with a whimsical
artificiality. The poems are in varied metres. Nine take
the form of regular sonnets or quatorzains 5 five are in the
^ The word ' sonnet * is here used in the common sense of * song '.
The musical composer, William Byrd, published in 1587 his Fsalms^
Sonets^ and Songs of Sadness and Piet:e ^ but though he tells the reader that
if he be disposed ' to bee merrie, heere are Sonets*, and heads a section of the
book * Sonets and Pastorales ', no poem bearing any relation to the sonnet
form is included. No 'quatorzain 'is included in the Appendix to T/ye Passionate
Filgrim, of which the title may be paraphrased as * Songs set to various airs'.
The ' sundry rotes of Musicke ' are only extant in the case of two poems ; but
it may be inferred that, before publication, all the six 'Sonnets' were 'set'
by contemporary composers. Oldys's guess, that John and Thomas
Morley were the composers, is unconfirmed. Indirect evidence supports
the conjecture that a lost edition of the Sonnets supplied the music.
A poetic miscellany — 'Strange Histories' by Thomas Deloney — of like
character to The Passionate Pilgrim and with similar typographical ornaments,
has at the head of each piece in the i6cz edition (unique copy at Britwell)
a line of musical notes, which is absent from other known editions. Again,
of the poetic collection entitled ' The Teares or Lamentations of a Sorrowful!
Soule, by Sir William Leighton ' two editions are known — one {1617,) giving
the words only, and another (1^14) adding the music.
^ The total is usually given as twenty-one, but the pieces commonly
numbered fourteen and fifteen form a single poem and are printed together in the
16^0 edition of Shakespeare's Poems ^ under the single heading ' Loath to depart '.
J. P. Collier's proposal to divide the last piece also into two has been wisely
ignored by recent editors. In the original editions the separate pieces were
not numbered. Malone, in his reprint of Tke Passionate Pilgrim in his •f/c///?-
»7fzr/(i7?o), wasthefirst editor to introduce a consecutive numerical notation.
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