1845 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

William Byrd

Edward Farr, in Select Poetry chiefly devotional of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (1845) xxi.

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WILLIAM BYRD was one of the "Gentlemen of the Queene's Majestie's honorable Chappell." In 1583 he published a work entitled "Medius: Psalmes, Sonets, and Songs of Sadness and Pietie," from which the following specimens are derived. In the original copies the poetry is set to music.