{"id":"01KG8BDPK45GF044Z21CHC8Q5A","cid":"bafkreihxmia3sqiait36qki3pptlrcqgcsjkh2pkfode4ovy2l5daa2dtm","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreigbukino2bhndddycuwmjbz4jmbtworuqywnnhbcv4tpcvmui6w2u","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0293.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806914075-hz9c5rakidl","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0293.jpg","page_number":293,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":627371,"text":"The Passionate Pilgrim is a collection of fourteen lyrical General\npieces, with an appendix of six pieces of identical character \\^^l^^ ^^'\nwhich are introduced by the separate title : *■SONNETS To\nsundry notes of Musicke.' * The twenty pieces are of varied\npoetic merit.* Many have a touch of that < happy valiancy '\nof rhythm and sentiment which is characteristic of the\nElizabethan temper, but very {q'w betray that union of\nsimple feeling with verbal melody which is essential to lyrical\nperfection. Several are little more than pleasant jingles\ndescribing phases of the tender passion with a whimsical\nartificiality. The poems are in varied metres. Nine take\nthe form of regular sonnets or quatorzains 5 five are in the\n^ The word ' sonnet * is here used in the common sense of * song '.\nThe musical composer, William Byrd, published in 1587 his Fsalms^\nSonets^ and Songs of Sadness and Piet:e ^ but though he tells the reader that\nif he be disposed ' to bee merrie, heere are Sonets*, and heads a section of the\nbook * Sonets and Pastorales ', no poem bearing any relation to the sonnet\nform is included. No 'quatorzain 'is included in the Appendix to T/ye Passionate\nFilgrim, of which the title may be paraphrased as * Songs set to various airs'.\nThe ' sundry rotes of Musicke ' are only extant in the case of two poems ; but\nit may be inferred that, before publication, all the six 'Sonnets' were 'set'\nby contemporary composers. Oldys's guess, that John and Thomas\nMorley were the composers, is unconfirmed. Indirect evidence supports\nthe conjecture that a lost edition of the Sonnets supplied the music.\nA poetic miscellany — 'Strange Histories' by Thomas Deloney — of like\ncharacter to The Passionate Pilgrim and with similar typographical ornaments,\nhas at the head of each piece in the i6cz edition (unique copy at Britwell)\na line of musical notes, which is absent from other known editions. Again,\nof the poetic collection entitled ' The Teares or Lamentations of a Sorrowful!\nSoule, by Sir William Leighton ' two editions are known — one {1617,) giving\nthe words only, and another (1^14) adding the music.\n^ The total is usually given as twenty-one, but the pieces commonly\nnumbered fourteen and fifteen form a single poem and are printed together in the\n16^0 edition of Shakespeare's Poems ^ under the single heading ' Loath to depart '.\nJ. P. Collier's proposal to divide the last piece also into two has been wisely\nignored by recent editors. In the original editions the separate pieces were\nnot numbered. Malone, in his reprint of Tke Passionate Pilgrim in his •f/c///?-\n»7fzr/(i7?o), wasthefirst editor to introduce a consecutive numerical notation.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T21:01:54.075Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1632},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4X0DM39SSQK43XXG34R","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T21:02:24.868Z","ts":"2026-01-30T21:02:29.291Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}