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English composer, poet and physician

Person · Open Library

Born
1567
Died
1620
Works
90

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  • Thomae Campiani Epigrammatum libri II
  • Thomae Campiani poemata ...
  • The discription of a maske
  • The art of descant, or composing of musick in parts
  • A relation of the late royall entertainment given by the Right Honorable the Lord Knowles, at Cawsome [i.e. Caversham]-House neere Redding to our Most Gracious Queene, Queene Anne, in her progresse toward the bathe, upon the seven and eight and twentie dayes of Aprill, 1613

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Active from
1567-02-12
Active to
1620-03-01

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Thomas Campion, (sometimes Campian) (February 12, 1567 – March 1, 1620) was an English composer, poet and physician. Campion was born in London and studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge, but left without taking a degree. He later entered Gray's Inn to study law in 1586. However, he left in 1595 without having been called to the bar. On February 10, 1605 he received his medical degree from the University of Caen. Campion was first published as a poet <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Thomas+Campion

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Quotes

  • I care not for these ladies,That must be wooed and prayed;Give me kind Amaryllis,The wanton country maid.Nature art disdaineth;Her beauty is her own.
  • Plead, Sleep, my cause, and make her soft like thee,That she in peace may wake and pity me.
  • Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee,When the ev'ning beams are set?
  • The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.
  • There is a garden in her faceWhere roses and white lilies blow;A heavenly paradise is that place,Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow;There cherries grow that none may buy,Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry.

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date of birth
1567-01-01
date of death
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1 object attributed to Thomas Campion, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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