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Richard Rodney Bennett, Francis Quarles, The Gesualdo Six & Owain Park:
🎵 A Good-Night

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"O Wretched Man that I Am!", from the work Emblems VIII, Book V, titled, Divine and Moral by #FrancisQuarles
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"Hieroglyphikes of the Life of Man", published in 1638
Illustration by #FrancisQuarles
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“My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on;
Judge not the play before the play is done:
Her plot has many changes; every day
Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.”

Poems: allpoetry.com/Francis-Quar...

✒️ #FrancisQuarles, English poet, was #BOTD 8 May 1592 #Poetry #Literature

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Richard Rodney Bennett, Francis Quarles, John Rutter & The Cambridge Singers:
🎵 A Good-Night

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#FrancisQuarles’ Emblems, 1773
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