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A quotation from James Shirley
The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Scepter and crown
Must tumble down,
And, in the dust, be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.James Shirley (1596–1666) English poet, playwright
Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for Achilles’s Armour, sc. 3, st. 1 (1659)More about this quote: wist.info/shirley-james/82728/
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Would you know what's soft?
An anonymous #17thC #musical setting of James Shirley's #poem
from MS. Don. c. 57 f24vEmily Atkinson: #soprano
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Richard Mackenzie: #lutehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20kp53yjJ1Q&ab_channel=Passamezzo
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There was an invisible #fox.
A #song from James Shirley's #play, The Bird in a Cage, 1633, set as a #round by John Hilton.
From Catch that catch can, 1667https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H6G_nXGHds&ab_channel=Passamezzo
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In Envy of the Night - a song from James Shirley's Triumph of Peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0ukhkA40l0&ab_channel=Passamezzo@court @histodons @royalhistory
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