That's an interesting site, and I haven't looked through the whole thing, but it seems it only establishes a print date, or terminus ante quem for Coprario of 1606. If there is more information I would be interested in seeing it. That would put Coprario around 4-6 years later than Dowland, even assuming that Coprario is as early as 1604 in composition date, although I think 1605 is more likely, so Coprario's work, especially the telltale text change to make the text more suitable for a funeral, could have been based entirely on Dowland's, and the extra verses added. I would therefore suggest that it is more likely to interpret the text of Coprario based on a reading of Dowland than the other way around. Without a firm timeline we may never know, but it seems slightly more likely that Coprario reversed the key elements of Dowland's song rather than the other way around. Another possibilty is that both poems are based on an unknown antecedent which may or may not have the extra verses. The question of the meaning of the extra verses is always a sticky one, as in the case of Ben Jonson's "her triumph" aka Have you seen but a bright lily grow: here either the copyists considered the extra verses irrelevant or, more likely, the poem circulated in an abbreviated form prior to publication. dt
At 11:22 AM 12/3/2009, you wrote: >On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Daniel Winheld <[email protected]> wrote= >: > > Now we're getting somewhere. David O.- are the "Funeral Teares" > > (including that 2nd verse to "In Darkness.." =A0easily googleable, or > >All in one site: > >http://culturebase.org/home/harald-lillmeyer/Texte/Downloads/Downloads.html > >David > > >--=20 >******************************* >David van Ooijen >[email protected] >www.davidvanooijen.nl >******************************* > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
