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The text Dowland used is the first stanza of a poem that can be found in "Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age"<ref name="Elizabethan"/>, although he altered the last line and changed "in" to "to" in the penultimate line. The poem is noted: "From ''John Coprario's Funeral Tears for the Death of the Right Honorable the Earl of Devonshire'', 1606 | The text Dowland used is the first stanza of a poem that can be found in "Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age"<ref name="Elizabethan"/>, although he altered the last line and changed "in" to "to" in the penultimate line. The poem is noted: "From ''John Coprario's Funeral Tears for the Death of the Right Honorable the Earl of Devonshire'', 1606 | ||
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