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Sonnet No 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
10:00 AM.Read by Max Cryer. Music details: Anonymous: Prelude (Virgin Classics VC 7 91216) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 54: On how much more doth beauty beauteous
10:00 AM.Read by Helen Medlyn. Music details: Tobias Hume: My hope is decayed (AliaVox AV 9837) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made
10:00 AM.Read by Elizabeth McRae. Music details: Dowland: Lady Rich, her Galliard (Naxos 8.570449 ) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 52: So am I as the rich whose blessed key
10:00 AM.Read by Michael Hurst. Music details: Dowland: Langton's Galliard (Naxos 8.557862) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
10:00 AM.Shakespeare's 44th sonnet is the first of two which use the idea of the four elements - in this case, earth and water. Read by John Callen. Music details: John Johnson: Dump (Naxos 8.550776) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 50: How heavy do I journey on my way
10:00 AM.The first of another linked pair of sonnets. Here Shakespeare introduces the image of a horse, carrying its bearer away from the loved one. Read by Hewitt Humphrey. Music details: Tobias Hume… Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 49: Against that time, if ever that time came
10:00 AM.Read Charles Pierard. Music details: Dowland: Sir John Langton's Pavan (Naxos 8.557862) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 48: How careful was I when I took my way
10:00 AM.Read by Jennifer Ward-Leyland. Music details: Dowland: Sir Henry Guilforde, his Almain (Naxos 8.570449). Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
10:00 AM.Read by Susan Curnow. Music details: Dowland: The Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard (Glossa GCD 920 109) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
10:00 AM.Shakespeare's forty-sixth sonnet, the first of two poems on the war and subsequent peace between "heart" and "eye".Read by Warwick Broadhead. Music details: Dowland: Mrs White's Nothing (Naxos… Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 45: The other two, slight and purging fire
10:00 AM.The second of two sonnets in which Shakespeare uses the idea of the four elements - in this case, air and fire. Read by Donagh Rees. Music details: Dowland: Sir John Smith, his Almain (Glossa GCD 920… Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
10:00 AM.Shakespeare's 44th sonnet is the first of two which use the idea of the four elements - in this case, earth and water. Read by Elizabeth Hawthorne Music details: Dowland-Dowland's Tears (I saw my lady… Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 43: When most I wink, then do my eyes best see
10:00 AM.Read by Hewitt Humphrey. Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 42: That thou hast her it is not all my grief
10:00 AM.Read Stuart Devenie. Music details: Tobias Hume-The Duke of Holstone's Almain (AliaVox AV 9837) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
10:00 AM.Read by George Henare. Music details: Dowland-Sir Robert Sidney, his Galliard (Naxos 8.570449) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all
10:00 AM.Read by Tainui Tukiwaho. Music details: Antonio Ferrabosco-Fantasia (Virgin Classics 91216). Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 39: Oh how thy worth with manners may I sing
10:00 AM.Read by Elizabeth McRae Music details: Dowland-Mrs Nichols' Almain (Naxos 8.557586) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent
10:00 AM.Read by Charlotte Graham [Topics] music, arts Music details: John Johnson-Galliard to the Delight Pavan (Naxos 8.550776) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 37: As a decrepit father takes delight
10:00 AM.Read by Michael Hurst. Music details- Dowland: Pavana Johan Douland (Naxos 8.570449) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain
10:00 AM.Read by Susan Curnow. Music details- Peter Philips: Pavan (Virgin Classics 91216) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
10:00 AM.Read by John Callen.
Music details - Dowland: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens (Glossa GCD 920 109) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day?
10:00 AM.Read by Elric Hooper. Music details- Dowland: Lachrimae (alternative version) (Naxos 8.557862) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen
10:00 AM.Read by Jennifer Ward-Lealand. Music details- Dowland: Coranto (Channel Classics CCS SA 21204) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 32: If thou survive my well contented day
10:00 AM.Read by Paul Barrett. Music details- Dowland: Orlando Sleepeth (Naxos 8.557586) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 31:Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts
10:00 AM.Read by Read by Max Cryer. Music details-John Johnson: The Delight Pavan (Naxos 8.550776) Audio