John Dowland Come, Heavy Sleep

Come, heavy sleep, for 4 voices lute (First Book of Songs), (ca. 1597) Steven Rickards, countertenor Dorothy Linell, lute Queen Elizabeth I herself knew John Dowland s songs, though he was unable to secure a court position during her lifetime. After a promising beginning to his musical career, Dowland set off for Rome to study composition with Luca Marenzio. Along the way, he met other prominent Italian musicians in Venice and Bologna. In Florence, however, he became embroiled in a plot by English exil