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Many times Arthur Dee, Ferdinand Parkurst and Nicholas Culpeper met at Lilly’s house — all men with a common interest: the stars and musik. One day they were sitting at the table in the study, looking at the notebook of John Dowland. Lilly was playing the lute and they sung quartetto:
‘Awake sweet love thou art returned, my hart which long in absence mournd lives now in perfect joy.’
Lilly said to Culpeper: ‘You seem so happy today like no day before. What happened, are the planets favourable to you?’
’My heart rejoices and I can sing again with mirth, I have found a new love. Before I could not sing with joy the many love songs we had.’1
What happened was that he had met the charming Alice Field whom he married in 1640:
He was courted by his friends to alter the condition of his single life, he would admit to no such proffers, till like a skilful astrologer he had fixed his eyes upon the firmament, where Venus, the star of his own affections governed, surrendering all the powers and faculties of his soul to the vertues and beauty of Miss Alice Field.2
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
William Shakespeare, 1564–1616
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Thulesius, O. (1992). Alice Field. In: Nicholas Culpeper. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371538_6
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