Note 1. From Campion and Rosseter’s Book of Airs, 1601. “Campion’s classical interest,” says Mr. Erskine (The Elizabethan Lyric), “is seen also in translations and paraphrases from the Latin…. More characteristic of his classical mood, however, are the Horatian lines, suggestive of Integer Vitæ, The Man of life, etc. Whenever Campion moralizes he is likely to take this tune, and his theme is almost sure to be praise of the golden mean. This motive had appeared … in the miscellanies, and Campion at times merely carries on the miscellany mood at a higher poetic level.” This poem has been attributed to Lord Bacon, but the claim is valueless. It was reprinted in Campion’s Two Books of Airs, 1613, with textual alterations. [back]
