 lde
CHAUCER
doth of Topas
tell,
Mad
RABELAIS of Pantagruell,
A
latter third of Dowsabell,
With such poore trifles playing ;
Others
the like have labored at,
Some
of this thing, and some of that,
And
many of they know not what,
But that they must be saying.
Pantagruel are presently putting
the finishing touches to a new programme set to be
released on CD in autumn 2010. Taking its title from a poem
by the
Elizabethan author Michael Drayton, it will explore
the Fantastical Musicke that graced the hallowed boards of the period's
Theatre and the court of its "Drama Queen", featuring music by John
Dowland, Thomas Ravenscroft, Richard Farrant, John Bennet, Thomas
Robinson & Robert Johnson.
And
thou NYMPHIDIA gentle Fay,
Which
meeting me upon the way,
These
secrets didst to me bewray,
Which now I am in telling:
My
pretty, light fantastick mayde,
I
here invoke thee to my ayde,
That
I may speake what thou hast sayd,
In numbers smoothly swelling.
from
Michael
Drayton's
"Nymphidia,
the Court of Faerie“
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