"An Englishman, by name, William Birde for his skill. Which I should heve sett first, for soe it was my will, Whose greater skill and knowledge dothe excelle all at this tyme And far to strange countries abroade his skill dothe shyne; Famous men be abroad, and skilful in the arte I do confesse the fame and not from it starte; But in Ewroppe is none like to our Englishe man, Which dothe so farre exceede, as trulie I it scan As ye cannot finde out his equale in all thinges Throwghe out the worlde so wide, and so his fame now ringes. With fingers and with penne he hathe not now his peere; For in this worlde so wide is none can him come neere, The rarest man he is in musicks worthy arte That now on earthe doth liue: I speake it from my harte Or heere to fore hath been or after him shall come None suche I feare shall rise that may be calde his sonne."
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John Baldwin (c. 1600), quoted in William Byrd, My Ladye Nevells Booke, ed. Hilda Andrews (1926), p. xxii
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William Byrd
William Byrd (between 1534 and 1543 – 4 July 1623) was an English composer and poet.
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