Excerpt from The Muses Gardin for Delights, or the Fift Booke of Ayres: Onely for the Lute, the Base-Vyoll and the Voice It ie not nece:: arie to relate or divulge all Dreame: or Phan ta: ie: that opinion beget: in leepe, or happeneth to the minde: apparition.' A' literal interpretation of thi: pa:: age might conceiv ably lead to the uppotition that the compo: er intended in it to claim bath mu: ie and word: a: the product of hi: dream, but thi: theory fill: to the ground in the face of the fact that the very fir: t ong in 'a Mu: icall Dreame i: a etting of word: by Thomas Campion, and that the lafi two number: of the volume are Italian Madrigal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.