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- 1 2 Dowland, Robert (1610). A Musical Banquet.
- ↑ "Vocal settings of 'In darkness let me dwell'". LiederNet Archive. Retrieved 2015-04-21.
- ↑ English Madrigal Verse, 1588–1632, ed. Edmund Horace Fellowes, p. 384