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Now o Now I Needs Must Part was written by the sixteenth-seventeenth-century composer John Dowland. A bittersweet contemplation of love and loss, it was first published in Dowland's book called First Booke of Songes or Ayres of foure partes with Tableture for the Lute (1597).
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Grove, George, ed. (1900). . A Dictionary of Music and Musicians . London: Macmillan and Company.
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