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Early Music 2006 34(3):443-464; doi:10.1093/em/cal063
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Early Music, Vol. XXXIV, No. 3 © The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved

Time stands still: devices and designs, allegory and alliteration, poetry and music and a new identification in an old portrait

Anthony Rooley

Anthony Rooley is a lutenist and director of the Consort of Musicke, the group he founded in 1969 and with which he has made well over 100 recordings. He has also published widely and his book Performance: revealing the Orpheus within appeared in 1990 (rev. 2006). roolspa{at}aol.com

Three enigmatic songs by John Dowland set lyrics by Sir Henry Lee, the Queen's Champion at Elizabeth's Accession Day Tilts, held annually on 17 November, throughout her reign. Two more Dowland songs are, by implication, linked with Lee's interests in imagery and allegory. Through close study of songs, lyrics, imagery and portraiture, this article endeavours to identify the emblematic figure that emerged after the recent cleaning of a portrait of Henry, Prince of Wales, by Robert Peake as representing Sir Henry Lee. Lee's life-long interest in the personification of Time and Truth (by implication, himself, and his ‘goddess’,Elizabeth) is also explored.

Key Words: John Dowland • Sir Henry Lee • Robert Peake


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