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John Donne There were musical settings of Donne's lyrics even during his lifetime. These included Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger ("So, so, leave off this last lamenting kisse" in his 1609 Ayres); John Cooper ("The Message"); Henry Lawes ("Break of Day"); " John Dowland ("Break of Day" and "To ask for all thy love"); and settings of "A Hymn to God the Father" by John Hilton the younger and Pelham Humfrey (1688). After the 17th century there were no more until the start of the 20th century with Havergal Brian ("A nocturnal on St Lucy's Day", first performed in 1905), Eleanor Everest Freer ("Break of Day, published in 1905) and Walford Davies ("The Cross", 1909) among the earliest. In 1945, Benjamin Britten set nine of Donne's Holy Sonnets in his song cycle for voice and piano The Holy Sonnets of John Donne. Lieder.net currently lists 162 settings of 62 texts by Donne.[39] One not recorded there is a version of the song "Go and Catch a Falling Star" on John Renbourn's debut album John Renbourn (1966) in which the last line is altered to "False, ere I count one, two, three"