Note 3 — PURCELL.
Reading edition
"Instrumental and Cathedral music I have ever been wilfully ignorant of, because I have dearly loved them, and if I had learnt them to a perfection, this satiety might have bred a nauseous distaste and surfeit, as in other things, and then I had nothing to delight in. But alas! this conceit hath failed me, for now all church music my highest terrene content is abandoned amongst us."—Philip King's "Surfeit," 1656.