Thomas Campion was born in Febuary 12th, 1567 in London, and died in March 1st, 1620. So first of all Thomas Campion was the second child of John and Lucy Campion. Thomas Campion went to a place named St. Dunstan's in the West. That was the placed where the other musicians lived.  He also a poem maker at that time. He describe the cowardly action of Barnabe Barnes that happen in 1591. In 1602, he went to University of Cean to study medicine when his age nearly forty. He already created so many beautiful poem during his life. Beside working as a poem maker,  he also was a singer and also musician that can make a mixture a song with poetic lyric. In 1597 he gave a poem to John Dowland's First Book of Song or Ayres, so he developed his music career to created English lute song. 

              In year 1604, Philip Rossester was a great lutinest, he also play lute for King James. Rosseter was Thomas Campion's best friend, and he publish his Book of Ayres in 1601. In that book Thoma Campion contributed 21 songs in his books. In the book all his song were accompanied with lute. He learn to play music such as lute with his friend John Dowland and Philip Rosseter. He was not really play lute but his song is very popular with lute accompanied his poetic song.