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Anthony Munday (1560-1633)

Beauty Sat Bathing by a Spring


              1Beauty sat bathing by a spring
              2    Where fairest shades did hide her;
              3The winds blew calm, the birds did sing,
              4    The cool streams ran beside her.
              5My wanton thoughts entic'd mine eye
              6    To see what was forbidden:
              7But better memory said, fie!
              8    So vain desire was chidden.
              9      Hey nonny, nonny, &c.

            10Into a slumber then I fell,
            11    When fond imagination
            12Seemed to see, but could not tell
            13    Her feature or her fashion.
            14But even as babes in dreams do smile,
            15    And sometime fall a-weeping,
            16So I awak'd, as wise this while
            17    As when I fell a-sleeping.
            18      Hey nonny, nonny, &c.

Notes

1] This poem is signed "Shepherd Tony", but since it appeared again in a romance, Primaleon of Greece, 1619, by Munday, the poem is usually attributed to him.

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Englands Helicon [Poems collected and edited by John Bodenham or L. N.] (London: J. R. for J. Flasket, 1600). STC 3192
First publication date: 1600
RPO poem editor: N. J. Endicott
RP edition: 2RP.1.235; RPO 1996-2000.
Recent editing: 2:2002/4/10

Rhyme: ababcdcd [and chorus]

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