English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 45. Beauty Bathing |
| | | Anthony Munday (1553–1663) |
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| BEAUTY sat bathing by a spring | |
| Where fairest shades did hide her; | |
| The winds blew calm, the birds did sing, | |
| The cool streams ran beside her. | |
| My wanton thoughts enticed mine eye | 5 |
| To see what was forbidden: | |
| But better memory said, fie! | |
| So vain desire was chidden:— | |
| Hey nonny nonny O! | |
| Hey nonny nonny! | 10 |
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| Into a slumber then I fell, | |
| When fond imagination | |
| Seeméd to see, but could not tell | |
| Her feature or her fashion. | |
| But, ev’n as babes in dreams do smile, | 15 |
| And sometimes fall a-weeping, | |
| So I awaked, as wise this while | |
| As when I fell a-sleeping:— | |
| Hey nonny nonny O! | |
| Hey nonny nonny! | 20 |
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