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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Beauty sat bathing by a spring by Anthony Munday




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 entic'd mine eye
To see what was forbidden:
But better memory said, fie!
So vain desire was chidden.
Hey nonny, nonny, |&c.|

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

Anthony Munday 
Anthony Munday and Civic Culture: Theatre, History and Power in Early Modern London 1580-1633

How this work makes me feel:
like taking a nap and going into a lucid dream. and staying there lol.