English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Anthony Munday
45. Beauty Bathing
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
To see what was forbidden:
But better memory said, fie!
So vain desire was chidden:—
Hey nonny nonny O!
Hey nonny nonny!
When fond imagination
Seeméd to see, but could not tell
Her feature or her fashion.
But, ev’n as babes in dreams do smile,
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!