It Fell on a Summer's Day
Thomas Campion
It fell on a summer's day
While sweet Bessie sleeping lay,
In her bower, on her bed,
With curtains shadowed,
Jamie came, she him spies
Opening half her heavy eyes.
Jamie stole in through the door,
She lay slumbering as before,
Softly to her he drew near,
She heard him, yet would not hear,
Bessie vow'd not to speak
He resolv'd that dumpe* to break.
First a soft kiss he doth take,
She lay still and would not wake,
Then his hands learn'd to woo,
She dreamt not what he would do,
But still slept, while he smil'd
To see love by sleep beguiled.
Jamie then began to play,
Bessie as one dead did lay,
Gladly still through this sleight*,
Deceiv'd in her own deceit,
And since this trance begun,
She sleeps every afternoon.
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dumpe: reverie
sleight: trick
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