Scarce had the sun dried up the dewy morn,
And scarce the herd gone to the hedge for shade,
When Cytherea, all in love forlorn,
A longing tarriance for Adonis made
Under an osier growing by [a brook]1,
A brook where Adon used to cool his spleen:
Hot was the day; she hotter that did look
For his approach, that often there had been.
Anon he comes, and throws his mantle by,
And stood stark naked on the brook's green brim;
The sun look'd on the world with glorious eye,
Yet not so wistly as the queen on him:
He spying her, bounc'd in, whereas he stood:
O Jove,' quoth she, 'why was I not a flood!'

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¹ Mucci: "the brock"

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• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title, appears in The Passionate Pilgrim, no. 6, first published 1599 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
• sometimes misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

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• by John C. Mucci , "The Passionate Pilgrim", 1994 [ soprano and contrabass ], from Strange Attractors, no. 2
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