Thomas Randolph

Here you will find thePoemOn Six Cambridge Lasses Bathing Themselvesof poet Thomas Randolph

On Six Cambridge Lasses Bathing Themselves

1当bashfull日光now was gone 2 And night, that hides a blush, came on. 3 Sixe Pretty Nymphes to wash away 4 The sweatinge of a Summers daye 5 In Chams fair streames did gently swim 6 And naked bathd each curious limbe. 7 O Who had this blist sight but seene 8 Would thinke they all had Cl{oe}lia=s beene. 9 A Scholer that a walke did take 10 Perchance for Meditation sake. 11 This blessed Obiect chan'cd to find 12 Straight all thinges else went out of mind 13 No Studye=s better in this life 14 For Practicke or Contemplatiue: 15 Who thought Poore soule these hee had seene, 16 Fair Dian and her Nymphes had beene. 17 And therefore thought in piteous feare 18 Act{ae}ons fortune was too neere. 19 Or that the Water=Nymphes they were 20 Together met to sport 'um there 21 And that to him such loue they bore 22 As to Iolas once before. 23 What could hee thinke but that his eye 24 Sixe Venusses at once did spie 25 Rise from the waues, or that perchaunce 26 Fresh=Water Syrens came to dance 27 Vpon our streames, with songes and lookes 28 To tempt Poore Scholers from their bookes. 29 Hee cannot thinke they Graces are 30 Vnlesse their number doubled were. 31 Nor can hee thinke they muses bee 32 Bicause alasse they wanted three. 33 I should haue rather guess'd that here 34 Another brood of Helens were 35 Begot by Ioue upon |y+e+| playnes 36 Watchd by some L{ae}da of the Swans. 37 The maydes betrayd were in a fright 38 And blush'd (but twas not seene ith night.) 39 At last all by |y+e+| banke did stand 40 And hee, good harte lent them his hand. 41 Where twas his blisse to feele all ore 42 Soft Paps, smooth thighes and somethinge more. 43 But Enuious Night masqued from his eyes 44 The place where loue and pleasure lyes. 45 Guesse Louers guesse, o you |y+t+| dare 46 What then might bee this Scholers praier 47 That hee were but a Cat to spye 48 Or had but now Tyberius eyes. 49 Yet since this hope was all in Vaine 50 Hee helpes 'um don there cloths agayne. 51 Makes Promise thye shall none bee shent 52 So with them to the Tauerne went. 53 Where how hee then might sport or play 54 Pardon mee Muse I must not say 55 Guesse you that haue a mind to knowe 56 Whither hee were a Foole of no.