Anthony Munday (1560 - 10 August 1633 / London)
Quotations
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''Your master Robin Hood lies dead,
Anthony Munday (1553-1633), British poet. Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon (l. 31-35). . . Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.
Therefore sigh as you sing.
Here lie his primer and his beads,
His bent bow and his arrows keen,
His good sword and his holy cross:'' -
''Beauty sat bathing by a spring,
Anthony Munday (1553-1633), British poet. Primaleon of Greece (l. 31-35). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.
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''
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