Music Video
Music Video
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Elizabeth Kenny
Lute
Robin Blaze
Countertenor
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Thomas Campion
Composer
Lyrics
It fell on a summer's day
While sweet Bessie sleeping lay
In her bower on a bed
Light with curtained shadow wed
Jamie came, she him spied
Opening half her heavy eyes
Jamie came, she him spied
Opening half her heavy eyes
Jamie stole in through the door
She lay slumb'ring 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 dark to break
Bessie vow'd not to speak
He resolv'd that dark 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 beguil'd
But still slept, while he smil'd
To see love by sleep beguil'd
Jamie then began to play
Bessie as one buried lay
Gladly still through his sleight
Deceiv'd in her own deceit
And since this truancy began
She sleeps ev'ry afternoon
And since this truancy began
She sleeps ev'ry afternoon
Written by: Thomas Campion
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