Ben Jonson, Hymn to Diana (from Cynthia’s Revels)

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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright.

Ben Jonson Hymn to Diana (from Cynthia’s Revels) Act 5, Scene 3 (Hesperus’s song), lines 1–6 first printed 1601

Edition: The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900, ed. Arthur Quiller-Couch (Clarendon Press; first edition 1900, 1931 impression)
Read the whole text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Oxford_Book_of_English_Verse_1250-1900/Hymn_to_Diana
Rights: Public domain: Jonson died in 1637; this anthology was first published in 1900.

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