| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet LXXVII. Was it a dream, or did I see it plain | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | WAS it a dream, or did I see it plain; | |
| A goodly table of pure ivory, | |
| All spread with junkets, fit to entertain | |
| The greatest Prince with pompous royalty: | |
| ’Mongst which, there in a silver dish did lie | 5 |
| Two golden apples of unvalued price; | |
| Far passing those which Hercules came by, | |
| Or those which Atalanta did entice; | |
| Exceeding sweet, yet void of sinful vice; | |
| That many sought, yet none could ever taste; | 10 |
| Sweet fruit of pleasure, brought from Paradise | |
| By Love himself, and in his garden placed. | |
| Her breast that table was, so richly spread; | |
| My thoughts the guests, which would thereon have fed. | | | | |
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