StoryTitle("caps", "Merciles~Beaute") ?>
A Triple Roundel
PoemStart() ?>
I
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your eyen two wol slee me sodenly,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I may the beauté of hem not sustene,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And but your word wol helen hastily", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My hertes wounde, whyl that hit is grene,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Your eyen two wol slee me sodenly,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I may the beauté of hem not sustene.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon my trouthe I sey yow feithfully,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That ye ben of my lyf and deeth the quene;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For with my deeth the trouthe shal be sene. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Your eyen two wol slee me sodenly,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I may the beauté of hem not sustene,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene.", "") ?>
II
PoemLine("L0", "", "So hath your beauté fro your herte chaced", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For Daunger halt your mercy in his cheyne.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Giltles my deeth thus han ye me purchaced;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I sey yow sooth, me nedeth not to feyne;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So hath your beauté fro your herte chaced", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Allas! that nature hath in yow compassed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So greet beauté, that no man may atteyne", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To mercy, though he sterve for the peyne.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So hath your beauté fro your herte chaced", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For Daunger halt your mercy in his cheyne.", "") ?>
III
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I never thenk to ben in his prison lene;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sin I am free, I counte him not a bene.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He may answere, and seye this or that; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I do no fors, I speke right as I mene.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I never thenk to ben in his prison lene.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love hath my name y-strike out of his sclat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he is strike out of my bokes clene ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For ever-mo; ther is non other mene.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I never thenk to ben in his prison lene;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sin I am free, I counte him not a bene.", "") ?>
Poet("Geoffrey Chaucer", "1340?-1400") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>