StoryTitle("caps", "Lament for~Chaucer") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Allas! my worthi maister honorable, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This landes verray tresor and richesse! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dethe by thy deth hath harm irreparable ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unto us done: hir vengeable duresse ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Despoiled hath this land of the swetnesse ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of rethoryk; for unto Tullius ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was never man so like amonges us. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Also who was heyr in philosofye ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To Aristotle in our tunge but thou? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The steppes of Virgile in poesye ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou folwedest eke, men wote wel ynow. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou combre-worlde that the my maister slow—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wolde I slayn were!—Dethe, was to hastyf ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To renne on thee and reve thee thy lyf. ", "") ?>
Separator(90, 6, "*") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She might han taried hir vengeance a whyle ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Til that some man had egal to thee be; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nay, let be that! she knew wel that this yle ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May never man bring forthe like to thee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And her office nedes do mote she: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "God bad hir do so, I truste for the beste; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O maister, maister, God thy soule reste!", "") ?>
Poet("Thomas Hoccleve", "1368?-1448") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>