StoryTitle("caps", "Quia Amore Langueo") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In a valley of this restles mind ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I sought in mountain and in mead, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Trusting a true love for to find. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon an hill then took I heed; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A voice I heard (and near I yede) ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In great dolour complaining tho: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"See, dear soul, how my sides bleed ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quia amore langueo.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon this hill I found a tree, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under a tree a man sitting;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From head to foot wounded was he; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His hearte blood I saw bleeding: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A seemly man to be a king, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A gracious face to look unto. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I askéd why he had paining;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Quia amore langueo. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I am true love that false was never; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My sister, man's soul, I loved her thus. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Because we would in no wise dissever ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I left my kingdom glorious. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I purveyed her a palace full precious; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She fled, I followed, I loved her so ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That I suffered this pain piteous", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quia amore langueo. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"My fair love and my spouse bright!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I saved her from beating, and she hath me bet; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I clothed her in grace and heavenly light; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This bloody shirt she hath on me set; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For longing of love yet would I not let; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweete strokes are these: lo!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I have loved her ever as I her het ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quia amore langueo. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I crowned her with bliss and she me with thorn; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I led her to chamber and she me to die; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I brought her to worship and she me to scorn; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I did her reverence and she me villany. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To love that loveth is no maistry; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her hate made never my love her foe: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ask me then no question why—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quia amore langueo.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Look unto mine handes, man! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "These gloves were given me when I her sought; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They be not white, but red and wan; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Embroidered with blood my spouse them brought. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They will not off; I loose hem nought; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I woo her with hem wherever she go. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "These hands for her so friendly fought ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quia amore langueo. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Marvel not, man, though I sit still. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "See, love hath shod me wonder strait:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Buckled my feet, as was her will, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With sharpe nails (well thou may'st wait!) ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In my love was never desait; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All my membres I have opened her to; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My body I made her herte's bait", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quia amore langueo. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"In my side I have made her nest; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Look in, how weet a wound is here! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This is her chamber, here shall she rest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That she and I may sleep in fere.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here may she wash, if any filth were; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here is seat for all her woe; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come when she will, she shall have cheer ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quia amore langueo. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I will abide till she be ready,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I will her sue if she say nay; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If she be retchless I will be greedy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If she be dangerous I will her pray; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If she weep, then bide I ne may: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mine arms ben spread to clip her me to. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cry once, I come: now, soul, assay ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quia amore langueo. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Fair love, let us go play: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Apples ben ripe in my gardayne. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I shall thee clothe in a new array,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy meat shall be milk, honey and wine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair love, let us go dine: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy sustenance is in my crippe, lo! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tarry thou not, my fair spouse mine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quia amore langueo.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"If thou be foul, I shall thee make clean; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If thou be sick, I shall thee heal; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If thou mourn ought, I shall thee mene; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why wilt thou not, fair love, with me deal? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Foundest thou ever love so leal?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What wilt thou, soul, that I shall do? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I may not unkindly thee appeal ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quia amore langueo. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"What shall I do now with my spouse ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But abide her of my gentleness,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till that she look out of her house ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of fleshly affection? love mine she is; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her bed is made, her bolster is bliss, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her chamber is chosen; is there none mo. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Look out on me at the window of kindeness", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quia amore langueo. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"My love is in her chamber: hold your peace! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Make ye no noise, but let her sleep. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My babe I would not were in disease, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I may not hear my dear child weep. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With my pap I shall her keep; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne marvel ye not though I tend her to: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This wound in my side had ne'er be so deep ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But Quia amore langueo. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Long thou for love never so high, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My love is more than thine may be. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou weepest, thou gladdest, I sit thee by: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet wouldst thou once, love, look unto me! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should I always feede thee ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With children meat? Nay, love, not so!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I will prove thy love with adversité ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quia amore langueo. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wax not weary, mine own wife! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What mede is aye to live in comfort? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In tribulation I reign more rife ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ofter times than in disport. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In weal and in woe I am aye to support: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mine own wife, go not me fro! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy mede is marked, when thou art mort: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quia amore langueo.\"", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "15th century (?)") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>