StoryTitle("caps", "Balow") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Balow my babe, lie still and sleep!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It grieves me sore to see thee weep.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wouldst thou be quiet I'se be glad,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy mourning makes my sorrow sad:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Balow my boy, thy mother's joy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy father breeds me great annoy—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Balow, la-low!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When he began to court my love,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And with his sugred words me move,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His faynings false and flattering cheer", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To me that time did not appear:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now I see most cruellye", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He cares ne for my babe nor me—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Balow, la-low!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lie still, my darling, sleep awhile,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when thou wak'st thou'le sweetly smile:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But smile not as thy father did,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To cozen maids: nay, God forbid!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But yet I fear thou wilt go near", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy father's heart and face to bear—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Balow, la-low!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I cannot choose but ever will", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be loving to thy father still;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where'er he go, where'er he ride,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My love with him doth still abide;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In weal or woe, where'er he go,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My heart shall ne'er depart him fro—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Balow, la-low!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But do not, do not, pretty mine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To faynings false thy heart incline!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be loyal to thy lover true,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And never change her for a new:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If good or fair, of her have care", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For women's banning's wondrous sare—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Balow, la-low!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bairn, by thy face I will beware;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like Sirens' words, I'll come not near;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My babe and I together will live;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He'll comfort me when cares do grieve.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My babe and I right soft will lie,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And ne'er respect man's crueltye—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Balow, la-low!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Farewell, farewell, the falsest youth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That ever kist a woman's mouth!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I wish all maids be warn'd by me", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Never to trust man's curtesye;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For if we do but chance to bow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They'll use us then they care not how—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Balow, la-low!", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "16th century") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>