StoryTitle("caps", "Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They flee from me that sometime did me seek,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With naked foot stalking within my chamber:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Once have I seen them gentle, tame, and meek,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That now are wild, and do not once remember", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That sometime they have put themselves in danger", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To take bread at my hand; and now they range,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Busily seeking in continual change.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thanked be fortune, it hath been otherwise", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Twenty times better; but once especial—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In thin array: after a pleasant guise,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When her loose gown did from her shoulders fall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And she me caught in her arms long and small,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And therewithal so sweetly did me kiss,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And softly said, \"Dear heart, how like you this?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was no dream; for I lay broad awaking:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But all is turn'd now, through my gentleness,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into a bitter fashion of forsaking;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And I have leave to go of her goodness;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And she also to use new-fangleness.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But since that I unkindly so am servéd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"How like you this?\" —what hath she now deservéd?", "") ?>
Poet("Sir Thomas Wyatt", "1503-1542") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>