StoryTitle("caps", "A~True~Love") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What sweet relief the showers to thirsty plants we see,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What dear delight the blooms to bees, my true love is to me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As fresh and lusty Ver foul Winter doth exceed—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As morning bright, with scarlet sky, doth pass the evening's weed—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As mellow pears above the crabs esteeméd be—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So doth my love surmount them all, whom yet I hap to see!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The oak shall olives bear, the lamb the lion fray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The owl shall match the nightingale in tuning of her lay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or I my love let slip out of mine entire heart,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So deep reposéd in my breast is she for her desart!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For many blesséd gifts, O happy, happy land!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where Mars and Pallas strive to make their glory most to stand!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet, land, more is thy bliss that, in this cruel age,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A Venus' imp thou hast brought forth, so steadfast and so sage.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Among the Muses Nine a tenth if Jove would make,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And to the Graces Three a fourth, her would Apollo take.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let some for honour hunt, and hoard the massy gold:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With her so I may live and die, my weal cannot be told.", "") ?>
Poet("Nicholas Grimald", "1519-1562") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>