StoryTitle("caps", "Amantium Irae") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In going to my naked bed as one that would have slept,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I heard a wife sing to her child, that long before had wept;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She sighéd sore and sang full sweet, to bring the babe to rest,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That would not cease but criéd still, in sucking at her breast.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She was full weary of her watch, and grievéd with her child,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She rockéd it and rated it, till that on her it smiled.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then did she say, Now have I found this proverb true to prove,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The falling out of faithful friends renewing is of love.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then took I paper, pen, and ink, this proverb for to write,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In register for to remain of such a worthy wight:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As she proceeded thus in song unto her little brat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Much matter utter'd she of weight, in place whereas she sat:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And provéd plain there was no beast, nor creature bearing life,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Could well be known to live in love without discord and strife:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then kisséd she her little babe, and sware by God above,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The falling out of faithful friends renewing is of love.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She said that neither king nor prince nor lord could live aright,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Until their puissance they did prove, their manhood and their might.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When manhood shall be matchéd so, that fear can take no place,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then weary works make warriors each other to embrace,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And left their force that failéd them, which did consume the rout,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That might before have lived their time, their strength and nature out:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then did she sing as one that thought no man could her reprove,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The falling out of faithful friends renewing is of love.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She said she saw no fish nor fowl, nor beast within her haunt,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That met a stranger in their kind, but could give it a taunt:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since flesh might not endure, but rest must wrath succeed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And force the fight to fall to play in pasture where they feed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So noble nature can well end the work she hath begun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And bridle well that will not cease her tragedy in some:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus in her song she oft rehearsed, as did her well behove,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The falling out of faithful friends renewing is of love.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I marvel much pardy (quoth she) for to behold the rout,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To see man, woman, boy and beast, to toss the world about:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some kneel, some crouch, some beck, some check, and some can smoothly smile,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And some embrace others in arm, and there think many a wile,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some stand aloof at cap and knee, some humble and some stout,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet are they never friends in deed until they once fall out:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus ended she her song and said, before she did remove,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The falling out of faithful friends renewing is of love.", "") ?>
Poet("Richard Edwardes", "1523-1566") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>