StoryTitle("caps", "When~Flora Had~O'erfret the~Firth") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quhen Flora had o'erfret the firth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In May of every moneth queen;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quhen merle and mavis singis with mirth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sweet melling in the shawis sheen;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quhen all luvaris rejoicit bene", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And most desirous of their prey,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I heard a lusty luvar mene", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1DQ", "", "—\"I luve, but I dare nocht assay!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Strong are the pains I daily prove,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But yet with patience I sustene,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I am so fetterit with the luve", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Only of my lady sheen,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quhilk for her beauty micht be queen,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nature so craftily alway", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Has done depaint that sweet serene:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "—Quhom I luve I dare nocht assay.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"She is so bricht of hyd and hue,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I luve but her alone, I ween;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is none her luve that may eschew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That blinkis of that dulce amene;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So comely cleir are her twa een", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That she mae luvaris dois affray", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Than ever of Greece did fair Helene:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "—Quhom I luve I dare nocht assay!\"", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "16th century") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>