StoryTitle("caps", "The~Faithless~Shepherdess") ?>
From William Byrd's Songs of Sundry Natures (1589)
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While that the sun with his beams hot", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Scorchéd the fruits in vale and mountain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Philon the shepherd, late forgot,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sitting beside a crystal fountain", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In shadow of a green oak tree,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Upon his pipe this song play'd he:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Adieu, Love, adieu, Love, untrue Love!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu, Love!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So long as I was in your sight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I was your heart, your soul, your treasure;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And evermore you sobb'd and sigh'd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Burning in flames beyond all measure:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "—Three days endured your love to me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And it was lost in other three!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Adieu, Love, adieu, Love, untrue Love!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu, Love!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Another shepherd you did see,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To whom your heart was soon enchainéd;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Full soon your love was leapt from me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Full soon my place he had obtainéd.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Soon came a third your love to win,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And we were out and he was in.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Adieu, Love, adieu, Love, untrue Love!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu, Love!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sure you have made me passing glad", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That you your mind so soon removéd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Before that I the leisure had", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To choose you for my best belovéd:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "For all my love was pass'd and done", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Two days before it was begun.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Adieu, Love, adieu, Love, untrue Love!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu, Love!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>