StoryTitle("caps", "Phyllida's Love‑Call") ?>
From England's Helicon (1600)
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Phyllida: Corydon, arise, my Corydon!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Titan shineth clear.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Corydon: Who is it that calleth Corydon?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Who is it that I hear?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Phyllida: Phyllida, thy true love, calleth thee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Arise then, arise then,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Arise and keep thy flock with me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Corydon: Phyllida, my true love, is it she?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "I come then, I come then,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "I come and keep my flock with thee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Phyllida: Here are cherries ripe for my Corydon;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Eat them for my sake.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Corydon: Here's my oaten pipe, my lovely one,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Sport for thee to make.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Phyllida: Here are threads, my true love, fine as silk,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "To knit thee, to knit thee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "A pair of stockings white as milk.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Corydon: Here are reeds, my true love, fine and neat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "To make thee, to make thee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "A bonnet to withstand the heat.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Phyllida: I will gather flowers, my Corydon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "To set in thy cap.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Corydon: I will gather pears, my lovely one,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "To put in thy lap.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Phyllida: I will buy my true love garters gay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "For Sundays, for Sundays,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "To wear about his legs so tall.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Corydon: I will buy my true love yellow say,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "For Sundays, for Sundays,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "To wear about her middle small.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Phyllida: When my Corydon sits on a hill", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Making melody—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Corydon: When my lovely one goes to her wheel,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Singing cheerily—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Phyllida: Sure methinks my true love doth excel", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "For sweetness, for sweetness,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Our Pan, that old Arcadian knight.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Corydon: And methinks my true love bears the bell", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "For clearness, for clearness,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Beyond the nymphs that be so bright.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Phyllida: Had my Corydon, my Corydon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Been, alack! her swain—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Corydon: Had my lovely one, my lovely one,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Been in Ida plain—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Phyllida: Cynthia Endymion had refused,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Preferring, preferring,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "My Corydon to play withal.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Corydon: The Queen of Love had been excused", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Bequeathing, bequeathing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "My Phyllida the golden ball.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Phyllida: Yonder comes my mother, Corydon!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Whither shall I fly?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Corydon: Under yonder beech, my lovely one,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "While she passeth by.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Phyllida: Say to her thy true love was not here;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Remember, remember,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "To-morrow is another day.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Corydon: Doubt me not, my true love, do not fear;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Farewell then, farewell then!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Heaven keep our loves alway!", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>