StoryTitle("caps", "A~Pedlar") ?>
From John Dowland's Second Book of Songs or Airs (1600)
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fine knacks for ladies! cheap, choice, brave, and new,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Good pennyworths—but money cannot move:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I keep a fair but for the Fair to view—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A beggar may be liberal of love.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though all my wares be trash, the heart is true,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L11", "", "The heart is true.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Great gifts are guiles and look for gifts again;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My trifles come as treasures from my mind:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It is a precious jewel to be plain;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sometimes in shell the orient'st pearls we find:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L11", "", "Of me a grain!", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>