StoryTitle("caps", "Love~Not~Me For~Comely~Grace") ?>
From John Wilbye's Second Set of Madrigals (1609)
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love not me for comely grace,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For my pleasing eye or face,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor for any outward part,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No, nor for a constant heart:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For these may fail or turn to ill,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "So thou and I shall sever:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Keep, therefore, a true woman's eye,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And love me still but know not why—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So hast thou the same reason still", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "To doat upon me ever!", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>