StoryTitle("caps", "Phillida and Coridon") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the merry month of May,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In a morn by break of day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Forth I walk'd by the wood-side", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When as May was in his pride:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There I spiéd all alone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Phillida and Coridon.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Much ado there was, God wot!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He would love and she would not.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She said, Never man was true;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He said, None was false to you.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He said, He had loved her long;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She said, Love should have no wrong.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Coridon would kiss her then;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She said, Maids must kiss no men", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till they did for good and all;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then she made the shepherd call", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the heavens to witness truth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Never loved a truer youth.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus with many a pretty oath,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yea and nay, and faith and troth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such as silly shepherds use", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When they will not Love abuse,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love, which had been long deluded,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was with kisses sweet concluded;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Phillida, with garlands gay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was made the Lady of the May.", "") ?>
Poet("Nicholas Breton", "1542-1626") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>