StoryTitle("caps", "Whilst It~Is~Prime") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fresh Spring, the herald of loves mighty king,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In whose cote-armour richly are displayd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All sorts of flowers, the which on earth do spring,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In goodly colours gloriously arrayd—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Goe to my love, where she is carelesse layd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet in her winters bowre not well awake;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tell her the joyous time wil not be staid,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bid her therefore her selfe soone ready make,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To wayt on Love amongst his lovely crew;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where every one, that misseth then her make,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall be by him amearst with penance dew.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Make hast, therefore, sweet love, whilest it is prime;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For none can call againe the passéd time.", "") ?>
Poet("Edmund Spenser", "1552-1599") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>