StoryTitle("caps", "A Ditty") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
In Praise of Eliza, Queen of the Shepherds
PoemLine("L0", "", "See where she sits upon the grassie greene,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "(O seemely sight!)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yclad in Scarlot, like a mayden Queene,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And ermines white:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon her head a Cremosin coronet", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Damaske roses and Daffadillies set:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Bay leaves betweene,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And primroses greene,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Embellish the sweete Violet.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tell me, have ye seene her angelick face", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Like Phœbe fayre?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her heavenly haveour, her princely grace,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Can you well compare?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Redde rose medled with the White yfere,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In either cheeke depeincten lively chere:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Her modest eye,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Her Majestie,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where have you seene the like but there?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I see Calliope speede her to the place,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Where my Goddesse shines;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And after her the other Muses trace", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "With their Violines.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bene they not Bay braunches which they do beare,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All for Elisa in her hand to weare?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "So sweetely they play,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And sing all the way,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That it a heaven is to heare.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lo, how finely the Graces can it foote", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "To the Instrument:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They dauncen deffly, and singen soote,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In their meriment.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wants not a fourth Grace to make the daunce even?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let that rowme to my Lady be yeven.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "She shal be a Grace,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "To fyll the fourth place,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And reigne with the rest in heaven.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bring hether the Pincke and purple Cullambine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "With Gelliflowres;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bring Coronations, and Sops-in-wine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Worne of Paramoures:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Strowe me the ground with Daffadowndillies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Cowslips, and Kingcups, and lovéd Lillies:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The pretie Pawnce,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And the Chevisaunce,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall match with the fayre flowre Delice.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now ryse up, Elisa, deckéd as thou art", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In royall aray;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And now ye daintie Damsells may depart", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Eche one her way.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I feare I have troubled your troupes to longe:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let dame Elisa thanke you for her song:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And if you come hether", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "When Damsines I gether,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I will part them all you among.", "") ?>
Poet("Edmund Spenser", "1552-1599") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>