StoryTitle("caps", "Rosalind's~Madrigal") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love in my bosom like a bee", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Doth suck his sweet:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now with his wings he plays with me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Now with his feet.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Within mine eyes he makes his nest,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His bed amidst my tender breast;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My kisses are his daily feast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yet he robs me of my rest:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Ah! wanton, will ye?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if I sleep, then percheth he", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "With pretty flight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And makes his pillow of my knee", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The livelong night.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Strike I my lute, he tunes the string;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He music plays if so I sing;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He lends me every lovely thing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet cruel he my heart doth sting:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Whist, wanton, still ye!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Else I with roses every day", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Will whip you hence,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And bind you, when you long to play,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "For your offence.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll shut mine eyes to keep you in;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll make you fast it for your sin;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll count your power not worth a pin.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "—Alas! what hereby shall I win", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "If he gainsay me?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What if I beat the wanton boy", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "With many a rod?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He will repay me with annoy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Because a god.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then sit thou safely on my knee;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then let thy bower my bosom be;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lurk in mine eyes, I like of thee;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O Cupid, so thou pity me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Spare not, but play thee!", "") ?>
Poet("Thomas Lodge", "1556?-1625") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>