StoryTitle("caps", "A Nosegay") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Say, crimson Rose and dainty Daffodil,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "With Violet blue;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since you have seen the beauty of my saint,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "And eke her view;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Did not her sight (fair sight!) you lonely fill, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "With sweet delight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of goddess' grace and angels' sacred teint", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "In fine, most bright?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Say, golden Primrose, sanguine Cowslip fair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "With Pink most fine; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since you beheld the visage of my dear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "And eyes divine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Did not her globy front, and glistering hair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "With cheeks most sweet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So gloriously like damask flowers appear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "The gods to greet?", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Say, snow-white Lily, speckled Gillyflower,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "With Daisy gay;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since you have viewed the Queen of my desire,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "In her array; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Did not her ivory paps, fair Venus' bower,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "With heavenly glee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A Juno's grace, conjure you to require", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Her face to see?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Say Rose, say Daffodil, and Violet blue, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "With Primrose fair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since ye have seen my nymph's sweet dainty face", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "And gesture rare,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Did not (bright Cowslip, blooming Pink) her view", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "(White Lily) shine—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(Ah, Gillyflower, ah Daisy!) with a grace", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Like stars divine?", "") ?>
Poet("John Reynolds", "fl. 16th century") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>