StoryTitle("caps", "To an Inconstant One") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I loved thee once; I'll love no more— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thine be the grief as is the blame; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou art not what thou wast before, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What reason I should be the same? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "He that can love unloved again, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Hath better store of love than brain: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "God send me love my debts to pay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While unthrifts fool their love away! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nothing could have my love o'erthrown ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "If thou hadst still continued mine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yea, if thou hadst remain'd thy own, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I might perchance have yet been thine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "But thou thy freedom didst recall ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "That it thou might elsewhere enthral: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And then how could I but disdain", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A captive's captive to remain? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When new desires had conquer'd thee ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And changed the object of thy will, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It had been lethargy in me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not constancy, to love thee still.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Yea, it had been a sin to go ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And prostitute affection so: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Since we are taught no prayers to say ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To such as must to others pray. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet do thou glory in thy choice—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy choice of his good fortune boast; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll neither grieve nor yet rejoice ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To see him gain what I have lost: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The height of my disdain shall be ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "To laugh at him, to blush for thee;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To love thee still, but go no more ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A-begging at a beggar's door.", "") ?>
Poet("Sir Robert Ayton", "1570-1638") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>