StoryTitle("caps", "A Farewell to the World") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "False world, good night! since thou hast brought ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That hour upon my morn of age; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Henceforth I quit thee from my thought,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My part is ended on thy stage. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yes, threaten, do. Alas! I fear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As little as I hope from thee: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I know thou canst not show nor bear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "More hatred than thou hast to me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My tender, first, and simple years ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thou didst abuse and then betray;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since stir'd'st up jealousies and fears, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When all the causes were away. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then in a soil hast planted me ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where breathe the basest of thy fools; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where envious arts professéd be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And pride and ignorance the schools; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where nothing is examined, weigh'd, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But as 'tis rumour'd, so believed; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where every freedom is betray'd, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And every goodness tax'd or grieved.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But what we're born for, we must bear: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our frail condition it is such ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That what to all may happen here, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "If 't chance to me, I must not grutch. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Else I my state should much mistake ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To harbour a divided thought ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From all my kind—that, for my sake, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There should a miracle be wrought. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No, I do know that I was born ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To age, misfortune, sickness, grief: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I will bear these with that scorn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As shall not need thy false relief. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor for my peace will I go far, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As wanderers do, that still do roam; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But make my strengths, such as they are,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Here in my bosom, and at home.", "") ?>
Poet("Ben Jonson", "1573-1637") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>