StoryTitle("caps", "The Lover's Resolution") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall I, wasting in despair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Die because a woman's fair? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or make pale my cheeks with care ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Cause another's rosy are? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be she fairer than the day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or the flow'ry meads in May, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "If she think not well of me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What care I how fair she be? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall my silly heart be pined ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "'Cause I see a woman kind?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or a well disposéd nature ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Joinéd with a lovely feature? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be she meeker, kinder, than ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Turtle-dove or pelican, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "If she be not so to me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What care I how kind she be? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall a woman's virtues move ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Me to perish for her love? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or her well-deservings known ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Make me quite forget my own?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be she with that goodness blest ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which may merit name of Best, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "If she be not such to me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What care I how good she be? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Cause her fortune seems too high,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall I play the fool and die? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She that bears a noble mind, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If not outward helps she find, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thinks what with them he would do ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That without them dares her woo;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And unless that mind I see, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What care I how great she be? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Great, or good, or kind, or fair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I will ne'er the more despair; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If she love me, this believe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I will die ere she shall grieve; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If she slight me when I woo, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I can scorn and let her go; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For if she be not for me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What care I for whom she be?", "") ?>
Poet("George Wither", "1588-1667") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>