StoryTitle("caps", "An Ode to Master Anthony~Stafford ") ?>
To Hasten Him Into the Country
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Come, spur away,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I have no patience for a longer stay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "But must go down", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And leave the chargeable noise of this great town:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "I will the country see,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Where old simplicity,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Though hid in gray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Doth look more gay", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Than foppery in plush and scarlet clad.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Farewell, you city wits, that are", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Almost at civil war—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Tis time that I grow wise, when all the world grows mad.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "More of my days", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I will not spend to gain an idiot's praise;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Or to make sport", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For some slight Puisne of the Inns of Court.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Then, worthy Stafford, say,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "How shall we spend the day?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "With what delights", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Shorten the nights?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When from this tumult we are got secure,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Where mirth with all her freedom goes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Yet shall no finger lose;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where every word is thought, and every thought is pure?", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "There from the tree", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We'll cherries pluck, and pick the strawberry;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "And every day", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Go see the wholesome country girls make hay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Whose brown hath lovelier grace", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Than any painted face", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "That I do know", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Hyde Park can show:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where I had rather gain a kiss than meet", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "(Though some of them in greater state", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Might court my love with plate)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The beauties of the Cheap, and wives of Lombard Street.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "But think upon", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Some other pleasures: these to me are none.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Why do I prate", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of women, that are things against my fate!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "I never mean to wed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "That torture to my bed:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "My Muse is she", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "My love shall be.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Let clowns get wealth and heirs: when I am gone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And that great bugbear, grisly Death,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Shall take this idle breath,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If I a poem leave, that poem is my son.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Of this no more!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We'll rather taste the bright Pomona's store.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "No fruit shall 'scape", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our palates, from the damson to the grape.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Then, full, we'll seek a shade,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And hear what music's made;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "How Philomel", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Her tale doth tell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And how the other birds do fill the quire;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The thrush and blackbird lend their throats,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Warbling melodious notes;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We will all sports enjoy which others but desire.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Ours is the sky,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where at what fowl we please our hawk shall fly:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Nor will we spare", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To hunt the crafty fox or timorous hare;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "But let our hounds run loose", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In any ground they'll choose;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "The buck shall fall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "The stag, and all.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our pleasures must from their own warrants be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "For to my Muse, if not to me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "I'm sure all game is free:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heaven, earth, are all but parts of her great royalty.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "And when we mean", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To taste of Bacchus' blessings now and then,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "And drink by stealth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A cup or two to noble Barkley's health,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "I'll take my pipe and try", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The Phrygian melody;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Which he that hears,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Lets through his ears", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A madness to distemper all the brain:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Then I another pipe will take", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "And Doric music make,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To civilize with graver notes our wits again.", "") ?>
Poet("Thomas Randolph", "1605-1635") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>