StoryTitle("caps", "A Doubt of Martyrdom") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O for some honest lover's ghost, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Some kind unbodied post ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sent from the shades below! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "I strangely long to know ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whether the noble chaplets wear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Those that their mistress' scorn did bear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or those that were used kindly. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For whatsoe'er they tell us here ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To make those sufferings dear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4SQ", "", "'Twill there, I fear, be found", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "That to the being crown'd ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "T' have loved alone will not suffice, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unless we also have been wise ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And have our loves enjoy'd. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What posture can we think him in", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That, here unloved, again ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Departs, and 's thither gone ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Where each sits by his own? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or how can that Elysium be ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where I my mistress still must see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Circled in other's arms? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For there the judges all are just, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Sophonisba must ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Be his whom she held dear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Not his who loved her here.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sweet Philoclea, since she died, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lies by her Pirocles his side, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not by Amphialus. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some bays, perchance, or myrtle bough ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For difference crowns the brow", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Of those kind souls that were ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The noble martyrs here: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if that be the only odds ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(As who can tell?), ye kinder gods, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Give me the woman here!", "") ?>
Poet("Sir John Suckling", "1609–1642") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>