StoryTitle("caps", "Coronemus Nos Rosis Antequam Marcescant ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let us drink and be merry, dance, joke, and rejoice, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With claret and sherry, theorbo and voice! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The changeable world to our joy is unjust, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "All treasure's uncertain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Then down with your dust! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In frolics dispose your pounds, shillings, and pence, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For we shall be nothing a hundred years hence. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We'll sport and be free with Moll, Betty, and Dolly, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Have oysters and lobsters to cure melancholy: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fish-dinners will make a man spring like a flea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Dame Venus, love's lady, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Was born of the sea: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With her and with Bacchus we'll tickle the sense, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For we shall be past it a hundred years hence. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your most beautiful bride who with garlands is crown'd ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And kills with each glance as she treads on the ground, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose lightness and brightness doth shine in such splendour ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "That none but the stars ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Are thought fit to attend her, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though now she be pleasant and sweet to the sense, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will be damnable mouldy a hundred years hence. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then why should we turmoil in cares and in fears, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Turn all our tranquill'ty to sighs and to tears? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let's eat, drink, and play till the worms do corrupt us, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3DQ", "", "'Tis certain, Post mortem ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Nulla voluptas. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For health, wealth and beauty, wit, learning and sense, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Must all come to nothing a hundred years hence.", "") ?>
Poet("Thomas Jordan", "1612?–1685") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>