StoryTitle("caps", "Phillada Flouts Me ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O what a plague is love! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "How shall I bear it? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She will inconstant prove, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I greatly fear it. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She so torments my mind ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That my strength faileth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And wavers with the wind ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As a ship saileth. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Please her the best I may, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She loves still to gainsay;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Alack and well-a-day! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Phillada flouts me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At the fair yesterday ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She did pass by me; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She look'd another way", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And would not spy me: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I woo'd her for to dine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But could not get her; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will had her to the wine— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He might entreat her.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Daniel she did dance, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On me she look'd askance: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O thrice unhappy chance! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Phillada flouts me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair maid, be not so coy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Do not disdain me! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I am my mother's joy: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sweet, entertain me! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She'll give me, when she dies, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All that is fitting:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her poultry and her bees, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And her goose sitting, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A pair of mattrass beds, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a bag full of shreds; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yet, for all this guedes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Phillada flouts me! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She hath a clout of mine ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wrought with blue coventry, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which she keeps for a sign ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of my fidelity: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But i' faith, if she flinch ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She shall not wear it; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To Tib, my t'other wench, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I mean to bear it. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yet it grieves my heart", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So soon from her to part: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Death strike me with his dart! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Phillada flouts me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou shalt eat crudded cream ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All the year lasting, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And drink the crystal stream ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Pleasant in tasting; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whig and whey whilst thou lust, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And bramble-berries, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pie-lid and pastry-crust,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Pears, plums, and cherries. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy raiment shall be thin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Made of a weevil's skin— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet all's not worth a pin! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Phillada flouts me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the last month of May ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I made her posies; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I heard her often say ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That she loved roses. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cowslips and gillyflowers", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the white lily ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I brought to deck the bowers ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For my sweet Philly. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But she did all disdain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And threw them back again;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Therefore 'tis flat and plain ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Phillada flouts me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair maiden, have a care, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And in time take me; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I can have those as fair", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "If you forsake me: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For Doll the dairy-maid ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Laugh'd at me lately, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And wanton Winifred ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Favours me greatly.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One throws milk on my clothes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "T'other plays with my nose; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What wanting signs are those? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Phillada flouts me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I cannot work nor sleep", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "At all in season: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love wounds my heart so deep ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Without all reason. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I 'gin to pine away ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In my love's shadow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like as a fat beast may, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Penn'd in a meadow. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I shall be dead, I fear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Within this thousand year: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all for that my dear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Phillada flouts me.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>