StoryTitle("caps", "The Libertine") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A thousand martyrs I have made, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All sacrificed to my desire, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A thousand beauties have betray'd ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That languish in resistless fire: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The untamed heart to hand I brought,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And fix'd the wild and wand'ring thought. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I never vow'd nor sigh'd in vain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But both, tho' false, were well received; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fair are pleased to give us pain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And what they wish is soon believed:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And tho' I talk'd of wounds and smart, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love's pleasures only touch'd my heart. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Alone the glory and the spoil ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I always laughing bore away; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The triumphs without pain or toil,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Without the hell the heaven of joy; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And while I thus at random rove ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Despise the fools that whine for love.", "") ?>
Poet("Aphra Behn", "1640–1689") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>