StoryTitle("caps", "The Question to Lisetta ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What nymph should I admire or trust, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Chloe beauteous, Chloe just? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What nymph should I desire to see, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But her who leaves the plain for me? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To whom should I compose the lay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But her who listens when I play? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To whom in song repeat my cares, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But her who in my sorrow shares? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For whom should I the garland make, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But her who joys the gift to take, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And boasts she wears it for my sake? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In love am I not fully blest? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lisetta, prithee tell the rest. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Lisetta's Reply", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sure Chloe just, and Chloe fair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Deserves to be your only care; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, when you and she to-day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Far into the wood did stray, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I happen'd to pass by, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which way did you cast your eye? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, when your cares to her you sing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You dare not tell her whence they spring: ", "") ?>'
PoemLine("L0", "", "Does it not more afflict your heart, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That in those cares she bears a part? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When you the flowers for Chloe twine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why do you to her garland join ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The meanest bud that falls from mine? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Simplest of swains! the world may see ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whom Chloe loves, and who loves me.", "") ?>
Poet("Matthew Prior", "1664–1721") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>