StoryTitle("caps", "A Hue and Cry After Fair Amoret") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair Amoret is gone astray—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Pursue and seek her, ev'ry lover;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll tell the signs by which you may", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The wand'ring Shepherdess discover.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Coquette and coy at once her air,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Both studied, tho' both seem neglected;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Careless she is, with artful care,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Affecting to seem unaffected.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With skill her eyes dart ev'ry glance,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Yet change so soon you'd ne'er suspect them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For she'd persuade they wound by chance,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Tho' certain aim and art direct them.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She likes herself, yet others hates ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For that which in herself she prizes; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, while she laughs at them, forgets ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She is the thing that she despises.", "") ?>
Poet("William Congreve", "1670–1729") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>