- Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918 — Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus...
- 1940
- Exported from Wikisource on 01/16/20
- 45
- Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus …
- THEY flee from me that sometime did me seek,
- With naked foot stalking in my chamber:
- I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,
- That now are wild, and do not once remember
- That sometime they have put themselves in danger
- To take bread at my hand, and now they range,
- Busily seeking with a continual change.
- Thanked be fortune, it hath been otherwise
- Twenty times better; but once, in special,
- In thin array, after a pleasant guise,
- When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall,
- And she me caught in her arms long and small,
- Therewith all sweetly did me kiss,
- And softly said, 'Dear heart, how like you this?'
- It was no dream; I lay broad waking
- But all is turned, thorough my gentleness,
- Into a strange fashion of forsaking,
- And I have leave to go, of her goodness;
- And she also to use new-fangleness.
- But since that I so unkindely am served,
- I fain would know what she hath deserved.
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