| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | The Crier | | By Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | | GOOD folk, for gold or hire, | |
| But help me to a crier; | |
| For my poor heart is run astray | |
| After two eyes that passed this way. | |
| O yes, O yes, O yes, | 5 |
| If there be any man | |
| In town or country can | |
| Bring me my heart again, | |
| I’ll please him for his pain. | |
| And by these marks I will you show | 10 |
| That only I this heart do owe: | |
| It is a wounded heart, | |
| Wherein yet sticks the dart; | |
| Every piece sore hurt throughout it; | |
| Faith and troth writ round about it. | 15 |
| It was a tame heart and a dear, | |
| And never used to roam; | |
| But, having got this haunt, I fear | |
| ’Twill hardly stay at home. | |
| For God’s sake, walking by the way, | 20 |
| If you my heart do see, | |
| Either impound it for a stray, | |
| Or send it back to me. | | | | |
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