Be she fairer than the day
If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?
Should my heart be grieved or pined
Cause I see a woman kind?
Be she meeker than a turtledove,
If she be not so to me,
What care I how kind she be?
Shall a woman's virtues move
Me to perish for her love?
Be she with that goodness best,
If she be not such to me,
What care I how good she be?
Great or good or kind or fair,
If she slight me when I woo,
I can scorn and let her go;
For if she be not for me,
What care I for whom she be. |