By a daisy, whose leaves spread,
Shut when Titan goes to bed;
Or a shady bush or tree,
She could more infuse in me
Than all Nature's beauties can
In some other wiser man."
Two songs of Wither's, quoted in Percy's "Reliques"—"The Steadfast Shepherd," and the one beginning
"Shall I, wasting in despair,
Die because a woman's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care