The vermeil flowers and golden and the white,

Roses thorn-set and lilies snowy-bright,

And one and all I fare a-likening

Unto his face who hath with love-liking

Ta’en and will hold me ever, having aye

None other wish than as his pleasures be;

Whereof when one I find me that doth show,

Unto my seeming, likest him, full fain

I cull and kiss and talk with it amain

And all my heart to it, as best I know,