And I am sure, that on some hour

Coquetting soft ’twixt sun and shower,

He stooped and broke a daisy-flower

With heart of tiny span,

And bore it as a lover’s dower

Across the fields to Anne.

While from her cottage garden-bed

She plucked a jasmine’s goodlihede,

To scent his jerkins brown instead;

Now since that love began,