Love, live, and like him well, before you grant him grace or faith,

So shall your love continue long, experience thus he saith.

Virginia. I grant, dear Dame, I do agree,

When time shall so provide;

But tender youth and infancy

Doth rather wish me bide.

What, should I lose Diana’s gift

And eke the spring to shun,

By which Acteon fatally

His final race did run?