To see another chosen in my place;
And yet I courted her, I'm very sure,
With love as true as his was, and as pure.
II.
But if I ever be so fond again
To undertake the second part of love,
To reassume that most unmanlike pain,
10Or after shipwreck do the ocean prove;
My mistress must be gentle, kind, and free,
Or I'll be as indifferent as she.