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.