He, tell's his birth; shee, pleades virginitie:

He saith, selfe-pride doth rarest beauty blot:

(And with that word he kist her louingly:)

Shee, yeeldingly resists; he faines to die:

Shee, fall's for feare; he, on her feareleslie.

But this braue generall of all the Greekes,

Was quickly foyled at a womans hands,

For who so rashly such incounters seekes,

Of hard mis-hap in danger euer stands:

Onely chaste thoughts, vertuous abstinence,