To keep her constancy in plight and youth,

Out-living beauties outward, with a mind

That doth renew swifter than blood decays.

Or, that persuasion could but thus convince me,

That my integrity and truth to you

Might be affronted with the match and weight

Of such a winnow’d purity in love;

How were I then uplifted! But alas,

I am as true as Truth’s simplicity,

And simpler than the infancy of Truth.’