And she that bore me mortal: prick my hand,

And it will bleed; a fever shakes me, and

The self-same wind that makes the young lambs shrink,

Makes me a-cold: my fear says, I am mortal.

Yet I have heard, (my mother told it me,

And now I do believe it), if I keep

My virgin flow’r uncropt, pure, chaste, and fair,

No goblin, wood-god, fairy, elf, or fiend,

Satyr, or other power that haunts the groves,

Shall hurt my body, or by vain illusion