And yet it is not that I bear thee love;

But since that thou canst talk of love so well,

Thy company, which erst was irksome to me,

095 I will endure, and I ’ll employ thee too:

But do not look for further recompense

Than thine own gladness that thou art employ’d.

Sil. So holy and so perfect is my love,

[099] And I in such a poverty of grace,

100 That I shall think it a most plenteous crop

To glean the broken ears after the man