[105] Air, quoth he, thy cheeks may blow;

[106] Air, would I might triumph so!

[107] But, alack, my hand is sworn

[108] Ne’er to pluck thee from thy thorn;

Vow, alack, for youth unmeet,

110 Youth so apt to pluck a sweet!

[111] Do not call it sin in me,

That I am forsworn for thee;

[113] Thou for whom Jove would swear

Juno but an Ethiope were;