[029] And yet to be afeard of my deserving

030 Were but a weak disabling of myself.

As much as I deserve! Why, that’s the lady:

I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes,

In graces and in qualities of breeding;

[034] But more than these, in love I do deserve.

035 What if I stray’d no further, but chose here?

Let’s see once more this saying graved in gold;

‘Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.’

Why, that’s the lady; all the world desires her;