(Given to her in our early acquaintance)
"Oh!if I thought it could be in a woman (As,if it can,I will presume in you)To feed for aye her lamp and flames of love,To keep her constancy in plight and youth,Outliving 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 confronted with the match and weight Of such a winnowed 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."TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.
