1306WHen thou shalt be dispode to set me light,

1307And place my merrit in the eie of skorne,

1308Vpon thy side, against my selfe ile fight,

1309And proue thee virtuous, though thou art forsworne:

1310With mine owne weakenesse being best acquainted,

1311Vpon thy part I can set downe a story

1312Of faults conceald, wherein I am attainted:

1313That thou in loosing me shall win much glory:

1314And I by this wil be a gainer too,

1315For bending all my louing thoughts on thee,

1316The iniuries that to my selfe I doe,

1317Doing thee vantage, duble vantage me.

1318 Such is my loue, to thee I so belong,

1319That for thy right, my selfe will beare all wrong.

1321SAy that thou didst forsake mee for some falt,

1322And I will comment vpon that offence,

1323Speake of my lamenesse, and I straight will halt:

1324Against thy reasons making no defence.

1325Thou canst not(loue)disgrace me halfe so ill,

1326To set a forme vpon desired change,

1327As ile my selfe disgrace, knowing thy wil,

1328I will acquaintance strangle and looke strange:

1329Be absent from thy walkes and in my tongue,

1330Thy sweet beloued name no more shall dwell,

1331Least I (too much prophane) should do it wronge:

1332And haplie of our old acquaintance tell.

1333 For thee, against my selfe ile vow debate,

1334For I must nere loue him whom thou dost hate.

1336THen hate me when thou wilt, if euer, now,

1337Now while the world is bent my deeds to crosse,

1338Ioyne with the spight of fortune, make me bow,

1339And doe not drop in for an after losse:

1340Ah doe not, when my heart hath scapte this sorrow,

1341Come in the rereward of a conquerd woe,

1342Giue not a windy night a rainie morrow,

1343To linger out a purposd ouer-throw.

1344If thou wilt leaue me, do not leaue me last,

1345When other pettie griefes haue done their spight,

1346But in the onset come, so stall I taste

1347At first the very worst of fortunes might.

1348 And other straines of woe, which now seeme woe,

1349Compar'd with losse of thee, will not seeme so.