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Yett knowe I nott which flower I wish a six or fower For should my true loue, lesse then woman bee, Shee were scarce any thinge; and then should shee Bee more then a woman, shee would gett aboue All thought of sexe, and thinke to moue My hart to studdie her, not to loue; Both these were Monsters: since then mvst reside, Falshood in woman I could more abide Shee were by art, then Nature falsified. Liue Primerose then and thriue With thy true nvmber fiue And women, whome this flowre doth represent With this misterious nvmber bee content: Ten is the furthest nvmber; if halfe ten Belonge vnto each woman, then Each woman may take halfe vs men. Or if this will not serue their tvrne, since all Numbers are odd or even, and they fall First into this fiue, they may take vs all Littell thinkst thou, poore flowre, Whome I haue watchd six or seven daies And seene thy birth, and seene what every howre Gaue to thy growth, thee to this highth to raise And now dost laugh, and tryvmph on this bowe Littell thinkst thou That it will freeze anon, and that I shall To morrow finde thee falne, or not att all. |
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