My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, / Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight.
The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words
For solitude is sometimes best society, And short retirement urges sweet return
Implied / Subjection, but required with gentle sway / And by her yielded, by him best received; / Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, / And sweet reluctant amorous delay.
O fairest of creation! last and best / Of all God's works! Creature in whom excelled / Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, / Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!