HEAR, ye ladies that despise <br /> What the mighty Love has done; <br />Fear examples and be wise: <br /> Fair Callisto was a nun; <br />Leda, sailing on the stream <br /> To deceive the hopes of man, <br />Love accounting but a dream, <br /> Doted on a silver swan; <br /> Danae, in a brazen tower, <br /> Where no love was, loved a shower. <br /> <br />Hear, ye ladies that are coy, <br /> What the mighty Love can do; <br />Fear the fierceness of the boy: <br /> The chaste Moon he makes to woo; <br />Vesta, kindling holy fires, <br /> Circled round about with spies, <br />Never dreaming loose desires, <br /> Doting at the altar dies; <br /> Ilion, in a short hour, higher <br /> He can build, and once more fire.<br /><br />John Fletcher<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hear-ye-ladies/
