SINCE first I saw your face I resolved to honour and renown ye; <br />If now I be disdained I wish my heart had never known ye. <br />What? I that loved and you that liked, shall we begin to wrangle? <br />No, no, no, my heart is fast, and cannot disentangle. <br /> <br />If I admire or praise you too much, that fault you may forgive me; <br />Or if my hands had stray'd but a touch, then justly might you leave <br />me. <br />I ask'd you leave, you bade me love; is 't now a time to chide me? <br />No, no, no, I'll love you still what fortune e'er betide me. <br /> <br />The Sun, whose beams most glorious are, rejecteth no beholder, <br />And your sweet beauty past compare made my poor eyes the bolder: <br />Where beauty moves and wit delights and signs of kindness bind me, <br />There, O there! where'er I go I'll leave my heart behind me!<br /><br />Anonymous<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/since-first-i-saw-your-face-thomas-ford-s-music/
