Never more will I protest, <br />To love a woman but in jest: <br />For as they cannot be true, <br />So, to give each man his due, <br />When the wooing fit is past <br />Their affection cannot last. <br /> <br />Therefore, if I chance to meet <br />With a mistress fair and sweet, <br />She my service shall obtain, <br />Loving her for love again: <br />Thus much liberty I crave, <br />Not to be a constant slave. <br /> <br />But when we have tried each other, <br />If she better like another, <br />Let her quickly change for me, <br />Then to change am I as free. <br />He or she that loves too long <br />Sell their freedom for a song.<br /><br />Francis Beaumont<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-indifferent-3/
