Shall I wasting in despair
Die because a woman's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care
'Cause another's rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flow'ry meads in May,
If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?
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Citation
Gent, George Wither. Fair Virtue, The Mistress of Phil'arete. London: John Grismand, 1622, sonnet 4, st. 1.
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