| DID not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye, | |
| ’Gainst whom the world could not hold argument, | |
| Persuade my heart to this false perjury? | |
| Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment. | |
| A woman I forswore; but I will prove, | 5 |
| Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee: | |
| My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love; | |
| Thy grace being gain’d cures all disgrace in me. | |
| My vow was breath, and breath a vapour is; | |
| Then thou, fair sun, that on this earth dost shine, | 10 |
| Exhale this vapour vow; in thee it is: | |
| If broken, then it is no fault of mine. | |
| If by me broke, what fool is not so wise | |
| To break an oath, to win a paradise? |