Self-Love

• He that cannot choose but love,
• And strives against it still,
• Never shall my fancy move,
• For he loves ‘gainst his will;
• Nor he which is all his own,
• And can at pleasure choose,
• When I am caught he can be gone,
• And when he list refuse.
• Nor he that loves none but fair,
• For such by all are sought;
• Nor he that can for foul ones care,
• For his judgement then is nought;
• Nor he that hath wit, for he
• Will make me his jest or slave;
• Nor a fool, for when others…,
• He can neither….;
• Nor he that still his Mistress pays,
• For she is thralled therefore;
• Nor he that pays not, for he says
• Within She’s worth no more.
• Is there then no kind of men
• Whom I may freely prove?
• I will vent that humour then
• In mine own self-love.