English poem
Susan
by Samuel Rowlands (1598–1630)
I laugh that you compare vs to your hens, Or straying pigions that abroad haue flowne, To seeke about for cocks of other mens, Because (you say) they wanted of their owne: But Francke, though you like them be francke and free, You must not iudge all other so to be.
We doe not vse to hunt abroad for cockes, But rather shun the places where they be, The prouerbe sayes, let geese beware the fox, Tis easie making prayes of such as we: That will not keepe them from the charmers charme Mens flatteries doe maiden-heads much harme.