English poem
Amoure
by Stephen Hawes (1474–1523)
I knowe, madame, that your frendes all Unto me sure wyll be contraryous; But what for that? your selfe in speciall Remembre there is no love so joyous As is your owne to you most precyous; Wyll you gyve your youthe and your flourynge aege To them agaynst your mynde in maryage?