Versos English Stephen Hawes Amoure

English poem

Amoure

by (1474–1523)

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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?