When I was Fair and Young

--- Queen Elizabeth I

When I was fair and young, and favour graced me,

Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be;

But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore:

"Go, go, go seek some otherwhere; importune me no more!"

How many weeping eyes I made to pine with woe,

How many sighing hearts, I have no skill to show;

Yet I the prouder grew, and answered them therefore:

"Go, go, go seek some otherwhere; importune me no more!"

Then spake fair Venus' son, that proud victorious boy,

And said: "Fine dame, since that you be so coy,

I will so pluck your plumes that you shall say no more:

'Go, go, go seek some otherwhere; importune me no more!'"

When he had spake these words, such change grew in my breast

That neither night nor day since that, I could take any rest.

Then lo! I did repent that I had said before:

"Go, go, go seek some otherwhere; importune me no more!"

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