Queen Elizabeth I(1533—1603)

When I Was Fair

　　When I was fair and young and favour gracèd 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 other where:

　　　　　　　　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 other where:

　　　　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 other where:

　　　　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 other where:

　　　　Importune me no more.’