Daughter

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1. Why should I love this gentleman? ’Tis odds
2. He never will affect me. I am base,
3. My father the mean keeper of his prison,
4. And he a prince. To marry him is hopeless;
5. To be his whore is witless. Out upon’t!
6. What pushes are we wenches driven to
7. When fifteen once has found us! First, I saw him:
8. I, seeing, thought he was a goodly man;
9. He has as much to please a woman in him
10. (If he please to bestow it so) as ever
11. These eyes yet look’d on. Next, I pitied him;
12. And so would any young wench o’ my conscience
13. That ever dream’d, or vow’d her maidenhead
14. To a young handsome man. Then, I lov’d him,
15. Extremely lov’d him, infinitely lov’d him;
16. And yet he had a cousin, fair as he too;
17. But in my heart was Palamon, and there,
18. Lord, what a coil he keeps! To hear him
19. Sing in an evening, what a heaven it is!
20. And yet his songs are sad ones. Fairer spoken
21. Was never gentleman. When I come in
22. To bring him water in a morning, first
23. He bows his noble body, then salutes me thus:
24. “Fair gentle maid, good morrow. May thy goodness
25. Get thee a happy husband!” Once he kiss’d me—
26. I lov’d my lips the better ten days after.
27. Would he would do so ev’ry day! He grieves much,
28. And me as much to see his misery.
29. What should I do to make him know I love him,
30. For I would fain enjoy him? Say I ventur’d
31. To set him free? What says the law then?
32. Thus much for law or kindred! I will do it,
33. And this night, or tomorrow, he shall love me.