Reasons

Love me not for comely grace,

For my pleasing eye or face,

Nor for any outward part,

No, nor for a constant hear;

For these may fail or turn to ill,

So thou and I shall sever;

Keep, therefore, a true woman’s eye,

And love me still but know not why—

So hast thou the same reason still

To doat upon me ever!

Anonymous, 1609