| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| John Fletcher. 1579–1625 |
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| 213. Hear, ye Ladies |
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| HEAR, ye ladies that despise | |
| What the mighty Love has done; | |
| Fear examples and be wise: | |
| Fair Callisto was a nun; | |
| Leda, sailing on the stream | 5 |
| To deceive the hopes of man, | |
| Love accounting but a dream, | |
| Doted on a silver swan; | |
| Danaë, in a brazen tower, | |
| Where no love was, loved a shower. | 10 |
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| Hear, ye ladies that are coy, | |
| What the mighty Love can do; | |
| Fear the fierceness of the boy: | |
| The chaste Moon he makes to woo; | |
| Vesta, kindling holy fires, | 15 |
| Circled round about with spies, | |
| Never dreaming loose desires, | |
| Doting at the altar dies; | |
| Ilion, in a short hour, higher | |
| He can build, and once more fire. | 20 |
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