| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | What the Mighty Love Has Done | | By John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
| | | HEAR, 1 ye ladies that despise, | |
| What the mighty Love has done; | |
| Fear examples and be wise: | |
| Fair Calisto was a nun; | |
| Leda, sailing on a 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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