| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | The Complete Lover | | By William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645) |
| | | FOR her gait, if she be walking; | |
| Be she sitting, I desire her | |
| For her state’s sake; and admire her | |
| For her wit if she be talking; | |
| Gait and state and wit approve her; | 5 |
| For which all and each I love her. | |
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| Be she sullen, I commend her | |
| For a modest. Be she merry, | |
| For a kind one her prefer I. | |
| Briefly, everything doth lend her | 10 |
| So much grace, and so approve her, | |
| That for everything I love her. | | | | |
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