| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | The Forsaken Maid | | By William Hammond (fl. 1655) |
| | | GO, fickle man, and teach the moon to change, | |
| The winds to vary, the coy bee to range: | |
| You that despise the conquest of a town, | |
| Rendered without resistance of one frown. | |
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| Is this of easy faith the recompense? | 5 |
| Is my prone love’s too prodigal expense | |
| Rewarded with disdain? Did ever dart | |
| Rebound from such a penetrable heart? | |
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| Diana, in the service of whose shrine, | |
| Myself to single life I will confine, | 10 |
| Revenge thy votaress; for unto thee | |
| The ruling ocean bends his azure knee. | |
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| And since he loves upon rough seas to ride, | |
| Grant such an Adria, whose swelling tide, | |
| And stormy tongue, may his false vessel wrack, | 15 |
| And make the cordage of his heart to crack. | | | | |
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