Let not my heart be called idolatry,

Nor my beloved as an idol show,

Since all alike my songs and praises be

To one, of one still such, and ever so.

Kind is my love today, tommorrow kind,

Still constant in a wondrous excellence.

Therefore my verse, to constancy confined,

One thing expressing, leaves out difference.

'Fair, kind, and true is all my argument,

'Fair, kind, and true varying to other words,

And in this change is my invention spent,

Three themes in one, which wonderous scope affords,

    Fair, kind, and true have often lived alone,

   Which three till now never kept seat in one.