"Know that I worship you on bended knee"

To worship and love a woman for her body and physical beauty is not unusual, but to have her heart and her love is uncommon and therefore more superior.

Know that I worship you on bended knee;

with kisses, too, I prize your tempting breasts

and maiden-head which begs me to molest

your virgin sex so deep and lustfully;

for each fine breast I'd give one-thousand years,

but more will I give for that pubic crest

of yellow wires that conceal the rest,--

(belovéd, I'd give an age for those frontiers!).

If I can give a kingdom for your heart

and love upon more love then be it so,

for possessing the best of you apart

from zeal invites only misery and woe:

a prince I'd rather be and just depart

from your globe than grieve you so, this I know.