XI + 

And therefore if to love can be desert, + 

I am not all unworthy. Cheeks as pale + 

As these you see, and trembling knees that fail + 

To bear the burden of a heavy heart, + 

This weary minstrel-life that once was girt + 

To climb Aornus, and can scarce avail + 

To pipe now ’gainst the valley nightingale + 

A melancholy music⁠—why advert + 

To these things? O Beloved, it is plain + 

I am not of thy worth nor for thy place! + 

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain + 

From that same love this vindicating grace⁠— + 

To live on still in love, and yet in vain, + 

To bless thee, yet renounce thee to thy face. + 