<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397176" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Manly Heart</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall I, wasting in despair, <br>Die because a woman's fair? <br>Or my cheeks make pale with care <br>'Cause another's rosy are? <br>Be she fairer than the day <br>Or the flowery meads in May -- <br>If she be not so to me, <br>What care I how fair she be?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall my foolish heart be pined <br>'Cause I see a woman kind; <br>Or a well dispos-ed nature <br>Join-ed with a lovely feature? <br>Be she meeker, kinder, than <br>Turtle-dove or pelican, <br>If she be not so to me, <br>What care I how kind she be?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall a woman's virtues move <br>Me to perish for her love? <br>Or her merit's value known <br>Make me quite forget mine own? <br>Be she with that goodness blest <br>Which may gain her name of Best; <br>If she seem not such to me, <br>What care I how good she be?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Cause her fortune seems too high, <br>Shall I play the fool and die? <br>Those that bear a noble mind <br>Where they want of riches find, <br>Think what with them they would do <br>Who without them dare to woo; <br>And unless that mind I see, <br>What care I though great she be?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Great or good, or kind or fair, <br>I will ne'er the more despair; <br>If she love me, this believe, <br>I will die ere she shall grieve; <br>If she slight me when I woo, <br>I can scorn and let her go; <br>For if she be not for me, <br>What care I for whom she be?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Wither">George Wither</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397176" data-title="The Manly Heart de George Wither" data-description="Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or my cheeks make pale with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day Or the flowery meads in May -- If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be? Shall my fo..."></div> </div> </div>

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