William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
Song: Follow a shadow, it still flies youBen Jonson (15721637)
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Seem to fly it, it will pursue;
So court a mistress, she denies you,
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say, are not women truly then
Styled but the shadows of us men?
At noon, they are short or none;
So men at weakest, they are strongest,
But grant us perfect, they’re not known.
Say, are not women truly then
Styled but the shadows of us men?