| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | Change Defended | | By Sir Edward Sherburne (1618–1702) |
| | | LEAVE, Chloris, leave; prithee no more | |
| With want of love or lightness charge me: | |
| ’Cause thy looks captived me before, | |
| May not another’s now enlarge me? | |
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| He whose misguided zeal hath long | 5 |
| Paid homage to some star’s pale light, | |
| Better informed, may without wrong | |
| Leave that t’ adore the queen of night. | |
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| Then if my heart, which long served thee, | |
| Will to Carintha now incline; | 10 |
| Why termed inconstant should it be | |
| For bowing ’fore a richer shrine? | |
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| Censure those lovers so, whose will | |
| Inferior objects can entice; | |
| Who changes for the better still, | 15 |
| Makes that a virtue, you call vice. | | | | |
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