“If Cynthia Be a Queen, a Princess, and Supreme”

If Cynthia be a queen, a princess, and supreme,

Keep these among the rest, or say it was a dream,

For those that like, expound, and those that loathe express

Meanings according as their minds are moved more or less;

For writing what thou art, or showing what thou were,

Adds to the one disdain, to the other but despair,

      Thy mind of neither needs, in both seeing it exceeds.