Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey - A Vow To Love Faithfully, Howsoever He Be Rewarded lyrics

SET me whereas the sun doth parch the green Or where his beams do not dissolve the ice ; In temperate heat, where he is felt and seen ; In presence prest1 of people, mad, or wise ; Set me in high, or yet in low degree ; In longest night, or in the shortest day ; In clearest sky, or where clouds thickest be ; In lusty youth, or when my hairs are gray : Set me in heaven, in earth, or else in hell, In hill, or dale, or in the foaming flood ; Thrall, or at large, alive whereso I dwell, Sick, or in health, in evil fame or good, Her's will I be ; and only with this thought Content myself, although my chance be nought.