Sir Philip Sidney thus translates this poem:--

Unto no body my woman saith shee had rather a wife be,

Then to myself, not though Jove grew a suter of hers.

These be her words, but a woman's words to a love that is eager,

Midde [windes?] or waters stream do require to be writ.

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