To My Dear and Loving Husband

If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man
Compare with me ye women if you can
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench
Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.
Thy love is such I can no way repay;
The heavens reward thee monifold, I pray
Then while we live, in love let's so persever
That when we live no more we may live ever.