John Heywood: "Betapa suatu waktu tumbuh-tumbuhan dan rumput liar, dan...

"Betapa suatu waktu tumbuh-tumbuhan dan rumput liar, dan hal-hal semacam itu dapat berbicara, Seorang lelaki di kebunnya suatu hari berjalan, Memata-matai jelatang hijau (seperti perempuan muda) menyebar di tempat tidur mawar seperti merah ruby. Di antara dua warna itu dia berpikir, tetapi matanya, jelatang hijau membuat mawar merah mempercantik. "Bagaimana," dia bertanya pada jelatang, "benda apa yang membuatnya begitu pert? Jadi, dekat Mawar ke Musim Semi."

--- John Heywood

Versi Bahasa Inggris

What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as th'emeraude) spread in a bed of roses like the ruby red. Between which two colors he thought, but his eye, The green nettle did the red rose beautify. "How be it," he asked the nettle, "what thing Made him so pert? So nigh the Rose to Spring.