Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,.

See also Charles Dunster Considerations on Milton's early Reading (1800). Joshua Sylvester (1563 – 28 September 1618) was an English poet. His Essay of the Second Week was publiJoshua Sylvesterd in 1598; and in 1604 The Divine Weeks of the World's Birth.