“If she undervalue me,
What care I how fair she be?”

— Walter Raleigh

Poem reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "If she be not so to me, / What care I how fair she be?", George Wither, The Shepherd's Resolution.

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