Faire Venus seemde vnto his bed to bring Her, whom he waking euermore did weene, To be the chastest flowre, that ay did spring On earthly braunch, the daughter of a king, Now a loose Leman to vile seruice bound[…].

Kachruvian, Nehruvian, Peruvian, Whovian

A casement high and triple-arch'd there was, / All garlanded with carven imageries / Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, / And diamonded with panes of quaint device […]

So there are mothers and unmothers, and while neither choice is the easy one to make, motherhood is at least the comfortable one.