1503For thy negle
ct of truth in beauty di'd?
1504Both truth and beauty on my loue depends:
1505So do
st thou too,
and therein digni
fi'd:
1506Make an
swere Mu
se,
wilt thou not haply
saie,
1507Truth needs no collour with his collour
fixt,
1508Beautie no pen
sell,
beauties truth to lay:
1509But be
st is be
st,
if neuer intermixt.
1510Becau
se he needs no prai
se,
wilt thou be dumb?
1511Excu
se not
silence
so,
for't lies in thee,
1512To make him much out-liue a gilded tombe:
1513And to be prai
sd of ages yet to be.
1514 Then do thy o
ffice Mu
se,
I teach thee how,
1515To make him
seeme long hence,
as he
showes now.
1517MY loue is
strengthned though more weake in
see-ming
1518I loue not le
sse,
thogh le
sse the
show appeare,
1519That loue is marchandiz'd,
who
se ritch e
steeming,
1520The owners tongue doth publi
sh euery where.
1521Our loue was new,
and then but in the
spring,
1522When I was wont to greet it with my laies,
1523As
Philomell in
summers front doth
singe,
1524And
stops his pipe in growth of riper daies:
1525Not that the
summer is le
sse plea
sant now
1526Then when her mournefull himns did hu
sh the night,
1527But that wild mu
sick burthens euery bow,
1528And
sweets growne common loo
se their deare delight.
1529 Therefore like her,
I
some-time hold my tongue:
1530Becau
se I would not dull you with my
songe.
1532ALack what pouerty my Mu
se brings forth,
1533That hauing
such a skope to
show her pride,
1534The argument all bare is of more worth
1535Then when it hath my added prai
se be
side.
1536Oh blame me not if I no more can write!
1537Looke in your gla
sse and there appeares a face,
1538That ouer-goes my blunt inuention quite,
1539Dulling my lines,
and doing me di
sgrace.
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