1828To trust those tables that receaue thee more,

1829 To keepe an adiunckt to remember thee,

1830Were to import forgetfulnesse in mee.

1832NO! Time, thou shalt not bost that I doe change,

1833Thy pyramyds buylt vp with newer might

1834To me are nothing nouell, nothing strange,

1835They are but dressings of a former sight:

1836Our dates are breefe, and therefor we admire,

1837What thou dost foyst vpon vs that is ould,

1838And rather make them borne to our desire,

1839Then thinke that we before haue heard them tould:

1840Thy registers and thee I both defie,

1841Not wondring at the present, nor the past,

1842For thy records, and what we see doth lye,

1843Made more or les by thy continuall hast:

1844 This I doe vow and this shall euer be,

1845I will be true dispight thy syeth and thee.

1847YF my deare loue were but the childe of state,

1848It might for fortunes basterd be vnfathered,

1849As subiect to times loue, or to times hate,

1850Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gatherd.

1851No it was buylded far from accident,

1852It suffers not in smilinge pomp, nor falls

1853Vnder the blow of thralled discontent,

1854Whereto th'inuiting time our fashion calls:

1855It feares not policy that Heriticke,

1856Which workes on leases of short numbred howers,

1857But all alone stands hugely pollitick,

1858That it nor growes with heat, nor drownes with showres.

1859 To this I witnes call the foles of time,

1860Which die for goodnes, who haue liu'd for crime.

1862WEr't ought to me I bore the canopy,

1863With my extern the outward honoring,