1864Or layd great bases for eternity,

1865Which proues more short then wast or ruining?

1866Haue I not seene dwellers on forme and fauor

1867Lose all, and more by paying too much rent

1868For compound sweet;Forgoing simple sauor,

1869Pittifull thriuors in their gazing spent.

1870Noe, let me be obsequious in thy heart,

1871And take thou my oblacion, poore but free,

1872Which is not mixt with seconds, knows no art,

1873But mutuall render onely me for thee.

1874 Hence, thou subborndInformer, a trew soule

1875When most impeacht, stands least in thy controule.

1877O Thou my louely Boy who in thy power,

1878Doest hould times fickle glasse, his fickle, hower:

1879Who hast by wayning growne, and therein shou'st,

1880Thy louers withering, as thy sweet selfe grow'st.

1881If Nature(soueraine misteres ouer wrack)

1882As thou goest onwards still will plucke thee backe,

1883She keepes thee to this purpose, that her skill.

1884May time disgrace, and wretched mynuit kill.

1885Yet feare her O thou minnion of her pleasure,

1886She may detaine, but not still keepe her tresure!

1887Her Audite(though delayd)answer'd must be,

1888And her Quietus is to render thee.

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1890( )

1892IN the ould age blacke was not counted faire,

1893Or if it weare it bore not beauties name:

1894But now is blacke beauties successiue heire,

1895And Beautie slanderd with a bastard shame,

1896For since each hand hath put on Natures power,

1897Fairing the foule with Arts faulse borrow'd face,

1898Sweet beauty hath no name no holy boure,

1899But is prophan'd, if not liues in disgrace.