991AH wherefore with infection should he liue,

992And with his presence grace impietie,

993That sinne by him aduantage should atchiue,

994And lace it selfe with his societie ?

995Why should false painting immitate his cheeke,

996And steale dead seeing of his liuing hew?

997Why should poore beautie indirectly seeke,

998Roses of shaddow, since his Rose is true?

999Why should he liue, now nature banckrout is,

1000Beggerd of blood to blush through liuely vaines,

1001For she hath no exchecker now but his,

1002And proud of many, liues vpon his gaines?

1003 O him she stores, to show what welth she had,

1004In daies long since, before these last so bad.

1006THus is his cheeke the map of daies out-worne,

1007When beauty liu'd and dy'ed as flowers do now,

1008Before these bastard signes of faire were borne,

1009Or durst inhabit on a liuing brow:

1010Before the goulden tresses of the dead,

1011The right of sepulchers, were shorne away,

1012To liue a scond life on second head,

1013Ere beauties dead fleece made another gay:

1014In him those holy antique howers are seene,

1015Without all ornament, it selfe and true,

1016Making no summer of an others greene,

1017Robbing no ould to dresse his beauty new,

1018 And him as for a map doth Nature store,

1019To shew faulse Art what beauty was of yore.

1021THose parts of thee that the worlds eye doth view,

1022Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend:

1023All toungs(the voice of soules)giue thee that end,

1024Vttring bare truth, euen so as foes Commend.

1025Their outward thus with outward praise is crownd,

1026But those same toungs that giue thee so thine owne,

1027In other accents doe this praise confound

1028By seeing farther then the eye hath showne.

1029They looke into the beauty of thy mind,

1030And that in guesse they measure by thy deeds,

1031Then churls their thoughts(although their eies were kind)

1032To thy faire flower ad the rancke smell of weeds,

1033 But why thy odor matcheth not thy show,

1034 The solye is this, that thou doest common grow.