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William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 [1640], Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent (Printed... by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson [etc.], London) [word count] [S11600].

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Vpon the receit of a Table Booke from his Mistris. [Sonnet CXXII]
Thy guift, thy tables, are within my braine
Full characterd with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle ranke remaine
Beyond all date even to eternitie.
Or at the least, so long as braine and heart
Have facultie by nature to subsist,
Till each to raz'd oblivion yeeld his part
Of thee, thy record never can be mist:

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That poore retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy deare love to score.
Therefore to give them from me was I bold,
To trust those tables that receave thee more,
To keepe an adjunckt to remember thee,
Were to import forgetfulnesse in me.
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William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 [1640], Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent (Printed... by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson [etc.], London) [word count] [S11600].