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William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 [1609], Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted (By G. Eld for T. T. [etc.], London) [word count] [S20127].
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Looke in thy glasse and tell the face thou vewest,
Now is the time that face should forme an other,
Whose fresh repaire if now thou not renewest,
Thou doo'st beguile the world, vnblesse some mother.
For where is she so faire whose vn-eard wombe
Disdaines the tillage of thy husbandry?
Or who is he so fond will be the tombe,
Of his selfe loue to stop posterity?
Thou art thy mothers glasse and she in thee
Calls backe the louely Aprill of her prime,
So thou through windowes of thine age shalt see,
Dispight of wrinkles this thy goulden time.
  But if thou liue remembred not to be,
  Die single and thine Image dies with thee.
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William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 [1609], Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted (By G. Eld for T. T. [etc.], London) [word count] [S20127].
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