Shake-speares Sonnets, Never before Imprinted/Sonnet 13
For other versions of this work, see Sonnet 13 (Shakespeare).
13O that you were your selfe, but loue you areNo longer yours, then you your selfe here liue,Against this cumming end you should prepare,And your sweet semblance to some other giue.So should that beauty which you hold in leaseFind no determination, then you wereYou selfe again after your selfes-decease,When your sweet issue your sweet forme should beare.Who lets so faire a house fall to decay,Which husbandry in honour might vphold,Against the stormy gusts of winters dayAnd barren rage of deaths eternall cold?O none but vnthrifts, deare my loue you know,You had a Father, let your Son say so.