Shake-speares Sonnets, Never before Imprinted/Sonnet 22
For other versions of this work, see Sonnet 22 (Shakespeare).
22My glasse shall not perswade me I am ould,So long as youth and thou are of one date,But when in thee times forrwes I behould,Then look I death my daies should expiate.For all that beauty that doth couer thee,Is but the seemely rayment of my heart,Which in thy brest doth liue, as thine in me,How can I then be elder then thou art?O therefore loue be of thy selfe so wary.As I not for my selfe, but for thee will,Bearing thy heart which I will keepe so charyAs tender nurse her babe from faring ill,Presume not on thy heart when mine is slaine,Thou gau'st me thine not to giue backe againe.